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Friday, September 13th, 2024
Posted in Perception, Tyranny, tagged activism, Friday the Thirteenth, holidays on September 13, 2024| 2 Comments »
I, Throwback Thursday
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged Algeria, blogging, Buttons Bags & Banknotes, censorship, cops, ethics, internet, Islam, law, neofeminism, politicians, pragmatism, stripping, United Kingdom, Washington DC on September 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The imitations of their fashion and dance styles by American belly dancers since the 1960s are all that remain of a once unique and fascinating culture, now ground into the dust of the Sahara by the twisted schemes of tyrants.
– “The Ouled Nail”
The laws and regulations produced by the American political system no longer reflect sense, morality, the well-being of society, the will of the people, or any other recognizable principle of good government, and are therefore not binding on free people. Police, prosecutors and other government actors who enforce such laws are not legitimate authorities, but rather the myriad tentacles of a mad, amorphous abomination flailing about wildly in its delirium and killing or maiming everything with which it comes into contact. – “Against Conscience”
When those with a history of attack, oppression and exclusion say they need a certain weapon for defense, you can be as certain as the sun rising in the east that it will also be used for offense. – “Buttons, Bags & Banknotes“
In the News (#1471)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Arkansas, California, Censor Chic, censorship, cops, Creepy Coppers, drugs, Georgia, hysteria, illegal aliens, internet, Mexico, Mississippi, Netherlands, Ohio, Opting Out, Panopticon, porn, propaganda, Pyrrhic Victory, robots, surveillance, Tennessee, Texas, The Implosion Begins, Unsafe for Human Consumption, You Were Warned on September 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A state cannot pick and choose which categories of protected speech it wishes to block teenagers from discussing online. – Judge Robert Pitman
Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops:
A [California cop named]…Allen Charles was arrested…[for] distribut[ing] child pornography multiple times between 2019 and 2023…[fellow cops toss]ed his residence and found [lots of child porn, so]…Butte College[, which paid him to spy on and harass students, rewarded him with a paid vacation]…
Another toothless “judgment” against Clearview which will compensate nobody but lawyers:
The Dutch [government has] issued…Clearview AI with a fine of 30.5 million euros ($33.7 million) over its creation of…an “illegal database” of billion of photos of faces….[and] warned Dutch companies that using Clearview’s services is…banned…But…Clearview’s chief legal officer, Jack Mulcaire, said that the decision is “unlawful, devoid of due process and…unenforceable”…[because] Clearview doesn’t fall under EU data protection regulations. “Clearview AI does not have a place of business in the Netherlands or the EU, it does not have any customers in the Netherlands or the EU, and does not undertake any activities that would otherwise mean it is subject to the GDPR”…
I tried to edit out as much of the nauseating bootlicking as I could:
The Department of Homeland Security is shutting down a program that used surveillance blimps at the [US-Mexico] border [despite] objections from [politicians] and [other xenophobic sociopaths because]…funding has dried up. More than two dozen p[arasites] are out of a job thanks to the program’s end…[pigs oinked dehumanizing rhetoric about people seeking a better life, including obligatory references to] fentanyl…[“]trafficking[“] and…terrorists…
When will this censorship fad end?
A federal judge issued a last-minute partial block on a Texas law that would require some large web services to [spy on users to] identify minors and [censor] what they see online…the…SCOPE…Act…was set to take effect…on September 1st…and…requires…social networks, to [infantilize] users whose registered age is under 18….[by censoring anything and everything any politician points at while belching out words such as] “harmful”…“glorifies”…“grooming”…and…[“]obscene[“, with some services] (as defined by [dubious politically-defined formulae]) [being forced to] implement a “commercially reasonable age verification method.” Tech industry groups NetChoice and the CCIA sued…[as did] the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression…the injunction…makes HB 18 the latest state-level internet regulation to be at least partially blocked by courts, alongside California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and other statutes in Arkansas, Ohio and Mississippi…the federal…censorship [law called KOSA has also still not been completely buried yet]…
This just keeps getting more entertaining:
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents [raided] the Millersville Police Department as [part of a] criminal investigation into the [nest of deranged psychopaths led by]…the department’s [dangerously-unhing]ed assistant police chief Shawn Taylor…
Reporter Phil Williams has gone all-out in this investigation; it’s already grown to 13 parts, linked in the article I linked & quoted above.
