At long last, the ruinous, decades-long War on Drugs is starting to wind down. This insane “progressive” social engineeing scheme to “improve” the human race by giving governments control over everything individuals might choose to ingest started in the United States, and from the beginning was deeply tied to eugenics and other racist pseudoscience. But though its twin sister eugenics fell into disgrace due to certain goose-stepping Europeans using it as an excuse for genocide, prohibition thrived and was eventually imposed via treaties and bullying on every corner of the globe. The carnage inflicted by the evil dogma that consensual behavior can be “illegal” is incalculable, and while politicians are still attached to it like embedded ticks, backlash against the drug theater of the greater World War on Human Rights has been brewing for some time, and many of them have come to realize that their countries can simply no longer afford its devastating costs in both money and lives. The madness’ native land was the first to begin rejecting it; cannabis is still fully criminalized in only six US states, and momentum is building to legalize or decriminalize other drugs as well. The plant is also legal in Canada and Uruguay, and both Mexico and Israel appear poised to follow suit; before much longer it is likely the the drug war treaties will collapse, and criminalization (especially of psychedelics) will become the exception rather than the rule. Alas, this does not mean the end of prohibition as a concept; it is too useful an excuse for police-statery for power-mad sociopaths to give up, so while drug prohibition is losing popularity, many other kinds of prohibition, from guns to plastic drinking straws, are gaining in popularity. And chief among these is the War on Whores, which as I pointed out long ago is the new War on Drugs; it is no accident that even as support for the criminalization of plants was dying in the US, propaganda justifying police violence against people interested in consensual sex was increasing. Canada’s legalization of cannabis was separated by only a short span from its imposition of Swedish-style criminalization, and the exact same thing can be said of Israel (except that the gap was even shorter). The winding down of one front in the great war on liberty is indeed something to celebrate, but only if those who have been fighting against this one form of prohibition recognize that we still have a very, very long way to go.
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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.
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The police department was…dead-set on making sure those records never reached the public. – David James
As usual, police were disinterested in catching him until he started killing non-whores:
The Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has died at the age of 74. The serial killer was serving a whole life term for murdering 13 women…he…died in hospital where he is said to have refused treatment for Covid-19…Sutcliffe, who was also found guilty of the attempted murder of seven women, was convicted in 1981…His killings began with..Wilma McCann…who[m he] hit with a hammer and stabbed 15 times, in October 1975…Sutcliffe’s [other] victims…[were] Wilma McCann…[in] October 1975…Emily Jackson…[in] January 1976…Irene Richardson…[in] February 1977…Patricia Atkinson…[in] April 1977…Jayne McDonald…[in] June 1977…Jean Jordan…[in] October 1977…Yvonne Pearson…[in] January 1978…Helen Rytka…[in] January 1978…Vera Millward…[in] May 1978…Josephine Whittaker…[in] May 1979…Barbara Leach…[in] September 1979…Marguerite Walls…[in] August 1980…[and] Jacqueline Hill…[in] November 1980…Sutcliffe…believed he was on a “mission from God” to kill prostitutes, although not all of his victims were sex workers….Sutcliffe was interviewed nine times during the course of the investigation but continued to avoid arrest and was able to carry on with his killings…
Useful idiots never see where “hate speech” laws inevitably lead:
[Useful idiots] in Norway are celebrating [what they imagine to be] a huge win after the country recently expanded its penal code…[on] hate speech to include gender identity and all forms of “sexual orientation”…The penal code states that those who are guilty of [wrongspeak] face a fine or up to a year in jail for private comments, and a maximum of three years in jail for public remarks. Furthermore, those charged [wrongthink in conjunction with] with violent crimes…will receive harsher sentences…
“Police explorer” programs are nothing but grooming schemes for predatory cops:
Louisville Metro Police concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two [rapist cops] — then lied to keep the files from the public…The [Louisville] Courier Journal last year requested all records regarding sexual abuse of minors…in the Explorer Scout program [by Brandon Wood and Kenneth Betts]…Police officials and the Jefferson County Attorney’s Office [claimed] they couldn’t comply, insisting all the records had been turned over to the FBI for its investigation. But that was…[a lie]. In fact, the department still had at least 738,000 records, which the city allowed to be deleted. The records could shed light on when department and city officials first learned of [the Rape Explorer]…program and what the officials…failed to do…about it…
Politicians will not stop until they can censor the internet as they please:
…a single EU court within a single EU member state [has declared itself] the censor for the world…In…September…the Austrian Supreme Court ordered, pursuant to local defamation rules, that Facebook remove a post insulting a [politician]…keep equivalent posts off its site, and do so on a global scale…Facebook complied…[by making] the…post…inaccessible to users within Austria. But it objected both to the global reach of the order and to the obligation to look for and keep other, equivalent posts off their site…the European Court of Justice sided with Austria…Under current practice,…global tech companies are [only] bound by local laws…within their jurisdiction…Think Germany’s hate-speech laws. Or particular variants of the right to be forgotten. Or the Thai government’s prohibition on critique of the monarch. Or Singapore’s limitations on what is deemed “fake news”…Under the Austrian court precedent, courts in any such jurisdiction would be more or less free to apply their local laws to compel not just local, but global takedowns of posts or comments that violate the vagaries (and often highly speech-restrictive) of local law. And they could also require that copycat and equivalent posts be kept off—also on a global scale. This creates a…race to the bottom, with the most censor-prone nation setting global speech rules…
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#1062) 
Blaming bad behavior on an imaginary “addiction” is no better as an accusation than as a defense:
Former Fox News White House correspondent Ed Henry was widely known as a sex addict at the network before he raped a junior staffer, a new lawsuit charges…Fox…fired Henry…shortly before [Jennifer] Eckhart went public with her allegations in July…The suit…states that the network ordered Henry to undergo therapy for sex addiction in 2016 after it was revealed he’d had an affair with a Las Vegas stripper…“Everyone at Fox News knows that Henry is a sex addict. That’s no secret,” Fox Business anchor Liz Claman told Eckhart, according to the suit…
“‘Everyone at Fox News knows Tucker Carlson is a reptilian member of the Illuminati,’ Fox Business anchor Liz Claman told Eckhart…”
(State) Violence Against Women
President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to end [un-state-approved] violence against women is long, detailed, and ambitious…but…[i]s conspicuously missing any mention of sex work…Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, first introduced by Biden in 1990, will be one of Biden’s top first 100 day priorities…a relatively short but important section of the plan outlines Biden’s intent to [censor the internet by]…creating a National Task Force on Online Harassment and Abuse, giving more funding to law enforcement, and support for [more carceral] federal and state legislation [to use against sex workers who adverise online]…experts…have reservations about how this plan will…actually affect…the lives of…sex workers. Leaving consensual, commercial adult content out of any plan for internet reform would be willfully ignoring how the internet largely works…
The Last Shall Be First (#1078)
Hungarian politicians are as potty-obsessed as their US counterparts:
…[the government of] Hungary…signalled its intention to…change the constitution to enshrine…so-called “Christian values”…The proposed constitutional amendment…is the latest assault on LGBT rights in the country, where legal recognition for gender changes was ended in May. “Hungary protects children’s right to identify as the sex they were born with”…the amendment states…[it also] would ensure that only heterosexual married couples can adopt children…For years, Viktor Orbán’s government has relied on an anti-migration agenda…and some analysts suggest LGBT people may be the new target. In Poland, the ruling populist Law and Justice (PiS) party has made the fight against so-called “LGBT ideology” central to its political messaging…The new laws will have to be debated in parliament, but Orbán’s Fidesz party has a two-thirds majority, sufficient to make constitutional amendments…
The Pro-Rape Coalition (#1085)
Is Hollywood finally starting to back off from promoting “sex trafficking” hysteria?
