After Grace was too infirm to work regularly any more, starting about 2013, I supported her completely until she started collecting social security in July of ’23; even after that, her check simply went “into the pot” as all of our income did in the days when we were both working. And though she never complained (and in fact used to brag to her doctors about what good care I took of her), I wanted to be sure she didn’t ever feel too dependent on me; she was not an overly prideful person, but I feel every adult needs as much independence as is practically possible. So we agreed long ago that she should have $400 a month to spend on anything she wanted, no questions asked, above and beyond all of her strictly-necessary expenses that I paid. She used it to get audiobooks, things she wanted from Amazon, special treats at the little convenience store on the highway, tools and parts for her projects, and stuff like that. One of her long-term health problems was arthritis, which she had suffered from since her mid-forties due to a very serious motorcycle accident in her twenties; sometime in 2018, she decided it had become severe enough that she needed a cane. But rather than have me buy something purely functional, she decided to get herself a genuine shillelagh from a craftsman in Shillelagh, Ireland, specifically because it was a weapon in addition to being a walking aid. That stick was symbolic of her whole way of looking at aging: while she didn’t deny the practical need for assistance in getting around, she was damned sure not going to use a walker or anything similar, and insisted that anybody who “messes with my little angel” (as she had invariably referred to me since 1998) would receive the heavy end of her shillelagh. And if I dared point out that she was no longer capable of fighting off a determined grandmother, she would shake that stick and say, “we’ll see!” She remained feisty and crotchety until the end, and her prized cudgel is still standing where she left it, in the corner behind her desk where she could easily reach it. And as you can probably guess, I have no intention of ever moving it from that spot.
Posts Tagged ‘Ireland’
Diary #764
Posted in Biography, Diary, tagged disease, Grace, Ireland, psychology, Sunset, weaponry on February 18, 2025| 1 Comment »
In the News (#1508)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged California, Catholicism, censorship, Censorship Ascendant, cops, dirty, fantasy, First They Came for the Hookers, internet, Ireland, law, Mississippi, Monsters, No Escape, Oregon, Paint By Numbers, Pennsylvania, porn, prisons, prohibitionist myths, propaganda, rape, rescue industry, restaurants, sex rays, stripping, surveillance, Swedish model, Texas, The Course of a Disease, The Puritan Recrudescence, To Molest and Rape on January 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
There is no huge difference…in the lives of [prisoners]…based on whether a Democrat or Republican is in office. – Julie Abbate
First They Came for the Hookers… (#573)
Politicians believe they can excuse hypocrisy by the magic word “illicit”:
A [Mississippi] bill meant to eradicate the state’s individual income tax does not apply to sex workers…”all…income derived from producing, distributing, directing, manufacturing, issuing, publishing or advertising any depiction of sexually explicit conduct shall be at the rate of five percent (5%),” House Bill No. 1 reads…[bill sponsor Trey] Lamar did not explain why he included [the provision, except to vomit]…”illegal and illicit activity”…[at] reporters…The Clarion Ledger [has] contacted a labor attorney to discuss whether a state singling out one form of legal employment for taxation is legal…
A car show and cruise featuring 120 vehicles… [w]as part of an annual fundraiser put on by In-N-Out Burger’s [Christian fundamentalist] owner[s]…The event, called Cruisin’ 2 Freedom, benefits Slave 2 Nothing, a [profiteer group] that [uses “]human trafficking[” as a hook to separate fools from their money]…Benjamin Nolot…of Exodus Cry [shared his sexual fantasies about underage girls]…
The Course of a Disease (#1209)
Ruhama, the current DBA of the gang of prohibitionist nuns who enslaved Irish women in the “Magdalene laundries” for centuries, not only pushed the horrific “Swedish model” despite knowing that it would increase violence against sex workers, but actually celebrated the increase in violence when it happened exactly as predicted. Now they’re predictably trying to widen their repression by demanding both internet censorship and increased surveillance of Irish citizens, not to mention more police violence against vulnerable women, by vomiting out the same propaganda they’ve used for the past two decades but pretending it’s new and based in “research”. I’m not even going to bother quoting this same nonsense, barfed up by long-time Ruhama fantasist Ruth Breslin, but the link is there if you feel inclined to wade in sewage.
Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”:
On the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump severely restricted transgender prisoners’ access to safe housing and proper medical care…one order bars the federal government from funding gender-affirming care, mandates that trans women be housed in men’s prisons, and instructs the federal government to remove protections for transgender people from Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) guidelines…
The First Amendment is now being eroded just like many of the others:
Bias reporting systems have been popping up in one form or another across more than a dozen state and city municipalities in the last four years, usually consisting of an online portal or telephone number where citizens are encouraged to submit reports…of speech and behavior that are not only not crimes, but also First Amendment-protected expression…In Oregon, citizens can report “offensive ‘jokes’” and “imitating someone’s cultural norm or practice”…In Philadelphia…authorities fielding “hate incidents” can now ask for exact [names and] addresses…about the alleged offending party…city officials will in some cases “contact those accused of bias and request that they attend sensitivity training”…to teach you the error of your ways…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1503)
“Age verification” laws are bad for speech, but good for VPN business:
In recent years, the implementation of age verification laws for adult content websites has sparked a significant surge in VPN demand across…the United States…The data paints a clear picture of the soaring demand for VPN services in states such as Florida (1,150%), Oklahoma (1,060%), Utah (967%), and Alabama (542%), among others…The use of VPNs has become a popular workaround for individuals seeking unrestricted access to online content. Thus, despite the geo-blocking measures, Pornhub’s traffic reached an all-time high, surpassing 1.8 billion visits by late 2024…
Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors:
A Corpus Christi [Texas cop has been] arrested [for repeated statutory rape of] a 15-year-old…Daniel Verduzco’s [creepy behavior was not discovered until the girl’s]…family…moved to Tulsa in early 2024…[after a suicide attempt,] the girls’ [mother]…went through her [phone]…and found pictures of…a c[learly]…adult [cop and interrogated]…her daughter…[about him]. Tulsa police…contacted Homeland Security…in Corpus Christi…
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Links #753
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Catholicism, Connecticut, cops, France, holidays, Ireland, language, Missouri, Never Call the Cops, New York, restaurants, robots, South Carolina, Switzerland, United Kingdom, video on December 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »
It is trite, repetitive and exudes a wisdom…more reminiscent of calendar clichés than theological insights. – Anna Jungen
Since Charles Dumont wrote one of Edith Piaf‘s signature songs, it seems only right to send him off with a video of her performing it. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Elizabeth N. Brown, IncarcerNation, Lucy Steigerwald, Mike Siegel, and Jesse Walker again, in that order.
- Artificial sacrilege.
- My guess would be “no”.
- Not for any reason whatsoever.
- World’s finest healthcare system.
- Is Willy Wonka working for KFC now?
- R.I.P. Charles Dumont, Marshall Brickman, and Hal Lindsey.
From the Archives
- Thought you could avoid the Gestapo by taking a bus rather than a plane?
- Parents don’t feel guilty enough for an ugly violation of a daughter’s trust.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- I wish news outlets would stop publishing their rulers’ wanking fantasies.
- Progressives keep backing police violence in the name of “public health”.
- If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
- I’ll believe Facebook is actually going to do this when it actually does it.
- A bureaucratic disaster viewed through the lens of a dying moral panic.
- It’s unsurprising that cops treat family members like they treat others.
- More folly from the UK’s decade-long campaign to censor the internet.
- Another fine example of McNeill’s Law, courtesy of “Moms for Liberty”.
- Almost 30 years before he was caught, then another 6.5 before trial.
- Cops, robots, “alternative medicine”, Mike Nesmith, and much more.
- I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
- “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
- Cops, nightmares, Shane MacGowan, Elliott Erwitt, and much more.
- The absurdity becomes more obvious when we substitute “toaster”.
- Texas’ ruling psychopaths blame doctors for being afraid of prison.
- “Law enforcement worker” is a new low in cop-crime obfuscation.
- Cop shops don’t actually give a damn about sexual “misconduct”.
- It’s only one step from “all commercial vehicles” to “all vehicles”.
- Totally credible, especially considering he was a cop at the time.
- It usually starts with “vice criminals”, but it never stops with us.
- All internet “porn” censorship schemes have similar endgames.
- Never forget that this started with censorship of internet porn.
- Cops, curses, Christine McVie, Robert Clary, and Greg Bear.
- Will the feds interfere with this as they did in Philadelphia?
- Charity is especially important when prices keep going up.
- Supporters of mass incarceration worship Holy Hypocrisy.
- I hope the Institute for Justice has already contacted her.
- Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Your “leaders” know what’s best, so shut up and obey.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Professionals have been telling y’all this for decades.
- A break in the rain = more time to work on the roof.
- Another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
- A new nadir for photographs in the US news media.
- Cop + preacher = sexual menace to legal minors.
- The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
- Throwback Thursday Meets the Space Monster.
- St. Nicholas loves whores. Yes, that St. Nick.
- Rapist cops of the week for 2021, and 2022.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Cops just love them some kiddie porn.
- Tracy Quan remembers Carol Leigh.
- A nearly-perfect Christmas tree.
- Improvements to my bathroom.
- On the magic of morning snow.
- This just keeps getting better.
- R.I.P. Phil Harvey.
