In the News (#1139)

May 22, 2021 by Maggie McNeill

[The "sex offender" registry] thoroughly ruins someone's life.
- Elizabeth Ehret

Elephant in the Parlor

Americans pretend "politician hires whores" is something other than a yawn:

When... Matt Gaetz attended a 2019 GOP fundraiser in Orlando, his date that night was...a paid escort and amateur Instagram model who led a cocaine-fueled party after the event...The Florida congressman's one-time wingman, Joel Greenberg, will [out] that escort to [busybodies] as one of more than 15 [sex workers] Gaetz [hired]...what distinguishes this woman, Megan Zalonka, is that...Greenberg [moved money around to tip her an extra]...$7,000 to $17,500...Gaetz...has declared that he "never paid for sex" [and] wrote off the stay at the hotel as a campaign expense ...

"Politician lies" ain't news, either.

The End of the Beginning

It's good to see so many challenges to these medieval laws:

In 1993, when he was 18, Randall Menges had consensual sex with two other teenage boys at a camp in Idaho. [He] was charged...with " crimes against nature"...and served seven years in prison...[then condemned to] the sex-offender registry...a federal judge in Montana ruled that Mr. Menges's name should be removed from the...registry...but...the Montana attorney general, Austin Knudsen...said he planned to appeal...because "[laws are more important than people]"...Last September, [attorney] M[atthew] Strugar, along with the A.C.L.U. of Idaho, filed a federal lawsuit challenging Idaho's law on behalf of Mr. Menges and another man who was forced to register as a sex offender because he was convicted 20 years ago in another state for performing oral sex on his wife...

Torture Chamber

Funny how people die of "undetermined causes" while cops are brutalizing them:

...[two South Carolina screws murdered] Jamal Sutherland, a Black man with mental illness, in jail...[by tas]ing [him] and pepper-spray[ing him multiple times while he cried that]...he couldn't breathe...The county coroner has [tried to exonerate the screws by blaming]...his [his death on] an "excited state" with unfavorable effects from prescription drugs [rather than the fact that] police [were attacking him with a high-voltage weapon and dangerous toxic chemicals]...Sutherland's manner of death remains "undetermined," according to the coroner...[screws] Lindsay Fickett and Brian Houle...were [at first rewarded with paid vacations]...but the...sheriff...[later fired them in response to public outcry]...

Nothing To Be Proud Of

I hope they're so "disheartened" they go out and find honest work:

Organizers of New York City's Pride events...are banning [cops] and other [government-sponsored thugs] from marching in their huge annual parade until at least 2025 and will also seek to keep on-duty [cops] a block away from the celebration..."law enforcement...can...be threatening, and at times dangerous, to those in our community who are most often targeted with excessive force and/or without reason"...the Gay Officers Action League said in a release it was disheartened by the decision...and [called] the decision...[to place the safety of cops' victims above the sadfeelz of cops] "shameful"...

To Molest and Rape (#862)

Note that politicians took three years to act on doing something about rapist cops:

House [politicians] just passed a bipartisan bill that would make it illegal for federal [pigs, spooks and g-men] to [rape] people...the[y have abducted]...th[us closing the "she wanted it"]...loophole...[which] protect[s rapist cops]...The Closing the Law Enforcement Consent Loophole Act, created by Rep. Jackie Speier...would make it a criminal offense for [pigs, spooks and g-men] to engage in any sexual activity with anyone...while exercising their [police powers]...On the state level, it's still legal in 34 states for [cops] to [rape] someone in custody [as long as they belch out the magic words "she wanted it" when caught]...

It's just going to keep getting worse:

...eBay...has changed its policies regarding what it considers "adult items" effective June 15, completely eliminating the category "Adult Only" for new listings...Items that contain nudity are allowed only if the eBay moderators consider it to be "nude art listings that do not contain sexually suggestive poses or sexual acts" and if they are accordingly categorized and labeled...[however] eBay also...reserves the right to decide what is and is not "art"...The company...somehow decided that vintage copies of only four magazine titles - Playboy, Playgirl, Mayfair and Penthouse - may be listed for sale or auction "as long as the listing does not contain nude images or explicit content." All other adult publications are banned...[as are] erotic videos and films...video games with a rating of X, XXX, R18 or unrated...and all "sexually explicit anime, comics, books, films, animation, manga, hentai [and] yaoi"...

To Molest and Rape (#1137)

Imagine a non-cop child rapist getting only three years:

A [typical and representative] Massachusetts [cop]...convicted...of [raping] a child was sentenced...to [less than] three years in prison...Daniel Cintron was convicted in a jury-waived trial of two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and two counts of intimidation of a witness...Cintron has been in [jail] since 2018 when he...rap[ed] three girls. But a jury in 2019...[said it was OK for him to] rape [kid]s while deadlocking on [mostly clown-costume-related] charges...