The predicted cold front I mentioned last week turned out to be less severe than predicted, and completely dry. So though we had to take extra precautions (putting the pony’s coat on, plugging in an extra heat lamp for the chickens, etc), we were actually able to get much more work done than I’d anticipated. That was working with wood, of course; it was much too cold to weld, and even too cold to do concrete until Friday. You’ll see what I was up to with the wood a week from Friday (I couldn’t fit a bathhouse column in this week), but in the meantime you can see what our animals like to do when it’s cold but quite sunny. Cicero has a heat lamp at night, but in the daytime he prefers the real McCoy.
Archive for February, 2022
Diary #609
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on February 28, 2022| 3 Comments »
Links #608
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, cops, Florida, hysteria, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, Indiana, Nevada, Never Call the Cops, prisons, Stop faking!, video on February 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke
I’ve heard these impressions before, but they’re really quite remarkable; Bowie was a man of any talents! This video was provided by Franklin Harris, and the links above it by Cop Crisis, Walter Olson, Dave Krueger, Emma Evans, Cop Crisis again and Dave Krueger again, in that order.
- Stop faking!
- RIP P. J. O’Rourke.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- At least he’s consistent in his overreaction.
- No, not because a man hugged somebody, either.
- It’s amazing how often people die mysteriously when cops are nearby.
From the Archives
- Never underestimate the human capacity to obsess about the nonexistent.
- Government invents a new excuse for violently intruding on private lives.
- Australian politicians want to demolish the internet as much as US ones.
- Just letting sex workers see clients in private never occurs to the Dutch.
- Court declares that cops are too stupid and evil to understand morality.
- Remember this when cops start bloviating about “dangerous criminals”.
- A cop shares his sick masturbatory fantasies about Asian sex workers.
- Cops describe a massage parlor pogrom with an avalanche of bullshit.
- Why local laws banning surveillance technology are feel-good bullshit.
- A rare case of “authorities” actually charging a serial rapist of escorts.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- “The government has tried to financially strangle them at every turn“.
- Crypto-moralists add nationalism to “health” in their war on pleasure.
- This is at least the fifth iteration we’ve seen of this same inane stunt.
- Why does California want to destroy or drive out a lucrative industry?
- “Harris’s contempt for sex workers lies at the heart of her hypocrisy“.
- Though pimps are uncommon, many of those who do exist are cops.
- “Give me your huddled masses, so I can torture and deport them“.
- One day, “professional ‘survivor’” will no longer be a lucrative job.
- Even reporters of these abuses insist on calling them “correction”.
- Anti-trans hysteria has shifted from toilets to high-school sports.
- Two previous columns for International Sex Worker Rights Day.
- Headed toward the end of the hysteria, albeit 3 or 4 years late.
- Cops, absurdism, Blondie, Hieronymus Bosch, and much more.
- A nursing home director explores a deceased patient’s secret.
- It’s been too long since I thanked all of you for your support.
- When government is in charge, things can always get worse.
- AirBnB regrets joining the hotel industry’s eager copsucking.
- Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2011 and 2017.
- The alternative press doesn’t mindlessly parrot copaganda.
- The “things on cars” branch of “sex trafficking” scarelore.
- Cops, government, books, sleep farting, and much more.
- Internet companies rushing toward self-lobotomization.
- What it’s like to be arrested in a “sex trafficking” sting.
- Cops, Florida, presidents, Peter Tork and much more.
- 2011’s fantasy scenario is today’s hysterical reality.
- Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
- How do I connect with other escorts in my area?
- Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
- A pandemic can’t stop dedicated opportunists.
- What is wrong with doctors who do this?
- A small but important victory in Canada.
- How Annie became part of the family.
- Quite a good week despite my brain.
- My previous columns for Mardi Gras.
- Eros is whistling past the graveyard.
- If a “study” sounds benign to you…
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- A quadrennial occasion.
- “The least bad option”.
