Phrases like “essential worker” and “nonessential business” are now being bandied about by the collectivists without any apparent recognition of what such phrases say about their ugly view of humanity. People are complex individuals who often find comfort in belonging to something larger than themselves; they are not ants or mechanical parts to be reduced to “workers” and declared “essential” or “nonessential” (for the latter read “disposable”) by their owners. The idea that bureaucrats have the right to make such pronouncements over the lives of individuals, and to dictate that some people are unworthy of being allowed to make a living and feed their families, is a totalitarian abomination. Even if you accept the extremely shaky premise that it was “necessary” to forcibly cut off some people’s income in order to manage a pandemic, no society which pretends to be “free” has any business sorting human beings into categories as though they were produce. Rather than subjectively (and such decisions were extremely subjective, varying wildly from state to state and country to country) declaring some people’s businesses, jobs, and needs expendable, governments could instead have established clear, objective criteria to which businesses had to adhere in order to go unharassed. For example, the plexiglass shields which have now appeared in grocery stores and other “essential” outlets would be equally effective in many other businesses, regardless of whether politicians declared them “essential” or not, and cops have repeatedly demonstrated in the past few weeks that they imagine their busybody interference in the lives of people who are doing mundane things that aren’t remotely unsafe (such as walking with a spouse in a park) to be “essential” despite its potential to expose people to infection (especially when they actually manhandle such people and lock them in the filthy cages which have become breeding grounds for pestilence). In short, the only people who have demonstrated themselves to be “nonessential” during this crisis are the sociopathic control freaks who imagine that everything they do and say is important, while other people are simply interchangeable objects to be sorted through and either used or discarded.
Archive for May, 2020
Nonessential
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged cops, disease, ethics, hysteria, Nonessential, politicians on May 11, 2020| 3 Comments »
Links #514
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged advertising, animals, California, Canada, cops, disease, Indiana, lawheads, New York, racism, restaurants, video on May 10, 2020| 2 Comments »
Looks like it’s going to be a closed casket, homey. – Indianapolis pig
For the “unusual covers” collection: a funk version of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”. The video was contributed by Jesse Walker, who also provided “rules”; the other links are from Franklin Harris (“panic”), Zuri Davis (“cosplay”), Popehat (“sport”), Melanie Moore (“feed”), and Ed Krayewski (“New York”).
- Recycling an old panic.
- The unambiguous pandemic rules.
- Pigs terrorize a woman for cosplay.
- Cops hunt down black man for sport.
- It’s so nice when they feed on each other.
- Remember this next time New York begs for help.
From the Archives
- Stop pretending Tom Dart’s actions are other than a power & money grab.
- FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation on the government’s part.
- When a government propaganda outlet criticizes a law, you know it’s bad.
- Mistreatment of sex workers is deeply rooted in racism all over the world.
- My frigid wife mocks my masturbating; should I ask her if I can see pros?
- The scheme to cut sex workers off from the healthcare system continues.
- I’m glad silly protectionist whores couldn’t wreck decrim in New Zealand.
- When fashion magazines publish articles like this, prohibition is doomed.
- Florida prohibitionists are doubling down on their awful anti-whore laws.
- The media are listening to sexworkers’ opinions of our media depictions.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- Can I regain the spiritual dimension of sex I used to have with my wife?
- Coalitions of fundamentalist anti-sex groups are in no way “surprising”.
- This will be much more common due to the ramped-up war on whores.
- Sex workers can only help men before they turn into deranged “incels”.
- NBC News publishes an article which openly calls for decriminalization.
- Canadian cops call grotesque sex worker intimidation tactics “helping”.
- “Rescuers” want to push whores into traditional feminine menial work.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it.
- It’s satisfying when the mask of concern for “trafficking victims” slips.
- Seattle “officials” still adore prohibition of things other than cannabis.
- If this is a “brothel”, then a room with a foosball table is a “stadium”.