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1459)
Cops won’t drop this fantasy until “news” media stop obediently parroting it:
Two [Arkansas cops] were taken to the hospital and later released after [having panic attacks due to copaganda over] fentanyl [while harassing citizens over] an expired license plate…[the panicky pig, Hunter] Mealer[, lied, claiming]…he got permission from the driver…to [root through] the vehicle…[even though there were drug] pipes [within containing] white residue…[when whiny-baby] Mealer [saw this he] became disoriented and lightheaded and began sweating profusely[, which are not symptoms of opiates]. He [then fainted]…and…[when a fellow pig wasted] Narcan…[on him] another [cop], Danny Kenward, [became jealous of the attention]…and [faked the same panic-attack symptoms]…
A high-powered rifle should still be able to take this out from a safe distance:
A [surveillance robot]…known as a Knightscope K5…patrols [an Atlanta] apartment com[plex]…and [can] report anything [it is programmed to alert on] to the [cops]…the devices…feature 360-degree, high-definition cameras, microphones and thermal sensors…and…[have] both license plate…[readers] and…facial recognition, [plus the ability] to identify mobile devices…Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the ACLU, said…“I don’t know that Americans want to live in a world where there’s one of these on every block, but if there were, they could trace everywhere you are all the time”…
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Rapists of the Week #14
Posted in Current Events, Rapists of the Week, Tyranny, tagged Above the Law, Arizona, Colorado, Creepy Coppers, domestic violence, illegal aliens, Indiana, Kansas, marriage, Massachusetts, Mississippi, politicians, porn, pregnancy, psychology, rape, South Carolina, surveillance, teachers, To Molest and Rape on September 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Cop shops love their obfuscatory, blame-shifting language: “A [typical and representative Kansas cop named Russell Patterson Jr] was arrested [for]…aggravated…rape“…
A [typical and representative] Aurora [Colorado cop] faces criminal charges for raping his daughter and continually sexually assaulting
her and his two adopted daughters, but he remains [at large] while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered [convers]ion therapy meant to [brainwash] his…two [minor] sons [into “forgiving” him for abusing them, raping their sister, and attempting to murder their older brother]…Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins…said the [so-called “]therapy[“] by Christine Bassett…has been harmful, abusive and counterproductive…and…Bassett has supported the efforts by her [rapist cop] ex-husband, Michael Hawkins, to gain sole custody of the [boys]…such therapy and its potential harms are increasingly coming under fire in Colorado…[whose “]family court system[“]…has been plagued by accusations of bias, usually from mothers who…are punished…when they seek to protect their children from abusive fathers…
Had he not been caught, this would’ve soon escalated:
A [Mississippi cop named Tyson Rushing, who was paid to spy on, harass, and intimidate] Elementary School [students]…was arrested and charged with [spying on prepubescent girls for sexual gratification. Officials and politicians bloviated that it wasn’t their fault even though they were the ones who gave a sexually-aggressive man power over little girls]…
It’s rare for cops to actually be indicted for murders they commit:
[Typical and representative] Massachusetts [cop] Matthew Farwell has been [indicted for murdering] Sandra Birchmore in 2021 while she was pregnant with…his child…then staged the scene to make it look like…suicide…Farwell…[had repeatedly molested and raped] Birchmore …before she turned 16…[after seducing her via a grooming] program [starting]…in 2012…”When it became clear that…Farwell…could no longer control Sandra Birchmore, he…silenced her permanently,” [said prosecutor] Joshua Levy…
Is the mainstream media finally admitting that pigs in schools are a menace?