Melissa McCarthy and HBO Max have announced that they’re pulling their support for the evangelical nonprofit Exodus Cry as part of their “20 Days of Kindness” fundraising campaign…“We blew it,” McCarthy said in a video posted to Instagram…“We made a mistake and we backed a charity that upon further vetting stands for everything that we do not”…Exodus Cry frames itself as an anti-sex-trafficking group but in reality works to abolish sex work entirely. Its founder, Benjamin Nolot, has called abortion a “holocaust” and homosexuality “an unspeakable offense to God”…the group has spent years lobbying to criminalize the purchase of sex and recently launched a campaign to shutter Pornhub…
Oh, what a surprise: “A Harford County grand jury has added 10 counts of child pornography possession to the child sex abuse case against [typical and representative] Baltimore [cop] Donald P. Hildebrandt…“
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On Monday of last week, our cee purlins were delivered; now we’re only waiting for the notice that our order of roof panels is ready. We’re also preparing to start building the roof infrastructure; Grace has shown me sketches of the brackets that will be attached to the rafters of the existing house, but before we could begin I had to buy a number of clamps and such to replace those lost in the pillage three years ago. In the meantime, however, we had a few frosty days that left the deck very slick in the mornings (and sometimes all day), so I decided to go ahead and build the ramp down into the paddock so we could climb down more safely when it’s time to feed the animals. After the roof is in place, the sides of the deck will be walled in, and a door will lead onto this ramp. But even without that, it’s nice to be able to walk down from the deck rather than having to climb down a rickety scaffold on uneven ground in the rain while carrying feed buckets.
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Every so often I like to present a short collection of tweets that you didn’t see unless you follow me on Twitter. If you enjoy them, you may wish to rectify that situation.
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[A Biden victory] is not a victory for sex workers. – Penelope Saunders
Cathy Reisenwitz on the dogma that sex without “enthusiastic consent” is rape:
…most of our choices in life…[a]re not straightforwardly coercive or cooperative, but somewhere in-between…This leads me to the inevitable conclusion that consent versus coercion isn’t a binary. It’s a spectrum…On one end of the spectrum you have slavery and rape. On the opposite end you have enthusiastic consent. But most choices fall somewhere in the middle…When we say we are “forced” to make a choice, we mean that there’s no acceptable alternative. We say we’ve been forced to do something if the alternative is death or jail. When we say we’re “pressured” to make a choice, what we mean is there’s no appealing alternative. We say we’ve been pressured to do something if the alternative is unpleasant or inconvenient. The difference then between force and pressure is a difference of scope, not kind. They’re both coercion, but are different levels of coercion…
Don’t Take My Word For It (#873)
While it’s not surprising to see male sex work increase during the pandemic, I’m extremely skeptical of claims, such as those in this story, that the clients are predominantly female. Anti-queer stigma is much higher in India than in the US, so naturally male sex workers there are going to claim – as some did for decades in the US – that most of their clients are female in order to save face. But as usual, the claims in this story don’t ring true, and the quotes from the interviewees only serve to underscore that.
Seattle cops have a positive fetish for illegal surveillance:
…a…Seattle Police…detective…signed up for and used facial recognition app Clearview AI, which…i[s a] violation of the City of Seattle’s Surveillance Ordinance…Nick Kartes…signed up for Clearview in September 2019 using his “@seattle.gov” work email address…he logged into the service over 30 times, as recently as April 22…the devices used to log into Detective Kartes’ account were connected to the City of Seattle network…This follows an established pattern, highlighted this summer, where Seattle police regularly flaunt the law…
But don’t worry, toothless local laws will definitely stop this!
Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse:
…While people buy Ring cameras and put them on their front door to keep their packages safe, police use them to build comprehensive CCTV camera networks blanketing whole neighborhoods. This…allows police departments to [shift] the cost of buying surveillance equipment…onto consumers by convincing them they need cameras to keep their property safe…[and] evades the natural reaction of fear and distrust that many people would have if they learned police were putting up dozens of cameras on their block…Now…police in Jackson, Mississippi, have started a pilot program t[o convince]…Ring owners to patch the camera streams from their front doors directly to…police…footage [of] your…coming and going…your neighbors taking out the trash, and the dog walkers and delivery people who do their jobs in your street…can now be live streamed directly onto a dozen monitors scrutinized by police around the clock. Even if you refuse to allow your footage to be used that way, your neighbor’s camera pointed at your house may still be transmitting directly to the police[, plus all cops need do is ask and Amazon will grant warrantless access to your camera without your consent]…
The Pro-Rape Coalition (#1033)
Censors’ fixation on Pornhub spreads to Thailand:
Thailand’s government said…it had banned Pornhub and 190 other websites showing pornography, prompting social media anger over censorship…many Thai users trended the #SavePornhub hashtag on Twitter and criticised the shutting of a site in a country…which has a globally-known sex industry…A few dozen activists protested the block outside the digital ministry, holding banners saying “free Pornhub” and “reclaim Pornhub”…Internet research firm Top10VPN said it saw a spike in searches from Thailand for Virtual Private Networks (VPN), which help circumvent censorship, by 640%…after Pornhub was [censored]…
The Cyber Police agency of the Indian state of Maharashtra — the region that includes populous Mumbai — has formally accused several platforms of “transmitting sexually explicit and obscene content online”…[the sites include] Xvideos and Pornhub. Inspector General of Police Yashasvi Yadav [made furtive movements in his pants while sharing his fantasy that]…”the actresses in these videos have been exploited, lured or compelled to perform the obscene acts. We will be treating the actresses as ‘victims’ and not ‘accused persons’”…
Since costumed rapists are essentially immune to criminal law, civil law has to do:
A new lawsuit [has been] filed against [typical and representative] Louisville [cop] Brett Hankison…a…sexual predator…who…[has] willfully, intentionally, painfully and violently…[raped at least 10 women over the years and achieved recent notoriety for the murder] of…Breonna Taylor…LMPD has…fired Hankison for his role in the [murder, but ignored all the rape complaints]…nine o[f the] women who…Hankison [raped have made statements in the lawsuit, filed by Margo Borders, a lawyer he raped in 2018]…
(State) Violence Against Women
Two hardline prohibitionists at the top do not bode well for sex workers:
…Phoenix Calida…[of] SWOP-USA…says of a Biden win, “I see things getting worse for sex workers, actually.” Calida’s assessment is due in part to Biden’s sponsorship of the 1994 crime bill…“‘Tough on crime,’ which Biden has really promoted his entire career, is really not helpful at all to sex workers…Biden is like, ‘Let’s not defund the police, let’s give them more money!’” Advocates’ concerns around…Kamala Harris, are both more numerous and concrete. “You couldn’t get a candidate with a worse record on sex work,” says [Penelope] Saunders of [Best Practices Policy Project]. In 2008, Harris called San Francisco’s Proposition K—an attempt at halting the enforcement of laws against prostitution—“completely ridiculous.” Harris also infamously pursued the shutdown of Backpage and the prosecution of the site’s owners despite warnings that shuttering the site would put sex workers in greater danger and make it harder to investigate sex trafficking cases. (It did.) She also helped develop the devastating SESTA/FOSTA, specifically as a means of targeting Backpage…[and supports]…the EARN IT Act, a bill…which threatens sex workers’ ability to use encrypted messaging services…as well as free speech online…opponents of the bill…are calling it “SESTA/FOSTA 2.0.”…
Elephant in the Parlor (#1078)
Compare the ugly, racist, agency-negating whore stigma used by Democrats in this article to attack someone closely associated with Trump, to the ugly, racist, agency-negating whore stigma used by Republicans just a month earlier to attack someone closely associated with Biden, and then tell me again how they’re so different and why sex workers should trust either pack of fanatics: “President Trump’s top campaign strategist, Jason Miller…admitted to hiring prostitutes and receiving sexual favors at multiple ‘Asian themed’ massage parlors, an industry known to have connections to sex trafficking rings…” “Progressives” want sex workers to believe they’re on our side, but they go straight for the anti-whore slurs the second they think it will win them cheap points on the “other team”.
