Links #485

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

If I had never dialed the police…she’d still be alive.  –  James Smith

This video (contributed by Furrygirl) was all the rage a couple of weeks ago; the woman was apparently a former member of the Lyndon Larouche cult, and I think she’s hilarious (and seasonal).  The links above it were provided by Phoenix Calida, Tim Cushing, Dave Krueger, Radley Balko, Walter Olson, and Jillian Keenan, in that order.

From the Archives

  • The state keeps trying to crucify a young man after the 1st attempt failed.
  • Funny how clients aren’t treated as menaces to society when they’re cops.
  • How can people read this and still think prostitution laws are a good idea?
  • Negating women’s consent via psychobabble won’t stop with sex workers.
  • Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
  • Weinstein made it possible to publicly attack “sex addiction” as malarkey.
  • Oakland allows cops who qualify as “traffickers” by law to get away free.
  • The Unsinkable Liz Brown looks at this year’s “Operation Cross Country”.
  • Say what you like about Larry Flynt, but he’s a dedicated foe of tyranny.
  • Not the same huge child porn site run by the FBI; this is a different one.
  • States still try to claim top spots in the “sex trafficking” pissing contest.
  • Cops can be fired for consensual sex, but not torturing people to death.
  • This is not about “pimps”, but rather sex workers and clients.  For now.
  • “Sex trafficking” provides a new excuse for the same bogus “evidence”.
  • It’s wonderful that so many academic allies are debunking the hysteria.
  • I really hope abusers keep using “sex trafficking” to justify their abuse.
  • Michigan increases “sex trafficking” numbers with imaginary “victims”.
  • “Feminist” calls other women “toilets” for ministering to disabled men.
  • Schools are rewarded for “finding” what the government wants found.
  • It’s utterly loathsome to use talk of “slavery” to oppose human rights.
  • Why would anybody pay for sex instead of trying to “pick up” women?
  • Every sex worker arrested in a “sting” should sue the cops if possible.
  • Indian sex workers use Durga Puja as an occasion to protest tyranny.
  • Government thinks it can make anything true by declaring it in a law.
  • “…but that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
  • Mark Draughn sees no good coming out of the FOSTA Facebook suit.
  • When does a “sex trafficking victim” become an “underage hooker”?
  • Is anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
  • The government keeps making up new rules in its war on thought.
  • Wendy Mclroy on how the government is like an abusive husband.
  • The real purpose of this is to cut sex workers off from healthcare.
  • An example of arbitrary control Turkish brothel owners exercise.
  • Remember, this isn’t “human trafficking”, but consensual sex is.
  • Combining “sex addiction” nonsense with “sex robot” nonsense.
  • Any new technology which can be used to spy on you, will be.
  • Cops are not intended to “protect” you, and never have been.
  • Don’t feel left out, amateurs; they’ll get around to you next.
  • Yes, this is absolutely rape.  No, I don’t want to “discuss” it.
  • The BBC has discarded whatever credibility it once enjoyed.
  • It looks like Scott Cunningham has finally done a good one.
  • A male “submissive” and topping from the bottom in court.
  • Cops, horror, stardust, The It in the Hat and much more.
  • After whores, they very often come for strippers next.
  • I hope none of you find this even remotely surprising.
  • The “rescue” group which enabled a rapist for years.
  • Will Weinstein bring down the “sex addiction” scam?
  • A Utah politician’s bizarre anti-porn antics continue.
  • Another “monkey see, monkey do” FOSTA copycat.
  • People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
  • Yet another dumb “awareness-raising” stunt.
  • In which I add a bookstore to this website.
  • Why hackers should support sex workers.
  • I’m not sure patience is a virtue, exactly.
  • Rapist cops of the week, 2017 and 2018.
  • The dysphemisms are thick in this one.
  • Cops, Florida, Hell and much more.
  • I really, really don’t like change.
  • R.I.P. Dennis Hof.