In the News (#1215)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, abortion, asset seizure, California, cops, Creepy Coppers, fascism, FBI, Florida, Going After the Pimps, Guinea Pigs, Idaho, If Men Were Angels, Louisiana, Ohio, politicians, porn, propaganda, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, Something Rotten In Sweden, South Dakota, surveillance, teachers, The Mob Rules, To Molest and Rape, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state) on February 26, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Is there anything they wouldn’t sell this mass surveillance for?
– Jack Poulson
Nobody will be safe until this odious, contemptible practice is recognized as unconstitutional:
Carl Nelson and Amy Sterner Nelson…[w]ere…[forced to sell] their house and their car, liquidate…their retirement funds, and move…their family of six from a comfortable West Seattle home to Amy’s sister’s basement after the FBI s[tole] almost $1 million from them in May 2020…The[y looted]…nearly every corner of the Nelsons’ world, including…the savings Amy racked up from her decade as a practicing attorney…[even though] the[y]…never even suspected Amy of committing any crime. It was…Carl—a former real estate transaction manager for Amazon—w[hom]…they accused…of showing favor to certain developers and securing them deals in exchange for illegal kickbacks…the…years-long investigation into Carl’s alleged fraud has not yielded an indictment. Yet no such thing was necessary for the federal government to wreck the Nelsons’ lives…Last week, the government agreed to a settlement: Of the original approximately $892,000 it seized, it will return $525,000…and…[keep] about $109,000. (The remaining sum has been depleted by court fees)…Carl is still a defendant in a massive federal lawsuit against Amazon, and they accepted the deal so that they’d have money for attorneys’ fees…
I won’t be surprised if his sentence is shorter than this:
Cynthia Perkins…faces 41 years in prison after taking a plea deal…in exchange for testifying against her [child rapist cop] ex-husband, Dennis…[who] manipulated…her…[in]to commit[ing]…horr[ible] crimes [ranging from rape to child porn to mixing his semen into cupcakes which she fed to her students]…Cynthia…could have faced 72 years in prison. However, 68 of the remaining charges against her were dropped…she has no possibility of parole…and…waived any right to appeal…
What was the advantage to her in agreeing to what amounts to a life sentence without parole? Does she honestly think she’ll have any kind of life after getting out of prison at 77, assuming she lives that long once the other prisoners figure out who she is and what she did?
Something Rotten in Sweden (#1112)
More than 200 sex workers were arrested as part of an [annual pogrom] that police [sell to the ignorant] as an attempt to save people from human trafficking. The arrests—part of a Super Bowl-adjacent collaboration between Los Angeles law enforcement and the feds—represent an all too common theme in U.S. law enforcement, where people claim to be helping sex workers while actually subjecting them to harm. The…[pogrom is] christened with the creepy name “Operation Reclaim and Rebuild”…now in its seventh year…[Pigs merrily oinking about all the lives they ruined were] joined by representatives of…Morality in Media…214 people were arrested for allegedly selling sex and 201 people were arrested for allegedly trying to pay for sex…only 53 people were arrested for pimping, pandering, or supervising prostitution. And it’s unclear if any of these individuals were engaged in anything that we might think of as abusive or non-consensual behavior…most of the arrests—445—were for misdemeanors…
Imagine how many others like this are still out there, raping and murdering:
The suspect in a 1983 cold case murder is…a [cop] who worked in several counties…in Central Florida. St. Lucie County…cold case squad found evidence that [dead] deputy James Harrison raped and murdered an 11-year-old girl…[and] could be responsible for more unsolved cases. He died of cancer in 2008…11-year-old Lora Ann Huizar disappeared while walking home from a gas station. She was found in a nearby drainage ditch. Detectives… believe [Harrison] kidnapped, raped and killed her…witness[es] report[ed that]…Harrison [was] watching the girl…[Sheriff Ken] Mascara…[claims] he was concerned at the time that Harrison showed a pattern of inappropriate behavior with young girls…his complaint w[as dismissed by a]…supervisor [who opined] that, since Harrison was also a preacher, he was “spiritually mentoring children at risk”…
Still think this djinni can be crammed back into its bottle?
