[Massachusetts politicians, one of them ironically from] Salem, are p[ushing]…a bill t[o infantilize sex workers and attempt to starve them into submission by persecuting clients]…The bill was created with support from…a Boston-based [prohibitionist] organization that [exploits marginalized]…sex [workers. Meanwhile, a crony of those same politicians]…has…filed a bill…that would require…hotel workers in the state [to be indoctrinated in the asinine “]signs of sex trafficking[” which encourage businesses to harass unescorted women and engage in racial profiling]…
A Utah man is suingafter being [falsely] implicated in a[n imaginary] human trafficking ring for driving his wife to and from her job at Asian massage businesses…Police raided the places in early 2021 and arrested Joseph Ferreri, his wife Juying Wang, and several other women associated with the businesses where Wang worked. A police document justifying Ferreri’s arrest relies heavily on generalizations about Asian massage businesses and race-based stereotypes. It’s also peppered with misrepresentations—like describing Wang as a “girl” even though she’s in her 50s and two years older than Ferreri…[cop] Shawn Lott…”embellished, omitted, and made up facts to paint Joe Ferreri as an international sex trafficker…the sole basis for targeting Joe was the race/ethnicity of his wife and her occupation”…all charges…were eventually dropped. But by then…his name and picture were published in news outlets that described him as part of a human trafficking ring. He and his wife were temporarily barred from seeing each other. He lost his job, and with it any chance of a pension he was more than halfway to qualifying for. The only work Ferreri could find following the arrest was a temp gig in a coal mine…
…Intricate, invisible webs…link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide…If they refuse to work, some can jeopardize their chances of parole or face punishment like being sent to solitary confinement. They also are often excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job. The goods these prisoners produce wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products…from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice. They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods. And some goods are exported, including to countries that have had products blocked from entering the U.S. for using forced or prison labor. Many of the companies buying directly from prisons are violating their own policies against the use of such labor. But it’s…enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, [which states that] slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime. That clause is currently being challenged on the federal level, and efforts to remove similar language from state constitutions are expected to reach the ballot in about a dozen states this year…
Randy Hames, owner of…an…[Alabama] RV Park…was arrested in 2018…[and] charged with…human trafficking, soliciting prostitution, and attempted sexual extortion…Hames had been [previously] arrested twice on similar charges…after at least 10 female tenants reported Hames making unwanted advances in exchange for lowered rent…A federal trial [is now underway as] prosecutors…allege…Hames violated the Fair Housing Act by creating a hostile home environment for his tenants…he…also…evicted a few…after they refused his advances…
Several [politicians] from Michigan and Ohio were recorded in an online forum planning to try to ban trans health care for everyone, regardless of age…“In terms of endgame, why are we allowing these practices for anyone?” said [Michigan politician Josh] Schriver…“I think…we have to take sometimes small bites,” said [Ohio politician Gary] Click, who then lauded restrictions [recently] placed on…adult clinics by Ohio’s [governor]…
Rather than defend a clearly unconstitutional measure passed to “protect” kids from social media, the government of Utah [claims it] intends to repeal the law…[which] kicked off a [“monkey see, monkey do” parade] of similar measures…Now that it faces a pair of challenges in federal court, the state has a new stance: “Psych! We didn’t actually mean it!”…“They know it’s unconstitutional. They know it’s pure grandstanding and culture warrioring,” writesTechdirt editor Mike Masnick. “And they don’t want to face the music for abusing the rights of the citizens who elected them to support the Constitution, not undermine it”…
[NYPD cop] Angad Beharry…[has been] arrested…[for paying a Venezuelan woman living in Indiana] to take sexually explicit photographs and videos of [her nine-year-old girl], and to transmit them over the Internet to [him]…Beharry…possessed [numerous other] sexually explicit video[s] and images of…prepubescent minors…[he was caught because he also paid a woman in] Colombia…[to take similar pictures of her] one-year-old [daughter, and when she was caught she snitched on him to the cops]…and…also [snitched on her “]friend[” from] Venezuela…
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You’d think after doing this blog for more than 13 years that I would remember to take pictures of noteworthy things for my diary columns, but noooope. It’s not that I’m getting forgetful in my old age; I’ve always been bad about taking pictures. Well, not bad exactly; it’s just that when I’m doing stuff I generally think about what I’m doing rather than about documenting what I’m doing. So even though I made gumbo and potato salad and king cake on Friday (because I need to do it at least once in a carnival season), nary a photo did I take. The cake was gone by Sunday night, and while there’s still leftover gumbo (because my sister’s recipe makes a big pot), cold leftover gumbo in a covered bowl in the fridge does not make a very good picture. Nor does leftover potato salad, king cake crumbs, or an empty pot. And it would just be silly to put a picture of something completely unrelated here. So I’m going to re-use this picture of the last of the gumbo I made two years ago at this time, when I also forgot to take pictures until it was basically too late. Well, at least I’m consistent.
