In the News (#1349)

All the alarm bells should be going off when [politicians] use their elected power to control…children’s ideas.  –  Val Benavidez

Surplus Women

Sick men may respond violently when sex workers refuse to belong to them:

The neighbor and content partner of [adult] performer Charlotte Angie has been convicted in Italy for her 2022 murder.  Davide Fontana was sentenced…to 30 years in prison for beating Angie to death…Angie…[had a short-lived] relationship…[with] Fontana…[in] 2021…and [apparently did not realize]…he was [obsessed with her because she] agreed to shoot a BDSM sex video [with him] in January 2022…after binding…he[r, Fontana] took a hammer and…hit…her all over her body and on her covered head…then cut her throat with a kitchen knife…From January to March, Fontana used Angie’s phone to impersonate her on her social media accounts, and also paid her rent and bills…[while he] traveled around…looking for places to dispose of the…body parts…[cops found them] on March 20, 2022, apparently the same day Fontana finally disposed of them by throwing them down a cliff in Valcamonica…

If Men Were Angels

It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops:

A 75-year-old deacon at a church in Walker County [Georgia] faces hundreds of sex abuse charges…Dennis Carl Laman…[repeatedly molested a] 30-year-old victim [with] cerebral palsy [who] is bound to a wheelchair and has a low mental capacity…she…told [a] doctor…and…her caregiver that Laman had fondled her inappropriately, and that the…abuse had been going on for about 6 years…Laman…confessed [to molesting]…the woman…about 199 times…

To Molest and Rape

Another cop following his bliss:

A [typical and representative Irish cop] who was…questioned [due to] allegations of rape was released without charge…he was [previously] involved in…investigat[ing] multiple high profile sexual abuse cases…

The Last Shall Be First (#1266)

If you didn’t see this coming, you haven’t been paying attention:

…a…9-year-old daughter was verbally assaulted at a track and field event…[in] Kelowna…[British Columbia]…she was competing in a shot-put event when a grandfather of one of the other participants started yelling at her…[saying], “Hey, this is supposed to be a girls’ event, and why are you letting boys compete”…the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that [the girl] was born female…the man’s wife then started calling [the girl’s mot]her “a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile”…School District superintendent Kevin Kaardal [said]…steps are being taken to ban the man from all school-related events…

Part of the Picture (#1280)

Some people still claim we don’t live in a police state:

Prosecutors in Monroe County [Indiana] charged Hannah’s husband with possession of child [porn, so]…the court ordered that he not have access to any electronic devices as a condition of his pretrial release from jail.  To ensure he complied with those terms, the probation department installed Covenant Eyes on Hannah’s phone, as well as those of her two children and her mother-in-law.  In near real time, probation officers are being fed screenshots of everything Hannah’s family views on their devices…Covenant Eyes doesn’t permit its software to be used…[for] monitoring people on probation…but…courts in at least five US states have [illegally done so anyway]…Less than a week after Covenant Eyes was installed…her husband’s probation officer [claimed] her husband had violated the terms of his bond…[because] Covenant Eyes [reported] that her phone had visited Pornhub…[in actuality,] her phone had made a network request to the website’s servers as part of a background app refresh…on her Chrome browser…This is a known issue with Covenant Eyes [but prosecutors don’t care]…

Thought Control (#1343)

It seems I was destined to be threatened with state violence regardless of my career path:

…[Texas] Gov. Greg Abbott [criminalizing librarians who stock books politicians declare “]explicit[“, and]…prohibit schools from purchasing books that [politicians decl]are “sexually explicit, pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable”…Abbott [also declared that books politicians dislike are]…”trash”…Under the bill, [a political] Commission is tasked with [declaring which ideas will henceforth be legal in Texas, and task]…book vendors to [guess what politicians may arbitrarily want censored]…

Panopticon (#1346)

Hanging a camera on an animal essentially turns it into a surveillance drone:

A case recently filed in a federal district court in Connecticut alleges that a state government agency violated the Fourth Amendment by attaching a camera to a bear they knew frequented the plaintiff property owners’ land…tagged as Number 119…The bear-mounted cam was allegedly supplied…by…the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)…[which had accused] the plaintiffs…of “illegally” feeding bears on their property.  So, this cambear appears to be part of DEEP’s efforts to prove the allegations against the couple (Mark and Carol Brault).  This surveillance attempt failed when the couple noticed the bear and its digital appendage…no warrant was obtained before DEEP converted an apparent regular visitor to the Braults’ property into a confidential non-human source.  The Braults say this is a Fourth Amendment violation, with the bear acting as a government agent, albeit one incapable of being directly controlled…

 

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Links #676

This ain’t your fucking funeral home.  –  Wilson Chavis

Another Rube Goldberg machine from this guy, courtesy of Jesse Walker; the links above it were provided by Mistress Matisse; Phoenix Calida and Franklin Harris; Walter Olson; Mike Siegel; Marc Randazza; and Kevin Wilson, in that order.

