Why Is The Protection of Women An Issue We Have To Fight For?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 7th, 2012
Good morning!
The republicans are going to try and do what they do no matter what…no matter whose lives they are endangering. And yes their target this time is….no surprise – WOMEN. It is women once again, more specifically our Native American sisters, this time around, who are the ones affected. I’m talking about protections in the Violence Against Women’s Act (VAWA).
VAWA, which has been reauthorized consistently for 18 years with little fanfare, was, for the first time, left to expire in Sept. 2011. The sticking point has been new protections for three particularly vulnerable groups: undocumented immigrants, members of the LGBT community and Native Americans.
Eric Cantor, and the republicans received loud messages that now that the election is over they need to do a better job of appealing to women and minorities. Do you think they got the message? Hell no. The dems are supporting these additional provisions but the House repubs continue to be the party of “No” – they say these additions are “politically driven”. Don’t you love the way repubs say that protecting women is politically driven? Wha’at?? It is as if women are just things and not living human beings.
Cantor has been in talks with Biden, and although our LGBT and undocumented immigrant sisters look like they may make it through this round (but don’t be so sure – nothing is signed yet), our Native American sisters, may not be so lucky. Cantor has a problem. He doesn’t seem to think that protecting our Native American sisters is important.
The gist of it is this: Democratic provision gives tribal courts limited jurisdiction to oversee domestic violence offenses committed against Native American women by non-Native American men on tribal lands, and the House Republican leader wants this expansion curtailed.
In short it means non-Native American men who abuse Native American women on tribal lands are essentially “immune from the law, and they know it.”
Of the Native American women who are raped, 86 percent of them are raped by non-Native men, according to an Amnesty International report. That statistic is precisely what the Senate’s tribal provision targets.
So basically non-Native men have free rein to beat and rape Native American women, and nothing can be done. Thank you Cantor for endangering women by supporting rapists in their heinous crimes.
Here’s the write:
Violence Against Women Act: Eric Cantor, Joe Biden In Talks Amid Stalled Tribal Provision
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden is quietly working with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to try to pass an inclusive version of the Violence Against Women Act in the lame-duck Congress. And so far, sources tell HuffPost, Cantor is on board as long as one thing is stripped from the bill: a key protection for Native American women.
Staffers for Biden and Cantor have been trying to reach a deal on the bill for at least a week. Neither camp publicly let on it was talking to the other until Wednesday, when Cantor said the two are in negotiations and he’s feeling hopeful about a deal.
“I am speaking with the vice president and his office and trying to resolve the issue of the differences surrounding the VAWA bill,” Cantor said during remarks on the House floor.
“This week I’ve actually been encouraged to see that we could very well see agreement on VAWA, and I’m very hopeful that that comes about. But I am encouraged about the discussions that my office is having with the vice president’s office right now, that bill being a high priority of Vice President Biden.”
VAWA, which has been reauthorized consistently for 18 years with little fanfare, was, for the first time, left to expire in Sept. 2011. The sticking point has been new protections for three particularly vulnerable groups: undocumented immigrants, members of the LGBT community and Native Americans. The additions are supported by Democrats and opposed by House Republicans, who are calling them politically driven. The Senate passed a bipartisan bill in April with the additional protections, and House Republicans passed their own bill in May that omitted those three provisions. Since then, the issue has gone nowhere.
The fact that Cantor is working directly with Biden, an original sponsor of the 1994 law and a strong supporter of the Senate bill, suggests a real possibility that something could advance in the final weeks of a Congress otherwise consumed by a major tax fight. And now that the elections are over — and the GOP received the message that they need to do a better job of appealing to women and minorities — House Republicans may be more inclined to support the more inclusive bill.
But two sources familiar with negotiations on VAWA, both of whom requested anonymity given the sensitive nature of talks, have told HuffPost that Cantor is refusing to accept any added protections for Native American women that would give expanded jurisdiction to tribes, and is pressuring Democrats to concede on that front. There does seem to be room to negotiate with Cantor on the other two provisions relating to LGBT and undocumented immigrant protections, the sources say.
Asked to confirm if this is the current state of play in VAWA talks, a Cantor spokesman said only, “Your source is mistaken.”