People with nothing to hide have nothing to fear from O.B.I.T.
– Byron Lomax (Jeff Corey)
Generally speaking, The Outer Limits was not as devoted to social commentary as its contemporary The Twilight Zone. This is not a knock; the flavor of the featured tales reminds me very much of Silver Age sci-fi comics like Mystery in Space and Strange Adventures, more thrilling than cerebral, and though the technobabble nearly always has holes one could pilot a flying saucer through, the same could be said of The Twilight Zone. The episodes were for the most part skillfully directed and shot in an elegant film noir-inspired style, enhanced with superbly creepy music and performed by some of the top small-screen talent of the day such as Martin Landau, Robert Culp, David McCallum, Sally Kellerman, Vera Miles, Robert Duvall, William Shatner and many others. But while the stories rarely fail to entertain (though modern viewers used to CGI may find the clever-but-cheap special effects wanting), they’re generally short monster movies or unchallenging morality plays rather than incisive examinations of the issues of their day. Of course, there are exceptions, and one of them is O.B.I.T., one of those rare teleplays which are more relevant today than when they were filmed.
The Outer Band Individuated Teletracer (O.B.I.T.) is a top-secret surveillance device which is able to tune in on any individual’s unique biometric signature in order to spy on that person regardless of walls or distance. It is used to monitor the staff at a vital Defense research installation, and when one of its operators is brutally murdered the U.S. Senate subcommittee which oversees the facility sends one of its members to investigate. What he discovers is a base plagued by tension, discord, and serious mental health issues, all driven by the administration’s incessant prying into every private life; though the existence of the machine is a closely-guarded secret, it is obvious – and terrifying – to all that the government clearly has some means of surveillance unimpeded by locks or whispers. Of course, this being The Outer Limits, the machines (which the investigation soon reveals are both numerous and not solely restricted to US government usage) are an alien device surreptitiously introduced into human society as a tool of conquest. In the climactic scene, when the disguised alien is revealed, this is what he has to say:
The machines are everywhere! Oh you’ll find them all, you’re a zealous people. And you’ll make a great show of smashing a few of them. But for every one you destroy, hundreds of others will be built. And they will demoralize you, break your spirits, create such rifts and tensions in your society that no one will be able to repair them! Oh, you’re a savage, despairing planet, and when we come here to live, you friendless, demoralized flotsam will fall without even a single shot being fired. Senator, enjoy the few years left you. There is no answer. You’re all of the same dark persuasion! You demand – insist – on knowing every private thought and hunger of everyone: Your families, your neighbors, everyone — but yourselves.