• Headline of the week.
• R.I.P. Pat Robertson and Barry Newman.
• Well, that’s one way of drumming up business.
• Because there’s nothing scarier than people eating.
• Nobody this bloodthirsty should have any power over any being.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw a man painting his house”?
• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• Maybe we’re about to witness the beginning of the end of these evil laws.
• A reminder to readers & patrons of how important your support is to me.
• Government often attacks with civil suits to reverse the burden of proof.
• “sex trafficking” panic imploding in a spectacular & entertaining fashion.
• This would be better news if judges didn’t rubber-stamp cops’ warrants.
• Remember this next time somebody tells you “cop checks” really work.
• Governments use words to obscure meaning & oppress nonconformity.
• Sorry, but “democracy” isn’t supposed to be a synonym for “mob rule”.
• Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
• If they actually punished wife-beating cops, they’d lose half of them.
• “Drugs” are a popular pretext for petty vindictiveness in US prisons.
• Trying to prop up the “Facebook pimps” myth with bogus “studies”.
• Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• US “authorities” keep pretending sex is an excuse for any tyranny.
• In which yelling “stop faking!” is described as “trying to wake her”.
• It’s hardly strange that a typical, representative cop became chief.
• Politicians competing to see who can criminalize the most parents.
• What the people who enforce “sex trafficking” laws are really like.
• A former cop explains why there’s no such thing as a good cop.
• If I’m going to be hyperactive, at least I’m getting things done!
• Is the ACLU finally beginning to do the right thing, at long last?
• Most tyranny starts with the pretext of “protecting” somebody.
• More fascism in action; don’t say sex workers didn’t warn you.
• Cops, aliens, hairy babies, Brave New World, and much more.
• Alex Vitale on what abolishing police would actually look like.
• Amazon and Microsoft want to have their cake and eat it too.
• Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
• Cops, modern scholarship, Stevie Wonder, and much more.
• In Florida, police violence against students increased 20%.
• OUR’s increasingly-petty interference in sex workers’ lives.
• “Youth leaders” = “youth pastors” = predatory perverts.
• Every year, my anxiety increases as the days lengthen.
• OnlyFans didn’t save sex workers; we saved ourselves.
• Referring to torture as “correction” is vile bootlicking.
• At their core, the Netherlands are still prohibitionist.
• My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
• Cops, Jonah, birds, F. Lee Bailey, and much more.
• Another sign that the moral panic may be dying.
• Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
• Seeking a temporary halt to a deranged jihad.
• Cops love murdering people by asphyxiation.
• Like inviting a vampire into one’s home.
• Fixing the last leak in the atrium roof.
• I suspect this isn’t going to end well.
• The schadenfreude is so very sweet.
• Asking for help with travel anxiety.
• Laying the gravel for my addition.
• Introducing Red Cloud Hosting.
• More from Juniper Fitzgerald.
• “Pastors” are as bad as cops.
• Finally removing an eyesore.
• Goodbye, ACLU; Hello FIRE.
• Rapist cops of the week.

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Links #674

I can’t breathe.  –  Ivan Gutzalenko

There are many popular Tina Turner songs I could’ve chosen to honor her passing, but instead I decided to use one most of my younger readers may be unfamiliar with.  The links above the video were provided by Anarres Ansible; Cop Crisis; Phoenix Calida; Scott Greenfield; Dan Savage & Franklin Harris; Lenore Skenazy; and SWOP-USA, in that order.

• I can’t breathe.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Border patrol are just federal cops.
• Who could ever have predicted this?
• R.I.P. Tina Turner and George Maharis.
• Now I can finally fuel up my warp engine and go home!
• Calling any government “emergency” number = calling the cops.

From the Archives

• Laws like this have already been ruled unconstitutional by the 4th Circuit.
• Cops will never stop doing this until the state stops giving them pretexts.
• Cops, history, sensationalism, Rube Goldberg machines, and much more.
• It’s good to see a government hoist with its own “sex trafficking” petard.
• They make this sound like the bureaucrat was doing his victims a favor.
• Cops are responsible for more violence than any other US social group.
• I’m extensively quoted in this article about everyone joining OnlyFans.
• The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
• Violet Blue on protecting yourself from phone surveillance at protests.
• Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will grow until ruled unconstitutional.
• German sex workers answer the ugly lies of prohibitionist politicians.
• Like the Netherlands, Belgium only pretends to respect sex workers.
• The same thing Biden wants, but please tell me more about “wings”.
• Compare to the contrived prohibition in Australia & the Netherlands.
• The best way to accomplish prohibitionist goals is to buy politicians.
• The 5th Circuit sucked Louisiana politicians’ dicks on this in 2018.
• June 2nd is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”.
• “Sex predators” are mostly men with authority over their targets.
• Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
• If this doesn’t horrify you, you haven’t been paying attention.
• Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis.
• Government never, ever blames itself for the harm it causes.
• The problem isn’t religion; it’s blind submission to authority.
• Looks like the judge didn’t buy his “porn addiction” excuse.
• A retrospective of my blogging from May 2011 and 2012.
• Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
• French law provides some defense vs religious activism.
• One of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
• Indian sex workers have awaited this ruling for years.
• The days of my never saying “I told you so” are over.
• A collection of essays for International Whores’ Day.
• Cops, dentists, mutant hamsters, and much more.
• Cops, kinks, robots, Eric Carle, and much more.
• The end of being handicapped by broken nails.
• Fake client texts from an unscrupulous ad site.
• I wonder when Hollywood will catch up?
• Instagram and TikTok users, take note.
• Sophie Ladder on “restricted content”.
• For every weapon, there is a defense.
• Fixing the wiring problems at Sunset.
• In which Scotland out-Herods Herod.
• Nearly finished with the atrium roof.
• Sows hoist with their own petard.
• Whores are as eternal as the sea.
• Rapist/murderer cop of the week.
• And it can find you just as easily.
• It’s just to keep people SAFE!
• Setting posts for my annex.
• Far too little, far too late.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Building a new stable.
• Stop faking!

