Links #520

I can’t breathe.  –  Derrick Scott

A Brave New World radio play narrated by Aldous Huxley himself?  With a Bernard Herrmann score?  Yes please!  The video was contributed by Anarras Ansible, and the links above it by Stephen Lemons, Conner Habib, Popehat, Mark Bennett, Mama Tush, Radley Balko, and Amy Alkon, in that order.

• Actually, it’s 42.
• But of course you can.
• Beginning to see a pattern yet?
• The best satire stays close to the truth.
• Cops molest & abduct teen for crossing the street.
• No, your reason for calling them isn’t an exception.
• In case you thought only US cops were this deranged.

From the Archives

• Never underestimate the human capacity to obsess about the nonexistent.
• “Standing up for a child’s welfare” means condemning a man to seizures.
• How many kids need to be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
• With Backpage gone, anti-whore pogroms turn back to low-hanging fruit.
• Partisans say “two wrongs don’t make a right”, but don’t really believe it.
• Liberals not only lied about repealing a law; they’re actively defending it.
• Seattle “officials” think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use.
• Prohibitionist tactics are the same no matter what they want to prohibit.
• And yet the Times supports the Magdalene orders’ rebranding, Ruhama.
• If the Democrats were smart, they’d adopt this as their official platform.
• Why do reporters repeat this egregious nonsense without fact-checking?
• Canadian cops love to harass and intimidate sex workers & call it “help”.
• The only sex workers excluded from New Zealand decrim are migrants.
• Rebranding “prostitution-free zones” as “human trafficking-free zones”.
• CBP pretends face pics are “encrypted” and “only kept for a brief time”.
• Ever wondered how bureaucrats came up with over 300,000 “crimes”?
• Florida “authorities” commit atrocities in the name of “sex trafficking”.
• The world’s largest “anti-trafficking” organization is the only real one.
• “…But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
• Feminists claim the state should own and control all women’s bodies.
• How governments get around the push to reduce prison populations.
• Are amateurs really so sheltered that this sort of thing shocks them?
• A four-hour interrogation by armed thugs is downplayed as “urging”.
• Prudes like to pretend sex work isn’t part of the entertainment field.
• Stigma against sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
• Observation: homeless camp in woods. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
• Some members of the psychiatric community live in the real world.
• Even I’m impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
• Cops busting kids’ lemonade stands isn’t even news any more.
• Another shitty law specifically designed to harm sex workers.
• It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
• Where in the Gospels did Jesus tell people to attack harlots?
• Velvet Swing is the first female sex aid that actually works.
• Yeahno.  This still smells like a publicity stunt gone wrong.
• Just in case you thought this particular insanity was over.
• Entrapment so blatant even a judge couldn’t swallow it.
• When a boss cop rapes, the victim is often underage.
• Cops, Koko, hoax studies, tall ducks and much more.
• Alex Vitale on the development of modern policing.
• The tide has definitely turned on sex worker rights.
• Cops, government, “Spanish Flea” and much more.
• My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
• On seeing my name and work all over the place.
• Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
• The recrudescence of a public health nightmare.
• Top this one, “sex trafficking event” hysterics.
• Some Louisiana cops prefer to rape by proxy.
• Is this idiotic enough yet?  Can we stop now?
• Remember the “nail parlor slavery” myth?
• What is wrong with doctors who do this?
• Back from one trip and off on another.
• Why I have trouble writing at Sunset.
• “Pastors” are almost as bad as cops.

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Links #516

How dare you!  –  Greta Thunberg

Here’s yet another unusual song cover to prove that “cultural appropriation” is awesome; it was provided by Radley Balko, and the links above it are from Franklin Harris, Rick Pettit, Kevin Wilson, Popehat (x2), The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and Stephen Lemons, in that order.

• R.I.P. Fred Willard.
• The shopping cart test.
• How to solve all problems.
• Antidepressants or Tolkien?
• Buying a TV set while black.
• Retro-future tech is mighty cool.
• The best satire cleaves closely to the truth.