When O.B.I.T. was first broadcast in November 1963, the security state was a mere toddler; its tools were largely limited to hidden cameras and microphones, and eminently-corruptible human snitches and busybodies. I hardly need to point out that this is no longer the case; using biometrics to identify individuals is no longer science fiction, and the number of means the government and large corporations have to track, trace, watch, eavesdrop on, and judge every last one of us would’ve been unbelievable to a TV audience of the Kennedy era. Millions of people in the developed world, acting individually or collectively, feel completely justified in digging into the affairs of those who have different beliefs from them, in hope of discovering some transgression or mistake that can be used to destroy the victim’s life with the help of faceless, merciless corporations and institutions. The irreparable rifts and tensions which are the inevitable product of a panopticon are already here, and growing more dangerously-intrusive all the time. And we didn’t even need malevolent aliens to do it to us.
Contrary to popular belief, [civil rights] also protect undocumented immigrants. – Phillip Arroyo
There’s only one real choice to mark the passing of Shangri-Las lead singer Mary Weiss, so here it is in the form of a rather silly TV performance from 1964. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel; Phoenix Calida; David Ley; Jesse Walker and Mike Siegel again; IncarcerNation; Nun Ya; and Walter Olson, in that order.
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A [Utah politician] is facing a felony charge of human trafficking…[due to] disturbing mistreatment of one of his [ranch] workers, a Mexican national. Dusty “Hootie” Roche…treated A.S. abusively, housed him in a dirty, dilapidated…trailer without running water and didn’t provide him with timely deliveries of food…Prosecutors also describe the Roche Ranches operators as dismissive of A.S.’s complaints after he was bucked from a horse and stepped on several times while working, suffering a fractured orbital socket…The trailer…sat on a remote part of the ranch and had “rat excrement on the floors,” a bathtub containing “animal parts and animal excrement,” a leaking roof and no working refrigerator or water system…A.S…was not paid regularly and…was treated poorly once he reported the issue to the staffing agency he had obtained his job through…he lived in “constant fear” after he was hit, kicked, yelled at and called names…
The father of a junior varsity girl’s basketball player confronted the principals of both his daughter’s school and the opposing school…demanding one of the girls not be allowed to play because he [imagin]ed she was transgender…Both principals assured the parent…that the girl, like her teammates, had uploaded the required birth certificate documenting her age and gender and that “every player on both teams was 100% eligible to be on the court”…The angry parent wasn’t satisfied…he [demanded his fantasies be given veto power over reality, saying]…“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy and you better be able to prove yourself because I am going to the top.” He became belligerent enough that they asked him to leave the building…[and he will] not [be] allow[ed]…to return to any other games…
Columbus [cop] Adam Nguyen [was rewarded with a paid vacation]…for…taking upskirt video of a young woman at an anime convention near Chicago last year…[he] was sentenced to two years of probation, ordered to complete 100 hours of community service…pay more than $870 in court costs and fees…[and] undergo evaluation and treatment for…sex…offen[ders]…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton [has demanded] medical records of Texas youth who have received gender-affirming care from a Georgia telehealth clinic, marking at least the second time he’s sought such records from providers in another state…QueerMed said it stopped servicing youth in Texas after the state banned transition-related care last year…[but the demand want]ed information about patients dating back to Jan. 1, 2022…and…nearly mirrors one…sent to Seattle Children’s Hospital…in response to [which]…Seattle Children’s [has] sued…Karen Loewy, a lawyer with Lambda Legal representing organizations…trying to block [Texas’ anti-trans law]…said there is “zero authorization” in the law for Paxton’s [demand]s to clinics outside of Texas…Loewy said that “a handful” of other organizations have received [similar demands]…from Paxton…A QueerMed official could not immediately comment on how the clinic will respond…
