Nations and empires are as mortal as the humans who build them, if somewhat longer-lived; and despite the childish beliefs of many Americans, the US is not an exception. – “Post-Imperial“
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Th[e Assange] precedent now can and will be used in the future against the rest of the press. – Stella Assange
Anyone “shocked” by this must live in a cave:
[Jonathan Elwing, a Florida pastor caught using cryptocurrency to buy child porn of children as young as 4] is now facing more charges…[after] a…search of [hi]s cell phone revealed…at least 14 pictures of him [rap]ing a 2-year-old…
Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths:
A [West Virginia] couple [who]…lock[ed two of their adopted] children up in a barn and forc[ed] them to work are back behind bars…on a bond that’s more than double what they had already been given– now set at $500,000 each. Donald Ray Lantz…and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather…[pled] not guilty to over a dozen new charges against them…the adopted children, who were black, were specifically targeted by the couple and forced to work because of their race…the couple was able to acquire the $400,000 bond money
for their release from jail in February…[despite claiming] that they had no income or assets, bringing into question where they had acquired the money…from…the couple [say they] sold an 80-acre ranch in Tonasket, Washington [that they claimed not to own] for $725,000 on Feb. 2…the[n]…on March 28…they…sold the…home [that they also did not own]…for $295,000…their bond money…still remains in the custody of the…Court Clerk’s office. [But in a rare moment of normal human decency, the prosecutor said he] believes it should be transferred over to a trust fund for the children…
Good grief, don’t volunteer to be around them either:
A Riverside County [California cop is at large] after [somehow] posting $1 million bail following his…arrest…[for] kidnapping…rape…and…oral [rape] of a sheriff’s office volunteer…Alexander Ravy Vanny…was… [arrested on June 22nd and out the next day after his victim]…told [another cop] about the [rape]…
At least these shitty laws were used against an actual violent criminal for a change:
On Wednesday, June 26th, 2026 “Joey The Player”, [AKA] José Olivio Torres was sentenced to 30 years in prison for 4 counts of Sex Trafficking related charges…The FBI interviewed more than 30 victims, [but]…the court was aware of likely hundreds more victims who were too afraid to come forward. A search of Torres’ home and office revealed more than 400 phone numbers and hundreds of email addresses he used to evade identification…he sent out between 60 and 150 texts and emails daily, trying to lure new victims to New [Jersey]…Torres had written nearly a million dollars in bad checks to sex workers…He sued the prosecutor, the victims’ attorney’s firm, and even the judge…filed hundreds of self-written motions with the court and fired at least four attorneys…most motions were denied, and the lawsuits were dismissed with prejudice…Torres…repeatedly stated that his “real crime” was theft of services…However, [neither] the judge…no[r anyone else involved]…was…convinced by Torres’ attempts to minimize his actions. The court never once referred to the survivors as anything but sex workers and treated them with the utmost dignity and respect…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1421)
“Simply claiming that the ‘age verification preserves online anonymity’ does not make it so“:
A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and [Twitter] users…by processing photographs of their faces and pictures of their drivers’ licenses, exposed a set of administrative credentials online for more than a year potentially allowing hackers to access that sensitive data…The Israel-based company, called AU10TIX, offers what it describes [using buzzwords] as “full-service identity verification solutions”…The news comes as more social networks and pornography sites [have been forced by politicians to] move towards an identity or age verification model…[and] highlights that identity services could themselves become a target for hackers…
Mutually-contradictory laws are an inevitable result of rampant authoritarianism:
The Supreme Court will allow emergency abortions in Idaho…while a lawsuit over the state’s controversial abortion law [goes] forward…the state…[even] prohibits abortions required to protect a pregnant woman’s physical health…[in] violat[ion of]…EMTALA…a federal law that requires many hospitals to provide stabilizing care to patients who show up to emergency rooms…An Idaho federal district court judge placed a preliminary injunction on [the] law in August 2022…but…Idaho appealed, and the Supreme Court reversed the block in January…[resulting in] “the State’s largest provider of emergency services ha[ving] to airlift pregnant women out of Idaho roughly every other week, compared to once in all of the prior year”…With Thursday’s decision, the Supreme Court has dismissed Idaho’s appeals, allowing doctors to provide health-preserving abortions in the state while the case continues…
A short EN Brown piece on the legacy of the Assange persecution:
…it’s hard to exactly call this a win for the WikiLeaks founder. But on the surface, it is a loss for the U.S. government, which wanted to put Assange away for a much, much longer period of time. And yet, on some level, authorities got exactly what it seems they wanted: a warning to anyone who would dare to publish information that makes the government look bad. It provides a clear view of what happens when you actively try to expose government secrets. Shots have already been fired against future renegade journalists…Assange’s prosecution almost certainly serves as a deterrent for journalists who would encourage whistleblowers…or any outlet that would aim to function, like WikiLeaks, as a source for unredacted publications of government information…
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My trusty old Chromebook, which a reader got for me almost exactly six years ago, has been showing its age for a while now. The letters had worn off the keys so badly I kept making typos (because I’m a one-finger typist), the processor apparently couldn’t keep up with some websites, and since Google stopped updating it a couple of years ago, some snobby websites refused to let me in (meaning I needed to access them with my phone, which I really hate). Then about two weeks ago, the “1” key stopped registering, making it very difficult to type either the numeral or the exclamation point; the next day the “Q” went, so I saw the writing on the wall and used an Amazon gift card given me by a generous gentleman to buy a new one. I like Chromebooks for several reasons: they’re small; they do everything I need them to do for a pretty low price (this one cost me less than $130), without my having to pay for a lot of bells & whistles I don’t need; they arrive free of bloatware; and all I need to do is sign in and all my bookmarks pop right up (I keep all of my data on a thumb drive, easily switched from old computer to new). Of course, all new computers have a frustration factor because computer companies are run by sadists, but with Chromebooks it’s usually over in a few hours (as opposed to days or weeks on the Windows machines I used to use). Alas, this one has been annoying me for a week now with two specific issues: the more aggravating one is that when I right-click with the mouse (the same one I was using without issues before), sometimes the menu comes up normally and I can do what I like. But at other times, it seems to want to “guess” what I want from that menu and implement it automatically, seemingly at random; it may suddenly delete whatever I highlighted, open up an emoji menu, or search the highlighted text on Google (the latter two being functions I have never and would never attempt to access via right-click). I have no idea what this is about, but as this is a ’24 model I’m guessing it’s some artificial stupidity feature, but I have no idea how to turn it off so I need to use the keyboard for copy-paste or cut-paste, which slows me down. The other problem is apparently Google-wide, judging by what I found online: there appears to be no way to turn off the auto”correct” function, resulting in the computer frequently replacing words I want with words I don’t want (I like it to call attention to typos or misspellings, but I don’t want it getting notions that it should “correct” me without permission). So if anyone knows how to fix either of these problems; please let me know in the comments. 
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As attempts to sanitize the internet and turn it into a unidirectional “walled garden” more like cable TV than a “World Wide Web” have become more common, aggressive, and (thanks to the folly of Man) popular, Heinlein’s observations about frontiers have been going through my mind with greater frequency. The Cliff’s Notes version is: As societies become more “civilized” and rulebound, the kind of restless risk-takers and rulebreakers who drive all societies forward get tired of being harassed by cops and bureaucrats for refusing to conform and leave for the frontier. Once all the freethinkers go, the society they left behind quickly stagnates and becomes infested with onerous laws & “regulations” (and their attendant busybodies). Eventually a few of the amateur iconoclasts and rebel-cosplayers go after the freethinkers, followed by the profiteers and braver rule-followers, then by gradually-increasing numbers of followers and herd-animals until the surplus cops, hall-monitors and bosses from the motherland (and such societies always have a surfeit of such creatures) arrive and start “civilizing” the frontier, and the cycle starts again.
Since we currently have no physical frontiers (and won’t unless space travel becomes both dramatically cheaper and game-changingly faster), the internet became our frontier, and right now the cops and hall-monitors are busily engaged in “civilizing” it. Soon it will be as dreary and fenced-in as any HOA-dominated “community”, and the nonconformists will need to find a new frontier; until they do they will increasingly be labeled “troublemakers” and “criminals” and persecuted accordingly. Unfortunately, societies’ tendency to self-lobotomize into stagnation and decay is something that will almost certainly never be solved; the best we can hope for is that some freethinker of the distant future figures out an ironclad way to ensure that civil rights can never be violated by those who want to “regulate” everything from what people eat and wear, to where they live or travel to, to what they watch and say, to how they fuck and what they think. And then there will be at least one place where people who just want to be left alone to do their own thing can escape from the otherwise-omnipresent busybodies who cannot conceive of the idea of anything that is none of their business.
