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Posts Tagged 'Shame Shame'
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged California, censorship, Choke Point, consensual crime, cops, drugs, end demand, evidence, fascism, internet, New York, Panopticon, Policing for Profit, politicians, porn, propaganda, rape, Shame Shame, social purity, streetwalkers, surveillance, The Pro-Rape Coalition, To Molest and Rape, Virginia, Winding Down on December 12, 2020| 1 Comment »
Kristof…has never found a victim of a sexual crime that he cannot "humanize" by going through their ordeal in exploitative detail. – Gustavo Turner
Policing for Profit (#816)
When victims have nothing to steal, cops profit from them by fucking up their lives instead:
…under…a s[cheme politicians] and top cops have touted in recent years [as a way] to combat [imaginary "]human trafficking[", gangs]…of NYPD [vice pigs] have descended on minority neighborhoods, leaning into car windows and knocking on apartment doors, trying to get men and women to…agree…to exchange sex for money. These arrests are based…entirely on the word of cops, who…are incentivized to round up as many "bodies" as they can. Some of their targets were selling sex to survive; others were minding their own business. Almost everyone arrested for these crimes in the last four years is nonwhite…89% of the 1,800 charged with prostitution; 93% of the 3,000 accused of trying to buy sex…People living paycheck to paycheck lost their jobs over [imaginary] crimes…[because] facing multiple court hearings and the threat of jail time, they took quick deals to move on with their lives. [One] former [vice sow admitted to]…ProPublica she participated in false arrests…Eighteen current and former [vice pigs admitted that]…overtime has motivated them for years. The hours add up over the drive to the precinct, the questioning, the paperwork…
Choke Point (#847)
Since "Choke Point" was never banned or declared unconstitutional, there's currently nothing to stop future tyrants from simply bringing it back:
…the…Office of the Comptroller of the Currency…led the charge with Operation Chokepoint. [But] under the leadership of acting director…Brian Brooks, the OCC has proposed a rule change that would make government-supported financial suppression much harder legally….[by] mak[ing] use of an Obama-era law to stave off future Obama-style injustices. The Dodd-Frank Act…authorized the OCC to ensure that nationally chartered banks provide "fair access to financial services, and fair treatment of customers." The intention was that minority customers be evaluated for creditworthiness on [their] own individual merits rather than the attributes of their broader group. In other words, a creditworthy individual shouldn't be punished because they belong to some group that is considered "high risk" in the aggregate. The OCC would like to apply this thinking to industries through the proposed "Fair Access to Financial Services" rule. The largest banks in the country..would be prohibited from red-lining politically disfavored industries just as they are prohibited from red-lining politically oppressed populations. Rather, a gun manufacturer or pornography company or payday lender must be evaluated on the terms of their individual creditworthiness…Large banks will not be allowed to cut off financial access for disfavored industries just because the government or some other powerful group leans on them to do so…
Watershed (#941)
This article doesn't contain anything that sex worker activists haven't said, and journalist allies haven't reported, a thousand times before. What makes it notable is that it appeared (albeit as an op-ed) on the website of CNN, the TV news-entertainment-product purveyor which has done more than any other to promote "sex trafficking" hysteria since the days when Craigslist was supposedly run by Satan's personal pimp. Biden & Harris are both arch-prohibitionists with zero interest in making things better for sex workers, and the end of "sex trafficking" hysteria won't do anything to remove all the oppressive, racist, misogynistic, anti-sex laws which were enacted under its aegis. But it will mean we don't have to listen to quite so many cops, politicians, religious fanatics, profiteers, and other (barely) human garbage vomiting out their wanking fantasies of enslaved pubescent girls being raped a physically-impossible number of times per day any more. And it will also make it possible for more activists and allies to speak out about decriminalization without being drowned out by a flood of lurid tragedy porn, and for politicians in search of an angle to file bills to mitigate some of the damage. And that is at least a good start.
Panopticon (#1030)
The article omits to say that these spy devices were designed and built in China:
…the Chula Vista [California] police…can dispatch a flying drone with the press of button…to…[spy] on…[people] and…[catch] everything [they do] on camera…Each day, the Chula Vista police respond to as many as 15 [informant] calls with a drone, launching more than 4,100 flights since the program began two years ago…Over the last several months, three other cities — two in California and one in Georgia — have followed suit…the latest drone technology…has the power to transform everyday polic[e surveillance]…even small [cop shops] could operate tiny autonomous drones for a relative pittance. That newfound automation, however, raises civil liberties concerns, especially as drones gain the power to track vehicles and people automatically. As the police use more drones, they could collect and store more video of life in the city, which could remove any expectation of privacy once you leave the home…Jay Stanley…[of] the American Civil Liberties Union..[said] "Drones…are…sensors that can generate offenses"…
Just wait until they start combining this with "deepfake" technology to manufacture any kind of "evidence" they like.
The Pro-Rape Coalition (#1085)
Dangerous puritan Nick Kristof and his enablers, the staunchly prohibitionist New York Times, have launched yet another pro-censorship crusade:
Nicholas Kristof [has] published a sensationalistic call for state censorship and financial strangulation of Pornhub…Kristof actually had the reporting to write a nuanced piece about the substantial problems with content moderation that plague all platforms that depend on third-party content, including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, [etc]…but that's not what Kristof and the editors of the New York Times chose to do, instead turning the piece into a manipulative attempt to insert themselves in the complex debates around Section 230…free speech online and sexual expression among consenting adults…Everything about "The Children of Pornhub" is exploitative, from the testimonials, to the absolutely misguided photo essay taking advantage of a homeless teen…As of this writing, Kristof continues to tweet the victim's photo at public officials in the U.S. and Canada to manipulate them into "doing something about" Pornhub…
To Molest and Rape (#1088)
Notice how often rapist cops' victims are underage?
…Portsmouth, Virginia [cop] Cleshaun Cox…abduct[ed and raped a 17-year-old girl] on May 27, 2019…she was hanging out with friends in the parking lot of…[an] apartment…[complex] when [the rapist and a crony showed up, claiming they'd]…responded to a noise complaint…Cox…told…he[r]…that she was out past curfew…and told her and [her] passenger…that they needed to drive home immediately…Cox followed her…[stalking] her [as she got] gas, then…[after she dropped] her friend [off at] home…he [began threatening her, then]…tried to persuade…[h]er to have sex with him [via a combination of promises and threats. Eventually] he drove her to another location…[and] raped her…
It's unlikely this will pass the Senate, but it's a big sign of change nonetheless:
…the [US] House of Representatives voted to repeal the federal ban on marijuana, which was originally imposed 83 years ago in the guise of a revenue measure. The vote was 228 to 164, with five Republicans …joining 222 Democrats and [Libertarian] Justin Amash…in supporting the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, which would remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and eliminate federal criminal penalties for cultivation, distribution, and possession…In addition…the MORE Act would require automatic expungement of federal marijuana convictions…prohibit the denial of federal public benefits because of convictions involving cannabis consumption and eliminate immigration disabilities based on marijuana-related conduct…
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Africa, agency denial, Aggressive Ignorance, BDSM, Belgium, Buried Truth, Canada, censorship, cops, crypto-moralism, disease, fantasy, Feminine Pragmatism, Florida, France, homosexuality, Hungary, Imaginary Evils, Kenya, McNeill rule, politicians, pragmatism, propaganda, sex rays, Shame Shame, Social Distancing, stripping, Tissue of Lies, United Kingdom on December 5, 2020| 1 Comment »
I make way more money per hour playing a professor in the dungeon than being one in real life. – Mistress Snow
Aggressive Ignorance
In Florida, you can now get a "certification" in racist, misogynistic propaganda:
Florida State University has launched a new certification in human trafficking prevention and intervention…to [indoctrin]ate [authoritarians in the approved]…human trafficking [propaganda]…the Tallahassee Police Department [recently] charged over 170 people [with various misdemeanors it pretended were linked together]…into a sex trafficking network…[authoritarians and profiteers] who seek to get the certification can use what they learn and apply it to…[profiting from the] crim[inalization of consensual acts and inventing propaganda]…just like [the cops did with] this one…
Buried Truth
I think we have enough evidence to start calling this "McNeill's Law":
An anti-LGBTQ+ Hungarian politician has resigned from the European Parliament after being caught in what's being described as an orgy involving 25 men. József Szájer, who has spoken proudly of writing a ban on same-sex marriage into Hungary's constitution, acknowledged…that he had been at what he called a "house party"…in Brussels…[which was] raided [using the excuse of] violation of Belgium's COVID-19 restrictions, banning gatherings of more than four people. Szájer was caught "shimmying down a drainpipe" in an attempt to escape police…He had no identifying documents with him and had drugs in his backpack…[but] was released with a warning after [cops] escorted him home and he produced his diplomatic passport. Police, however, "have opened a case against those present for violating lockdown rules, as well as against Szájer for possession of drugs"…
Shame, Shame
The state believes it's OK for its operatives to dox you, but not vice-versa:
French President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party agreed…to completely rewrite a draft plan that would have c[riminaliz]ed the…shar[ing of] images identifying [violent cops], after large protests over the weekend against police violence…More than 133,000 people, including 46,000 in Paris alone, demonstrated against the draft bill and in favour of free speech…The rallies followed the publication of video footage of a Black man being beaten up by three [cops] inside his own music studio…Macron…branded [the evidence] "shameful" for France [and therefore tried to prevent it happening not by controlling the pigs, but by criminalizing the act of revealing it]…Article 24…[would have] made it a crime – punishable by a year in prison and a 45,000 euro ($54,000) fine – to share [pictures of cops] with an "obvious intention to harm" [as determined by authoritarian bureaucrats]…
Imaginary Evils (#737)
Remember, huge police operations have never found more than a single-digit number of "sex trafficking" cases anywhere in the UK:
[Cops fantasize that] nearly 100…woman were [magically] trafficked into Scotland and forced into prostitution despite the lockdown restrictions…Fil Capaldi, head of Police Scotland's National Human Trafficking Unit said: "[Pimps are magical ninjas who can walk through walls and pull screaming children through computer monitors, so naturally they have no trouble with travel restrictions]…Slavery is not a thing of the past, it's happening in every local authority throughout Scotland…When international borders open up again, we will see a spike in trafficking"…he said Covid rules may have helped the traffickers keep their vile trade hidden…
So "sex trafficking" increases under restrictions, and it also increases when there are no restrictions. It's easy to make contradictory statements when nobody expects you to provide even the most rudimentary evidence of anything you say.