- It’s no longer taboo for reporters to come out in support of decrim.
- If the mother doesn’t mind, how is it the state’s place to interfere?
- Prohibitionists keep insisting that decriminalization doesn’t work.
- Obviously this fireman has been hanging around too many cops.
- The stupidity and evil of politicians is sometimes mind-boggling.
- Fascism is much more effective at repression than communism.
- An excellent article by stalwart friend of whores Mark Draughn.
- Pretended “secondary effects” aren’t usually silly nebulosities.
- Long time readers may remember “Fake Internet Girlfriend”.
- The global south is far ahead of the US in sex worker rights.
- But Georgia’s only too happy to lock up adult sex workers.
- Cops, plagues, Garfield, dolls, dark ages and much more.
- Eternal life would be a horror literally beyond imagining.
- In Nigeria, terrorism is called “environmental protecion”.
- Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
- A judge slaps down pigs & prosecutors for a change.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Cops, Australia, prohibition, Prince and much more.
- Rape victims are increasingly treated like criminals.
- Don’t ever think rapist cops are limited to the US.
- You mean they just made it up? Say it ain’t so!
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- US prisons are hotbeds of rape in every form.
- Odd and idiosyncratic censorship on Amazon.
- How do you think they “stopped” these guys?
- Imagine this actually going to trial in the US.
- A difficult but successful week of travel.
- Good news about the FOSTA challenge.
- The sweet smell of schadenfreude.
- My sexuality is money.
In the News (#1037)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged advertising, Alabama, All-Purpose Excuse, California, Catholicism, censorship, Connecticut, Craigslist, Crying for Nanny, Disaster, disease, Florida, hysteria, India, internet, Italy, Kansas, law, lawyers, Madonna/whore, Missouri, New Jersey, No Escape, North Dakota, Oregon, pathologization of males, Pennsylvania, porn, prisons, psychology, rape, rescue industry, restaurants, sex work is work, Social Distancing, statistics, stereotypes, The Lesser of Two Evils, The Pro-Rape Coalition, The Proper Study, Torture Chamber, transgender, Vermont, You Were Warned on May 9, 2020| 3 Comments »
The broad language in the law leaves a lot of room for lawyers to treat FOSTA like a get-rich-quick-off-Big-Tech scheme. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Those who are surprised by this haven’t read much Church history:
Pope Francis assisted a group of transgender prostitutes who were struggling financially amid the coronavirus pandemic in Italy…They reached out to the pope through Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, who is responsible for charitable work done in the name of pope…It does not appear that the leader of the Catholic Church was signaling any changes in Catholic teaching on gender and sex…
Why do some “journalists” feel compelled to virtue-signal by putting an ordinary word like “customers” in scare quotes?
Men who respect women more also realize we don’t owe them free sex. Gee, what a shock:
…Using an online survey of 519 clients of sexual services, we examine whether male client attitudes toward gender role equality are related to the main methods customers used to access prostitution services (i.e., through print or online media vs. in-person contact). We found…all clients had more egalitarian attitudes toward women’s roles than the U.S. male population in the General Social Survey (GSS)…These findings point to need to rethink how masculinity and gender role attitudes affect patterns of male demand for paid sex..