Prohibitionists don’t care who has to suffer to advance their twisted agenda:
India’s sex workers suffered a setback…following a U-turn by the country’s human rights body, which said [sex workers] should not be registered as workers or guaranteed financial aid from the government amid the fallout of COVID-19. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) last month asked state governments to recognise sex workers as informal workers, which would have entitled them to benefits and aid from a $23 billion fund for India’s poor during the coronavirus pandemic…the watchdog’s non-binding advisory was hailed by [human rights experts]… as a boon for the rights of an estimated 800,000 sex workers across India, [but prohibitionists, led by the evil and deeply-derangd Sunitha Krishnan, worked to intimidate the commission by issuing veiled threats of expensive and troublesome legal complaints based in bad “]sex trafficking[” laws. In response to these threats]…The NHRC…issued a new statement that said sex workers could not be registered officially or categorised as informal workers….[but] should instead be given help on “humanitarian grounds” during the pandemic…
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I’m getting good at scheduling my appointments closely enough together to keep my trips to Seattle short and sweet. I drove in on Wednesday, got my nails done, then on Thursday saw a new client I’ve known for some time online (he is an “out” client, but professional discretion still forbids my naming him unless he chooses otherwise) and found him both lovely and generous. And speaking of generosity, I got three new presents: the DVDs for Thundarr the Barbarian from Brad Carter; a book of ghost stories from Nick Fowler; and a lovely snakeskin summer top from my friend Angela Keaton. I also found out who sent the kitchen scale (RockyJimBeam) and the red cashmere sweater (Antonio Lorusso). Jim will be glad to know that I already used the scale in preparing Saturday’s dinner, and Antonio asked for a picture of me in the sweater (I’m sure he won’t mind if I share it with everyone). Thanks so much to all my wonderful, generous friends, clients, and readers; y’all have helped make this a very lovely birthday season!
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Though I’ve been a Trekkie since childhood, I had never seen all of Deep Space Nine until recently. The reason is simple: the series premiered in January 1993 and was midway through its third season when my first husband left me without warning. My life was thrown into turmoil and it took two years for me to get it straight again, during which time money was much too tight for the relative extravagance of cable TV. So though I saw all of the first two seasons, half of the third, and occasional episodes (at friends’ houses or via borrowed videocassettes) of the fourth and fifth seasons, I got rather lost due to the complex story arcs and decided not to see any more individual episodes until I could rewatch the whole show from the beginning. I gave Grace the complete series on DVD for Christmas about a decade ago, but still never got around to viewing it until this year, after I moved to Sunset as my primary residence. As I watched, I soon found that I agree with many reviewers’ opinion that the series is the best of all the Star Trek sequel series; though it was a direct spinoff of The Next Generation I find it very much superior to its parent, not only because of its greater consistency, better writing, and relief from the pressure of being THE Star Trek show of it decade, but also because it discarded the moral oversimplification which (unfortunately) permeates most of The Next Generation in favor of a universe full of greys in which few characters were either moral paragons or cardboard villains.
This realistic portrayal of the ethical tangle that is real life was on full display in a 6th-season episode we watched a couple of weeks ago, “Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night“. In it, Major Kira Nerys discovers that her mother, whom she believed to have died in a concentration camp during her planet’s half-century-long occupation by the militaristic Cardassians, actually survived for seven years after the very young Nerys had last seen her…as a “comfort woman” claimed by the Cardassian governor, Gul Dukat. At first, Kira (who started the series as a morally rigid, almost puritanical character, and only slowly grew to accept that real life rarely resembles such abstractions) refuses to believe that her sainted mother could have been guilty of collaboration horizontale, then as she explores the truth (with the help of a mysterious alien device which grants her visions of the past), she instead becomes terribly angry with her mother for literally sleeping with the enemy. But as the vision goes on, she realizes that her mother’s position as the governor’s mistress not only resulted in better living conditions for herself, but also for her husband and children, who might otherwise have died in a labor camp. By the end of the episode she has not forgiven her mother, but has come to accept that she did what she thought best for her family, just as Nerys herself had to make hard choices (including becoming a terrorist) in her own struggle to survive the occupation.