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In the News (#1339)

Who doesn’t want to help people explore different things?  –  Chayse

Above the Law

Just another kind of federal cop, with behavior to match:

A [typical and representative] U.S. Homeland Security [thug] was sentenced…to life in prison for violating two women’s civil rights by trying to stop them from telling police he [raped] them…John Olivas…beat…and sexually assault[ed both when]…they were, first one and then the other, his girlfriends…Olivas raped one of the women twice and attempted to rape the other one once…but…will appeal his federal conviction…[because he thinks]…as a federal agent…he…is [above the law]…An ex-wife testified that in 2004 she, too, was raped by Olivas…

Skin To Skin

There can never be too many articles on sex workers for the disabled:

…As well as providing his skills as a sex worker, Chayse has also been talking with a dating coach to see how he can support [his client] Melanie navigate the “tango of dating” and help her build future romantic partnerships with other people…For Melanie, the experience is more than just sexual liberation and she has got so much out of this ongoing experience she believes governments should…support disabled people in accessing sexual services…And she has been excited to share her new experiences with friends and family…

To Molest and Rape

When predators aren’t culled, they just keep on predating:

A Toronto [cop named]…Ramdial Lokenath…[raped] a woman on May 19, 2022…[after going] to an apartment…for a reported domestic assault…While his partner was in the p[igmobile] with the [husband], Lokenath returned to the apartment [under the pretext of] tak[ing the woman’s] statement…he…turned off the video on his body camera and muted the audio…while [telling] the…woman…he could “influence the charges facing her husband”…[so she would submit to rape when he returned later without his partner]…Lokenath was also charged with…assaulting his [own] wife on Oct. 19, 2022…

Unchristian Nation

Government at every level crusades against Christian charity:

…Since 2005, Micah’s Way has operated a resource center where volunteers help connect their poor and homeless clients with birth certificates, ID cards, clothing, bus passes, and other services…They also offer the people who come to the resource center muffins, pastries, and fruit, plus hot coffee…their charitable activities continued without issue for over 15 years…then…in November 2021, Micah’s Way received an administrative citation from Santa Ana [California]…demand[ing] that the group obtain a certificate of occupancy at their resource center or else cease all operations there.  When the group applied for the needed certificate, they were denied…on the grounds that it was engaged in food distribution, which wasn’t allowed by their property’s “professional district” zoning…the city [threatened]…the group…[with] “administrative fines, criminal prosecution and/or civil remedies such as injunctions and penalties”…

Creepy Coppers

The people the government empowers to police your sexuality:  “A M[issouri cop named]…Cory Younger….has been arrested and] charged with possession of child pornography…”

Opting Out (#1313)

Most Americans still believe France is a sex-positive society:

The…French government…confirmed…that it will attempt to bypass the courts to force the five largest adult sites accessible in the country to comply with a controversial, vaguely worded 2020 age verification law…[because it] is frustrated with the legal challenge mounted by lawyers for Pornhub, Tukif, xHamster, XVideos and Xnxx…the government’s intention [is] to [place the internet censoship agency] ARCOM…[above] the courts…[as] part of a new bill intended to “secure and regulate the digital space”…

In case you’re wondering what the last ominous statement means:

The French government has confirmed that the new bill it introduced…to bypass the courts and force platforms to implement age verification will apply not only to specifically adult sites but also to any site that allows explicit content, including Twitter…

The Cop Myth (#1336)

Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do:

A [Tennessee cop has been arrested but also rewarded with a paid vacation for]…pointing an AK-47 rifle at [his ex-girlfriend]’s car and later kicking her in the face…Jarreil Peoples…[attacked her when she came to his home to] exchange [some] property…he…approached her car with…[the] rifle and pointed it at her car, [so she drove] away out of fear…Peoples then called her to say he put the rifle up and asked her to return to the house to exchange property.  She [foolishly] returned…and…Peoples [used the opportunity to] kick…in her driver’s side window, hitting her in the face with his foot and shards of glass…Peoples…[previously attacked her when] he came to [her] apartment to return a house key…as she and Peoples walked towards the front door, he turned around, picked her up and body slammed her into some stairs…

 

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Links #670

We are the law.  –  Allentown, PA cops

To honor the passing of Harry Belafonte, I decided to go with his best-known song; the words seem to take on a poignancy when used in this manner.  The links above it were provided by Phoenix Calida (x2); Jesse Walker and Franklin Harris; and Cop Crisis (x4), in that order.

