As anyone with half a brain could’ve predicted, Team MAGA and Team Unpronounceable String of Capitals are still fighting over COVID masking despite the fact that it will soon be a moot point. This is especially sad because, like so very many societal issues, it has a very simple solution: “Mind your own damned business.” A person has the right to cover their face in public if they want to, and their reason for doing so is none of your concern. Maybe they’re paranoid; maybe they’re Muslim. Maybe they were burned by acid. Maybe they’re hopeless fantasy geeks cosplaying in public. Maybe they’re overcautious about germs. Maybe they’re severely immunosuppressed. Maybe they are justifiably worried about facial recognition. Maybe they were wrongly convicted and wish to avoid recapture. Maybe they’re in mourning. Maybe they just have a weird sense of style. But no matter what the reason, nobody else has any more right to violate their boundaries, harass them about it, attempt to involve the state, etc, than they’d have to veto others’ tattoos or get Delta Dawn arrested for walking downtown with a suitcase in her hand.
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In the News (#1138)
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We made their lives worse. – former OUR member Meg Conley
Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is:
A [typical and representative] cop [who]…snapp[ed] photos up skirts during a Texas wedding is [named]…Scott Eugene Kilmer…[wedding organizers foolishly hired Kilmer to attend the event wearing his magical clown costume], whe[re] he was caught [repeatedly putt]ing…his foot [with a camera on it] between [women’s] legs but [nobody wanted to] confront him because [they were afraid he would maim, tase, pepper-spray or even murder]…the…guests…the camera transmitted photos to a device in Kilmer’s p[igmobile]…[where other cops] discovered about 50 video clips from the wedding and…similar images [he had taken] previously…
Corporations have become the favored tool of censors worldwide:
The British government [has] proposed sweeping re[gulation]s to force [websites] to…[cens]or what is posted online — including carve-outs to [render] politicians [immune to such censorship]…The much-delayed Online Safety Bill includes hefty penalties for companies that fail to [obey the censorship diktats of politicians]…and…[forc]es a so-called duty of care on social networks, smartphone apps and other sites where people can interact with each other, making them [arms of the fascist establishment whether they like it or not]…Content on [politically favored] websites will…not be subject to the new rules…The U.K.’s proposals come as countries worldwide look to [by]pass [legal restrictions on censorship by] forc[ing] social media companies to [do the governments’ dirty work for them]…In Germany, local officials recently revamped the country’s [notorious] online content rules, known as NetzDG, to mandate that companies [become police informants]…The European Union is also pushing ahead with s[imilar] proposals…while countries like Hungary and Poland are pursuing [laws] that would…ban…platforms f[rom censoring politicians and bureaucrats]…[anti-]rights campaigners and misinformation [promoter]s welcomed the U.K.’s new proposals…
See also “Kiss Freedom Goodbye” and “The Convergence of Censors“.
Prohibitionists want Ontario to be more like the US:
Advocates and community groups are calling on the province to drop plans to [increase police powers using the pretext of] human trafficking…[because the] proposed bill [will] harm sex workers and…lead to discrimination and racial profiling…The proposed law would [empower cops] to inspect any place for compliance with the law and [interrogate] any person [they feel like harssing]…with failure to comply leading to possible heavy fines. Police and inspectors would also have the power to [demand] hotels…[let the pigs root in] their guest registers…without [warrant, merely by vomiting the magic words “]human trafficking[” at random clerks]…Over 70 legal and human rights organizations have written to the provincial government in opposition to the bill, calling for the resources dedicated to this plan to instead be redirected into efforts to help marginalized communities across the province. Sandra Ka Hon Chu…of the HIV Legal Network…[pointed out that] these types of government initiatives [always] involve surveillance…and [usually abduc]tion and/or deportation of sex workers…“human trafficking i[s used] as a pretext to monitor and interrogate sex workers and to discourage them from working,” she said…
There are still some Westerners who insist this isn’t genocide:
Across much of China, the authorities are encouraging women to have more children…but in…Xinjiang, they are forcing them to have fewer, as…part of a vast and repressive social…engineering campaign by a Communist Party determined to e[stablish fully totalitarian] rule…Xi Jinping…has [condemned millions of]…Uyghurs…to [concentration] camps…placed the region under tight surveillance, sent residents to work in factories [thousands of kilometers away, abducted Uyghur] children…[to give to childless Han couples, and forced] Muslim women…to [submit to]…invasive birth control procedures…[propaganda] authorities [absurdly claim that] the procedures are voluntary…[but] the [facts say otherwise. Uyghur women]…recuperat[ing] at home [from the forced sterilization were also forced to literally accept] government officials [in their beds]…If they…refused…they faced steep fines or, worse…a…[concentration] camp…[where] they were…[repeatedly and systematically] raped…
It took almost seven years, but the press finally caught up with me on this:
I’d never heard of Operation Underground Railroad when…Tim Ballard, called me suddenly in the summer of 2014…I didn’t wonder why he thought it was appropriate for me—the writer of a mommy blog—to chronicle anti-trafficking work…A camera crew filmed everything, because Ballard…[was] pitch[ing] a TV series about his [cowboy games]…OUR staff…were mostly as inexperienced as I was…Everybody wanted to “save the kids,” but no one really knew anything about these kids. We talked mostly about fundraising. The calls never addressed real things children need to be saved from…Ballard…put me in harm’s way so that I could write a story about him…But…I’d imagined myself the same way he did…as a savior…I tried to find meaning in my own life on the backs of exploited kids… A TV show based on [his] book…Slave Stealers, is currently in development. And a new action movie about him, Sound of Freedom, is forthcoming. Jim Caviezel plays Ballard, with Mira Sorvino as his wife…
US “authorities” keep pretending “because sex” is an excuse for any tyranny:
Federal prosecutors have failed, for now, in their most repugnant smear tactic to date in the case involving veteran journalists and onetime Backpage.com owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin…Judge Susan Brnovich denied a government bid to prejudice the jury at trial by introducing gruesome details of homicides that Lacey, Larkin and their four co-defendants have absolutely nothing to do with…But in a separate ruling issued the same day, Brnovich explained that she will permit prosecutors to try to introduce material involving “sex trafficking” and “child sex trafficking,” though the defendants are not charged with these heinous crimes…These allegations rest on an absurd theory of vicarious, third-party liability, in an attempt to hold Lacey and Larkin responsible for the alleged illegal acts of people they don’t know, have never met and have zero connection to…