The episode is not a highly rated one; perhaps the topic is too uncomfortable for many viewers, especially in these neo-Victorian times. But as a sex worker and hard-nosed pragmatist, I deeply appreciated the show’s willingness to recognize that sex work, even under duress, can almost never be fit into a pat narrative of villain and victim, and its repeated depiction (in this episode and many others) of war as a filthy business from which nobody emerges entirely clean.
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He’s mine now. – “Officer” Michael Fattaleh
It’s only been two months since animation great Joe Ruby died, and now he’s been followed by his partner Ken Spears. The duo created many cartoons, but their most famous and enduring creation was Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, and since it hasn’t been long since Halloween I decided to pay tribute with this 1999 parody of The Blair Witch Project which Cartoon Network created as bumpers for a Scooby Doo marathon. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Cop Crisis (x2), Brooke Magnanti, Franklin Harris, Walter Olson, and Kendra Holliday, in that order.
- Islamic horror movies.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- A taste of his own medicine.
- I’d say he got his money’s worth.
- R.I.P. Alex Trebek and Ken Spears.
- A solution Jim Kirk would approve of.
- “When I murdered your girlfriend it made me feel bad.”
From the Archives
- Quoting prohibitionist myths while claiming to want to “help” sex workers.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Adult businesses bill under different names & classifications to avoid this.
- What kind of sick mind thinks hunting women to rape them “builds trust”?
- Fanatics parroting nonsense they clearly neither understand nor believe.
- Only 10 years for this horror, while others get life for renting out rooms.
- Siouxsie Q on Facebook, censorship & sex-worker-friendly social media.
- The puritans are learning that they are indeed subject to federal courts.
- Politicians can’t understand that the same holds true for all prohibition.
- Why do journalists feel compelled to cede ground to prohibitionist lies?
- The time for men’s mags to support sex worker rights is long overdue.
- Millions believe the entire realm of politics can be described in one bit.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- Cops & politicians are the only people who still profess to believe this.
- Cops show you what they are every day; why don’t you believe them?
- Another “sex trafficking” hysteria film for future generations to mock.
- Rapists want to be held to a “different standard” than decent people.
- Cop deny “sex trafficking” scary tales while reciting the usual myths.
- Can a relationship work if the man was completely broken by his ex?
- When a highway is destroyed, the traffic has to go into side streets.
- Another sexual predator selects a traumatized woman as his prey.
- Seattle-area pigs are once again rooting in sex workers’ business.
- Prohis claim those against their bans have “false consciousness”.
- Rubmaps may become the new bogeyman to replace Backpage.
- While stigma and criminalization exist, this will keep happening.
- Locking pregnant women in cages for “trafficking” themselves.
- Propaganda from 2018’s “Operation Cross-Country” pogroms.
- The question isn’t “What went wrong?”, it’s “What went right?”
- Giving the ultimate identification tool to a fascist police state.
- Better Zuckerberg fight the police state rather than enable it.
- “Futurists” prefer to be ignorant than to consult sex workers.
- Pregnant women are uniquely vulnerable to state coercion.
- Motel 6 gets some comeuppance for its eager copsucking.
- Cops, songs, magical permits, Stan Lee and much more.
- “Vigilante Truckers” has apparently decided to rebrand.
- Just in case you doubted this was about total genocide.
- Another step toward the end of privacy, everywhere.
- Everyone unsurprised by this, please roll your eyes.
- In which renting rooms is pretended to be a “crime”.
- A radical proposal on the subject of parental rights.
- Statists tell us that the slippery slope is a “fallacy”.
- Charlotte Rose on discrimination vs sex workers.
- Yet another perfect example of the McNeill Rule.
- This headline and lede are stigmatizing bullshit.
- Cops, turkeys, cannibal ants, and much more.
- Too bad we can’t elect more dead politicians.
- My two previous columns for Armistice Day.
- DHS is building a giant biometric database.
- Prohibitionism is a kind of mental illness.
- Late Halloweeny birthday presents.
- A busy busy busy week.
- SAVE THE TOASTERS!
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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]…
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