The Honest Courtesan

[Can’t] we see [police] doing other things than showing up with a tank?  –  Jennifer Bacon

For the first time since July, I didn’t have a video either suggested by an obituary or in queue from previous weeks, so I went to YouTube and found this rather strange video from 1969.  The links above it were provided by Lucy Steigerwald, Cop Crisis (x3), Radley Balko, Stephen Lemons, and Emma Evans, in that order.

• R.I.P. Kevin Conroy.
• Police professionalism.
• Just protecting and serving.
• “Correction” is for peasants, not overlords.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
• Some people want these systems piloting vehicles at highway speed.

From the Archives

• How long will airlines accept liability for government-brand racial profiling?
• Is the magic word missing here due to pushback on other, similar scams?
• While any part of sexwork is criminalized, cops have power over whores.
• Swedish model fanatics won’t stop trying to impose their filth on the UK.
• “The only way for a traveler to stop government spying is not to travel.“
• Israel’s plan to force sex workers into low-paid menial “women’s work”.
• Millions believe the entire realm of politics can be described in one bit.
• Deranged men may get violent when we won’t indulge their fantasies.
• Useful idiots are surprised, though this was as predictable as sunrise.
• There’s nothing in this article that one can’t get from sex workers.
• Seattle-area pigs are once again rooting in sex workers’ business.
• Some cops don’t stop with mere beating, or with just their wives.
• Cops, horror movies, Alex Trebek, Ken Spears, and much more.
• Is it too much to ask that politicians actually ban these arrests?
• Megalomaniacal politicians setting themselves up like Jehovah.
• Authoritarians all want the same thing, regardless of “wings”.
• I wonder if the Illinois lawsuit had anything to do with this?
• The “cops bearing gifts” PR scam is not limited to the US.
• Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match.
• Now is the time to push even harder against prohibition.
• Yet another rescue industry fraud has been unmasked.
• This happens all over the US, but Florida is the worst.
• Why end-to-end encryption is an absolute necessity.
• Avoiding the “grandfather paradox” in time travel.
• No woman is safe from sexually-aggressive cops.
• Cops, turkeys, cannibal ants, and much more.
• Cops, irony, Dean Stockwell, and much more.
• Links to all my past essays for Armistice Day.
• One can’t build a roof while it’s hailing.
• “No genetic information can be safe.“
• Rapist cops aren’t limited to the US.
• Late Halloweeny birthday presents.
• But this isn’t trafficking, no sirree!
• Presented without comment.
• Just protecting and serving.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• The gift of Blake’s 7.
• Canning pumpkin.

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