Try to shoot me, I’ll break every bone in your fucking neck. – “Officer” Michael Reynolds
I recently reran Rob Hustle’s protest song “Call the Cops”, and noticed he had a sequel; naturally I had to share it with you. The links above it were provided by Carol Fenton (“does”), Radley Balko (“finest”), Jacob Sullum (“step”), and Mike Riggs (“people”).
- As one does.
- New York’s finest.
- Florida man, Florida man…
- Cop beats man for sitting on a step.
- Just protecting and serving the poor.
- Because laws are more important than people.
From the Archives
- Is it normal to feel like a failure when you’re behind your peers in school?
- This whole “letting go and enjoying the ride” thing is pretty novel for me.
- This woman is so puffed up, I think she’d pop if one stuck her with a pin.
- The media won’t recognize Julie Bindel as a broken-down one-trick pony.
- “Sex trafficking” panic will be over soon, but the damage has been done.
- Cop thinks she can “build communication with sex workers” by robbery.
- The State wants us to refer to these evil thugs as “correctional officers”.
- Texas dreams up some of the sleaziest anti-abortion tricks of any state.
- Australia appears much more committed to human rights than Europe.
- Gary Johnson’s position on sex work wasn’t quite so muddled in 1991.
- More scumbags profiting from whores by promoting lies that harm us.
- Why must decrim supporters promote myths, lies & insulting tropes?
- It’s good to see young “feminist” writers taking interest in this issue.
- Not rape, but he sure seems to think it was his privilege to fuck her.
- Cops, stupidity, Florida, pigs, passwords, Angie Baby & much more.
- Remember when commies were bad for having militarized borders?
- Ally uses the Desiree Alliance conference to introduce larger issues.
- The “official” end of Operation Choke Point, but expect it to return.
- Rent in exchange for sex isn’t “free”; it has been paid for with sex.
- When “diversion” programs are subject to prosecutorial discretion.
- They’re not going to like legalization & protectionism if they get it.
- Criticism of “anti-trafficking” propaganda from inside their ranks.
- More interested in promoting an agenda than protecting society.
- Cops, stubbornness, Ron Obvious, girl-girl BDSM & much more.
- Liz Brown ridicules the “solar eclipse sex trafficking” nonsense.
- There’s no “if” about it; Melania Trump is or was a sex worker.
- Canada’s new law “protects” sex workers from lonely old men.
- Mexican police do little to protect the transgender community.
- Seems the same as an earlier news item, but worth revisiting.
- It’s always so sweet when a rescue industry scam is exposed.
- Pakistan surpasses the US in at least one area of civil rights.
- The government stole all of Rentboy’s legal defense money.
- “Temporary protective custody” = indefinite imprisonment.
- Looks like LA still isn’t done beating this very dead horse.
- Two men convicted for non-crimes against a non-person.
- Mounting opposition to “abstinence only” sex education.
- They’re literally recycling “gypsy whore” tall tales now.
- “Dear Prudence” calls a reader on her whorephobia.
- How prohibitionists want to “help” sex workers.
- OMG, WHORES KNOW HOW TO USE PHONES!!
- This situation is not even close to “unique”.
- On the lie of “negative secondary effects”.
- Why do sex workers prefer older clients?
- Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- Sex drives technological development.
- I hope she gets every damned penny.
- Undermining statutes of limitations.
- Kaytlin Bailey at the Fringe Festival.
- Seeing the total eclipse with Lorelei.
- Canada wants a “pimp town” too.
- Yet this isn’t called “trafficking”.
- All prohibitionism is the same.
- The past exonerative tense.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Rapist DA of the week.
- A really intense week.
I grow tired of the stories where the 99% of police who are bad apples make the 1% are not look bad.
re: As one does. “Man flies plane into his home after fight with wife”
The FAA has a longstanding acronym for plane crashes where the plane is under control.
It fits Utah man’s fatal fit of pique particularly well.
Controlled Flight Into Terrain, abbreviated CFIT, pronounced “see fit”.
Utah man has CFIT at home, dies surrounded by family.
Florida man, on the other hand …