High union rank is another thing rapist cops often have in common:
A [typical and representative] Miami-Dade [cop] and…high-ranking union member has been charged with sexual battery…John Jenkins Jr. has been “re[warded for his behavior with a paid vacation]” said [top cop] Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez III in a statement [which also focused] on…Jenkins…not…[wearing his magic clown costume while raping women]…Jenkins resigned as executive vice president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association…
In the News (#1119)
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Socializing is not a luxury. – Zeynep Tufekci
Even journalists reporting on these abuses insist on referring to them as “correction”:
…a [few days after being] threat[ened by a New Jersey screw]…Darrell Smith was…[savagely beaten] twice by a g[ang] of [screws. He]…was tortured, beaten, kicked, punched, stomped…choke[d], slammed to the ground, and had his head slammed into a glass door…he was [then] “denied…medical care…[despite] catastrophic injuries that left him in an unresponsive and catatonic state” in a prison cell covered in his own feces, urine and vomit…[after being left in this state for] four days…Smith…was transported to a hospital…his leg was cuffed to the bed [for two days despite being]…declared brain dead…the family…[filed a] lawsuit…[after finally getting ahold of medical records showing that] Smith “sustained a severe catastrophic brain injury…[due to] the brutal beatings”…
The Enlightenment Police (#884)
The obsession with controlling women cannot be stopped by a mere pandemic:
Swiss voters have approved a ban on…facial coverings…in nearly all…publicly accessible places, including on the streets, in public offices, on public transport, in restaurants, shops and in the countryside. The controversial proposal [was] support[ed by only] 51.21% of voters…The only exceptions include places of worship…[or] if worn for health and safety reasons, because of the weather and in situations where it is considered a “local custom” to do so, such as at carnivals…There will be no…exceptions…for tourists…[from Muslim countries]…The proposal, put forward by several [authoritarian] groups…has been criticized by a number of…religious organizations…human rights and civic groups, as well as the federal government…
Switzerland in October: Everybody must cover their faces in public.
Switzerland in March: Wait, not like that!
The Indian government’s new Information Technology rules…have been sold to citizens and the world as being of a piece with global efforts to [control]…social media…platforms now have to…giv[e] the government details about the “originator” of content [that it dislikes]…effectively breaking end-to-end encryption…The rules…also cover digital news organisations and video-streaming platforms like Netflix…giving the government much more power to…censor…The government has made massive changes to the way the internet will work in India, but without having to take the matter to Parliament at all, by amending the rules under pre-existing sections of the law…the government…is…unwilling…to engage with the stakeholders that matter…the rules create a bureaucratic super-structure that gives the executive much more power over…the internet…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1074) 
Ever notice how often predatory cops’ targets are underage?
A Denton [Texas cop]…has been arrested…for distribution of child pornography. David Schoolcraft…[fell into a trap set by the FBI] Dec[ember]…2020…he [i]s…of…c[our]se [still on the payroll, because cop]…
Since the “authorities” prefer to hide the identity of this child molester, here’s a picture of his boss until such time as a photo of Schoolcraft becomes available.
The Chinese are now using a method of subjugation invented by the Assyrians:
Chinese authorities have loaded large numbers of Uyghur workers onto trains bound for factories thousands of kilometres away as part of a plan to [forcibly] assimilate Muslim minorities into mainstream Chinese culture and thin their populations in Xinjiang…the…Uyghur workers…[are then forced] in[to “re-education”] programs…that mix Mandarin lessons with in[doctrina]tion by police and Communist Party cadres…the…policies…are designed to sever them from their homes and traditional way of life, moulding them into state-approved members of the “Chinese nation”…
Far too many people adore authoritarian public health schemes:
When the polio vaccine was declared safe and effective, the news was met with jubilant celebration…One might have expected the initial approval of the coronavirus vaccines to spark similar jubilation…But…instead, the steady drumbeat of good news…has been met with a chorus of relentless pessimism…and claims of impending catastrophe…the public has been offered a lot of misguided fretting over new virus variants…and presented with long lists of things vaccinated people still cannot do…Five key fallacies and pitfalls have…played an outsize role in derailing an effective pandemic response…mistrust and paternalism …toward the public…[arbitrary] rules in place of mechanisms…scolding and shaming…absolutism [instead of harm reduction]…and…a poor balance between knowledge, risk, certainty, and action…
In the News (#1111)
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The current way of handling sex workers is dangerous. – Eric Gonzalez
Academics keep “discovering” what we’ve been saying for decades:
A new study shows nearly a third of all sex workers are unable to call 911 for help…due to fear of [arrest or attack] from police for themselves, their coworkers and managers. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Social Sciences, is based on community research conducted in Surrey, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Sudbury, Ont., from 2017-18…[project lead] Dr. Anna-Louise Crago…said the current [Canadian] legal framework…places emphasis on criminalizing clients…and…sex workers[‘ friends and associates]…“The stated aim of the law…has clearly, clearly failed…sex workers are forced to choose between accessing help…or protecting their coworkers or their managers from [cops].” The data shows the current [Swedish criminalization] framework…creates an obstacle to safety, and is harmful, said Crago…Another key finding…is that when sex workers needed help escaping a situation of violence or confinement, some 40.5 per cent were assisted by other sex workers; 29.7 per cent by friends, family or partner; 24.3 per cent by clients; and only 5.4 per cent…[by] police…
Finally, a politician supports sex worker rights with deeds, not mere words:
More than 1,000 open cases related to prostitution and loitering — some dating as far back as the 1970s — will be dismissed in Brooklyn, [said] District Attorney Eric Gonzalez…The news is a part of a formal announcement that Gonzalez’s office now plans to decline to prosecute or dismiss cases on both charges. It is part of an effort to keep sex workers and other marginalized people — particularly people of color on low incomes — out of court…Gonzalez said his office has been rolling out a program to dismiss all prostitution cases over the last year, along with arrests under the loitering statute, which he said it has declined to prosecute since 2019…Sex workers may still [not be able to beat the ride], but Gonzalez [promised they’ll beat the rap]…he…said…fewer than 30 cases [were] processed last year…
