Public spaces are not majority spaces. – Judge David Nuffer
The College World Series is back in…Omaha…[so] human trafficking [profiteer] groups are asking you to be on high alert. “Nebraska’s a hotspot,” [burbled] Julie Shrader…of Restoring Wings. A 2,900-mile corridor connects Nebraska to neighboring states, putting it at the center of a national road system…
Because clearly it’s unusual for a largish midwestern city to be near the center of the country, or connected to other states by highways.
Uber already encourages its drivers to spy on riders and rat sex workers out to the pigs:
[Politician]s are working to [attempt to revive the moribund “]sex trafficking[” hysteria by attempting to stoke panic about] rideshare apps…[after] Uber ma[de] changes to its age requirement…[It now] allows minors ages 13 to 17 to request rides without an accompanying adult…Sabrina Crawford is [a rescue industry profiteer and sex trafficking fetishist who wants politicians to infantilize young people even more than they do now]…
When laws pretended to control cops contain no criminal penalties, cops simply ignore them:
You can sign this piece of paper, abandon the $18,000, avoid arrest and continue on…Don’t sign, and you will go to jail. You could face felony charges. Your van will be towed. Your dog will be taken to the pound…[Pretextual] stops like these, where passing motorists are pulled over, searched and…any cash that’s found [extorted from them], are big business in Seward County, population 17,692…Here, money is routinely s[tolen by police] without anyone being charged or proven guilty of anything. The sheriff’s department has specialized in and perfected the practice, known as civil asset forfeiture, despite a 2016 law meant to ban it in Nebraska….which…was designed to require a criminal conviction before the state could seize money…but [politicians] left two loopholes. Seizures over $25,000 could circumvent state law entirely by being adopted into federal court. And [cops] could still [steal cash] under state law if [they pointed at the money and barfed out the magic word “]drugs[“] even if there are no drugs in the car…It’s the legal tactic Seward County now uses far more often than any other county in Nebraska…
The Last Shall Be First (#1338)
Both sides in the culture war have completely taken leave of their senses:
California…parents could potentially lose custody of their children if they refuse to support their child’s decision to “transition” to another gender…Currently the policy is limited to divorce proceedings, but opponents have argued that it will inevitably expand.
Reporter tries to bury the lede; headline writer won’t participate:
Maryland [cops]…arrested a [typical and representative cop named]…Jason Michael Colley…[for child abuse, only a year after he was let off with a slap on the wrist for beating] his 6-month-old daughter…[to] death…on September 19, 2017…[and trying to pass it off as] seizures…Judge Julia A. Martz-Fisher sentenced Colley to…50 years, suspending all but eight years to be served on private home detention. She also ordered Colley…not engage in physical punishment of children [but he has apparently ignored that]…
As I’ve often said, cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors. And certainly not small children.
The Last Shall Be First (#1345)
Why do people need “permits” to exercise their speech rights in the first place?
The city of St. George [Utah] must issue a permit for a…group…to host an all-ages drag show in a public park, a federal judge ruled, calling the city’s attempt to stop the show unconstitutional discrimination…Southern Utah Drag Stars and its CEO, Mitski Avalōx, sued the city…after [it] denied the group permits…in April…citing a never-previously-enforced ordinance that forbids advertising before permit approval. The permit denial based on that ordinance, [Judge David] Nuffer wrote in his ruling, was a pretext for discrimination…
The Last Shall Be First (#1346)
The time, money, and energy our society is flushing down the “culture war” toilet is incalculable:
A federal judge delivered a stinging rebuke to Florida [politicians]…over…a new state law that banned minors from receiving “puberty blockers” and other types of gender-affirming care…Judge Robert Hinkle…blocked the state from applying the ban to three minors whose parents are part of an ongoing lawsuit…and…the ruling suggests that a key part of the law itself could get knocked down as the legal challenge proceeds…Hinkle’s 44-page ruling called the…ban…“an exercise in politics, not good medicine. This is a politically fraught area. There has long been, and still is, substantial bigotry directed at transgender individuals. Common experience confirms this, as does a Florida legislator’s remarkable reference to transgender witnesses at a committee hearing as ‘mutants’ and ‘demons’…”
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