In reports that were written by the deputies who took their gun belts off, took their clothes off and went in the water – those deputies aren’t lying. – Bob Gualtieri, before seeing video showing the deputies were indeed lying
As I said in a recent column, it really is difficult for young people today to comprehend how much more prudish the world has become in the past thirty-odd years. Case in point: this birth control video, produced by Walt Disney, starring Donald Duck and voiced by my man Paul Frees (and provided by Whores of Yore). The links above it were supplied by Grace, Popehat, Radley Balko, Skye, Emma Evans, and Grace again, in that order.
- To protect and serve.
- Cop beats man for buying a tomato.
- Just another day in your police state.
- Tales from the childhood of civilization.
- Crime: car theft. Penalty: death by drowning.
- What part of “Not for any reason whatsoever” is so hard?
From the Archives
- Men just can’t let go of the pathetic fantasy of the high-income hetero-male prostitute with gorgeous customers.
- At least this iteration of “robot hooker” idiocy recognizes the possibility that sex work is here to stay.
- Ordinary anti-streetwalker nonsense bears clear signs of infection by “sex trafficking” tropes.
- The “sex trafficking” circus needs victims to die for the crowd’s satisfaction.
- In some places, cops don’t even pretend it’s about “rescuing” sex workers.
- Cracked demonstrates it has the smartest talent pool in journalism today.
- Dear would-be allies, please talk to us before belching up asinine bullshit.
- Sweatshops aren’t exploitative when operated by “rescue” organizations.
- One inevitable consequence of consensual crime laws: police corruption.
- Is there anything so stupid adults won’t believe teens use it to get high?
- Schools are rewarded for “finding” what the government wants found.
- Megalomaniac speaks for thousands, claiming they all want celibacy.
- Headlines, robbery, censorship, cops, turtles, rocks and Al Feldstein.
- Once a weapon is available, nothing can stop anyone from using it.
- “Sex trafficking” crusader by day, kiddie porn consumer by night.
- Louisiana wants to criminalize “obvious patterns of prostitution“.
- When sex is involved, people believe even the stupidest claims.
- What are we to make of Joe Arpaio’s crusade against zoophilia?
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- The more of Jessica Pliley’s work I read, the more I like her.
- The evangelical Christian basis of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- The truth about the anti-whore “reality” show, 8 Minutes.
- This Random Brothel Exposé Generator is pure brilliance.
- Measure, countermeasure, and counter-countermeasure.
- The grandiosity of these delusions increases by the day.
- “Eat the Poo Poo” sounds like the title of a punk album.
- Reporter casts violent rapist as a victim of prostitution.
- An app to connect clients to sex workers in Germany.
- Cops, politicians, “Rage of Thrones” and much more.
- Rapist cops of the week, generally and specifically.
- Another mob-with-torches story from Los Angeles.
- More anti-criminalization journalism from Reason.
- More whore-shaming bullshit from pole dancers.
- An escort is almost killed by a possessive client.
- What the hell is going on in Washington state?
- Arizona jumps on the “escort licensing” fad.
- Once again: Nevada is NOT whore-friendly.
- SEAF, driver’s licenses, chocolate and hair.
- Whores are better mothers, not worse.
- “Sex trafficking” is caused by abortion!
- Understanding sex work and allyship.
- Absolute genius from Mark Draughn.
- April 2011 and 2012 in retrospect.
- “Sex trafficking” is everywhere!
- Another 18 windows closed.
- Introducing Felicia Anna.
- More filth from Phoenix.
Gualtieri is a pinhead thug whose sole priority is maximizing his department’s revenue with drug busts. Which is why he spends most of his time speechifying about how marijuana legalization would portend the apocalypse. Save drowning girls? There’s no money in that!
The UK is, at present, considering legislation to make advertising prostitution a criminal offence.
In 2015 CARE backed a private member’s bill to prohibit the advertising of prostitution, the Advertising of Prostitution (Prohibition) Bill 2015-16, which was introduced by Lord McColl of Dulwich in the House of Lords.
This bill has passed its second Lord’s reading, which IIRC means that the bill is now scheduled to be examined in detail by a House of Lords committee. This is the 3rd stage of of it’s progress from the Lords to the commons.The date for the HLC for the Bill has yet to be specified.
CARE is, in essence, a Christian fundamentalist lobbying organisation, privately funded by an estimated 40,000 people. They have opposed the legalisation of homosexuality and abortion (which now may be argued as a hate crime against our LGB friends, if I was being rigorous) and now seek to add more laws to the “anti alias mask” around prostitution.
Put another way, an unelected minority (<0.00062% of the population) are attempting to force their moral, and arguably hate-based, religious agenda on the entire UK population, without their consent.
Should this Bill pass, it will fundamentally affect, and arguably destroy, the ability of prostitutes to advertise their services and thus exercise their own sexual advocacy, and I am pretty sure infringe their Human Rights, at a guess.
Coupled with the other UK legislation which makes brothel keeping, living off the avails, pandering (advertising by word of mouth or “pimping”), streetwalking, engaging the services of a coerced/trafficked prostitute, and engaging the services of a prostitute under the age of 18, criminal acts, this would basically put the final nail in the coffin, giving the UK an *effective cumulative ban* on prostitution, without the sale of sexual services being an offence.
Help?
RE: Crime: car theft. Penalty: death by drowning.
This is what the police owe you when you’re in trouble: 0 Nada Zilch
The Supremes have said that police are under NO obligation to put themselves at risk to aid citizens in any way. That’s why it sounds so silly when people say “I don’t need my own protection! The police will protect me!”
Its so sad that it becomes a meme when a police officer is captured on camera helping somebody change a tire or helps a lost child home (instead of arresting the parents for child abuse because the child slipped away). But it’s what we’ve become.