The few Western articles about the Uighur genocide usually ignore the rapes:
First-hand accounts from inside [Chinese concentration] camps are rare, but several former [prisoners] and a guard have [reported]…an organised system of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture. Tursunay Ziawudun, who fled Xinjiang after her release and is now in the US, said women were removed from the cells “every night” and raped by one or more masked Chinese men. She…was tortured and later gang-raped on three occasions, each time by two or three men…a Kazakh woman…who was detained for 18 months…was forced to strip Uighur women naked and handcuff them, before leaving them alone with Chinese men. Afterwards, she [was ordered to] clean…the rooms… “My job was to remove their clothes above the waist and handcuff them so they cannot move,” said Gulzira Auelkhan …”Then I would leave the women in the room and a man would enter – some Chinese man from outside or policeman…when the man left…I took the woman for a shower…[men] would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates”, she said…Some of the women who were taken away from the cells at night were never returned, Ziawudun said. Those who were brought back were threatened against telling others in the cell what had happened to them…”It is designed to destroy everyone’s spirit”…
Despite claims of “wing” fetishists, the worst US tyranny is always bipartisan:
A new bill revitalizes the war on terror’s favorite slogan in service of forcing tech companies to turn over more user data to the government. The “See Something, Say Something Online Act,” introduced by [Democrat] Joe Manchin…and…[Republican] John Cornyn…is the latest attack on…Section 230 as well as freedom of speech and…privacy. The legislation says any interactive computer service provider…will lose Section 230 protections if they fail to report any known user activity that…government officials [retroactively declare]…suspicious…services must submit a Suspicious Transmission Activity Report (STAR) within 30 days, providing the user’s name, location, and other identifying information, as well as any relevant metadata. Those submitting the user surveillance reports would henceforth be barred from talking about or even acknowledging the existence of them. STARs would also be exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests…
Remember that the government pretends that sex work is “sex trafficking”, and declares that a “major crime”, which means this law would compel webites to rat sex workers out to the feds.
Another politician with a minuscule particle of human decency:
…Last month, the Casper [Wyoming] City Council began revising their prostitution ordinance after the [local cop shop began touting fantasies about supposed]…“human trafficking” [in the city of 58,000]…City Manager Carter Napier [admitted]…that the main purpose was to further criminalize sex work by…creat[ing] the new crime of “performance prostitution,” which it defined as “any touching, manipulation or fondling of the sex organs and/or aerola [sic] by one person upon themselves or…another, whether by touch or the physical use of other items, for the purpose of sexually arousing…the person who paid for…the sexual arousal”…But…Council Member Kyle Gamroth [delayed the vote after] point[ing] out that the definition would criminalize online sex work in the city…Local publication Oil City News added anti-sex work editorializing to their report by…connect[ing a Julie] Bindel…[screed published in the] UK [to] creat[e] a made-up panic around OnlyFans…[as part of] their ongoing series on “human trafficking in Wyoming”…
Dozens of rapists rewarded with paid vacations:
Dozens of [screws] at New Jersey’s only women’s prison have been [rewarded with paid vacations for]…brutally beat[ing] and [raping defenseless women. In the most recent reported incident, on January 11th, screws handcuffed]…Ajila Nelson…and others, before punching, kicking, stripping and [rap]ing [them in] a shower [to wash away evidence. In another case]…a transgender woman…was beaten by a g[ang] of [screws] and three of…[them] stomped on her head…her…knee was so badly damaged that she’s now…in…a wheelchair…[some of] the attack[s appear to be]…retaliation for complaints…
Texas courts have never seen police-statery they won’t hand-wave through:
Another constitutional challenge to FOSTA has failed, at least for the time being…Last summer, the DC Court of Appeals…said the law was littered with broad language that could be construed to target legal actions and behavior. It particularly had a problem with the terms “promote” and “facilitate” when used in conjunction with the law’s sex trafficking language…Unfortunately, a federal court in Texas has come to the opposite conclusion about the same terms…It…[claims]…the terms…are narrow enough to limit collateral damage to free speech and other protected activity. This challenge was filed by Wilhan Martono — the operator of CityXGuide, someone the DOJ finally used FOSTA against more than two years after it was signed into law…[but] sex workers who moved to CityXGuide after the shutdown of Backpage were nonetheless collateral damage, even if the law…supposedly…[does] not [target] consensual sex work…the court [also]…equat[es] the hosting of ads for sex work with the act of pimping...Even [though] the government didn’t argue Martono was engaged in…pimping. There are no charges related to that…
Prohibitionists care only about “messages”, not facts:
[A Canadian Parliamentary] Committee…held a hearing…concerning the allegations made against Pornhub…by Nicholas Kristof…[and] Exodus Cry…parent company MindGeek…is headquartered in Luxembourg, although many of its operations are run from Montreal and the…owners are Canadian…The[re were]…only two witnesses…[an] American [professional “survivor”] and…a NYC-based [shyster], Michael Bowe, who has previously represented disgraced evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr. and Donald Trump…Bowe…showed no professional understading of the technical issues around online platforms, algorithms or moderation, or…to basic free speech issues…[and] told the MPs he didn’t “have time or full understanding to explain [MindGeek’s business model]”…
One of those rare occasions when I’m actually less pessimistic than others:
…the now-routine round of warnings about sex trafficking around the big game has once again surfaced…So, here is your annual reminder that there’s no truth to the idea that forced and underage prostitution pick up around the Super Bowl (or other big sporting events), nor that “human traffickers” will descend on the city where it takes place…and we can all marvel at the persistence and audacity of this myth… “Alleged attempts to tackle #humantrafficking in response to mega sporting events are too often based on conflating #sexwork in general…to crack down on consensual sex workers trying to make a living,” tweets U.K. writer Emily Kenway, author of the new book The Truth About Modern Slavery…claims of an influx of Super Bowl sex traffickers has helped the feds put a positive spin on security theater around the event, while giving local cops an excuse to do vice stings and call them rescue missions…
In the News (#1107)