The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it is on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable”…Those images — equivalent to 14 photos for each of the 7 billion people on Earth — would help power a surveillance system that has been used [to abduct] and [terrorize many] thousands of [people by cops, spooks,] and [other] government [operatives] around the world. And the company wants to expand beyond…[fascist operations to purely corporate ones], saying in the presentation that it could monitor “gig economy” workers and is researching a number of new technologies that could identify someone based on how they walk, detect their location from a photo or scan their fingerprints from afar…With $50 million from investors, the company said, it could bulk up its data collection powers to 100 billion photos, build new products, expand its international sales team and pay more toward [buy]ing…poli[ticians so as] to “develop favorable regulation”…
The only thing cops seem to love as much as raping kids is collecting kiddie porn:
In less than two weeks, two Sioux Falls [South Dakota cops]…have been arrested for child pornography…On Wednesday, February 16, Matthew Alan Jock was…charged with five counts…and…on February 8…Luke Schauer, a[nother typical and representative cop], was…[charged with] “attempted production”…[spokespigs fell all over themselves
to distance themselves from the pair and oink about “bad apples”]…
Meanwhile, a few states to the southeast:
Ohio…[cop] Kevin A. Kovacs…pleaded guilty…to transporting and possessing child pornography…between April 2015 and July 2017, Kovacs uploaded more than 300 images and 2,200 videos depicting child pornography to his Dropbox account. Videos featured the sexual abuse of children as young as toddler aged.
One video depicted a toddler…whose arms and legs were bound by black tape…In total…Kovacs possessed more than 780 images and 5,100 videos of child pornography…[his] plea…includes an agreed upon sentencing range of 60 to 240 months in prison…
Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse:
A Texas-style abortion law is advancing in Idaho…SB 1309…would authorize the father, aunt, uncle, grandparent, or sibling of a fetus aborted after [fetal cardiac activity can be detected] to file a civil lawsuit against the doctor at any time up to four years after the abortion, and get $20,000 minimum damages plus attorney fees…”It’s unconstitutional on its face,” state Sen. Grant Burgoyne…said. “I think that the state of Idaho is in for another rough ride on…abortion litigation, and an expensive ride, and an unconstitutional ride”…
Back Issue #104
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on February 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The 21st century American view of sex is warped beyond that of any other historical culture. – “Scorched Earth”
- Tyrants want to criminalize every conceivable behavior of “sex offenders”.
- In New Zealand, even barring street work in an area requires a new law.
- Most people have the sense not to act out abduction fantasies in public.
- Preacher calls hooker with intent to preach at her, gets robbed instead.
- African countries which are more civilized about sex work than the US.
- Religious justifications for bestiality laws give way to “abuse” rhetoric.
- And now for something completely different: a man with half a head.
- A reporter actually asks an escort for opinion on “sex trafficking” law.
- Ridiculous exaggerations and addiction rhetoric, but not against sex.
- Sex work is one of the caring professions like nursing or social work.
- South African government distributes millions of defective condoms.
- Aussie doctor declares “dirty whore” panic “absolute total rubbish”.
- Israeli politicians promote Swedish model despite 59% opposition.
- An actress demonstrates how little our professions have diverged.
- Another European government wants to tell women how to dress.
- The tale of an escort who falls in love with a most unusual client.
- Femen protests are less annoying if you just look at the pictures.
- My little sister’s peerless recipe for chicken and andouille gumbo.
- Attractive sows destroy the lives of high-school boys via trickery.
- Meet Bethany St. James, Jill Brenneman and a sex worker mom.
- Olympe de Gouges: courtesan, writer and ethical revolutionary.
- Pardis Mahdavi on “trafficking” hysteria as a global moral panic.
- The prostitute who didn’t want Charles Dickens to “rescue” her.