Just in case you failed to grasp the extent of Morality in Media’s depravity:
…[Morality in Media], a religiously inspired lobby that is behind the language of the scientifically discredited, multi-state “porn is a public health crisis” campaign…deliberately rebranded as NCOSE a few years ago to deceive the mainstream media…[and] are [now] trying to pressure [McDonald’s] to send a letter to all their employees “to make them aware of the exploitation and harms of the pornography industry.” This latest attempt by NCOSE to flood the mainstream with their fringe messages (e.g., they consider Sport Illustrated as full-on “pornography” and repeatedly try to get supermarkets to hide it from their customers) was prompted by an offer by adult company IsMyGirl to “beat any platform’s percentage for new model sign-ups”…The absurd goal of this latest morality intervention by NCOSE is to demand a multibillion company help them spread fringe religious propaganda to minimum wage employees. The message: a Victorian warning that safe, at-home sex work is a fate worse than starvation…
When a headline asks a question, the answer is almost always “no”:
…the Department of Justice [has] released a report about sexual violence in New Jersey’s women’s prison…that concluded…the risk of sexual harm was so high that it reached constitutional proportions and violated inmates’ Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment…The United States is witnessing an explosion in prison rape reports by women…[from Alabama]…Missouri…Oregon…Connecticut…Vermont…Florida…California…Kansas…Pennsylvania…[and many others]. Incarcerated women are 30 times more likely to be raped than free women. Even though women account for less than 10 percent of inmates, their reports account for three quarters of assaults, and almost three-quarters of staff are men…Seventeen years after the law’s passage, it may be time to acknowledge that the Prison Rape Elimination Act isn’t protecting incarcerated women, most likely because it was never designed to…
We fucking told y’all so, over and over and over:
Companies anticipated that FOSTA would be used more broadly than its proponents claimed…Craigslist is now the target of one of the first FOSTA-based civil lawsuit efforts, with plaintiffs in California and Washington state…Both cases…rely on a “radical theory of liability,” wrote University of Notre Dame Law Professor Alex Yelderman…The suits do not claim Craigslist had specific knowledge…[but] simply claims that [because fetishists had for years claimed] Craigslist [was a “hub” of]…”human sex trafficking”…it…was thus responsible for any [actual exploitation] that happened…Another case…targets Mailchimp, an email automation and marketing service. Anyone can sign up for an account and use Mailchimp tools to create and send mass emails…lawyers…[claim] that by letting YesBackpage use its software, Mailchimp was complicit in, and thus financially liable for, any crimes brokered through YesBackpage’s user-generated content…in January the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted [Eric] Koszyk and [Alex] Andrews standing to continue the [Woodhull/EFF backed] challenge. Hopefully, they can fight their way to a decision that will undermine FOSTA before FOSTA further undermines free speech on the web…
…when I heard that “Mia,” as the Land O’Lakes Native American maiden was known, had been taken off the butter box…it was the stereotype some saw that bothered me. North Dakota state Rep. Ruth Buffalo…for instance, [bloviated]…that the…image…went “hand-in-hand with…sex trafficking…by depicting Native women as sex objects”…How did Mia go from being a demure Native American woman on a lakeshore to a sex object tied to the trafficking of native women?…Mia was originally created for Land O’Lakes packaging in 1928…In 1954, my father, Patrick DesJarlait, redesigned the image again…[he] had been interested in art since boyhood, when he drew images related to his Ojibwe culture…he…[w]as one of the first modernists in American Indian fine art…
Another country which, like the US and France, shamefully neglects women:
…It is now a month since India went into total lockdown on 26 March to contain the spread of Covid-19. With no clients, [sex workers’] savings have dwindled…As…economic activity [declared “non-essential” by politicians] has ground to a halt, the lockdown has hit millions of people working in the informal sector…As part of the government’s relief scheme for the poor, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has announced a financial package that will deposit 500 rupees (£5.30) monthly into the bank accounts of 200 million people. But those working in…the sex industry…are [specifically ex]cluded…
The Magic of Gifts
Posted in Diary, tagged Presents, psychology, Sunset on May 8, 2020| 2 Comments »
I’ve written before about how nice it is to receive gifts from readers and friends, and how much it means to me that I touch the lives of people so much (even when I haven’t met them in person) that they want to bring a smile to my face and/or make my life easier and more pleasant. The gifts take all forms; sometimes people help me with things I need, such as my friend Winnie doing my nails this week or Chekhov buying all the lumber for my various building projects (not to mention an extra guest cottage!) Other times, readers send me things from my Amazon wishlist, such as a Sonos speaker system for Sunset I got from Derek Ashworth last week; I appreciate all such gifts, and even have some very inexpensive ones on there for those on a limited budget. And sometimes, readers send me nice things that they just thought I’d like, such as this six-months-early birthday present from a reader (who prefers discretion around his name) who was concerned he might not have the cash on hand by autumn. But whether the gifts are practical or aesthetic, expensive or inexpensive, requested or spontaneous, I appreciate them all, and that’s why it’s so important to me to acknowledge each and every one so the senders – and everyone else – knows that.