Posted in Current Events, History, Miscellaneous, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged activism, Arkansas, brothels, censorship, China, Disqualified, internet, Islam, left-right myth, New Orleans, Permanent Record, politicians, propaganda, Quiet Genocide, racism, restaurants, RIP Margo St. James, sex rays, Storyville, surveillance, TikTok, Traffic Jam, Twitter, Welcome to the Future, You Were Warned on January 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »
“Approved” voices rise to the top of [a social media] feed as if by magic. – Josephine Livingstone
Half a year old, but since the events were over a century ago anyhow:
Willie V. Piazza, known as “The Countess,” was a successful Storyville madam who reigned relatively serenely over her mansion at 317 N. Basin Street. Hers was one of several so-called octoroon houses in the district which featured light-skinned women of color for white clients…The literature about her depicts a regal woman who lived up to her nickname: sophisticated, intelligent, elegant, and always fashionably dressed, she sported a monocle, smoked Russian cigarettes held in a diamond-studded ivory-and-gold holder, wore a diamond choker, and spoke four languages fluently…Piazza’s legacy grew further when she took a stand against racial segregation in the waning months of the district’s legal existence…Ordinance 4118, proposed in early 1917…decreed that Storyville would be entirely racially segregated…Piazza was disturbed by the prospect of being forced from her Basin Street property, which had been a considerable investment…the Louisiana Supreme Court, in City of New Orleans v. Willie V. Piazza (1917)…ruled in her favor, finding that Ordinance 4118 overstepped the original intent of the 1897 act regulating where prostitutes could live. The Countess and her ladies stayed put…
Lonna Wells was [fired from an Arkansas Taco Bell because]…a customer had lodged a formal complaint that there was a woman working the drive-thru who was doing internet porn, and as a [hypocritical] Christian they didn’t feel comfortable [see]ing the [performers from the porn they watch in real life]…
Everything I read about modern corporate work makes me happier I became a whore:
A…silicone wristband…called a Moodbeam…allows your employer to track your emotional state. The gadget…[currently requires the wearer to] press the yellow [button] if [they] are feeling happy, and the blue one if [they] are sad…employees…can [currently] say no…[but obviously that will change]…Managers can then [snoop into the private feelings of their]…workers…[since they are] no longer able to [spy on them] in p[erson]…
The US finally decides to call a spade a spade:
With just one day left in President Trump’s term, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…officially de[clar]ed that China’s campaign of [genocide]…in Xinjiang constitutes “genocide”…The U.S. has become the first country to…describe the Chinese Communist Party’s gross human rights abuses [as what they are]…The Biden campaign has previously [recognized] China’s…genocide….[as a genocide but] it had been unclear whether the Trump administration would make this formal determination before Biden assumed office…
The bipartisan war on the internet continues without even a pause:
Section 230′s untouched days may be numbered [now that] Joe Biden will be president. [He has repeatedly stated that he]…think[s] the law should be [repealed]…that…is an extreme — and unlikely — option, but many [politicians]…on both sides of the aisle have introduced bills and pushed for change to the legislation…
From the subtitle link: “Biden doesn’t like Section 230 and…doesn’t understand what it does…his…top tech policy advisor…published a bizarre and misleading “but think of the children!” attack on [it] that…suggests incredibly dangerous changes…citing FOSTA as a ‘good example’…”
What do you do when you’re a prohibitionist rag which pretends to quasi-official status when the most famous sex worker activist in the world dies? You do a proper, detailed obituary which nonetheless subtly dismisses her achievements and intentionally confuses decriminalization with legalization. Hey New York Times, would it have really hurt you to have actually consulted any of the people you quoted from other sources instead?
Rashida Jones’ sleazy prohibitionism ties into a much bigger picture:
…Rashida Jones, Meryl Streep, and Laverne Cox had all signed on to produce a “documentary adaptation” of Sell/Buy/Date, a one-woman [prohibitionist] play…A few days later, Cox…quit because of pressure from her core fanbase, who took up and amplified the performers’ concerns on Twitter. If they hadn’t, the complaints would probably have sunk without a trace. It’s harder now than ever for sex workers to be heard on social media, but even easier for producers like Rashida Jones to tell their stories on mega-streaming platforms like Netflix…Big platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok use proprietary algorithms and shadow banning…to minimize a user’s reach to the community without alerting them…“Rashida Jones can post to her two million followers without worrying about her posts being invisibilized by a platform,” Danielle Blunt, dominatrix and Hacking//Hustling member explained. “Sex workers can’t. Jones can buy ads to promote her movie. Sex workers can’t”…
In the News (#1105)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Absolute Corruption, Alabama, Apple, censorship, China, consensual crime, cops, disease, drugs, False Witness, fascism, Feminine Pragmatism, harm reduction, Hot Mess Alabama, hysteria, Imagination Pinned Down, internet, Islam, Mexico, Nonessential, Pennsylvania, politicians, pragmatism, prisons, propaganda, psychology, Quiet Genocide, restaurants, surveillance, The Crumbling Dam, Venezuela, Working From Home, You Were Warned on January 20, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We open or we die. – open letter from Mexico City restaurateurs
One day, reporters will learn that “people work to make money” is not news:
Like many other young Venezuelans, Valery Lopez has found a way to survive the…country’s crippling economic crisis…[by selling] online sexual content…she has found a way to avoid joining the exodus of five million migrants [who] have left the country since 2015. “I was…[able] to stay in Venezuela thanks to OnlyFans,” [said] Lopez…[her] channel has more than 50 [international] subscribers…each one pays $10 a month: a figure six times the minimum salary in Venezuela…[but professional busybodies like] Abel Saraiba…[bemoan Lopez’ and others’ entrepreneurship, absurdly referring to merely selling pictures from the privacy of her own home as]…”a risky (line of work)”…
…the purpose of the event series is “to promote…myths surrounding [sex work]”…focusing on…the sex [fantasies of prohibitionists about]…how traffickers recruit and subjugate young women and children…[chief busybody] Julia Meyers [recited the Shahada and tired old “King of the Hill” tropes about]…I-20 and I-65 as…major human trafficking corridors…the commercial sex industry generates $110 million each year in the Birmingham-metro area…this does not include illegal activity that occurs in massage parlors or strip clubs…90 percent or more people that are prostituted people are actually being trafficked…
“People that are prostituted people” is a tautology that well encapsulates the circularity of these wankers’ parade into their own rectums.
