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Great sermon. But if we want this to change - wrong audience.
That said, like with so many issues today, we need our current population of old people to die and their political influence to die along with them. I don't know that you're going to change the mind of an conservative, avid voter over the age of 65. That is morbid and awful to say, and I'm not wishing an early death on anyone. Fact is, the generational divide on this, environmental issues, social issues like gay marriage, etc. is MASSIVE.
There are just too many 1980s conservative revolution types still in the halls of power and influence. And frankly, most of the previous century can be characterized by the fact that it was DECIDEDLY un-data-driven, emotional, and irrational.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/05/ne…
See, once this vaccination is required for kids entering public school, it'll only be a few years before the scourge of contaminated cocaine is vanquished.
Unless somebody hacks the immunization program with a counter-vaccine...
Hey! This could become really profitable!
Our society's government trades on the fact that it can continue to perpetuate these policies "in our best interest." We continue to be brainwashed or indifferent to the fact that this is causing our country to fall behind the rest of the world economically, as well as falling victim to other regime's secret agendas of flooding our country with their drugs as well as their criminals (ala MS13 and others).
There has been a growing constituency of users and sympathizers in this country for decades now...so much so, that it has become a majority, and yet the federal governement still believes that it has the right to dictate drug policy to the states of this union. The states up until recently have kowtowed to the feds because not doing so meant that federal funding would be cut for many state run programs...everything from roads, to education to (and especially) law enforcement. Now states such as California are realizing that, with even just "medical marijuana" initiatives, the state would benefit. The Federal Governement soon began threatening California. California, where almost a quarter of the population of this country lives!
The Feds have been suffering from parental hypocrisy for almost a century now; meaning "We have already said no, now we cannot shift positions, because how dumb will we look?" Of course it goes much deeper than that, with all of the lobbyists and special interest groups rallying to keep at least marijuana at bay. Meanwhile, we can see any number of pharmaceutcal drug companies pimping and pandering their own products across our televisions (are your kids singing the drug company commercials in the car yet?) Let's face it, we are now telling our doctors what to prescribe us, not the other way around, and they do it gladly, as the mechanization of corporate America gets what it wants from the Federal Government, and our country's citizens get rebuffed time and again as having alterior hedonist motives that smack of selfish desire instead of a selfless big picture attitude...but wait...we are the big picture aren't we? Aren't we Americans? Isn't our governement for the people and by the people for the good of we the people?
I thought not...
Where do "stereotypes" come from?
According to the US Department of Justice and the FBI, at least 37,000 white women are raped and/or sexually assaulted by black men annually in the USA. Less than ten black women are raped or sexually assaulted by white men annually.
One in three men in South Africa ADMIT to rape (often gang rape).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov…
Again, where do "stereotypes" come from?
There also just happened to be a related story on NPR this evening about the deluge of guns from America to Mexico:
http://m.npr.org/story/132652351?url=/20…
@9 gebbeth, there appears to be a large bandage on his lower right hip, possibly necessitating pants removal.
What strikes me about this and other reports of the violence in Mexico is that American journalists largely buy into the line that most of the murders in Mexico are committed by the narcos, when, as Bowden points out, a vast majority of those murders are committed by the Mexican military, a military that is supposed to be waging war on the gangs, not the citizens. Why do you think that the citizens of some Mexican cities support the cartels over the government/army? Because the Mexican government/army has a long, long history of exploiting and murdering its citizens, and the cartels, as brutal and imperfect as they can be, are sometimes the only reason that new churches and other community-based facilities are built. In short, the cartels actually invest some of their profits in the communities in which they operate.
I don't want to defend the narcos or paint them as misunderstood saints or something, but there are certain realities about Mexican life that this article (and most articles written by American journalists) simply fail to acknowledge.