Later, the Cantor spokesman said in a statement, “Majority Leader Cantor and the Vice President have had a conversation seeking to find a solution. Since then, we have continued to work with the Vice President’s staff, as well as Senate Democratic staff to work on a solution that gets to the root of the problem, namely, violence against women. Our staffs continue to work towards a compromise on those multiple provisions outstanding in the hopes of finding a solution.”
A White House official did not respond to a request for comment on the tribal provision but confirmed that Biden is “talking to both the Senate and House about trying to get [VAWA] done if possible.”
Meanwhile, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the author of the Senate VAWA bill, went to the Senate floor on Thursday and plainly announced that House Republican leaders are blocking his bill “because of their objections to [the] … tribal provision.”
Leahy explained the provision, probably the least understood of the three additions in the Senate bill: It gives tribal courts limited jurisdiction to oversee domestic violence offenses committed against Native American women by non-Native American men on tribal lands. Currently, federal and state law enforcement have jurisdiction over domestic violence on tribal lands, but in many cases, they are hours away and lack the resources to respond to those cases. Tribal courts, meanwhile, are on site and familiar with tribal laws, but lack the jurisdiction to address domestic violence on tribal lands when it is carried out by a non-Native American individual.
That means non-Native American men who abuse Native American women on tribal lands are essentially “immune from the law, and they know it,” Leahy said.
The standoff over including VAWA protections for Native American women comes at a time of appallingly high levels of violence on tribal lands. One in three Native American women have been raped or experienced attempted rape, the New York Times reported in March, and the rate of sexual assault on Native American women is more than twice the national average. President Barack Obama has called violence on tribal lands “an affront to our shared humanity.”
Of the Native American women who are raped, 86 percent of them are raped by non-Native men, according to an Amnesty International report. That statistic is precisely what the Senate’s tribal provision targets.
The two sources say, to Cantor’s credit, his staff has said they’re willing to try to come up with other solutions to responding to violence against women on tribal lands, as long as the solution doesn’t give tribes jurisdiction over the matter. But proponents of the Senate bill see the limited jurisdictional change as the only realistic way to address the problem.
Some House Republicans do support giving tribes that limited jurisdictional authority and have put forward a solution of their own. Earlier this week, Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) introduced a bill that has the same jurisdictional language for tribes as the Senate bill, but would also allow the defendant to move his case to a federal court if he feels his rights were violated in a tribal court. As a standalone bill that wades into complex jurisdictional laws, though, even Issa told HuffPost last week that the bill has little chance of passing in the lame duck.
Cantor’s insistence on keeping the tribal jurisdictional provision out of VAWA has infuriated some backers of the Senate bill and elicited vows to prevent any VAWA bill from advancing that doesn’t protect all victims of abuse. Terry O’Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women and someone who regularly talks to people directly involved in VAWA negotiations, called Cantor’s stance “completely outrageous.”
“Who is Eric Cantor to say that it’s okay for some women to get beaten and raped?” O’Neill said. “If they happen to be Native women who are attacked by a non-Native man, as far as Eric Cantor is concerned, those women are tossed.”
O’Neill’s incendiary and extreme charge highlights the intense passion that has engulfed the negotiations around the bill.
The NOW president said she didn’t know why the GOP leader was so opposed to keeping the provision, since it has the backing of the Justice Department. She said any concerns about constitutional laws being circumvented on tribal lands have already been vetted. Regardless, she said she doesn’t expect the White House or Democratic lawmakers to cave on the provision.
“We are not going to leave behind sisters who have been brutally raped,” O’Neill said.
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Girls: Aren’t just sick and tired of the same same sick and disgusting things that the repubs do? I can tell you I am. I am so over people…okay men, making decisions for women. The male decision making over the needs of women, women’s care, issues, etc. needs to end. Control of making our own decisions should be our number one goal and every woman should be supporting women in this.
And speaking of support, or should I say “lack of”, frankly I am over the women who support those decisions, and blame women. But would we expect anything less from a FOX news anchor woman? Dana Perino of FOX news gives advice to women victims to “make better decisions.” Oh, I bet she would just love that tidbit of advice should she be the victim of rape – don’t ya think?
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December 7th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Zen Lill, I’m one of your most loyal fans here in Serbia. I would peel grapes for you and suck your toes until you were wet all over.