Police have arrested a [screw] in Connecti[cut for]…fatal[ly] shooting…a [stranger] in what is believed to be a road rage incident…William Lucky, Jr…murder[ed]…Scott Kracke…[after Lucky] cut [Kracke] off and Kracke [responded by] pass[ing Lucky] and brak[ing] suddenly. The[y both] got out of their vehicles after stopping at the side of the road…then [Lucky] shot Kracke…several [times before fleeing]…in his car…A short time later, Lucky…turn[ed] himself in [at the instigation of his child’s mother]…
The estate of…George Carlin sued the makers of a podcast…[who] claimed to use [a computer program] to impersonate Carlin for a comedy s[how]…Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen, hosts of the podcast Dudesy…infringed on the estate’s copyrights…for “George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,” which [has apparently been made “private”] on the podcast’s YouTube channel…The lawsuit calls for a judge to prevent Dudesy…from using Carlin’s copyrighted works in the future and to require the podcast to destroy the episode…Danielle Del, a spokeswoman for Sasso, [admitted that] Dudesy is not actually a…[computer, but rather] “a fictional podcast character created by…Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen…the…video…was completely written by Chad Kultgen”…
NYC Mayor Eric Adams is facing a pretty big list of crises, some of his own making…But…[he’s] zeroed in on…the real problem in New York City…the evidence free declaration that social media is “toxic”…This is ridiculous on multiple levels. First off, last year we had a big post detailing why any comparison between social media and “toxins” like lead paint or tobacco is inherently stupid. Those are things that are known to cause real harm. With social media, that’s just not true…the actual science simply does not support the claim that social media is inherently harmful to kids…recent research suggests that the real cause of the teen mental health crisis is the lack of spaces for teens to be teens without parents hovering over them…
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There is no moral difference between a sex worker taking out a loan to emigrate to a wealthier country and a student taking out tens of thousands of dollars in loans – except that the former has a guaranteed job and the latter doesn’t.
– “Happy Endings”
The moral authority of ANY politician…is exactly as legitimate as the moral authority of a tiger pissing on trees to mark its territory.
– “Tiger, Tiger”
When I was young and living in a small town, most people had little respect for the kind of whiny tattletale who calls the cops on other people instead of trying to handle disagreements themselves; however, that kind of attitude has gone the way of party lines and black-and-white television sets. – “In the Street”
Except when the subject is sex, “You should probably hire a pro to do that” is usually considered good and wholly uncontroversial advice for any compex task that requires greater skill and experience than the average amateur is likely to have. – “Tripod“
A [typical and representative Texas cop named Hector Aaron Ruiz has] pleaded guilty…to kidnapping a…woman he pulled over in 2019 and…[raped after forc]ing her [under color of law to] follow him…to a [remote area]…eight months a[go]…Ruiz [was found] guilty of obstructing, destroying and altering records…[when he] raped [a different woman] in her home…[even though the] jury [let him skate on the actual crime]…
Brian Helfert, a…[typical and representative cop paid to spy on, untimidate, and harass high school students in Michigan, regularly moles]ted teen boys between 2003 and 2019. In December, he was convicted of [a lesser charge, and has previously been slapped on the wrist for molesting boys]…He…[now] faces two more c[harges]…for…sexually assault[ing yet another 13-year-old boy]…
Amazon’s Ring has announced that it will no longer facilitate police’s warrantless requests for footage from Ring users. This…will…not stop police from trying to [intimidate] Ring…owners [into handing over recordings] without a warrant….[Several] years ago, after public outcry and a lot of criticism from EFF and other organizations, Ring ended its practice of allowing police to automatically send requests for footage to a user’s email inbox, opting instead for a system where police had to publicly post requests onto Ring’s Neighbors app. Now, Ring hopefully will altogether be out of the business of platforming casual and warrantless police requests for footage…This is a step in the right direction, but has come after years of cozy relationships with police and irresponsible handling of data…We also remain deeply skeptical about law enforcement’s and Ring’s ability to determine what is, or is not, an emergency…and…the mass existence of doorbell cameras, whether subsidized and organized into registries by cities or connected and centralized through technologies like Fusus, will continue to threaten civil liberties…
