Opposing SEX, promoting violence (video)

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly: POLICE STATE

"Lone Survivor" - a Hollywood war glorification propaganda reel about the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan based but not telling the actual story of Operation Red Wing.

  

Stop resisting me, stop resisting me (BS)

Torrance, Los Angeles LAPD Officer Brian McGee will not be charged for attempting to murder a white surfer after ramming his vehicle during the dramatic "manhunt" for accused black ex-LAPD Officer Dorner, who allegedly went on a rampage against other members of the LAPD.

Better wrong doing right than right doing wrong

That is the allegation, but we will never know because Dorner was summarily executed by fellow police who turned SoCal into an obvious police state. (Usually it is just a covert one).

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This was done to prevent an adequate investigation that may have turned up damning evidence against the Department. "Shoot first, ask questions later." You may not get many answers but, hey, that's how it goes when working in a violent culture of killer cops.

(TYT) Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola break down some criminal police 

misconduct and a new ACLU APP to safely record crime by police.

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Citizens can now police the police (ACLU)

Fullerton, Orange County Officer Joe Wolfe, who helped fellow gang members bash in the face of a schizophrenic homeless man before beating him to death, had all charges against him dropped after fellow killers Manny Ramos and Jay Cicinelli were acquitted during their separate trial.

 

Tampa, Florida's retired policeman Curtis Reeves, former Chief of Security for Busch Gardens, murdered a man for having the audacity to text before the movie "Lone Survivor" (see above).
 

Said it about health plans, said it about NSA

He also shot a woman after popcorn was allegedly thrown in his direction, which may have touched his large toe. Reeves says that this gave him the right to shoot the couple, given that he could (later) say he felt "threatened" and thereby go scot-free for his crimes.
 

That's funny! NSA surveillance? "If you like your freedom, you can keep your freedom" is the best summary of President Obama's false speech about "reforming" USA/NSA spying.

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The precept against killing

Buddha and aum (Brooke Montes/flickr)

Our world is plagued by conflicts, economic and ethnic, racial and religious, political and ideological, planned and carried out by the military-industrial complex.

"Terrorism" serves as the great pretext to launch all manner of state-sponsored terror thanks to the CIA, NSA, NSC, FBI, DHS, and other spies.
  

Israel's illegal Jewish settlements (DN)

Wars, "low-level kinetic actions" (a euphemism for bloody battles, invasions, and massacres), and genocides are more than just a looming threat. They are an active reality all over the globe.
 

No sex, please, just killing (govexec.com)

The threat of nuclear weapons being used causes worldwide anxiety. The manufacture and sale of weaponry is a thriving industry. So are there wars because there are weapons, or are there weapons because there are  wars? Who manufactures industrial-scale conflicts?

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Killing the Man who Raped Me (audio)

David Holthouse, This American Life, WBEZ/NPR.org ("Slow to React")

WARNING: This story is not suitable for children (23 minutes).

Act One: When I Grow Up

Back in 2004, reporter David Holthouse published a remarkable story in Westword, the weekly paper he worked for. It's about something he waited his entire life to do -- killing the man who violently raped him when he was a child of 7 (pictured left).

The perpetrator, now a married father, was a 15-year-old sports star. Holthouse, still suffering the fallout of his early childhood trauma, now lives and works in Alaska.

David Holthouse confronts killer inside him on This American Life: Read shocking story here

Michael Roberts (Jan. 24, 2011)

​Listeners to the latest edition of This American Life, a National Public Radio staple hosted by Ira Glass, heard a startling story -- one Westword readers first discovered back in 2004. The subject? Then-staff writer David Holthouse's plan to murder the man who'd raped him at age seven.

To kill or not to kill? That is the question. Revenge or real resolution in the way of unthinkable acts one has endured at the hands of others. David Holthouse as an adult (sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com).

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Culture of Rape

MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa – Dumisani Rebombo wasn't circumcized, did chores considered girls' work, and was sick of being taunted for not being a "man." So at age 15, he took the only course considered "manly" in his rural South African village: He raped a girl.

Twenty years later he searched for the woman to beg her forgiveness — a rarity in a nation where a culture of sexual violence is deeply embedded in society. Rebombo agreed to share his story with the Associated Press on Thursday as researchers presented findings at a conference on sexual violence that show more than one in four [1/4+ = >25% (in excess of twenty-five percent)] South African men surveyed admitted to committing rape.

"Rape is an expression of male sexual entitlement," said Rachel Jewkes, chief researcher for the survey conducted by the government-funded Medical Research Foundation. "South Africa is an immensely patriarchal society. The history of the country has shaped the dominant forms of South Africa's racially defined masculinities."

Many human rights activists were not surprised by the survey's findings, saying they underscore the deep cultural roots of sexual violence in a country blighted by crime and the devastating emotional, social, and economic legacy of Apartheid's brutal racial segregation. "This tells the story of many boys, of many men," said Rebombo, who is now 48 and works in community outreach to try to raise awareness of and prevent sexual abuse.

A recent report published by Interpol says South Africa has the highest incidence of rape among its member states. Some 54,000 rapes were committed in 2006, according to police statistics — nearly 150 per day, or one for every 925 people in the country.

And that does not tell the whole story: Advocates say many attacks go unreported because of the stigma associated with rape. By comparison, Americans reported one rape for every 2,642 people in 2006 — roughly a third of the South Africa rate. More>>

Dumisani Rebombo holds a mirror he decorated in his office, July 8, 2009. A shocking percentage of surveyed men admitted to committing rape (AP/Jerome Delay).

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