Anti-sex, pro-censorship gangs want to be called “abolitionist” because it lets them pretend their racist schemes are a continuation of the 19th-century campaign against chattel slavery. But in actuality, they are a continuation of the 19th-century campaign to harass, spy upon, inflict state violence upon, and generally destroy the lives of people who did things the prohibitionists (whose movement was rooted in US evangelical Protestantism) disapproved of, such as alcohol, extramarital sex of any kind (including masturbation, homosexuality, and sexual imagery), abortion, interracial fraternization, etc, etc. Only the most deranged of this warped cult of busybodies actually believe they can “abolish” human nature; what most of them really want is a permanent government-backed war on human nature, AKA Prohibition. Prohibitionists not only live in a fantasy world, but demand that the rest of us live in it with them. And they want the state to restrict the liberties of those they fantasize about, and enact violence on those who refuse to pretend their fantasies are real. Supporters of Prohibition are properly called Prohibitionists, not “abolitionists”. Words mean things; call prohibitionists what they are, not what they pretend to be.
Posts Tagged ‘language’
What They Are
Posted in History, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged consensual crime, Enabling Oppression, language, Prohibition (alcohol), prohibitionist myths on January 29, 2021| 6 Comments »
Baby Steps
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny, tagged cops, language, Michigan, politicians, rape, Safe Position on January 21, 2021| 3 Comments »
The phenomenon of politicians feeling safe in espousing support for sex worker rights is such a new one, it’s unsurprising that sex workers tend to get excited every time it happens, especially when a politician demonstrates that he’s read enough on the topic to use some of our own talking points. But while most outsiders speaking against American-style full criminalization seem to have learned enough to know the word “decrminalization” will get our attention, few if any seem to understand what it actually entails (or if they do, they pretend otherwise). Furthermore, the majority of journalists covering these stories do not comprehend that “decriminalization” has a specific meaning; it doesn’t mean “legalization” or Swedish-style criminalization as prohibitionists pretend, nor does it mean “temporary tolerance” as in this article:
…Washtenaw County [Michigan] Prosecutor Eli Savit announced…his office would no longer seek prosecution of individuals engaged in consensual sex work, focusing instead on cases involving human trafficking, sexual assault and the sexual exploitation of children…Savit, who was newly elected in 2020, has issued a variety of new policy changes in the prosecutor’s office including the ending of cash bail and the rescinding of zero-tolerance policies. The newest policy, citing various reasons for the decision, aims to ease tensions and make it easier for consensual sex workers to report crimes committed against them and aid them in leaving the life. Research demonstrates that the criminalization of sex work enhances sex workers vulnerabilities to violence and exploitation…“Some people who engage in sex work would prefer to do so for only a limited time. But…being convicted of sex work-related offenses gives sex workers a criminal record, which can make it hard to find non-sex work employment.” Savit emphasized the policy is only directed toward cases where the exchange of money for sex is the sole basis of the charge…
Though he carefully avoids the semantically-loaded dog-whistle “pimp”, the last sentence of that block quote makes me wary. As sex workers in “legalized” regimes will tell you, this still leaves us wide open to cop persecution for “offenses” such as sharing an incall, doing duos, or helping other sex workers in any way (“pimping”), or from having an incall in the first place (“brothel-keeping” or the equivalent). These non-legislative “tolerance policies” can also be revoked without warning at a moment’s notice (or due to an election), as has happened in many US cities many times over the past century. Moreover, they don’t stop cops from raping sex workers via threat of bogus charges of the type described above, or harassing us or clients by bullshit arrests (complete with arrest record and press release) that don’t get prosecuted. In short, “baby step” is the right term for this sort of announcement; it’s a development that signifies a politician knows something is wrong with the system, but is unwilling (or unable) to really do anything substantial about it beyond signalling his view. Yes, it’s better than yet another sociopath vomiting out lies about our lives and sending out thugs to rape and abduct us and call it “rescue”. But it is not decriminalization by any stretch of the imagination, and even the limited protections Savit is promising are nothing more than words written in the dust until they are enshrined in law.
