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Three missing girls from Massachusetts were being held against their will in Providence to be sold for sex by an 21-year-old Dorchester man, according to Providence police.
Their whereabouts were discovered late Thursday night when one of the 14-year-old girls managed to escape the third-floor apartment at 95 Cumerford St. and got help, said Maj. David Lapatin.
The girl was “visibly shaking and upset” when Patrolman Alex Kanelopoulos arrived and found her and the father of another girl outside the house, according to a police report. She told the officer that the man inside had “guns” and wouldn’t let them leave — and the father said his 15-year-old daughter was still in there, the report said.
Police tried several times to contact someone in the apartment, and then just went in and ordered everyone to the floor. They found the 15-year-old girl and another 14-year-old girl, along with a 21-year-old woman and Derek Miranda, who police say was trafficking the underage girls. . . .
Miranda, who has an address at Gibson Street in Dorchester, Mass., told the police the Cumerford apartment was his aunt’s residence, according to the report. Detectives are still investigating how the girls ended up with Miranda and what has transpired.

That harrowing story comes just days after federal authorities busted another prostitution operation in Providence:

A former Massachusetts man faces federal charges of trafficking two homeless women into Providence and selling them for sex from a sparse apartment in Federal Hill.
Damien Beverly, 29, who moved into 149 Ridge St., had lured the two women from South Station in Boston with promises they’d make money, according to an affidavit accompanying his arrest warrant.
Instead, the state police found that Beverly was “paying” the women in heroin –- and threatening that he’d hurt their families if they went to police, the affidavit said. The women’s photos were posted on backpage.com, and tallies of the number of customers were logged on a whiteboard in the house, the affidavit said.
Beverly, nicknamed “Black,” bragged about being a pimp and had a homeless man drive him around in a 2001 black Lincoln, the affidavit said. He was arrested Tuesday, when state and federal authorities raided the apartment house and freed the two women.
Beverly was arraigned Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Patricia Sullivan on charges of interstate transportation for prostitution, enticing a person to travel for prostitution, sex trafficking, and distribution of heroin.

So what is it with Boston pimps and Rhode Island? Is this some kind of market-demand situation? Are there not enough pimps or prostitutes in Providence to handle the local traffic?

Category: Crime, Massachusetts, Rhode Island

Dear Time: Per The Bible, Churches Still Admit Sinners; Yet They Still Reject Sin

Posted on | January 16, 2015 | 132 Comments

by Smitty

I guess the relentless, nihilistic spiritual decay of Progress can’t help but project itself upon churches:

. . .the changing allegiances and divides in evangelical churches and communities over homosexuality. In public, so many churches and pastors are afraid to talk about the generational and societal shifts happening. But behind the scenes, it’s a whole different game. Support for gay marriage across all age groups of white evangelicals has increased by double digits over the past decade, according to the Public Religion Research Institute, and the fastest change can be found among younger evangelicals—their support for gay marriage jumped from 20% in 2003 to 42% in 2014.

This winter, EastLake Community Church outside Seattle is quietly coming out as one of the first evangelical megachurches in the country to support full inclusion and affirmation of LGBTQ people. It is almost impossible to overstate the significance of this move. EastLake is in many ways the quintessential evangelical megachurch–thousands-strong attendance, rock-music worship, Bible-preaching sermons. But pastor Ryan Meeks, 36, is on the front wave of a new choice. “I refuse to go to a church where my friends who are gay are excluded from Communion or a marriage covenant or the beauty of Christian community,” Meeks tells me. “It is a move of integrity for me—the message of Jesus was a message of wide inclusivity.”

Ryan Meeks is encouraged to re-read the Bible in general and the Roman and Corinthian Epistles in particular. The Bible is our compass; Christ is our course. Yes, we get off course from time to time, but the only one smiling when somebody in a leadership position declares a false course to be the new true is Satan. Sure, technology has afforded some brand new ways to get off course. Yes, all manner of folk have been in the doors of my church. Indeed, we’re not going all Jonathan Edwards on them Sunday for Sunday.

