I am starting to seriously wonder when our fragile, liberty-hating populace is going to just get right down to it and demand a new Secret Police Service with limitless powers to spy on, abuse and imprison all those scary nefarious meanies who never stop threatening the Children!

What do you say, one more serious terrorist attack?

Oh, you say we may have something like that already?

New Orleans city police and the district attorney’s office are using a state law written for child molesters to charge hundreds of sex workers like Tabitha as sex offenders. The law, which dates back to 1805, makes it a crime against nature to engage in “unnatural copulation”—a term New Orleans cops and the district attorney’s office have interpreted to mean anal or oral sex. Sex workers convicted of breaking this law are charged with felonies, issued longer jail sentences and forced to register as sex offenders. They must also carry a driver’s license with the label “sex offender” printed on it.