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The Glass Heard Around The World:Stonewall,Revolution, Truth & Legend

Past Caring takes a look through a personal and historical lens at the legacy of Stonewall,the figures who played a part in it and the following mobilization and activism and what the truth of the event and the shaping of its historical and legendary status conveys about the good and bad aspects of the lgbt community and rights movement. Historically accurate terms are used where they have been mentioned in sources and recollections. (A piece I did for Pride earlier this summer)

Sylvia Rivera with her partner Julia Murray and Christina Hayworth at the New York City Pride parade, 2000;Sylvia Rivera in her 40s;Bob Kohler,Sylvia Rivera and friend,1960s-70s; Storme Delaverie in her later years; Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at the Christopher Street Liberation Pride March,June 1973;Marsha P Johnson at a march;Zazu Nova, Gay Liberation Front meeting,June ,1970; taken by Diana Davies, ;Sylvia Rivera in front of a fountain,1960s or 1970s;Sylvia Rivera and a friend 1970s;Gay Liberation Front on Times Square, 1969. Diana Davies, NYPL;Close up portrait photography of Storme Delaverie;Jackie Hormona with Gay Liberation Front banner, New York(1970); Miss Major at San Francisco Pride,2014 ;Sylvia Ray Rivera (front) and Arthur Bell at gay liberation demonstration, New York University, 1970 by Diana Davies;Raymond Castro ,young and old; Marsha P Johnson at a protest in the 1970s with a plaque saying “STAR people are beautiful people”.

The Stonewall Inn,Taken by Diana Davies in September 1969,New York Public Library.

The World before Stonewall.

As two-hundred and five odd people readied themselves for a Saturday night out at the Mafia-run Stonewall they lived in a world that hated them. Clyde Hoey had argued in 1950 that gay people were “security risks” and thus thousands of public sector applications were denied and contracts discharged. Loitering in toilets was a blacklisting offense with arrestees often listed in newspapers and homosexuals were barred from having professional licenses. The Post office would keep lists of addresses pertaining to those who engaged in a homosexual life and the FBI kept track of names too. Confinement to abusive mental institutions was common with California’s Astascadero Hospital described as “Dachua for queens” , and even castration was a possibility as during the period psychiatric views were influenced by the prejudice that saw the 1952 DSM declare homosexuality a mental illnesses. Prison was another avenue that could await. Come the 1960s only Illinois did not overtly ban homosexuality and New York’s Penal code caused terror and anxiety for those dressing outwith the gendered clothing expectations of the heterosexual establishment at the time with those like Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson , Delaverie and others expected to wear three pieces or more of clothing ‘appropriate’ to their gender. If not arrest was forthcoming.The Stonewall bar was breaking the law that day ,but it had to do so to exist. The early sixties saw New York impacted by Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr’s order to revoke the liquor licenses of homosexual bars and entrap as many people as possible in the lead up to the 1964 world’s fair there. Stonewall was one instance of bars being run by the mob in this climate enabling the gay bars to exist ,but with all the problems gang connections caused. Its owners were the Genovese crime family who had turned it into a gay bar in 1966 and handed over lump sums as payoffs to cops to keep things going as it had no liquor license. The bar was badly run with no running water, glasses were cleaned in a dirty bathtub of still water which gave some people hepatitis, there was no fire exits and the toilets overran constantly. Nowhere else was same-sex dancing allowed however so for the lgbt people who descended on it , for all its terrible flaws, it had elements of freedom they could not find in other bars or in their daily lives.

"Street Kids" including Jackie Hormona fighting with the NYPD,New York Daily News,(28th of June,1969)

At the time there was conflict between the more radical side of gay society, often those with the least to lose and the most oppression bearing down on them such as the not exclusive street kids, transgender people called drag queens or transvestites and sex workers and those who joined groups like the Mattachine society which was one of many groups to use the term “homophile” over gay thinking the former less sexual and thus more acceptable for heteronormative society. The decade leading up to the event was also influential due to things like the Civil Rights movement and Feminism which influenced terms like gay power(after black power) as slogans and the creation of the first gay university organization in the Student Homophile league at New York Columbia University from 1967. It was not even the first gay revolt against oppression by groups like the police. In 1959 the drag queens and sex workers who meet at Cooper’s Donuts despite the LAPD’s harassment fought back resulting in three arrests of those like John Rechy and the police’s baptism with donuts and coffee cups. In 1966 two other events occurred The Black Cat Tavern Riot in Los Angeles and the Compton’s Cafteria Riot in San francisco’s Tenderloin district. Susan Stryker has called the Compton raid the first known incident of collective militant queer resistance to the police in the USA. Following it the people who took part still faced multiple struggles but the community of San Francisco remembered it and would slowly learn from it.Friday Night at the Stonewall Inn….You are getting ready for your night out and find your way down to the Inn in your nightlife splendor. A bouncer looks through the peephole at you…If you are known by the doorman or look gay you get in easy otherwise it will be difficult to impossible as they needed to keep out undercover lily laws,alice blue gowns and betty badges.You give over three dollars and get two tickets to be swapped for two drinks to start your night off well. Signing your name in a book to prove it was a legitimate ‘bottle club’ you will often use a fake one with the aforementioned Judy garland a common choice.There is a jukebox and interior is black and pulsing and black lights are above,if the white ones come on then it’s a raid you will find out. The bar is mostly frequented by gay or bi cis men with some lesbians coming too. The trans women who were known as tranvestites usually and those who were known as queens or drag queens coverse and meet in the space in the smaller room and converse with friends. It was one of two bars where effeminate men ,wearing make up, who dressed in male clothing could go ,but despite the importance of transgender women in the events to come those in ‘full drag’ were seldom let inside as Sylvia Rivera noted later to Eric Marcus. Younger homeless adolescents try to get in so customers can buy them drinks and thus its as active outside as inside. The bar includes those of all races, ages, sexualities and genders unlike many of the other establishments…It is as Vito Russo said a place where the rich ,often blackmailed by the mob, white gay bankers and brokers of wall street mingled with those “too young,too poor or just too much to get in anywhere else”.As you mingle and dance Miss Major Griffin-Gracy meets a girlfriend and chats behind you, Maria Ritter,putting Steve behind her, arrives in a car at 10pm with her makeup artist friend Kiki in her mother’s empire waisted cocktail dress excited to celebrate her 18th birthday with her real id being shown to the bouncer instead of the laughable fake ones she had used before. The 17 year old Sylvia Rivera is there with her first lover at the bar for the first time in a bell bottoms suit with beautiful makeup and hair.Marsha ‘Pay it no mind’ Johnson is there with Zazu Nova..Is she carrying the large chain she often did for defence in her purse tonight? You see the dashing male impersonator Storme Delavernie and the faces of visitors like Raymond Castro and Martin Boyce who is in drag tonight as Miss Martin. Danny Garvin,once in the navy now lives like a hippy in an all-gay commune on Bleecker street in Greenwich and arrives.Two policewomen and two policemen have got by the bouncer and mingle undercover near you as they await a raid being planned by Seymour on behalf of the NYPD Public Moral Division in Greenwich Village. Stonewall had been raided recently before that day as well with minimum fuss. The recorded reason for the raid was the lack of a drinking license and bootlegging ,but as historian David Carter has noted, the mafia owner’s and manager’s blackmailing of their wealthier costumers made extortion more profitable than the liquor sales and due to lapsed bribery payments from this and thefts of negotiable bonds the police had other reasons to undertake the raid. Often when the fees were paid to the cops any raids that did have to happen were acts of theatre played out by the bar and policemen. That night no tip off had occurred like usual and as Duberman has recorded, a rumour some heard seemed false as it was said to be for much later than raids usually happened...