• Portrait of a power-mad air hostess.
• Cops beat teen for running out of gas.
• R.I.P. Harry Belafonte and Jerry Springer.
• Home invaders attack and brutalize teens.
• Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
• Cops are a clear and present danger to society.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• Uber wants its drivers to spy on riders and rat sex workers out to the pigs.
• At least some reporters are finally getting skeptical of this popular excuse.
• Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
• Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to commit rape.
• Canada is following Australia and the US in trying to destroy the internet.
• Wise judge refuses to allow prudish paternalism to trump human needs.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• To the state, facial recognition’s false positives are a feature, not a bug.
• Men who respect women more also realize we don’t owe them free sex.
• Unsurprisingly, New Zealand treats sex workers like any other workers.
• It’s ironic that the newest target of “sex trafficking” scarelore is Target.
• Profiteers will continue to harass businesses until FOSTA is overturned.
• The rescue industry is desperate to find new things to call “trafficking”.
• Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
• It’s unusual for prohibitionists to admit they’re targeting black people.
• In case you failed to grasp the extent of Morality in Media’s depravity.
• This has been going on for years, and platforms do nothing to stop it.
• The more extensive the surveillance, the more often this will happen.
• When a headline asks a question, the answer is almost always “no”.
• Another study proves what sex workers have been saying all along.
• Those who are surprised by this haven’t read much Church history.
• Even seemingly-consensual sex with a cop may be something else.
• Modern fascism has spun a terrifyingly-extensive surveillance net.
• Another country which, like the US, shamefully neglects women.
• Finding a way to get essential self-care banned by “authorities”.
• Another specimen of the garbage the state pays to violate kids.
• Politicians are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies.
• If a non-cop did this, would his sentence merely be demotion?
• Puritans never quite admit they want to destroy the internet.
• The worse the idea, the more eager politicians are to ape it.
• This is the first honest thing he’s said since he was caught.
• Infantilizing victims of sexual assault does not help them.
• Pigs in schools are a menace which should be abolished.
• Pay no attention to that pervert behind the picket fence.
• I appreciate all reader gifts, even the inexpensive ones.
• This tendency has only worsened over the past decade.
• Big heroes prove their manhood by terrorizing women.
• I think this means a pig violently raped a sex worker.
• Prohibitionism is an inherently violent belief system.
• The last part of the framework for my annex roof.
• How do I find cheap, unprofessional sex workers?
• We fucking told y’all so, over and over and over.
• On wings, colors, and looking-glass partisans.
• The FOSTA challenge is proceeding yet again.
• Cops, rules, funk, New York, and much more.
• Rapist cops of the week, including Scotland.
• Cops, Kevin, Neal Adams, and much more.
• “Living in truth” during the pandemic.
• Spring is my second-favorite season.
• Cops, Billie Hayes, and much more.
• Shifting from telling to showing.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Bad Chicken Diaries.

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In the News (#1328)

Banning books you disagree with is a direct attack on our most basic liberties.  –  Ellen Leonida

To Molest and Rape

This is the kind of man to whom the State gives almost unlimited power over women:

…[on] December 17 and 18, 2021…[West Virginia state cop] Michael J. Miller…drugged, kidnapped and brutally raped [a] woman…[in a letter notifying the cop shop of intent to sue, her lawyer wrote] “She…woke up naked in her bed with blood, urine and feces all over her,…Her earrings were ripped out of her ears, her hair was pulled out, her teeth were damaged, and she had been raped vaginally and sodomized with some instrument.  This is all confirmed by the rape unit at the emergency department of CAMC Women’s and Children’s Hospital…To show you how ignorant your trooper is, the morning after he shattered this lady’s world, Trooper Miller sent a Facebook message to (the woman) and asked if he’d left his hat in her car.  The FBI has this message, and his hat, so you may want to discuss that with them as well”…

The Cop Myth (#1231)

If he’d succeeded in killing her, he would’ve claimed it was an accident or suicide:

[A UK cop named] Thomas Gair…mentally and physically abused Chloe Bradley, a fellow [cop], throughout the course of their relationship between February 2019 and January last year…During one assault in January 2020…Gair…shoved her out of [his] car before reversing it into her as she was getting back to her feet, sending her “absolutely flying”…But…[it became worse w]hen…he…got…[her] pregnant…in 2021…”he told me to have an abortion or he was going to leave me.  He said we couldn’t afford it and it would ruin our lives.  He told me I would be a crap mother and I was probably going to lose the baby…he wanted me to have a miscarriage…he would threaten ‘I will push you down the stairs'”…that is exactly what…he…[did] in May 2021…”He pushed me back and I fell right down the stairs.  I hit my head twice and that knocked me out”…the couple’s…colleagues eventually reported Gair’s abuse…