Once the Satanic panic returned as “sex trafficking”, charlatans began to work on rehabiltating the dangerous and discredited doctrine of “repressed memories”, which was use to destroy so many lives in the 1980s and ’90s. In this article from The Cut, writer Katie Heaney pretends that the science debunking “repressed memories” is “controversial” (it isn’t), and that the theory behind what is now called false memory syndrome originated in a couple’s defense against accusations of abuse from their adult daughter (it didn’t). She also tries her best to smear Elizabeth Loftus, whose work in the field of memory was the actual origin of the theory. Heaney’s motivation is probably just page-clicks, but the people who want to re-convince courts that memories can magically reappear decades after the end of a statute of limitations (and the disintegration of any evidence or alibi) have a decidedly more sinister motive, and unless mental health professionals nip this in the bud, we’re once again going to start seeing people’s lives destroyed based on nothing more than delusions created or validated by unscrupulous, malicious cops, bureaucrats and prosecutors.
Working people all over are done with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”:
It was assumed that…[on] January 11, Mexico City and the State of Mexico would [be done with the government-assigned COVID risk category called “]the red light[“, the most restrictive designation, but politicians arbitrarily] decided to extend it for another week. Given this, many restaurateurs decided to ignore this measure and under the social media hashtag #AbrimosOMorimos, they announced that as of today they will reopen…”Open or die is a reality in the industry in general, from the taco stand to the most sophisticated restaurant…and the oxygen is over,” said José Sánchez…of Sonora Grill…Manolo Ablanedo…of…Fisher’s, said…more than 500 restaurants in [Mexico City] will open…”because…the next option to survive is to fire waiters and cooks”…[in] a letter addressed to the…government…the…restaurateurs requested to be considered essential…”They are extinguishing us…Let’s not condemn restaurant workers to unemployment, or thousands of businesses to bankruptcy!”
Remember this when apologists claim prohibitionists are “well-intentioned”:
A divided federal appeals court…blocked…the nation’s first supervised drug-injection site from opening in Philadelphia, saying it ran afoul of a federal law originally passed to [further criminalize] drug [users]…The decision overturned a lower court ruling in favor of Safehouse, a non-profit that aims to open a facility where drug users can safely inject heroin, fentanyl or other drugs in the presence of medical professionals who could treat them for overdoses…[attorney] Ilana Eisenstein…who represents Safehouse [said]…”We remain confident that the law was not intended to force Americans to stand by as idle witnesses while our brothers and sisters are dying. Conscience compels us to pursue all legal options, and we shall”…The government[‘s case relies on]…a provision of the Controlled Substance Act commonly known as the “crack house statute,” which makes it a crime to knowingly open or maintain a place for distributing or using controlled substances [such as a doctor’s office, hospital, or pharmacy]…
Another firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs:
My [family] fled to France…in May 2006, just before Xinjiang entered an unprecedented period of repression. My daughters, 13 and 8 at the time, were given refugee status, as was their father. In seeking asylum, my husband had made a clean break with the past. Obtaining a French passport in effect stripped him of his Chinese nationality…[but] I couldn’t bring myself to do [the same]…so instead, I’d applied for a residence permit that was renewable every 10 years…[then in November 2016] I [was tricked into] going back to Xinjiang…[so the police could] pull [me] in for questioning…[about] a photo…[of] my daughter Gulhumar…in Paris…[holding] a miniature East Turkestan flag in her hand, a flag the Chinese government had banned…I…was [condemned]…to…two years…of…violent…brainwashing…[until] on 2 August 2019…a judge…pronounced me innocent…[after] they had tortured my body and brought my mind to the edge of madness…
One of the more subtle ways that Western governments enable this abomination is by supporting the evil doctrine that countries permanently own their citizens, even if those citizens choose to live elsewhere.
Remember that whores are even less popular with the Establishment than MAGA types are:
Parler has — for now, at least — vanished, after Amazon canceled its web hosting contract with the company…Google also banned Parler, on [January 8th], with Apple following suit [the next]…day. The companies cite posts making threats against Mike Pence, organizing last week’s events in Washington, D.C., and making plans for further action to challenge the 2020 election results…Plenty of digital platforms — including those much bigger and more mainstream than Parler — provide a place for conspiracy theorists, MAGA riot organizers, and threats of violence, as well as the politicians who back and encourage these forces. To take action against Parler and no other social media sites or web forums — and to do it so swiftly, without providing them with a little buffer to find new options — feels…designed to stave off becoming a target themselves…this provides…a…glimpse of what a world without Section 230 would look like all the time, not just in the wake of incidents that rattle us. Nobody would want to even tangentially do business with apps and other web forums that don’t aggressively police and limit user speech, for fear that liability would work its way up the food chain to them…
Links #544
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Colombia, Denmark, disease, Islam, Michigan, psychology, Spain, Utah, video on December 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »
She was yelling orders at the squirrels and telling them to attack me. – James Robinson
Through a series of connections too complicated to describe without an entire paragraph, I recently realized that I have never posted the video of Brak singing “I Love Beans”. I am not sure how that happened, but it is past time to rectify the situation. The links above it were provided by Franklin Harris, Walter Olson, Melanie Moore, I Am Curious Blue, Mike Siegel, and Jesse Walker, in that order.
- R.I.P. David Prowse.