You are beautiful. My dream is to come to America and meet you.
Branislav
December 7th, 2012 at 10:23 am
Michelle, sometimes that gmail tracking is good. I used it because I noticed my husband, Drew, had a ton of emails from his best friend(Chuck) from college. Our families have been doing things together since before we were married some 19 years ago.
I thought they were getting together to cheap on me and Sandy(chuck’s wife). He married her 21 years ago. They have three kids. We have two.
Sandy and I decided to track them. She hid a spy camera in his cell and I replaced a button on Drew’s shirt with a spy camera disguised as a button.
What we discovered was amazing. We saw Chuck undressing. We were close by because we were tracking them. So we scrambled to catch them in the act.
But on the way the spy camera showed Chuck sucking Drew’s dick. I told Sandy to pull over so we could record and she could see what I didn’t dare tell her was happening while she was driving.
By the time she pulled over Drew was fucking Chuck with way more enthusiasm that he ever did with me.
We just sat by the road and watched and listened.
karen
December 7th, 2012 at 10:27 am
Social Butterfly, that “setBox” is indeed scary. I guess if it detects you using the toilet, the they will show a toilet tissue commercial. Or if you are having problems, a laxative or hemorrhoid commercial.
This sucks.
December 7th, 2012 at 10:38 am
Thanks Zen Lill for asking about us here in the Philippines. We had the worst experience of our lives. This is first time a typhoon had hit our village here on the island of Mindanao.
Most didn’t believe it would hit us. Or at least not this bad. It was a killer. It destroyed everything.
December 7th, 2012 at 10:57 am
Hi Mischa, sick this is…and wtf are non-Native American doing on NA property, just dropping by to amuse themselves? Eric Cantor and his ilk could use a few clues, I would love to be in on those talks.
Ian, you see…that’s part of the problem – you stated, ‘if they’re doing something wrong’ (or maybe you said NOT doing something wrong) either way, ‘doing something wrong as defined by WHOM?! maybe someone is in their room smoking some green, is that wrong, they’re in the privacy of their own home, (and it’s illegal, again bc it threatens whom exactly, no one ever died of smoking weed) and there are many examples of what some would classify as ‘wrong’ bc it’s not within their moral value system, who is going to define the doing wrong and then who is going to watch them (watch the watchers, they’re the worst)…answer that intelligently and I will agree with your assessment.
Branislav, wow, grapes and toes…! & thank you for the compliment…
Marites, yes I was watching some of the footage and thought of all our Guamanian friends here. Best wishes for a speedy rebuild.
I just love how certain males make random decisions based on what works for them. Where’s a US Anonz when we need one? Patraeus made Anonz’s list, how about a few of these men, too?
Luv, Zen Lill
December 7th, 2012 at 11:02 am
I mistakenly posted on the earlier date.
Fawzi Says:
December 7th, 2012 at 11:00 am
Michelle, before I answer your question about COP in Doha, let me introduce myself to you. I am one of several males here in Qatar of which Doha is the capital who monitor your blog.
Most of us males started monitoring your blog to see what kind of influence a westerner was attempting to foment in our women. But, I confess, I have become excited to learn of the openness and breath with which your blog has around the world.
This is my second year. Others have been around longer. I like what I see for the most part. Yes, some of us do attempt to track the muslim women who frequent your blog.
We have had some success and we have shut down those we have detected because we feel some of your dialogue is not for our females.
We are also alarmed at the evil some of them have for the arab male. Allah has put us here to protect our females and that includes protecting them from themselves as they are easily influenced.
As for the climate discussions, they were a failure because as soon as money became an issue, it became another summit of disagreement and displeasure as ‘blame game’ between rich and developing nations has overridden the summit’s basic theme of accelerating solutions to climate change.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:05 am
Thanks for inquiring about us Zen Lill. This should get more press! These people are suffering!
December 7th, 2012 at 11:07 am
Michelle, I am a regular here(I used different alias so as not to be tracked). Our son & his family live in Bohol province, Philippines. Please pray for thier safety…
December 7th, 2012 at 11:10 am
I agree with you Gilberto. My son and family are in Bislig Philippines. I can’t find out anything on the news.