The Main Event.

At 1.20 am it finally comes. Four plainclothes policemen, two patrol officers and detectives Charles symthe and deputy inspector Seymour pine arrive at the doors announcing “POLICE!WE’RE TAKING THE PLACE!” Back up is called and the blinding white lights come up above you. People stop dancing and let go of each other quickly. Some veterans of this ritual run off ,but police bar the doors and thus it begins here. It starts. The cops gathered up 28 cases of beer and 19 liquor bottles while starting to check the documentation of the 205 odd patrons there. Morty Manfold discusses in Marcus’s work that to be arrested were “the transvestites”, “the underage” and “the undocumented without identification”. Pine would later note that he had not expected to need to arrest so many transvestites so duly he called for more police vans. Maria Ritter stood in her mother’s dress terrified about her possible arrest ,but also that she would be pictured in the clothing she felt more comfortable in a newspaper or television report which her mother would see. She knew what “happened to queers in jail” and it scared her. While some were freed after 15 minutes the other wagons began to arrive. Around this time Marty Robin and Morty Manford say that Marsha P Johnson threw a shot glass at a mirror and said “I got my human rights”. Although Carter’s work notes how often these accounts of her taking action first came almost always from secondary or third hand sources he ends by arguing whether she was first to take action or not she was almost certainly ONE of the first. Jackie Hormona ,the bleach blond kid in the most famous stonewall image, is equally a possible person to have first acted. Jerry Hoose arriving at the scene later due to his friend John Goodman’s phone call was told that “Hormona had kicked a cop, maybe,or punched a cop” and thus everything got going. As Carter argues no single person can be deemed the only agent to act and thus cause events all by themselves…A large group in unison came to the conclusion that fighting back was necessary.Marie Ritter notes how those who were to be taken in were kept together within Stonewall’s coat closet ,something that she notes was extremely ironic. During the searches of people Micheal Fader notes that some lesbians were touched up during their frisk rousing more tension and anger. Those released did not fade into the night and privacy like usual to escape..Most stayed and the crowd outside grew. Joel S ,one of the first related how the crowds outside gathered and milled around. Nearby as the crowd grew the Village Voice employee Howard Smith saw it in the offices with his bincholars and went down meeting the writer for the paper Lucian Truscott.The couple, Danny Garvin and Keith Murdoch were discussing the black panthers leading the revolution to come soon when they saw the crowd as well and joined it.The journalists mentioned would portray it homophobically discussing limp wrists ,but as those not to be arrested were freed and joined friends outside they are described as playing to the crowd some bowing and one person saying hello fella to the detective at the door. Some people were handled roughly Smith noticed as they left. The first police wagon was loaded with the mafia members to cheers by the crowd then regular employees to cries of “gay power” and the singing of we shall overcome. A second arrived with the doorman and bartender and three transvestites and drag queens from inside were put in and took away to boos.Then a lesbian in masculine clothing was took out roughly in handcuffs. Some people state that other butch women were arrested at this point as well. This “typical New York butch” was hit on the head with a baton for, as one witness said, complaining of her handcuff’s tightness. Storme’ Delarverie, a male impersonator, has been identified by different people as the woman, including by herself. In a 2008 interview for Curve magazine Storme’ told Patrick Hinds that it was her and that she was told to “move along, faggot” to which she refused thus being clubbed in the face. A butch woman, perhaps this same woman, Storme or otherwise, was then put into a car with the door unlocked and numerous times got out the other unlocked door to cheers. After around ten minutes they were apprehended and took off. Whither it was the same woman or different women the action of a lesbian arrestee being hurt at this point and a cry by the same woman saying “why don’t you guys do something?’ prompted the crowd to surge forward and start throwing things. Rumours spread of the supposed unpaid bribe so people started throwing coins shouting faggot cops, pigs and lets pay them off. A nearby building site provided bricks for throwing too. Roy McCarthy arrived as the fireworks kicked off and noted high heels flying. Different drag queens and transvestites were noted to have hit policemen with their heels and handbags.This led to prejudiced figures like the New York Daily News Jerry Lisker joking about how the transgender women and crossdressers involved were “exhibiting Queen Power” and throwing “femme fatale missiles”. While others like Raymond Castro were put into wagons to cries of “let him go” they thought back with Raymond resisting and knocking cops to the ground.He would later get a laywer to represent himself in relation to the crimes he was charged with ,but in addition paid for a lesbian woman’s fees who had been in the same wagon.Someone else threw a drink at a cop leaving him bleeding and thus he got partners to aid him in beating the supposed culprit until he was dazed. Marsha ,Heide suggests, became a force to be reckoned with, throwing rocks and screaming, like “Molly Pitcher in the revolution” he said.

