Today people can’t wait to participate in their own surveillance.
– Mike Spinney
When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”:
…the thriller Traffik…has a horrifying story that revolves around the sex trafficking industry, as it follows an innocent couple who become caught up in a human trafficking ring…The film itself is not a true story, but it was inspired by true events. The movie’s plot sees a couple…go on a road trip, where they run into a motorcycle gang at a gas station. The gang have a woman with them who sneaks a cell phone into the [wife’s] purse…in the bathroom. This leads to the gang, who are connected to a sex trafficking ring, to track down the phone and terrorize the innocent couple. This event itself is entirely fictional…but the filmmaker drew inspiration from [what he falsely claims are] real life sex trafficking incidents near his home in Northern California…
Now you can be a useful idiot and violate strangers’ consent without even using a special app!
If you see someone who may be involved in human trafficking, report it by taking a picture and texting it to 909-ALERT-US (909-253-7887). Our…face recognition software automatically searches images in online escort ads for the photos provided. [If a match is identified, local vice squad will be notified]…
It searches online escort ads. Exclusively. So much for any pretense that this is abut anything other than persecuting sex workers.
Anyone surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention:
Authorities have arrested a former [cop] who is suspected of being one of California’s most prolific serial killers and rapists — the Golden State Killer…In the 40 years since the Original Night Stalker began his campaign of terror in Sacramento and moved south through the Bay Area and Santa Barbara and Orange counties, he had remained unidentified [due to his knowledge of police procedure]. Authorities say the attacker, also dubbed the East Area rapist and the Golden State Killer, is responsible for 12 killings, 45 rapes and more than 120 residential burglaries from 1976 to 1986…72-year-old…Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., has been charged by prosecutors…with eight counts of murder. He is being held without bail…The suspect was a police officer in Auburn during the 1970s but was fired after he was accused of shoplifting…He is suspected of committing some crimes while he was still on the force…
There is one terrifying detail this story omits:
For decades…the DNA of the “Golden State Killer” sat in evidence storage…Whoever the killer was, he apparently was not one of the millions of convicts, offenders and arrestees in the FBI’s national DNA database…police announced that they had…identified Joseph James DeAngelo as the Golden State Killer suspect using an ingenious technique that thrills law enforcement officials and disturbs privacy advocates…they checked the crime scene DNA against one of the genealogy sites that have lately become popular — databases filled with the profiles of people who have volunteered their genetic codes in the hope of discovering their relatives and ancestors…The suspected Golden State Killer was not in this database, either, but it didn’t matter. A distant relative of his was…and that person’s DNA partially matched evidence related to the serial killer. Instantly, the pool of suspects shrank from millions of people down to a single family. Detectives then used traditional investigative techniques to narrow the family members down to one suspect…Familial DNA searches…[have] an 83 percent failure rate [according to] a 2014 British study…
Another result of moral panics: evil people using the hysteria to cover their evil:
A West Virginia [woman]…who…claimed her 3-year-old daughter was abducted by sex traffickers was convicted in her murder. Lena Marie Lunsford Conaway…was found guilty…on charges stemming from the 2011 disappearance of her daughter, Aliayah Lunsford…Her two older daughters reportedly testified that she beat the little girl over the head with a board then put her body in a clothes hamper. They claimed the mom disposed of Aliayah’s body in a shallow grave in the woods. The toddler’s remains were never found…
The Leading Players in the Field, Not (#752)
The Los Angeles-based Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking will honor Mira Sorvino, Kate Bosworth, Gloria Allred, Rosanna Arquette, Andra Day and others at the organization’s 20th annual gala…The [paradigm] of human trafficking [has become more popular] in the last couple of decades, and Los Angeles in particular has become a major hub for the [rescue] industry…
It’s good to see this getting more attention lately:
An increasing number of stories…highlight the ugly reality of rescue homes, which [are]…less about rehabilitation and more about forced confinement. Doubts are now being raised whether [arrested] women and children…can indeed lead a protected life in these homes…
Unfortunately, it’s going to be an uphill climb; even this story about the abuses inflicted by the rescue industry still calls arrest & caging “rescue” and quotes the malignant sociopath Sunitha “100 clients a day” Krishnan, who runs a similar prison herself (a fact not mentioned in this story).
…I predict that historians of the development of artificial intelligence are going to see sexual gratification as one of the phenomenon’s great motivators. Evolutionary psychology can give us insight into how sex robots are going to develop and the ramifications they’ll have on society. Sexbots are usually woman-shaped gynoid machines…because heterosexual men drive the market for sexual products like prostitution and pornography. Across cultures, men desire more sexual partners, need to know someone for less time before they want to have sex with them, and have lower standards for a sexual liaison than women…Men don’t get pregnant and don’t lactate, and they have smaller, easier-to-produce sex cells than women. For a man, the cost of producing offspring is cheap…Women impose costs on men to gain sexual access for very good reasons…Pornography and prostitution are popular because they arrive at sexual end goals, or a reasonable facsimile, with more clarity and lower costs than in the mating market. The complications of courtship are driving improvements in sexual substitutes, like masturbation aids…These substitutes aren’t very good, and yet they are already competing with flesh-and-blood companionship…
No, not really. I can assure you that no Fleshlight Tina is “competition” for any man who can actually afford a sex worker. This psychologist is arguing that “I like what I get” is the same thing as “I get what I like”.