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They want to put someone away, so they can say the case is solved. – Sandra Hemme
This week’s video was suggested by one of my generous gentlemen, who correctly surmised that I would enjoy it. The links above it were provided by Stephen Lemons; Mike Siegel; Dan Savage and Genya; Popehat, IncarcerNation (x2), and J.D. Tuccille, in that order.
- This week in artificial stupidity.
- Grace found this very amusing.
- R.I.P. Donald Sutherland and Martin Mull.
- Cop murders 7 dogs; cop shop blames their owner.
- So was this “protecting”, or “serving”? It’s hard to tell.
- Cops cage mentally-ill woman for murder cop committed.
- Crime: failing to fill out forms Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this tragedy.
- No public library is safe from censorship by politicians who hold the purse.
- Vast sums of time, money & energy, flushed down the “culture war” toilet.
- Why do we need “permits” to exercise our speech rights in the first place?
- Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses.
- SCOTUS expands one of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
- Contrast the speed with which states pass laws increasing cops’ powers.
- Yet another rescue industry “hero” is revealed as an opportunistic fraud.
- I doubt this is the kind of lawsuit Louisiana politicians wanted to attract.
- Cops simply ignore putative cop-control laws without criminal penalties.
- A government allowed to censor one thing can also censor other things.
- Cops arbitrarily group unrelated arrests & call it a “sex trafficking sting”.
- Canadian politicians ignore events in other parts of the Commonwealth.
- The State’s insulting idea of compensation for a mass public gang rape.
- Is there any non-troglodyte who still denies police violence is epidemic?
- Why are most people surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
- Authoritarians love their wanking fantasies of mind-reading machines.
- Cops, fantasies, Sheldon Harnick, John Goodenough, and much more.
- This silly tale is more pathetic now that the trope has largely died off.
- How many mass graves before people stop believing religion is good?
- The ACLU has finally noticed financial discrimination vs sex workers.
- It only took the courts five years to recognize the obvious this time.
- Even if this wasn’t a commercial transaction, it’s certainly adjacent.
- The “missing” children were actually abducted by the government.
- They won’t stop until privacy of any kind is absolutely impossible.
- Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide.
- It’ll take a lot more such rulings before this political fad is buried.
- Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate.
- Uber already encourages its drivers to spy on riders for the pigs.
- Even the government itself recognizes what a disaster FOSTA is.
- Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
- Cops, futurism, dead people, Cab Calloway, and much more.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
- Composing and performing a kind of music only I can hear.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from June 2012 and 2013.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- Cops, heat, appliances, John McAfee, and much more.
- There are many ways for governments to steal things.
- The dystopian future of Minority Report has arrived.
- So many rapist cops, so many underage victims.
- Taking that nasty old roof off of the wellhouse.
- Still another abomination from Alabama.
- Another barely-into-summer heat wave.
- The annex bathroom is almost finished.
- No woman is safe from predatory cops.
- I’m pretty tired of climbing on rooves.
- No, your reason is not an exception.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- Working on Sunset’s outbuildings.
- 22 vultures coming in for the kill.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- The arrival of Cicero.
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This is arguing for banning video games because some kids who play video games might someday drive a few miles per hour over the posted speed limit. – Eric Boehm
Assange was freed as soon as it became politically expedient:
…Julian Assange flew out of the UK on [June 24] apparently a free man after reaching a plea deal with US authorities…to plead guilty to a single espionage charge in a court appearance on [the] US-controlled Pacific island [of Saipan, east of the Philippines] and prosecutors will seek a sentence equivalent to time served…Assange has been a wanted man since 2010 when WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of classified US military documents on Washington’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq…In 2012, as authorities circled him for that and [long-since abandoned] sex crime allegations from [the Swedish government], he fled into London’s Ecuadorian embassy where he remained for seven years…After falling out with [Ecuador]’s rulers he was dragged out…in 2019 and locked up in [a UK prison] while the US attempted to extradite him. But that legal process ended abruptly [when the US found it convenient], and WikiLeaks broke the news with a [Twitter] post…reading: “Julian Assange is free!”…
[Michigan politician] Neil Friske…was arrested [at his house for]…chasing a stripper and firing a weapon….[after] sexually assault[ing]…her…The [political] district is no stranger to scandal…[politician] Lee Chatfield…who represented it from 2015 to 2021, had his own guns-and-strippers controversy.