As people’s fury was unleashed in so many ways Pine ordered the police there to flee into the inn away from the hundreds of people there. As Morty Manford notes once they were inside the second floor window was smashed by someone leading to people saying ooh ,a cop with a gun threatened people with it through the door and a fire was started. Edmund White and Fader also discussed how “some adorable butch hustler boys” pulled up a parking meter using it as a battering ram. Roy McCarthy jumped on a cop in the chaos and was beating him before it turned around and he was left seeing starts until four transgender women saved him and patched him up in a basement. After around 45 minutes the TPF(Tactical Police Force) arrived in riot gear. Vito Russo and others mention how the TPF were tainted from behind by transvestite women and crossdressers in a rocket style kick line singing “we are the stonewall girls,we wear our hair in curls,we wear no underwear,we show our pubic hair!”.Bob Kohler saw the clash with the TPF while walking his dog and said it was a sign “the fun was over” as the “cops were totally humiliated” because “fairies were not supposed to riot” and this resistance made them want to kill. The fear they expressed is noticeable in Pine’s statement that it was the most terrifying night of his life despite the fact he was a veteran who had fought at the Battle of the Bulge.The kickline of people was attacked with nightsticks leaving one of the crowd to say “I felt rage” as people were being hurt “for what?a kick line.”

By 4am the TPF cleared the street ,but Saturday 28th of June was a new day. People had woke from a sleeping spell to a new reality. Thirteen people were arrested, some hospitalized and four officers injured ,but as one person noted “there was a certain beauty in the aftermath of the riot” as people recognized “this was our street”. That is the thing about Stonewall…It was not the first case of revolt against oppressive authorities by lgbt people…It was not the first of many things. However it was the birth of a consciousness and reflectiveness in regards to lgbt history and events. Before and After Stonewall. BS and AS.

Close-up of handwritten chalk text on a boarded-up window of the Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher Street) after riots over the weekend of June 27, 1969.

The Continued Revolt and Aftermath

While papers like the New York Times, New York Post and Daily News focused on events with the latter placing coverage on the front page , rumours spread through Greenwich that different revolutionary groups like the Black Panthers had caused it. People started expressing their affection in public with one witness describing “we were just out”. A fog stifling the reality of people’s lives and loves felt lifted. If you had went you would have seen graffiti brightening the walls declaring “drag power”, “they invaded our rights”, “support gay power” , “legalize gay bars” and the defiant statement after the raid: “we are open”. That morning Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant printed and distrubted 5000 leaflets one saying: "Get the Mafia and the Cops out of Gay Bars." And others saying gay people needed their own establishments, that stonewall should be boycotted and that the Mayor had to investigate the "intolerable situation". Saturday night saw things continue with hustlers, street youths and queens being joined by police provocateurs , bystanders and even tourists. While fires were set off again a hundred policemen watched and arrested who they could. The road was blocked and only those sympathetic to the cause or gay themselves could pass, Sylvia Rivera watched as a friend pounced on a car trying to get through and Marsha broke a police windshield with a heavy object leading to a poor bystander to be targeted and beat by the police who didn’t see her do it. Those like Vito Russo joined as a crowd again until the TPF arrived at 2am on the 29th . It ended again at 4am. Monday the 30th and Tuesday the 31st saw not much action due to bad rain. On Wednesday Black Panthers and Yippies joined to create a thousand strong crowd standing in solidarity. The Village voice article by Howard Smith and Lucian Truscott was published that day with homophobic language and slurs a plenty stoaking anger and leading to more clashes. The police ever angrier left young people, many who were queens, lying bleeding on the street ,but people still stated “the word is out. Christopher Street shall be liberated”. The bar itself went up for rent soon after ,but the street,all streets would be liberated. The inn had birthed a new movement and could fade away:its job done.

Photo taken on the second night of the riots of some of the Street Kids by Fred McDarrah.Lanigan-Schmidt is in the stripped shirt. He knew the other young people by their street names included Twiggy,Black Twiggy,Missy,Besame and Drag Queen Chris.

Elsewhere The Mattachine’s annual picketing at Independence Hall,Philadelphia on the 4th of July the air was electric. Organiser Craig Rodwell who felt things had to change convinced people to exhibit affection publicly at it. The press attention was more than any other march by them. Rodwell returned to New York with plans for Christopher Street Liberation Day in mind. At the same time an ad hoc meeting of Mattachine New York to organize a march turned into an organization the Gay Liberation Front. The group told a underground work The Rat “we are a revolutionary homosexual group” and that they believed sexual liberation was tied to abolishing existing social institutions. Solidarity was emphasized with them saying “We identify ourselves with all the oppressed: the Vietnamese struggle, the third world, the blacks, the workers…all those oppressed by this rotten, dirty, vile, fucked-up capitalist conspiracy”. A paper called the Gay was started within six months due to the Village Voice’s refusal to print the word Gay in GLF ads within it. The GLF became increasingly tied to big theories and discussion regarding all oppression over community action for gay people in the eyes of those like Bob Kohler. A friend and ally of Sylvia Rivera ,who had been at Stonewall, he was attempting to get clothes and money through it to help the homeless youths so instrumental to the revolt. He was met by a discussion on capitalism’s downfall instead. December 1969 saw the creation of the GAA(Gay Activists Alliance) in response who were concerned with liberating homosexuals and focused only on this fight for rights and resources.Both groups however would come together for protests against other raids and for the Stonewall march that began the following year. Some of their victories during this time was having homosexuality removed from psychiatric handbooks as a mental illness in 1973 with the American Psychiatric Association gaining a caucus of lesbian and gay psychiatrists in 1978.