From the Archives

• Clubs need to learn that the bad old days of exploiting dancers are over.
• Another “sex trafficking” hysteria film for future generations to laugh at.
• Rubmaps may be the new prohibitionist bogeyman to replace Backpage.
• One of the best feminist arguments for decriminalization I’ve ever seen.
• Most of this is the usual garbage, but there’s one rather amusing point.
• This will be much more common due to the ramped-up war on whores.
• Finally setting the record straight on decriminalization in Rhode Island.
• Strippers are spearheading the movement for sex worker labor rights.
• Liz Brown, Kaytlin Bailey & Maya Morena on “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Despite propaganda, what they’re targeting are ordinary escort sites.
• Better to be seen as dangerous seductresses than pathetic “victims”.
• Attractive women have been used to market sports for generations.
• Anti-human rights groups voice support for “Cuckoo Clock” McCain.
• A retrospective of my work from May 2015 and (mostly) May 2016.
• Post-Backpage, anti-whore pogroms turn back to low-hanging fruit.
• Mar Brettmann is a sleazy opportunist selling anti-whore snake oil.
• You are not “accountable” to government; it is accountable to you.
• Another twist in the New Zealand migrant sex worker controversy.
• Because mentioning their sex practices wasn’t quite lurid enough.
• Grown woman pretends to be harmed by lame ’40s elevator joke.
• Most “prostitution” cases come apart like wet toilet paper at trial.
• Another fashion magazine comes out on the side of sex workers.
• How to totally destroy your relationship with your teen offspring.
• Even Reuters is starting to listen to sex workers about “rescue”.
• An unbelievable number of useful idiots complained about this.
• A rare case where a rapist of sex workers is actually convicted.
• Even some mainstream journalists saw though Copmala’s lies.
• Not an outcome one would expect in prohibitionist New York.
• This sleazy tactic started in Canada, then spread to the UK.
• More racist cop sexual fantasies about Nigerian juju rituals.
• In a post-apocalyptic future, a predator stalks human prey.
• Abolishing due process for whores established a precedent.
• Cops, fascism, Grumpy Cat, Tim Conway and much more.
• Being well-educated doesn’t mean knowing everything.
• Touring the Scottish Highlands with Brooke Magnanti.
• Another good anti-prohibition article at New Republic.
• Marijuana prohibition will soon be a thing of the past.
• We did warn you this wouldn’t stop with sex workers.
• A “dark underworld” that’s somehow “in plain sight”.
• Rape victims are increasingly treated like criminals.
• Dare I hope for a return of “creepy clown” hysteria?
• Traveling in a good, though exhausted, headspace.
• What our government calls a “correctional facility”.
• Cops, Greek, cake, nightmares and much more.
• Please, David Rosen, become a prohibitionist.
• These are some of the nuns behind Ruhama.
• Pictures of Brooke Magnanti & me in the UK.
• Why do people have such trouble with this?
• I’m not going to bother quoting this trash.
• Do you give discounts for regular clients?
• The state says this isn’t a punishment.
• Then they came for the strippers…
• A pretty typical “leader”, really.
• This totalitarian idea won’t die.
• Just 1500 isolated incidents.
• On replacing my old car.
• The end of the internet?
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Welcome to the future.
• It’s already here.

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Robocops

In Hollywood movies, robots are characters; they are often funny, charming, resourceful or even heroic.  So naturally, in the movie Robocop, the title character was heroic, resourceful, and, to a degree, even funny and charming.  Of course, in real life, robots have no personality; they are (as Isaac Asimov once observed) “high-speed morons” which will do anything they are instructed to do, no matter how stupid, destructive or violent, without the slightest delay due to judgment, instinct, empathy, ethical considerations, or other human factors.  From the standpoint of rulers, then, real “robocops” would be ideal; they would inflict whatever violence they were instructed to inflict, using whatever criteria they were programmed to use, without an iota of conscience or personal ethics.  They would “only follow orders” and faithfully “do their jobs” by carrying out the whims of the rulers, no matter how idiotic, abominable or mutually-contradictory, without a moment’s hesitation.  So perhaps it’s a matter of judicial wishful thinking that in this century, US courts have increasingly ruled that cops are so robotically stupid that they are absolutely devoid of human moral judgment, and therefore cannot be held responsible for even the most flagrant violations of law, ethics or even basic common decency unless they are specifically instructed that the exact act, described in the most precise detail, is wrongful:

Two businessmen who [were robbed by] Fresno police [of] more than $225,000…are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to close a legal loophole that shields [cops] from liability.  Under “qualified immunity” victims can only sue government officials for damages if they prove that their rights were violated and that those rights were “clearly established.”  So when the two men, Micah Jessop and Brittan Ashjian, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the [robbers], their case was dismissed.  “There was no clearly established law holding that officers violate the Fourth or Fourteenth Amendment when they steal property seized pursuant to a warrant,” the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in September…Ashjian told the Fresno Bee last year…“if the police have a search warrant that’s valid, they could steal your things and you don’t have the ability to pursue it…I am about as pro cop as anybody, but what happened doesn’t make any sense”…

It’s really too bad that we can’t, through some super-scientific reprogramming of the brains of these supposed “heroes”, force them to limit their depradations to judges, politicians, and other “pro cop” douchebags.  Alas, some things exist only in science fiction.

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Links #513

The government does not have the power to change the dictionary.  –  Justin Pearson

The best parody is very close to the truth; this video (from a dude we’ve seen before) is an excellent example.  The video was provided by Annie Sprinkle, and the links above it by Franklin Harris (“cosplay”), Dave Krueger (“imitation”), Nun Ya (“literal”), and Jesse Walker (everything else).

• Good ruling; let’s hope it stands.
• Pigs want to terrorize a person for cosplay.
• Because laws are more important than people.
• Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Thank Dolly Parton.
• Government demands real milk be labeled “imitation”.
• We are entering a new dark age, but this is a bit literal.

From the Archives

• Glorification of New York’s prohibitionist shitshow “sex trafficking court”.
• The war on whores has brought disgusting creeps out of the woodwork.
• Cops, Lovecraft, viral media, classic Hollywood Avengers & much more.
• Deeply underestimating the emotional contact men want from whores.
• US rulers believe they have right to disrupt lives of millions worldwide.
• UK feminists release revenge porn of women who disagree with them.
• Discrimination vs sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
• How things have changed since Belle Knox was mercilessly harassed.
• Know why cops don’t like to investigate rapes? Professional courtesy.
• Whores need to keep suing until every cop shop is buried in lawsuits.
• Politicians pretend the point of anti-porn laws is to “protect children”.
• In which a partisan jackass chases his own “human trafficking” tale.
• The heating up of the war on whores made for an exhausting week.
• When a headline asks a question, the answer is nearly always “no”.
• Mark Bennett kills Texas’ mindlessly-draconian “revenge porn” law.
• This licks prohibitionist arseholes so hard it nearly made me vomit.
• You mean physical behaviors have stronger effects than pictures?
• Now you can be a useful idiot without even using a special app!
• If you don’t understand this, try looking up “Napoleonic Code”.
• Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
• This procedure has come a long way in only three years.
• Who Gay, Inc chooses to side with against sex workers.
• Anyone surprised by this hasn’t been paying attention.
• Naturally she’s doing this; she’s an intelligent woman.
• How Pete Buttigieg covered up for violent rapist pigs.
• Cops, anal worms, Florida, Vangelis and much more.
• The hypocrisy of politicians sometimes defies belief.
• Will Canadian cops go after this billboard company?
• It’s good to see this getting more attention lately.
• The tendency toward such penalties is increasing.
• A look at the antics of loose-cannon Florida pigs.
• Evil people use moral panics to cover their evil.
• Like an explosion in a Froot Loop factory.
• The week Hermes was unhappy with me.
• Gee, I wonder where they got this idea?
• I love it when they feed on their own.
• Lewis & her friends are naive fools.
• A week of travels in the Midwest.