Thought Control (#1253)

There’s at least one principled judge in Texas:

A federal judge in Texas ruled that at least 12 books [censor]ed from public libraries by Llano County officials…because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours…Seven residents sued county [bureaucrats] in April 2022…[because] their First and 14th Amendment rights were violated when…[busybodies and politicians set themselves up as censors over citizens in direct violation of the US Constitution]…because they dis[like people having]…ideas [they disagree with]…and terminated access to thousands of digital books because they could not ban two specific titles…The library system also is required to reflect these books as available in their catalog and cannot [censor] any books…while the case is ongoing…

Cops and Robbers (#1287)

It’s difficult to read this without feeling a bit of schadenfreude:

Police in Canada have arrested members of a vigilante “pedophile-hunting” group, charging them with distribution of child abuse images…in order to lure people, the group used sexually explicit photos, faked to give the appearance that the subjects were underage.  “The…law says, when you share a photo…and that you claim that it represents a person of age minor, even if it really isn’t, it [magically] becomes child pornography,” co[p] Andrée East [said]…For more than a decade, Quebec police have been pleading with the vigilante groups to stop their “hunts”…One investigation found the group[s] ensnared innocent people by manipulating chats and messages to give the appearance of impropriety.  One group, Creep Catchers, has long frustrated police for their methods, which at times have interfered in police investigations and come with tragic consequences.  In 2016, a woman in Alberta took her life months after she was [fram]ed by the group…

Of course, cops use these exact same tactics all the time, but I guess cops lack the magical transubstantiation power that busybody fanatics possess.

You Were Warned (#1292)

These attempts to destroy the internet are just going to keep getting worse:

“Would the RESTRICT Act—a.k.a. the TikTok ban bill—criminalize the use of VPNs?” Reason‘s Elizabeth Nolan Brown asked…The answer is: in many cases, yes—but wait, there’s more!  The RESTRICT Act proposed by…Mark Warner …and a [ho]st of co-sponsors…hands a whole lot of power to the government…”to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries” regarding information and communications technology…The National Law Review summarized last week…”the RESTRICT Act would provide the secretary of commerce broad authority to take appropriate measures to deal with [vaguely-defined] risks, and to enforce such measures with hefty civil and criminal penalties”…the bill also grants the president new power to take actions regarding “undue or unacceptable risk” posed by information and communications technology…That’s a huge grant of authority to address the supposed peril posed by TikTok.  What does it all mean?  Use your imagination; government officials implementing the law certainly will…

Permanent Record (#1296)

It seems as though it wasn’t actually the OnlyFans account that got him fired:

A [New York] City [parking ticket] judge moonlighted as a porn star on OnlyFans…Gregory A. Locke…has produced more than 100 posts since he opened an account in November 2020…[but it was the] Twitter account where he frequently posted X-rated images and video…[which actually attracted the attention of politician] Vickie Paladino [after he replied] “choke on a dick“…in a tweeted response to her…Drag Queen Story Hour [talking points]…Paladino’s official complaint about the Twitter comment…[got him] fired…for “unprofessional behavior”…

To Molest and Rape (#1323)

Cops view alcoholism in women as a way to facilitate rape:

Jason Redmond, a[n]…Ontario [cop, raped]…a woman while she was unconscious…[and] made a video of the [rape] on his phone to “prove” the victim had a drinking problem, and to “teach her a lesson” about how irresponsible she was when consuming alcohol.  “He made the video to show that anybody could rape her,” [the judge said]…Redmond…has been [enjoying a long-term] paid [vacation]…since 2015 after [he was caught] being involved in a local drug trafficking operation…

 

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Midwinter Tweets

Like something Bill Theiss would design while very drunk. https://t.co/KzYdGrNeut

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 24, 2023

Clearly a very important discovery for building solid machines with no electronic parts which can escape from cages as long as there's a mold handy. 🙄

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 26, 2023

For "deleted", instead use "memory-holed" for greater precision. Things can be "deleted" for many reasons, but when it's due to political embarrassment "memory-holed" is more specific. https://t.co/rpYkpTDiyB

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2023

Ray Bradbury was one of the great souls of modern times. He will be remembered when every contemporary power-hungry politician has been reduced to a footnote in history texts or a name in a list of fallen, buried, forgotten "rulers". https://t.co/pFIQDdzYv3

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 27, 2023

Your regular reminder that "proactive policing" actually means "terrorizing people who haven't committed any crimes, under the pretext that they *might*". https://t.co/wx4Z4lEyil

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 28, 2023

Also, about #5: "Not allowed to listen" is a very different thing from "are unable to listen". https://t.co/0ZurrNGJEc

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 29, 2023

Amateurs are so cute. https://t.co/DHsG6jTkvi

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 30, 2023

Cops acting as though they're in the entertainment business should be a summary firing offense. https://t.co/FVsep5DmoL

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) January 31, 2023

I'm sure she believes that the sailors on the Flying Dutchman are happy because they have job security. And like the Wandering Jew, they get to travel to many lands on a sort of eternal vacation!

