The Honest Courtesan

If you, my friend, are not acquainted with the juvenile justice system, you will be very shortly.  –  cop, to autistic 7-year-old

Although she had several high-profile hits, this is the one I think of when Irene Cara’s name comes up, and the lyrics are certainly the most fitting to commemorate her passing. The links above the video were provided by Amy Alkon, Isley, Kevin Wilson, Jesse Walker, and Cop Crisis (x3), in that order.

• R.I.P. Irene Cara.
• Be water my friend.
• I’m sure this will work!
• Is this the face of a vampire?
• I’m sure you feel much safer now.
• Just protecting and serving, yessiree.
• “Crime”: tinted windows. Penalty: summary execution.

From the Archives

• The state believes it’s OK for its operatives to dox you, but not vice-versa.
• A false rape claim supported by a lying cop; the victim is lucky to be free.
• The US has given every tyrant in the world a powerful rhetorical weapon.
• Blaming bad behavior on “addiction” works when you control the board.
• “A cop who uses his position to rape is the very definition of a predator.“
• This isn’t important because it’s just “white women getting a manicure”.
• So many “enlightened” countries still believe disease is caused by “sin”.
• Another example of how “lockdowns” cause far more harm than good.
• it’s easy for cops & prosecutors to circumvent supposed “guarantees”.
• They’ve never found more than a very few UK “sex trafficking” cases.
• I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
• The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
• North Carolina’s “solution” for rampant cop violence? Hide the data.
• The conscription of unconsenting drivers into copaganda continues.
• “End demand laws are only effective in putting sex workers at risk.“
• Getting my nails done is the visible sign of a covenant with myself.
• “Give me your huddled masses…so I can torture and deport them”.
• I’m astonishingly ignorant of pop culture of the past four decades.
• What is the alternative to cops for victims of actual violent crime?
• Habeas corpus? New York don’t understand that fancy Latin jazz.
• Cops, Florida, Gahan Wilson, the Twilight Zone, and much more.
• LAPD “bans” technology it’s already illegal to use in California.
• All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
• This was the endgame of “anti-trafficking” schemes all along.
• It’s good to see that the media are beginning to grasp this.
• Cops murder more people than any other group in the US.
• The Spanish case of the Swedish rot is especially virulent.
• Cops, horror plots, supervillains, beans, and much more.
• A retrospective of my blogging from November 2011.
• I’m actually starting to get the hang of MIG welding.
• A “certification” in racist, misogynistic propaganda.
• This sordid saga finally wraps up after three years.
• Are most cops even capable of telling the truth?
• Authoritarian regimes are much of a muchness.
• “Predictive policing” scams don’t spare minors.
• Another “invisible” improvement to my annex.
• Cops, Florida, singing cats, and much more.
• “Sex-Positive Can’t Be Whore-Negative.”
• As I predicted three years ago.
• A big Thanksgiving at Sunset.
• Belated birthday presents.
• Homemade apple cider.
• R.I.P. Wakefield Poole.

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