But Elizabeth Dias is welcome to swing on by any traditional Baptist church to discover (a) the unalloyed Gospel still being preached, and (b) Christians rejecting the sort of rot she’s peddling.

Who knows? A little repentance may find her, too, as it has me.

via Hot Air headlines

Category: Culture

‘You’re My Favorite Victim’

Posted on | January 16, 2015 | 23 Comments

Even the NYPD police union won’t be able to save this guy:

A married detective assigned to investigate the rape of a 24-year-old woman has been booted from the Manhattan Special Victims Division after flying to Seattle, drinking with her all night — and then allegedly trying to tear her clothes off in a hotel room.
Hours before the disturbing encounter, the college student alleges, Detective Lukasz Skorzewski — in the midst of a nine-hour drinking frenzy — looked at her and said, “You’re my favorite victim.” . . .
The sordid tale began Jan. 13, 2013, when the woman, who attends college in New York City, reported a rape to Skorzewski of the Manhattan Special Victims Division. She told him she was raped by a man at his Union Square apartment after a night of drinking. . . .
The young woman characterized Skorzewski as an officer still earning his detective badge. She was surprised at how young he was, and thought he was cute. . . .

You can read the rest. Being young and “cute” has become so dangerous for men nowadays, I’m grateful to be old and ugly.

(Via Memeorandum.)

Category: Crime

Rapists Rape and Rape Again

Posted on | January 16, 2015 | 42 Comments

Serial rapist DeShawn Starks

Here’s the headline:

100 serial rapists identified after
rape kits from Detroit Crime Lab
are finally processed

In 2009, more than 10,000 untested rape kits (i.e., vaginal swabs from victims, containing the DNA of rapists) were found abandoned in a Detroit Police storage facility. Some cases dated back to the 1980s:

Not long after the rape kits were discovered, [Wayne County Prosecutor Kym] Worthy pushed to start the processing with Michigan State Police.
So far, 1,600 rape kits have been processed, resulting in the identification of about 100 serial rapists and ten convicted rapists, according to Worthy.
Worthy told reporters that perpetrators have moved on from Michigan to commit similar crimes in 23 other states.

This is mind-boggling. Processing roughly 1/8th of these DNA samples (1,600 out of 10,000) has identified 100 serial rapists who have committed sexual assaults in 23 states. So by the time they’re through processing the entire backlog, the pattern of Detroit’s previously unknown rapists could look like a national crime wave. And if you think about it just a little, you realize how, prior to the development of DNA testing, such serial rapists faced a comparatively low risk of apprehension. More and more women are victimized the longer the predator remains on the streets:

Fourteen prosecutions have resulted from what is being called the “Detroit Rape Kit Project”, including the case of DeShawn Starks, 32.
On February 19, 2003, Starks pretended to be having stomach pains as he approached a woman who was returning to her home in Detroit, according to prosecutors. Starks pulled out a gun, robbed the woman, then drove her to a wooded area where he raped her. The woman’s unprocessed rape kit remained in storage for ten years until Worthy’s office launched their investigations into the abandoned rape kits. DNA linked Starks to that case.
Prosecutors says Starks went on to rape another woman in 2003. That rape kit was also placed in storage and left unprocessed for ten years.
On November 19, 2013, investigators say Starks struck again, raping two friends as they were walking home from a family gathering.
Starks was just sentenced to 45 to 90 years in prison.

That’s four rapes by one criminal over a period of 10 years. Horrifying. The good news is that law enforcement agencies have spent years developing a national DNA database of criminal offenders. States are beginning to recognize the importance of expanding this database. In Nevada, lawmakers in 2013 passed “Brianna’s Law” which “requires law enforcement officers to take a DNA swab test for all felony arrests.” A suspect arrested in Nevada for any felony — assault, burglary, car theft, drug trafficking, etc. — will automatically be tested.