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 1, 2023

“I think that people see police as a part of the government”

Yes, that's because they ARE part of the government. The most visible and violent part, the hand of the state that holds the gun, whip, or club. https://t.co/PkPkr3iATP

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 3, 2023

We *do* understand discretion, honey. After all, it's part of why you pay us, remember? https://t.co/oAVtft9K8q

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 4, 2023

The rise of trucks as passenger vehicles in urban areas is largely the result of government fuel efficiency "regulations" which made station wagons and other large (but low) cars illegal.

This is a striking example of the Law of Unintended Consequences at work. https://t.co/uMH85IhtVk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 5, 2023

…elaborate protections. Near the end of the cycle, even opening a tap results in a flood of disgusting filth spewing out in every direction, coating walls, floor, and ceiling of the bathroom or kitchen and suffusing everyone's house & clothes with an unbearable reek.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 5, 2023

"Vascular neck restraint" is a scientific-sounding euphemism for "choking somebody to cut off blood flow to the brain so they pass out".

"Pass out" is itself euphemized as "slip into unconsciousness". Choking a victim to within minutes of death depicted as a lullaby. https://t.co/CsKD5MJrR3

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 7, 2023

An orbit is a path described by mathematics; it is not a physical object that can be "crashed into".

Please can we at least have SOME science "reporters" who aren't less scientifically literate than the average @BillNye viewer? https://t.co/3N05AUiYbk

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 9, 2023

Many criminals are entrepreneurs; it's just that their business happens to be illegal. https://t.co/nMqBcW3CmK

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 10, 2023

I don't think it would be bragging to say that I probably have more cerebral capacity than most. And yet, I *still* don't have enough space there to allow various public figures to live rent-free in my head as so many otherwise-intelligent people seem wont to do.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 11, 2023

Cops constantly demonstrate *exactly* what they are; why don't you believe them? https://t.co/Ipnk6dS3Rr

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 12, 2023

Isaac Asimov once described computers as "high-speed morons". He was correct, ad anyone who blathers about artificial "intelligence" is wrong. https://t.co/EzyEU9CdsX

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 14, 2023

And as for "dating apps", I think the less said the better; they concentrate the toxic aspects of both "dating" culture and "looking for relationships" and add a heavy component of superficiality.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 14, 2023

"From behind" doesn't sound nearly as bad as "in the back".

Journalists need to start using those words, rather than mealy-mouthed softeners. https://t.co/DugFSaRgx6

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 15, 2023

This phrasing sounds so much nicer than "cops abduct drunk woman, rip off her clothes, then take nude pictures without her consent." https://t.co/8knRR6TU2z

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 17, 2023

How much longer will Americans allow cops to use robot guns and cars that go berserk and attack people on their own? https://t.co/pW3gzG4ADO

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 18, 2023

Experts: The Drug War increases deaths by overdose and has been catastrophic to civil liberties.
Economists: The Drug War has cost trillions and had absolutely no positive effects.
Civil libertarians: End the damned drug war already!
Your "leaders": https://t.co/OuV6nM5dfJ

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 19, 2023

Many scientists used to claim that the sci-fi concept of a murderous Frankensteinian computer was impossible. https://t.co/cRidQsQwMu

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) February 21, 2023

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In the News (#1314)

[Some prosecutors] don’t want to turn miscarriages into crime scenes.  –  Miriam Krinsky

A Mound of Filth (#907) 

Though “sex trafficking” hysteria is moribund, outlets which once promoted it are now distancing themselves from it, and supporting the human rights of sex workers is no longer the kiss of political death, one wouldn’t know it from this article, which reads like something written nine years ago at the apex of the moral panic.  All the tired Arizona tropes and stale characters (the Phoenix Dream Center, “Cuckoo Clock” McCain, bogus “statistics”, “Body Fluids” Sepowitz, wanking fantasies about sex workers’ lives, “King of the Hill” claims, etc) are trotted out in juxtaposition with the mummified “gypsy whores” myth in order to promote a re-animated “Project Rose”, now rebranded as “The Arizona model”.  It would almost be sad if these people weren’t dangerous, well-funded sociopaths on a crusade against women’s sexual autonomy, and employing an army of rapist thugs to accomplish it.

Zeitgeist

Sexual violence is not merely a problem of US policing; it’s endemic to policing as an institution:

…we need to recognize that [sexual violence] is systemic…it is built into policing cultures…Last year, the B.C. Municipal Undercover Program, was shut down…following [revel]ations [of the extreme lengths to which cops would go to “prove” they weren’t cops]…14 women working for the Ottawa Police…reported that they were sexually assaulted or harassed by male [cops] over the previous three years…The 2022 Tiller report…said, “The all-too-common attitude was that women were in the workplace for the sexual amusement and gratification of male members”…Even more, what happens in the force does not stay in the force…[cops regularly inflict sexual violence on women they encounter, with] Indigenous women [being] disproportionately impacted…police do not protect individuals and communities from sexual violence.  The history of police mishandling sexual assault cases, and further traumatizing victims in the process, is well documented…an[d]…policing institutions themselves are sites of sexual violence.  Police are often the perpetrators…