I white and for the first time I can understand the frustration OTWs have with our white press. All it talks about on every channel is the prank played on Kate Middleton.
I’m susposed to be concerned about Kate Middleton’s morning sickness?
December 7th, 2012 at 11:17 am
Michelle, I am in the Philippine military. “We had two companies setting up to help in the search and rescue operations, but our military was also a victim of the storm.
In one of our headquarters, no bunkers were left standing and all our communication equipment had been destroyed.
My brother’s army patrol base and a rescue truck in New Bataan has been washed away by flash floods.
More that 60 people were killed when rainwater gushed down from nearby slopes, creating a deadly cocktail of mud, logs and rocks that crushed everything in its path.
The small mountain pass leading to the town my brother’s unit was dispatched to help was littered with fallen trees and rocks, virtually cutting it off from road traffic.
We are hoping to fly our helicopters to conduct reconnaissance and search and recovery. We need outside help.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Zen Lill, please do not sic Anonz on anyone. That guy is a nut case. He uses his money and power to destroy those he dislikes.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:23 am
Catilin, creepy indeed! It scares the hell out of me.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:25 am
Karen, are you going to leave us hanging? Isn’t anyone else interested in the rest of this story? What happened?
December 7th, 2012 at 11:27 am
SB, I still think the US is the best place in the world to live. I wish I were an American citizen.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:32 am
Michelle, your male bashing blog needs to know that women are every bit as abusive as the men you portray in such a bias manner here.
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Woman kills her abusive husband only to discover he was actually a woman! (VIDEO)
Posted by Sandra Ortiz-Juarez on December 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM
When I heard about Elizabeth Rudavsky–a Canadian woman who murdered her husband, Angelo Heddington, after enduring his horrible abuse, only to find out after his death that he was actually a woman–I honestly couldn’t believe it. I had never ever heard something so bizarre. I mean, Heddington had not only hidden his true identity for months, he created a true hell for Rudavsky, by mentally and physically abusing her, even before they were even married.
http://articles.mamaslatinas.com/in_the_news/108452/woman_kills_her_abusive_husband?quick_picks=1
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Remember this the next time you go off on male bad behavior. Thank God you have Zen Lill here to give a balanced opinion.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:38 am
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We’re broadcasting live from Doha, Qatar, from the U.N. climate change summit. And we’re getting news as we broadcast right now of the number of people who have been killed and displaced in the Philippines. At least 20 people have been killed so far, 40,000 have been evacuated from their homes, in a major typhoon hitting the southern Philippines. Typhoon Bopha is the most southerly typhoon ever recorded in the western Pacific and the strongest to hit the Philippines this year.
We’re joined right now by “Yeb” Saño, head of the Philippines climate delegation.
We welcome you to Democracy Now! This news just came down as we went to air, Yeb. Talk about what’s happening, the news you have of what’s happened in the southern Philippines.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:39 am
Aren’t people supposed to be smarter than Raccoons crossing the road?
Stop building in places that get scraped-off the planet every three years.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:41 am
What is with your blog Michelle? I couldn’t get in yesterday. I tried every time I had a break at work? Yet, your favorites Zen Lill and Social Butterfly were free to make multiple entries.
SB even bragged about her double entry.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:45 am
618. thunderbug91 4:29 PM GMT on December 04, 2012
MANILA, Philippines – At least 33 villagers and soldiers drowned in a southern Philippine town Tuesday when torrents of water dumped by a powerful typhoon cascaded down a mountain, engulfing emergency shelters and an army truck, officials said. The deaths raised the toll from one of the strongest storms to hit the country this year to at least 41.
Gov. Arturo Uy said rain from Typhoon Bopha accumulated atop a mountain and then burst down on Andap village in New Bataan town in hard-hit Compostela Valley province.
The victims included villagers who had fled from their homes to a school and village hall, which were then swamped by the flash flood. An army truck carrying soldiers and villagers was washed away.
“They thought that they were already secure in a safe area, but they didn’t know the torrents of water would go their way,” Uy told DZBB radio.
He said the confirmed death toll in the town was likely to rise because several other bodies could not immediately be retrieved from floodwaters strewn with huge logs and debris.
Army troops and police were not able to reach the town because access roads were blocked, he said.