Brianna Denison (left), James Biela (right)

“Brianna’s Law” is named for Brianna Denison, who was kidnapped, raped and murdered in 2008 by serial rapist James Michael Biela. Before he killed Denison, Biela had raped 19-year-old Amanda Collins in a parking lot near the campus of the University of Nevada-Reno:

Amanda Collins, 25, is a wife and new mom, and a concealed weapon permit holder for years. At her father’s law office in Reno, she showed us the 9-mm Glock she carries for her safety.
“It’s got a pretty standard magazine,” she said, “and night sights so you can see in the dark when you’re aiming.”
However, Collins couldn’t aim her gun at the serial rapist who attacked her at the University of Nevada at Reno, where she was a student. That’s because, like most public colleges outside of Utah and Colorado, UNR is a “gun free” zone. The rule required her to leave her gun at home, leaving her defenseless the one time she needed its protection most.
In October of 2007, while walking to her car after a night class, Collins was grabbed from behind in a university parking garage less than 300 yards from a campus police office. The school’s “gun-free” designation meant nothing to James Biela, a serial rapist with a gun of his own, who saw Collins as an easy target. “He put a firearm to my temple,” she recounted, “clocked off the safety, and told me not to say anything, before he raped me.”
The university has since installed more emergency call boxes and lights in the parking structure, but Collins says that won’t stop an attacker who knows the campus is a gun-free zone, a policy she believes invites crime, and may have even emboldened the man who raped her.

DNA testing is important, but the right of self-defense is more important. A woman with a gun can stop a rapist — permanently.

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox, 01.16.15

Posted on | January 16, 2015 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Same Words, Different Tune
Doug Powers: Bill De Blasio Ddiscovers Environmentally-Friendly Use For Plastic
Twitchy: “I Have Not Seen American Sniper,” Writes New Republic’s Reviewer Of American Sniper
Monster Hunter Nation: Arguing With Moral Relativists On Twitter
According To Hoyt: In The World Of The Red Queen

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Hysterical Limits To Growth Nutjobs Revamp With New End-Of-Times Earth’s Boundary Forecast
American Thinker: Coming To America – A Terrorist Cell Near You
BLACKFIVE: Free Fire Zone – A Strategy To Defeat Global Jihad
Conservatives4Palin: Ted Nugent – Muslim Silence Against Terrorism = Guilt
Don Surber: Why Does This Witch Still Have Her Job? EVIL.
Jammie Wearing Fools: Protest Morons Block Traffic
Joe For America: Muslim Congressman Carson Taunts Law Enforcement – “Allah Will Not Allow You To Stop Us”
JustOneMinute: Send Better Grievance Columnists
Pamela Geller: Muslim Students Harass Jewish Students In Arizona High School
Protein Wisdom: “Of Course It Is Islam”
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part XXV – Dandelion Tea
The Gateway Pundit: George Soros Reportedly Pumped Millions Into Violent Ferguson Protest Movement, Attended #FergusonOctober
The Jawa Report: FOIA Samir Khan Was A Moron
The Lonely Conservative: Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Spike To 316,000
This Ain’t Hell: Town Removes Soldiers’ Memorial Under Legal Pressure
Weasel Zippers: Islamic State Releases Pix Of Two Men Being Thrown Off Buildings After Convictions For Homosexuality
Megan McArdle: Is Etsy Crafty Enough For An IPO?
Mark Steyn: A Judenrein Europe

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Feminism’s Big Lie

Posted on | January 15, 2015 | 151 Comments

“Radical Feminism is, and has always been a political movement focused on liberating girls and women, those who are born into the sex caste female, from the unnatural, yet universal roles patriarchy has assigned.”
— Radicalmamaw.tumblr.com, July 26, 2014

“Women who are sane, normal and happy do not become feminists, because such women do not need feminism.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Aug. 25, 2014

One of the things you recognize, if you pay close attention to feminist rhetoric, is how the “patriarchy” or “male supremacy” — and other concepts like “misogyny,” “the beauty myth,” etc. — function as all-purpose scapegoats for whatever any woman may be unhappy about.