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Links #512

Live forever.  –  Mr. Electrico

This video is no surprise, given that it’s one of my favorite songs and I’ve featured videos from the lovely Luna before.  The links above it were provided by Juvenile Bluster, Mark Bennett, Anarras Ansible, Jesse Walker, Boatfloating, and Jesse Walker again, in that order.

• Much more of this, please.
• How to name animals in German.
• Buying sports equipment while black.
• Young Ray Bradbury meets Mr. Electrico.
• A cat and a dog debate ending “shelter in place”.
• No sillier than a lot of what US politicians claim, really.

From the Archives

• Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
• “With faggots out of the way…we can focus on helping their child victims”.
• “A brief period of time”, when DHS is building a giant biometric database.
• Puritanical language is an intrinsic part of any massage parlor raid story.
• The last attempt to start this hysteria also involved exactly three cases.
• Irish prohibitionists celebrated this increase in violence vs sex workers.
• This will happen much more until a replacement for Backpage appears.
• At last, the psychiatric community takes aim at “porn addiction” myth.
• Could this racist attempt to deter black migrants be more transparent?
• Massage parlors are now taking the brunt of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers.
• UK cops keep pretending they want to “help” the women they harass.
• Ric Curtis, Jon Jay study primary, is still debunking prohibitionist lies.
• NYC is way behind Seattle, Phoenix & Houston in promoting hysteria.
• One of those rare instances where a rapist really was a “former” cop.
• My feeings about cop fans, with help from the late, great Ted Geisel.
• Tyranny starts with despised minorities, but never stops with them.
• FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation by the government.
• A disproportionate number of pimps who actually do exist are cops.
• Sometimes they don’t even hide the hysteria’s religious foundation.
• Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• Another complete shitshow involving a sleazy review board owner.
• The Young Liberals have pushed to repeal this law since it passed.
• Cops, progressivism, Waffle House, Bob Dorough and much more.
• Ken White explains the latest wrinkle in the Stormy Daniels case.
• This outcome was obvious once Trump appointed Huber to HHS.
• Are we now going to retroactively label all cults “sex trafficking”?
• “Sex trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean.
• I’m sure she was chained up & actually owned in a legal sense.
• “Sex addiction” charlatans fight to keep the gravy train rolling.
• Every so often the Nevada brothels are threatened by zealots.
• I’m pleased so many reporters recognized Harris’ sociopathy.
• Because they care so very much about “trafficking victims”.
• The right way to cancel an appointment with a sex worker.
• Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
• Cops, politicians, millipedes, Nilsson and much more.
• Indian sex workers are tired of politicians’ bullshit.
• People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
• No, this sociopath isn’t pro-decriminalization.
• Dealing with an overstimulated pineal gland.
• Stereotypic conformation in progress.
• It’s just going to keep getting worse.
• Getting to meet one of my heroines.
• Far beyond mere spooge-throwing.
• Welcome back to the 16th century.
• My most generous special of 2018.
• April 2015 and 2016 in retrospect.
• All prohibitionism is the same.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• A classic case of NHI.
• A MILLION!!!!!

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Links #511

I think I’ve drawn almost everyone in Hollywood.  –  Mort Drucker

This 1933 cartoon version of The Wizard of Oz only resembles its source material in that it features a little girl, her dog, a tornado, and an animated scarecrow and tin man.  It was provided by Jesse Walker, who also gave us “Heyerdahl”, “Drucker”, and “fireworks”.  The other links above the video were provided by Angela Keaton (“puritans”), Clarissa (“Blackman”), Kevin Wilson (“surprises”), and Brooke Magnanti (“Cthulhu”).

• Paging the ghost of Thor Heyerdahl.
• This is going to drive puritans crazy.
• R.I.P. Honor Blackman and Mort Drucker.
• I’m not the only one who hates surprises.
• More fireworks and less bootlicking, please.
• Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.