Bopha slammed into Davao Oriental province region at dawn, its ferocious winds ripping roofs from homes and its 500-kilometer (310-mile) -wide rain band flooding low-lying farmland.
The storm, packing winds of 160 kilometers (100 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 195 kph (121 mph), toppled trees, triggered landslides and sent flash floods surging across the region’s mountains and valleys.
Two entire provinces lost power and more than 100 domestic flights were canceled. About 60,000 people fled to emergency shelters.
The dead included three children who were buried by a wall of mud and boulders that plunged down a mountain in Marapat village, also in Compostela Valley. Their bodies were wrapped in blankets by their grieving relatives and placed on a stage in a basketball court.
“The only thing we could do was to save ourselves. It was too late for us to rescue them,” said Valentin Pabilana, who survived the landslide.
In Davao Oriental, a poor agricultural and gold-mining province about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) southeast of Manila, an elderly woman was killed when her house was struck by a falling tree, said Benito Ramos, who heads the government’s disaster-response agency.
The other casualties either drowned or were hit by trees, he said, adding that the death toll was expected to rise once soldiers and police gain access to villages isolated by floods, fallen trees and downed communications.
While some 20 typhoons and storms normally lash the archipelago nation annually, the southern provinces battered by Bopha are unaccustomed to fierce typhoons, which normally hit the northern and central Philippines.
A rare storm last December killed more than 1,200 people and left many more homeless and traumatized, including in Cagayan de Oro city, where church bells pealed relentlessly on Tuesday to warn residents to scramble to safety as a major river started to swell.
Officials were taking no chances this year, and President Benigno Aquino III appealed on national TV on Monday for people in Bopha’s path to move to safety and take storm warnings seriously.
In Compostela Valley, authorities halted mining operations and ordered villagers to evacuate to prevent a repeat of deadly losses from landslides and the collapse of mine tunnels in previous storms.
Bopha, a Cambodian word for flower or a girl, is the 16th weather disturbance to hit the Philippines this year. Forecasters say at least one more storm may strike the country before Christmas.
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Associated Press writer Teresa Cerojano contributed to this report.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:53 am
Evil is everywhere. My brother used the occurrence of Bopha to rush out and bash his cheating wife in the head and make it appear like it was from Bopha.
Only he told me before he went out to do it. I told her. She waited for him with me and we broke his leg and drug him out and held him down until he drowned.
Now he is the statistic and we are free to love each other. He stole her from me by blackmailing her. He threatened to reveal that she and I were lovers, if she didn’t have sex with him.
She was forced to marry her rapist, once she got pregnant or face the stigma of being called the village whore.
Michelle, men are truly evil. Thank Madaline that you and she has given us women the courage to stand up to their evil.
Hazel
December 7th, 2012 at 11:59 am
My name is sonia and i want to testify of the good work done by a faithful priest, a spell caster. in my life i never thought there is such thing as spiritual intercession. my problem started nine months back when the father of my kids started putting up some strange behaviour, i never knew he was having an affair outside our matrimonia home.
it dawn on me on that faithful day 19th of january 2012 4pm when he came to the house to pick his things that was when i knew that situation has gotten out of hand and he then told me he was quiting the marriage which i have built for over five years, i was confused and dombfounded i called on family and friends but to no avail.
two months after i started having problem with my kids welfare rentage and all of it, i really went through hell. until a day i was browsing on the internet and i happen to meet a spell caster i never believed on this but i needed my man back so i gave the spell caster my problem at first i never trusted him so i was just doing it but you know a problem shared is half solved after a week my husband called me telling me that he his coming back home and that was all. now we are living happily.
December 7th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Statistics show one out of every three women worldwide will be physically, sexually or otherwise abused during her lifetime.
December 7th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
The Malaysian government should end rights-violating and discriminatory government policies that vilify members of Malaysia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/05/malaysia-respect-rights-lgbt-peoplehttp://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/05/malaysia-respect-rights-lgbt-people
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When will the prosecution stop?
December 7th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
ZL, Branislav isn’t the only male who would be willing to suck your toes. I’d lick your body from head to toe if that is what you wanted.
And you won’t have to go to leave the country or even the state to get it done. I live in Santa Barbara. Have loving and willing to travel.