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In the News (#1476)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Broken Record, California, cops, Do As I Say, Eavesdropping, Elephant in the Parlor, fantasy, fascism, If Men Were Angels, illegal aliens, Illinois, Indiana, internet, Ireland, Kentucky, McNeill's Law, North Carolina, politicians, porn, prohibitionist myths, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, surveillance, The Cop Myth, To Molest and Rape, transgender on September 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would certainly buy a few. – Mark Robinson
Politicians watching kinky porn is no more unusual than their being hypocrites and psychopaths:
North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson said he won’t end his campaign despite a CNN report that reads like a mad lib of campaign-killing material…Robinson called himself a “black NAZI” and a “perv” in posts on…a [porn-sharing] message board [named “Nude Africa”]…Robinson also reportedly wrote about peeping on women in public showers, being thrilled by some absolutely filthy pornography (think The Human Centipede), and called for reinstituting slavery…The cherry on top of it all, given the GOP’s current moral panic over transgender issues, is…Robinson’s “affinity for transgender pornography”…Robinson [has] denied that he’d made the posts…
There was a surge in demand for sex workers at the National Ploughing Championships in Co Laois last week, according to a [religious prohibitionist organization] that…[persecutes] sex…[workers]. Ruhama [is still trying to spread the long-debunked fantasy] that large-scale events attended predominantly by men were “big catalysts” for sexual exploitation…
A rapist cop’s evil begets more evil:
Letcher County [Kentucky] Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines…walked into the chambers of Judge Kevin Mullins, closed the door and…murder[ed him with a gun]…then walked out of the chambers with his hands up and surrendered without incident…Stines had been a bailiff in Mullins’ courtroom for years before he was elected sheriff…The [murder may be related to] a federal civil lawsuit filed by…a [woman who was repeatedly raped by a sleazebag deputy]…inside Mullins’ chambers for six months [under threat of being locked in a filthy cage]…The lawsuit accused Stines of “deliberate indifference in failing to adequately train and supervise” [rapist cop] Ben Fields…[who got off with a mere] six months in jail, followed by six and a half years of probation…
Cop and preacher is like the molester equivalent of a full house:
A…[preacher] who…worked [as chaplain] for the Indianapolis…Police Department…sexually abus[ed] a child “over 100 times”. Sylvester Driscoll[‘s] victim confessed to her school counselor in August that Driscoll had raped and sexually abused her for years…Driscoll [groomed her by] show[ing] her [porn] videos…since she was 5 years old. The first sexual assault by Driscoll…[was] not long after that…and…he…would makes threats to keep her from telling anyone…
Some politicians are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle:
…Ending ShotSpotter would fulfill a campaign promise by [Chicago] Mayor Brandon Johnson…[but] some City Council members [who get kickbacks from the company] are trying to compel his administration to extend the…contract…economist Michael Topper of the Social Science Research Council has co-authored a study that found…ShotsSpotter…reallocat[es] police resources away from…911 calls…to…ShotSpotter alerts [which in Chicago are 91% false positives]…this reallocation is causing 911 calls to…suffer in terms of response times…there isn’t any evidence that this technology is actually benefiting crime clearance or crime reduction efforts…
Undermining of civil liberties only starts with “undesirables”; it never stops there:
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights…studied how the Department of Justice…the Department of Homeland Security…and the Department of Housing and Urban Development…[mis]use [facial recognition] technology…leading to wrongful arrests, bias in accessing housing and more troubling outcomes…[there is] a [total] lack of federal oversight, with no standardized regulations to [minimize]…abuses of power and privacy concerns…Because there are no public databases which show how often FRT searches are used on individuals…“conducting public oversight of the government’s use of FRT to determine if civil rights violations are occurring is extraordinarily difficult.” Customs and Border Patrol…uses the technology in 53 airports, 40 seaports and all pedestrian lanes at the Mexican border
…HUD uses FRT in surveillance cameras in public housing…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1465)
It’s too bad cops don’t spend all of their time fantasy role-playing with each other:
A Fresno [California cop named] Paige McQuay [was arrested, but also rewarded with a paid vacation, because he interacted with another cop fantasy role-playing as a teenage girl online]…
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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 (#1455)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged California, censorship, cops, homosexuality, I can't breathe, If Men Were Angels, internet, Ireland, law, Never Call the Cops, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Panopticon, politicians, porn, prisons, rape, Shame Shame, Stalkers in Blue, surveillance, teachers, The Puritan Recrudescence, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, Virginia on July 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Help us, we can’t breathe. – Elizabeth Nomura
Some of y’all may recall that when all the “police reform” types started touting body cameras as the solution to surging police brutality, I was skeptical:
McNeill points out that the camera records the public, not the officer. She adds, “As long as the cops have the power to turn the cameras off or decide whether footage is released, it’s difficult to see what is to be accomplished here.”