Pride and Today

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The 28th of June 1970 saw Pride as we know it born with the first annual Christopher Street Liberation march in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. From these earliest days however when the victories of the revolt were so close to hand the massaging of history to fit different perspectives was already beginning. One reader wrote to the Advocate in 1970 saying the parade had done more harm than good as “silly freaks” “those queens” were lowering the movement’s image in his eyes prompting him to sniff “where were the normal looking” gay men from colleges and so forth? Dick Griff in a letter replying stated “It was the drag queens who fought back last year!Not we closet queens!”. Just over a year after Stonewall the outsiders of the lgbt community who had been so instrumental were already having their agency and momentous actions ignored. Their presence was unwanted.Those like the Gay Activist Alliance and Lesbian Feminist Liberation ,like the Mattachine before them , following the revolt began to champion assimilation so that laws like the proposed Anti-Discrimination Bill Intro 475 would view them as worth protecting.Those who stuck out and were different be it due to their class, race, gender identity, homeless status and more brought down the rest of the community. In response the GLF asserted their commitment to LGBT people of all backgrounds including transgender people attracting many trans activists ,but the climate was against them. Stonewall’s homeless Street Kids ,and transgender women ,grouped under terms like drag queens or transvestites at the time, became liabilities while on the day of Stonewall they had been indispensable. Marsha told Bob Kohler in an interview how upon attending GAA meetings they would notice everyone looking at her and Sylvia because “they’re not used to seeing transvestites in female attire”. Transgender people were therefore kicked off the anti-discrimination bill in hopes it would pass. Another example of this alienation that groups, especially transgender people faced as the gay rights movement grew, is that of a 1973 New York Liberation rally where Sylvia Rivera jump on stage with Lee Brewster following a speech by the early TERF Jean O’Leary in which Sylvia cried “You go to bars because of what drag queens did for you,and these bitches tell us to quit ourselves” before she asked them “how dare you???”. Whither because of transphobic prejudiced views concerning trans people,Second Wave Feminism being famous for this, or the need to exclude them and all other people who did not fit a white,cis, often middle class standard, to latch onto any aspect of acceptance by straight society that they could due to privileged, groups like trans women were coldly excluded from the fight. In answer those who were not accepted fought their own fights when others would not return their support. For instance Marsha and Sylvia formed Street Transvestite(eventually transgender from 2000) Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970 which provided safety and help for transgender people in a myriad of terrible situations such as living on the street or in prison. Marsha who was HIV Postive would later support and march for many AIDS causes. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy also started providing for her community with an early service run by her from 1978 in San Diego providing help for trans women in prison,addicted to drugs or homeless.She has now worked tirelessly into her 70s for many groups.

Aids would rock the LGBT community to its very core and would take the lives of people who had been at Stonewall. It both brought people together as they had to care for each other when no one else would. This is something my own mother as a charity worker saw in 1993 while helping a man care for his partner who was dying and trying to convince doctors to treat him. At the same time however the dangers of the crisis made some feel all the more that gay identity had to be portrayed in a rigid way to ensure people were accepted.It has been 48 years now since the revolt. Its victories stand alongside its failings…Mobilizing requiring a homogeneous group in some people’s views....The events of the night being shaped to fit the ideology of the gay rights movement in the 1970s onwards. While works like Pay it no Mind ,about Marsha, give us stories of figures on the night that need heard , other things like the film Stonewall have took to the views that exclusionary groups have presented.

Today the fights for all lgbt people,not just a specific group, to have the rights,safety and support in their lives they need still goes on. We need to read the true tales from stonewall in order to get past the conflict we have dealt with in past decades….We need to remember the lives behind it …Mourning those veterans of it like Marsha and Sylvia who died young as well as caring for our elders like Miss Major and Storme Lavernie(who sadly passed away in inadequate care practically forgotten). Yes pride is for celebrating ,but we need to all come together in unison against the institutions around the world which impact LGBT people negatively instead of mistreating each other or assuming the fight is over. The truth of Stonewall is beauty and the beauty of the people involved acting as one on that night is truth. We need to speak Stonewall’s truths every moment so it lives on forever…Not give way to the type of hate it was sparked by.

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Sex Trafficking Vs Sex Work

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Fucking in Public Reveals Who Public Spaces Are Really For

“If something exists, there is porn of it:” Welcome to Rule 34, a series in which Motherboard’s Samantha Cole lovingly explores the highly specific fetishes that can be found on the web. If you’ve thought of it, someone’s jerked off to it.

The links in this article may be considered NSFW.

Dahlia Drake's most memorable moment of exhibitionist sex involved fucking against a parked car at 2 a.m. It was dark, but she and her partner were in full view of a business's security cameras.

"We got out, started making out, and things got hot and heavy quickly, and we ended up having sex against the side of the car as well as on the hood of the car," she told me. "The idea of risking getting caught sends an adrenaline rush and really gets people hot and bothered. It’s that excitement that interests people and really gets them into it. Personally, I don’t think there’s anything more thrilling than performing a lewd act in a very public area."

As a cam model, Drake is used to showing off her sexuality in front of others. Usually, this means performing in front of a small audience watching a stream, or sending videos and pictures to paying customers. On her own time, however, she enjoys getting lewd in public.

"The main reason I do it isn’t necessarily because fans request it, but because I legitimately enjoy public play," she said.

"It makes sex into an adventure and that adventure ends in passion," Raven Risque, an art model and fetish model who often plays publicly, told me. "You are nervous and scared but delighted and turned on… Everything feels heightened because of the adrenaline of being caught, of being seen. Sometimes I even want to be seen."

Every once in a while, a video of people getting intimate in public goes viral. Tabloids pick it up, and suddenly everyone has an opinions about public sex. Last month, it was a duo on a New York City subway platform. In the past, it's been bus riders, a guy with his ass out trying to copulate with a pile of leaves, or Yankees fans.

Sex in public can be fun. It can be gross, regrettable, thrilling, passionate, and inadvisable all at once. But in a time when everyone has a smartphone ready to record or post your sexcapades to the internet, it's a lot harder to get away with it without going viral.

FUCK THE CAR, CALL THE COPS

In 2018, a drunk Kansas man refused to stop fucking the tailpipe of a car until someone tased him. Was he horny for cars, confusing the car with a person's orifice, turned on by the public nature of the car-fuckery, or just very drunk? It doesn't matter—he was charged with "lewd and lascivious behavior." Because in this country you can't fuck anything, let alone someone else's vehicle, in broad daylight.

If you're going by the rule of law in the U.S., your right to have sex outdoors varies from state to state. In most states, sex in public is a misdemeanor under public lewdness and indecency laws, but the definitions of "public" and "lewd" vary, and are often ambiguous. For example, in 1991, a New York court ruled that sex in a car wasn't considered sex in public unless passers-by could see it from outside.

Sex on the beach, while logistically difficult, is one of the most common fetishes, according to some polls—despite being super illegal if you're on a public beach. The 1953 classic From Here to Eternity may have set the mold for sensual beach scenes, spawning a whole trope for romance films.

Pop culture tends to draw a hard line between this dreamy, passionate, thrill-of-the-moment public sex, and "exhibitionism," which conjures images of a man in a trenchcoat flashing people, or nudism and extreme extroversion. But the desire to toe that line—to dawdle in the possibility of getting caught, but not too brazenly—is a common fantasy.

Justin Lehmiller, a research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, surveyed more than 4,000 Americans about their sexual fantasies during research for his book Tell Me What You Want . Forty-two percent of participants reported fantasies of having sex in public. But the majority of those who described public sex as their all-time favorite sexual fantasy said that shocking other people wasn't the goal.

