[Cops] can blow up your house, throw you out on the streets and say, “See you later. Deal with it.” – Leo Lech
Regular readers know that I love unusual song covers; Matt Welch recently pointed me to this surprisingly powerful acoustic German-language cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Paint in Black” by the late Czech star Karel Gott. I also recently discovered a Twitter account named Cop Crisis, which provided three of the links above the video (“sirree”, “oinks” and “understand”); the others were contributed by Tim Cushing (“says”), Mark Draughn (“safer”), and Jacob Sullum (“smell”).
- Not a police state, no sirree!
- “Never” means exactly what it says.
- Never believe a single thing a pig oinks.
- What part of “never” is so fucking hard to understand?
- Straight people, are y’all OK? Wouldn’t adoption be safer?
- Why do courts accept the myth of supercops with super-smell?
From the Archives
- Brian Bates is hostile to both sex workers and “sex trafficking” mythology.
- Cops, Sweden, Frankenclown, nutritionism, Silurian Park and much more.
- Politicians can’t grasp that whores might be neither criminals nor victims.
- As long as sex work is marginalized, whores will be targeted for violence.
- A different Canadian cop campaign to harass and intimidate sex workers.
- It’s good to see “sex addiction” collapsing as an excuse for bad behavior.
- Often, the War on Whores is the War on Drugs rather than its successor.
- Bad laws disproportionately harm small businesses and poor individuals.
- Puritanical language is a vital part of stories about massage parlor raids.
- Want to write an article supporting sex workers? Actually talk to us first.
- It’s a shame this is what it took to bring down the “sex addiction” scam.
- Studying sex work of the past often opens people’s eyes to the present.
- Universities are very slowly beginning to turn toward sex worker rights.
- We did warn you dilettantes this wouldn’t stop with actual sex workers.
- Self-declared “expert” can’t grasp why “pimp” conviction rate is so low.
- Politicians make the same evil promises & the stupid still believe them.
- Talk about rapist cops that ignores sex workers aids and abets rapists.
- Remember that “threat” a prohibitionist claimed she got from “pimps”?
- There are better ways to die than by amateur liquid silicone injections.
- Dutch now pretend Disnification is really intended to help sex workers.
- If these pimps weren’t cops, they’d be facing “sex trafficking” charges.
- There is nothing remotely “intimate” about sucking a dildo on camera.
- Wanna ban a consensual activity? Find a problem case to shill for you.
- I’m not the only sex worker writing horror with sex worker characters.
- There can never be too many articles on sex workers for the disabled.
- It’s good to see mainstream articles critical of the “john school” scam.
- It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it.
- It’s good to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
- Fact checkers demolish politicians’ grandiose claims about Backpage.
- Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
- Still think I’m wrong about sex worker rights passing the watershed?
- African campaigns vs LGBT are a lot like US campaigns vs sex work.
- It’s sad that conformists are unable to simply respect others’ rights.
- Another study shows what’s already been shown over & over again.
- Another state forces hotel workers into being anti-whore snitches.
- The weird but popular belief that masturbation is harmful to men.
- How could even cops believe that Fresno is a “hub” for anything?
- A rare victory for sex workers against “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Could you introduce me to a sex worker I can correspond with?
- The War on Whores, like the War on Drugs, is a jobs program.
- Prohibition turns every individual’s body into a “crime scene”.
- More on police abuse of Amazon’s face recognition software.
- Sex workers are and always have been the real “resistance”.
- Rapist graduates from slandering his victims to suing them.
- New York bartenders are now competing with the strippers.
- Are you offended when amateurs wear “hooker” costumes?
- Cops, criminality, bricks, Sesame Street and much more.
- “Strange accents” sums up what this is really about.
- “Signs of trafficking” idiocy spreads to Dutch pigs.
- An excerpt from Andrea Werhun’s Modern Whore.
- My friend Sophie does outeach to street workers.
- People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
- My two previous columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
- And other states are trying the same scam.
- A rare victory for sex workers over pigs.
- This claim is so absurd it defies sanity.
- This is what a moral panic looks like.
- A raid on the Eros Guide call center.
- Kate Iselin on myths about clients.
- Birthday presents are awesome.
- Rapist cop of the week.