From the Archives

• Since judges are now the handmaidens of prosecutors, this is no surprise.
• CAMTC: pompous, stuffy, bootlicking language in anti-whore propaganda.
• Fetishists claim massage parlors are part a huge international conspiracy.
• Fascism allows for a form of censorship more effective than suppression.
• The more “mommy whores” they see, the more they’ll see it’s mundane.
• Feds use high-stigma accusations to force guilty pleas to lesser charges.
• Another setback in getting rid of these tyrannical, unconstitutional laws.
• It’s not “trafficking” when that would be inconvenient for a government.
• Japanese historian says comfort woman phenomenon was complicated.
• Canadian cops claim sexual harassment of women is to “protect” them.
• Millions can thank Carl Ferrer for selling them out to save his own skin.
• Will gullible reporters ever stop publishing Ashley Madison ads for free?
• This anti-whore brigade couldn’t get politicians to support them, either.
• “Legalization” always has weird laws written by obsessive bureaucrats.
• It’s dangerous to be a woman who knows the secrets of powerful men.
• Because obviously pigs don’t have enough excuses to cage people yet.
• A lot of adult businesses are forced to use dodgy payment processors.
• Nobody wants to admit that forced celibacy exacerbates these issues.
• The idiocy of tribalism has increased with the waxing of this century.
• Dutch sex workers are being threatened by Swedish plague carriers.
• Too pathetic to make it as a sex worker; he should’ve stayed a cop.
• FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation by the government.
• Asian sex workers are fighting the racist “sex trafficking” narrative.
• I’m afraid it’s far too late to put this evil djinni back into its bottle.
• Age of consent laws were always intended to criminalize teen sex.
• Now we know why they wouldn’t say what kind of animal before.
• She was “found dead” after a cop stalked her. Just a koinkydink.
• It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
• Governments are reining in these depredations much too slowly.
• Grosso has consistently pursued this course for four years now.
• The US wars on all sex workers, even those in other countries.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Another state requires anti-whore indoctrination for licensing.
• In which I help a reader shed his guilt about paying for sex.
• A “school” where scores of boys were “reformed” to death.
• Cops, justice, bagpipes, geological time and much more.
• Farley’s evil bigotry is finally coming back to bite her.
• Cops, vandals, puritans, Ohio, spies and much more.
• Liz Hilton of Empower on “rescue raids” in Thailand.
• All things must pass, including beautiful buildings.
• On the arrests of Michael Lacey & Jim Larkin.
• How can I deal with work-related anxiety?
• Rapist cops of the week, 2018 and 2019.
• A rare victory for sex workers over pigs.
• My itinerary for the spring of 2019.
• Yet another sociopath with a title.
• My two previous posts for Easter.
• Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
• A difficult trip to the Bay Area.
• A cartoon version of myself.
• Oh, what a surprise.

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Links #510

I don’t have any money!  –  Jose Villalobos, to disguised cops

The great singer-songwriter Bill Withers died late last week at the age of 81; this seemed like the most appropriate of his songs with which to honor his passing.  The news and video came courtesy of Scott Greenfield; the links above it were provided by Kevin Wilson, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Jesse Walker, Tim Cushing, Liz Brown again, and Mike Siegel, in that order.

• {cue “Yakety Sax”}
• This is totalitarianism.
• The National Emergency Library.
• Cops beat man for going to church.
• Not. For. Any. Reason. WHATSOEVER.
• A personality test that’s actually interesting.

