Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 7th, 2013
Good morning!
Well, It seems the hot topic today is about Verizon Wireless collecting millions of phone logs. And now from the heading on the front page of the Huff Post, it looks like many more companies are going to be privy to private information through a program called PRISM.
My hot topic today is about neither, although feel free to comment on whatever you wish on this “Flap your lips Friday.”
I want to respond to Social Butterfly’s comment from yesterday. It too blew me away, but then, I am not one bit surprised. Shocked because it is another horrific happening, but not surprised, because unfortunately women get the short end of the stick from the short sticks of the world.
This is just another horrific example of the plight of women…how women are abused by men, by the system, when it allows men to can get away with murder, even when the act they are about to perform is illegal.
I found this write. In my opinion “Just us” is in play here too….”just us” meaning “just men.” And just as sickening as the above mentioned story.
Florida Judge Rejected Stand Your Ground Defense For Black Woman Who Fired Warning Shot During Domestic Violence
In the months leading up to the trial of the Florida man who sparked national controversy over state Stand Your Ground laws when he shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, several defendants have escaped criminal liability for deadly shootings under the law. Just last week, a Florida jury acquitted a man who killed his wife’s lover in his home after firing three shots into his head and back. But just months after Trayvon’s death, Florida’s notorious Stand Your Ground law did not spare Marissa Alexander, who fired a mere warning shot into the wall during a violent incident with her husband.
Alexander was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year, after a judge rejected her Stand Your Ground defense and a jury convicted her on three counts of aggravated assault. Alexander’s husband was arrested twice before on misdemeanor battery charges against other women. But authorities said Alexander initiated the 2010 incident and pointed the gun at her husband and two step-sons before firing the warning shot into the ceiling.
Alexander would not have needed a Stand Your Ground law to defend her action. While that law goes so far as to authorize unfettered deadly force in self-defense without a duty to retreat, Alexander used significantly lesser force that would fall under a typical self-defense claim. But the judge’s failure to allow the claim comports with studies that have shown the ALEC and NRA-backed laws are discriminatory and applied arbitrarily. Last week, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission voted to undertake an in-depth investigation into racial bias in Stand Your Ground laws, the first such investigation by the agency in decades.
In the meantime, laws that allow deadly force without any duty to retreat remain the law in at least 21 states, and efforts to repeal or alter the laws have failed thus far. And in spite of outcry from the NAACP and others, Alexander remains in prison.
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Readers: Stories like these really do need to be heard. They need to be constantly in our faces when abuse toward women is constantly being acted out, and the victim is blamed. And in this case the victim, the woman, goes to prison for 20 years for firing a warning shot. Can you imagine this happening? She should’ve just shot her husband.
And yes this is racial bias but I also see this as sex discrimination too. We cannot forget women such as Alexander whose lives are treated as worthless. We need to stand up and support these women, because we never know if something like this will happen to us or someone we care about.
I realize that there is so much to be concerned with in the world and that you can’t do everything to help everyone. But what you can do is focus on one story or one event or one cause that has more meaning for you…pulls more at your heart strings for whatever reason, and dedicate some time to helping that person or that cause. It could be the greatest gift you give to someone, and no doubt it will be a gift to yourself as well.
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June 7th, 2013 at 10:25 am
“As the executive director of Planned Parenthood of Connecticut in the fifties and sixties, Estelle Griswold spent years fighting an 1879 state law that made it illegal to use or prescribe contraception. Finally, she decided: The only way to change the law was to break it. So she rolled up her sleeves and opened a birth control clinic in New Haven, along with her medical director, C. Lee Buxton, MD. Sure enough, the police raided the clinic and arrested Griswold and Buxton…Today, on the anniversary of one of Griswold’s greatest accomplishments, let’s remember her courage and the impact she had—and continue to lead the charge to make sure more women have access to affordable birth control.”
http://blog.womenshealthmag.com/whexperts/griswold-vs-connecticut/
June 7th, 2013 at 10:29 am
With all the HuffPo reposting, can’t believe you didn’t repost this one, LOL. Happy Friday!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/edible-anus-chocolates_n_3397560.html?ref=topbar
TGIF
June 8th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
God bless you Kentucky. I couldn’t get in yesterday to say it. This needs to be remembered.
June 8th, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Michelle this is just another example of the JustUS white boy system. She will be remembered for a short time and then she will have to do her time.
Meanwhile the white murderers like Travon’s will go on killing and be excused by white justice.
June 8th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
TGIF I have no problem eating my baby’s ass. It is just that fine.
June 8th, 2013 at 3:58 pm
The Woman is a Nut Case, she deserves to be in Prison. Stop making her out to be a Victim, tell the Truth!