Feminine Pragmatism (#970)
It's good to see that the media are beginning to grasp this:
More than half of all college professors are now "adjuncts": part-time freelance instructors who…have the same PhDs as their tenured and full-time colleagues, but who get paid low amounts on a per-course basis, with few or no benefits and little job security. Typically, adjuncts (also known as "contingent faculty") string together gigs at multiple colleges, which pay an average of $3,984 per course…So, many adjunct professors now find themselves needing to find significant side-work to stay afloat…Last December, Mistress Snow…wrote a personal essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled "I Told My Mentor I Was a Dominatrix: She Rescinded Her Letter of Recommendation." The summer before the article came out, she found herself without a teaching gig—which is common for adjuncts…[so] she w[ent]…back [to] the sex trade…
Social Distancing (#1055)
So many "enlightened" countries still believe that disease is caused by "sin":
On September 26, 2020 the Government of Ontario closed down strip clubs without warning or consulting strippers. At the same time, other similar businesses such as bars continued to be allowed to operate. Strippers are not demanding we be given exceptional treatment…we only want to be treated fairly. This means being consulted about the implementation of prevention and other occupational health and safety measures at our workplaces, rather than government officials assuming we are vectors of disease that pose particular risk to public health…
Another example of how "lockdowns" cause far more harm than good:
…In sub-Saharan Africa, 16 countries have an HIV prevalence rate greater than 37 per cent among sex workers. "To ignore HIV prevention and sex workers during an emergency is self-defeating," said Innocent Modisaotsile…[of] the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. "New infections and demands for ARV treatment will burden the health system." COVID-19 has brought hardships to sex workers in Africa…in terms of loss of income, police crackdowns, exclusion from social protection schemes, and increased violence…in the past two decades Kenya's robust HIV prevention and care programme has reduced HIV prevalence among sex workers significantly…[via] drop-in centres (DICs) that provide safe spaces, healthcare and peer support…[but] under the lockdown [police roadblock are preventing sex workers from accessing the centres]…
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged (State) Violence Against Women, agency denial, Arizona, Backpage, brothels, censorship, consensual crime, cops, Dangerous Speech, disease, domestic violence, drugs, Election Day, Greeks Bearing Gifts, holidays, hysteria, Legislators Gone Wild, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, politicians, propaganda, rape, Shame Shame, Social Distancing, South Dakota, Suppression, surveillance, The Clueless Leading the Hysterical, Tissue of Lies, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom, video, violence vs. sex workers, Washington DC on November 7, 2020| 3 Comments »
Drugs are winning the war on drugs. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Watch what you say in front of your children, comrade:
Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland's hate crime law, [a megalomaniacal politician bloviated]…Journalists and theatre directors should also face the courts if…Humza Yousaf [or some other censorious sociopath disagrees with them]…the…bill has been condemned by [supporters of human rights and even] the Scottish Catholic Church [and some cops]…It will introduce an offence of [magically] stirring-up of hatred against people [by witchcraft, but only if they belong to specially privileged classes]…Mr Yousaf said that there should be no "dwelling defence" in his bill. He told the Scottish parliament's justice committee that children, family and house guests must be [forced to become informants for the pigs by threatening them with violence if they refuse]…
Election Day (#937)
We are watching the beginning of the end of the War on Drugs:
Of nine drug decriminalization or legalization measures on state ballots [this week]…not a single one failed. These were decisive victories, too, not close calls…In D.C., more than three-quarters of voters approved Initiative 81, declaring "that police shall treat the non-commercial cultivation, distribution, possession, and use of entheogenic plants and fungi"—those that contain ibogaine, dimethyltryptamine, mescaline, or psilocybin—"among the lowest law enforcement priorities"…Arizona…voters were 59.85 percent in favor of legalization [of recreational cannabis]…In New Jersey, the proportion favoring legalization was…67 percent…In South Dakota, 69 percent approved the medical marijuana measure…and…[53%] the recreational marijuana measure…Montana saw nearly 57 percent of voters approve recreational marijuana…Mississippi, voters said yes to two medical marijuana measures…with…74 percent…in favor…Oregon's measure to decriminalize non-commercial possession of all drugs saw…59 percent of voters approve…and nearly 56 percent of voters approved…the Psilocybin Services Act, which…[allows] licensed …providers to…[sell "magic"] mushroom and fungi products…
See also "The Clueless Leading the Hysterical" below.
Shame, Shame (#951)
Bird-brains still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology:
Dangerous Speech (#1041)
The government keeps demonstrating that it doesn't really care that its war on thought is wholly and incontrovertibly unconstitutional:
…Susan Brnovich, the presiding judge in the prosecution of [a half dozen former members of the Village Voice Media family], is married to the state's top prosecutor, Attorney General Mark Brnovich…we have argued — to no avail — that the judge has a conflict. Previously Judge Douglas Rayes disqualified himself because he had a friendly relationship with attorneys on both sides of this case…Judge Susan, on the other hand, is sleeping with General Mark. She sees no problem…Mark Brnovich published an incendiary — and wildly inaccurate — propaganda booklet attacking Backpage, the classified advertising platform, in 2018…In the absence of any disclosure by her that her husband had already set the table for her, we went to court under the impression that Susan was an impartial jurist…We have only recently connected these judicial dots courtesy of a curious attorney who asked: Did you know…? We did not…The defendants then are left to ponder the pillow talk between these interlocutors…
(State) Violence Against Women
The "Violence Against Women Act" doesn't fight its named subject; it promotes it:
…"mandatory arrest" policies…spread across the U.S. after the passage of the…Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), part of the infamous 1994 crime bill. The man behind [it]…was…Joe Biden. The parent bill, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994…has since been disavowed by Democrats and Republicans, including…Biden…But Biden and the broader Democratic Party are still boasting in 2020 about VAWA…the product of activist agendas and political convenience, written and sold on ideas and evidence that were either dubious or outright debunked…Biden's law funneled billions to police and prosecutors to enact policies that put women in greater danger—and said victims' wishes didn't matter when they conflicted with what the state thought best…Democrat[s claim]…that 30 years ago, "domestic violence was treated as a private matter, not a heinous crime"…But [this] doesn't square with the historical record …"Assaults and threats of physical violence against intimate partners have been illegal for centuries," noted lawyer Leigh Goodmark in The New York Times last year…[even] Prohibition [was pushed using the common belief]…that drunkenness was the main cause of abuse…As Aya Gruber, a law professor…and former public defender, writes in…The Feminist War on Crime, "The nascent battered women's movement was radical and antiauthoritarian at its core…[but quickly] transformed…into a propolicing, proprosecution lobby"…
Tissue of Lies (#1081)
The latest pig fad: collecting a bunch of unrelated raids, arrests & record updates and calling the resulting dog's breakfast a "human trafficking sting":
In what is [pretended by cops and prosecutors] to be the largest anti-human trafficking operation in state history, Ohio [pigs characterized a series of arrests of teenagers and adults as]…the…recover[y of] 45 missing children…and more 100 other human trafficking survivors…Hop[ing that nobody would notice the large amount of time the arrests were spread over, and that they were made by]…50 [diffient gangs of thugs]…Ohio Attorney General David Yost…[made furtive movements in his pants while describing the arrest of teenagers running away from abuse homes and/or living with non-custodial parents as] "lives that were rescued from this evil"…Yost [also seemed to lump the arrests of sex workers into his fantasy]…and…[tied it to] a two-week operation in Georgia that [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution examined and found that, by combining a variety of cases, pigs had intentionally and maliciously fostered a false perception that confused the public and harmed innocent people]…
Cops all over the US are apparently trying to shore up the dying "sex trafficking" mythology by combining a few arrests of sex workers and clients with mass arrests of teens in foster care and shelters and pretending they're related.
