Man Arrested After Police Say CCTV Showed Him Sexually Abusing Neighbor’s Koi BANGKOK — Thai police have arrested a 51-year-old man accused of climbing into a private koi pond and sexually abusing a fish. Officers identified the suspect as Suchitchai, also known as Tong. Some English-language reports named him Sutthichai Boonlert. Pol. Col. Yutthasilp Karin of Thung Song Hong Police Station said the incident happened about 8 p.m. on Sept. 7 outside a house on Soi Vibhavadi Rangsit 66. The pond’s owner later reviewed CCTV after becoming suspicious. Footage cited by police showed a man arriving by bicycle, circling the pond, then stripping, entering the water, catching a koi, and using the fish sexually before putting it back. The owner and a housekeeper confronted him. He fled on the bicycle. The owner fell and was injured while chasing him. On Sept. 10, officers spotted the man nearby in the same clothes seen on camera. He tried to run and was arrested. Police said he admitted he was the person in the video. He told them he had gone there to bathe, became aroused when he saw the koi, and had no partner or money. He allegedly said he had done similar acts with other fish and, years earlier, with a dog — a case that led to a prior arrest by Bang Khen police. He faces charges that include trespassing, property damage, acts causing public disgrace, and animal cruelty, according to police. The owner said he wants to pursue the case. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. A photo circulated with Thai coverage of the arrest shows a man in a blue shirt at the pond, face blurred by news outlets:
PORTLAND MUGSHOTS OF MATTHEW JOSEPH MEDLIN BECAME A VIRAL RECORD OF ARRESTS AND ADDICTION ACROSS 14 YEARS PORTLAND, Oregon — Booking photos of Matthew Joseph Medlin, released by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, were widely circulated in the mid-2010s as a timeline of one man’s arrests from age 18 in 2002 through 2016. The later pictures show heavy eyebrow tattoos, teardrop ink near the eyes, scars, and the physical wear of repeated jail stays and, by his own statements to officers, long methamphetamine use. Media compared the set to Oregon’s older “Faces of Meth” campaign, which used booking photos as a public warning. The photos document bookings, not a medical study. In January 2016 he was arrested after a hours-long rail-yard standoff. Officers said he threw debris and injected meth while they waited him out. In July a judge gave jail, intensive probation, and a path toward mental-health court instead of a longer prison term. On Aug. 31, 2016, he was arrested again after police said he damaged cars, jumped on a cruiser, climbed a tree, tried to bite an officer, and licked a man’s face. He was charged with burglary, criminal mischief, resisting arrest, attempted assault on an officer, disorderly conduct, and harassment. Reports put that as about his 16th arrest. He also had a 2013 sex-offense conviction and a 2014 walk-away from Columbia River Correctional Institution, ending at a Jack in the Box. Public records easily found in this search stop around those 2016 cases. The images remain online as a cautionary collage. They do not replace treatment, court files, or whatever became of him after that year.
Capitalism is voluntary until you refuse to participate The number one issue facing working class people is economic insecurity. It wears different clothes depending on the day. Rent. Groceries. Medical bills. Childcare. A broken transmission. Hours getting cut. One bad week and suddenly you are standing in a grocery aisle doing long division over chicken thighs, wondering when basic survival became an advanced placement course. Underneath all of it is the same fear: losing access to the money you need to remain alive. Your employer knows this. They know your rent is due whether your paycheck arrives or not. They know your healthcare may depend on your job. They know most employers can survive losing one worker much longer than one worker can survive losing all income. That knowledge sits inside every conversation with management. It shapes whether you report mistreatment, question authority, refuse an unreasonable demand, challenge unsafe conditions, or simply keep your mouth shut and take it. This is not a relationship between equals. One side is negotiating over profit. The other is negotiating over survival. Management loves calling the workplace a family. Funny how quickly the family starts quoting the employee handbook when the children compare paychecks. That is why unions matter and why employers fight them. Workers organize because one frightened employee has very little power, while organized workers can negotiate collectively. If employment were truly an equal and voluntary partnership, workers joining together would not be treated like somebody pulled a fire alarm in the executive bathroom. Firing workers for protected union activity is illegal, but illegal retaliation still happens. The employer can take away your income immediately while you spend months fighting to prove why it happened. Management risks a legal dispute. The worker risks losing the apartment. A right you can exercise only by risking your home, healthcare, and ability to eat is a right written on paper but guarded by a trapdoor. The usual answer is that workers are free to quit. Technically, that is true. You may leave one employer and begin searching for another. What you cannot quit is your need for food, shelter, medicine, transportation, and heat. Your landlord remains stubbornly uninterested in your philosophical commitment to liberty. The power company has yet to add personal autonomy to its list of accepted payment methods. Most workers cannot leave wage dependence. They can only move around inside it, choosing which employer controls their schedule and which company logo appears above the ultimatum. This is what wage slavery describes. It does not mean wage labor is identical to chattel slavery. It is not, and the historical distinction matters. Wage slavery names a different structure of domination. Your employer does not own your body as property, but people who own workplaces, housing, land, and capital possess enormous power over you because your access to life’s necessities depends on money. The employment contract contains your signature, but hunger, eviction, medical debt, and homelessness were sitting at the negotiating table too. They did not sign anything. They just stared at you until you did. Fine. Suppose you refuse the arrangement entirely. Walk away from the labor market and live a cold, difficult life somewhere in the