Tweets on the Hill
Posted in Current Events, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged censorship, cops, fascism, internet, language, left-right myth, politicians, Twitter on January 15, 2021| 3 Comments »
While we’re waiting for the rain to slack off enough to do some more work on the bathhouse, here are some of my recent Twitter musings:
In the News (#1103)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged censorship, cops, disease, Dubai, Everything Old is New Again, fascism, Georgia, hysteria, I Spy, internet, Israel, Kansas, King of the Hill, language, pizza!, politicians, porn, prohibitionist myths, propaganda, rape, scams, Singapore, surveillance, The Pro-Rape Coalition, The Puritan Recrudescence, The Widening Gyre, To Molest and Rape, Top Cop, Twitter, Working From Home, yellow journalism on January 13, 2021| Leave a Comment »
In the name of protecting women, [Kamala] Harris has pushed sex workers back onto dangerous street corners. – Cherie DeVille
A deep dive on the history of the current US pro-censorship cabal:
Adult content [i]s now routinely described…by both sensationalistic tabloids and supposedly liberal establishment papers as “a scourge”…“a danger,” “harmful,” “exploitation,” and “infestation.” Newspapers and TV news segments f[eed] this rhetoric to politicians around the world…who happily regurgitate…exaggerations, deliberate obfuscations and outright cant such as “porn is a form of human trafficking,” “no person can consent to be a sex worker,” [and] “all sex workers are victims”…Porn, they declare…is not free expression protected by the First Amendment in the U.S. and by long-standing traditions of freedom of speech in other lands. It is “a public health crisis,” “a drug” and “slavery.” This language and these notions are, of course, not new. They have been brewing for years — in some cases decades — in well-funded, religiously-motivated think tanks and lobbies. These groups literally have an agenda: to shut down, by whatever means necessary, online porn…
It took four years for a serial rapist to actually be tried. Guess his profession:
Roger Golubski…w[as a Kansas City cop for]…35 years…before retiring in 2010. But it was[n’t until] 2017, when Lamonte McIntyre was freed from prison after serving 23 years for two murders he did not commit, that [“authorities”] began to…[final]ly [pay attention to stacks of complaints] about the [typical and representative] cop who…had [used threats and sexual violence to] cultivate…a vast network of informants…Golubski, whose [lies] led McIntyre to prison…used his police badge to [threaten] vulnerable Black women [into submitting to rape] and coerced some of them into fabricating testimony to c[age innocent human being]s he [targe]ted. In at least one instance, he…repeatedly rap[ed] a woman whose children he’d promised to help get out of legal trouble…[in a hearing for] the civil lawsuit filed by McIntyre and his mother, Rose McIntyre, who[m] the [typical and representative cop brutally raped]…Golubski [took the Fifth]…555 times…the McIntyres’ law[yers demonstrated that]…Golubski’s superiors in the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department [well] kn[e]w…[that he was a serial rapist of women stigmatized as] prostitutes [by the state]…and either look[ed] the other way or tacitly endors[ed the rapes. Reports of]…Golubski[‘s behavior] date back 25 years…[but] “The Department never accepted] any formal complaints regarding misconduct” [said a spokesow]…the suit names [as accomplices]…Wyandotte County/Kansas City, detectives W.K. Smith, Clyde Blood, James Brown, Dennis Ware and the estates of…[cops] Dennis Barber, Steve Culp and James Krstolich…
Everything Old is New Again (#863)
It is hard to believe the testimonies of Israeli tourists returning from the UAE, in which they describe Dubai as the Las Vegas of the Middle East…8,000 Israelis travelled to Dubai to celebrate the New Year. They apparently took hashish and marijuana with them…the…dark reality…[is] gangs of Israeli men who set out for the new holiday destination with prostitution in mind…any Israeli tourist in Dubai can…pay $1,000 and jump into the pool of iniquity…The[y] can sit and eat next to a swimming pool while watching frenzied scenes of sexual activity…”Everything is open, like a menu with pizza toppings”…it is…an extension of the Israeli sex industry, with prostitution apps advertising women…The fruit of normalisation is that Israelis are now heavily involved in the whole shameful business…
The “swimming pool of iniquity” may be my favorite Middle-Eastern ludicrosity since “the dangerous cycle of prostitution”.