"Rather, what turned them on was the idea that either (1) they could potentially be observed, but weren’t actually being observed, or (2) that other people might watch, but would enjoy what they were seeing," Lehmiller said. "In other words, most people with public sex fantasies don’t want to do something non-consensual, which makes them different from the clinical exhibitionists—the ones who get off on other people’s shocked or disgusted reactions."

David Ley, a clinical psychologist who specializes in sexuality, told me that it's important to distinguish between public sex as a fantasy, and exhibitionism for the sake of shocking others without their consent. "The place where this becomes a problem, illegal and disordered, is when people violate the rights of others, forcing them to observe their sexual behaviors without consent," Ley said. Exhibitionist disorder is clinically diagnosable, according to the DSM-5, and is defined as "exposing one’s genitals to an unsuspecting person or performing sexual acts that can be watched by others."

Public sex is primal and natural in an unnatural world that looks down on public intimacy.

"In assessment and treatment of these issues, I tend to be more interested in the levels of empathy, impulse control and antisocial tendencies, than in the sexual fantasy itself," Ley said. "Someone who is doesn’t care about the rights of others, the possibility of being arrested and charged as a sex offender, or potentially exposing children to their sexual behaviors, are the people I worry about."

Most people don't take their fantasies that far, or even want to. A public sex enthusiast named Lukas (who spoke under the condition of anonymity—this aspect of his sex life is illegal, after all) told me that although he likes to play outside, it's not because he might get caught. The best sex he's had was while hiking in New Zealand with his girlfriend.

"I like feeling peacefully connected to the world during sex, and nature gives me that," he said. "When having sex in nature, I worry about being caught, because whoever catches me would probably not feel happy about it. Being transgressive can be part of the thrill for me, but only against perceived rules, not some passerby. Under ideal circumstances, I’m in a spot where there is no real risk of getting caught and I don’t have to worry about it."

Many people don't even take it farther than their browsers. Searching "public sex" on most porn sites returns hundreds of pages of videos featuring people doing it in cars, on beaches, in parks, at festivals, parties, and bars. There's even a video from circa 2011 of two people having sex during a skydive. Even if most people don't actually have sex in public, it's clear that many of us find the fantasy appealing. On Pornhub, one of the most visited porn sites, Public Agent and Fake Taxi, two porn channels focused on public sex, are the fifth and sixth most popular channels, where they've gained billions of views.

But sex in public isn't just a sandy daydream, and it's often not a perverse or malicious thrill, either. For a lot of people, it's a reality of life.

WHO IS PERMITTED TO FUCK IN PUBLIC?

Unlike blueberry porn or farts-as-fetish, exhibitionist sex is a topic that brings up a lot of questions about capitalism, bigotry, and class struggle. In order to have a conversation about sex in public, we have to discuss who is privileged to enjoy this kink as a fun, potentially-risky taboo, and who can't.

There are the issues surrounding class inequalities that likely result in many of the videos of public sex gone viral. Many homeless shelters segregate genders and don't allow couples, even same-sex couples, to stay together—who then face the choice of separation or living on the street.

How to define "public space" (and how the inside of a car isn't, until it's in someone's view) is a legal question, but it's also a cultural and societal one. Hostile architecture, like spiked wall edges or sloped benches, makes it impossible to simply sit and chill—let alone cuddle up with another person. Pseudo-public courtyards and parks creep into the few shreds of commons we have left, and those areas aren't policed by the local government but by private security guards. These places are often not public to people who have nowhere else to go, and who aren't the types that those private developers want to attract.

Then there's the not-unrelated topic of survival sex, and the ways being a sex worker in public spaces is policed and criminalized, especially in the U.S. After the 2018 passage of FOSTA, a bill that made platforms liable for sexual solicitation, sex workers were pushed offline and public places were the only option for many sex workers to make what they needed to survive. This, obviously, isn't kink—it's oppression.

Public sex is also fraught in terms of queer history: Who is allowed to display their sexuality in public, without repercussions? Gay men, especially, have been stereotyped as being promiscuous in public places, and have been treated with suspicion in bathrooms or for simply being in public places after dark. This might sound like a shameful relic from the 90s George Michael era, but police still launch massive undercover stings to entrap gay men and charge them for "lewd acts."

Sex and gender activist Gayle S. Rubin grapples with similar questions in Culture, Society and Sexuality in 1998—and also hints at the ways we're surveilling ad censoring each other can be in the same vein of class brutality as landlords and cops:

"The general public helps to penalize erotic nonconformity when, according to the values they have been taught, landlords refuse housing, neighbors call in the police, and hoodlums commit sanctioned battery. The ideologies of erotic inferiority and sexual danger decrease the power of sex perverts and sex workers in social encounters of all kinds."

In part, the culture that vilifies things like cruising or simply displaying queer sexuality in public forced them, too—it's sometimes the only place the queer community can enjoy the anonymity and relative safety of the commons, outside of oppressive and bigoted households or neighborhoods.

Sex work activist Liara Roux told me in a Twitter message that when they were a teen, before coming out, it was the only option to explore their sexuality.

"I was so worried my parents would kick me out if they caught me doing anything so there was no way I was doing anything at my house or at my friends' houses," they said.

Roux said they've had numerous experiences with public play since then. "Usually it's me fingering another girl in a public place where it can look like nothing is going on! Like sticking fingers up a skirt when they are wearing nothing underneath," they said. "Once my partner fingered me on the BART coming home from SFO after a long trip, was very hot… And one of my favorites was sticking my foot into another girls pussy under the table while we were drinking tea at a very tranquil teahouse."

People assume they're platonic friends and don't look more closely than that, they said.

Just because sex forced into the wild is a complex topic doesn't negate the existence of sex in the wild for the sake of celebration. But to do it properly, you'll want to stake out the right spots, and ride the thrill in a reasonable, respectful way—ultimately, away from the suspicious and unsuspecting eyes of the public.

"It can be done easily or it can take much planning," Risque said. "I've been in moments of sheer lust that I don't care where I am, the clothes must come off. And other times it's a date with someone I love. We plan a day of it… Public sex is primal and natural in an unnatural world that looks down on public intimacy, nudity and sex in general. So for me it brings me into my animal nature in a way I thought lost to me."

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pete-and-pete · 6 years ago

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Shahed Hussain: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

The owner of the Prestige Limousine, whose driver was not properly licensed and whose car was not in proper working order authorities have said, is Shahed Hussain. He’s also known as Shaeed Hussain and Shadid Malek.