Craig
December 7th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Wouldn’t it be great if the so-called defenders of liberty and freedom, the ones who scream and howl about the evils of “Obamacare”, were just as disturbed about this? We’re giving up our basic rights in order to save them.
December 7th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
About 4 years ago, I went through airport security with a cast on my broken wrist. Everything was OK, until I got to the wanding part (this was prior to the giant body pictures). The arm with the cast made the wand react. I was taken to a large machine in another area, the cast sprayed with something, the machine sniffed my cast, and my arm/cast set off an alert from the machine. More spray, another sniff by the machine, another alert. The security person looked at me and said, “You’ve been handling gunpowder.”
Well.
I had the “life-flashing-before-your-eyes-right-before-you-die” movie, but mine consisted of imagining armed guards throwing me to the floor and beating my cast off, when the guard continued, “Or you’ve used hand lotion. Have you been lotioning your hands?” I said I had, and she said that that particular machine reacted pretty much the same way to gunpowder and hand lotion. (What??)
I asked if I would be on a list, and she said, yes, but it wouldn’t be the bad list. Whatever that meant. So somewhere I’m on a list, but I’m not sure if it’s for gunpowder or hand lotion.
I’m hoping that if it comes to it, the government will accept my plea of suspicious use of hand lotion because of my really, really dry skin.
December 7th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
About 4 years ago, I went through airport security with a cast on my broken wrist. Everything was OK, until I got to the wanding part (this was prior to the giant body pictures).
The arm with the cast made the wand react. I was taken to a large machine in another area, the cast sprayed with something, the machine sniffed my cast, and my arm/cast set off an alert from the machine.
More spray, another sniff by the machine, another alert. The security person looked at me and said, “You’ve been handling gunpowder.”
Well.
I had the “life-flashing-before-your-eyes-right-before-you-die” movie, but mine consisted of imagining armed guards throwing me to the floor and beating my cast off, when the guard continued, “Or you’ve used hand lotion.
Have you been lotioning your hands?” I said I had, and she said that that particular machine reacted pretty much the same way to gunpowder and hand lotion. (What??)
I asked if I would be on a list, and she said, yes, but it wouldn’t be the bad list. Whatever that meant. So somewhere I’m on a list, but I’m not sure if it’s for gunpowder or hand lotion.
I’m hoping that if it comes to it, the government will accept my plea of suspicious use of hand lotion because of my really, really dry skin.
December 7th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
USAmericans agreed some years ago to forego their privacy rights. They agreed to let the government read their mail and email, listen to their conversations, and monitor them on the Internet. It’s already done, folks.
End of story. So please stop with this litany of “if we don’t act soon, then we’ll lose our rights.” They’re gone and have been for a while.
December 7th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
Sunday I was in a sailboat race here in tranquil Santa Barbara. There was a cruise ship moored offshore (they come here instead of Mexico now because of the drug violence).
The Coast Guard had a big Cutter out to protect the cruise ship from us sailors and we were put on notice to stay at least 500 yards away. That’s more than a quarter mile! In our harbor. Meanwhile, if you run aground the Coast Guard will no longer tow you off (even for a fee) they leave that to a commercial service even if it’s 50 miles away.
When I learned to sail the Coasties considered it a matter of pride to help boaters in trouble. Today they just keep an eye on us for trouble. We call this progress?
December 7th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
Sorry, I am off topic today Michelle, but I couldn’t get in yesterday to say this.
So .. Intelligence is being outsourced to private companies so that they can insure public security and gather information on you in order to sell you more products from them or their subsidiaries using dime pocketed from tax monies collected from you.
Gee, what’s not to like?
The new “America” “government” will soon become the product placement big brother goblin portrayed in movies like Minority Report. ‘Oh you’re so-and-so? I heard you like *blank* !’