When it comes to mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
In recent years, [cops] have realized that automobiles — particularly newer models — can be treasure troves of [surveillance data]. Their onboard computers generate and store data that can be used to reconstruct where a vehicle has been and what its passengers were doing. They reveal everything from location, speed and acceleration to when doors were opened and closed, whether texts and calls were made while the cellphone was plugged into the infotainment system, as well as voice commands and web histories…Privacy4Cars…makes a free app that helps people delete their data from automobiles and makes its money by offering the service to rental companies and dealerships…[Pigs mostly root] in…two main information sources: the telematics system — which is like the “black box” — and the infotainment system. The telematics system stores a vehicle’s turn-by-turn navigation, speed, acceleration and deceleration information…when and where the lights were switched on, the doors were opened, seat belts were put on and airbags were deployed. The infotainment system records recent destinations, call logs, contact lists, text messages, emails, pictures, videos, web histories, voice commands and social media feeds. It can also keep track of the phones that have been connected to the vehicle via USB cable or Bluetooth, as well as all the apps installed on the device…
Here’s another entry in the “sex trafficking” scare story invasion of Twitter. I find them both funny and sad; funny because Chicken Licken here doen’t realize that there has never been a single case of an adult woman abducted by so-called “sex traffickers” from any public place (much less a crowded retail store), and sad because the hysteria feeds weak-minded panic over ordinary social interactions such as conversation and nodding “hello” to strangers (which I do almost every time I pass someone in public). Add to that the uncritical acceptance of utterly absurd “King of the Hill” propaganda (“[Atlanta is] the human trafficking capital of the world“) and we have a nearly perfect cross-section of late-stage moral panic; all that’s missing is an actual violent attack on the people to whom she’s attached this waking nightmare.
I’ve been saying this would happen since politicians started belching about “contact tracing”:
Singapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police…Officials had previously [lied in order to trick as many people as possible into “voluntarily” downloading a surveillance]…programme, which is used to [track people’s movements and] also monitors who [the patsy has] been in contact with…To encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities [lied that] the data would never be used for any other purpose…But Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament [last week] that it can in fact also be used “for the purpose of criminal investigation”…
Kamala…Harris’s hatred [of sex workers] goes back to her days as San Francisco District Attorney. In 2008, Harris opposed a San Francisco ballot initiative to legalize prostitution. “I think it’s completely ridiculous”…Harris told The New York Times. She proclaimed the law would roll “a welcome mat out for pimps” and…“compromise…the quality of life in a community.” In other words, sex work looks terrible. As a district attorney, senator, and presidential candidate, Harris has trafficked in outdated sex-worker cliches. Out reports that California Attorney General Harris fought in court in 2015 to ensure the state continued criminalizing sex work…[claiming that] sex…[workers are] disease…[vectors]…
When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”:
…the great sex boom of 2020…has been…widely publicized. Outlets that usually skirted such tawdry subjects published how-tos for aspiring online sex workers. Masturbation made The New York Times headlines, and reports of sex toy sales enjoying a 200 percent increase (tripling in New Zealand) were heard around the world…Then…no matter your age, race, gender or even perceived good looks, for the financially upended by Covid-19, OnlyFans became The Promised Land…and porn began to feel like yesterday’s news…especially once the celebrities caught on. Bella Thorne elicited immediate backlash from online sex workers after [scamming] a record-breaking $1 million dollars in her first day on the platform…prompting OnlyFans to cap tips and pay-per-view charges. While the move may have infuriated existing cam girls, it brought the platform widespread attention…
Notice how often rapist cops’ victims are underage?