That was February of 2015, and over 9 years later civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis has published a law journal article demonstrating that, as usual, I was correct: the cops wanted the cameras as a surveillance tool, and useful idiots who imagine violent thugs can be “reformed” obligingly gave them exactly what they wanted:
By situating the rise of the police body camera within its actual legal, political, and economic contexts, I suggest that the body camera is one of the most important Trojan horses in contemporary U.S. history. What follows is a case study of how the police bureaucracy used its own violence as the perfect alibi to get well-meaning people who lacked sufficient information to support greater police procurement budgets, more advanced and efficient technologies of control and incarceration, an explosion of profit for a small group of companies, and an expansion of the capacity of the government to surveil us. And most remarkably: All of it happened under the guise of making the police bureaucracy more “accountable” and “transparent”…
Cops are a menace to women of all ages:
An Orange County woman [has] filed a federal lawsuit…against an Anaheim [cop who]…raped her after seeing her at an In-N-Out Burger and getting her name by running her license plate number…[typical and representative cop] Carlos Romero [was rewarded by] the city of Anaheim…[with a] paid [vacation for raping her] in 2023 after [she reported his stalking, harassing]…and [threatening her until he got tired of her refusing him]…sex…and [raped]…her [vaginally and orally despite her]…repeatedly t[elling] him “no”…His gun was…in full view [and]…she “was terrified and fearful for her life” and just wanted Romero to leave…
“Safety” has become the #1 excuse for Orwellian levels of surveillance:
North Carolina [politician] Michele Morrow has made [a fetish of subjecting students to police-state measures that her own children would not have to endure, since she]…home-school[s them. Like many authoritarians, she is obsessed with incredibly-exaggerated fears of] pedophiles and…gun violence [which she wants to use as an excuse to give dangerous thugs even more power to harass, spy on, persecute, and molest students. Paradoxically, she wants to give these pervert thugs access to]…video surveillance in classrooms, hallways and bathrooms…
Americans’ sick lust for torture turns ordinary prison sentences into death sentences:
A…[woman locked up in] California’s largest women’s prison [at Chowchilla] has died amid a brutal heatwave that has left residents without air conditioning begging for relief…temperatures in the region climbed above 110F (43.3C)…[but mouthpieces for the State pretend that had nothing to do with her] death…There have been reports of potentially fatal conditions inside jails and prisons during heatwaves across California and in Nevada, Illinois, Texas, Florida and other states this year. The Chowchilla fatality has escalated fear and panic throughout the…overcrowded [dungeon, in] which…more than 2,000 people [are locked in cages without] air conditioning…[while screws refuse] to provide enough cold water and other supplies that would alleviate their suffering and reduce heatstroke risks…[many prisoners are] struggling with nausea and headaches…[while officials refuse to maintain or repair] swamp coolers meant to lower temperatures…[for] prison[ers]…locked in these death chambers [while bureaucrats deny the crisis and pretend their facilities are humane]…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1423)
The Senate of the Republic of Ireland…[will] debate the country’s proposed…[“monkey see, monkey do”] Online Age Verification…Bill…[whose] sponsor…hailed as a victory the fact that the…imprecise language…[of the US laws his bill apes] has already had a chilling effect on free speech, [namely] “porn suppliers such as Pornhub to cease providing services [to people who don’t know what VPNs are]” in those states…The bill makes platforms and app stores liable for any failure to implement [government-mandated surveillance, and they are specifically required]…to store the…data they collect [at their own expense] for five years, and [make it available for pigs to root through at will]…
I just can’t feel sorry for cops sexually abused by other cops:
A [Virginia cop named Michael Rusk] is suing his former department and local…[politicians] for $5 million for…sexual harassment a[fter]…he…shot and severely injured his superior…Christopher Gibson [for sexually assaulting him]…police leadership not only knew about the continued harassment but purposefully
disregarded it because Rusk is a man…[for years] Gibson made…sexual advances toward [Rusk] including hand-holding, touching, slapping, stalking, and grooming…the[n]…in January 2023, after a night of drinking…Gibson…sexually assault[ed] Rusk…and…Rusk…[responded by shooting] Gibson several times before calling 911…
In 1982, [21-year old married] pastor Robert Morris…[seduced and molested 12-year-old] Cindy Clemishire…while he was staying at her parents’ home in Oklahoma…But 25 years later, when Clemishire hired an attorney and threatened to sue Morris…hi[s]…lawyer…responded by blaming Clemishire for what happened to her…The Feb. 6, 2007, letter was one in a series of exchanges that year between Sharpe and [Clemishire’s lawyer] Gentner Drummond…Clemishire…had been seeking $50,000 in restitution from Morris to cover the cost of counseling. Morris…offered to pay $25,000, but the talks fell apart…because [Clemishire] was not willing to sign a nondisclosure agreement…
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In the News (#1413)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged Buried Truth, California, censorship, cops, end demand, Florida, hysteria, Ireland, law, libraries, neofeminism, Panopticon, Pennsylvania, politicians, porn, scams, surveillance, teachers, Tennessee, Texas, The Last Shall Be First, The Puritan Recrudescence, The Red Umbrella, Thought Control, transgender, Utah, violence vs. sex workers on February 17, 2024| 1 Comment »