Devil’s Advocate (#1114) 

The absurdity becomes more obvious when we substitute “toaster” for “sex doll”:

A [Utah politician] committee…gave unanimous approval to a bill that would prohibit the possession, purchase, or distribution of [toasters] made to look like minors or children…a representative from the Utah Attorney General’s Office said there is a “high correlation” between possession of the [appliance]s and [possession of marijuana.  Politician]…Nate Mutter…said…s[toners often smoke up all their weed, so rooting pigs]…aren’t able to find evidence [that doesn’t actually exist]…”What we do know about the [toaster]s, though, is that there’s a high correlation between them being found in homes with [weed, because stoners get the munchies and use them to heat pop-tarts] or [frozen waffles]…So, in those cases where we [want to harass someone who hasn’t actually done anything wrong], this would be an additional tool to [arrest] someone…and [lock] them in…[a cage]”…

Creepy Coppers

He aced the predatory pervert job requirement, but failed the lying test:

Sergio Celaya arrived at the El Mirage [Arizona] Police Department on February 6 hoping to get hired as a police assistant.  However…whilst doing a polygraph test Celaya reportedly confessed to having videos showing underage girls having sex on his computer…police [then] searched his home…and…found a flash drive holding thousands of pornographic videos and photographs, including one of children aged 12-13…

Negative Secondary Effects (#1226)

I’m glad I was wrong about the lawsuit’s chance of success:

Edinburgh sex workers prevailed…when a judge ruled that the city council’s attempt to ban all strip clubs was unlawful.  The council’s policy, known as “nil-cap,” effectively banned all “sexual entertainment venues”…in the…capital.  Local sex workers, alongside the clubs where they make their living, launched a judicial review and…Lord Richardson released an 82-page judgment ruling the policy unlawful…

The Vultures Descend (#1273)

Bloodthirsty politicians are furious about having their crusades thwarted:

Republican…[politicians] frustrated by…district attorneys who have publicly pledged not to bring charges under their state’s abortion laws…have introduced bills that would allow state officials to either bypass the local prosecutors or kick them out of office…In Texas, [two mob-rule] bills…would allow [lawsuits against]…a district attorney who fails to prosecute abortion-related offenses…[or] anyone suspected of “aiding and abetting” an abortion.  In Georgia, [politicians] want to create a…commission that could…remove local prosecutors who [offend state politicians]…A…South Carolina [bill] would give the state attorney general the power to prosecute abortion cases…And [an] Indiana…[bill]…would allow a…special prosecutor to enforce laws when a local prosecutor declines to do so…

To Molest and Rape (#1309)

“Attempted to engage in a sexual relationship” is such a long-winded way to say “tried to molest”:

A Walton County [Florida cop named]…Artie Rodriguez…was immediately removed from his position [as a thug paid to  spy on, harass, and intimidate students] at Walton Academy after…a [genderless person reported] Rodriguez attempted to [molest them]…in person and [groom them] via text…Rodriguez showed the student explicit photos, [grop]ed them…and provided them with a vape pen…

 

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Links #657

They couldn’t keep him alive for two weeks.  –  Richard Blodgett

David Crosby was not the strongest songwriter in Crosby, Stills & Nash, but this unusual composition is highly regarded by critics.  The links above the video were provided by Radley Balko; Mistress Matisse; Jesse Walker and Mike Siegel; Cop Crisis (x3); and Kevin Wilson, in that order.