[A South Carolina cop named] Jamel Bradley, [who was paid to spy on, harass, and intimidate students, was]…the subject of [numerous] complaints [over a decade, but nothing was done because]…Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott had personally recruited Bradley [for being good at playing a kid’s game in]…school…He was…not [only basically immune to] arrest…[but] was [also allowed] to [keep lurking in]…high school[s until]…a video of a different…[school-lurking pig brutaliz]ing a Black student…had gone viral…an[d the]…Justice Department…[began] to…investigate…Bradley is [finally] facing sex crime charges…but prosecutors have offered [him] a deal…th[at] will re[sult in]…no time on the sex offender registry…
Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match:
A federal jury has convicted a [typical and representative] Border Patrol [thug] of abducting and [rap]ing a 15-year-old girl in southern Arizona. Aaron Mitchell…approached the student as she was waiting for school to start and “asked for her papers” before [flashing his badge]…and [claiming he was arresting her]…he…then…brought [her] to his apartment [and raped] her [repeatedly for] several hours. Mitchell eventually [dumped her] back [at her] school and told her not to tell anyone…[but] had made an internet search while…holding the girl captive to find out “how long it takes to smother someone”…[he] is now facing a life sentence…
Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors:
An Indianapolis [cop named]…Kamal Bola…[has been arrested and] charged with…three counts of child molesting, [including] one [instance where] he [threatened] the [victim with] deadly force…[and was reported by the victim’s] family…Bola [is] the fourth…Indianapolis [cop]…arrested…this year…[for] sex crimes. Javed Richards was arrested in August…[for] child pornography…Myron Howard was arrested in April [for multiple rapes]…And…Paul Humphrey…was a[rest]ed [in January for repeatedly] sexually abusing [the] 15-year-old [daughter of people who thought he was a friend]…
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Links #740
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, cops, games, imaginative fiction, Ireland, language, Missouri, Nevada, scams, video on September 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I made the huge error of conducting a dowsing rod session and asking if “Carroll” was present. – Brocarde
I’m not one to waste hours on YouTube, but every so often a video catches my attention as this modern fable did; I think you’ll enjoy it, too. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Kendra Holliday, Franklin Harris, C.J. Ciaramella, Mike Masnick, Nun Ya, and Popehat, in that order.
- Sounds legit.
- R.I.P. Helen Fisher.
- Medieval dog names.
- Headline of the week.
- The woman who never was.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- A newly-discovered Aesop’s fable.
From the Archives
- Once a government takes more power, it never really relinquishes it again.
- They’ve got what they wanted: positive attention from censorious asshats.
- Kids are not a kind of insurance policy against boredom in later adulthood.
- Authoritarians believe their subjects are either very stupid or very gullible.
- This time Rolling Stone wasn’t alone in gulping down a load of codswallop.
- Opportunists will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Americans’ sick lust for torture turns imprisonment into a death sentence.
- Politicians don’t even try to make their new laws Constitutional any more.
- America ignores the costs of its sick worship of state-sanctioned violence.
- The way local media parrots clearly-foolish copaganda is utterly pathetic.
- It’s rare a court rules an action so stupid even a cop should know better.
- Two forced-birth states are moving to legally reduce women to serfdom.
- By this standard, Johnny Cash is lucky he was never accused of murder.
- Red/blue fools pretend anti-sex authoritarians “do not agree on much”.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- The State has changed the excuse from “morality” to “animal abuse”.
- I’m really pleased with how well Durabak works on wooden surfaces.
- A good argument for refusing to roll over and let yourself be robbed.
- Some censors believe KOSA won’t destroy the internet fully enough.
- Give sexual predators total power over women; what could happen?
- It only starts with political pariahs like sex workers or gun owners.
- Expect the equation of human sexuality with pollution to increase.
- Modern fascism has spun a terrifyingly-extensive surveillance net.
- The dawn of a nightmarishly-dystopian surveil-and-snitch state.
- People like this are the norm in policing sex, and always will be.
- “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
- I’ve never seen such an absurdly specific nutritionist claim.
- The government’s evil clown show continues in a new ring.
- Wells Fargo is among the worst perpetrators of this abuse.
- A powerful look at men playing D&D on Texas’ death row.
- Another Vermont city achieves de facto decriminalization.
- Fentanyl is being inserted into every popular scare myth.
- Legalese for “get out of my courtroom, you opportunist”.
- The worship of Santa Muerte has expanded worldwide.
- It’s nearly always cooler at Sunset than it is in Seattle.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Cops, Roger Corman, Jimmy Buffett, and much more.
- Most people are moral cowards; proceed accordingly.
- Gee, I wonder why this happens so often in Ireland?
- Preparing the house roof to support the atrium roof.
- Of all construction tasks, I hate painting the most.
- Cops, headlines, psychopathy, and much more.