…Chatham County [Georgia cop]…Christopher Crick was [arrested for raping]…a minor…he was booked on three felony charges: aggravated child molestation, sodomy and statutory rape. The victim is apparently someone previously known to Crick…
Sin in Disguise
Posted in Philosophy, Words, tagged crypto-moralism, disease, ethics, language on January 8, 2021| 6 Comments »
How is it that the US mass media can simultaneously fret about the fraction of people who are obese, and proclaim foods or activities that promote a lower body mass to be “healthy”, yet simultaneously claim that, for women at least, obesity is “healthy”? It’s because the word “healthy” is not, and has not been for decades, a semantically neutral one. “Healthy” is one of the modern signifiers of moral purity, and “unhealthy” = “sinful” (as openly proclaimed on the packaging of both “decadent” and “guilt-free” desserts). So even though obesity is objectively sub-optimal for “wellness” by medical standards, using that word in front of the Great Unwashed signifies a moral judgment on the overweight person. In order to conform to the current rules of “wokeness”, media must proclaim that obesity is “healthy” when what they actually mean is, “Obese people are not lesser humans, and it isn’t your job to shame them for being fat. It’s their business, not yours”. In the popular media, “wellness” isn’t an objective word but a declaration of moral fitness, a judgement on a person’s character. It would certainly be a lot better for society as a whole to stop pretending that illness is due to divine retribution for an “unhealthy” (read: sinful) “lifestyle” (a word long used by crypto-moralists to judge others, especially queers and sex workers). But given the considerable energy US culture has invested in that myth (cf preachers who blame hurricanes on same-sex marriage, and busybodies who cast shame on, or even call the cops on, people for visiting their friends against politicians’ “orders”), that’s unlikely to happen anytime before the collapse of the Empire.
Links #547
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged cops, drugs, Illinois, imaginative fiction, language, Ohio, racism, Texas, video on December 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
They…leave people’s lives in ruins because they got it wrong.
– Anjanette Young
When I retweeted the video I featured last week, reader Michael Norwitz called my attention to this one; I think it’s a suitable way to close out the year! The links above it were provided by Stephen Lemons, Jillian Keenan, Radley Balko, Cop Crisis, Franklin Harris, and Scott Greenfield, in that order.
- As one does.
- “Friend” in Arabic.
- Eating lunch while black.
- Not a police state, no sirree!
- Causes of death that They cover up.
- When she’s not a professional naked woman, people care for a change.
From the Archives
- It’s hilarious that these dumb sex doll conferences keep getting cancelled.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Religious-nut cop schemes to brainwash women at remote, hidden ranch.
- Whores understand the need for STI prevention; amateurs, not so much.
- In case anyone still doubts that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs.
- A good profile of veteran trans & sex worker activist Ceyenne Doroshow.
- Previous columns for Yule, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day & Boxing Day.
- Does anyone other than local news fail to see what a disaster FOSTA is?
- The state only cares about imaginary perfect “sex trafficking victims”.
- Enjo kosai girls get better at protecting themselves from busybodies.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- If they win, it would be a powerful blow to Swedish criminalization.
- Prohibitionists try to subvert debunking of the gypsy whores myth.
- Though Amazon isn’t listening to shareholders, it seems Google is.
- The Spanish sex worker union the government wants to suppress.
- The EFF has recently emerged as one of our most powerful allies.
- This ridiculous failure rate won’t stay inaccurate for much longer.
- A retrospective of my columns from December 2015 and 2016.
- Yet another large union declares support for sex worker rights.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Never forget that “filter” is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- The handwriting is on the wall for “feminist” prohibitionism.
- “Peacekeeper” is just another euphemism for “cop”.
- What does her income have to do with her murder?
- Go on, keep raising your kids to respect authority.
- Cops, Florida, deaths, animation and much more.
- People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
- Even being related to a cop may be enough.
- Cops, trains, the sea, and much more.
- December 17th performance art.
- A hypocrite and a cheapskate.
- Christmas and Star Trek.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Christmas at Sunset.
Links #545
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, Canada, cops, disease, imaginative fiction, language, lawheads, Namibia, politicians, restaurants, video on December 13, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The fact I have this name…doesn’t mean I’m striving for world domination. – Adolf Hitler Uunona
My friend Savannah Sly has released a new song in collaboration with Jazz Goldman; it’s a very impressive cover of “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The links above it were provided by Ally Fogg, Amy Alkon, Mike Siegel, Jesse Walker, Tim Cushing, and Cop Crisis, in that order.
- Monty Python meets reality TV.
- Prohibitionists will ban anything.
- R.I.P. Ben Bova and Chuck Yeager.
