Chinese workers…would probably prefer not being deported to a religious text they can’t read. – Red Canary Song
Above the Law
Yet another sociopath with a title:
The [Washington] state Attorney General filed charges…against Hells Canyon Circuit Superior Court Judge Scott Gallina…Nine women…have reported varying degrees of sexual misconduct by Gallina…[since] 2014…[including] charges of second-degree rape, fourth-degree assault with sexual motivation, and indecent liberties…Gallina can return to his elective duties until the Supreme Court and the Judicial Conduct Commission stop him…To help protect [women]…the County Board of Commissioners called an emergency meeting…and signed a resolution…
Oooh, a RESOLUTION! I wonder if that’s any more effective than a “restraining order”?
Policing for Profit
Governments are reining in these depredations much too slowly:
More than a year after police raided an Alabama couple’s house, upturned their lives, and seized thousands of dollars from them over a small amount of marijuana…a…state circuit judge dismissed the misdemeanor drug charges against Greg and Teresa Almond…and ordered that their property be returned to them…the Almonds filed a federal civil rights lawsuit earlier this year against the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department [because]…in January of 2018, the…narcotics [gang] busted down their door, threw a flashbang grenade at Greg Almond’s feet, detained the couple at gunpoint, and ransacked their house…[while they] were trying to refinance the loans they had taken out to start a chicken farm, and as a result, they say they missed a crucial bank deadline, resulting in their house being foreclosed upon. They now live in a utility shed…The Alabama legislature is currently considering a bill that would essentially abolish civil asset forfeiture by requiring a criminal conviction before property could be forfeited by police. It would join four other states that have passed similar laws…
Torture Chamber
A “school” where scores of boys were “reformed” to death:
…a company doing pollution cleanup at the old Dozier School for Boys property in Marianna, 60 miles west of Tallahassee, has discovered 27 “anomalies” that could be possible graves about 165 yards outside the reform school’s Boot Hill cemetery…forensic anthropologists have already turned up far more burials on school property than the state knew about…anthropologists…found…a total of 55 graves…of…boys who died in state [cages]…The brutal…reform school was open from 1900 to 2011, when the state shuttered it under mounting public pressure…[due to] terrible, unceasing abuse and neglect of [caged] boys…and on a number of suspicious deaths…The [newly found] possible graves do not follow any obvious pattern…“This randomness might be expected in a clandestine or informal cemetery, where graves were excavated haphazardly and left unmarked,” the report says…
To Molest and Rape 
Just protecting and serving:
…LaFayette [Alabama cop]…Quantavious Lakeith Lockhart was arrested Thursday, April 11th….[for] rape [of a mentally disabled girl]…LaFayette Police Chief George Rampey…will not confirm [that Lockhart]…worked [as a] School [pig]…Lockhart [has been rewarded with a paid vacation]…
Japanese Prostitution (#819)
A Japanese historian says the comfort woman phenomenon was complicated:
Ikuhiko Hata…is one of Japan’s leading historians and…is no nationalist…Most allegations that Japanese troops kidnapped women for the comfort stations are untrue, Hata [said]…abduction of local girls by foreign troops would have ignited local resistance…the IJA did carry out abductions in a small number of “isolated criminal cases…in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies…where…women were seen as kinds of POWs…The comfort women mainly worked at comfort stations run by private citizens. They were recruited by brokers and had fixed-term contracts…Bankbook and bank transfer records prove that the comfort women wired money home to their families to buy homes or start businesses…Many comfort women…were the envy of other women attached to the military, such as nurses…daughters of farm families often had no choice but to go with a broker when her father sold her. So, when we talk about free will, we have to take into account the range of choices available to women”…Hata said “slave” is the wrong word to describe women who had contracts, received relatively good pay – a commission of what soldiers paid – and, unlike soldiers, could go back to their hometowns after a year or two, even though the war was still continuing…
Pyrrhic Victory (#864)
When it comes to mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
…a…Google database employees call Sensorvault…turn[s] the business of tracking cellphone users’ locations into a digital dragnet for [cops]…Technology companies have for years responded to court orders for specific users’ information. The new warrants go further, suggesting possible suspects and witnesses in the absence of other clues. Often…the company responds to a single warrant with location information on dozens or hundreds of devices…The practice was first used by federal agents in 2016…and…has since spread to local departments across the country…This year…the company received as many as 180 requests in one week…Sensorvault…includes detailed location records involving at least hundreds of millions of devices worldwide and dating back nearly a decade…
Scapegoats (#901)
Now we know why they wouldn’t say what kind of animal before:
A [typical and representative] Louisiana [cop] arrested last December for…[bestiality] has now been charged with more than 30 counts of child pornography. Terry Yetman…was…charged…after…officials…discovered electronic evidence showing Yetman’s…bestiality with a retired police dog…
Pyrrhic Victory (#913)
I’m afraid it’s far too late to put this evil djinni back into its bottle:
Axon, the largest supplier of body cameras to US police, has filed [three] patents to develop, surprise, surprise, facial recognition software…One patent is for a system to automatically detect and blur out personal information, probably for things like license plates and such, another matches faces to ones in a database, and the third detects objects like guns in video feeds. The software also analyses faces to guess the person’s age, race and gender…
Legislators Gone Wild (#923)
Looks like the anti-whore brigade couldn’t get politicians to support them, either:
State Sen. Joe Hardy’s bill (SB413) to ban Nevada’s legal brothels statewide died on Friday [April 12th] after it failed to get a committee hearing by the midnight deadline…as longtime watchers of the Legislature know, “dead” bills can become “zombie” bills that come back to life as amendments to other bills right up until the time the Legislature officially comes to an end (“sine die”) several weeks from now…we’ll remain vigilant and let you know if SB413 somehow joins the walking dead…
Blunt Instrument (#926) 
It’s great to see Asian sex workers fighting back against the racist “sex trafficking” narrative:
…The public is fed the racist myth that all Chinese massage parlors are involved in human trafficking. In fact, most Chinese workers do this work because it is the most sensible work for them to do…it is simply the fastest way to send money home, and it makes the most practical sense at this time of their lives…The Chinese hukou system, which restricts people to living in the rural area where they are born…is a huge driver of internal “migrant sex workers” with no working rights in China. It is also a huge driver of migration out of China under Deng Xiaoping’s policies, which actively promoted rural migration out of China rather than overcrowding Chinese cities…Yet these migrant sex workers also do much to support Chinese economic development by sending a large portion of their money home. It’s ironic and laughable in the darkest sense when Christian charities in “international development” work travel to countries like Cambodia and Thailand to convert sex workers into garment workers. Do they recognize how much “international development” these sex workers are already doing? Much more than a charity promoting the sale of handmade trinkets could ever manage…
