Links #504

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

If you keep moving, I’m going to blow your fucking head off.
–  an unnamed “peace officer”

Longtime readers probably remember that Blondie was one of my favorite bands, and this is in my top ten favorite songs by them; it suddenly popped into my head last week in response to something a gentleman said, so naturally I had to share.  The links above it were provided by Cop Crisis, Popehat (x2), Tim Cushing, Jesse Walker, Violet Blue, and Kevin Wilson, in that order.

From the Archives

  • Never underestimate the human capacity to obsess about the nonexistent.
  • In which poor women trying to earn a living are described as “ridiculous”.
  • Fascists don’t want their surveillance powers limited by mere civil rights.
  • Less chauvinistic query: “Why don’t Western funerals include strippers?”
  • Cops will never stop doing this as long as the state gives them pretexts.
  • Propaganda blatantly derived from the sexual fantasies of truck drivers.
  • Dutch “uthorities” pretend Disnification is intended to help sex workers.
  • AirBnB supports “sex trafficking” propaganda as PR for the very stupid.
  • Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
  • Yet another registration regime fails miserably, as we keep telling y’all.
  • I’m really happy to see Uber hoist with its own “sex trafficking” petard.
  • “Anti-trafficking” pogroms target massage parlors as low-hanging fruit.
  • Does Olaf know Irish defamation judgments are invalid on US citizens?
  • Fetishists masturbate to fantasy that emojis are part of a pimp “code”.
  • King County should consult Matthew 7:3 for its “sex trafficking” policy.
  • Abusers often try to gaslight victims; this cop’s trying it on other cops.
  • Cops describe a massage parlor pogrom with an avalanche of bullshit.
  • Where there are men making money, there will be women selling sex.
  • We haven’t seen this concentration of ludicrous claims in a while now.
  • Stays in lawsuits always favor the party with more money and power.
  • I can tell you exactly how high it goes, but you won’t like the answer.
  • Bourgeois women don’t give a shit about this because there’s no sex.
  • SCOTUS demolishes a major pillar of government extortion schemes.
  • Naturally, there are people opposed to this, because THE CHILDREN!
  • Just in case you thought stuff like this ended with the Satanic Panic.
  • When victims have nothing to steal, cops fuck up their lives instead.
  • About 70% of sex workers’ clients are married, and most have kids.
  • Boo hoo hoo, the poor widdle piggie CWIED because he got caught!
  • The government keeps making up new rules in its war on thought.
  • Destroying sex workers’ safety net, one “improvement” at a time.
  • Even in Australia, prohibitionists keep trying to spread their lies.
  • Two previous columns for International Sex Worker Rights Day.
  • A psychiatrist who has sex with patients is a dangerous fool.
  • Using “gayness tests” to deport refugees spreads to the UK.
  • Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2015 and 2016.
  • You amateurs really think being spied on like this is OK?
  • Would you out a client to further your political agenda?
  • Articles like this one are now becoming quite common.
  • Cops, music, weirdness, euphemisms and much more.
  • “The law is the law and if more people die, tough shit.“
  • Cops, Florida, presidents, Peter Tork and much more.
  • The dystopian future of Minority Report has arrived.
  • How do I connect with other escorts in my area?
  • Another example of Copmala’s odiousness.
  • These “objections” are hilariously petulant.
  • Ugandan sex workers demand their rights.
  • Rapist cops of the week, 2018 and 2019.
  • An attempt to reclaim the word “liberal”.
  • My previous columns for Mardi Gras.
  • Eros is whistling past the graveyard.
  • The successors of Tumblr.
  • Remembering Laura Lee.
  • SASS and chickens.