From the Archives

• Everett, WA declares “women who dress like sluts are asking to be raped”.
• Will Greens become the 2nd US political party to adopt decriminalization?
• Easier to get away with rape if you’re literally in bed with the prosecutor.
• Myths convince Switzerland to narrow the bottleneck for legal sex work.
• Five times a day, she faces the capitol and chants, “the Law is the Law”.
• Possibly the best explainer about Asian massage parlors I’ve ever seen.
• Every so often the feds make an example of an especially-horrible cop.
• Five years trying to exonerate a rapist, followed by a slap on the wrist.
• Cops don’t like it when non-cops accuse people of imaginary “crimes”.
• Sex workers’ own social network in case we’re censored from Twitter.
• Alas, in our post-factual era this doesn’t help as much as it once did.
• Who needs the cops to out HIV+ people when dating apps can do it?
• Hamilton politicians should talk to those in Auckland & Christchurch.
• Twisted authoritarian minds think consensual sex is “complicated”.
• I bet this was either a findom arrangement or a blackmail fantasy.
• Even I’m impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
• Cops bragged when they arrested a billionaire for consensual sex.
• Woman says toasters have “feelings”, but whores are subhuman.
• Fascists claim nonconsensual DNA surveillance is a good thing.
• Destroying sex workers’ safety, one “improvement” at a time.
• The need to censor is one of the most twisted of perversions.
• I suggest you compare this to the “nail parlor slavery” myth.
• It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
• Asstoon says he’s not just a savior, but an actual messiah.
• Israeli prohibitionists are trying to criminalize all sex work.
• Possibly the most pathetic of all things: a gay male prude.
• Because obviously his sex rays might harm sick children.
• It usually starts with us, but it never, ever stops with us.
• Another young woman fired for having a private sex life.
• Honest headline: “NYPD Creeps Threaten Lonely Men”.
• Every vice gang in the country needs to be shut down.
• The GSS is notoriously unreliable on sexual matters.
• A long-form article about Dungeons and Dragons.
• Cops, surveillance, Oingo Boingo and much more.
• Dante would’ve placed this monster in Ptolomea.
• A sex worker-friendly offshore hosting company.
• The Bay Area screening of The War on Whores.
• Anti-whore assholes just keep getting bolder.
• This is quite a change in less than two years.
• Cannabis decriminalization in New Orleans.
• Your government calls this “correction”.
• Cops, nightmares, fish and much more.
• A call to action by Stacey Swimme.
• Getting worse before it gets better.
• The hysteria that ate Sheboygan.
• But they want to “rescue” them!
• On the new escort ad site Tryst.
• Jim Jefferies vs. SESTA/FOSTA.
• Getting my fundraiser straight.
• Another whore-snitching app.
• The destruction of Backpage.
• Rapist cops of the week.

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Links #509

Right now we have a pinpointed risk…called New York City.  –  politician Gina Raimondo

In this very funny Godzilla fan film provided by Franklin Harris, one guy plays all the parts (in the same suit).  The links above it were contributed by Brooke Magnanti, Jesse Walker, Mistress Matisse, Stephen Lemons, Jesse Walker again, Mama Tush, and Thaddeus Russell, in that order.

• R.I.P. Ellis Marsalis.
• The red ghost of Quartzsite.
• Talk about personal magnetism.
• The best humor is basically true.
• Authoritarians think violence is a panacea.
• It’s like RAY-AY-AAAAAIIIIN on your wedding day…
• Government will always find a way to profit from disaster.