Truthful headline: “Chinese rename other people’s villages against their wishes”:
Chinese [bureaucrats] in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology…Human Rights Watch research has identified about 630 villages where the names have been changed that way. The top three most common replacement village names are “Happiness,” “Unity,” and “Harmony”…Maya Wang, [HRW] China director [said]…“These name changes appear part of Chinese government efforts to erase the cultural and religious expressions of Uyghurs”…most of these changes occurred between 2017 and 2019, when the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity escalated in the region…
When a woman dies by “hanging”, it’s nearly always a murder:
A prominent forensic pathologist hired by the family of Sandra Birchmore, the young woman who was…groomed [and molested] by three [typical and representative Massachusetts cops], has concluded that her death was a homicide, contradicting earlier findings by [cop cronies] that there was no evidence of foul play…Dr. Michael Baden…cited the extent of Birchmore’s injuries and the placement of a ligature found on her body as factors in his determination…that Birchmore…[had not] killed herself by hanging…“The cause of Ms. Birchmore’s death is ‘Strangulation’ and the manner of death is ‘Homicide’,” Baden wrote…Birchmore’s estate is suing [the] three [rapist cops] for wrongful death…They are [the murderer,] Matthew G. Farwell…[the] father [of] Birchmore[‘s unborn child]…as well as his twin brother, William, and Robert C. Devine…a [typical and representative cop and sexual predator] who…led the department’s [grooming] program…the state medical examiner [covered up the murder by]…not send[ing] fetal tissue for DNA analysis to determine [paternity]…On Feb. 1, 2021, surveillance cameras captured Matthew Farwell arriving and then leaving Birchmore’s apartment…and [nobody ever saw] her alive [again after his visit]…
The government thinks you shouldn’t be allowed any privacy whatsoever:
The U.S. Postal Service has shared information from thousands of Americans’ letters and packages with [cop shops and spook houses] every year for the past decade, conveying the names, addresses and other details from the outside of boxes and envelopes without requiring a court order. Postal inspectors [pretend] they fulfill such requests only when mail monitoring can help find a fugitive or investigate a crime. But…[the pigs and spooks get to define “crime” and] Postal Service officials have received more than 60,000 requests…[of this sort] since 2015, and…97 percent of the requests were approved…[totaling] more than 312,000 letters and packages between 2015 and 2023…
When Ambulance-Chasers Run the Hospitals (#1444)
The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd:
…a dozen [nuisance] lawsuits filed since last year by the attorneys general of 45 states and the District of Columbia…accuse [Facebook] of [magical]ly ensnaring teenagers and children on Instagram and Facebook while deceiving the public about the [power of the magical spells used]. Using a [playbook] reminiscent of the government’s pursuit of Big Tobacco in the 1990s, the attorneys general seek to [profit from Facebook while bringing it more under their control]…The state lawsuits…reflect mounting [fantasies] that [interactions] on social media [are magically different from those in real life]…and [that young people can be hypnot]ically induced into compulsive online use…Vivek H. Murthy, the [charlatan currently holding the often-politicized post of] United States surgeon general, [absurdly] called for warning labels to be placed on social networks, [pretend]ing the platforms present a public health risk to young people. His [childish hysterics] could boost momentum in Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act, a[n internet-censorship] bill that would [enshrine catastrophic internet censorship into law]…
Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness:
Molly A. Bowdring, a c[rypto-moral]ist at Stanford…wrote this week in STAT that nonalcoholic drinks meant to resemble beer or cocktails are “a potential public health crisis”…[because] drinks that contain no alcohol are generally not subjected to limitations placed on drinks that do contain alcohol…and…Bowdring [pearl-clutches that]…”Among minors, consuming non-alcoholic beverages can socialize them to the drinking culture, with the beverages being perceived as cool, adult, and modern.” Goodness gracious, not that…
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Any human given power will eventually abuse that power if given the opportunity to do so. – “If Men Were Angels”
- Should be pasted to forehead of everyone who believes in magic formulae.
