June 16, 2021 by Maggie McNeill
All moral panics blend real societal problems with the cartoon version. - Michael Hobbes
The Widening Gyre (#792)Trying to prop up the "Facebook pimps" myth with bogus "studies":
Blunt Instrument (#998)...re[scue industry profiteers pompously branding themselves]...the Human Trafficking Institute [claimed] "The internet has become the dominant tool that traffickers use to recruit victims, and...Facebook overwhelmingly is used by traffickers to recruit victims"...[a bogus government] report showed that 30 percent of all victims identified in federal sex trafficking cases in the past two decades - since 2000 - were recruited online...and 65 percent of identified child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited through Facebook...
The End of the Beginning (#1015)Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed a civil lawsuit against an [Asian] massage business...in St. Louis County. The lawsuit [is based in the "evidence" that] Royal Day Spa...has its front windows covered and that it's open late...[cops made pretextual] traffic stops...[of] three [men, threatening them with nuisance charges to get them to parrot] Schmitt's [racist claims]...about the...Spa. Schmitt [masturbated furiously while vomiting out moronic phrases such as]...dark underworld...modern-day slavery...and...human trafficking in illicit massage businesses...[he also shared his shockingly-racist sex fantasies about how all Asian women are stupid and ignorant and need white men to "rescue" and deport them]...
Maybe we're about to witness the beginning of the end of these evil laws:
A Broker in Pillage (#1038)The S.C. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled the state's lifetime sex offender registration requirement is unconstitutional and people who demonstrate a low risk of reoffending should be able to petition a judge to have their names purged...[until now] South Carolina [has] provide[d victims ofthe law]...no recourse to seek relief from a judge...Brooke Burris...a...Human Trafficking [fetishist, vomited out a lot of ugly nonsense about the so-called]...victims [of public urination or consensual teen sex]...
Nobody will be safe until this odious, contemptible practice is recognized as unconstitutional:
The Implosion Begins (#1075)In February...almost eight years after the state of Indiana s[tole] Tyson Timbs' brand-new Land Rover over a drug crime, prosecutors argued that...the government should...be free to take everything you're worth. [Last week], the state's highest court categorically rejected that...Chief Justice Loretta Rush likened the government's chutzpah to "Captain Ahab's chase of the white whale Moby Dick"...[But] Indiana p[oliticians haven't yet learned their lesson]...also in February...the Indiana Senate passed a bill to [rob] people [cops accuse] of [attending] "unlawful"...protests...
I did not foresee that the "sex trafficking" moral panic would implode in such a spectacular and entertaining fashion:
...the women who share...pastel, mom-washed #savethechildren posts [don't c]are that they [a]re spreading Q propaganda...The statistics [they] share...have been repeatedly and publicly debunked by NGOs...[and] researchers...But [they think that]...doesn't matter...They [also follow]...Tim Ballard...of the Utah...rescue [industry] group Operation Underground Railroad...[who] has [prom]oted...the child sex trafficking panic [even in its most unhinged aspects]. As the Wayfair h[ysteria] took off [last] July, he released a video ...claiming that "children are sold that way" and that "law enforcement will get to the bottom of it." Since then, the organization has publicly [distanced itself from] QAnon...But, at the time, Ballard [continues to claim] child sex trafficking is a growing global crisis...
See also " Served Cold " below.
If they actually punished wife-beating cops, they'd lose half of them:
A Garda...sexual assault[ed his girlfriend], threaten[ed] to kill [her] and [exercised] coercive control...in a "grand scheme" to control her life...He was charged with 35 offences...includ[ing] four counts of assault...two [of] sexual assault...10 [of] criminal damage...a threat to kill, endangerment of life, four thefts, coercion...[and] harassment...the woman...was punched in the face, grabbed by the neck, held against the floor and...choke[d]...he pulled her hair out by the roots and kicked her on the ground...the...harassment...[included] 65,000 phone messages...a number of [which included] a threat to kill...her...
Served Cold (#1138) The schadenfreude is so very sweet:
[Prohibitionist actor] Jim Caviezel appeared [at a conference] in Oklahoma...to promote his newest role, in which he plays Tim Ballard, the founder...of the [rescue industry] group Operation Underground Railroad, [with "sex trafficking" fetishist Mira Sorvino as his wife]...there...he...[also] promoted...the...QAnon [branch]...of ["sex trafficking" hysteria, which]...was awkward at best for OUR, which has spent the better part of a year insisting that it...is not affiliated with...QAnon...[despite] Ballard...[himself endorsing the belief last summer]...After years of success...OUR['s]...carefully-crafted image is coming undone...several people have been interviewed about their dealings with OUR not just by [ a Utah prosecutor], but by the FBI...IRS and Homeland Security...among the matters being looked into are whether OUR operators have [raped people they branded] human trafficking victims...and whether OUR has committed human trafficking itself...
QAnon weirdness is not especially extreme from an organization which gets "tips" from psychics and has claimed that "pimps" use magic padlocks to trap doll-like girls in cages.
