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Archive for July 1st, 2017

Doesn’t anyone on our Super Bowl committee have access to Google?  –  Cory Zurowski

Pyrrhic Victory

It was only a matter of time before the TSA’s role in mass surveillance was expanded:

The TSA began a new screening policy for paper products…in Missouri last month, and now the agency’s branch in Sacramento, California, is testing out more invasive searches for books and food items…passengers are required to take all reading material and food out of their carry-on luggage and place it in a separate bin.  TSA [goons] can “fan” through travelers’ books to see if anything is hidden in the pages, but agency officials [pretend] they will not pay attention to the content…Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said…he will likely expand the new searches nationwide and may also ban laptop carry-ons for all international flights…

False Witness (#506)

And those who wish to manufacture “sex trafficking victims” can use exactly the same methods:

When Ada JoAnn Taylor is tense, she thinks she can feel the fabric of a throw pillow in the pads of her fingers…She imagines herself in a small apartment in Beatrice, Nebraska…gripping the edges of a pillow, more tightly than she means to, and suffocating a sixty-eight-year-old widow…Taylor confessed to the woman’s murder in 1989 and for two decades believed that she was guilty.  She served more than nineteen years for the crime before she was pardoned…The situation is a study in the malleability of memory: an implausible notion, doubted at first, grows into a firmly held belief that reshapes one’s autobiography and sense of identity…

Moving Pictures 

In 20 or 30 years, “sex trafficking” and other anti-whore films are going to be a subgenre of their own, cult favorites of 20-something hipsters as “reefer madness” films are now:

The Receptionist is based on the lives of the employees and clients at a massage parlour in London, as seen through the eyes of a Taiwanese graduate employed as a receptionist there.  It unabashedly portrays the treatment the women endure, including being subjected to abuse and extreme fetishes.  Gangsters demanded “protection” money from the women, and would beat, rob and rape them if they didn’t pay up, knowing they wouldn’t dare call the police…[A sex worker is] “like a person with no soul”…[filmmaker Jenny Lu, who has never done sex work] explains…

Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs (#627)

It’s good to see recognition of the fact that the US “Trafficking in Persons Report” is nothing but a tool for political blackmail:

The United States Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Robert Porter Jackson…warned that, if Ghana failed to increase efforts in combating human trafficking in the coming years, it would risk dropping to the Tier Three and that under the United States law, a Tier Three ranking would trigger restrictions on US assistance programmes to Ghana…

To Molest and Rape

Wow, there are so many of these isolated incidents!  It’s almost like there’s something about the very nature of policing that encourages this behavior:  “Yermia ‘Jeremy’ Solomon, a…[cop in] Monticello [New York]…has been charged with raping a minor…Solomon is on paid [vacation]…

Too Close To Home (#672)

I specifically linked to this particular title (click the title above) because I want you to contrast Liz Brown’s thorough, hard-nosed, skeptical reporting with ABC’s eager parroting of anti-sex propaganda.  I’m quoted in the story and apparently appear in the video as well (I can’t get it to play), but of course my truth-telling is surrounded by lies from pigs, prosecutors & other prohibitionists.

Pimps Ahoy

The question in the headline could be asked of any “rescue” organization:

A year after closing its home for young sex-trafficking victims and repeatedly vowing it would reopen, a controversial…nonprofit has announced it will not seek a new license to serve minor girls at its Northern California “Courage House.”  The announcement marks a stunning reversal by Courage Worldwide Inc., which had promoted a grand vision of local and global expansion in the fight against sex trafficking…

The Leading Players in the Field, Not (#732) 

Has this histrionic has-been now made a rotting moral panic her whole career?

Mira Sorvino urged all nations and the business community…to ramp up financial support for [anti-sex organizations]…Sorvino…has been a U.N. [propaganda disseminator] for the global [moral panic over]…human trafficking…[despite her pimping sex workers’ image for a lot of money and acclaim by playing] a prostitute with a golden heart in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite…she has become a crusader against…sex [work]…

Stupor Bowl (#749)

The “Super Bowl sex trafficking” myth is becoming a laughing stock:

…The same thing happens every year in Super Bowl cities, with civic leaders predicting Armageddon…They apparently believe that America’s most connected corporate chieftains — the only people with the access and money for tickets — are a band of licentious degenerates, here to ravish enslaved maidens, not watch a game.  So teeth are gnashed and cities spend tens of thousands of dollars in police overtime.  The arrest figures eventually turn out to be not much different than any other week.  Despite the overwhelming evidence, the same tale is being peddled in Minnesota for Super Bowl LII in February…

First They Came for the Hookers… (#750) 

In other words, she has to prove she’s the polar opposite of every other cop in the US:

The New Jersey dominatrix-turned-cop was offered a deal that would let her keep her job if she passed a psychiatric exam showing she didn’t like beating the pulp out of [people]…Kristen Hyman…nixed the idea of taking a psych test, and also refused to sign a waiver saying she wouldn’t sue the department…

Naturally, Hyman vomited out all sorts of whorearchical bullshit about how she was only an actress and not a dirty whore.

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