- Whores are subhuman monsters who can’t possibly have religious beliefs.
- Sonja Dolinsek on the harm caused by the “gypsy whores” myth in Brazil.
- My visits to Los Angeles & San Diego, San Francisco, Tucson & Las Vegas.
- Vietnamese “authorities” think 3 weeks’ pay will convince whores to quit.
- It’s such a pleasure to see someone admit this in the mainstream media.
- A teacher describes note-passing as “scary”; the jokes write themselves.
- Note how interchangeable these “sex trafficking survivor” narratives are.
- Bandwagon-jumping hastens the implosion of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Why can’t Tom Flanagan see the moral panic is already well underway?
- Rachel’s idea of “big events” is sadder than her mathematical illiteracy.
- How little you’d have to change to make this about the war on whores.
- Women do whatever they need to do to survive in a worker’s paradise.
- Contrary to myth, the FBI are mostly lazy pickers of low-hanging fruit.
- Brooke Magnanti on “estimates” of sex work’s contribution to UK GDP.
- Prohibitionists use murder as an excuse to attack victims’ profession.
- Cashing in on the “gypsy whore” myth before it collapses completely.
- Slender Man, prisons, cops, cheese, emasculation, kittens and more.
- The ridiculous things that constitute “trafficking” in the Netherlands.
- Cops, games, Florida, science fiction, Soviet Funk, and much more.
- Politician pretends closing a red-light district will “end prostitution”.
- People caged on bogus “sex trafficking” charges won’t be laughing.
- Sweden, pants, doppelgangers, cops, Bill Watterson & much more.
- Why you shouldn’t ask me to argue with individual prohibitionists.
- New Zealand tells Uncle Sam where he can stick his “report card”.
- Why do amateurs care if pros do something better than they do?
- The majority of the Israeli public is against client criminalization.
- Some choice words for that “sex working grandmothers” story.
- FBI reports make rape sound humdrum and almost accidental.
- Jezebel swallows the “trafficking town” myth like a big, slimy…
- In which danah boyd takes a few more steps toward the light.
- An attempt to shame whores & clients blows up in pigs’ faces.
- Lack of evidence “proves” there are bogeymen in the bushes.
- I do keep telling you that the “gypsy whores” myth is bogus.
- Congress stops all federal funding to Operation Choke Point.
- Tennessee moves to criminalize smoking during pregnancy.
- 18 months for whores, 8 hours for clients. Yeah, that’s fair.
- An incoherent “feminist” mess is still an incoherent mess.
- Is it just me, or are you less patient than you used to be?
- Kissing, cops, death, umlauts, bureaucrats & much more.
- Cop fantasizes about raping girls “at age 8 if not earlier”.
- How can I deal with issues that keep me from intimacy?
- Yasmin Nair is on the same page as I am about Kristof.
- Sex workers are dehumanized by calling us “networks”.
- A short biography of the courtesan Ninon de l’Enclos.
- An amusing “future story” in a Canadian newspaper.
- Here’s the magical pimp mind-control philter again.
- Authority figures use their influence to coerce sex.
- Christina Parreira on working in a Nevada brothel.
- Disney, cops, bureaucracy, Tom Lehrer and more.
- AHF unveils whore-shaming propaganda graphic.
- Another “sex trafficking survivor” bites the dust.
- Wanted: a really big tour bus with 40,000 seats.
- The campaign against Operation Choke Point.
- A 3000-word mound, reeking to high heaven.
- DA willfully lies about exonerated prisoner.
- More evil clownishness from Rhode Island.
- Researcher says there’s no “typical” client.
- Another excellent essay from Felicia Anna.
- The aftermath of Somaly Mam’s downfall.
- A re-education camp by any other name…
- Noah Berlatsky on Chong Kim and Eden.
- The science of sexual assault via fraud.
- The Swedish model comes to Canada.
- A prohibitionist masturbatory fantasy.
- Will these “reporters” never wake up?
- The truth about “child sex trafficking”.
- Whores leave cooties in rented beds.
- “SEX TRAFFICKING” IS EVERWHERE!
- The key players in the “pimp lobby”.