People might [not] be sick of book bannings, but are they sick of having their money wasted? – anonymous Texas teacher
As long as sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targeted for violence:
Non-[Irish] sex workers were targeted by a recent scam where a person or people pretended to work for a major advertising website and asked them to provide personal information…[when] the workers did not realise it was a scam and replied to the messages…a number of them were…threatened with physical or sexual violence. Linda Kavanagh…[of] SWAI…said non-national sex workers were deliberately targeted…She said m[ost] workers don’t report threats, or actual assaults, to gardaí because they…[reasonably] fear they’re going to be blamed for the work that they do…
Cops use their panopticon exactly as EFF predicted they would:
In 2022, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance that would allow the city’s police…to access footage from private security cameras [as long as they could invent a credible-sounding excuse]…the SFPD [is required to] compile quarterly reports detailing how many times it [abused the privilege]…The report released in January shows that in the third quarter of 2023…[64 pigs] spent a collective 193 hours and 19 minutes [rooting through] live surveillance footage…Police made 49 arrests as a result of surveillance, of which 42 were for narcotics…[only] four were for “theft/larceny,” and one was for [contempt of cop]…all of the r[oot-f]ests [centered on] just five [neighborhoods, one of them the Tenderloin]…the longest [root]ing session was during the Outside Lands Music Festival in August in Golden Gate Park, when [pigs rooted through] 42 total hours of live footage…in [defense of this creepy spying, the]…District Attorney…b[elch]ed [out] the [word]…”fentanyl”…San Francisco is [also]…rolling out new traffic cameras, which are more effective at filling government coffers than preventing traffic fatalities…
The Last Shall Be First (#1351)
The time, money, and energy Americans are flushing down the “culture war” toilet is incalculable:
[Murfreesboro] Tennessee…must pay $500,000 as part of a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups over an ordinance designed to ban drag performances…Last year, the Tennessee Equality Project…filed a federal lawsuit after leaders announced they would no longer be approving any event permit requests submitted by the organization…[due to what politicians absurdly labeled] “illegal sexualization of kids”…the city not only vowed to deny TEP permits but also decided later to update its “community decency standards”…to [include merely being gay as]…“obscene or harmful to minors”…Under the [settl]ement, the city…[mus]t also…repeal the ordinance and process any upcoming event permit applications submitted by TEP…
Texas’ ice-pick self-lobotomization is becoming increasingly spasmodic:
In November…Conroe…Texas public school [board members]…decided…to g[ive themselves]…final say of what [books are] in libraries and classrooms….[since then] books are being removed to meet the preferences of individual board members, parents or other individuals through “internal review”…one teacher says…thousands of books from…classroom collections [were seized by] the district. At the teacher’s school alone, over 550 books, equivalent to more than $7,300 were packed and moved out of…[class]rooms…over 30 library titles have been banned…[and] another ten books [are likely to follow]…later this month. Within the past two school years, at least 125 of all the titles banned from the district libraries came from internal reviews…112 books have been prohibited from being on classroom shelves…last week, [one self-appointed censor demanded the removal of]…Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl, Geography Club by Brent Hartinger, Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok, American Girls by Alison Umminger and Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson…When [a] teacher asked what administrators…planned to do with the [seized] titles, [she]…was told…the books would await “disposal”…
Too bad all authoritarian organizations aren’t so short-lived:
…Moms for Liberty experienced a meteoric rise at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, as local chapters sprang up to push back against coronavirus restrictions in schools. The organization soon expanded to pushing book bans and o[ther censorship]…But…the local chapter in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, [has] shut down due to lack of interest…[and] participation also appears to be flagging for…the…organization’s first chapter…in…Brevard County [Florida; at a]…school board…meeting…to discuss a[n attempt to censor]…The Kite Runner and Slaughterhouse-Five…only one Moms for Liberty member showed up…and eventually snuck out of the room [when speakers compared the pro-censorship cult to the Taliban]…The national…organization…has started to see its [15 minutes ending]…as the group was rocked by a sexual assault scandal…
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1409)
Censorious politicians are vying to see who can make their new laws the most unconstitutional:
The U.S. Congress’ top anti-porn crusader, Utah Senator Mike Lee, [has] introduced a bill last week that would effectively outlaw all sex work…by classifying any consent influenced by a person’s economic circumstances as coercive…“This is, of course, the dream of the faith based ‘anti-trafficking’ folks — and SWERFs — who believe that no true consent can exist for sex work when money is involved,” [the Free Speech Coalition’s Mike] Stabile added. “It would essentially codify their white slavery panic into law”…
This warped attempt to infantilize women has been part of evangelical feminist dogma for some time, despite its self-evident absurdity.