Cheapskate
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Q & A, tagged advertising, Advice for Clients, infidelity, sex work is work on May 7, 2020| 3 Comments »
My marriage has been sexless for last 20 years. During that time I’ve been fortunate enough to find three married lovers, but nothing recently despite dating sites. I did search “escorts” but I’ve never paid for sex and can’t contemplate $750 an hour for those I saw on these sites. However, I’ve heard housewives selling sex for money are much cheaper; how do I reach these?
Hire. An. Escort.
You are going to get caught if you keep playing around with amateurs, and unless you’re looking in NYC or at porn actresses, escorts aren’t charging $750/hour. I’m “high end” and I charge $400 for one hour, $1200 for a four-hour dinner date; that’s pretty typical in most sizeable US cities. I wrote an article for Reason a couple of years ago with advice on finding a good pro; I suggest you follow that advice before you get caught. And I guarantee you a divorce will set you back more than a few hundred bucks once or twice a month.
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In the News (#1036)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Words, tagged Arkansas, censorship, cops, drugs, Indiana, License To Rape, New Zealand, Panopticon, Permanent Record, porn, rape, sex rays, Sex Rays (updates), sex work is work, Social Distancing, South Dakota, Texas, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, Welcome to Our Updates, welcome to our world on May 6, 2020| Leave a Comment »
[Sex workers] have to pay the rent, they have to eat, so they are forced to continue working. – Joep Rottier
Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
On April 21, Arkansas-based clip artist Mayven Doll and her husband took a plea deal…over serious felony charges filed against them back in 2017. After keeping them in legal limbo for almost three years, this week the prosecutors finally allowed them to plead their felony charges — stemming from a few public sex clips…down to the far more common misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure…[pigs] had downloaded, [masturbated to] and written descriptions of the clips into a request for an arrest warrant and then raided their home…[with a] SWAT [team]…the [warrant] affidavit…wa[s] specifically worded…to invoke three old Arkansas obscenity statues about “hard-core film,” that…are so overly broad that they [crimi]nalize even owning a single commercial porn DVD…a few days after the original prosecutor finished a political campaign that resulted in his election to a newly created judgeship, prosecutors finally agreed to a…plea…deal…
Pigese is designed for obfuscation, but I think this means he violently raped a sex worker:
A Tahoka [Texas cop]…has been arrested and charged with official oppression, prostitution and indecent assault…William Jayce Baker…was on [paid vacation] during the Texas Rangers investigation…
South Dakota [cops’] practice of [rap]ing [people with] catheter[s under the pretense of] obtain[ing] urine samples…violates the U.S. Constitution…federal judge…Roberto Lange…declined to dismiss the case brought by six individuals who sued the cities of Pierre, Wagner and Sisseton, as well as various [rapist cops]…Two [of the] plaintiffs – Gena Alvarez and Aaron Peters – were [raped by]…catheter…[without even the excuse] of…drug crimes. Alvarez had been…arrested…[for drunk driving and] woke up at the Winner Hospital being held down and [stripped by rapist pig]…Adam Woxland [while his buddy held]…down her legs…