- This is different; usually they’re bullshit.
- The phrase “gas station sushi” was awful enough.
- When lawheads confuse statutory “crimes” wth actual crimes.
From the Archives
- New York won’t stop trying to subject nude-pic-posters to police violence.
- Law & Order: SVU once again exploits sex workers to spread copaganda.
- A timid but perhaps important challenge to FOSTA from inside Congress.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- Just in case you thought screws restricted petty sadism to the prisoners.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- Many US jurisdictions have similar laws vs revealing clothes for women.
- With any luck, SCOTUS will shut down this & similar extortion schemes.
- Support for decriminalization is becoming the norm among economists.
- You can murder as many whores as you like without cops giving a shit.
- Anti-whore indoctrination has wholly infested the US trucking industry.
- Despite some conciliatory language and ground-ceding, a good article.
- The hotel industry is going to regret having collaborated with fanatics.
- Alabama’s latest entry in the “sex trafficking” idiocy-spewing contest.
- UK politician claims to be “shocked” by the existence of sex workers.
- Just another state-funded rape camp in Florida; nothing to see here.
- Funny how nail techs are only “trafficked” in the UK, but not the US.
- The truth about Cambodian brothels is no “sex trafficking” fantasy.
- 24 years of state-inflicted torture finally end for the San Antonio 4.
- Is this a rationalization of cop behavior, or of serial killer behavior?
- Will “PTSD” replace “sex addiction” as an excuse for bad behavior?
- Cop-fellation and myth-regurgitation masquerading as journalism.
- An incredibly evil ruling even by despicable modern US standards.
- The only “mistake” here was that the victim wasn’t actually trans.
- Even being dead can’t protect you from sexually-aggressive cops.
- How to totally destroy your relationship with your teen offspring.
- It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
- I’m not sure how much this will help, but it certainly can’t hurt.
- Toasters have no “virginity” and cannot “consent” to anything.
- People with children are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- The moronic claim that pictures magically “rewire” the brain.
- An informal, unwitnessed contract offers no legal protection.
- These predatory lawsuits won’t stop until FOSTA is repealed.
- Facebook turns the dial on its anti-sex “standards” up to 11.
- Amateurs could learn so much about business from whores.
- Cops, karma, justice, nightmares, Shatner and much more.
- Reporters of color debunk racist “sex trafficking” fantasies.
- Virginia comes up with some truly awful anti-whore laws.
- Just in case you doubted this was about total genocide.
- If not for stigma, he could simply have hired a domme.
- They’re trying to fix facial recognition’s technical flaws.
- Caging people permanently, without trial or sentence.
- We did warn you this wouldn’t stop with sex workers.
- “Don’t talk to cops” also includes written statements.
- Cops, brides, songs, D.C. Fontana, and much more.
- All I want for Christmas is some much-needed rest.
- Facebook can’t even follow its own “standards”.
- Signal boosting two messages for sex workers.
- THIS SEX TRAFFICKING IS OUT OF CONTROL!
- Your government refers to this as “correction”.
- Sex workers need your help more than ever.
- How old is the imbecile who writes this shit?
- Evelyn Hernández’ nightmare still isn’t over.
- Missy Mariposa on new escort ad sites.
- We’re getting very close to implosion.
- The Swedish rot has reached Spain.
- I’m a whore, not a programmer.
- Another big Toys for Tots haul!
- Peak white van hysteria.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Are you a pimp?
Links #542
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arkansas, cops, illegal aliens, language, Never Call the Cops, Oregon, psychology, Russia, Spain, Texas, video, Washington (state) on November 22, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The blast blasted blubber beyond all reasonable bounds. – Paul Linnman
Since last week was the 50th anniversary of the infamous Exploding Whale of Oregon, Mike Siegel felt this video should be posted to commemorate it. He also provided “restoration” below, and the other links are from Walter Olson, Cop Crisis, Scott Greenfield, Amy Alkon, and Boatfloating, in that order.
- The Russian version of Clue?
- An “off duty” pig is still a pig.
- “Cop shoots dog” is, alas, not news.
- Another botched art “restoration” in Spain.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Reporter claims cop’s victim had magic mind-control powers.