From the Archives

• It’s important for celebrities to be “out” if they did sex work in their youth.
• Spineless “journalists” print prohibitionist pap rather than consult experts.
• Puritans hate that some women are comfortable paying our bills with sex.
• Even bootlicking Time seems to grasp that something bad has happened.
• When the loon behind “mandatory porn filter” bills did a massive pratfall.
• Why was the 20^th century term used rather than its modern counterpart?
• Raising pullets was like having a box of tiny clowns in my laundry room.
• Both European & US politicians are invested in demolishing the internet.
• Seeing this one power taken from cops is a small but important victory.
• A deeper look at the sleazy lies politicians use to destroy women’s jobs.
• All prostitution “stings” are entrapment; that’s the whole point of them.
• “Sex trafficking” is such a convenient weapon against adult businesses.
• Politicians have been trying to control the internet ever since it started.
• Where there are men making money, there will be sex workers as well.
• Irish prohibitionists celebrated this increase in violence vs sex workers.
• New self-aggrandizing name for pro-censorship nuts Morality in Media.
• Treatment of sex workers is a good indicator of feelings about women.
• We warned dilettantes that this wouldn’t stop with actual sex workers.
• Gentrification is a common motivation for persecution of sex workers.
• It’s great to see Asian sex workers fighting back against racist cops.
• Headline blames girls because busybodies want them unemployed.
• Cops telling “sex slave” fantasies are just dangerous time-wasters.
• Looks like at least one dangerous censor-moron is on his way out.
• Any non-politician would have given this up as a bad idea by now.
• Bigot talks about murdered woman as though she were a disease.
• Literally scaring a normal teen to death is “just doing their jobs”.
• It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
• The Spanish case of the Swedish rot may be especially virulent.
• The Democratic party did half the work of creating this lunacy.
• Australia’s Northern Territory moves toward decriminalization.
• I’ve been saying I distrusted Avenatti since the beginning.
• Is it just me, or are you less patient than you used to be?
• This is over three years old, but it’s too good to pass up.
• Cops, amateurs, Jesus Christ Superstar and much more.
• I am not your attack dog, so don’t try to whistle me up.
• Corporations are becoming the favored tool of censors.
• Mathematical illiteracy is no bar to becoming a cop.
• Five years in prison for talking to someone online.
• The panic industry’s latest dumb “teen fad” panic.
• Even “legal” sex workers were harmed by FOSTA.
• The next generation of sex worker security apps.
• Cops, restaurants, the Freakies and much more.
• A rare victory for sex workers against the state.
• 23 “sex trafficking” idiocies in one short article.
• My dear friend Savannah Sly in Teen Vogue.
• The twelfth member of my Hall of Shame.
• This could potentially be very good for us.
• The 7th murdered transwoman of 2018.
• Toward the end of privacy, everywhere.
• Now they notice. Good going, Gay, Inc!
• Decorating, a fundraiser, and a baby.
• In other news, bear shits in woods.
• Do as cops say, not as they do.
• It’s about goddamned time.
• Is this dumbass for real?
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Population 36,000.

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Links #508

Somewhere in the darkness, the gambler he broke even.  –  Kenny Rogers

Country music legend Kenny Rogers died late last week after a long, successful career which started as a doo-wop singer in the late ’50s; this was his most famous song, but he was known for many which told the stories of hard-luck characters (such as “Lucille” and “The Coward of the County”), plus his duets with Dolly Parton.  The links above were provided by Dave Krueger, Brooke Magnanti, Zuri Davis, Mistress Matisse, Phoenix Calida, and Furrygirl, in that order.

• But for video.
• R.I.P. Stuart Gordon.
• Just protecting and serving.
• Talk about being in a bubble…
• US politicians really believe they rule the world.
• Politicians won’t forgive property taxes, but want landlords to forgive rent.