A promising young mechanic at a Honda dealership in Indiana was fired from her job after management learned she was making amateur porn outside of work using the platform OnlyFans. Kirsten Vaughn…was on track to become the first woman master technician at Don Ayres Honda dealership in Fort Wayne when she was abruptly [sacked]…after…coworkers began watching her videos together at the workplace and then sexually harassing her…Jason Johnston, who handles human resources for the dealership, denied that Vaughn had been fired over her OnlyFans account, and said instead that she had violated company policy…[but] declined to specify which policy…in audio recordings that Vaughn provided…of meetings she had with Johnston and dealership general manager John Watkins, the two men can be heard questioning her about her OnlyFans presence and discussing the harm it could do to the reputation of their business…and…blam[ing] Vaughn for the [behavior] of her coworkers…
The more extensive the surveillance, the more often this will happen:
Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people…The…camera system’s internal management dashboard could be accessed by simply entering its IP address into a web browser. No login details or authentication of any sort was needed to view and search the live system…Britain’s Surveillance Camera Commissioner Tony Porter described the security lapse as “both astonishing and worrying,” and demanded a full probe into the snafu…
Two Texas p[igs staged]…an elaborate sting operation to catch citizens giving salon services for money in their own home. The cops p[retend]ed [to be real people] needing…a manicure…[after] snitches…[ratted on] a woman who was advertising manicure services on social media…Laredo police a[bduc]ted Ana Isabel Castro-Garcia…and [locked her in a filthy cage]…Brenda Stephany Mata…was [also] a[bduc]ted…after she allegedly offered to do a…[sow’s] lashes. Just like Castro-Garcia, she was [locked in a filthy cage]…for…trying to feed themselves and their families…
Unsurprisingly, New Zealand treats sex workers like any other workers:
…“The fact that the sex industry in New Zealand has been decriminalised has a lot of advantages, and it proves itself now with this virus issue”…says Joep Rottier, a criminology researcher at Utrecht University…In addition to the emergency wage subsidy, which is available to all New Zealand workers just by providing a national ID number and basic personal information, sex workers are also immediately eligible for job-seekers benefits…
Diary #514
Posted in Diary, Philosophy, tagged politicians, psychology, Washington (state) on May 5, 2020| 1 Comment »
On December 2nd, 1996, I got my nails done professionally for the first time; since then I’ve had them done every three weeks, four at the outside during disasters like Hurricane Katrina. It has always been something I’ve done religiously, as the visible sign of a covenant with myself. I’ve always had a tendency to deny myself things my inner nun pronounced “frivolous”, and having my nails done regularly served as a clear refutation of that kind of puritanism, a reminder that self-care is important even when authoritarians declare such hygiene “non-essential”. So those of you who aren’t blinded by puritanism can probably guess how frustrating April was for me; not only had my nails grown ugly and too long to be practical, they were also starting to lift and break. And when one is used to nails of a certain length, a broken nail can make that finger so clumsy it’s almost unusable. But last week I mentioned my irritation to my friend Winnie, and she told me that she knew how to do them and would be happy to do mine. So yesterday I went to her place and, in the course of a lovely visit, got my fingers back looking like something to be found on a civilized woman’s hands. Maybe in three weeks I’ll be able to get them done professionally again, and maybe I’ll need to ask Winnie again. But in either case, it’s good to wrest a little more control over my life back from people I wouldn’t trust to manage my henhouse, much less the affairs of an entire state.