- Horror headline of the week.
- Now I’m doubly unimpressed.
- Minor supervillain origin stories.
- I think I’ve seen this one already.
- “The Sistine Chapel of the Ancients“.
From the Archives
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- Women’s fashion & beauty magazines owe their very existence to whores.
- Remember how folks used to believe Google’s “Don’t be evil” was sincere?
- In normal adult language, she owned four very ordinary massage parlors.
- Even Rolling Stone recognizes FOSTA has galvanized sexworker activism.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- While sex work is at all criminalized, cops have power over sex workers.
- Will “resistance” types start listening to the truth, if only to spite Trump?
- I’ve been saying I distrusted Avenatti since almost the beginning of this.
- The government’s war on free speech, with Backpage as the bogeyman.
- Cops will never stop doing this as long as the state gives them pretexts.
- Florida prohibitionists quadrupling down on their awful anti-whore laws.
- Prohibitionists are terrified support for decrim has caught on so quickly.
- Sometimes the bullshit is too much for politicians to pretend to believe.
- Do I really have to add, “Not because a man was delivering packages”?
- Australia’s Northern Territory 3rd in world to achieve decriminalization.
- It didn’t take “thot audit” long to go from foolish game to actual threat.
- Government boasted it had censored 90% of sex work ads on the web.
- Only real cops are allowed to rape women; rent-a-cops can only assist.
- Is there anything narrower & meaner than the mind of a prison official?
- Still think toothless facial recognition laws will keep cops from using it?
- UK politicians forced to delay their ridiculous censorship scheme again.
- Please, tell me again about how the political teams are really opposed.
- Remember swimwear & lingerie companies whining about censorship?
- Nobody uses the word “empowered” when talking about men’s jobs.
- Edited to replace the word The Graun went to great length to avoid.
- Cops, karma, marketing, lesser-known composers and much more.
- On Morality in Media and its dangerous activities since rebranding.
- Kate Lister of “Whores of Yore” interviews street workers in Leeds.
- Prohibitionists supported the fantasist cop who enabled this hoax.
- What is the alternative to cops for victims of actual violent crime?
- Cops, Florida, Gahan Wilson, the Twilight Zone, and much more.
- I’m always glad to see this wannabe savior get egg on her face.
- My guess? Basically true but embellished to increase luridness.
- Because we couldn’t just make sex work not a crime, no sirree.
- The “sex trafficking hub” pissing contest, now with debunking.
- Of course they hired him; he’ll fit right in with his co-workers.
- In honor of St. Nicholas, who has a soft spot for sex workers.
- I suspect this prisoner was tortured to death for being trans.
- People’s lives are just stakes in a game to these sociopaths.
- This psychopath is still far too close to power for comfort.
- My “Toys for Tots” special started with a bang last year.
- A strip club defeats part of a stupid “sin density” law.
- At least one journalist at the Graun appears to get it.
- More on Amazon’s campaign to end privacy forever.
- Most rapes by clergymen are much more subtle.
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- WHITE VANS CAUSE “SEX TRAFFICKING”!
- So many dysphemisms, so much bullshit.
- An interview with a pregnant sex worker.
- “Sex-Positive Can’t Be Whore-Negative.”
- A big Thanksgiving at Sunset.
- Remember the “thot audit”?
- Rapist cops of the week.
Links #543
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged California, Canada, cops, FBI, France, imaginative fiction, Islam, Mexico, racism, restaurants, scams, surveillance, video on November 29, 2020| 2 Comments »
I looked down there this morning at my willy and there’s a fucking flea bite on it. – Johnny Rotten
It’s not often that I laugh out loud at a video, even from The Onion, but this one was hilarious (at least to a literature nerd). The links above it were provided by Amy Alkon, Jesse Walker (x3), Mike Chase, and Walter Olson, in that order.
- {Cue “Yakety Sax”}
- Headline of the week.
- California’s namesake.
- Where’s Jeffrey Combs when you need him?
- When Orwellian surveillance is a “republican value”.
- Remember the old “Hitchhiker’s Guide” computer game?
From the Archives
- One day, reporters will get that “People Work To Make Money” isn’t news.
- It usually starts with the politically unpopular, but it never stops with us.
- Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
- The state believes it owns you and you have no right to defend yourself.
- If case you still think decriminalization in Rhode Island was “accidental”.
- Sometimes “sex trafficking” = helping an underage sex worker survive.
- We keep learning more about Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops.
- What an actual attempt at abduction into forced prostitution looks like.
- This fantasy number now exceeds 1.3% of the entire world population.
- The popular but dangerous belief that masturbation is harmful to men.
- Another bad law giving prosecutors more ways to charge teen sexters.
- It’s rare for an organization to prioritize ethics over the heckler’s veto.
- A jury slaps down the government’s crusade against Christian charity.
- US reporter thinks her sadfeelz trump Filipinas’ right to make a living.
- Why must people be subjected to police theatrics in order to get help?
- Cops, karma, headlines, myths, Lovecraft, zoetropes and much more.
- One day, “small businesses have landlords” will not be seen as news.
- Can Nevada brothel workers collect disability for work-related injury?
- Why local laws banning facial recognition are just feel-good bullshit.
- African sex worker news articles are full of bizarre, stilted language.
- When a highway is destroyed, the traffic has to go into side streets.
- Our descendants will wonder why we thought this was noteworthy.
- An interesting history of Annie Sprinkle’s salon in 1980s New York.
- Persecution of sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
- The second stupidest claimed “cause of sex trafficking” of all time.
- Why I avoid “Black Friday” and collect toys for needy kids instead.
- May this presage the end for the evil, deranged Sunitha Krishnan.
- Your “leaders” don’t like being caught with their hands in your till.
- Prohibition has been proven to be unsafe to humans in any form.
- Arizona says anyone even accused of a sex crime is subhuman.
- The mainstream media is a font of disinformation on sex work.
- Why do sex workers and others believe in “immunity” policies?
- Sweden has never really given a damn about this rape charge.
- Shitty strip-club management as “evidence of sex trafficking”.