- Sometimes prostitution law is like a good news/bad news joke.
- How can professionals possibly be experts in their own fields?
- The namesake of my “That Was the Week That Was” feature.
- A word from noted “sex trafficking” expert Tommy Flanagan.
- Follow-ups to examples of cop violence against sex workers.
- A study identifies the genes that cause gendered behavior.
- Must every strong urge now be described as an addiction?
- The legendary scientific detachment of Dr. G. S. Brindley.
- Is the United Kingdom learning from her former colonies?
- Another article about single mothers turning to sex work.
- St. James Infirmary provides healthcare for sex workers.
- Possibly the most disgusting pervert of the last decade.
- A California woman claims porn can’t be copyrighted.
- Yet another debunking of the “gypsy whores” myth.
- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
- How well-chosen pictures increase blog traffic.
- I didn’t do another column like this until 2016.
- There’s more than one way to skin a lawhead.
- A report on the progress of the Swedish rot.
- How to make money from a moral panic.
- Another advantage of breast implants.
- America’s scorched-earth war on sex.
- What testosterone does to women.
- Sex, love and money in Cambodia.
- Kristof’s fun new way to play God.
- To be anti-choice is to be anti-life.
- Another “dog bites man” thing.
- All prohibitionism is the same.
- What Would Orrin Hatch Do?
- I’m sure you feel safer now .
- Why is sex such a taboo?
- Kelly James vs. the TSA.
- Potential HIV vaccines.
- The sky is falling!
- The hooker vote.
February Made Me Twitter
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged adolescence, Believe Them, blogging, cops, hysteria, illegal aliens, imaginative fiction, politicians, Twitter on February 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Your regular reminder that if you feel the need to infantilize young adults when defending their rights, you're not actually defending their rights.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 25, 2022
"It's your new dishwasher, Mrs. Flintstone!" https://t.co/B438o6KsZO
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2022
I want to find out which insane but easily-amused billionaire is offering these huge sums of money for performing tasks that are at most inconvenient rather than difficult or dangerous. I'm sure I can keep him happy for a while.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 28, 2022
Health, a fashion sense, and a desire to actually be attractive. https://t.co/K11HeIv7Id
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 29, 2022
The 21st century version is the 11-year-old "porn addict".
All prohibitionism is the same. https://t.co/DtBnFr2wyl
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 1, 2022
Welcome to Ulthar. https://t.co/lspFAZrIr5
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 2, 2022
Politicians casually swim around in depths of depravity, ignorance, and stupidity no normal person could even manage to dive down to. They're like the black gulpers and anglerfish of the cognitive ocean.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 2, 2022
Only a bureaucrat could think it was reasonable to declare a puddle too small for a rowboat to be a "navigable water". https://t.co/JzBJd35MmU
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 3, 2022
I cannot adequately express how disgusting it is to me when someone uses the term "illegals" to describe human beings seeking a better life in greener pastures, as humans have always done since before we were even fully human.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 4, 2022
Turning 31. https://t.co/kPHNY4R67c
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 5, 2022
Dear Brian,
Fuck off. Our bodies are ours, not yours. And my ACTUAL brother doesn't try to tell me what I can do with mine.