Reawakening
Posted in Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged disease, hysteria, politicians, pragmatism, psychology, Reawakening, restaurants, Washington (state) on May 4, 2020| 3 Comments »
Today is the day that the ill-conceived shutdown of public society was supposed to have been lifted in Washington state. Of course, it wasn’t, because these shutdowns are based less in science than in politics, with the entire West following China’s authoritarian notions of how to deal with an epidemic. Governors are afraid that if some worst-case scenario were to occur after they lifted their bans on conducting business, they would be blamed and their political careers would be destroyed. So naturally, they’ve made the same kind of sheep-and-goats division they did when declaring that many people’s means of survival were “non-essential” and could be replaced by a single handout of $1200 for two months or more of destroyed income: they deemed their political careers “essential” and most small businesses (especially those disproportionately owned by minorities) “non-essential”. But some people have started to see through it, and a few are starting to rely on their own judgment rather than blindly obeying diktats from self-appointed commissars. About half of my friends have started getting business again; some restaurants and bars in various cities are starting to operate secretly, speakeasy-style; and a number of physicians who disagree with the political response have started publishing op-eds and otherwise challenging the orthodoxy. And the longer polticians drag their feet in establishing practical measures businesses can take to be deemed “safe” to re-open, the more people will simply move on and do what they need to do to survive without political permission. Silly protests by MAGA-hat-wearers and other crackpots will not end the “lockdowns”; in the absence of some omen that will sway skittish state governors, only what Vaclav Havel called “living in truth” can do that. And if the few small signs I’m aware of are any indication, it has already started. 
Links #513
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, Words, tagged Alabama, animals, Arizona, censorship, cops, hysteria, imaginative fiction, language, lawheads, prisons, robots, United Kingdom, video on May 3, 2020| 1 Comment »
The government does not have the power to change the dictionary. – Justin Pearson
The best parody is very close to the truth; this video (from a dude we’ve seen before) is an excellent example. The video was provided by Annie Sprinkle, and the links above it by Franklin Harris (“cosplay”), Dave Krueger (“imitation”), Nun Ya (“literal”), and Jesse Walker (everything else).
- Good ruling; let’s hope it stands.
- Pigs want to terrorize a person for cosplay.
- Because laws are more important than people.
- Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Thank Dolly Parton.
- Government demands real milk be labeled “imitation”.
- We are entering a new dark age, but this is a bit literal.
From the Archives
- Glorification of New York’s prohibitionist shitshow “sex trafficking court”.
- The war on whores has brought disgusting creeps out of the woodwork.
- Cops, Lovecraft, viral media, classic Hollywood Avengers & much more.
- Deeply underestimating the emotional contact men want from whores.
- US rulers believe they have right to disrupt lives of millions worldwide.
- UK feminists release revenge porn of women who disagree with them.
- Discrimination vs sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
- How things have changed since Belle Knox was mercilessly harassed.
- Know why cops don’t like to investigate rapes? Professional courtesy.
- Whores need to keep suing until every cop shop is buried in lawsuits.
- Politicians pretend the point of anti-porn laws is to “protect children”.
- In which a partisan jackass chases his own “human trafficking” tale.
- The heating up of the war on whores made for an exhausting week.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- Mark Bennett kills Texas’ mindlessly-draconian “revenge porn” law.
- This licks prohibitionist arseholes so hard it nearly made me vomit.
- You mean physical behaviors have stronger effects than pictures?
- Now you can be a useful idiot without even using a special app!
- If you don’t understand this, try looking up “Napoleonic Code”.
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- This procedure has come a long way in only three years.
- Who Gay, Inc chooses to side with against sex workers.
- Anyone surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention.
- Naturally she’s doing this; she’s an intelligent woman.
- How Pete Buttigieg covered up for violent rapist pigs.
- Cops, anal worms, Florida, Vangelis and much more.
- The hypocrisy of politicians sometimes defies belief.
- Will Canadian cops go after this billboard company?
- It’s good to see this getting more attention lately.
- The tendency toward such penalties is increasing.
- A look at the antics of loose-cannon Florida pigs.
- Evil people use moral panics to cover their evil.
- Like an explosion in a Froot Loop factory.
- The week Hermes was unhappy with me.
- Gee, I wonder where they got this idea?
- I love it when they feed on their own.
- Lewis & her friends are naive fools.
- A week of travels in the Midwest.
In the News (#1035)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, All-Purpose Excuse, Bait and Switch, California, censorship, cops, disease, ethics, Facebook, fascism, hotels, hysteria, I Spy, language, Like Houses, Maryland, Mexico, scams, sex work is work, Social Distancing, surveillance, Utah, Virginia, Washington DC, Where Are the Victims? on May 2, 2020| 1 Comment »
Government needs to back off…[Christian] moral…judgments…when it comes to women’s work. – Leah LaGrone
Does this fit your idea of what “sex trafficking” is?