A limo from his fleet crashed in Schoharie, New York this past weekend killing 20; 17 passengers, friends celebrating a birthday, two pedestrians and the driver.

It’s not clear what, if any, criminal charges he might face. Civil cases are another matter and if history is precedent, and if he is deemed to bear responsibility, he could face civil actions by victims’ family members.

New York’s Gov. Cuomo said said Monday the limo “should not have been on the road.”

In a news conference covered by local and national media, authorities said Hussain was located outside U.S. It’s believed he is in his native Pakistan although that was not confirmed by New York State Police commander Maj. Robert Patnaude at a news conference Monday, per Time. It’s been widely reported that Hussain’s son or sons have been running the company out of an Upstate motel. A lawyer for the limo company appeared on a national morning news program and said that the car’s issues were minor and were repaired.

Attorney Lee Kindlon said he doesn’t think the recent infractions against Prestige limousine service contributed to Saturday’s deadly crash. https://t.co/nRP8W1NdF0

— Local 22 & Local 44 (@WVNYWFFF) October 9, 2018

Lawyer Lee Kindlon said on Good Morning America, that the inspection issues that needed addressing were limited to “minor things, windshield wipers, a latch on a windshield that needed to be fixed. And all of those things were fixed and so one of the questions we are trying to help answer is any of those safety problems could have contributed to the crash. We want to make everybody know right now we are doing everything we can to answer those questions, along with the state.”

The National Transportation Safety Board and the NYS Police are investigating the worst accident in the U.S. since 2009.

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But Hussain is no ordinary businessman and has had no ordinary relationship with law enforcement and the U.S. government.

Court records, albeit many sealed by order of a federal judge nonetheless crack open a window wide enough to learn that he was well-connected in Pakistan and from a family of business people, admitted he walked away from a murder charge there, speaks several languages and, immigrating from Pakistan in the early 1990s, settled in an Albany suburb where he raised a family and ran a business. Court records show that in 2001, Hussain showed up on law enforcement radar as he was a translator for immigrants dealing with logistical matters namely, obtaining identification and drivers licenses. And that’s where we first meet Hussain who by then was already 43-years-old.

In 2002 he was charged with working with a corrupt employee at a New York State driver license office to sell fake driver licenses to immigrants. The feds, local cops and other authorities were on to him though for a year and had him dead to right; he pleaded guilty in 2003. But, to ensure he’d escape a possible lengthy prison sentence or be deported to his native Pakistan, Hussain became a confidential informant for the FBI and his efforts, the government has said, sent at least 18 people to prison through sting operations and the infiltration of criminal groups including now-convicted drug dealers and terrorists.

Mother Jones reported a timeline of Hussain’s deeds headlined, “The Making of a FBI Superinformant” in 2011. It is in this investigation that it’s revealed Hussain has avoided prison in the U.S.and in Pakistan by either bribing officials or working as agent and informant for them to escape penalty for his own alleged crimes.

Now 62, the Upstate, New York man, married to Yaseem Bugen, and father of two grown sons has a storied past.

Here’s what you need to know about Hussain:

1. Born in Pakistan & From a Family of Well-Connected Business Owners, he Testified That he Fled to the U.S. Via Moscow & Mexico With a Human Trafficker in 1994 After Being Accused of Murder; His Father Bribed Officials to Look the Other Way

The FBI's favorite terrorism informant is at it again. Who has Shahed Hussain been trying to entrap this time? http://t.co/d3XbY5g3

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 20, 2012

Hussain’s family owned a restaurant chain in Pakistan, according to reports. He was arrested on a murder charge in 1994, which he said was politically motivated and that he was framed, court transcripts obtained by Mother Jones show. His father paid 100,000 rupees, around $1350 U.S. dollars, in a bribe and Hussain along with his family fled to Moscow first, traveling with a human trafficker he testified.

After Moscow, with fake British passports furnished by the trafficker, a “travel agent” he said, they went to Mexico and then entered the U.S. settling in New York State, Mother Jones reported and court records show.

Mother Jones reported Hussain went from earning minimum wage pumping gas to owning a bodega, buying a house and raising his family comfortably outside Albany.

In around 2000, he began acting as a translator for immigrants.

2. Seemingly an Altruistic Move Helping Translate for Immigrants, the Government Said Was Actually a Scheme to Line His & a DMV Employee’s Pockets Selling Fake Driver Licenses. And He Was Caught in the Act by the FBI

From the 2006 terror trial in which he testified as an FBI informant, here is Malik Shahed Hussain of Prestige Limousine, which owned the limo in the deadly Schoharie crash. Hussain was posing as a radical arms dealer for the FBI pic.twitter.com/HxklXklri5

— Greg Floyd (@CBS6Greg) October 8, 2018

When Hussain was 44, he stood before a federal judge charged with what sounds an innocuous charge namely the government said, he “did knowingly and without the lawful authority produce, and in affecting interstate and foreign commerce, an identification document, or a false identification document.” The charge is a federal offense. Hussain, who is referred to in the court records obtained by Heavy, Shahid Malek, the latter surname would also be used later to great benefit the federal authorities and the greater community and to the detriment of many criminals.

His story in America begins, court records located by Heavy show, in the fall of 2001 when the FBI, the Albany Police Department and the New York State Inspector General begin investigating Hassain. Multi-lingual, he was a translator for non-English speaking people, immigrants largely, at motor vehicle offices in the Albany, New York area. Once the feds were on to his scam, he was secretly recorded with most of the conversations in Urdu. The FBI had recruited a confidential informant, himself facing felony prison time so he turned informant.

The scheme worked this way, the FBI federal complaint against Hussain reads: for $1000, people who needed identification could go to Hussain who had cut a deal with a DMV worker (court records show Hussain secretly recorded the worker agreeing to the scheme so as to use as leverage, he said, in the event the employee tried to either back out or rip people off. The FBI plant contacted Hussain and the sting was on. In early December of 2001, Hussain and the CI went to the DMV. The informant was wired. Hassan met with his inside connection who took the informant’s picture and a short time later, the FBI mole had a temporary New York driver’s license. It was a fake name and secured sans any identification. Three days later, Hussain and the FBI’s snitch met and the man paid Hussain the $500 balance; he had first $500 with postal money order. https://ecf.nynd.uscourts.gov/doc1/1251695667

Not long after, in January of 2002, after a months-long investigation Hussain was arrested and charged with “knowingly and without the lawful authority produce, and in affecting interstate and foreign commerce, an identification document, or a false identification document.”

