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The Satanic Rites of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Biography, Current Events, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 10, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The only rule without exception is that which states “all rules have exceptions”.  –  “Pendulum”

True charity does not come at the point of a gun, good causes need not be shored up with lies, and worthy idols do not have feet of clay.  –  “Feet of Clay”

Though moral panics may differ in their particulars, they all share two important characteristics: the menace is claimed to be both enormous and all-pervasive, and to represent an existential threat to Our Treasured Way of Life.  –  “Under Every Bed”

Unless I suddenly evolve into an incorporeal being who can live on air and sunlight, I will always have physical and economic needs which must be addressed pragmatically.  –  “Of Course I Would”

To paraphrase Baudelaire, the loveliest trick of religion is to convince people that the Devil exists.  –  “Could It Be…Satan?“

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Fridaystein Meets the Wolf Man

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The war on whores affects all women, not just professionals.  –  “Man’s Inhumanity to Whores”

As long as we keep giving unlimited power to the least-evolved members of our society, none of us should be surprised when they then use that power to act out their own twisted fantasies on living human beings.  –  “Absolute Corruption”

Sex workers have been turned into a pariah caste against whom rhetoric that wouldn’t last five minutes when directed against anyone else, suddenly becomes palatable.  –  “Sincerely Seeking”

Censors…are chronological adults burdened with a child’s view of a universe without free will, where things just happen because of malign forces from outside of themselves.  –  “Le Tabula Rasa“

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Taste the Blood of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, Words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »

One of the absurdities which inevitably arise from the concept of a “consensual crime” is that a person can simultaneously be a “criminal” and a “victim” in the eyes of the law, which is rather like someone playing tennis with himself.
–  “Check Your Premises”

It is government which creates the legal climate which allows oppression to flourish; remove the laws which chain people to their captors and there is nothing other than plain brute force…to keep the serfs, slaves, captives, debtors or bondsmen from simply walking away.  –  “Enabling Oppression”

Three cases in a country of 300 million do not an epidemic make.  –  “Texas Tall Tales (#310)”

The sad fact is that some human beings are willing to directly subject their fellow creatures to coercion, and most human beings are willing to allow others with fancy titles and interesting costumes to inflict coercion as long as that violence achieves results they like.  –  “Nobody Asked”

Small-minded people are often upset by the mere existence of others who are different from them.  –  “I Know You Are, But What Am I?“

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Ghost of Fridaystein

Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 7, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The act of agreeing to serve as a policeman in any regime is at best an amoral one, because in doing so the individual agrees to enforce (by violence if necessary) all of the laws passed by his government, whether he agrees with them or not; he abdicates his personal morality to those in authority and allows his actions to be dictated by others, even if he knows those actions to be wrong.  –  “Godwin’s Law”

The most dangerous prohibitionists…are those who oppose no particular behavior or thing, but rather the very freedom of choice itself.  –  “Thou Shalt Not”

Despite what the anti-sex crowd likes to pretend, sexuality is not a mere “choice”, something dropped on top of a person’s personality at the last minute like pickles on a cheeseburger; it is a deep and intrinsic part of the human psyche, rooted in the hindbrain and woven throughout the psychic fabric.  –  “The Twig is Bent”

If intelligence is rare, advanced spacefaring civilizations might consider all of it valuable, and could conceivably think of any intelligent species confined to a single habitat as “endangered”.  –  “Endangered Species“

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In the News (#1516)

Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »

[I felt like I] had no choice but to be a victim in the FBI’s eyes.
–  Alisha Price

A Broker in Pillage

Nobody will be safe until this odious, contemptible practice is recognized as unconstitutional:

Hawaii allows prosecutors to [steal]…any property worth less than $100,000 and [any] cars, planes, and boats…96 percent of cases end without ever reaching a judge.  Property owners can demand their day in civil court, but they must file a hefty bond and pay for their own defense…the median currency forfeiture…is around $1,200—far below the amount needed to pay…defense.  Many property owners do the math and walk away.  Others waive their right to a trial and allow the Department of the Attorney General to adjudicate their cases instead, putting property owners in front of state attorneys working on the same side as the police.  Either way, the process is rigged.  Hawaii allows [cops] to prevail with little more than guesswork.  They do not have to specify when or where a crime occurred, who committed the crime, or how…Speculation and innuendo often suffice…

Worse Than I Thought (#911)

Bad ideas for bad laws just keep coming back no matter how many times they are defeated:

Wisconsin [politicians] reintroduced…a…law [to shake down citizens for an extra]…$5,000 surcharge on convictions for [being caught in a]…prostitut[ion sting] or keeping a[n incall]…Similar legislation has previously [failed]…during the 2019-’20 session…

Droit du Seigneur (#1113)

What did this guy think he was, a cop?