The Last Shall Be First (#1410) 
How defective does an adult need to be to think doing this to a teenager is OK?
A Utah school board member caused a social media firestorm when she publicly singled out and suggested a high school athlete was transgender with no evidence. She later [uselessly] apologized…[long after her flying monkeys had] personally attacked the player, the student’s school district had to provide extra security for her, and the [politician] who wrote the state’s anti-transgender athlete bill [vomited out her own stupid opinion]…in violation of her own [law]. The post from Natalie Cline…set…off 16 hours of hateful speculation that continued even after she deleted it…
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In the News (#1365)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Tale That Grew in the Telling, Backpage, California, censorship, Choke Point, cops, Dangerous Speech, Decentralization, Enablers, Ireland, Kansas, Mexico, pragmatism, pregnancy, prisons, prohibitionist myths, rape, rescue industry, serial killers, Stop faking!, Surplus Women, Swedish model, Tennessee, Texas, The Vultures Descend, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state) on August 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Where are all the good people to put a stop to this? – Joann Meyer
If only there were a concise term for “forcing a woman into a sexual relationship”:
A judge has approved a 10-year [toothless “]protection order[“] against…Glen Trejo…[a cop in Granger, Washington] who [was rewarded with a]…paid…[vac]ation…[for] repeatedly [rap]ing a…woman…often while [wearing his magical clown costume]…Trejo admits…the [rapes], but says [she wanted it]…The woman [fell victim to Trejo after] she went to the police department last year to report a vehicle that had been following her, and Trejo took her report…he…[sometimes ga]ve her money…because…he [knew it would damage her credibility if ]…it [came to light]…
In an unprecedented raid [on August 11th], local [cops stole] computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home. Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said…the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.” The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said…
The parallels with the Backpage case didn’t stop there:
Joann Meyer, who spent nearly 60 years as a reporter, columnist, editor and associate publisher at The Marion County Record in Kansas, died…a day after the police [illegally raid]ed [her home and] the newspaper’s offices. She was 98…the coroner…concluded that the stress of the [raid caused her death]…
What has remained unreported until now is that, prior to the raids, the newspaper had been actively investigating Gideon Cody, Chief of Police for the city of Marion. They’d received multiple tips alleging he’d retired from his previous job to avoid demotion and punishment over alleged sexual misconduct charges…
A Tale That Grew in the Telling (#975)
Given that the term “human trafficking” means whatever busybodies (with or without government powers) want it to mean, it can always be claimed to be “growing”. In this credulous regurgitation of prohibitionist propaganda, it seems to mostly mean “coerced prostitution”, though the article also pretty clearly states that the so-called “victims” did sex work because they were refugees the Northern Irish government does not allow to work in their chosen professions, and have children to support. However, this contradiction and confusion is unsurprising given that the rescue industry group in the article also infantilizes adult women with Phds, asserts that 6 = 230, repeats an urban legend as fact, and ignores the fact that sex work advocates and human rights experts told them exploitation would increase under the Swedish Model, but they ignored us and are now apparently trying to use the dying moral panic to get a big cash infusion from the government.
Once bitcoin exchanges got in bed with the government, this was inevitable:
…[Roughly]…two-thirds of sex workers have lost access to either a bank account or financial service, while 40 percent have had an account closed within the past year. Faced with this [discrimination], sex workers have gone in search of an alternative means of both storing wealth and accepting payment. In cryptocurrency, for a time, it appeared they had found…[a way for] clients to pay discreetly…[and] sex workers a way to bypass the banking system…But…though sending and receiving crypto payments is relatively simple, converting it into dollars is sometimes not. The typical method is to transfer crypto to an exchange, where earnings are converted into regular money, which is then withdrawn to a bank account…But sex workers are sometimes banned from crypto exchanges too…leaving them st[uck] with [valueless data] they cannot use to pay rent or buy goods…
I smelled this coming when I read Coinbase’s TOS, which is one reason I’ve never used cryptocurrency; it was clear there would never be a dependable, government-proof way to turn it into actual money.