-Maggie https://t.co/RlktNU8z6G
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 9, 2022
Goddammit, stop trying to make me like Trump. https://t.co/VDXcotrVs9
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 10, 2022
Sex workers! Join me in laughing at Ian, as he fantasizes that other men in high positions DON'T have unusual sexual tastes merely because they're less honest about them. https://t.co/S6Rfawl6Qd
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 12, 2022
Cops show you who they are (people who think random violence is "fun") all the time; why don't you believe them? https://t.co/zCZmvKHBTe
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 14, 2022
That sex is not magic; there is no magical, mumbo-jumbo, taboo energy about it that makes it different from all other human activities. https://t.co/L0Whxr8SRo
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 15, 2022
Welcome to the world your sad devotion to the centuries-old "wing" fantasy has created. https://t.co/P6bW4cRSv9
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 17, 2022
It would be far shorter to list the few that weren't complete shit. https://t.co/jnJyEVNz2H
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 18, 2022
"Radical feminism" is a religion. https://t.co/p2nyvZzCXa
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 19, 2022
What about over their personal sexual opinions, Carla? https://t.co/vCItKAXUm9
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 22, 2022
I'm sure they're also lobbying against the laws in all 50 states that allow armed thugs to murder people after violently and unexpectedly breaking into their houses in the middle of the night. https://t.co/sjkfBMj0zR
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 23, 2022
In the News (#1214)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, censorship, cops, disease, fascism, Georgia, HIV Cure, Illinois, internet, New York, Opting Out, Pennsylvania, Permanent Record, politicians, porn, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, Rotting Fruit, Safe Position, stripping, surveillance, teachers, To Molest and Rape, Twitter, United Kingdom, Welcome to the Future on February 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The online safety bill presents a clear attempt to age-gate the internet. – Mark Johnson
It’s pretty rare for reporters to actually use the word “rape” when the rapist is a cop:
Atlanta [cop]…Lionel Joseph Dely…rap[ed] a woman in her…apartment…Jan. 31 shortly after…Dely…[tricked her into admitting him by belching out the magic word “]investigation[“. A spokespig oinked that]…Dely [didn’t have]…official [permission]…to [commit rape]…
As I prepared to enter the political world as a candidate, I made promises that I would not leave anyone behind and that I would be honest about my experiences, including my time working as a stripper during college…I was afraid if I told anyone I would be stigmatized. I feared getting kicked out of school, losing my friendships, and being denied a future in the career I was working toward…After coming forward in the campaign, the soccer club I worked for through this pandemic confronted me about sex work on my campaign’s social media platform. They asked me to remove my statements while…removing me from both the teams I coached…My story is not unique. So many examples exist that highlight the stigma and job loss that impact individuals, especially women when their past or current involvement in sex work is revealed…
Previous cures were accomplished by bone marrow transplant:
A woman in the New York City area appears to have been cured of…HIV…[she] has shown no detectable signs of the…virus in extensive testing since she stopped antiretroviral treatment in October 2020 following a transplant of stem cells with a rare genetic mutation that blocks HIV invasion…The woman, who had a form of leukemia, received a transplant of stem cells from an adult relative and umbilical-cord blood from a newborn to whom she wasn’t related. The treatment is likely to be suitable for a broader range of people than are the transplants that beat HIV back in three other patients, because cord blood doesn’t have to be a precise genetic match to a recipient patient…
Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance:
…GoGuardian…[is] a s[urveillance]…tool for monitoring what students do during Zoom classes…it…[euphemizes the atmosphere of distrust this creates] as [a]…”digital learning environment…where every student can thrive”…Defenders of [such] programs [barf up the usual platitudes about “safety”]…but…[the] tools also collect data related to non-life-threatening behavior…most kids probably don’t want school administrators reading their journals…and…if students feel they are being watched, they may be less likely to explore less “acceptable” ideas or to search the internet with questions they are embarrassed to ask in class…
Even if Clearview itself is brought down, the djinni is already out of the bottle:
Face surveillance is a growing menace…and…one of the worst offenders is Clearview AI, which extracts faceprints from billions of people without their consent and uses these faceprints to help police identify [people they wish to target for]…violence. Clearview’s faceprinting violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act…which requires opt-in consent…Clearview now faces many consolidated BIPA lawsuits in federal court. It also faces another suit, brought by the ACLU…in state court…the judge in the federal cases rejected Clearview’s First Amendment defense, denied the company’s motion to dismiss, and allowed the lawsuits to move forward. This is an important victory for our privacy over Clearview’s profits…
Oh, oh, my goodness me, who could ever have predicted this outcome?
Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have settled out of court in the civil sex assault claim filed in the US…the…lawyer[s]…wrote jointly…to say that the parties had “reached a settlement in principle”. Court documents show the duke will make a “substantial donation to Ms Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights”…
“At least one person noted that the UK was at risk of looking like idiots”:
U.K. government officials confirmed…that social media sites “hosting large amounts of pornographic material, such as Twitter and Reddit” would have to “introduce systems to remove adult material in the U.K., or introduce age checks to determine whether users are over 18″…This is one of the first official confirmations that the measure has as eventual targets not only “pornographic websites”…but also any website that tolerates sexually explicit content. Eradicating adult content from open platforms has been one of the core objectives of the leading religiously inspired, U.S.-based groups that are at the forefront of the War on Porn, including [Morality in Media] and Exodus Cry and their mouthpieces…
The tagline above was drawn from this article, demonstrating just how much more acceptable censorship has become to the hoi-polloi in only 4 years.
Diary #608
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset on February 22, 2022| 1 Comment »
On the day this posts, we’re supposed to get a cold front through, possibly accompanied by some snow. But for a week or so, we had some almost-springish weather, and the animals were all grazing for the new shoots. Shiloh has figured out some new way to escape the paddock, but she knows it’s her home and she doesn’t like to be far from Jonathan, so I’m not terribly concerned when she gets out (especially since she can sometimes figure out how to get back in when she’s ready). It’s long past time to expand the fence anyhow, so I’ll make time to do that the next time I have both dry weather and a helper. In the meantime, I’ve been taking advantage of the clement conditions to forge ahead on the bathhouse project; as I explained Friday, we want the north ramp under the roof, so it had to be built before I could set up the posts which will support the steel header. But that part is now done (you’ll see pictures in my next Bathhouse column) and the weather has turned cold and rainy again, so it’ll probably be next week before we can start on the next leaf of the roof; in the meantime I’m using the energy to clear up some of the mess which got displaced into my bedroom when we started working on my office. With any luck, I’ll be finished all of the major projects by the holidays, so perhaps next year I’ll be able to find the time to indulge myself in some quaint pastimes like reading for pleasure.
No Absolute Truths
Posted in Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged censorship, politicians, Thought Control on February 21, 2022| 4 Comments »
Some of you have trouble understanding this, so I’m going to spell it out: you are not stupid. You have a brain, and it allows you to weigh data and make judgments for yourself. You don’t have to do it alone; you can consult the opinions of people you trust, people who know more about a given topic than you do and, as far as you know, have never lied to you. But to do that, information must flow freely; beware of those who say, “I have all the information you need, and those who express different opinions from me should be silenced.” And most of all, beware those who rely on your unquestioning acceptance of their claims to increase their own power; they are not your friends. Accept no source as an absolute authority, especially when they demand you should. No church, no government, no prophet or politician. Thoughts and ideas in themselves are never your enemy, even if they are silly, stupid, misinformed, or dead wrong. Those who want to stop you from hearing, thinking about, and weighing those thoughts and ideas for yourself are your enemies, especially if they claim to know best for you. And no, the ideas you personally dislike are not an exception. Neither are your favored “authorities”. Not the Pope. Not your “leaders”. Not Marx. Not any Prophet. Not me. Not the entertainers you like. Not journalists. Not podcasters or bloggers. There are no absolute truths. And lest you be inclined to be a smartass: yes, that includes everything in this thread. Accept it or reject it for yourself as you please. But you have no right to impose your preferences and beliefs about this subject, or any other, on anyone else.
Links #607
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged cell phones, cops, drugs, Florida, Never Call the Cops, New York, prisons, Vermont, video, Washington (state) on February 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. – Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) in Ghostbusters
In recognition of the passing of hard funk pioneer Betty Davis, here’s her “They Say I’m Different”, from the 1974 album of the same name. The links above the video were provided by Cop Crisis (“serving”, “leaning”, and “demonstrating”); Cathy Reisenwitz (“exception”); Gustavo Turner (“Davis”); Franklin Harris (“Reitman”); and Jesse Walker (“shark”).