- My first proper sit-down feast in my own place since the ’90s.
- Cops, headlines, spelling, Gifaanisqatsi, and much more.
- Pigs and prohibitionists say one is “as many as 150”.
- Tell me again how the US isn’t a police state.
- My two previous columns for Thanksgiving.
- Mexico may be getting rid of “avails” laws.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2018 and 2019.
- November 2015 and 2016 in retrospect.
- Liz Brown on the “sex robot” fantasy.
- It’s impossible to state this too often.
- At peak hysteria, all it takes is this.
- “Correcting” people to death.
- A blissfully boring week.
- Safety first.
Links #541
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, consensual crime, cops, Florida, games, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, imaginative fiction, Islam, Kentucky, New Hampshire, North Carolina, teachers, video on November 15, 2020| Leave a Comment »
He’s mine now. – “Officer” Michael Fattaleh
It’s only been two months since animation great Joe Ruby died, and now he’s been followed by his partner Ken Spears. The duo created many cartoons, but their most famous and enduring creation was Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, and since it hasn’t been long since Halloween I decided to pay tribute with this 1999 parody of The Blair Witch Project which Cartoon Network created as bumpers for a Scooby Doo marathon. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Cop Crisis (x2), Brooke Magnanti, Franklin Harris, Walter Olson, and Kendra Holliday, in that order.
- Islamic horror movies.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- A taste of his own medicine.
- I’d say he got his money’s worth.
- R.I.P. Alex Trebek and Ken Spears.
- A solution Jim Kirk would approve of.
- “When I murdered your girlfriend it made me feel bad.”
From the Archives
- Quoting prohibitionist myths while claiming to want to “help” sex workers.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Adult businesses bill under different names & classifications to avoid this.
- What kind of sick mind thinks hunting women to rape them “builds trust”?
- Fanatics parroting nonsense they clearly neither understand nor believe.
- Only 10 years for this horror, while others get life for renting out rooms.
- Siouxsie Q on Facebook, censorship & sex-worker-friendly social media.
- The puritans are learning that they are indeed subject to federal courts.
- Politicians can’t understand that the same holds true for all prohibition.
- Why do journalists feel compelled to cede ground to prohibitionist lies?
- The time for men’s mags to support sex worker rights is long overdue.
- Millions believe the entire realm of politics can be described in one bit.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- Cops & politicians are the only people who still profess to believe this.
- Cops show you what they are every day; why don’t you believe them?
- Another “sex trafficking” hysteria film for future generations to mock.
- Rapists want to be held to a “different standard” than decent people.
- Cop deny “sex trafficking” scary tales while reciting the usual myths.
- Can a relationship work if the man was completely broken by his ex?
- When a highway is destroyed, the traffic has to go into side streets.
- Another sexual predator selects a traumatized woman as his prey.
- Seattle-area pigs are once again rooting in sex workers’ business.
- Prohis claim those against their bans have “false consciousness”.
- Rubmaps may become the new bogeyman to replace Backpage.
- While stigma and criminalization exist, this will keep happening.
- Locking pregnant women in cages for “trafficking” themselves.
- Propaganda from 2018’s “Operation Cross-Country” pogroms.
- The question isn’t “What went wrong?”, it’s “What went right?”
- Giving the ultimate identification tool to a fascist police state.
- Better Zuckerberg fight the police state rather than enable it.
- “Futurists” prefer to be ignorant than to consult sex workers.
- Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Motel 6 gets some comeuppance for its eager copsucking.
- Cops, songs, magical permits, Stan Lee and much more.
- “Vigilante Truckers” has apparently decided to rebrand.
- Just in case you doubted this was about total genocide.
- Another step toward the end of privacy, everywhere.
- Everyone unsurprised by this, please roll your eyes.
- In which renting rooms is pretended to be a “crime”.
- A radical proposal on the subject of parental rights.
- Statists tell us that the slippery slope is a “fallacy”.
- Charlotte Rose on discrimination vs sex workers.
- Yet another perfect example of the McNeill Rule.
- This headline and lede are stigmatizing bullshit.
- Cops, turkeys, cannibal ants, and much more.
- Too bad we can’t elect more dead politicians.
- My two previous columns for Armistice Day.
- DHS is building a giant biometric database.
- Prohibitionism is a kind of mental illness.
- Late Halloweeny birthday presents.
- A busy busy busy week.
- SAVE THE TOASTERS!
In the News (#1086)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged activism, agency denial, brothels, Canada, China, cops, disease, drugs, fantasy, holidays, hysteria, I Spy, Indiana, Islam, Lack of Evidence, Legislators Gone Wild, Missouri, Nevada, No Friend of Ours, Nonessential, Paint By Numbers, prisons, propaganda, Quiet Genocide, racism, Romania, sex work is work, Social Distancing, statistics, surveillance, Swedish model, The Clueless Leading the Hysterical, Twitter, United Kingdom, What Were You All Waiting For? on November 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »
It is time that we all listen to the…voices…[of] sex workers. – LaLa Zannell
A permanent dumb “awareness raising” stunt:
Lykins Square Park [in Kansas City]…will be the site of what is likely the first memorial in the nation to victims of sex trafficking…glass artist Hasna Sal dreamed up and executed the memorial, called “Into the Light”…[after] hear[ing and masturbating to]…sex trafficking [fantasies]…Kristy Childs…runs [prohibitionist group] Veronica’s Voice…[and admits] she…calls [all sex work by the dysphemism]…trafficking [but still repeated the Shahada anyhow]…the memorial…is made up of four stained glass panels [which reveal their Christian religious nature by their titles]…Damnation, Isolation, Redemption, and Salvation…
Note that this is just a fancy version of the tired old racist “black man’s hand over white woman’s mouth” image so beloved by the fetishists. Also note (at the link) the pretense that strip clubs only employ girls below 18, and that they “age out” as soon as they’re legal. These people really do live in an ugly fantasy world.