A Baltimore Police SWAT [thug]…has been charged with child sex abuse…Donald P. Hildebrandt …"denies all the charges against him, and adamantly maintains [that she wanted it]"…
Legislators Gone Wild (#1086)
Sex workers need to keep suing prohibitionists whenever possible:
…Alice Little, who works at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch…is taking legal action [against Nevada governor Steve Sisolak] because…he…is [discriminating against] sex workers [by refusing to allow brothels to do business] while allowing other high-contact businesses to reopen …"For months…tattoo shops and massage parlors…have been…open while the…brothels remain shuttered. If it's safe for a customer to get a massage at a massage parlor, then it should be safe for a customer to visit a…brothel…Sex workers like me are suffering financially and emotionally. We have minimal options for economic relief and limited alternative employment opportunities due to our stigmatized work history"…Most strip clubs in Clark County are also still closed…Little is being represented by attorney Marc J. Randazza…
The Clueless Leading the Hysterical (#1086)
Reporters are finally getting that nobody is going to give expensive cannabis edibles to your spawn for free:
Since 1996…drug warriors and their credulous collaborators at newspapers and TV stations have repeatedly warned parents that seemingly friendly strangers might be trying to get their kids high on Halloween by passing off THC-infused candy as ordinary treats. Yet none of those stories cited any actual examples…since substituting expensive marijuana edibles for cheap candy…offers no obvious payoff even for maliciously minded stoners…[but] after two decades of this nonsense…[some reporters] are starting to…show…appropriate skepticism…"No One's Going to Give Your Kids Free Weed in Their Halloween Candy," said the headline over an October 2019 Slate piece by Jane C. Hu…A week later, the Washington Examiner ran an opinion piece…with the same message…NBC News ran an essay by Simon Moya-Smith with this headline: "The Halloween tale of marijuana handed out to trick-or-treaters is as real as a ghost story." This month the Spokane Spokesman-Review noted that "tainted treats turn out to be mostly make-believe"…
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Moral Cancer, censorship, consensual crime, cops, crypto-moralism, disease, drugs, fascism, Google, hysteria, I Spy, Illinois, Japan, Kentucky, Like Houses, Madonna/whore, Massachusetts, New York, politicians, porn, prisons, Prohibition (alcohol), propaganda, scams, Shame Shame, Social Distancing, surveillance, Texas, The Naked Anthropologist on April 11, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Governmental mechanisms to frame policy based on lies are not uncommon. – Laura Agustín
Dr. Laura Agustín on "sex trafficking" snake oil:
Swindle, chicanery, skullduggery, con. There's no one perfect word to describe how trafficking came to be hailed as one of the great problems of our time. Excess in rhetoric has known no bounds, with campaigners saying theirs is the new civil-rights movement and claiming there are more people in slavery today than at any time in human history, amongst other hyperbole. And there was me thinking it was about folks wanting to leave home to see if things might be better elsewhere…I was asking reasonable questions about a social phenomenon and refused to be fobbed off with explanations that made no sense. My trajectory as a thinker happened to coincide with a piece of governmental legerdemain that switched the topic of conversation from human mobility and migration to organized crime, like peas in a shell game…
Gee, who could've anticipated draconian "revenge porn" laws would be used this way (except all the free speech activists who have opposed them for years)?
Bethany Austin did nothing society would reasonably call wrong. She received, without asking, sexually explicit images that her fiancé's paramour sent to a shared cloud account. She quietly called off the engagement…[and] her former fiancé [responded by] spread[ing] a hurtful and untrue rumor that he had ended the relationship because Ms. Austin was crazy and refused to cook and clean for him. To clear her good name, Ms. Austin wrote a letter to her friends and family explaining what really happened. She attached some of the images as proof. Now the ex‐fiancé and his paramour are using Illinois's "revenge porn" law to punish her for speaking, and the state is happily obliging…The trial court found the law unconstitutional, but the Illinois Supreme Court reversed. Cato, joined by DKT Liberty Project, has filed an amicus brief supporting Ms. Austin's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court…
I Spy (#1001)
When it comes to mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
Google will use its mammoth collection of mobile location data to [spy on] people across the globe [to see whether they are obeying] government [orders] to remain at home [until politicians deign to let them out again]…or are venturing out to [live their lives]…Google will provide county-level percentages that are updated every few days, but summarized in a way that the company [claims] will not reveal any individual's travels [until politicians demand such information…
A Moral Cancer (#1002)
Crypto-moralists always pretend their lust to ban things is about "health" or "safety":
With the economy tanking and families locked together because of stay-at-home orders…domestic violence rates appear to be soaring. This requires an urgent response: States should immediately order the closures of liquor stores. They can reopen when [politicians declare that] home isolation is no longer needed…
Like Houses (#1025)
And guess who gets to declare that an "emergency" exists?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom thinks that [the] right [to self-defense]…is…"nonessential"…a…decision…which allowed Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva to unilaterally ban the sale of firearms and ammunition…Villanueva…[was forced to] rescind…his ban…[in the face of a lawsuit and]…new federal guidelines. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy…[and] Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf [made similar defeated attempts]…their reluctance to respect [Constitutional rights does]…not bode well for civil liberties at a time when many people seem to think that fighting the pandemic trumps all other concerns…Cornell law professor Michael Dorf argued…Congress should suspend the writ of habeas corpus…[so] people [can be indefinitely] detained by the government…[and a recent poll showed] sizable majorities of [useful idiots]…favored confining people to their homes, [caging] sick people…government takeovers of businesses, [enslavement] of health care workers…and even criminalizing [speech that the government disapproves of]…
Oh Maggie, you're paranoid; this is about keeping people SAFE!
Under a motion passed by the city council in Laredo, Texas…residents…face a fine of up to $1,000 for not wearing some form of covering on their nose and mouth [until politicians declare] the coronavirus outbreak [over]…all residents over the age of 5 are required to have their nose and mouth covered when entering public buildings, using public transportation and when pumping gas…residents will also be required to adhere to a daily curfew or possibly face a fine or jail time…the curfew…lasts from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m…and may only leave for…work…[if they have a permission slip] from their employer…
It's not about expanding the police state at all!
…New York [cops] arrested three people in Brooklyn…after they allegedly "failed to maintain social distancing"…despite [politicians] promising that those disregarding the lockdown would face fines at most…the individuals [were]…charged with obstructing governmental administration, unlawful assembly, and disorderly conduct…one…woman…[was mobbed by pigs] wearing no masks…[who] pepper-sprayed [her and her boyfriend]…she…was…then [locked in a filthy cage]…with two dozen other women for the next 36 hours. Only women who already had masks when they were arrested were allowed to keep them…The woman was…[fired] because [her employer]…fears she was exposed to the virus while in [the disgusting, unsanitary cage]…
Government officials can be trusted not to take it too far!
Louisville residents [accused of]…contact with coronavirus patients [whom cops also accuse of] refus[ing] to isolate themselves are being [forced] to wear ankle [monitor] bracelets…there are [four] known cases so far…
American anti-sex work attitudes have slowly caught on in Japan:
Advocates for bar hostesses and [other] sex workers have urged the government to reconsider its exclusion of them from compensation for parents unable to work because of school closures, noting they are among the most vulnerable members of society. A support group for such workers submitted…a letter asking the government not to discriminate by occupation and to protect the lives of all families as the coronavirus takes its toll on the Japanese economy…
Cashing In On Shame
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged internet, masturbation, porn, psychology, shame, Shame Shame on August 22, 2019| 11 Comments »
The crime of blackmail is nearly as old as the concept of shame itself. But while in the past it was necessary to actually give the intended mark some kind of taste of whatever dirt the would-be blackmailer possessed (a photo, name, hint at details, etc), the prevalence of email has made this unnecessary. Since it's possible to send out tens or hundreds of thousands of emails for no more cost than sending one, scams of all kinds can rely on the law of very big numbers; no matter how absurd the claims, at least some of the recipients will be gullible enough to click on the link, send money to the imaginary Nigerian prince in hope of a big payoff, or swallow a would-be blackmailer's claims of nonexistent "evidence" of wrongdoing. Since we're deep in the Neo-Victorian Era the most terrifying and potentially destructive accusations are currently sexual ones; not a week passes that we don't see someone's career or entire life destroyed over revelations that the victim was a sex worker, or the release of nude pictures, or even evidence-free accusations of rape, sexual harassment, etc. So naturally, those who are easily-shamed (either due to personal hangups or very reasonable concern about jobs, relationships, etc) are most afraid of such revelations, even to the point where some silly writers consider "deepfake" porn a greater cause for concern than government actors using such technology to manufacture false evidence (eg, fake footage of a young black man whom the cops murdered drawing a gun on the murderer, etc). And since having "child porn" found or planted on one's computer by "authorities" actually carries far greater penalties than actual child rape, and the Great Unwashed now use the term "pedophile" to describe even people viewing pictures of adults who may be a few months under the sacred Moment of Shazam, the stage is set for vultures to capitalize on the fear of habitual porn-surfers who worry that they may have accidentally viewed underage models at some point. And since porn-viewing is so ubiquitous, the current "I hacked your camera and recorded video of you masturbating to child porn" scam has proven quite profitable for the con artists.