From the Archives

• Cop complains that he can’t arrest those who aren’t doing anything illegal.
• The New York Times discovers what the marginalized have always known.
• It’s dangerous to be a woman who knows sexual secrets of powerful men.
• Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
• There’s a concise word for “sexually assaulted an incapacitated woman”.
• Politicians claim magic posters “fight” a repeatedly-debunked “problem”.
• More on Seattle’s scheme to sell human lives to a sociopathic billionaire.
• From a man who imagines condoms to be weapons of mass destruction.
• How long it will be before the US abandons its “re-education” programs?
• Remember this when racists try to blame migration on African religions.
• Anti-trans bigots keep sexually assaulting trans people in public toilets.
• Massage parlors are popular pogrom targets; they’re low-hanging fruit.
• PREA is worthless while screws have absolute power over their victims.
• Regular reminder that Grady Judd is a loathsome excuse for a human.
• So many “artists” feel no compunction against exploiting sex workers.
• The hilarity of cops trying to regain control of a runaway moral panic.
• Bullshit-free headline: “How UN Staff are Helping Local Economies”.
• Fact:  3-year-old suspiciously vanishes. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
• Persecution of sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
• Captain Save-a-ho is going to “fight” our work by walking around.
• This hodgepodge tries to fit in every single “sex trafficking” trope.
• It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
• Thought blaming whores for epidemics was a thing of the past?
• The fallout will continue while this horrific law remains in force.
• Prohibitionist group laments the shutdown of a gang of rapists.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• I’m glad to see Bruckert has expanded her study into a book.
• If the people won’t support your crusade, just overrule them.
• At least Wyoming had the sense to vote this nonsense down.
• The real story here is that she was threatened with violence.
• Creepy fascist surveillance of hotel guests is growing worse.
• A retrospective of my blogging from March 2015 and 2016.
• No woman can now be safe from sexually-aggressive cops.
• Appeasing prohibitionists results in exploitation of women.
• Magical anti-pimp posters have their origins in puritanism.
• STOP CEDING GROUND TO FUCKING PROHIBITIONISTS!
• It’s been a long time since we’ve seen anything like this.
• They’re like anti-vaxxers who actively spread contagion.
• The UK’s long-deferred surveillance/censorship scheme.
• Why do men want to put stupid gadgets on their dicks?
• Are providers ever jealous or possessive of clients?
• Cops, censorship, Rube Goldberg and much more.
• How you can see The War on Whores for yourself.
• Want more proof that we’re past the watershed?
• The Canadian premiere of The War on Whores.
• Cops, cats, chickens, fascism and much more.
• Farm machinery still causes “sex trafficking”!
• Recycling the same bogeyman tale for years.
• Imagine this actually going to trial in the US.
• A fundraiser to promote The War on Whores.
• Caty Simon on overlapping prohibitions.
• Rapist cops don’t only target women.
• What “safe harbor” laws actually do.
• But they’re “rescuing sex slaves”!
• A rare victory for sex workers.
• This is called “democracy”.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• SAVE THE TOASTERS!
• A very uneven week.

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All the Quiet Sociopaths

When Lucy Steigerwald tweeted this item about ICE still trying to deport people in the middle of a pandemic, she commented that she didn’t understand how they could sleep at night; I said that “Just doing my job” is even more insidiously evil than “I was only following orders”.  Mike Siegel then replied by calling attention to what Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski said about the interrogator character in the episode “Intersections in Real Time”, a man so harmless-looking he would’ve gone unnoticed in any ordinary office:

…You look at most of the guys who ran Treblinka, or Bergen-Belsen, and they’re largely ordinary looking guys, who could be accountants or repair men or car salesmen…most SF tends to…deal with the big bad guys, the…Darth Vaders and all the other major forces…but all too often the real damage is done not by the single Evil Leader, but by the ten million people who follow him, the bookkeepers who track the bodies and…make the trains run on time, who run the gulags, who build the new state empires that will be built with slave labor, any or all of whom could say, as many have, “I was just doing my job”…To the interrogator, he was simply doing his job, and…then he goes home to his wife and kids, and has dinner, and sits out on the porch trying to forget what he does because he thinks he has to do it…assuming he thinks about it at all…

Look around you, especially in an election season, and see the pure evil a lot of people spout, usually while imagining that the things they’re advocating – up to and including mob violence – are righteous.  And they’re all ordinary folks.  Some of the people I’ve crossed paths with as an activist don’t actually care about anyone’s rights; they’re just amoral Marxists who happened to fall into sex work at some point and have chosen to adopt it as an identity despite Marxist regimes’ long persecution of us.  The majority of cops, bureaucrats and other petty evildoers don’t see themselves as evil; they see themselves as just people doing a job.  And every one of them looks (and in public, acts) just like anyone else.  They shop in the same stores, watch TV, love their dogs, eat next to us in restaurants.

All the cops.

All the screws.

All the functionaries.

All the other quiet sociopaths.

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