A [Las Vegas] attorney…forced women he represented to perform sexual acts on himself and his friends…Gary Guymon…[has been] charge[d with] sex trafficking, conspiracy to commit murder…and…intimidating a witness…Guymon [was enabled by the state’s]…prostitution c[harges against two of his victims]…and threatened [them] with incarceration…and…physical…violen[ce to coerce obedience]…When [one victim] attempted to get a restraining order against him, Guymon repeatedly threatened her…and…the[n contacted a known]…murder[er] to discuss [hiring him to kill her]…

Monsters (#1255)

Though most of the items appearing under this heading describe violence against trans women, trans men are also targets of horrific violence:

Five people face murder charges after a transgender man…missing [for weeks] was found dead in a field in [New York]…after enduring months of torture…Sam Nordquist…of Oakdale, Minnesota, arrived in New York state in September and was…last in contact with loved ones in late January…Sam, a transgender ma[n]…met a woman named Precious [Arzuaga] online, who convinced him to visit her in New York.  Sam left Minnesota on September 28, 2024, with a round-trip plane ticket, planning to return within two weeks.  However, he never boarded his return flight and was un[der Arzuaga’s psychological]…control…Police launched a missing person investigation…after receiving a welfare check request from Nordquist’s family.  They d[iscover]ed Nordquist had…”endured prolonged physical and psychological abuse” and “repeated acts of violence and torture” between early December and early February…[Arzuaga and other]s sexually assaulted Nordquist with a table leg and broomsticks, and beat him with sticks, dog toys, ropes and belts until he died. His body…was then [dumped in a field]…the…[other] four…[are] Kyle Sage…Patrick Goodwin…Emily Motyka…[and] Jennifer Quijano…

Imaginary Evils (#1347)

Liz Brown on another company the government is trying to destroy with “sex trafficking” myths despite a lack of “sex trafficking” charges:

…Nicole Daedone…founde[r of] OneTaste…and…Rachel Cherwitz, OneTaste’s former head of sales…face a single count of conspiracy to commit forced labor…”between approximately 2004 and 2018.”  Neither woman is charged with actually forcing labor or engaging in other criminal acts.  Their lawyers believe this is the first time the feds have charged forced labor conspiracy without an underlying forced labor charge…prosecutors have…employed dubious theories of criminality, such as “coercive control,” and…have exploited rank sensationalism, as though hoping that throwing in lots of details about kinky sex and free love while suggesting cultish behavior will do where evidence of legal wrongdoing falls short.  Underlying the case is one of the Justice Department’s catchall justifications: stopping sex trafficking and prostitution…the feds clearly intend to imply that this is really a sex trafficking case, even if the charges don’t go that far…

The Last Shall Be First (#1413) 

The time, money, and energy Americans are flushing down the “culture war” toilet is incalculable:

…a[n Iowa] bill…would make it a felony to take a minor to a drag show…This applies whether the performer sings, lip-syncs, dances, reads or “performs for entertainment,” regardless of whether they receive payment…the legislation…[calls for] up to five years in prison and a fine [of up to]…$10,245.  The bill would [also] levy fines of $10,000 per minor against any business that allows a minor to be present at or view a drag show hosted on its premises, and [encourages mob rule lawsuits allowing profiteers to demand]…between $10,000 and $50,000 [from each victim they sue]…

Thought Control (#1509)

Trumpist propaganda dismisses book bans as a “hoax”:

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, [Kentucky,] home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians [have been forced to hide]…books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement and anything else related to diversity, equity and inclusion…[due to an official] letter “to ensure compliance with executive orders”…Librarians are [order]ed to ensure any such books are “removed from the student section of the [library] and placed in the professional collection”…At Fort Campbell, administrators and librarians are interpreting the [vague order] to apply to…anything that could be perceived to promote one group over another or make one group look bad…[such as] books that mention slavery, the civil rights movement or the treatment of Native Americans…Ironically, some of those history books on civil rights might reference the deployment of the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to protect Black students during the desegregation of a high school, a pivotal moment in civil rights history…At another DoDEA school in Europe…libraries are removing books that discuss immigration in a positive light…

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In the News (#1514)

Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 19, 2025| Leave a Comment »

True crime…[is] entertainment masquerading as news.  –  “Paul”

Bad Fantasy, Good Reality

Now that the moral panic is over, expect articles like this to become more common:

…In my interviews with over two hundred sex workers in four Latin American countries, [cases that]…substantiated the trafficking myth…are the exception.  Instead, stories of economic need, single motherhood, and disgust with the sex but gratitude for the lifeline sex work has provided are so common that they’ve become routine…Writing about the sex industry often takes the form of sensationalized stories that, when examined closely, fall apart…and…when travel is involved, our ideas about prostitution become even more fantastical…

Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1428)

Politicians are happy to wreck lives by inventing new crimes from copaganda:

…the HALT…Fentanyl Act…aims to make permanent a…DEA…temporary emergency rule from 2018, which has been extended twice by Congress.  This rule classifies derivatives of the synthetic opioid fentanyl not yet approved by the [FDA]…as Schedule I controlled substances…Celebrating the passage of [it]…as a new effort to combat fentanyl trafficking and overdose deaths is merely an example of performance art…But [it’s] also delusional. For decades, Schedule I classification has done nothing to halt the flow and use of cannabis, heroin, or psychedelics…Classifying fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I will hinder progress in therapeutic research…fill…prisons, ruin…the futures of drug users, disrupt…families, and provide…aggressive prosecutors with coercive plea-bargaining strategies…

Eavesdropping (#1476)

Some politicians are starting to admit Shotspotter is a boondoggle:

The city government of Little Rock, Arkansas, recently dumped ShotSpotter, a…controversial [surveillance tool with]…a history of unreliability, generating large numbers of bogus reports.  Also, being based on the use of microphones, ShotSpotter can capture sounds other than gunshots, including private conversations…[not only is] the contract with…ShotSpotter…[itself] expens[ive]…the original deal cost $290,000 for two years…[valuable] resources [are] tied up in responding to false ShotSpotter reports.  Other cities have run into the same problem, finding that relatively few incidents reported by the technology result in the discovery of criminal activity…

The Mob Rules (#1491)

Ambulance-chasers have given themselves the power to rob internet companies:

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is suing the owner of 13 pornographic websites, [exploit]ing…a law passed last year [demand]ing age verification systems be placed on adult content.  Kobach [claims] SARJ LLC, a Washington-based company…owns, licenses and distributes content for the 13 [targeted] websites…and…made [furtive movements in his pants]…at…the [fantasy of robbing the company]…for over $50 million…

Shame, Shame (#1494)

Bird-brains still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology:

…a YouTube channel called True Crime Case Files…[contain]ed more than 150 [computer-generated] videos o[f fictional crimes which were not labeled as such]…The plots were…often hypersexual.  They described parents selling teenagers into sex slavery with a sheriff, and transgender teachers committing murders to hide affairs with students.  The video thumbnails were perverse, with clickbaity phrasing in big blocky text…Each one was made with [image-generation software] and the crimes described did not happen.  There was no language on the channel’s homepage or in video descriptions to tell a viewer otherwise…[because] the man who ran the page…believed people wouldn’t want to watch his videos if they knew they were fake…the [channel is now down due to bad publicity, but the creator is wholly unrepentant, saying]…“I really felt like I needed to stake my claim before anybody else thought of it”…

The Widening Gyre (#1500)

Cops don’t like it when non-cops falsely accuse innocent people of “crimes” that didn’t happen:

A…[Virginia drunk] was arrested after breaking into a Bible study session, [drun]kenly [imagin]ing it to be a human trafficking operation…David Campbell…called the…[cops because] his neighbors had doubled-parked their vehicles.  Campbell then [attacked and threaten]ed his neighbors…and w[hen] deputies…[arrived] they found Campbell [ranting] in the middle of the road…

Pyrrhic Victory (#1510)

Everyone abused by cops using this error-prone surveillance system needs to sue:

Chris Gatlin spent 17 months in jail for a crime that [cops claimed] he committed, only to be freed after the prosecutor learned there was no real evidence.  A grainy surveillance photo of an assault suspect…[was fed to] a computer facial recognition program to [mis-]identify Gatlin…and the…[cops] ran with it…without doing any other investigation…even [though] the…victim didn’t…think Gatlin was the right guy…and…picked two different suspects…[until] the [cops pushed him to pick]…Gatlin…“I felt I was being pointed into something,” the victim said…Gatlin [is suing]…St. Louis County…

 

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In the News (#1513)

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[Texas politicians are] trying to drive a car from 30,000 feet in the air by remote control.  –  Joey Velasco

Torture Chamber

A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners:

The Trump [regime] and the president of El Salvador…struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and imprisoned citizens to the tiny Central American nation…[even though it is illegal for] the U.S. government [to] deport American citizens…Bukele has made El Salvador’s stark, harsh prisons a trademark of his aggressive fight against [civil rights].  Since March 2022, more than 84,000 people have been [locked up without] due process…packed into cells without enough bunks for everyone…Bukele…plan[s] to [cram even] more people in[to his] mega-prison…prisoners…do not receive visits.  There are no programs preparing them to return to society after their sentences…[because the government plans to] never allow…[them] outside…ever [again]…

Time Warp

Long Island public radio station WSHU recently published a bizarrely-anachronistic article that reads like something from the height of “sex trafficking” hysteria, 13 years ago; given that NPR was a major font of “sex trafficking” wanking fantasies, I reckon that isn’t too surprising, but it’s still weird to see both politicians and stenographic “reporters” who apparently didn’t read the memo that “sex trafficking” is now a “right-wing conspiracy theory” rather than something taken seriously by people who are not complete lunatics.  The piece calls “sex trafficking” an “epidemic” and employs both a “King of the Hill” claim and the “Facebook pimps” myth to infantilize sex workers as “children” looking for “love”, before making the facially-absurd statement that Suffolk County’s is the first “trafficking court” in New York.