We could revisit the original skepticism that confronted feminists after the rise of the Women’s Liberation movement in the late 1960s. Feminism arose within the extreme fringe of the New Left, and a majority of American women emphatically rejected this crypto-Marxist movement’s attack on marriage, motherhood and Christian morality. Whatever the dissatisfaction women might have felt with their lives, most American women were aware that they were living in the most free and prosperous society in human history. The radicalism of Kate Millett and Shulamith Firestone was directly hostile to the beliefs and interests of most women and this is still true today. The American woman views herself as an individual, not as a member of a collective “sex-caste” (to borrow the Marxist jargon of radical feminism) and she not only rejects feminism’s claim of collective female victimhood, she also rejects the claim of collective male guilt that feminists imply by reference to “patriarchy” and “male supremacy.”

We could revisit the arguments of the 1960s and ’70s — were my mother and aunts and grandmother oppressed by the patriarchy? — but this is not 1975. No, it’s 2015, and we now live in a society that has been changed by more than four decades of feminist “progress.” Because of societal changes, young women in 2015 have new problems that are not the same as the problems that were the original grievances of feminists circa 1968. And many of the problems experienced by young women today are arguably caused by feminism’s “success.” If feminism is the cause of your problems, the solution is not more feminism. Let me quote one young feminist’s complaint:

“i wish men understood that when women are talking about feminism and rape culture and sh–t, it’s not just a political conversation. it’s not about being a ‘social justice warrior’ or whatever. it’s about our actual lives being shaped by misogyny since childhood, and the daily reality of living in fear of violence. this isn’t a f–king game or philosophical debate. this is our f–king lives.”

The author of that colorful prose identifies herself on Tumblr.com as “Kina Penelope, gay femme fairy, writer, traveler, feminist, college student living in WA.” If she is a college student, she is about 20 years old, which means that Kina was born circa 1995. What was the “misogyny” that shaped her life since childhood? Who is responsible for the “fear of violence” she confronts as a college student in Washington State? How does a “gay femme fairy” experience “rape culture”? Why can’t she be bothered to capitalize properly?

We are now six years into the presidency of Barack Obama. During the 20 years or so of Kina Penelope’s young life, Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 years. She may say that “talking about feminism” is “not just a political conversation,” but it was feminists who declared the personal is political. If she is merely talking about her own personal problems, or the personal problems of women in general — “our f–king lives” — without any political purpose, is this really feminism at all? Or is it just unhappy women complaining because they are unhappy?

Many of the social pressures that cause young women’s unhappiness in 2015 are clearly caused by the tension between the careerist pressures of liberal feminism — the striving ambition to “have it all” — and their own psychological need for a more traditional womanhood.

That is to say, most women don’t identify as a “gay femme fairy.”

Most young women would like to find a man who loves them, a man who wants to marry them, a man who is willing and able to provide them with a better life than a woman can have by herself.

No matter how much satisfaction she obtains from career achievement, she needs (and no, “need” is not too strong a word for her profound psychological urge) to have the love and support of a man. She wants babies. She wants to find a strong man, a masculine man who loves her so much that he is willing, for her sake, to shoulder the responsibilities inherent in the titles “husband” and “father.”

Feminism is not the solution to that young woman’s problem.

If you are a normal young woman — desiring a life that includes men, marriage and motherhood — you need to recognize how modern feminism is directly hostile to your own self-interest.

Feminism is a formula for unhappiness, an ideology conceived by unhappy women who were unwilling to take responsibility for their own unhappiness. Instead they promoted a false crypto-Marxist worldview in which all men oppress all women. This belief — feminism’s Big Lie — is how unhappy women justify their envy-driven attacks on the actual sources of happiness in other women’s lives.