- Cops, Queen Elizabeth, Ozzy, and much more.
- Is professional BDSM legal in New York?
- No woman is safe from predatory cops.
- Another cop demonstrating what he is.
- The weather last year was very weird.
- “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
- Laura Agustín on her new project.
- Throwback Meets Thursday.
- It’s about goddamned time.
- Cicero loves apple season.
- Monkey see, monkey do.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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In the News (#1470)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Banishment, Brazil, California, censorship, cops, dehumanization, Disaster, drugs, Florida, Indiana, internet, Oregon, Panopticon, politicians, porn, red-light districts, robots, slavery, Social Autoimmune Disorder, streetwalkers, surveillance, Tennessee, The Face of Trafficking, The Last Shall Be First, The Public Eye, transgender, Twitter, Washington (state), You Were Warned on September 7, 2024| Leave a Comment »
These extraordinary restrictions…serve no purpose other than to harm transgender Floridians.
Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths:
A[n Oregon] man was arrested [and charged with] human trafficking [for] exploitation of a man with developmental disabilities…Jack Hauser [was supposed to be] a caretaker for the 26-year-old man after the victim’s mother passed away…[but] for at least two years, Hauser…forced the man to sell drinks and snacks at the exit of a shopping center in Hillsboro, often having him remain there for several days and nights with no shelter or proper clothing…he was…only allowed to sleep in a car or in a garden shed…Hauser also restricted [hi]s contact with other people, as well as his access to money and healthcare…
Seattle is notorious for cloaking its police-statery in bogus “liberal” cant:
[Seattle] City Attorney Ann Davison and…City Councilmember Cathy Moore [have] proposed [inanely-labeled] SODA and SOAP zones…that would, among other things, ban sex workers from a designated area on Aurora Avenue North, a major corridor of Seattle’s survival sex trade. In a bizarre moment during her presentation, Moore screened a video of sex workers engaging in what she described as “commercial sexual exploitation”…[but was in reality] just [surveillance video of] sex workers walking around on a corner of Aurora…taking videos of sex workers to screen publicly at a recorded meeting that’s also posted online — without giving anyone in that video a voice of their own — is an odd way to try to prove how against exploitation you are. It’s an exploitative act in itself, and a reminder of how out of touch the City Council is…
This childish puritanism is so exhausting:
[MAGA]ists in Indiana are campaigning to remove an elected official after a…blog outed her as an OnlyFans model and published several screen captures from her members-only…account. The moralistic witch hunt against Etna Troy Township Trustee Elaine Western originated with…Real News Michiana, which first outed her as a sex worker in April and is now a[dvertis]ing…“a petition to have her censured, investigated and removed from her post”…In April, Western told the site, “I haven’t tried to keep it a secret. I’m not doing anything illegal”…[and her] attorney w[arned] the a[gitators that their attempts]…”to intimidate Mrs. Western into resigning from office to avoid a public media circus…could constitute a criminal offense of intimidation”…
Another “security” system that isn’t:
…the Oakland Police Department…and [other cop shops]…are increasingly looking for…Teslas parked near…[“crime scenes”], hoping their unique outward-facing cameras captured key evidence. And…they’re even resorting to…[stealing] cars to ensure they don’t lose the video…While few cars have camera systems similar to Teslas, that could change rapidly, especially as the [“monkey see, monkey do” habits of marketers] continue…In at least three instances in July and August, Oakland police sought to [steal] a Tesla…to obtain…its stored video…There’s no guarantee that a Tesla will record a crime that occurs near it…But police who view Teslas as rolling surveillance…cameras [do]n’t [give a shit]…Similar issues have come up with self-driving cars [and delivery robots]…in San Francisco and other cities, which are also equipped with sophisticated video capability…But in those cases, police subpoena the tech company…because it owns the cars and the data. Tesla drivers, by contrast, get [violat]ed individually because they control their own camera footage…
Social Autoimmune Disorder (#1416)
San Francisco [politicians barfed out the asinine phrase “]illegal prostitution[” to justify a raft of civil rights violations], including the mailing of “Dear John” letters to the owners of vehicles [who happen to pass through] the neighborhood. Mayor London Breed a[lso barfed out the magic rights-violation-justifying word] “safer”…to…encourag[e useful idiots to report each other to the pigs, and] the city plans to install [magic bill-elimination] barriers along Shotwell Street…[along with more] license-plate reading [and facial recognition] cameras…set up to [monito]r individuals [long after sensible sex workers have simply moved to a new stroll]…