He signed a personal recognizance bond and was released. It’s now believed he immediately offered to work as an informant himself. And more. In Pakistan, he walked away from a murder charge through a bribe. In the U.S., it was cooperation.

3. Hussain Might Have Served 15 Years in Prison & Assessed a $250,000 Fine For His Crime. He Did no Time & Paid $100

Update: Here is an artist sketch of Malik Shahed Hussain at the 2006 Albany terror trial where he testified as an FBI informant. Hussain is the owner of Prestige Limousine, the company that provided the limo that was in the crash that killed 20 in Schoharie pic.twitter.com/cBUXfUhtiM

— Greg Floyd (@CBS6Greg) October 8, 2018

Most of the court documents were ordered sealed in cases in which Hussain was involved save a few important ones that spell out the original complaint. Even his personal bankruptcy has now inaccessible documents. But there’s enough to piece things together.

On April 16, 2003 Hussain pleaded guilty to the one-count indictment. His sentencing was slated for 2006.

The law states that the charge of creating false IDs and in this case, working with a state government employee to produce fraudulent driver’s licenses, is one where upon conviction, one could serve up to 15 years in a federal lockup, be forced to pay a $250,000 fine or end up back in prison and, be under supervised release for three years.

But when Hussain was finally sentenced, in 2010, the federal prosecutor asked the judge to let him walk out the door paying just a $100 fee. The government had a good reason. In 2002 when he was arrested, Hussain began working for them; the bigger fish theory. And in the U.S. government’s opinion, drug dealers and terrorists were those big fish and he helped them catch a net full of them.

In May of 2010, in the U.S. District Court Northern District of New York in Albany, the prosecutor said: “Based on the substantial assistance which this defendant has provided, including assistance in a fraud and drug case which led to charges being filed against 12 individuals, 11 of whom have pleaded guilty, and assistance in a terrorism sting case, in which two persons were found guilty after trial,” and the prosecutor said since he’d been on pretrial supervision for years, the government asked that he receive no time and pay just $100 court fee.

“We need to acknowledge what this defendant has done in his cooperation, which briefly and specifically was an investigation into DMV fraud that blossomed into a narcotics investigation” and the entrapment of two money laundering arms dealers. “The Government is satisfied that he behaved responsibly, properly, and acted truthfully at all times ….” court records show.

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In August of 2003, four months after pleading guilty, he filed for bankruptcy. The case dragged on for four years and was final in late 2007.

Court transcripts obtained by Mother Jones show that while the feds were good with Hussain and he was helping them make cases, he was conducting shady business with a federal bankruptcy court. He swore in tow courts, criminal and debtors, that he was broke. But in 2006, he purchased a new car for his son and he bought a hole-in-the-wall motel. He was even sued for taking reservation money for unavailable rooms.

Mother Jones reported that by 2007, the feds were paying Hussain. His six figure job was to hunt radicals in New York State mosques. This reporting is backed up by one salient point: None of the bankruptcy records are available save perfunctory ones including the docket, the case history, the lawyers, parties and the like. It’s not clear why those files are locked but may be tied to his cooperation with federal authorities.

So what did he do for the feds?

Hussain helped investigators nail 11 of 12 suspects involved in a drug trafficking and fraud case. What he did was set up his friends and others who he said came into his store, a number of which were involved in the DMV fraud scam. He told a court in 2010 that he met with the FBI before meeting with friends and associates and then was wired and recording these meetings. Over time, the feds were able to arrest, charge and convict nearly a dozen people.

On the website for SALAM, a group that provides “support and legal advocacy for Muslims,” people were warned to steer clear of Hussain who was described as “very dangerous” for members of the Muslim community.

4. The Arms Plot & Money Laundering Case Hussain Set Up Sent Two to Federal Prison

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Hussain pretend to be an arms dealer who sold an anti-aircraft weapons, called a man-portable air-defense system that are basically surface-to-air missiles in miniature. The gun was supposed to have been deployed as a weapon to destroy a “Pakistani envoy,” it was reported.

Hussain’s job was to convince two alleged terrorists to help him clean up the money used to purchase the anti-aircraft weapon.

Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref were the two men and both were convicted and are serving 15-year sentences for laundering the money for the weapon sale.

The govt said: “(his) assistance in a terrorism sting case, in which two persons were found guilty” was “substantial.”

Mohammed M. Hossain was a Bangladeshi immigrant and pizzeria owner in Albany. Yassin Aref was a local Iman and, reports say, the FBI’s target.

Hussain met the two men and said he’d brought in guns and a Stinger missile in solidarity with his “mujahid brothers,” records show. He gave Hossian $5000 and Aref was supposed to be part of the deal; cleaning money for terrorist to buy guns. But according to reports and as is reported as being on surveillance video, the Bangladeshi pizza-maker appears to think it’s a loan, it was reported. Whatever he thought, the government made its case against the two men. They were convicted and are serving federal prison sentences.

5. But it Was the Famous Newburgh Case Where Hussain Testified That he Made National, Indeed International News & Was Then Known as a ‘Superinformant’

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In May of 2009, a terror plot was foiled and it’s now known that Hussain was part of the FBI sting that led to the arrest, trial and conviction of James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen. Read U.s> Southern District of New York Judge Colleen McMahon’s bail, speedy trail and other orders here.

The plan was to shoot down aircraft and detonate bombs in a synagogue in Newburgh, New York. The arrests of the four suspects who the government said were planning to detonate bombs at a Bronx synagogue. The plot also included a scheme to shoot down military aircraft at the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh. The investigation and sting lasted a year. Hussain was the FBI’s man on the inside.

SALAM cautioned Muslims to “stay away from” Hussain.

Hussain is reported to be in Pakistan. It’s unclear if his son or sons is running the limo business although reports indicate that is he case.

source https://heavy.com/news/2018/10/shahed-hussain/

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Somebody Tell Donald TrumpRussia Is Still an Adversary

A lookout from the FBIs Special Surveillance Group keeps daily watch outside each of the main Russian facilities in New York and Washington, D.C.

At the appearance of a Russian of significance, the lookout alerts other SSG members. The familiar targets are referred to by a number, as in Number 2 is out.

The SSG memberswho are not FBI agents, but surveillance specialiststhereupon set to following the subject.

