Prostitutes are far more honest, sincere, humane, compassionate and better bang-for-buck than [a politician] will ever be able to deliver. – Jacqui Lambie
Only in Australia would a politician follow this insult with this apology:
…Senator [Jacqui] Lambie compared [Cory] Bernardi’s outrage to a “prostitute lecturing us about the benefits of celibacy…Before I receive unfair criticism from the sex workers, I apologize to them profusely for comparing them to Senator Bernardi – I know that is a really terrible low-down thing to do”…
Yes, this article actually equates sex workers with child molesters and murderers. Because THE CHILDREN!!!
A total of 3450 brazen individuals with 9960 convictions applied to become teachers in the past year, with the criminals, many of whom would have served jail-time for their crimes, weeded out through extensive background checks….27 [had] convictions for indecent assault…one…with a manslaughter conviction…17 [had] counts of prostitution…[and] three convictions for possessing obscene material…
Remember, cops, you’re allowed to RAPE us, but not to obtain consent: “A [New Jersey cop] has been charged with soliciting a prostitute while on duty…William H. Dick III….[also tried to subvert a witness]…”
Amateurs are a menace to public health; they should be licensed and heavily regulated:
…Since 2011, the gonorrhea rate in [Utah] “has increased substantially,” according to the CDC. We’re talking a fivefold increase to 49 cases per 100,000 people…To put this in perspective, though, the national rate is 110.7 cases per 100,000 people…At the same time, gonorrhea rates among men who report having sex with men has consistently gone down since 2009…Utah’s sex education stresses abstinence and does not require teachers to provide information about…condoms…
Another rape victim caged to force her participation in the state’s morality play:
A former guard at Oregon’s only women’s prison is awaiting trial on accusations that he [raped] an inmate – but it’s the…victim in the case who’s in jail. Washington County Circuit Judge Charles Bailey this week ordered that the 41-year-old woman remain in custody on a material witness hold because of the state’s fear that she won’t show up to testify at the Oct. 4 trial…she’s been held since Aug. 16. Brian Balzer, the [rapist jailer]…who faces two felony charges, was arrested last December, posted bail and has been free since…
First They Came for the Hookers…
Buried lede: the pigs stole $26,000 from citizens & spent it on strippers:
Greenville County [South Carolina] paid a private law firm nearly $80,000 to assist the Solicitor’s Office in litigation against a strip club accused…as part of [a] settlement in which the sides agreed to the six-month shutdown…[politicians pretended] the nightclub would no longer operate as a sexually-oriented business when it reopened. However, Platinum Plus dancers almost immediately started to [do their jobs when the club re-opened]…Judge Charles Simmons [of course] ruled in favor of the [state] and imposed another six-month shutdown of the strip club…In 2014, undercover deputies started a yearlong investigation into Platinum Plus. Deputies spent $26,000 in drug seizure money at the strip club during the investigation…
“Unbelievably” is a good adverb for nearly every sentence in this fantasy:
Sex trafficking is a terrible reality in Middle Tennessee…As she clutched a teddy bear, the woman said she is afraid to be identified “because he’s still out there, because I didn’t have the courage to press charges when this all happened”…She met her trafficker when she was just 15 years old…He served prison time but came back into her life when she was 27, now divorced with a young daughter. She thought he had changed. “It took me a while to put together that he was drugging my drinks…The type of people that would purchase me… It would be the most sadistic of the sadistic…The ones where the more you cried and the more you screamed, the more they enjoyed it”…One time she tried to resist by slamming a door in her husband’s face. “The next thing I remember, after that I remember waking up and my daughter was screaming…there were a lot of people in my house I didn’t know.” She then realized she had been out two entire weeks…“I had 14 wounds stitched up with fishing wire.” She believes those cuts, all over her chest, were most likely the result of blood-letting ritual…“When we got married, he was holding a knife to my back in the courthouse…As a reward for being pregnant, he sold me to a man who tied me to a tree for three days”…She survived that, and unbelievably gave birth to a healthy baby…
Quickly becoming one of the stupidest tropes of the whole panic:
…Attorney General Ken Paxton came to San Antonio to announce a coalition to encourage truckers to become the eyes and ears that identify and catch human trafficking on the state’s roadways…truck stops and roadside motels can be hotspots for…modern day slavery. And truckers are often the first people to notice it…Texas ranks second worst in the country for reports of human trafficking…“It could be an RV or a van pulled up outside the truck stops,” said Kylla Lanier…[of] Truckers Against Trafficking. “They might also see branding tattoos. We’ve had a lot of victims that have had their pimp’s name tattooed on them, or a dollar sign, ‘daddy’s money maker,’ things of that nature”…
Nothing happened; film at 11!
[While shopping in a grocery store] “I noticed a couple that seemed rather close to me. Wherever I went they followed in the same pattern”…Fearing that they were being stalked, [Amy] McCloud purposely started wandered [sic] to different aisles, watching their behavior. “My mommy instincts were alerted and so I kept an eye on this couple…And I just kept going through the store. And when I went to the checkout they were right there.” McCloud and her daughter headed for the coffee shop inside the store, sat down and waited until the man and woman left…
Her “mommy instincts”? More like “herd instinct”, going along with the hysteria du jour.
Watch for escorts to be prosecuted for “trafficking” themselves under this law:
Missouri is adding new measures to its sex trafficking crime bill…[which] will now include the advertising of a human trafficking victim for sex or pornography production…Emily van Schenkhof…of Missouri KidsFirst task force, hopes this will lead to more prosecutions in the state…“there have only been seven state prosecutions of trafficking offenses in the history of Missouri,” she says…
Yes folks, that’s a rescue industry profiteer complaining that there isn’t enough coercion to suit her.
Just protecting and serving, you know?
A North Carolina cop impregnated a 14-year-old girl while mentoring her in an attempt to prove that “policemen are good”…James Paul Blair…is…in jail on a charge of statutory rape…The girl’s mother said she was reluctant to allow Blair to become friendly with her daughter after she had run away, but allowed it because she had trust in police. Besides, her daughter wanted to be a cop when she got older…After learning her daughter was pregnant, the mother confronted the cop who admitted everything. He also told her he wanted the girl to have an abortion to save his own skin. But the girl’s mother said she does not believe in abortion…
You know you’re in a moral panic when…
It’s weird enough trying to shoehorn Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal into a parable about online pornography. But what makes this Wall Street Journal op-ed truly bizarre is its co-author: icon of ’80s fantasy Pamela Anderson…there’s no evidence Weiner’s problems were related to online pornography, or that he even consumed it regularly…while people have cheated on their spouses, sent ill-advised erotic communications, and gotten-off on exhibitionism for centuries, folks for some reason want to believe that online porn is the culprit for Weiner and his kinky contemporaries…Anderson [and her pearl-clutching ghostwriter Schmuley] Boteach [bloviate]…”we are a guinea-pig generation for an experiment in mass debasement that few of us would have ever consented to, and whose full nefarious impact may not be known for years…the incidence of porn addiction will only spiral as the children now being raised in an environment of wall-to-wall, digitized sexual images become adults inured to intimacy and in need of even greater graphic stimulation. They are the crack babies of porn.” The crack babies of porn! (So… a media-hyped panic that turned out to be way overblown?)…