From the Archives
- It’s rare for a US court to uphold the Constitution against the government.
- Your “leaders” will use any excuse to further empower cops to rob people.
- A toiletful of myths, lies, fascist cheerleading & other assorted sociopathy.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- Will they quietly muscle power away from him as PA is doing to Krasner?
- Americans suffer from a peculiar and characteristic ignorance of history.
- More “sex slave” fantasies from Dominique “Body Fluids” Roe-Sepowitz.
- If Democrats cared about human rights, this would be in their platform.
- Politicians dislike policies that oppose their harm magnification agenda.
- We’re so lucky to have these brave heroes to protect us from refugees.
- FBI intentionally destroyed exculpatory evidence in the Backpage case.
- They want to cage a man for 20 years for fictional character drawings.
- Swedish model regimes would’ve targeted the victim for surveillance.
- The press, partying like it’s 1999 & nobody’s heard of escort reviews.
- “Rescued” means “arrested” & “safe” means “caged for deportation”.
- Politicians send rapist thugs to advance vain Disnification campaign.
- “Xi urged the party to emulate aspects of America’s ‘war on terror’”.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
- Offering a whore only $40 is indeed attempted sexual exploitation.
- Why can’t people choose a government as they choose a religion?
- The natural result of widespread kowtowing to the heckler’s veto.
- In the Puritan US, pictures are considered worse than actual sex.
- How countries with healthy ideas about sex react to moral panic.
- Unlike Americans, Hong Kongers know tyranny when they see it.
- They aren’t really having less sex; they’re just admitting it less.
- Since this is suburban Seattle, I could’ve done this one stoned.
- Cops, Florida, Spaghetti-Os, William Goldman and much more.
- Wannabe cop murdered three women and tried for a fourth.
- Everything cops and other “justice” officials tell you is a lie.
- One of the most vile prohibitionist organizations in Europe.
- A dumpsterrific article full of weird feminist/MRA claptrap.
- A monster’s attempted power grab goes down the toilet.
- Cops, cats, straight people, Beethoven, and much more.
- More cops imagining ordinary things as “sex trafficking”.
- Pimps are uncommon, but most who do exist are cops.
- Another of those nonexistent false assault accusations.
- FOSTA was a huge miscalculation by prohibitionists.
- Tanzania ramps up its pogroms against gay men.
- No woman is safe from sexually-aggressive cops.
- This article is completely unmoored from reality.
- Prohibitionists now claim they don’t need proof.
- Virtually a catalogue of prohibitionist bullshit.
- A quick and easy way to clear a fenceline.
- Remember “prostitution-free zones”?
- Greta Thunberg, child saint.
- The quiet week that wasn’t.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Fascism in action.
In the News (#1088)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, brothels, California, censorship, cops, Do As I Say, Don't Call It Trafficking, drugs, illegal aliens, internet, language, law, Legal Is as Legal Does, Like Houses, Mexico, New Jersey, New Orleans, politicians, propaganda, racism, rape, Romania, South Carolina, Stalkers in Blue, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, Tissue of Lies, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, Virginia, You Were Warned on November 14, 2020| Leave a Comment »
We’re not…doing anything…criminal…It’s the laws that are criminal. – Emily, UK sex worker
…[typical and representative Bakersfield, CA cops] Logan August and Derrick Penney pleaded guilty to a massive conspiracy in which they would arrest people for selling drugs only to turn around and use those drugs to enrich themselves. These two [typical and representative] cops received probation only, for their crimes…last year August was charged — again — with with 15 felony counts, including conspiracy and burglary, in connection with stealing over 400 pounds of drugs from a sheriff’s storage locker and [selling] them…he…was sentenced to four years in prison…
The Course of a Disease (#606)
Swedish model fanatics just won’t stop trying to impose their filth on the UK:
Dame Diana Johnson…[bloviated a lot of paternalistic nonsense claim]ing [that]…men in the UK who…[seek consensual] sex were “fuelling a brutal sex-trafficking trade that is destroying lives”. She [also called websites which sell advertising space to sex workers] “pimping websites” [and said they] should be [magically] banned [even though the internet is international]…The Home Office said its priority was to…target…vulnerable people…[especially from] Romania…[on] BBC Radio 4’s Today programme [Johnson shared her sexual fantasies about passive, doll-like]…women trafficked to the UK…from Romania and…sold into the sex trade…