The most significant national threat to reproductive rights is…a…long dormant law from 1873 that could ban abortion nationwide: the Comstock Act…named after Anthony Comstock, a…[deeply-deranged, self-loathing pervert] who used his power as a special agent of the US Postal Service to enforce his beliefs about sex…He was able to persuade Congress to pass laws against “indecent or immoral” materials, including broad definitions of contraception, pornography and abortion. Some [forced-birth] advocates are interpreting this law, which remained on the books during the half century that Roe v. Wadewas in force, to ban mailing anything that induces an abortion. Because virtually everything used for an abortion — from abortion pills, to the instruments for abortion procedures, to clinic supplies — gets mailed to providers in some form, this interpretation…could mean a nationwide ban on all abortions, even in states where it remains legal. The Comstock Act must be repealed, and in our view, that process needs to begin this year…
A 61-year-old man is suing Macy’s and the parent company of Sunglass Hut over the stores’…use of a facial recognition system that misidentified him as the culprit behind an armed robbery and led to his wrongful arrest. While in jail, he was beaten and raped, according to his suit. Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr was accused…of robbing a Houston-area Sunglass Hut of thousands of dollars of merchandise in January 2022, though…he was living in California at the time…He was arrested on 20 October 2023…when…he [tried]…to renew his [Texas driver’s] license. Within minutes of identifying himself to a DMV clerk…hewas arrested and…brutally beaten and gang-raped by three other men in the jail…
An anti-porn bill in Oklahoma is so extreme that it [w]ould even make sexting outside of a marriage a crime. The…bill would make merely viewing “obscene materials” a felony…It’s part of a wave of conservative plans targeting a very broad definition of “porn”—First Amendment be damned—that threatens not just “hardcore pornography” but all sorts of erotic expression…[b]y attempt[ing] to drastically expand what is considered illegal obscenity or pornography…Oklahoma Senate Bill 1976—comes from state Sen. Dusty Deevers…who also put forth legislation to repeal no-fault divorce…the…bill attempts to carve out a new category of largely prohibited content called “unlawful pornography”…which…is broad enough to include all partnered or solo porn photos and videos (even the more tame stuff), and possibly even erotic drawings, strip clubs, burlesque, drag, depictions of domination, and more…and…would be partially enforced by private lawsuits…
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When I was a teenager, it was entirely possible to know enough about an old movie to want to see it, yet never have the opportunity to do so. This was of course because prior to the advent of home video, the only way to see a movie not currently playing in theaters was to catch it on television. And since I’ve always had kind of oddball tastes in cinema, that meant scanning TV Guide as soon as it came in (plus the newspaper TV magazine in the Sunday paper) to see if anything worthwhile was scheduled for that week. I sometimes waited for years to see some films I’d heard about or seen once; it was probably ten years between the first and second times I saw Jesus Christ Superstar. And when I still lived with my folks, if a flick I wanted to see was playing in the wee small hours on a school night, I had to give it a pass because my mother was very strict about that. Even after the advent of VHS, movies were at first stupidly expensive (often $60 or more in ’80s dollars) until 1988, when Wal-mart ordered umpteen gajillion copies of E.T. and priced them at under ten bucks, which totally changed Hollywood’s greedy attitude about pricing. Then some movies never got a video release, which made them still difficult to get ahold of (a condition which still persists today). But there are some movies which, despite my wanting to see them for decades and their being readily available on DVD, I’ve somehow never managed to see. Recently, I put several of them on my Amazon wishlist, and a new reader bought both Animal Farm (1954), which I’ve known about since the early ’90s, and Alice in Wonderland (1933), which I’ve known about since the late ’70s (he also got me a hearthrug, but that’s not as much fun for me to write about or you to read about). I’m excited about finally getting to see both of them, and extra-excited about sharing them with Grace, so please believe me when I tell you that I really do want everything on my wishlist, even if it’s inexpensive or seems silly to you!