The owner of The Salt City Inn…Rezvan “Ray” Saisani, and the inn’s manager…Sameer Syed, are both facing numerous felony charges related to using the motel to run [what pigs and prosecutors fantasize was] a sex trafficking operation…Saisani and Syed would…charg[e clients a] $10 [incall fee]…[and] rent…rooms to…sex workers in exchange for sexual favors…Saisani and Syed would not charge them upfront for the room, knowing they would make money by using the room for sex work and would be able to pay later…
When cops call other people “predators”, refer to the original of this title:
[Virginia cops fantasy role-played as women interested in ageplay in order to entrap]…30 men…during [a cop fantasy-fest absurdly labeled] Operation COVID Crackdown…[predictably, most of] the men [targeted for this “operation” were racial minorities, as is typical in cop “stings”]…
Buyers of [wooden] products…may unknowingly be financing organized crime gangs, human trafficking and deforestation in an industry tainted by illegal logging, [profiteers claim]…Criminal groups are increasingly involved in the illegal timber trade in the [Mexican] state of Chihuahua which borders the United States, according to [claims] by [a group calling itself] the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime…Diana Siller, director of the…profit[eer] group Jade [shouted]…”The…children[!]”…
Cassandra wishes to share this with you:
…Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts…Five key facts are being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown. Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19. The recent Stanford University antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate if infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent…Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding…Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem…Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections…Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures. The overwhelming evidence…consistently shows that a clearly defined group — older people and others with underlying conditions — is more likely to have a serious illness requiring hospitalization and more likely to die from COVID-19…it is a commonsense, achievable goal to target isolation policy to that group, including strictly monitoring those who interact with them…
When it comes to mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
…public health [commissars] desperately want the ability to track people’s movements to [see if the proles are obeying] social-distancing [diktats] and also to trace contacts between people who carry the disease and [non-consenting] members of the public they [contact]…cellphone tracking…promises to fulfill every Big Brother-ish fear privacy advocates have ever raised. “When California officials…tapped…Facebook [to] provide…location coordinates of tens of millions of smartphones [without their owners’ knowledge or permission]…show[ing]…that large numbers of people were still [visit]ing…beaches and in public parks. So…Gov. Gavin Newsom…ordered them closed to vehicles, sharply restricting…people’s…ability to escape to the healthy outdoors…
Op-eds like this have become very common since FOSTA:
…businesses that provide “live or recorded performances” or “receive more than 5 percent of [their] gross revenue” from the sale of products with any depictions of a “prurient nature” are ineligible for [pandemic loans]. Owners of clubs and other small businesses may file lawsuits over their exclusion, but it is the women carrying the industry who will suffer. Though…sex [workers]…can still file for aid through unemployment and possibly receive the $1,200 stimulus checks given to millions of Americans, they are ineligible for the…far larger [SBA] loans…When the government excludes the sex industry from economic help, it is because it considers this work immoral, a judgment that devalues women’s labor and sex work more broadly. Treating the sex industry as illicit reinforces flawed moral judgments and makes workers in this industry, especially women, particularly vulnerable…
If you didn’t expect the pandemic to be used as an excuse for censorship, you are hopelessly naive:
It has been six weeks since…[cops murdered] 21-year-old Duncan Lemp in a 4:30 a.m. raid at his family’s home in Potomac, Maryland, an affluent and sedate suburb of Washington, D.C. Montgomery County Police have thus far refused to provide any e[xcuse for murdering] Lemp. But a county prosecutor leaped to action…[by] threatening any Lemp family members who attend a protest over his killing with a $5000 fine and a year in jail…[using the excuse of]…Maryland’s strict stay-at-home [diktat]…
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