Naturally useful idiots are surprised, though this was as predictable as sunrise:
…[Columbia South Carolina]’s…hate speech ordinance…has been invoked seven times since it was enacted more than a year ago…five of six accused of using racial slurs are people of color. One [other black] person is accused of derogatory language related to sexual orientation…lawyers for some of those charged [have pointed out that]…the new rule [criminalizes]…speech protected under the First Amendment…two of the accused [were] homeless [black men targeted by]…the same [cop]…
No woman is safe from sexually-aggressive cops:
A New Jersey [cop]…harass[ed a teenage girl with]…sexually explicit text messages…after he arrested her…Damien Broschart…arrested her on drug charges and several traffic violations…[then] deactivated his body camera and mobile video recorder and asked for her phone number…Broschart went on to send “sexually explicit messages” and tried to meet her at her home after his shift ended…but she refused and…blocked his phone number…he [then] called her three [more] times from the [cop shop phone] and left a message requesting a call back…she…instead reported [him]…
Legal Is as Legal Does (#1004)
As long as any part of sex work is criminalized, cops will have power over sex workers:
Hundreds of people have been arrested for [sex work using the pretext of “]brothel-keeping[“]…in the last four years under laws that sex workers [have repeatedly explained] put them at risk…While selling sex is legal in the UK, keeping a brothel – defined as more than one sex worker working from premises – is not…
Don’t Call It Trafficking (#1064)
But this isn’t trafficking, no sirree:
U.S. border [thugs] have been expelling migrant children from other countries into Mexico…[using] the [pretext of] coronavirus…[even though] the terms upon which the Mexican government agreed to help implement the order…were that only Mexican children…who had adult supervision could be pushed back into Mexico after attempting to cross the border…children from countries such as Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador [have been intentionally put] at risk by sending them with no accompanying adult into a country where they have no family connections…The expulsions, which appear to number more than 200 over the past eight months, reflect the haphazard nature with which many of the administration’s most aggressive immigration policies have been introduced…
Authoritarians all want the same thing, but please tell me more about “wings”:
The comforting anonymity in spaces made for and by queer or questioning people…is the first step for many in accepting their identities. We take them for granted now, but the creation of these spaces was never preordained…The internet went in this direction because Congress chose to codify common law precedent and extend First Amendment protections to online communities and moderators…Section 230 established that legal liability for illegal content online should be aimed at the individual who shared it rather than the platform that hosted it. It is based on the very reasonable principle that individuals, rather than the tools they use, hold responsibility for their own actions..[but] today, Section 230 is under the attack from…politic[ians]…at least 10 bills have been introduced to significantly alter Section 230…to…flip the current incentives for websites to allow speech…If I were a lawyer for Facebook or Reddit and Section 230 was revoked, I’d urge them to remove all content that had a hint of controversy to protect us from legal liability…That’s exactly what happened after Congress passed SESTA-FOSTA, which…made sex work far more dangerous…
Is the word “trafficking” missing here because of the pushback on other, similar scams?
A [so-called] rescue operation in Virginia resulted in [cops bragging about what they’re calling] the recovery of 27 missing children…[and infantiled young adults, mostly from non-custodial parents]…Deputy US Marshals l[abel]ed the five-day effort…”Operation Find Our Children.” They collaborated with the agency’s Fugitive Task Force [because many of the arrested young people were actually fleeing abusive parents]…the…Deputy Attorney General [bloviated a great deal and bragged about how big the cops’ dicks are]…
Notice how often rapist cops’ victims are underage?
Rodney Vicknair was the first New Orleans [cop] to arrive at the scene when a 15-year-old girl reported being [raped], and he drove the teen and her mother to a hospital for a [rape kit]. But in later calls and meetings, his own agency says, Vicknair began [trying to seduce] the girl with compliments about her body, asked her for her underwear and [groped] her…Vicknair [was fired and arrested and faces up to 23 years in prison]…