- Just protecting and serving.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- R.I.P. Betty Davis and Ivan Reitman.
- Cop murders man for “aggressively leaning”.
- “Land acknowledgments” have jumped the shark.
- Just another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
From the Archives
- Human opinions were never & are never monolithic across a society & era.
- It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Annie Lobert of “Liars for Jesus”.
- “Sex trafficking” fantasies induce psychosis in those who promote them.
- TSA goons are allowed to molest citizens, but this was a bit too blatant.
- US institutions often need to be reminded that they do not own people.
- How an entity treats sex workers shows how they feel about all people.
- Politicians are too stupid to understand that all prohibition is the same.
- “We wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from Kamala’s travesty“.
- Utah is another state which pays cops to sexually assault sex workers.
- They claim gypsy whores failed to materialize because of the hysteria.
- Prohibitionists invent bogus stats to hide a failed entrapment scheme.
- Women work not to pay bills, but because we have “low self-esteem”.
- “Perhaps privacy loss will help Bezos realize the evils of surveillance“.
- Nebraska’s claims to be a “sex trafficking hub” are the most pathetic.
- Maybe we’re about to see the beginning of the end of these evil laws.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- Why are men with so much to lose so goddamned stupid about sex?
- If enough of these are thrown at the wall, one may eventually stick.
- Most “child predators” hold positions of authority over their victims.
- The absurdity becomes more obvious when we substitute “toaster”.
- This unconstitutional bill has already failed in over a dozen states.
- The first duopoly candidate to actually support decriminalization.
- Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people”.
- In the West, “trafficking” rhetoric is used to block immigration.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- When “sex trafficking” hysteria started morphing into QAnon.
- Louisiana hides another molester cop from possible lynching.
- Should I tell an escort that her email shows her legal name?
- Cops, fascism, family values, the letter “I” and much more.
- Governments just love locking people in cages indefinitely.
- Cops, Darwin, straight folks, Chick Corea, and much more.
- Israeli prohibitionists are trying to criminalize all sex work.
- My blog and Twitter feed are definitely not “safe spaces”.
- Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
- Predictable ugliness from “celebrity” prohibitionist trash.
- Your “leaders” know what’s best, so shut up and obey.
- Fascist corporations are happy to assist in a genocide.
- The public masturbatory fantasy of “pop-up brothels”.
- How can I decide whether to come out to an advisor?
- Seattle is remarkably quiet under a blanket of snow.
- Another claim that disasters cause “sex trafficking”.
- I’m glad I was out at Sunset for this snowstorm.
- Cops, candidates, The Rutles, and much more.
- In the US, this is now illegal thanks to FOSTA.
- My last travel before the pandemic hit us.
- Anti-sex feminism’s days are numbered.
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In the News (#1213)
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By and large, the [state’s] reaction is, “Who cares? A child is dead. Let’s put her in prison for the rest of her life.” – Karla Fischer
I don’t usually think ages are an important detail, but this is an exception:
…two Thai sex workers…Nualpan Coxon, 67, and Pornthip Phonkoed, 63, both of Auckland, have been on trial…[for defrauding] and…blackmail[ing three elderly men]…between August 2015 and February 2018…prosecutor Rebecca Mann…described the pair’s behaviour as “psychological coercion”…but…defence counsel Russell Boot told the jury…”They were not deceived in any way…It wasn’t until their wives and daughters found out … that it became an issue”…
Any information you give to cops can and will be used against you:
The San Francisco police crime lab has been entering sexual assault victims’ DNA profiles in[to] a database used to identify suspects in crimes…District Attorney Chesa Boudin…said his office was made aware of the practice last week, after a woman’s DNA collected years ago as part of a rape exam was used to link her to a recent property crime. If DNA from a rape kit was used without consent for purposes other than investigating the underlying rape case, it may be a violation of constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures as well as California’s Victims’ Bill of Rights, Boudin said. Such a practice could also create another deterrent to sexual assault victims coming forward…Boudin said his office was investigating the scope of the practice…the database potentially includes thousands of victims’ DNA profiles, with entries over “many, many years”…
For comparison: roughly 60% of prostitution charges in the US result from the charged sex worker becoming the victim of some crime.
