In the news (#1476) | The fair courtesan

Slavery is not bad. Some people must be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would definitely buy some. – Mark Robinson

Elephant in the drawing room (#705)

Politicians who watch kinky porn are no more unusual than being hypocrites and psychopaths:

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson said he won’t end his campaign, despite a CNN report that reads like an insane amount of campaign murder material…Robinson called himself a “black NAZI” and a “perv” in posts on. ..a (porn-sharing) message board (called “Nude Africa”)…Robinson also reportedly wrote about peeping on women in public showers, aroused by absolutely filthy pornography (think The human centipede), and called for the reinstatement of slavery… The icing on the cake, given the Republican Party’s current moral panic over transgender issues, is… Robinson’s “affinity for transgender pornography”… Robinson (has) denied posting the messages…

Broken record (#1112)

In fact, the Irish versions of the ‘gypsy whore’ myth were curious for other prohibitors abandoned them:

There was a huge demand for sex workers at the National Team Championships in Co Laois last week, according to a (religious banning organisation) that…(continues) sex…(workers). Ruhama (still trying to spread the long-debunked fantasy) that large-scale events attended mainly by men were ‘big catalysts’ for sexual exploitation…

Sexual assault and rape (#1216)

The evil of a rapist begets even more evil:

Letcher County (Kentucky) Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines…walked into Judge Kevin Mullins’ chambers, closed the door and…killed him (with a gun)…then walked out of the chambers with his hands up and surrendered without incident… Stines had served as a bailiff in Mullins’ courtroom for many years before being elected sheriff… The (murder may be related to) a federal civil lawsuit filed by… a (woman who was repeatedly raped by a sleazebag deputy).. .in Mullins’ quarters for six months (under threat of being locked in a filthy cage)…The lawsuit accused Stines of ‘deliberate indifference in failing to adequately train and supervise’ (rape cop) Ben Fields…(who had only) six months off, followed by six and a half years of probation…

If Men Were Angels (#1428)

Agent And preacher is like the molester equivalent of a packed room:

A… (pastor) who… worked (as a chaplain) for the Indianapolis Police Department… sexually abused a child “more than 100 times.” Sylvester Driscoll(s) victim confessed to her school counselor in August that Driscoll had raped and sexually abused her for years…Driscoll (groomed her by) showing her (porn) videos…since she was 5 years old . Driscoll’s first sexual assault…(was) not long after…and…he…threatened to keep her from telling anyone…

Eavesdrop (#1449)

Some politicians are starting to admit that Shotspotter is a joke:

…Ending ShotSpotter would fulfill a campaign promise by (Chicago) Mayor Brandon Johnson…(but) some city council members (who receive kickbacks from the company) are trying to force his administration to renew the…contract…Social Science economist Michael Topper The Research Council co-authored a study showing that… ShotsSpotter… reallocates police resources from… 911 calls… to… ShotSpotter alerts (which are 91% false in Chicago -positives are)… this redistribution causes 911 calls… to suffer in terms of response times… there is no evidence whatsoever that this technology actually contributes to crime solving or crime reduction efforts urge…

Pyrrhic victory (#1465)

Just undermining civil liberties starts with “undesirables”; it never stops there:

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights… has investigated how the Department of Justice… the Department of Homeland Security… and the Department of Housing and Urban Development… (mis)use (facial recognition) technology… leading to wrongful arrests, bias in access to housing and more disturbing outcomes…(there is) a (total) lack of federal oversight, with no standardized regulations to…(minimize) abuse of power and privacy concerns…Because there are no public databases showing how often FRT searches are used on individuals…” Conducting public oversight of government use of FRT to determine whether civil rights violations are occurring is extremely difficult.” Customs and Border Patrol… uses the technology at 53 airports, 40 seaports and all pedestrian streets on the Mexican border…HUD uses FRT in surveillance cameras in public housing…

Do as I say, not as I do (#1465)

It’s a shame the police don’t spend money all of their time in fantasy roleplay with each other:

A Fresno (California cop named) Paige McQuay (was arrested, but also rewarded with a paid vacation, for interacting online with another police fantasy roleplayer as a teenage girl)…

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