It's important to note that these spam-scams are purely scattershot; I sometimes get them myself despite the obvious absurdity of addressing such a communique to a high-profile whore (especially one who is quite frank about being disinterested in both porn and masturbation despite having no silly beliefs about either being bad or shameful). But recently I had one which actually followed up with a second threat-letter including stronger language, which might indicate they're starting to change their tactics (probably due to declining levels of return from the marks). So I figured I'd share the follow-up as a public service; it's from the email address aurea.wilhelm@bloodbath.ravelly.xyz and this is it verbatim, except that I've redacted the bitcoin address. Note the clever use of vague terminology like "the online forum" and "the groups" to avoid naming some site the mark never visits. I'd also share the first one, but I simply deleted it; the only reason I even noticed that this was a sequel was due to the fourth-grade text-talk spelling of "Nightmare" in the sending address.
WAKE UP maggiemcneill@earthlink.net!
Do you really think it was some kind of joke or that you can ignore me?
I can see what you are doing, pedo.
Stop SHOPPING and fucking around, your time is almost over.
Yea, I know what you were doing on Saturday. I am observing you.
Btw. nice car you have got there.. I wonder how it will look with big 'PEDOPHILE' stickers..
Because you think you are smarter and can disregard me, I am posting the 4 videos I recorded with you masturbating to kids right now. I will upload the videos I acquired along with some of your details to the online forum. I am sure they will love to see you in action, and you will soon discover what we do with pedophiles like you.
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In the News (#953)
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[Indiana's] boundless view of governmental power cannot be squared with the Constitution. – Sam Gedge
Safe Targets
Please tell us more about how legalization "protects" sex workers:
The [Singaporean] television show Crime Watch…served as the source of inspiration that motivated three youths to hatch a plot to rob sex workers at knifepoint. On…June 28…Theophileous Jebaraj, 16, and John Karan, 18, were convicted…the third co-accused, a 14-year-old…cannot be named as he is a minor…the trio agreed…[that] the "safest" way to commit a crime…would be preying on…sex workers…given the illicit [government designation] of their work…Armed with knives, they…[robbed] the victim…of…about S$100…and…ransack[ed] the house for other valuables…
Where Are the Victims?
When giving someone a ride to work is a "felony". Because "ring":
A Billings massage parlor owner has agreed to plead guilty to one count related to [what masturbating pigs and prosecutors fantasized was] a sex-trafficking ring…Scot Donald Petrie…agree[d] to plead guilty [to] transporting a woman from Nevada to Billings to work…at his parlor…[giving adult women rides] carries a maximum of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and an additional $5,000 special assessment and five years to life supervised release…prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges of conspiracy and coercion and entitlement, which could have added 25 years to Petrie's sentence…
Little Tin Gods (#588)
People sometimes ask me why I moved out of Louisiana.
[A pig who murdered] a 6-year-old autistic boy is out of prison after serving less than two years…Norris Greenhouse Jr…[was given a] plea…[bargain for] negligent homicide and malfeasance…[and was given a] seven-year prison sentence…[which] was reduced due to [his being a pig]…Greenhouse will be on parole until 2025…Greenhouse [had a history of rape and molestation, including being caught trying to molest]…a 14-year-old…He was also accused of making "sexual advances" towards a girlfriend of [one of his murder victims]…
The Course of a Disease (#793)
The Swedish model "helps" sex workers!
Olivier Arsac, deputy mayor in charge of…safety…in Toulouse [said] "We must not hesitate to be brutal…to obtain…[sex workers'] departure [from the city]"…[the statement] caused controversy [among those who want to pretend policing is not intrinsically violent]…Arsac [has also called for]…eviction…of prostitutes [as is typical in Swedish model regimes]…
Rooted in Racism (#913)
In Europe as in the US, the real humanitarians are fighting against racist "anti-trafficking" schemes:
The sea captain who rammed a police boat while bringing 40 rescued immigrants to an Italian port…must be freed…a judge ruled…Carola Rackete…was arrested after she docked the rescue ship of…Sea-Watch at Italy's tiny Lampedusa island [on June 29th], 17 days after taking the immigrant passengers aboard…Rackete was "doing her duty saving lives," Judge Alessandra Vella concluded in denying prosecutors' request to keep the German captain under house arrest…Italy's virulently anti-immigrant interior minister, Matteo Salvini, banned [rescue] ships…from Italian waters and ports, [pre]tending they…encourage human trafficking. Italian…authorities had repeatedly denied Rackete's request to enter the port…[so] she steered into…Lampedusa…without authorization…Supporters in Italy and Germany pledged over 1.3 million euros ($1.48 million)…[to] an online fundraiser for her and for Sea-Watch…several impromptu street rallies were held in her support in Italy…[Italian pigs oinked that] the immigrants on board were not in a desperate state of need…[even though] 13 [of them had] to be…medical[ly evacuated from the ship soon after arrival]…
Dangerous Speech (#917)
…federal Judge Susan Brnovich ruled against the wishes of prosecutors and in favor of a defense motion to reset the start date for the trial of six ex-Backpage honchos, allowing two newly-appointed defense attorneys an additional four months of prep time in [the] wildly complex case…Brnovich rescheduled the first day of trial for May 5, 2020 and reset several pretrial deadlines. [Andrew] Padilla and [Joye] Vaught are relative small-fry in the case. Out of a 100-count indictment, the feds have charged them with 51 counts: 50 for promoting prostitution in violation of the federal Travel Act, and one count of conspiracy…Though the criminal charges were brought in Arizona, the federal government chose to go through the Central District of California in order to [steal] millions of dollars in assets as part of the operation…[including designated] funds [set aside long before the raids for] legal defense…The reason why Padilla and Vaught have new counsel…is in part due to the feds' [theft] of [these] accounts…
A Broker in Pillage (#917)
Indiana continues to pursue the "right" to rob anyone within its borders blind:
After losing at the U.S Supreme Court, the state of Indiana still hasn't given up its argument that there are virtually no Eighth Amendment limits on what it can [steal from anyone cops point at]…In oral arguments before the Indiana Supreme Court last week, Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher said the state's position that it would be constitutional to seize any and every car that [a cop claims] went over the speed limit—a line of argument that elicited laughter from the nation's highest court last year—hasn't budged…The Indiana Supreme Court is now reconsidering the case of Tyson Timbs' $42,000 Land Rover, and whether the state's 2015 [theft] of Timbs' car after he was convicted of a drug felony violated his Eighth Amendment protections against excessive fines and fees…The Indiana Supreme Court will now have to decide how to determine whether a [theft] is excessive or not, a decision that could either check or reinforce the state government's power in these cases…last year, Fisher argued…that the excessive fines clause, even if it applied to the states, did not apply to the practice of civil asset forfeiture, which operates under the legal fiction that it is an action against the property itself, not the owner…
Morality Lessons (#921)
The FBI should've just run their child porn sites on DoD computers:
…An untold number of Department of Defense (DOD) employees and contractors have subscriptions to child pornography websites, and…"hundreds of DoD-affiliated individuals" were recently identified as suspects in child pornography cases…an investigation by the National Criminal Justice Training Program found DOD computers were among the top networks nationwide for peer-to-peer sharing of pornographic images of minors. DOD's network ranked 19th out of 2,891 computer networks studied…
All-Purpose Excuse (#923)
I love seeing governments fight the rescue industry for control of the "sex trafficking" narrative:
A [UK] Home Office policy document on…Nigeria[n sex workers] says that those who become "wealthy from prostitution" enjoy "high socio-economic status" and are "often held in high regard" when they return home…[rescue industry perv]erts retorted that [the migrant women they label] trafficking victims [are]…"very young women plucked from the streets of Benin City or Lagos and brought to the UK to be raped, for months and sometimes years"…
Now that the greedy and the power-hungry all recognize the proven power of this ugly, racist sexual fantasy to frighten the Great Unwashed into giving them what they want, they'll keep struggling for control of it until it implodes.
Checklist (#934)
The scheme to cut sex workers off from the healthcare system continues:
EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland partnered with Seattle Against Slavery on June 21 to continue the [indoctrin]ation [of] health care professionals [in denying the sexual agency of adult women who seek healthcare services]…Claudia Lawrence…delivered a presentation to nursing staff, physicians and social workers on [how to project fantasies] of exploitation…[onto] adults…"Not everyone who is trafficked is aware they are trafficked," said Lawrence…
An existing crime (extortion) doesn't magically become a different thing ("sextortion") when sex is involved:
Gabe Ryan Gilbert, 19, was charged with contacting juvenile girls on social media and threatening to photo-edit nude images of them if they would not send him real nude photos…A 15-year-old girl reported…that Gilbert "had threatened to photoshop images of her face onto nude photos unless she sent real nude pictures of herself"…When [cops] looked into Gilbert's Snapchat account…"it was obvious the user had been engaging in very similar behavior with…over 50 potential victims"…
The solution to this problem isn't increasing the censorship powers of the already-bloated police state as authoritarians demand; it's fighting the idea that a woman's body is something to be ashamed of.