Baja California’s State Attorney’s Office says…[serial killer] Bryan Rivera is responsible for a fourth murder that occurred in Tijuana while he was in the city last year. Rivera…is now the subject of extradition proceedings in federal court in Los Angeles. The Mexican government wants Rivera returned to Tijuana to face murder charges [for]…the deaths of three other…sex workers….[and] they have evidence showing Rivera was in Tijuana when the murder of the fourth woman occurred, and that she was killed in the same way as the other three…
Texas wants to have its blood and drink it as well:
Salia Issa had just begun her shift as a…[pregnant Texas screw] when she felt the intense pain of what she believed was a contraction…but…prison policy wouldn’t allow her to leave her post until someone could replace her. No one came for hours. Issa kept calling for relief, but her supervisor [unsurprisingly claimed]…she was lying…two and a half hours [later]…she was allowed to leave…[and] drove to a nearby hospital, where doctors rushed her into emergency surgery…The baby was delivered stillborn. If Issa had gotten to the hospital sooner, medical personnel told her, the baby would have survived…the prison agency and the Texas attorney general’s office, which has staked its reputation on “defending the unborn” all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, are arguing the agency shouldn’t be held responsible for the stillbirth because…it’s not clear that Issa’s fetus had rights as a person…
Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working out?
Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors:
[Tennessee cop] Tommie Lee House [was arrested for molesting a teenager while wearing his magical clown costume; other cops rooted in his phone and found a nude photo of the same teen taken]…earlier this year…
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Links #683
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arkansas, California, cops, domestic violence, Florida, France, Ireland, language, Pennsylvania, politicians, racism, Tennessee, The Cop Myth, video, Washington (state) on August 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
I know many will view this as a double sacrilege (because Prince), but I’ve never liked “Nothing Compares 2 U”. So I thank Greg Lukianoff for pointing me to this song, which not only better showcases O’Connor’s singing (IMHO), but also seems more lyrically appropriate. The links above the video were provided by Gustavo Turner; Walter Olson; Jesse Walker; Isley; Aaron Ross Powell and Jesse Walker again; Missy Mariposa; and Radley Balko, in that order.
- Cat, I farted.
- Metaphor alert.
- I’ve seen this one before.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- R.I.P. Sinead O’Connor and SunRay Kelley.
- Because laws are more important than people.
- Cop brutally beats man for “contraband” air freshener.
From the Archives
- Acknowledging that selling sex is pragmatic & lucrative is “sugar-coating”.
- On the dopey claim computers can detect “trafficking” in plain escort ads.
- Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
- “Hard cases” are less rare than forced-birth pushers want you to believe.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- It’s so nice to hear this from someone whose name isn’t Maggie McNeill.
- Any information you give to the State can and will be used against you.
- Is there anything narrower & meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- Nobody admits the danger of giving macho guys power over teen girls.
- Debunkings of “sex trafficking” mythology are now becoming common.
- Blaming bad behavior on an imaginary “addiction” is not responsibility.
- My interview on an Australian radio show named Behind Closed Doors.
- Sociologists are at last admitting their role in creating the police state.
- Amateurs are finally noticing that “feminists” are in bed with the pigs.
- Pigs, Super Friends, Bernard Cribbins, Nichelle Nichols, & much more.
- Pasco County is already being sued & federally investigated over this.
- When people are really enslaved, the situation isn’t at all ambiguous.
- The usual avalanche of horror stories resulting from acts of tyranny.
- Prohibitionists extending their fantasies to OnlyFans was inevitable.
- Why illustrate this at all if you’re just going to pixellate the images?
- The only thing unusual here is that the molester cop got in trouble.
- Vancouver, Washington is a “hotspot” for “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- US “authorities” keep pretending sex is an excuse for any tyranny.
- Prohibitionists’ next target isn’t just porn; it’s all online sex work.
- The claims of crypto-moralists are growing increasingly absurd.
- This abomination started as a means of spying on sex workers.
- “Rescue” resulting in “at least two” suicide attempts every day.
- This attempt to blame others is odious even by cop standards.
- Of course they’re prosecuting his wife for trying to stop him.
- An excerpt from The Feminist War on Crime by Aya Gruber.
- This psychopath is far too close to real power for comfort.
- Is it polite to follow an escort on Twitter after seeing her?
- What are the mechanics of retirement for a sex worker?
- Principled Christians understand that prohibition is evil.
- I’m very pleased with how this little porch came out.
- Cops, apes, Mr. Bubble, Ron Popeil, and much more.
- PayPal is becoming an active threat to civil liberties.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Phase 3 of the bathhouse project is underway.
- The Swedish rot has reached Eastern Europe.
- Settling down into a mostly sedate rural life.
- Even being related to a cop may be enough.
- I suppose it could have been much worse.
- Cops want their hysteria to trump reality.