Naturally she’s doing this; she’s an intelligent woman:
Stormy Daniels is back in front of the cameras — on a porn set. Touting what appears to be Daniels’ first released sex scenes since the money scandal involving her and President Trump surfaced early this year, the porn site Brazzers teased graphic snippets online…They feature Daniels in the upcoming XXX video entitled Stormy’s Secret…
If you don’t understand what this is all about, try looking up “Napoleonic Code”:
In Louisiana, a proposal to strengthen the law against bestiality is facing unexpected opposition from conservative lawmakers who see it as an underhanded move to strike the state’s unconstitutional ban on sodomy. Creating a new, wide-ranging anti-bestiality law would untangle the offense from the ban on sodomy in Louisiana’s “crime against nature ” statute, prompting some lawmakers to label the measure a sly chess move. “This bill was written because the far left wants to undermine our other laws that protect family and traditional values”…said Sen. Ryan Gatti…one of 10 senators to vote against the bill…
Remember, this is a law struck down as unconstitutional 15 years ago.
Wow! Unbelievable. You can’t make this shit up! Fucked up about the searching escort ads, among many other issues. It’s also creepy the way that everything is becoming interlinked through technology. Police searching through private genealogy sites was really just a matter of time.
Newspapers in the UK are reporting that Steve Winwood was arrested Friday on charges he was involved in a trafficking ring in the 1960s and ’70s. Authorities said that research turned up numerous occasions where Winwood and several other men from Great Britain were associated with the word “Traffic,” and also took suspicious trips to other countries, sometimes for months at a time.
According to authorities, these trips “often involved stops at major cities,” where Winwood and company “would engage with young girls in public spaces and hotels” in the evening hours.
While sifting through artifacts of the era, authorities said they found a “key piece of evidence” when the word “wood” kept appearing, often in conjunction with the word “flute.”
“Human traffickers often communicate in code,” explains Tim Ballast, an abolitionist based in the US. “The word ‘wood’ connotes a male’s sexual state of being in the morning hours. The ‘flute’ in question is clearly a ‘skin flute,’ which is code for ‘oral sex,’ which is illegal in many jurisdictions.
“We believe that constitutes further evidence of Winwood’s complicity in sex trafficking,” Ballast explains. “Based on Mr. Winwood’s whereabouts decades ago, we’ve compiled hundreds of charges. He was in countless cities — it’s almost like he and his cohorts were taking tours.”
Winwood’s arrest comes on the heels of the imprisonment of his brother, Muff Winwood, who was jailed in September when authorities discovered his “unnatural and perverse name” was being used “by his grandchildren,” which violated “about twenty laws,” according to police.
As for Steve Winwood, authorities see a chance that he’ll make a full confession. “We’ve been told that once the spotlight is on him he’ll sing like a bird,” sources said.
I hope this is tongue and cheek stuff from the Onion.
It’s a parody, but unfortunately some of the crap cops come up with is almost as absurd.
The Pygmalion Fallacy:
Ah yes, the old problem of people mistaking an implication for an equivalence, and then often claiming it holds in the wrong direction. This one is a reliable test to find whether people actually use what they have in intelligence to argue carefully or whether they simply think in fuzzy correlations and do not actually really understand why it is important what is cause and what is effect.
Unfortunately, in this mix of the human race, there is a large majority of people that do not understand what a causal relationship is and that you must go after the cause to change the effect. This is a primary cause for a lot of harm inflicted on others. It also is a time-honored technique used by those that understand very well how things work, but use this inability in others to manipulate them to do their evil work.
One typical situation where this manipulation technique is used is that when you have a cause that you can obviously not change or that obviously makes no sense to fight against, you just tell people to fight against the effect. That way you can inflict massive harm on almost any group but the effect you pretend to fight will never go away. See, e.g. “War on drugs”, “War on terror”, “War on sex-trafficking”, etc. All having zero chance of ever succeeding because the root-causes cannot/will not change. But all cleverly fought against the effect not the cause, so the non-comprehending masses do not realize that these things cannot be won and are fought for an entirely different reason (to keep people in fear and hence easy to control).
I encourage all to contact “Bashpole Software”. Their phone number and board members are right on the website. Ask them why they want sex workers arrested. Ask them if they “partnered” with any sex worker organization before doing this. Ask them why they think adult sex work is the same thing as human trafficking.
Going further, their website does encourage you to send them a picture of anything suspicious. Neighbor have a new rescue dog? Send them a pic. Raccoons tip over your trash can? Definitely send a pic of that. Cop on patrol, new politician elected? The possibilities are endless.
https://idtraffickers.com/909-alert-us-photo-tipline/
I ‘Think’ You may be on to something there, Direct Action!
In fact … I took lots of pics, while up North this past weekend & Well, some just may be ‘worth’ REPORTING! Lol!
Everything was ‘Suspicious’ TBH!
It IS Spring – Up HERE, in 🇨🇦 (Canada) After all,
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Crazy/Creepy Things ARE coming out, EN MASSE! 😉 x
> Remember, this is a law struck down as unconstitutional 15 years ago.
No, *this* law wasn’t struck down, an unconstitutionally vague law against “sodomy” was struck down. A law reading “it is hereby illegal have sex with animals” is not unconstitutionally vague.