Confusion about what “feminism” means leads women to embrace this label, and to consume the feminist movement’s rhetoric without skepticism. It is very easy for any unhappy woman to internalize feminism’s resentments and hostility toward male sexuality, an attitude I have described as “Fear and Loathing of the Penis.” There is also a tendency in feminist rhetoric to blame women’s problems on “society,” so that women are encouraged to develop anti-social attitudes, to feel a self-pitying sense of humiliation in the ordinary hassles of everyday life. Here is another woman’s complaint on Tumblr.com:

Don’t eat too much, don’t eat too little. Don’t be fat, don’t be too skinny. God do you ever stop eating? Woah do you ever eat? The not-so-well-concealed looks of disgust, the not-so-well-concealed looks of concern.
Don’t be loud. Don’t be quiet. Have a voice in society, leave the talking to the big boys. You want something, speak up! No, no, when it’s your turn, sweetie. Ugh, she never shuts up, it’s obnoxious. Have you ever heard her talk? I don’t even know what her voice sounds like.
Make sure your skirt is long enough, but not too long. Don’t make yourself too available, but you don’t want to look like a grandma. Show off what you got, but if you do it’s your fault if anything happens. Was your skirt long enough? How is any boy going to look at you if you wear that?
Have sex, but stay innocent. Give us what we want, but we hate sluts. Virgins are so sweet. What do you mean you want to stay abstinent until marriage? Do you even live in our society? Live without sex is boring. Life with sex is disgusting. God, have you seen her? She’s banged every guy in the school. God, have you seen her? Still a virgin at her age.
Be smart, but not too smart. Boys like a smarter girl. Boys can’t stand it when you know more than them. Play dumb. Ugh, not that dumb, god, weren’t you even listening? They like a smarter girl. No, no, now you just look like a nerd. Girls don’t belong in the classroom, they have to take care of the kids. You want a well-paying job? Take some incentive and study. You can’t slack off because your a girl.
Do what you love, but don’t. Be yourself, unless it goes against what we say. Do you love to do your hair and makeup? Great, you’re good to go. Approved. Do you love videogames and guns? You’re faking it. You’re lying. You’re pretending. You’re wrong

Who is telling her these things? Who are these hyper-critical voices the woman hears, constantly reminding her of her own inadequacy, so that she feels wrong no matter what she does?

Satan is the Father of Lies (John 8:43-45). Satan is the false accuser (Revelation 12:9-11). Satan constantly tells us lies about ourselves and lies about God. If you listen to that satanic voice, you will drive yourself crazy, because the lies are contradictory. Satan will tell you whatever you want to believe, whatever it takes to destroy you. Satan will tell you that your sins are so wicked that God cannot possibly love you. Then Satan will tell you there is no such thing as sin. Satan will tell you that good is evil, and evil is good, and that you should do evil because that will make you happier than doing good. Most of all, Satan tells us to reject God’s law, to instead make our own judgment of right and wrong.

This was the original lie of history: “Ye shall be as gods!”

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil . . . I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
— Deuteronomy 30:15, 19 (KJV)

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron . . .”
— I Timothy 4:1-2 (KJV)

Maybe you didn’t expect a sermon when you started reading this, but I didn’t plan to preach a sermon when I started writing it, either. Sometimes it’s like these things just start writing themselves.

The truth is still the truth. Satan is still a liar. If we cannot tell the difference between truth and lies, there is no hope for any of us.

* * * * *

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Category: Feminism

Call for Tax Questions
and Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread

Posted on | January 15, 2015 | 15 Comments

— by Wombat-socho

I have the day off from the tax mines, mostly so I could go see the doctors at the VA about the holes in my legs (they’re better, thanks) and since I’ve been spending a lot of time lately reading about taxes and practicing with the new software the Lords of the Green Square want their minions using this year, I haven’t had much time for recreational reading. However, I did see this amusing item during my daily scan of Instapundit, which explains why my bosses are handing out free copies of our software to angry Turbotax users. Anyhow, since there probably won’t be a decent book post this week, I’m offering to field your tax questions so long as you keep them short and to the point; I am not going to walk you through your return in the comments.

Also, open thread. Behave yourselves.

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Category: Taxes

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