- Cops, seeds, Wal-mart, and much more.
- My two previous columns for Lammas.
- What did this guy think he was, a cop?
- Preparing to start on my atrium roof.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- The onset of arthritis in my hands.
- Changing a well pump isn’t easy.
- Our recent Freedom Fest panel.
- Rapist cops of the week.
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In the News (#1361)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Above the Law, acting, agency denial, Broken Record, censorship, cops, hysteria, Indiana, internet, Ireland, libraries, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, Never Call the Cops, New Jersey, Not for Any Reason Whatsoever, politicians, prohibitionist myths, propaganda, psychology, rape, South Dakota, sporting events, teachers, Texas, The Last Shall Be First, Thought Control, To Molest and Rape, transgender, United Kingdom, Wisconsin, You Were Warned on August 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Anytime there’s a bipartisan consensus and a preachy New York Times op-ed, you can assume something you enjoy is about to get regulated out of existence or made worse in quality. – Liz Wolfe
The Sturgis Motorcycle rally officially begins on August 4th. [Blah blah pearl-clutching, lies about criminal charges, infantilization of women, and cop swagger]…South Dakota’s pheasant hunting season also causes a spike in sex trafficking in South Dakota…
The Last Shall Be First (#924)
If you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been paying attention:
Christine Gallinaro [took] her [deeply autistic] 15-year-old son…[to a cinema] in…New Jersey…[and brought him] into the women’s toilets because there was no family one…her son, who…is non-verbal, “is not equipped to go into a men’s bathroom in a public setting alone”…However, the…theatre’s manager approached them in the…crowded lobby, shouting…“a grown man should not be in the women’s restroom” and “this is not a transgender bathroom”. He then told an assistant manager to call the police [on them]…
They usually make these cases sound like the rapist was doing his victims a favor:
A disgraced Wisconsin prosecutor secretly recorded himself having sex with three women, including one he was prosecuting. Daniel Steffen…[of] Wisconsin…was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he was convicted in April…“While the defendant and Victim #1 are still engaged in sex, the defendant looks at the camera, sticks his tongue out, and winks several times,” and can be heard repeatedly telling the victim, “Who’s in charge?” the complaint said…In addition to his prison time, Steffen must serve two years of extended supervision, four years of probation, and placement for 10 years on Wisconsin’s sex offender registry.
The bipartisan war on the internet moves us another step closer to idiocracy:
“[The internet causes] sex…trafficking, drug[s and death”, bloviate perennial nuisances] Lindsey Graham…and Elizabeth Warren…in t[he] New York Times…What follows is a litany of untrue statements and gross exaggerations about the way Big Tech operates and the purported harm done by the cluster of websites that millions of Americans willingly use on a daily basis…Warren and Graham go on to announce they’re introducing [another terrible internet-breaking law] to create [yet] an[other government agency]…”charged with licensing and policing…tech companies” which will be “nimble” and “adaptable” (just like all those other government agencies). The regulator will “prevent online harm” (by waving a magic wand and ensuring no bad actors ever go online); “promote free speech and competition”…by scrapping Section 230 and…”guard Americans’ privacy” (because government agencies do a great job at cybersecurity!…
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#1293)
Blaming bad behavior on an imaginary “addiction” is the opposite of admitting responsibility:
[Actor] Terry Crews recently [attempt]ed [to avoid responsibility for abusive behavior toward his wofe and kids by blaming it on an imaginary “]porn addiction[” he melodramatically described as a]…”battle”…
It isn’t only celebrities who use this dodge to lessen their culpability:
[Indiana teacher] Christopher “Kit” Degenhart…[pled] guilty…to…seduc[ing a 17-year-old student in the theater department he headed]…Degenhart will spend one year behind bars while participating in a work release program. After one year, he’s scheduled to move into home detention while working in the program for six more months…he…will [then] be on two and a half years of probation…[inclu]ding sex addiction meetings…[and] regist[ration] as a sex offender…
Houston…will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and converting the libraries into “[punishment] centers” where kids [declared to have] behavioral issues will be [confined]…This…[is] part of the new superintendent Mike Miles[‘ “]reform[“] program…[with the Orwellian title] New Education System…a total of 85 schools…have joined Miles’ program, and of those, 28 campuses will lose their librarians. The district said th[ose 28] will have the opportunity to transition to other roles within the district…[but] the [employment of the] remaining 57 NES schools’ librarians will be assessed on a case-by-case basis…
“Sexual offenses” sounds so much milder than “rape”:
The [typical and representative] chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police is being investigated over serious allegations of sexual offences in Northern Ireland. Will Kerr was a [cop] in Northern Ireland for 27 years before [being promoted] in 2018…he said [she wanted it]…
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