Governments are growing increasingly bold in their internet censorship:
In the…standoff between Elon Musk and Brazil…neither side comes out of it looking very good…Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes [is] (1) freezing Starlink assets and (2) threatening to ban…Twitter entirely from the country…Brazil has done this in the past with WhatsApp and Telegram. The freezing of Starlink’s assets…suggest[s] how far Moraes would…go in this posturing battle. Apparently, he was willing to go even further, to the point of potentially blocking VPNs entirely…ISPs and app stores have been ordered to block…the [Twitter] app within five days…Moraes seem[s to have walked] back th[e] section of the ruling [blocking VPNs], though perhaps only temporarily…after Moraes hears from “the parties in the proceedings,” the VPN ban could come back…the…order…also threatens to fine anyone who is able to get around the block nearly $9,000 dollars per day…
The Last Shall Be First (#1448)
The time, money, and energy our society is flushing down the “culture war” toilet is incalculable:
Several transgender youth and adults are being told their care will be terminated following a ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals…that a 2023 law…can go back into effect after being…blocked in June…The ruling…stated that transgender people…do not receive the same level of…protection under the Constitution as other categories such as race, ethnicity, religion, or sex. This…implies that laws discriminating against transgender people are likely to be considered…constitutional by the 11th Circuit…SB254…banned gender-affirming care for…youth…[and] also restrict[ed] care for…adults…[by] mandat[ing] that [such] care…could only be provided by physicians…the majority of [current] care is provided by nurse practitioners…because the number of transgender adults far exceeds the capacity of physicians [in the field]…If the Supreme Court were to rule [in a pending case stemming from Tennessee’s trans care ban] that transgender people are not entitled to equal protection under the law, many forms of discrimination…could be deemed fully legal…many [in Florida] cannot afford to wait for such a decision, and…have already fled the state…
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Greenback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, censorship, Enough is Enough, internet, language, nanny state, New Orleans, porn, Storyville on September 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
In a few more decades the old accents, terms and customs of New Orleans will be nothing but a memory, a parade of ghosts second-lining into history along with the culture which once made the Crescent City unique. –
“They All Axed for You”
A successful life is judged by its character rather than by the number of years it endures.
– “Enough is Enough”
An insect sealed in amber is so well-protected it can exist changelessly for tens of millions of years…dead, of course, but one can’t have everything. – “Utopia”
In the News (#1469)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Above the Law, Alabama, California, cell phones, censorship, cops, Dangerous Speech, domestic violence, fantasy, fascism, France, hysteria, I Spy, Illinois, Israel, Maine, rape, rescue industry, Russia, scams, Served Cold, statistics, surveillance, Texas, The Cop Myth, To Molest and Rape, Utah on September 4, 2024| 1 Comment »
It’s transparently a ridiculous defense, because the entire thing that they’re selling is the ability to track phones. – Nate Wessler
Governments are growing increasingly bold in their attempts to censor the internet:
Telegram is one of the last (mostly) uncensored frontiers of the internet. The messaging app allows users to message each other through both unencrypted and encrypted chats, and to create “channels” that other users can subscribe to. There’s no feed with an algorithm to manipulate, and founder Pavel Durov has committed to never sharing user information with [violent busybodies]…A decade ago, Durov fled Russia after his previous social media company, VKontakte, was [stolen] by the government. (Since then, he spent most of his time in Dubai and obtained French citizenship in 2021.) Russia banned Durov’s newer app Telegram in 2018 but then unblocked [it] two years later…China and Iran have also banned Telegram…[and now] French authorities arrested Durov at the airport for [a number of vicarious “crimes” due to his refusal to engage in a fascist partnership with cops against his own users]…The French case against Telegram resembles the U.S. case against Backpage...