• But for video.
• The War on Drugs is a war on people.
• R.I.P. Gina Lollobrigida & David Crosby.
• Cops arrest woman for having a stroke.
• Cops beat and arrest woman for loving cheese.
• Drunk cop runs family off road, threatens to shoot them.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• This histrionic has-been has made a rotting moral panic her whole career.
• Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
• I wonder how many more fakeumentaries we’ll see before the implosion?
• Woman paid to cause non-consensual harm thinks sex work is shameful.
• “Sex traffickers” have spread from big stores to gas station mini-marts.
• Don’t be fooled by this “shutdown”; it’ll be back in an even-worse form.
• A man has been convicted of “crimes” against people who do not exist.
• The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
• Oh noes, they contaminated public places with their eeeevul sex rays!
• What kind of sick mind thinks hunting & raping women “builds trust”?
• Another cop scam to shore up the dying “sex trafficking” mythology.
• Just as we said would happen before this terrible law was imposed.
• Virginia screws sexually assault women like this on a regular basis.
• Even I’m impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
• Pathetic public promotions of misogynistic masturbatory material.
• I’m sure the US Army really cares about “diversity and inclusion”.
• Does this anti-whore bullshit spring from the film or its reviewer?
• “Give me your huddled masses, so I can lock them in dungeons”.
• Take a guess why this woman hates sex workers. Go on, guess.
• They’re trying to cut off sex worker access to travel worldwide.
• Cops, politicians, buttholes, dinosaurs in love, and much more.
• Oh look, a psychopathic rapist-murderer cop has raped before.
• We haven’t seen a case of white van hysteria in almost a year.
• The verbal equivalent of vomiting up gallons of toxic diarrhea.
• Cops, satire, Cloris Leachman, Cicely Tyson, and much more.
• Judge denies prosecutors’ wish to keep nonconsensual porn.
• Tara Burns on the “But she’s a whore!” defense for rape.
• Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
• Notice how often predatory cops’ victims are underage?
• One of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
• “The crime was sexually motivated”.  No shit, really?
• A retrospective of my blogging from January 2012.
• Another obituary of Margo St. James from 48 Hills.
• People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
• Are most cops even capable of telling the truth?
• Michael Bloomberg vs. Melissa Petro’s sex rays.
• Cops, headlines, Don Wilson, and much more.
• White van hysteria appears to be broadening.
• There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
• The Miami Herald‘s Super Bowl tragedy porn.
• The US is following in the footsteps of China.
• The US has regularly done this for decades.
• Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse.
• Sex workers cannot cure violent misogyny.
• A number of things fall quietly into place.
• Part 2 of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
• This is why we can’t have nice things.
• My two previous columns for Imbolc.
• The arrival of our standby generator.
• We’re way past the watershed now.
• The second leaf of my atrium roof.
• A circle-jerk of prudish teamsters.
• Job opportunities with Prostasia.
• The “security” system that isn’t.
• How bisexual is Maggie?
• Rapist cop of the week.
• The right kind of snow.
• The Omega Factor.

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Links #655

Please don’t kill my husband.  –  Shameka Smith

Grace suggested this video to commemorate the passing of guitar legend Jeff Beck; I was unfamiliar with it, but less than 60 seconds in I knew it was the right choice.  The inks above the video were provided by Dan Savage, Mama Tush, Clarissa (x2), Mike Siegel, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.

• R.I.P. Jeff Beck.
• Tampons make Jesus cry.
• Never underestimate Roman genius.
• R.I.P. Walter Cunningham and Fay Weldon.
• Another cop wantonly murders another kid.
• The message here is, “We know who you are”.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.

From the Archives

• Wherever there are men making money, there will be sex workers nearby.
• Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
• Working people all over are done with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
• If there’s one thing the US needs, it’s more sadistic rapists in the military.
• This disgusting trash is loaded with copsucking & emotional manipulation.
• Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
• The bipartisan war on the internet moves another step toward idiocracy.
• Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
• Are most people really surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
• Remember this when people claim prohibitionists are “well-intentioned”.
• SCOTUS leaves the conflict between the 7th & 10th Circuits unresolved.
• Whores are even less popular with the Establishment than MAGA types.
• He pronounced the wrong magic words in the magic Spell of Forfeiture.
• Even journalists reporting on this insist on referring to it as “correction”.
• Though this is becoming a safe position, we still have a long way to go.
• The machine of authoritarianism is vast, complex, and has many parts.
• Anti-vaping lunacy is reaching “sex trafficking” levels of disinformation.
• Another example of how “lockdowns” cause far more harm than good.
• Pro-decrim article by a sex worker in conservative-leaning newspaper.
• Politicians & the media feign shock over a disaster they helped create.
• Discussing extreme fetishes in writing with any amateur is a bad idea.
• The fashion and beauty industries owe their very existence to whores.
• Some rapist cops take measures to permanently silence their victims.
• An account of Epstein’s crimes that doesn’t devolve into torture porn.
• France becomes the first European country to start this conversation.
• Reporters must learn that “people work to make money” is not news.
• Silly “awareness raising” stunts are now mostly marketing gimmicks.
• Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
• PayPal needs to be buried in similar lawsuits before this will stop.
• PayPal is now actively seeking to rat sex workers out to the pigs.
• The only way to market yourself as I do is to be Maggie McNeill.
• Cops, pigeons, Florida, Siegfried Fischbacher, and much more.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Texas cops raid migrant-owned businesses; what a surprise.
• “Tolerance policies” are not equivalent to decriminalization.
• Cops think they can just make up their own pharmacology.
• Cops, nerds, puritanism, Ronnie Spector, and much more.
• Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
• Another firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs.
• All that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
• A sad regurgitation of all the usual anti-porn nonsense.
• It would be difficult to bury this lede any further down.
• Fascist profiteers sue to force censorship on everyone.
• The recrudescence of the “repressed memory” myth.
• Old-fashioned Stasi-type surveillance isn’t dead yet.
• Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
• The War on Whores, now showing on YouTube.
• Alabama is trying to make up for its late start.
• We told you so, over and over and over again.
• Brooke Magnanti’s new project, Body of Work.
• Cathy Reisenwitz on the awfulness of Polaris.
• Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
• Cops, Bach under glass, and much more.
• The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I.
• Not concerned yet?  You should be.
• Dealing with a constipated pig.
• So helping!  Many respectful!
• What an exhausting week!
• Rapist cop of the week.
• A visit with Dr. Quest.
• Fascism in action.

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