- Kristof the Rat turns on his “hero”.
- Libertarianism happens to people.
- This is absurd on so many levels.
- More on the goggles in porn law.
- Another warped view of touring.
- My views on a certain video.
- Well, at least it isn’t sexy.
- The Naked Football Club.
- The Sex Workers’ Opera.
- The fall of Somaly Mam.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- The danger of fast food.
- Pimp cops of the week.
- The bus trip from Hell.
- My Granny the Escort.
- Friday the 13th, 2014.
- Piano criminalization.
- Maggie in the media.
- RIP Maya Angelou.
- Anti-C36 rallies.
- Bacchus ladies.
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Most men, and many women, don’t need to “connect with a soul” to be interested in sex with someone.
– “Purely Sexual”
It’s just not ethical to dump your garbage in someone else’s yard without her permission. – “Amateur Night”
There are just as many control freaks dressed up as therapists as there are dressed up as teachers, doctors, clergymen, judges or any other “authority” figure you can name.
– “The Real World”
Some people are completely unable to comprehend why I don’t see a cake-baker in Colorado as the Second Coming of Hitler. – “Blind Spot”
Here’s my message for Big Gay: Fuck You. Fuck your respectability politics and your abandonment of “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” in favor of “We’re just like you straight folks, right down to getting married, living in the suburbs & sucking the dick of power”…Fuck your licking the arseholes of huge fascist corporations who betray every principle the LGBT movement used to stand for because they pay for your fancy Pride parades with money that would’ve been better spent helping queer & trans youth driven out of their homes and into survival sex work; and fuck your eager rimming of politicians who absolve those young people’s families of blame by pretending the reason they’re doing the work is because they were forced into it by imaginary “pimps”. Fuck your whole picket-fence, big table, might-as-well-be-straight-except-for-where-you-stick-your-dick mentality. – “Nothing To Be Proud Of”
If “feminists” had spent more time listening to sex workers and less gazing into their own navels, they’d have understood that [armed rapists are dangerous] 50 years ago instead of conspiring with [them] against other women. – “Zeitgeist“
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Illegal drugs are cheaper, more readily available, more potent, [and] more widely used than they were 20 years ago. – James Martin
“Inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady” is a helluva way to say “molesting a 12-year-old”:
Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway [mega]Church in Southlake, Texas…has confessed to…sexually abusing [Cindy Clemishire] over multiple years beginning when she was 12…Morris [burbled a lot of evangelical buzzwords like]…repented…walked in purity and accountability…blessing…and…forgiveness…[but] Clemishire [explained]…that…when Morris began abusing her…he…was a 20-year-old traveling evangelist…[already] married…[with a young] son…Morris…[betrayed] her family[‘s]…friends[hip after being] invited into their home and…repeatedly abused her in Texas and Oklahoma…[while telling] his wife that he was merely “counseling” her…For years…she has been warning churches…about Morris because she doesn’t believe she’s the only one who suffered his abuse…
Cops aren’t the only violent profession whose members feel sexually entitled:
…hundreds of Kenyan women [have] filed complaints with the UK military over the years, a[fter being raped by British soldiers]…in the remote villages where the British Army trains its soldiers in Kenya. The British Army Training Unit, Kenya (BATUK), is headquartered in the town of Nanyuki…[and] Britain pays Kenya about $400,000 a year to allow its soldiers to train…mostly in the expansive wildlife conservancies in Laikipia and Samburu counties. Kenya renewed the defense pact in 2021 despite strong local opposition…[due to numerous] allegations of rape and other crimes, including murder, by British soldiers deployed there [since] the 1950s…hundreds of women from the mostly pastoralist Maasai and Samburu communities who accused the British Army of rapes in the 1970s and 80s…were represented by the British lawyer Martyn Day in a landmark civil case in London in the early 2000s…[but] in 2007, Britain’s Ministry of Defense dismissed claims…brought by 2,187 women…[claiming] the…evidence appeared to have been fabricated…[and refusing to] conduct DNA tests on any of the 69 mixed-race children…born from rape by British soldiers…[but as they] can now be sued in Kenyan courts…as part of a new addition to the 2021 defense pact…lawyer Kelvin Kubai has signed up more than 300 of the women who previously brought rape claims and is working to reintroduce the case in Kenyan courts…
Never forget that this barbarity began using the excuse of “fighting human trafficking”:
The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period…including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water. The [others]…died as a result of being forced out of Greek territorial waters, or taken back out to sea after reaching Greek islands…The Greek government has long…forced returns – pushing people back towards Turkey, where they have crossed from, which is illegal under international law. But this is the first time the…number of…fatalities…[due directly to] the Greek coastguard’s actions [has been calculated]…
This is too useful a tool of state control for the rulers to give it up:
A new lawsuit says that Illinois’ widespread use of…automatic license plate readers…violates the Fourth Amendment…because it breaches citizens’ reasonable expectations of privacy…”Defendants are tracking anyone who drives to work in Cook County—or to school, or a grocery store, or a doctor’s office, or a pharmacy, or a political rally, or a romantic encounter, or family gathering—every day…without any reason to suspect anyone of anything, and are holding onto those whereabouts just in case they decide in the future that some citizen might be an appropriate target”…Illinois’ highway [panopticon] began in 2019 [as so many civil liberties abominations do,] with the passage of [a law bearing a crime victim’s name]…Illinois State Police [started with] a $12.5 million state grant in 2021…which was more than doubled in June 2022…[so far] Illinois…has purchased 652 license plate cameras, of which 340 are installed in Cook County…
Nashville [cop] Sean Herman was recently arrested…weeks after it was revealed that he appeared in a viral OnlyFans clip in [his magical clown costume]. He faces two felony official misconduct charges for [using the clown suit for something other than terrorizing people]…If found guilty, Herman could face prison…[cop shop busybodies] reportedly “discovered the video and identified him as the person in [the magical clown costume], seen in the video from the chest down, who took part in a mock traffic stop in an OnlyFans skit during which he groped the exposed breast of the female driver”…
Since March of last year, the Australian state of Victoria has been rocked by a series of [murders,] arsons and firebombings…in an escalating turf war between rival gangs…the drug at the center of this conflict: nicotine…[prohibitionists prai]se…Australia…for its graphic warnings on cigarette packs, extremely high cigarette taxes, and strict prohibitions on e-cigarettes…[which together constitute] a form of “de facto prohibition”…[so] predictably…the share of tobacco sold illegally…has…doubled [in recent years] to…nearly a quarter of Australian sales…There are 1.8 million vapers in Australia and about nine out of 10 of them source their vapes illegally…[either by buying] e-cigarette components and…nicotine liquid from abroad…or [by getting] disposable vapes manufactured cheaply in China…Australia’s…response…is to crack down even harder…in…contrast…New Zealand, which has similarly high cigarette taxes but embraces a much more liberal approach to vaping…now boasts one of the world’s lowest rates of smoking…
Even cops are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle:
New York City [has wasted tens of millions] on gunshot detection technology that rarely works…ShotSpotter…uses microphones and…software in an attempt to detect the sound of gunshots…When a sound triggers the system, ShotSpotter alerts the police department, and officers are dispatched to the scene…[but] an analysis…found that 87% of the time [cop]s were dispatched to a scene where there was no evidence of a shooting…“The evidence shows that NYPD is wasting precious time and money on this technology and needs to do a better job managing its resources,” [said City Comptroller Brad] Lander… “Chasing down car backfires and construction noise does not make us safer”…It marks the latest report calling the technology’s efficacy into question. A 2021 audit by Chicago’s Office of Inspector General found that of more than 50,000 alerts there, only 9.1% resulted in evidence of a gun-related offense…Houston Mayor John Whitmire also said he would cancel the city’s contract with the company, telling the Houston Chronicle that it is a “gimmick”…
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When I was collecting eggs from the henhouse Friday, I came upon this: the tiniest pullet egg I’ve ever seen. It was very fragile, too; the shell was paper-thin and was broken when I found it, probably from being stepped on by another chicken. Usually, pullet eggs from late-February chicks start appearing in July, but these have been so precocious I really wasn’t all that surprised to find this one on the first full day of summer. What did surprise me was its color; this is the same color as the eggs laid by the Ameraucanas, and the sign at the store said they lay brown eggs. Perhaps the green color is only one of the pigments in a brown shell, and the others will come in later? I don’t know, but I’ll keep you posted; the way things are going, we probably won’t have long to wait.
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