It’s unusual that they didn’t make this sound like the rapist was doing his victims a favor:
A [typical and representative] Alabama prosecutor was found guilty of six corruption charges…for [extor]ting sexual favors from at least three women who[m] he was…prosecuting for crimes…Mark Johnson…[was] also previously…a [cop. His]…attorneys…argued in court that [rape isn’t a crime if a] prosecutor…[accomplishes it by threat rather than force]…
It’s far too late to cram this djinni back into its bottle, God help us:
…the Texas [cop shop collective has acquired]…a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles…that scrapes information from the open, deep, and dark web. Tangles’ premier add-on feature…WebLoc can track…mobile devices’ movements…through… “geofencing”…without a search warrant…subpoena…[or the participation of] companies like Google…us[ing]…information from data brokers…While a device’s mobile ad ID is [supposed]ly…anonymous…it is easy to cross reference other data points to determine the owner…Tangles is [sold] by the [fascist Israeli] company Cobwebs Technologies, which…operat[es] as a surveillance-for-hire outfit [to circumvent Constitutional limitations. Texas]…first purchased the software as part of Governor Greg Abbott’s multi-billion dollar Operation Lone Star [anti-migrant jihad and]…expanded the contract [every year]…
I can’t feel sorry for women who were happy to throw other women to the leopards:
Celeste Borys and Kira Lynch…[are regularly] scorn[ed] and harass[ed by the disciples of rescue industry charlatan]…Tim Ballard…who…[realiz]ed during the Obama administration [that there was plenty of money and fame to be made in the hysteria over “]child sex trafficking[“;] he [accomplished this by]…recruiting…true believers to join him on [theatrical “rescue”] operations in [foreign countries where officials could be bribed to ignore his illegal targeting of their citizens and endangerment of their children. His shenanigans inspired a completely]…fictionalized film [with the hypocritical name] Sound of Freedom based on [the tall tales he tells to attract marks to finance] Operation Underground Railroad…the [rescue industry profiteer]ing organization he founded…Ballard [fell from grace with everyone but MAGAists and QAnon cultists when a number of]…women – Borys and Lynch among them – [sued and filed criminal complaints against him for] sexually abus[ing] them…[using the same ridiculous “]saving children[ from sex trafficking” fantasies he used to fleece sex-haters and other gullible wackos]…
How long will America ignore the costs of its sick worship of state-sanctioned violence?
Police in the US use force on at least 300,000 people each year, [seriously] injuring an estimated 100,000 of them, according to…Mapping Police Violence, a non-profit research group that…[has] launched a new database…cataloging non-fatal incidents of police use of force, including stun guns, chemical sprays, K9 dog attacks, neck restraints, beanbags and baton strikes. The data…compiled from public records requests in every state….[demonstrate] that despite widespread protests against police brutality…in 2020, overall use of force has [at least] remained steady…and in many jurisdictions, has increased. The data builds on past reports that found US police [intentionally murder] roughly 1,200 people each year, or three people a day, a death toll that has crept up every year and dramatically exceeds rates in c[ivilized] nations. The nonfatal force statistics…illustrate how the [intentional murder]s are just a small fraction of broader police violence and [death]s caused by law enforcement…The data is [definitely] an undercount as it only covers incidents disclosed by [cop shops], and many states have laws [hiding] police [violence from public scrutiny]…
Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors:
On…August 19, [typical and representative California cop] James Walter Best Jr. was arrested…[in] Maine…where…he [fled after being interrogated by Kern County, California cops in October of last year for repeatedly molesting and raping]…one of his [own] children…[from] 9 years old…until they were of age…Best…never denied the [molest]ations…but c[laim]ed…he didn’t remember…[Best was previously put on probation in 2020 for embezzlement and grand theft]…
Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do, even if she’s a cop herself:
A…Chicago [cop who was not wearing his magical clown costume] attack[ed] his cop girlfriend during a drunken rampage…at a [cop shop], pulling her by her hair while [threatening her with] a loaded gun…Francisco Galvan…faces [only] misdemeanor c[harges because]…his [victim] declined to pursue felony charges…[fellow cops] saw Galvan walking through the [cop shop] parking lot…before he a[ttack]ed his…girlfriend, who was [wearing her magical clown costume and] sitting in a p[igmobile]…
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Trying to Fool God
Posted in Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged politicians, psychology on September 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Politicians who pretend they’ll fight the erosion of civil rights never mean it. The whole reason morally-defective individuals humiliate themselves and set fire to immense piles of wealth in order to win office is to gain more power over others, not to free others from the power wielded by the office they seek. A few years ago I began to notice how many anti-prohibitionists have titles like “ex-president”, “ex-governor”, “former police chief”, etc; they’re never currently in power. Given that their supposed moral awakenings never happen until they no longer have the power to do anything to promote reform, their claimed conversions are more likely born of a fear of just retribution by a deity or deities in the afterlife rather than of any sudden moral growth from imbecile to sage. Their changes of heart are therefore not sincere attempts to rectify the wrongs they did while in office; they are cynical attempts to fool God as though He were a voter.