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[A "sex trafficking" propagandist] told me to say negative things so that there would be more funding. – Keo Malai
A "sponsored" article is one that the paper was PAID to print; in other words, it's an ad disguised as a news story so as to trick the public into accepting it as credible. This one is an ad for the Dolan law firm, whose owner, Christopher Dolan, is an ambulance-chaser attempting to capitalize on "sex trafficking" hysteria by recruiting professional "victims" for lucrative FOSTA-enabled lawsuits against websites, hotels, truck stops and anyone else he thinks he can rob. It would be bad enough if this tissue of ludicrous lies ($150 billion a year! $650,000 a year for every "pimp"! 14% of all US minors are "sexually enslaved" every year, which means 210% of all US minors since the hysteria began!) were labeled as an ad, but the only clue – which virtually no non-proofreader will catch – is that little word "sponsored" hidden in the url. So much for "journalistic ethics".
Property of the State (#724)
Yet another abomination from Alabama:
Marshae Jones [of] Birmingham…was indicted…on a manslaughter charge…Jones didn't fire the shots that killed her unborn baby girl…Ebony Jemison [did that]…but the charge against Jemison was dismissed after…she…shot [Jones] in the stomach…[pigs encouraged the grand jury to blame the victim rather than the assailant because] "It was the mother of the child who initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own unborn baby"…
Sexual Predators (#759)
Pigs squeal gleefully about how their creepy entrapment & surveillance game ruins men's lives and chokes off women's income:
Pomona…California [sow]…Angela Torres [role-]plays a sex worker…She has [done it] nearly 1,000 times and says she does it [because she gets off on destroying the lives of unsuspecting men]…"a lot of those dating sites have shut down, a lot of the girls who worked online and worked in hotels have now been forced out into the streets," [oinked pig] Jesse Hedrick…"if we deter these Johns, then prostitutes…won't be making a lot of money," [gloated] Torres. "It will deter them from [paying their rent and buying food for their children, which will make them more desperate. We hope they're raped and murdered so we don't need to see them any more]"…
Bad Fantasy, Good Reality (#762)
It's good to see Cambodia shutting down these propaganda factories:
A Cambodian court jailed a [fraudster] for two years…for his role in making a [propaganda film] about sex trafficking…Rath Rott Mony['s propaganda film], titled "My Mother Sold Me", included a…[sexual fantasy] of a poor Cambodian girl who was sold into sex work, prompting authorities to question those involved…the girl and her mother [admitted they] were paid $200 to lie in the documentary…Judge Koy Sao…ordered Mony to pay $17,500 compensation to two of the mothers, Keo Malai and Tep Sreylin, who appeared in the film. The two [revealed] Mony had promised to help solve a land dispute and open a shop for them if they made up the story about their daughters…the U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh expressed concern over [its ability to spread "sex trafficking" propaganda if Cambodia keeps prosecuting rescue industry lies]…Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch said [the imprisonment of one propagandist is a bigger human rights issue than vicious fraud which drives a hysteria impacting millions of women, including those condemed to] Cambodia['s notorious Prey Speu "re-education" camp in order to satisfy US prohibitionists]…
The fact that realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology these bird-brains can conceive of is a sign of a culture overdue for collapse:
A programmer created an app…that…remove[s] clothing from the images of women, making them look realistically nude…DeepNude…uses a photo of a clothed person and…swaps clothes for naked breasts and a vulva…DeepNude…appears to work best on images where the person is already showing a lot of skin…Since [whitebread feminists] discovered deepfakes in late 2017, [most of] the media and politicians focused on the dangers they pose as a disinformation tool. But [clueless prudes still think] the most devastating use of deepfakes has…been in how they're used [on pictures of] women…
The solution to this problem isn't increasing the censorship powers of the already-bloated police state as carceral feminists are demanding; it's fighting the idea that a woman's body is something to be ashamed of.
Marijuana prohibition will soon be a thing of the past:
Illinois' new governor delivered on a top campaign promise…by signing legislation legalizing small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, the 11th state to do so and the first to implement a comprehensive statewide cannabis marketplace designed by [politicians]. Legalization in Illinois also means that nearly 800,000 people with criminal records for purchasing or possessing 30 grams of marijuana or less may have those records expunged, a provision minority lawmakers and interest groups demanded…
I don't know about you, but I find the reporter's writing "the first to implement a comprehensive statewide cannabis marketplace designed by [politicians]" as though it were a good thing is extremely funny.
The result of European "humanitarianism" to "fight human trafficking":
More than 80 per cent of refugees…locked up in one Libyan [concentration camp] have tuberculosis due to overcrowding and poor conditions…at least 22 have died…the bodies of Christians who died in [the EU-funded] Zintan [concentration camp] were not being buried, partly because the local community insists the cemetery is only for Muslims….some [migrants] hav[e] been [locked up] for two years…roughly 6,000 people [are] currently locked up indefinitely in detention centres run by the Libyan Department for Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM)…[which is funded and trained by] the EU…
Pyrrhic Victory (#930)
I'm afraid it's far too late to put this evil djinni back into its bottle:
Technology…already [used] in authoritarian China…[is] also gaining a foothold…in [authoritarian] America…police departments…are turning body cameras]…into a means of constant surveillance. Evolving software applications will let police record every encounter and match up a citizen's face with a database…California [politicians are] consider[ing] Assembly Bill 1215, which would ban police agencies from using facial and biometric tracking devices as part of their body cameras…the next step…[is] tying facial-recognition software into security cameras that are practically everywhere…Police admit that they want to use these cameras as part of wholesale dragnets, by scanning everyone at public events and not only those that they suspect of having committed a crime…This is far more intrusive than those checkpoints in totalitarian countries where people must constantly show their papers. In this emerging Robocop world, every American will always be identifiable to the authorities simply by walking around in public…
Worse Than I Thought (#934)
The hotel industry is really going to regret having collaborated with fanatics rather than fighting "sex trafficking" hysteria:
The [American Hotel & Lodging Association] vowed…to [harass and persecute] sex [workers using] its properties, in part by training every employee on [incredibly vague] warning signs for [sex work] and how to [rat them out to the pigs]…The announcement…comes after two women who [claim] they were forced into prostitution as teenagers filed a lawsuit against three Philadelphia hotels, alleging the businesses ignored and profited from the sexual slavery happening on their premises…
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Women…are being undermined by a system that should be supporting them. – Joan Phillips
Surplus Women
Two women were murdered, but this reporter thinks the real story is the neighbors' sadfeelz about how they made their living:
Over the past [two] years, two women were murdered in [DeKalb County, Georgia]…one…in 2017…[and] the…second…a few months ago…[but sociopathic] neighbors…[are more concerned with] solicitation [on a local stroll than the deaths of two human beings]…They said they see it in early mornings when school kids are waiting for the bus…A [WSB-TV] photographer also rode along with DeKalb County police to…listen…to [copaganda about] human trafficking…
Note that this is the same copsucking TV station which we saw demonizing people's religion a few days ago.