The SSG members then report what they observe to FBI agents assigned to the counterintelligence division.

And so it has gone for day after day, month after month, year after year, even as many Americans ceased to think of Russia as an adversary.

At the same time, those inside the Russian facilities have had continued reason to fear their conversations are recorded.

The reason for this ongoing physical and electronic surveillance is that the Russians in fact remain a hostile power.

The Russians are an adversary, says Eric ONeill, formerly an SSG operative who helped catch an FBI agent turned Russian spy and now serves as national security strategist for Carbon Black. The Russians have never stopped being an adversary.

Proof of that came in Putins unprecedented effort to influence the course of the 2016 election and thereby undermine the democratic process that is at the core of Americas actual greatness.

Look what they did to the state of our politics, ONeill says.

The Russian president must have figured that he would at the very least weaken Hillary Clinton. He did not likely expect that The Donald would actually win.

The ultimate winner was Vladimir Putin himself. He achieved the seemingly impossible by capitalizing on what is worst in us.

The hacking would not have made a decisive difference had the contents of the DNC emails not been so lousy.

And Trump supporters did little more than shrug when it became apparent that the Russians used the fruits of a felony to put him in the White House.

So much for America First! and wearing flag-lapel pins and endlessly invoking the best interests of the American People. The news was hardly the primary place for fake to be found.

Meanwhile, ongoing electronic surveillance seemed to prove that the new national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had lied when he said he had not discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the weeks before the inauguration. The FBI and the Justice Department feared that the Russians might blackmail Flynn as they had been known to do in the past with less prominent Americans, such as a sergeant from Oklahoma whom they contrived to film with two women in a Moscow hotel room back in 1957.

Acting Attorney General Sally Yates notified the White House, which did nothing for 18 days and might have gone on doing nothing had The Washington Post not reported that Flynn had lied to Vice President Mike Pence, among others. Trump only then fired Flynn, who remained the subject of an FBI investigation as the result of other dealings with the Russians. Trump reportedly asked FBI Director James Comey to shut down the probe, saying, I hope you can let this go.

Comey declined and that was surely one reason why Trump subsequently fired him even though the FBI was in the midst of the continued investigation into Russian meddling in the election. Trump followed that bit of recklessness by hosting a White House visit one day later with none other than the Russian ambassador Kislyak, along with the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov.

Imagine how the SSG operatives who routinely follow Kislyak must have felt when they subsequently heard the reports of what transpired in that Oval Office meeting.

As if out of a Russian spys wildest dreams, the president of the United States personally presented his two visitors with intelligence that had been given to us by another country on the condition we keep it to ourselves.

Rather than go to all the trouble of entrapping some poor soul with a honey trap and blackmailing him into providing ever more sensitive information through secret codes and dead drops, the Russian had needed simply to walk into the Oval Office to get the most highly sensitive stuff without even asking for it.

And, according to a White House document quoted by The New York Times, there was more.

Trump reportedly also told the two Russians, I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. Thats taken off.

In other words, the president was telling the Russians that he had fired the head of the organization that has long been charged with countering Russias intelligence efforts in America and is presently conducting an investigation into Russias meddling in the election and possible Russian connections with members of the Trump campaign.

The Russians may have waxed a little nostalgic on hearing Trump talk of Comey as a real nut job, as it was a standard ploy during the Soviet era to brand an opponent as mentally ill.

But you have to wonder how the other Americans at that Oval Office meeting felt on hearing the president speak this way of Comey and suggest that the investigation had been taken care of by removing him. They must have known even as Trump reportedly added, I am not under investigation that he was all but ensuring he would be under investigation and that everyone present had just become a witness.

After news broke of Trumps gift to the Russian diplomats, the present national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, told the press that he had attended the meeting and that it is wholly appropriate for the president to share whatever information he thinks is to the advancement of the security of the American people. He was entirely right if you took appropriate in this context to mean within the letter of the law..

But McMaster gave the impression that the entire meeting was appropriate in the larger sense of being proper. And it was not even close to being proper for Trump to have spoken about Comey in these terms to anybody, particularly to senior representatives of an adversary that is presently under investigation for its successful effort to put Trump in the very office where he now stood.

With regards to Russian intelligence, not much has changed since that day in 1953 when a Brooklyn man who proved to be a Russian agent mistakenly paid a 14-year-old newsboy with a hollow nickel that contained a coded message on microfilm. The newsboy told the teenaged daughter of a cop, who then told an FBI agent. The bureau used basic surveillance to roll up an entire ring of Russian agents, including the one featured in the movies The FBI Story and Bridge of Spies.

Just because Trumps mentor Roy Cohn made a name for himself in the 1950s as Sen. Joseph McCarthys sidekick in a witch-hunt that smeared decent Americans as communist subversives does not mean the Russians were anything but an adversary. McCarthy and Cohn destroyed the noted scholar and college professor Owen Lattimore by falsely accusing him of being the top Russian espionage agent in the United States. But there were and are actual Russian agents. Cohns protge, Trump, is now insisting that an effort to investigate a real Russian plot is a witch hunt.

Trump has suggested that providing Russia with the sensitive intelligence at the Oval Office meeting was another example of his masterful exercise of the Art of the Deal, that he was seeking to enlist the Russians in a more energetic effort against ISIS. He will likely say that his comments about Comey were part of that effort.

Maybe McMaster has apparently convinced himself that this is true, just as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein seems to have convinced himself that the memo he wrote about Comey did not make him party to a put-up. The Art of the Deal as it is actually practiced seems to include getting decent people to hedge on their sense of right and wrong.

Rosenstein may have been seeking a kind of redemption in appointing former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian meddling in the Trump campaign. Muellers integrity is so beyond question that he was not disqualified by his closeness to Comey. Nobody is more capable than Mueller of bringing us to the truth.

Meanwhile, the Russian foreign minister has continued his duties, which include propping up the Assad regime in Syria, the Kim Jong Un regime in North Korea and a government in Iran that has supplied insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq with specialized explosives that have killed more than 500 of our finest Americans. Iran has also sworn to destroy Israel, which reportedly provided the information Trump had then given to the Russians.

Trump is visiting Israel after his stop in Saudi Arabia on his first international journey as president. He will continue on to Italy and the Vatican. He will then return to America, where Mueller is commencing his investigation and where the SSG continues to follow Russians of significance because Russia remains an adversary.