Links #739
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, artificial stupidity, California, cops, language, Michigan, New Orleans, politicians, sex toys, video on September 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
So vague it’s hard to imagine a person writing it. – Bob Carpenter
In case any of you wondered, the character appearing at the bottom of my August 9th column was Morgus the Magnificent, who hosted horror movies on various New Orleans TV stations intermittently from 1959 to 2005 (and in syndication starting in 1987). If you’re interested, there are plenty of his silly “experiments” on YouTube, but here’s a song about him from the year he premiered. The links above it were provided by Desiree Alliance, Nun Ya (x2), Jesse Walker, Mistress Matisse, Franklin Harris, and IncarcerNation, in that order.
- R.I.P. Phil Donahue.
- Much more of this, please.
- I hate it when this happens.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Definitely not a cult, no indeed!
- Cleanliness is next to ungodliness.
- Cops do to animals what they want to do to humans.
From the Archives
- The drug war isn’t ending; the government is simply shifting it to nicotine.
- Ignoramus censors don’t understand why people ignore their stupid laws.
- Cop deals with disagreement in typical cop fashion; the press is shocked.
- This will grow worse until politicians stop giving fanatics a heckler’s veto.
- Pigs may only excuse sexual assault as a “search” if the victim is female.
- I have no sympathy for members of the dangerous “porn addiction” cult.
- Young women are using “sex trafficking” as an excuse for violent crimes.
- “Progressives” finally deign to notice discrimination vs some sexworkers.
- Politicians embrace “magic fentanyl” myth; will the media finally drop it?
- Once in a while, there are witnesses to the way cops act toward women.
- A clear indicator that the Roe reversal was not based in legal reasoning.
- Is there anything narrower & meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- Some believe they can live forever by eliminating all pleasure from life.
- Being close to nature is one of the things I like best about country life.
- Fascism is rapidly making private communications a thing of the past.
- A newspaper publisher dies on her feet, at least figuratively speaking.
- The fascist owners of most of these allow cops to root in them at will.
- Unembellished “sex trafficking from a store” scary tales are now rare.
- The sick lust to know everything about everybody has consequences.
- My 1st profession is now as much an authoritarian target as my 2nd.
- As was predicted when news of abortion recriminalization first broke.
- “Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”.
- Cops, grammar, peanut butter, Mikhail Gorbachev, and much more.
- The true number exceeds 70 by at least one order of magnitude.
- Texas just won’t stop plunging that ice pick into its frontal lobes.
- Cops, copyright, irony, Ed Asner, Charlie Watts, and much more.
- “The sex worker rights movement is getting too loud to ignore.“
- Tyrannies often start with sex workers, but never stop with us.
- Lacey & Larkin remind you of what their trial is actually about.
- Cops, faux environmentalism, Arleen Sorkin, and much more.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- A retrospective of my blogging from August 2012 and 2013.
- What “legal but heavily regulated” looks like in action.
- Why are so many “celebrities” such hypocritical trash?
- Your “leaders” want this to happen much more often.
- Those who consort with cops are often just as awful.
- Ambitious politicians hate harm reduction programs.
- Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
- Moral panics really spin out of control as they age.
- The annoyingly-slow progress on our annex roof.
- Cops even get their equipment to lie for them.
- The best year for fruit since I bought Sunset.
- How do escorts decide how much to charge?
- “I love you and you are important to me.”
- Rapist cops of the week, 2021 and 2022.
- Collectivism really is a mental illness.
- Oh look, it’s another “youth pastor”.
- Finishing up the outer annex walls.
- Straight from the horse’s mouth.
- Ghost of Throwback Thursday
- Another round of Durabak.
- Much more of this, please.
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