Modern media companies like The Guardian are willing to discard whatever credibility they once enjoyed:
…[the] vastly profitable and largely unregulated [sex industry] has…become infested with criminality, turning Spain into a global hub for human trafficking and sexual slavery…the scale of the problem…is staggering…the [new prohibitionist] Spanish government [claims] that up to 90% of women working in prostitution could be victims of trafficking…[Spanish cops claim to have] rescued 5,695 people from slavery but acknowledge that thousands more remain under the control of…gangs operating with impunity…
Most journalists abandoned most of their ethics long ago:
Last June, Florida Today decided to…scrap its traditional gallery of mug shots…an increasing number of editors…have recognized that the American style of crime reporting— picking sensational cases with the most odious details, printing mug shots and full names, and not providing contextual information on crime and statistics in stories —needs a long-overdue overhaul. Still, on the internet, the salacious news story and the quest for "hits" too often subsumes conscientious reporting. Despite the fact that most prisoners will be released, permanent digital punishment in the form of salacious reporting or mug shots hinders reentry…
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs (#627)
It's so good to see more widespread recognition of this:
…Dr Joan Phillips said while there was a lot of [hoohah about "sex trafficking"] in the Caribbean…it seem[s] to be [simply] a matter of people moving for…work…She argued that too often, Caribbean countries were made to feel that "something needs to be done" about [what the US calls] human trafficking and that it needs to be done now…"we in the Caribbean…are being pushed to look at something that we are not sure…is happening but because of the political and economic influence of US foreign policy we need to do something or we will lose funding"… she argued…that…[US bureaucrats and politicians do] not take into consideration the willing movement of people to work in various settings including nightclubs…"The…issue with the sex [trafficking] paradigm is that poor women are becoming poorer and…the systems that have been put in place [to supposedly help them] are lip service…we need to look at…the ideology about trafficking in a totally different way…Caribbean governments have to…deci[de]…whether they accept the foreign policy of the US and talk about this sexual trafficking and put all this law in place and not focus on…the bigger issues…poverty, vulnerability, lack of education, the need for support for children, unemployment and so on"…
To Molest and Rape
Anything to avoid the word "rape":
A Richmond [Virginia cop] has been indicted by a…grand jury…Michael Bryson…has been charged with a misdemeanor count of…sexually abusing the victim against their will by force, threat, intimidation, or ruse…
This is beginning to look like the beginning of the end of the War on Drugs:
A referendum in Denver to decriminalize psilocybin, or "magic mushrooms", appears to have passed by a narrow margin…But the activists who worked to get the issue on the ballot say their fight was the beginning of a larger movement…Cindy Sovine, a political consultant who worked on the initiative [said]…"Whether you're using this plant for a medical reason, or a spiritual reason, or a recreational reason, you should not be going to jail or losing your children for it"…
Dangerous Speech
The government's entire case against Backpage is based on lies and wanking fantasies:
The Arizona Republic recently…claim[ed] prosecutors had revealed "new evidence", which demonstrated that Michael Lacey, a former owner of the now defunct classified ad website Backpage.com, was aware of and complicit in sex trafficking taking place on the site. This so-called evidence consisted of internal Backpage emails from 2012…where Lacey and others discuss how to respond to an inquiry from…Nicholas Kristof, a notorious prig, who, in preparation for an opinion piece, had asked Backpage to comment on the case of a 13 year-old girl alleged…[by disgraced racist prosecutor Lauren Hersh to have been] advertised on Backpage…The…quote from [Lacey's] email…reads…"We do how many million ads, and he picks out one, tells us by the end of the day and wants our total response by a.m.? Of course there are kids who get through the system. As there are in bars. This makes pursuit of solution…more critical rather than scoring political points". Given…that Backpage regularly cooperated with law enforcement in order to catch perpetrators who were misusing the site, only a latter-day Inspector Javert would look at such an email and assume that it established guilt. It would be far easier to draw the opposite conclusion, that the email's author does not want underage individuals accessing Backpage…
Welcome To Our World (#888)
Do you really need more evidence of the link between anti-sex work and anti-abortion campaigns?
Phalla was a surrogate paid to carry [a] baby for a couple in China. Now, due to [totalitarian] measures enacted by Cambodian authorities late last year…Phalla is among dozens of women forced to raise [someone else's] child…If she doesn't, she faces up to 20 years in prison for human trafficking…Phalla had a caesarean birth in August [while pigs lurked and watched]…Three months later, she and her newborn were released on bail, on the strict condition that she did not give the child away and [was forced] to raise the child until she turned 18…Phalla must present herself — baby in hand — to a local police office once a month. She cannot change her address without the investigating judge's permission, and failing to meet these bail conditions could result in her arrest…
Forced parenthood. Registered "sex offender" type treatment. "Human trafficking" as a catch-all. Get it yet?
See No Evil (#889)
Another prosecution for drawings of fictional characters:
The former commander of the 49th Medical Support Squadron at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico will face a civilian trial later…over accusations of possessing [what prosecutors call] virtual child pornography, and will also be court-martialed in August. Lt. Col. Keith Vollenweider…[is said to have] knowingly possessed "visual depictions, such as drawings, cartoons and virtual images, that depict minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct"…
Note that people have been similarly charged for possessing Japanese manga books because the characters appear "child-like" by Western aesthetic standards.
Critics of governmental abuses need to stop using neutral words like "taken" and call these crimes what they are:
Kentucky's Cabinet for Health and Family Services…has a practice of obtaining blank [child abduction] orders pre-signed by judges. Social workers then fill out the documents with the necessary information after they've been signed by a judge and then use them to [abduct] children from parents who[m somebody decided to accuse of something]…no judge actually reviews these orders, or the evidence used to justify separating a family, before signing them. This…galling abuse of…basic civil liberties…only came to an end after an investigative report by WDRB…spotlighted the practice…
As long as cops suffer no consequences for disobedience, laws like this are mere political grandstanding:
San Francisco…is…on track to be the first municipality in the United States to [officially] ban use of facial recognition technology by the city government…the bill also requires all other types of surveillance technologies—like automatic license plate readers, predictive policing software, and cell phone surveillance towers—to only be adopted by city agencies following a public notice and vote by the Board of Supervisors. The bill also requires [bureaucratic] policies for how surveillance technologies will [supposedly] be used by the city government…A similar proposal to ban the use of facial recognition across the bay in Oakland…will be debated later this month…There was [already] some pushback from [copsuckers and badge-lickers, especially those who]…give [cops access to] their private surveillance camera[s]…
Nobody will be safe until this odious, contemptible practice is recognized as unconstitutional:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed three bills into law…that significantly limit police's ability to [steal] property…11 other states…have passed laws requiring convictions before forfeitures in some or all cases…Three states have abolished civil forfeiture altogether. In Hawaii, a bill banning civil forfeiture is currently awaiting the governor's signature…the new Michigan laws…still…[allow people to] be pressured by [cops] to sign away their property [under threat]…
Negative Secondary Effects (#933)
A lot of people are growing sick of the oppression of sex workers:
Hundreds of people have signed a petition backing workers at a strip club weeks after calls were made for its licence to be revoked. [Prohibitionists who paid men to secretly film dancers without their consent claim their snitches] saw dancers performing sex acts at Spearmint Rhino in Sheffield…An open letter with the petition backing the workers at the club said: "We believe sex work should not be stigmatised as uniquely or especially oppressive to women in the context of widespread misogyny and male violence against women. Sex work is legal, and advocating to take away women's choice to do safe, legal work is anti-feminist and anti-worker"…
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In the minds of the regulate-and-incarcerate crowd, it is much better to treat unsolicited butt or genital sightings with the same intensity as we do matters of national security. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
The Course of a Disease
The Swedish rot has reached Spain:
The Spanish government is proposing a spate of new legal measures to [persecute] prostitut[es]. These include penalizing clients who solicit for sex and punishing landlords who make properties available to sex workers. Further measures would also look to prosecute [people cops decide to label] traffickers…and…decriminalizing [sex workers, even though they are not currently criminalized]…Sex work is…neither illegal nor regulated [in Spain] but Prime Minister Sanchez came to power in June with a strongly [misogynist] agenda and promising to fight the e[mployment and sexual autonomy] of women…
Traffic Jam (#694)
24 years of state-inflicted torture finally end for the San Antonio 4:
…Judge Catherine Torres-Stahl handed out orders…expunging the records of Elizabeth Ramirez…Cassandra Rivera…Kristie Mayhugh …and Anna Vasquez…all government agencies that house information on criminal charges, indictments, arrests or convictions related to the cases in which the women were found innocent must seal or destroy the records. The women consistently maintained their innocence from that day 24 years ago when Ramirez's nieces, then ages 7 and 9, accused the women of brutalizing them while on a weekend visit…After the women served nearly 15 years in prison, one of the nieces publicly recanted. She said family members upset that her aunt had come out as a lesbian told her to lie. So did her father, who…was upset that Ramirez had spurned his advances…it was also shown that [bogus] science helped support the charge…each of them…[has] receive[d] state compensation of about $80,000 for each year they were imprisoned — a little more than $1 million apiece…
Too Close To Home (#760)
Another exercise in cop-fellation and myth-regurgitation masquerading as journalism:
…Charles Peters…[of] the self-titled "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"…was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay a $3,000 fine after a jury convicted him in October of nine counts of second-degree promoting prostitution. Peters…is appealing his conviction…[and free on] $75,000 bond while his appeal is pending…
Though she didn't write that moronic headline ("Ringleader"? Who the fuck uses that word with a straight face any more? Has the editor been watching '30s gangster movies?), Sara Jean Green still needs to be ashamed of herself for this garbage, especially considering that I know for a fact she has the phone numbers of several prominent Seattle sex workers (including mine). Prohibitionists claim what I do for money is "demeaning", but I don't have to infantilize peaceful women, demonize peaceful men, or lionize violent thugs.