Little Puppets

Denying bright kids honors or AP classes doesn’t make you a champion of the proletariat; it makes you an abuser:

In 2021, a school district in Newton, Massachusetts, got rid of advanced classes in a [poorly-considered] bid to…reduc[e] achievement gaps between racial groups, [presumably by osmosis]…several parents brought up…concerns with the…policy—but…were smeared as “racists” and “right-wingers”…But years later…teachers themselves are…openly criticizing multilevel classes, arguing that it isn’t serving students’ needs…”I’ve heard about multilevel classes from many, many parents over the last three years, and the feedback has been consistently negative,” School Committee member Rajeev Parlikar said…”I actually have not heard from a single parent who thought their child benefited from being in a multilevel class”…the district is now working on reinstating leveled classes…

I Spy (#1372)

“This isn’t just about privacy — it’s about the future of secure communication itself“:

…the UK government has…ordered Apple to create a backdoor that would allow them to access encrypted content from any Apple user worldwide…Apple [has] warned it might have to exit the UK market if pushed too far…[but] even…[that] won’t satisfy the UK’s demands…for backdoor access to the service in other countries, including the United States…Apple would be barred from warning its users that its most advanced encryption no longer provided full security…the UK isn’t just demanding the power to break encryption globally, they’re demanding the right to force Apple to actively deceive its users about the security of their data…

The Prudish Giant (#1427)

Morally-bankrupt businesses make morally-bankrupt business deals:

Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook…without consent…the information is then being used by Facebook…to profile people as gamblers and flood them with ads for casinos and betting sites…

Thought Control (#1457)

Control-freak politicians need to be targeted by so many lawsuits they’re driven into ruin:

Several large book publishers, a tiny public library and others are suing Idaho [politicians] over a law that forces libraries to keep some books in an adults-only section if…[a politician points at them and belches] “harmful to minors.”  The Donnelly Library, Penguin Random House and the others [are] suing [because] the law is overly vague and [blatantly] violates the First Amendment rights of students, librarians and other residents by forcing libraries to sequester literary classics like Slaughterhouse-Five and A Clockwork Orange.  It’s the second such lawsuit filed in Idaho.  A coalition of small private schools and libraries sued last summer, and that case is ongoing.  Similar cases have been filed in Arkansas, Iowa, Florida, Texas and other states with laws restricting access to books in libraries or schools…

Crippling Thought (#1467)

Surely you didn’t think they’d be satisfied with only vandalizing libraries and primary schools:

This year, the [sociopath]-controlled Texas Legislature is expected to [undermine] liberal [education] at the state’s public, four-year universities…[by further] ban[ning]…programs [they dislike] and tr[y]ing…to…limit the influence of professors on their [students]…they have vowed to crack down on…free speech on campus.  And they are proposing again to end in-state tuition for undocumented students…and…eliminate tenure…

 

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The Shadow of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »

There’s nothing…prohibitionists hate more than whores who refuse to allow themselves to be pimped to the prohibitionist cause.  –  “Real People”

Though prohibitionists will vociferously deny it, all prohibitionism is the same.  –  “Change a Few Words”

The demons [prohibitionists] imagine…in cartoons, games and television shows [are] nothing more than the ones which…drive…[them] to anti-social behavior.  –  “Physician, Heal Thyself”

The tragedy of relationships is that women want men to change, and they don’t, while men don’t want women to change, and they do.  –  “Fossil“

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The Legacy of Throwback Thursday

Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The State wants an eye for an eye, but it doesn’t care whose eye.  –  “Scapegoats”

It’s a mistake to pretend that governments are intrinsically different from all other groups of humans, for good or ill; every group will seek to further its own ends at everyone else’s expense, and the only way to stop it is to stop letting people – any people – have so much power over one another.
–  “Perverse Incentives”

Oppressions always start with those nobody is willing to defend.  –  “Devil’s Advocate”

Prohibitionists not only live in a fantasy world, but demand that the rest of us live in it with them.  –  “What They Are“

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In the News (#1508)

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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…

Paint By Numbers (#1006)

Silly “awareness raising” stunts by crowds of idiots are a relic of the last decade; now they’re merely marketing gimmicks:

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.

No Escape (#1372)

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…

Censorship Ascendant (#1494)

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…

To Molest and Rape (ROTW #17)

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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