The state wants vengeance for the loss of future tax revenue:
[On] New Year’s Eve…2019, Rebecca Hogue, then a 28-year-old cocktail waitress, arrived home in Norman, Oklahoma, around 4 a.m. and went to check on her 2-year-old son…Ryder…her boyfriend, Christopher Trent…had put him…in his crib, where he appeared to be sleeping…when she woke up again a few hours later, Trent was gone. And her toddler, still in the crib, was…dead…Days later, [police] found [Trent] hanging from a tree in the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, where he’d killed himself…he’d [apparently] beaten the boy while Hogue was away at work…[because] they found the words “Rebecca is Innocent” carved into a tree…But in the ultimate act of victim-blaming against a grieving mother, the state of Oklahoma…convicted [her] of first-degree murder, even though she never laid a hand on the boy…Hogue was convicted under Oklahoma’s “failure to protect” law, which requires parents to [magically] shield their kid from physical harm if [a jury decides] they…[“]should[“] have been [clairvoyantly] aware…that another adult [wa]s abusing the child…
…In a city council video that reads like sketch comedy…[Hudson, Ohio] mayor [Craig Shubert]] warns that if you open up the lake to ice fishing, ice shantytowns will follow, and then commercial sex…”If you open this up to ice fishing, while on the surface it sounds good, then what happens next year—does someone come back and say I want an ice shanty?…And if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem: prostitution. Just data points to consider,” he added. (Apparently, Shubert doesn’t understand what “data points” means)…
At least Shubert had the sense to realize he had become a laughingstock, and resigned the following week.
The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever:
…the U.S. Postal Service…is violating the privacy and civil liberties of the American people by using sophisticated tools to break into hundreds of citizens’ cellphones and collect their social media posts…the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) admitted in its 2020 annual report that it not only employed top-of-the-line technology hundreds of times to hack into mobile phones but also planned to expand its use of…Cellebrite…and GrayKey…to break into phones, unscramble otherwise unreadable encrypted data, and copy it for [pigs] to [root] through. This technology is dangerous and prone to abuse…
Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this atrocity:
…Troy Burke…admitted to killing his wife, Jessica…by shooting her three times in the head in their [Michigan] home…a judge allowed Burke to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, after psychiatric evaluations by both the state and independent experts concluded that he was not fit to stand trial…Burke believed his tablet device was sending him signals from QAnon members who told him that his wife was working for the CIA…the messages directed him to kill his wife to save the world from child sex trafficking…it’s unclear if the messages Burke was speaking about were real or imaginary, but…QAnon…was built on…false claim[s about]…child sex-trafficking [spread for the past two decades by politicians, cops, the news media (including Vice), sex work prohibitionists, and amoral profiteers]…
Coverage of these incidents is growing more sympathetic:
Cami Strella…tried to tune out distress about being outed until a classmate who discovered her online identity broached a conversation about sex and Strella’s online content. That encounter signified to Strella that her time as a student in occupational therapy with a neurological rehabilitation track was nearing a close…she…sought the advice of a trusted academic adviser who told her it would be best if she left the program…[so] she followed that advice and submitted her intent to unenroll from the only graduate program to which she had been accepted…Lutheran-affiliated Lenoir-Rhyne University has no policy against digital sex work, [and] a university spokesperson…said the school encourages Strella to communicate her concerns to university leadership…
“Communicate her concerns”? What sanctimonious bullshit. Note also that despite the generally-sympathetic tone, writer Lateshia Beachum still felt compelled to include dysphemisms such as “earning a living in society’s underbelly” and sophomoric tee-hee attempts at wit such as “pull themselves up by their garter belts to attain financial stability”.
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