Check Your Premises (#809)
Despite some conciliatory language and ground-ceding, this is a good article:
…the Tucson Weekly accessed a spreadsheet of all [Southern Arizona "sex trafficking"] investigations in the three years since the beginning of the grant and found 10 people who were convicted of trafficking and related crimes. Out of 516 investigations…[only] 23 people were categorized as arrested for trafficking…of those 23…[only] 14 were [actually] charged with trafficking [or] other sex crimes…Of the 14…10 people were convicted or took plea deals, three have ongoing court cases and one committed suicide after being released on bail…[only] two cases resemble the mainstream narrative of a…[woman] forced to commit commercial sex acts against her will…In one case, a drunk, 71-year-old registered sex-offender in a wheelchair persistently and crudely offered a 14-year-old girl money for sexual favors at a bus stop…In another case, a man offered to pay three 15-year-old boys and one girl to [perform] sex acts in front of him. Some of the cases involve runaways…In other cases, the…[so-called] trafficker [was the sex worker's] friend or boyfriend…The spreadsheet indicates 52 misdemeanor arrests related to prostitution or not having an escort license…
Traffic in Nonsense (#831)
Anti-whore indoctrination has wholly infested the US trucking industry:
…Kendis Paris…of Truckers Against Trafficking…is one member of the 15-person Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking, which was developed by the U.S. Department of Transportation in October. The group's goal is to develop strategies for [encouraging truck drivers to snitch on sex workers]…The committee includes leaders of [rescue industry] organizations…[anti-whore propagandists] and representatives of the trucking, bus, rail, aviation, maritime and port industries…Truckers Against Trafficking leads [indoctrination] programs and distributes [propaganda] materials to various sectors of the industry…About 40 states have adopted aspects of Truckers Against Trafficking's [indoctrination] model. The group has worked with [pigs] who give [propaganda] wallet cards to truck drivers…
Imaginary Victims (#839)
Even by despicable modern US standards, this is an incredibly evil ruling:
A woman who was 16 when she killed a Nashville man who [assaulted] her…must serve at least 51 years in prison before she's eligible for release, according to the Tennessee Supreme Court…The court's five justices were unanimous in their decision against Brown, who was convicted of killing a…[client] in 2004 when he [roughed her up and]…she feared he would kill her…Brown argues her sentence is unconstitutional, citing a 2012 opinion by the US Supreme Court that said mandatory life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders violate the US Constitution…
Brown's only chance now is the outgoing Tennessee governor, who can pardon her and commute her sentence.
New York just won't stop trying to subject nude-pic-posters to police violence:
Under [New York politician Joseph] Borrelli's measure, it would be a misdemeanor offense "to send an unsolicited sexually explicit video or image to another person with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm such other person," punishable by up to a year in jail or a $1,000 fine. Sexually explicit means anything showing "genitals, pubic area or anus of any person"…It's already illegal for adults to send sexually explicit images to minors…[and] already illegal…to harass someone, stalk them, or threaten them. So sending sexually explicit images "with intent to harass, annoy, or alarm" could already be prosecuted under another statute, provided there actually is evidence of harassing or threatening intent. What that leaves us with is basically a way for anyone to press charges against anyone who sends them a sexualized image…The measure would provide plenty of opportunity for jilted lovers to get even with criminal charges…The opportunity is also ripe for abuse against sex workers who advertise online, whether by those who enjoy harassing them for sport (as with last week's so-called ThotAudit), by customers who feel slighted, or by law enforcement…
With any luck, SCOTUS will shut down this extortion scheme and others like it:
A Detroit woman [named Crystal Sisson] is suing Wayne County, Michigan, after police [stole] her car [because she bought] $10 worth of [legal] marijuana…[from] a [licensed] Detroit medical marijuana dispensary…the sheriff's deputies cited her for "illegally occupying a place where controlled substances are sold" and seized her 2015 Kia Soul…To get her car back, Sisson had to pay the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office $1,200 to settle the forfeiture case, a typical practice in the county…the Supreme Court is currently considering a similar asset forfeiture case, Timbs v. Indiana, that revolves around the case of Tyson Timbs, whose Land Rover, worth $41,000, was seized after he sold two grams of heroin to a [narc]…Court watchers strongly suspect the Supreme Court will incorporate the Eighth Amendment, making the Excessive Fines clause apply to states. Sisson is only one of hundreds of Wayne County residents who've been surveilled, pulled over, had their car [stolen], and been forced to pay out more than $1,000 to get it back, all for visiting legal, state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries…
Banishment (#870)
Caging people permanently, without trial or sentence:
…William Welsh has a number of convictions for child molestation and sexual abuse dating back to 1979. In 2011 he was no longer in custody, having served his required prison and probationary sentences. He was, however, required to register on Oregon's Sex Offender Registry because of his prior convictions. When he traveled to Belize in 2011 and failed to update the address listed on his registration, he was charged, and pled guilty, to violating…registration requirements – a felony – and he was sentenced to 673 days in prison. A few weeks prior to his release, the Attorney General designated him a "sexually dangerous person"; the reviewing court agreed, and he was [indefinitely] committed…In 2016, however, his conviction (for having failed to update his registration) was vacated, after the Supreme Court, in US v. Nichols, 136 S.Ct. 113, held that SORNA did not require a person to update his registration when he was traveling to a foreign country. So he petitioned for a release from custody, arguing that because he had not lawfully been "in custody" of the Bureau of Prisons…he could not, lawfully, have been subject to the commitment proceeding for "sexually dangerous persons" in the first place. But his request for release was denied, first by the federal district court and then by the 4th Circuit…
Surplus Women (#873)
Let's play a game: Is this a rationalization of cop behavior or serial killer behavior?
A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with capital murder after telling investigators he killed four female sex workers because he considered them worthless and that he thought he was doing something good for his Texas border city…[the] prosecutor said…he will seek the death penalty if Juan David Ortiz is found guilty…
"Dreams". How old is the imbecile who writes this shit? Eight?
…Escalona was one of at least 41 Venezuelan women murdered abroad from February 2017 to this November. They had fled Venezuela's economic turmoil. They left their homeland with dreams. Some were forced into prostitution. All met death…
No. These women weren't "following dreams" like refugees from a fucking Hallmark card; they were trying to survive by fleeing a collapsing socialist dictatorship. They were not naive children like so many American women; they were adults who had to take risks thanks to authoritarians criminalizing their pragmatic choice to cross borders to work. And since criminalization attracts criminals, sometimes they lost those gambles. The villains here aren't imaginary "trafficking rings"; they're the fucking politicians who force desperate people to deal with criminals to have a chance to escape hell.
Disaster (#893)
I'm not sure how much this will help, but it certainly can't hurt:
…the new platform Tribunus has allowed web users to weigh in on critical issues when petitions and digital comments are no longer viable steps. On Tribunus' simple site, US residents can contact legislators directly by placing a phone call, sending them a fax, or — if their fax machine is turned off — quickly sending them a paper letter instead. Tribunus' creator, a Bay Area programmer who asked to be identified as Michael, said he first launched the platform to help defeat a legal measure threatening California sex workers (successfully, after protests and hundreds of letters). Later on, he added pages addressing immigrant family separation and net neutrality…
The Prudish Giant (#895)
Facebook turns the dial on its anti-sex "standards" up to 11:
Facebook just…adopted…new "sexual solicitation" rules…[that] ban "implicit sexual solicitation", including the use of sexual slang, the solicitation of nude images, discussion of "sexual partner preference," and even expressing interest in sex…the new policy [even] bars "vague suggestive statements, such as 'looking for a good time tonight'"…discussion of sexual exploitation is allowed, but discussion of consensual, adult sex is taboo. That's a classic censorship model: speech about sexuality being permitted only when sex is presented as dangerous and shameful…such…rules can incentivize abuse from…bad actors…[including] state actors…This process gives the user no meaningful opportunity to appeal a bad decision. Given the rules' focus on sexual interests and activities, it's easy to imagine who would be the easiest targets: sex workers…[and] members of the LGBTQ community…
From the way these rules are worded, they seem to even ban bland statements like "I'm lesbian" (which is "expressing sexual partner preference").
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My body is my business – and it is a money maker. – Vera Sidika
Worse Than I Thought
"Human trafficking" has become nothing more than a dysphemism for sex work:
A trio of bills before the [Frederick] County [Maryland] Council [cl]aim to address human trafficking…[one] would require hotels and motels to conduct human trafficking training for new employees, [the second would] hold landlords and tenants liable for criminal charges for [not evicting sex workers on a cop's say-so] and [the third would] regulate "bodyworks" establishments, which [prohibitionists pretend] are relatively common locations for human trafficking…The landlord and tenant bill would would make it unlawful for any tenant or landlord or property owner to [lease to anyone a cop decides to call]…a potential problem…Prince George's County has…implemented this bill and has seen success in [evicting] some [sex workers]…the goal of the bill isn't to punish the landlords, but to get them to [become fascist tools] by evicting the tenants or reporting [them] to police…
Instant karma's gonna get you…
On [May 16th], Sahar Sarid, Thomas Keesee and Kishore Vidya Bhavnanie—three out of four alleged owners of Mugshots.com—were arrested and charged with extortion, money laundering and identity theft…[for] harvest[ing] people's mug shots and charg[ing] them exorbitant fees to have the photos removed…$399 and up…many people have filed lawsuits against the site…California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said…"Those who can't afford to pay into this scheme to have their information removed pay the price when they look for a job, housing, or try to build relationships with others. This is exploitation, plain and simple"..
And yet I don't see Becerra pushing for a law to make mugshots not public records. Is that the stench of hypocrisy I smell?
Uncommon Sense (#404)
Beware of male "feminists" who try to stop women from organizing:
Spain's fiercely anti-prostitution Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was left red in the face…after it emerged a sex workers union was approved by his own administration. Sex work is…neither illegal nor regulated [in Spain] but Sanchez came to power in June with a strongly feminist agenda promising to fight…women. "Prostitution in Spain isn't legal and this government won't support any organisation that includes this illicit activity," he tweeted…
Rescued To Death
"Abatement". A term used for things, especially nuisances, here applied to people. But NHI, right?