A [typical and representative] Cincinnati ICE deportation [thug claimed]…that…non-citizen women he [repeatedly raped]…”always [wanted it]”..Andrew Golobic…had the authority to [control the lives of his victims] and make recommendations on whether they should be arrested and deported…he’s also charged with sex trafficking for…[getting one woman to submit to rape b]y telling [her] he could get her passport in exchange for [doing so. Golobic]…also…destroy[ed] evidence and tamper[ed] with witnesses…
Austin [cop] Walter Dodds…was sent…on April 18, 2020 for a welfare check of a…[suicidal] man…he [soon began targeting the man’s] girlfriend…with sexually suggestive messages…[but after] she hung up on him…[he] returned weeks later, burglarized her apartment and raped her…Her nephew was…[a witness and] Dodds’ car was also seen…prowling around the woman’s home at the time. A family member [even] took a photo of his p[igmobile showing the] number. [Yet] on January 17, 2024, Dodds…[agreed to] a plea…for unlawful restraint…[in return] for the serious charges of burglary and rape to be dismissed…Walter Dodds remains…eligible to work as a [cop and free to rape] again…
Hundreds of copies of [the Ouray County Plaindealer] in Ouray, Colorado, were stolen from around town…the day the paper published a story about…the police chief’s [son and two friends violently raping an underage girl at the police chief’s] house…[publisher Erin] McIntyre…[said] “Whoever did this does not understand that stealing newspapers doesn’t stop a story”…
A 17-year-old girl…was raped m[ultiple times]…at the Ouray police chief’s home in May during a late-night party with the chief’s stepson and two other [rapis]ts…while [chief Jeff Wood and his wife] slept upstairs…the…three…have been arrested [and identified as]…Wood’s stepson, Nate Dieffenderffer, Gabriel Trujillo and Ashton Whittington…the girl…passed out while [drinking]…but later woke up [to find] Dieffenderffer [raping her]…She…[fought] back and [screamed but the rapist covered her mouth and choked her]…at [which] point she heard someone knocking on a door…but no one intervened, including Whittington, who [claimed]…he didn’t know what was going on…she left the home around 4:30 a.m., though she was unable to locate all her clothing…[so] she grabbed a sweatshirt from a pile of laundry…that sweatshirt was later confirmed to belong to Wood…She first drove home, and then was able to contact a friend and decided to go [for a rape kit]…she told [state cops] she decided to report it because this was the second time she had been assaulted by Dieffenderffer and Trujillo…
The Kern County [California] Sheriff’s Office is facing…a $25 million lawsuit filed by a senior deputy…[because] she was subjected to a pattern of physical and verbal abuse, [includ]ing…forcibl[e] rape…by her partner on the hood of a patrol car in 2014. Later, the same partner…[rap]ed her again in a conference room. Though she reported both incidents to her superior, nothing was done…
A [typical and representative cop] has been charged with raping a child and possessing child pornography. David Love…[of] Radcliff, Kentucky…[started orally and vaginally raping a 13-year-old]…on October 8…and continued [until his arrest]…
A [typical and representative Missouri cop has been] charged with multiple child sex crimes…Jordan C. Fowle…molest[ed and raped two young girls for years]…Fowle [appears to have fled the area]…and [his cronies thought it was more important to babble about his magical clown costume rather than looking for him]…Fowle…began [to abuse one of the girls] in 2012 when she was 13 years old…[often under the pretext of] strip searches…[he started to] abuse…the second [girl]…in 2019 when she was 14 years old and [did not stop]…until 2023. Both victims told investigators they feared Fowle due to his [being a cop]…
On January 18, 2022, a teenage girl…[ran] away from home and [took] the family car with her. Police pinged her cell phone to a trailer in Westcliff, C[olorado]…Two men in their 50s were present and…the only piece of furniture…was a bed…[cops] found the girl in a closet…she was in distress and seemed to be drugged…[yet the cops] handcuffed…and [brutallized] her…dragged [her]…across [a] parking lot…then used a taser on her in drive stun mode…[until she] lost control of bodily functions from the tasing, urinated on herself, convulsed and cried…[cop Michael] Kear…[di]d not arrest [her captors even though one had a]…warrant…[so he] was fired from the [cop shop]…At the time he was fired, he was under investigation already for other cases of sexual misconduct, both with co-workers and [by molesting and raping] “underage girls” who are mentioned in plural…in the lawsuit [filed by the tortured girl and her parents]…
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