Oh, here it is. – Deanne Choate, last words
It’s funny how the number of links is kind of seesawing back and forth right now, though I reckon the relative fullness of my week has a lot to do with that. A lot of that fullness this week was activism, but a good bit of it was…well, as LunchMoney Lewis says, I got bills. The video was provided by Brooke Magnanti, and the links above it by Nun Ya, Tushy Galore, Radley Balko, and Tim Cushing, in that order.
- A bit of an understatement.
- Cops murder couple in their sleep.
- Crime: poverty. Penalty: left to die in a cage.
- Cops murder naked woman for complying with their demands.
From the Archives
- Sweden’s picking this up while the rest of the West is admitting it’s hokum.
- Pan Am Games were among 1st events for which this myth was debunked.
- Liz Brown presents a worldwide roundup of Sex Worker Rights Day events.
- It’s good to see the mainstream media beginning to question the hysteria.
- A video by Carol Leigh on the memorials for Petite Jasmine & Dora Özer.
- Mars, lube, shit, cops, queerness, not-news, Vietnam, redheads & Hutts.
- CA Supreme Court rules “sex offender” residency laws unconstitutional.
- Another edition of “OMG WHORES KNOW HOW TO USE THE INTERNET!”
- Anything short of total decriminalization enables cops to persecute sex.
- “The notion of choice…by women.” Yes, that phrase is actually in here.
- Too bad BBC can’t be this honest & sympathetic about modern clients.
- I honestly have to wonder if Emily Nagoski hasn’t been reading me.
- What would it look like if “sex trafficking” myths were actually true?
- Molly Crabapple on the vile Project ROSE & its equally-vile founder.
- Cops, lawheads, kangaroos, Dali, cats, cannoli, time, porn & weed.
- The rescue industry is getting so absurd, even Jezebel can see it.
- I’ve ridiculed all three of the politicians this piece of shit praises.
- Two previous columns for International Sex Worker Rights Day.
- All leaders are equally awful, no matter how they try to hide it.
- Japanese politicians sue to remove comfort women memorial.
- The New Zealand Supreme Court shuts down a stalker client.
- Silly “sex trafficking” signs supposedly have magic powers.
- Another attempt to impose the Swedish model on the UK.
- Harm reduction dangerously disrupted by cop “cleansing”.
- “The CEASE Network” is just another Swanee Hunt front.
- In which I end one chapter of my life and begin another.
- Guess which moral panic is conspicuous by its absence?
- Education and previous job experience of sex workers.
- A Bangkok Post article from the director of EMPOWER.
- I like Belle Knox more with every article she writes.
- I love it when Jacob Sullum tears into Nick Kristof.
- “Rescue” NGO pays court to charge an opponent.
- A synthetic article constructed to prove a point.
- It’s nice to have so much more company lately.
- An Ethiopian filmmaker’s love letter to whores.
- Targeting strip clubs with bureaucratic bullshit.
- A serial rapist and a serial killer are convicted.
- As we already knew, most hookers are happy.
- A cop is a cop, even when she’s a sex worker.
- California arrests are advertised as “rescues”.
- How can I get my wife to talk dirty to me?
- A short history of artificial sex partners.
- More on Melissa Gira Grant’s new book.
- Finland imposes Swedish-scented laws.
- Cuckoo Clock McCain is at it again.
- What decriminalization looks like.
- Is sex painful the first time?
- Rapist cops of the week.
- King of the hill!
- TANSTAAFL.
- Sex rays!
Wow. Two in one day (Curnell and Choate).
The bottom line in both cases is the same as in the Eric Garner case: if the police have you caged or immobilized, they need to be held absolutely responsible for keeping you alive. Because if the cops responsible for these deaths get off scot-free, then the next Garner, Curnell, or Choate have no choice but to shoot first.
“Shoot first,” huh? Unless they are a trained marksperson and have just as much mental preparation to possibly take a life, they’ll be just as dead and the police will still get off scot-free, only it will be even easier because they’ll have an ironclad “they were shooting at me, my life was in danger” excuse.
Let me throw this hypothetical situation at you. If you came across a situation in progress like what befell Eric Garner, where a person is immobilized, would you shoot first to free them?