…[spokespig] Gaetano Caltagirone…announced the initiation of a "Sex Worker Abatement Unit"…Some 20 [cops] applied [for obvious reasons], but only four were selected…the unit has arrested "Johns" — men soliciting prostitutes — as well as pimps. Any ensnared sex workers, he said, have been offered [brainwashing sessions or else]…This [paternalistic scheme] was modeled after a pilot program in Seattle…This news was, by and large, well-received by the meeting attendees…[but] Tessa Brown, a Mission resident, pinned the rise of street prostitution on the closures of popular personal websites like Backpage…"I just wanted to push back at the idea that all neighbors agree that we should be arresting all sex workers and more clients of sex workers," Brown said…Another attendee, Aaron Sunshine, chimed in and suggested the police ease up. "Let's just leave the sex workers alone," Sunshine said…
Slowly but surely, we're getting through to people who aren't predisposed to bigotry & bootlicking.
The Face of Trafficking
What an actual attempt to abduct a woman into forced prostitution looks like:
…her former pimp crept up from behind and dropped her with a roundhouse punch. Two men heaved her into a car trunk and they were off, forcing the woman to claw for her life in the dark as the vehicle careened along crowded city streets…Soon police were in pursuit across the Bay Bridge. Minutes later the car would slam into a pole in a fiery, fatal wreck. But before the deadly crash, the woman in the trunk remembered an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that informed viewers about emergency trunk latches. In her panic, she found her lifeline and escaped from the vehicle as it headed to the bridge…
The Sky is Falling! (#772)
The BBC clutches its pearls and announces that pragmatic dating is bad because it's "driven by vanity":
…the exchange of youth and beauty for long-term financial gain, motivated not by hunger but by aspiration, glamorised by social media stars, and often wrapped in the trappings of a relationship. Older men have always used gifts, status, and influence to buy access to young women. The sugar daddy has probably been around, in every society, for as long as the prostitute. So you might ask: "Why even have a conversation about transactional sex in Africa?" The answer is that in Kenya, and in some other African countries, "sugar" relationships seem to have become both more common and more visible: what once was hidden is now out in the open – on campuses, in bars, and all over Instagram…
Lower Education (#773)
Ashe Schow debunks the absurd numbers behind the "campus rape crisis" propaganda:
A potential draft of new federal campus sexual assault policies was leaked this week, so expect a new round of false and misleading statistics to be shared by those who claim due process "protects rapists" and "hurts victims". Rape and sexual assault are serious offenses, and shouldn't be watered down to create a narrative that America is somehow the rape capital of the world, nor should we pretend that non-offenses are offenses…I've taken down every one of these statistics before — sometimes many, many times — but it's time to debunk them all in one place…
Schow debunks the "1 in 4" lie ("numbers thousands of times higher than war-torn Congo"), the "serial predator" bogeyman, the "all rape accusations are true" poison, the "universities which report no rapes are lying" libel, and the "1 in 3 men intend to rape" bullshit. It's worth reading in its entirety.
To Molest and Rape (#797)
What kind of sick fuck enrolls their daughter in a program specifically intended to groom them into members of a gang of violent thugs?
[Cops] in the Louisville Metro Police Department's youth Explorer program…interrogated…a girl who [was the victim]…of sexual abuse [by one of their cronies], took her cell phone and refused to let her parents be present when she was questioned during an out-of-town trip…the head of the program tried to keep the allegations quiet through what amounted to a bribe — offering to pay the cost of the trip to Atlanta…Louisville Metro P[ig] Brad Schuhmann…sexually abus[ed] the girl from 2008 to 2009…and sought sexual pictures and acts from her. The abuse [was perpetrated] in [pigmobiles], at Explorer events and through text messages. The lawsuit was initially filed under seal in Jefferson Circuit Court in October but was moved to federal court earlier this year. It is among five other similar suits unsealed [on August 30th]…the teen told her parents, who confronted Schuhmann and met with the program's leader at the time, Lt. Curtis Flaherty. Schuhmann is under criminal investigation and [was rewarded for the rapes with a] paid [vacation]…
The Widening Gyre (#822)
In which "sex trafficking" hysteria is employed to mask the stench of xenophobia:
Britain is ramping up efforts to [charge people with] sex trafficking of girls…amid [fantasies] that cases uncovered by police are just "the tip of the iceberg" with modern slavery ever-evolving…Britain this week announced a 2 million pound ($2.6 million) scheme to [divert funds to cronies under the excuse of] help[ing] stop at risk children falling into the grip of traffickers and gangs who rape them and force them to move drugs…from cities to rural areas…Britain has been rocked by a series of child sex trafficking and abuse [s]ca[r]es over the past few years, with hundreds of girls [claimed to be] exploited by large gangs..of mainly Asian men…
We were warned that Israeli whore-censorship was only "part of a wider plan":
The State Attorney's office, along with Israeli police, decided…to take severe measures against the practice of lap dances in strip clubs. The new enforcement intends to eradicate "the activity that in certain circumstances constitutes prostitution"…The police issued a written notice to owners of strip clubs clarifying the new policies…[Prohibitionist] Nitzan Kahana of the Task Force [for Pearl-Clutching smugly bloviated]…"The treatment to root out prostitution in Israel has begun…Strip clubs are a major part of this industry…lap dances, posing for years as 'an innocent dance' when it is apparent to all that they are essentially a sexual act of physical contact intending to please customers"…
OH MY GOD WE CAN'T HAVE CUSTOMERS EXPERIENCING PLEASURE!!! THE HORROR!!!
I've never seen anything galvanize public support for sex workers like FOSTA has:
…Coyote…RI…conducted a survey of 262 sex workers between April 14 and May 25, 2018. Seventy percent…reported that sex work had been their primary source of income before FOSTA and 77 percent…were the sole providers for their families. Within a week of the laws' passage, 70 percent noticed a drop in their income, rendering them unable to pay for rent, food, utilities or phone…Sixty percent…now take on less safe clients in order to make ends meet. Sixty-five percent…reported that someone had tried to threaten, exploit or [rape] them…censorship of sex workers' content…means that many are turning to street-based sex work…including people who have little to no experience working on the streets…street-based sex work…increases vulnerability to predators, including police…
The Monsters Are Due (#867)
The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs:
Some residents of [the] small town [of Acatlan] in central Mexico [abducted] two men accused of trying to kidnap children from police custody and burned them to death…A crowd of about 150 people gathered and stormed the jail…then doused the…[men] with an accelerant and burned them [alive]…
In the comments, a witness wrote, "The two men were innocent. They were drinking in the street and they got arrested. A small group of people [then] began gossip[ing] that they were kidnapping children…Everything was broadcasted on Facebook Live and the mother of the younger man was watching the stream of her son getting killed. There are posts of her begging them to stop…"
Here's another entry in the "sex trafficking" scare story invasion of Twitter. Notice we're back to Ikea again; apparently "sex traffickers" just can't resist picking up cheap furniture and enjoying Swedish meatballs while shopping for their "sex slaves". I wonder how many abductions it takes to make a furniture store a "hot spot", and how many women have been abducted from the Covina Ikea in comparison with, say, the Cost Plus in San Dimas or the Ethan Allen in Pasadena?


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Russian cultural scene - Muted and hidden
In Russia, hears, and sees the government not only with, but as the first. And if a movie or Song bothers you too much, is deleted. But the censorship also stim
In Russia, hears, and sees the government not only with, but as the first. And if a movie or Song bothers you too much, is deleted. But the censorship also stimulates resistance.
By Christine Auerbach, ARD Studio in Moscow
In the largest hall of the cinema "October" in the center of Moscow, it's like any other cinema hall before the Film begins: Tense Wait, the people are glad to get a Ticket for the international documentary film festival "artdocfest". And then for A Minute the names of about 60 films to run on the giant screen. Movies, you can't see it this year at the Festival.
The Ministry of culture look exactly the way
"The Festival is held, but of the 127 films that we have selected, we may only show less than half. Nowhere in Russia, these films may be shown," says Vitali Manski, the organizer of the festival.
Because in Russia there are more and more laws that make it small, independent Festivals and movies hard. So, in the meantime, any Film that is to publicly run must be at the Ministry of culture accredited. And since December, every international film festival.
For the filmmakers that means a lot of organizational effort that can only be managed, who is big, known, or a lot of money in the back. For German this is "a cultural disaster" and a censorship by the back door, because the Ministry of culture intervenes.
Prohibited, or shortened
've felt lately already greater films than the documentaries of Manski: The Satire "death of Stalin" was not allowed to be shown in Russia, with the justification, the leadership of the USSR was portrayed as too stupid. The Drama of "Matilda," about an affair of Tsar Nicholas II. ensured the prohibition of claims for alleged blasphemy. And also, the movie "Leviathan" came out only in a censored version in the Russian cinema.

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