mountains. Even that supposed exit is mostly fictional. Nearly every usable piece of land is privately owned or regulated by the state. Try to live on private land without permission and you are trespassing. Try to remain indefinitely on public land and you encounter camping limits, removal, and other penalties. Return to town without housing and ordinances determine where and when you may sleep. In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Supreme Court ruled that enforcing generally applicable public camping prohibitions does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. With a deed, you are a rugged individualist living off the grid. Without one, you are a homeless person the authorities would like to move somewhere else. Same tent. Same mountain. Different paperwork. Apparently freedom begins at the county recorder’s office. Individual land and camping rules can have legitimate environmental or public safety purposes. That does not erase the function of the entire structure. When society denies someone a private place to live, prohibits them from permanently occupying public land, and penalizes them for surviving in public view, it has created a person with no legal place to exist. “Move along” is not housing policy. It is an order without a destination. Capitalism’s defenders point to the final signature on the employment contract and call the entire system voluntary. They ignore everything that came before it. The land was already divided. The workplaces were already owned. Food, housing, medicine, and nearly every necessity were already locked behind a price. The state stands ready to enforce those ownership claims. Nobody asks whether you consent to that arrangement. You are simply born inside it and informed that your freedom consists of shopping among the available owners. Real freedom requires more than legal permission to say no. It requires the material ability to survive saying it. That means strong unions, worker control, healthcare that cannot be taken away by an employer, housing that cannot be held over your head, and guaranteed access to the necessities of life. Freedom does not mean living without responsibility. It means nobody can use your need for food, shelter, or medicine as a weapon to command your obedience. Capitalism did not eliminate coercion. It gave coercion a polo shirt, a clipboard, an HR portal, and a mandatory wellness seminar about managing the stress caused by coercion. You are free to leave one boss, provided you find another. You are free to reject rent, provided you do not sleep anywhere. You are free to leave the system, provided you disappear. That is not a voluntary system.
BREAKING: “YOU DON’T SEE MAGA HATS ANY MORE!” – Jamie Raskin returns from the road with a startling observation: “Support for Republicans is melting away.” Rep. Jamie Raskin has spent weeks traveling through rural America – and says something is disappearing from the landscape. “You don’t see any MAGA hats anywhere in the country anymore,” Raskin said. “So the support for the Republicans is melting away.” That's Raskin's first-person read of what he's been seeing on the road. But he says there's something considerably more serious behind the disappearing red hats: anger over what is happening to health care in rural America. “People in the rural areas are especially revved up to get rid of MAGA rule in Congress,” Raskin said. He pointed to Medicaid, Affordable Care Act tax credits and the enormous financial pressure already facing rural hospitals. One of his stops was Michigan's sprawling 1st Congressional District, where Raskin campaigned with Democrat Callie Barr. Barr has been warning for months about the disappearance of maternity care across northern Michigan. “We've lost three labor and deliveries in the past year and a half,” Barr said earlier this year. Local reporting identifies those losses as obstetric services in Laurium and Ironwood and the closure of the hospital in Ontonagon. Raskin put the human consequence much more starkly. “That means people are having to drive four or five hours to get somewhere where they can actually deliver a baby,” he said. “This kind of thing is going on across rural America.” Raskin can't prove a national political realignment by counting baseball caps from the campaign trail. But the missing hats are really just his metaphor for what he says he encountered underneath them – rural communities angry about hospitals, health care and the increasing distance between people and basic medical services. And whatever happens to the hats, women having to travel hours simply to give birth is a much more consequential story. If you agree, like and share this post.
BREAKING🚨 ICE has been running a mass immigration operation in Memphis for almost a YEAR, with more than 1,200 officers still on the streets of one of America's largest majority-Black cities, and most of the country has never heard about it.
Since last September, a 31-agency task force has patrolled Memphis at the invitation of Trump and Republican Gov. Bill Lee, sold to the public as a crime crackdown. Officials never mentioned immigration.
The first months brought hundreds of immigration arrests, a sixfold jump, and a review of that arrest data found the vast majority of those picked up had no criminal convictions. Most were taken during traffic stops.
Hunter Demster, a Memphis resident who runs a soup kitchen and drives around filming task force activity so people can see it, has had Tennessee's Halo Law invoked against him dozens of times. The law makes it a crime to come within 25 feet of an officer after a warning.
On August 26, Demster was recording from a sidewalk when agents pointed at him and yelled "25 feet." As he backed away, two agents kept walking toward him, issuing the warning again and again, so that standing still became a violation. When Demster said he was already far more than 25 feet back, an agent told him, "You've gotta be 25 feet back from me because I've extended the scene." Agents then surrounded him, tackled him to the ground, pinned him, restrained his legs and handcuffed him.
ACLU of Tennessee legal director Lucas Cameron-Vaughn arrived, identified himself as Demster's lawyer, and was ordered to move back 25 feet and threatened with arrest too.
Four days later, agents massed across the street from Demster's house. One called him by name. As they left in unmarked vehicles, an agent in a U.S. Marshals vest photographed his home. On September 3, a task force SUV was parked outside his house, and a man inside stuck his phone out the window and filmed him.
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