December 7th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
The writing is already on the wall, as preparation for turning the United States into a clone of Democratic Peoples Republic of (North) Korea, the Socialist Republic of Cuba, the former Communist Romania, and the former Communist (East) German Democratic Republic, in which “Big Brother” monitors the activities of all his subjects for “Counter-Revolutionary” activity, is in progress! However, unlike the North Korean “State Security Department,”, the “Committees for the Defense of the Revolution,” the “Securitate” and the “Stasi,” the National Security Agency monitors all Americans’ electronic communications: social media, blogs, e-mails and phone calls. The only means of communication beyond their reach is U.S. Postal Service “First Class Letters,” which other agencies, such as the FBI can, and have previously “steamed open,” during the notorious COINTELPRO program. The NSA, once so secret that it was cynically referred to as “No Such Agency,” is developing a massive data interception and retention facility in Utah, which has the capacity to intercept and store all of the communications data generated by Americans for generations!
See:www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
When combined with the authority to detain Americans indefinitely without trial under the National Defense Authorization Act, an American President would have the same authority to spy on, imprison and, as already has occurred, murder any American citizen by fiat, as does Kim Jong-un!
December 7th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
If you sent a family member a letter and someone at the post office opened it before getting to your family member, wouldn’t you be upset. That is exactly what is happening today when we use the internet.
I believe that most internet users don’t understand the potential ramifications of allowing others to collect their personal data. It is a good thing for those of us that do to help educate others.
Sure, the technical people out there know how and can easily protect themselves. The rest are pretty much at the mercy of the ISP’s and anyone else who want to exploit their private and personal information.
With the internet privacy issue becoming such a hot topic , there are many companies now talking about implementing mechanisms in their programs to protect their users privacy. Don’t kid yourself, government agencies, law enforcement and who knows who else will almost always be provided a “back door” to access an internet users personal information.
There ARE ways around these censorship tactics and unwarranted intrusions. A really good way for the common and non-technical people of the world to protect themselves is to use something like hushtunnel.com. It’s also a really good idea to learn how to clear your evercookies.
December 7th, 2012 at 12:25 pm
Jewel, it gets worse. The nurse who put through the prank call to Kate Middleton’s hospital ward on Tuesday morning committed suicide because of all the harassment she received from the world.
It is truly sick that a fake royalty set up by the british has this much influence over whites in the world.
The crown in Britain is merely ceremonial. They have no powers what so ever.
White people are truly ignorant and so narcissistic.
December 7th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
f this does prove to be a suicide due to this humiliation, the cruel idiots who pulled the prank should be subject to charges.
December 7th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Hi Anonymous – you wrote, ‘Zen Lill, please do not sic Anonz on anyone. That guy is a nut case. He uses his money and power to destroy those he dislikes.’
Well, there’s random dislike and then there’s dislike for a reason, he always has reasons, and here is a good reason why I said that: men who attempt to use law to control women, i.e. Eric Cantor, want/need more specificity(?), attempting to pass laws that protect some women from rape but not others (NA women).
I’m ok with Anonz taking care of that kind of business.
PS. Use a name if you want to address a man like Anonz as a nut also, I love how strong derogatory statements here are usually written by anonymous’s – grow a pair, woodja : )
Luv, Zen Lill
PSS Craig, head to toe on a six footer, that’s a tall order, sure you can handle it? : )
December 7th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Fawzi, I wrote a long reply to you but I saved it to a word doc, I’m deferring to Mischa on this one, if she hesitates or doesn’t have time for you, I’ll post it. – ZL
December 7th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
The recording device is at capacity.
PrP
December 7th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
The decree to remove the parasitic aliens on the moon as per agreement with the american president has been issued by the Emperor. Any found in the vicinity after 0800, 08/12/12 will be considered enemy to His edict.
December 7th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Ym:
I thought things were going to be different. You and I would have more time together. But each day, each week, each month that passes shows me that what I thought was going to be, is not even close.
I am lonely. I try to busy myself with my girlfriends but as you know, I have not many anymore. I remember this sort of thing happening to my dear old friend when she got “involved’. And now I am a repeat and not liking it at all.
Time passes too quickly in all areas of my life except when I am waiting to see you. I miss you and time stands still, and there is nothing I can do to change it. I am always trying to leave myself available for you only to be disappointed that I am once again waiting alone.
Sometimes I think I should move on because I know at some point you will. I can’t bear the thought of it, so I take whatever I can get, whenever. Much of the time my life feels like I am in limbo….forever waiting and wanting. I try to explain this to you but you don’t seem to understand my urgency.
No matter, I have no choice. I love you still.
Yw
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