Nevada politicians have accomplished by royal decree what they couldn’t accomplish legally:
…hundreds of legal[ized] sex workers in [Nevada] lost their major source of income when brothels and other businesses [were forcibly] shut down mid-March. While most other industries have been [allowed by politicians] to resume some level of operations, Gov. Steve Sisolak has indicated that the state’s brothels are “not on his radar” to reopen [even though other] services allowing physical contact…[such as] tattoo shops, estheticians, and massage parlors [were allowed to] open since May. Women who work in Nevada’s legal sex industry…[are] being [persecuted] not because of the risk their business poses but because of a bias against their industry…
Swedish criminalization harms sex workers by creating a climate of fear:
It’s a common misconception that Canadian sex workers cannot, or should not, file taxes on their income because their industry exists in what many consider to be a legal grey area, with fears over arrests and other reprisals…[as in the US,] even income from illegal activities is taxable…This year, only those who were able to navigate the tax filing process had access to critical financial support…[but sex worker activist] Valerie Scott…[explains that] the current legal status of Canadian sex workers makes it feel too risky for many in the industry to file taxes at all. “To be known as a sex worker, to file taxes as a sex worker, to have any information with the government in any form [is] exceedingly dangerous…There are so many ways we can get caught up. We’re sitting ducks”…
The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it:
Supermarkets in Wales will have discretion to sell [items declared by politicians to be] non-essential…in “exceptional circumstances”, the Health Minister has said, following a major public backlash. Vaughan Gething said supermarkets would be able to sell non-essential items to customers “in genuine need” during the so-called fire break lockdown…[politicians had at first arbitrarily proclaimed] that retailers allowed to remain open could not sell goods [politicians arbitrarily] deemed non-essential…such as bedding…children’s clothes…and…sanitary products…Gething [bloviated that] allowing non-essential retailers to open would “undermine” [politicians’ totalitarian power to declare some human beings “nonessential”]…
What Were You All Waiting For? (#1048)
45 years after it became their official position, ACLU finally bothers to call for decriminalization:
The…ACLU…[has] released…a comprehensive review of over 80 studies about sex work…show[ing] that full decriminalization has the greatest benefits for public health and safety…The [report]…analyzed studies on…full decriminalization…“Nordic” models…[and] legalization models that require sex workers to register or impose other regulations…ACLU’s [LaLa Zannell said]…“millions of people are asking what we can do to reduce abuse by law enforcement, racial disparities in our criminal justice system, and our overall jail and prison populations…One policy that can achieve all of these goals…is to recognize that sex work is work and treat it like any other industry”…
A firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs:
Ӧmir Bekali…a…Kazakh [businessman, was]…visit[ing]…his family in…Turpan…[when cops unexpectedly] showed up…to arrest him…he…was thrown into a small…cell…for a week…with no explanation…the room…contained more than 36 others, who, like him, had their arms and legs constantly shackled…“My feet and my hands were tied up with iron shackles and they beat my hands…feet…back and…stomach…They put needles [under] my nails and…iron sticks into my sexual organs”…Police also hung him from the roof of the cell by his wrists so his feet could not touch the floor, and later smashed his knuckles with hammer-like instruments…he…was [then] moved to a…prison camp…[for] seven months…with no access to lawyers, phones to contact his family with, nor any real explanations for his arrest. In November 2017, he was transported to…a…”re-education camp”…there are 40 people to a 16 square-metre room…Twenty-four hours a day, prisoners are shackled. Iron chains are tied around their necks, fixed to loose iron blocks that…weigh around eight to ten kilograms, forcing [them] to always be hunched down…prisoners…are woken up at 5am and given a meagre serving of bread and soup. They are then forced to repeatedly sing songs which praise the Chinese Communist party…and…Xi Jinping personally…As Ӧmir often expressed his discontent with his arrest, he found himself tortured once again. He…was beaten “half to death” and made to stand facing a wall for twenty-four hours without food or drink on some occasions…After 20 days, Ӧmir was finally released…[thanks to] his wife…pressur[ing] two Kazakh Ambassadors to finally [intercede for him]…
The only “evidence” these racist sociopaths need is being Romanian:
The trafficking of Romanian women into the UK sex trade has reached an “industrial scale”, [prohibitionists fantasize]…Scottish Community Safety Minister Ash Denham…[participated in a circle-jerk] with Romanian…[prohibition]ists…[misogynist] group UK Feminista…[prohibitionist politician] Diana Johnson…and [other assorted masturbators, fascists, control freaks and busybodies from both] the UK and Romania…[The participants shared a lot of nonsensical claims supported by bogus] research. Last month 24 people were arrested in the UK and Romania in a Police Scotland-led operation. Dawn raids [and massive robberies] were carried out [and justified by calling the victims a] gang…
Sometimes prohibitionists openly admit that “sex trafficking” is nothing but a dysphemism for “sex work”.
Remember, Twitter claims this surveillance isn’t surveillance:
Dataminr aggressively markets itself as a tool for…police[-statery]…using sophisticated machine-learning algorithms…[tha]t company insiders say…[a]re often nothing more than garden-variety racial profiling, powered…by a small army of human analysts conducting endless keyword searches…Dataminr…has…relied on prejudice-prone tropes and hunches to determine who, where, and what looks dangerous. Through First Alert, its app for public sector clients, Dataminr has offered a bespoke, scariest possible version of the web: a never-ending stream of notifications of imminent or breaking catastrophes to investigate. But First Alert’s streams were assembled…by teams of “Domain Experts”…hunting social media for danger and writing alerts for cops’ iPhones and laptop screens…these staffers…were pressed to search specific neighborhoods, streets, and even housing complexes for crime…
The Clueless Leading the Hysterical (#1083)
There has literally never been a case of a kid getting drugged candy in his trick-or-treat bag:
Indiana State Police [once again tried to foment hysteria by telling] parents [there might be] marijuana edibles in their children’s Halloween candy…Police [pretend] that [adults never like sweet things] so…marijuana…candy…is [therefore some kind of intentional deception intended to ensnare penniless brats for some inexplicable but nefarious reason]…
Once again: nobody is going to give expensive cannabis edibles (which can cost $2 to $3 or more per piece) to your spawn for free.
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