What strikes me about this and other reports of the violence in Mexico is that American journalists largely buy into the line that most of the murders in Mexico are committed by the narcos, when, as Bowden points out, a vast majority of those murders are committed by the Mexican military, a military that is supposed to be waging war on the gangs, not the citizens. Why do you think that the citizens of some Mexican cities support the cartels over the government/army? Because the Mexican government/army has a long, long history of exploiting and murdering its citizens, and the cartels, as brutal and imperfect as they can be, are sometimes the only reason that new churches and other community-based facilities are built. In short, the cartels actually invest some of their profits in the communities in which they operate.
I don't want to defend the narcos or paint them as misunderstood saints or something, but there are certain realities about Mexican life that this article (and most articles written by American journalists) simply fail to acknowledge.
you make a valid point, but isn't that covered by the B. Kiley's stating that that the government (military) and narcos are in some respects one and the same? Maybe that needed a bit more pointed language to really convey what you're saying though.
Wow. Ageism is just as bad as racism, if not worse, as it encompasses an even larger sector of the population. God forbid you should ever grow old.
@nullbull - quote:"That said, like with so many issues today, we need our current population of old people to die and their political influence to die along with them."
Wow. Ageism is just as bad as racism, if not worse, as it encompasses an even larger sector of the population. God forbid you should ever grow old.
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Maybe it's time the government started advertising this immorality as an approach to reduce demand. Maybe posters like this in night club toilets.
@diego
I think you would have to accept that while the 'War' continues then there is no way to clean up the Military.
The Stranger is an outspoken newspaper for a reason...it's reporting style, while not always gaining a consensus, makes one think.
Imagine living in a world where these images aren't merely photographs, but what you see on your walk to work.
While I understand the feelings by those that have posted against this image, I think it certainly calls attention to the serious nature of this article, and brings home a very palpable feeling to me at least.
http://tinyurl.com/3yof4sk
Children of rape are latest legacy of Haiti quake
By Jonel Aleccia and Meredith Birkett
An msnbc.com Special Report
1/6/2011
A year after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, women in Haiti’s still-teeming tent cities face yet another threat: sexual violence. With little protection from community or law enforcement, many have been violently raped, only to become pregnant with their attackers’ children.
Photojournalist Nadav Neuhaus traveled through Haiti’s tent cities last summer, photographing and interviewing dozens of residents in the camps that still house more than 1 million people. During a visit to Camp La Piste, home to 50,000 displaced people, Neuhaus noticed an unusually high number of pregnant women. A community organizer and a local midwife confirmed his worries: Many of the women were pregnant as a result of rape.
They came to Camp La Piste after losing parents, brothers and husbands in the earthquake, leaving them to fend for themselves in the sprawling squalor, where roving gangs of armed men terrorize residents.
http://tinyurl.com/22387b
The New York Times
Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War
BUKAVU, Congo — Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, cannot bear to listen to the stories his patients tell him anymore.
Every day, 10 new women and girls who have been raped show up at his hospital. Many have been so sadistically attacked from the inside out, butchered by bayonets and assaulted with chunks of wood, that their reproductive and digestive systems are beyond repair.
“We don’t know why these rapes are happening, but one thing is clear,” said Dr. Mukwege, who works in South Kivu Province, the epicenter of Congo’s rape epidemic. “They are done to destroy women.”
Eastern Congo is going through another one of its convulsions of violence, and this time it seems that women are being systematically attacked on a scale never before seen here. According to the United Nations, 27,000 sexual assaults were reported in 2006 in South Kivu Province alone, and that may be just a fraction of the total number across the country.
“The sexual violence in Congo is the worst in the world,” said John Holmes, the United Nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs. “The sheer numbers, the wholesale brutality, the culture of impunity — it’s appalling.”
http://tinyurl.com/yjrtchk
South Africa’s child-rape epidemic
Mar 2, 2010
"South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world, including child and baby rape, with one person estimated to be raped every 26 seconds, according to aid groups and local organizations.
In Khayelitsha, a sprawling, crime-ridden township of more than 500,000 people, many of the victims are children under the age of 10. "
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/170359…
http://tinyurl.com/aasz3d
Baby rapes shock South Africa
"Every day the newspapers bring awful revelations: a nine-month-old girl gang-raped by six men; an eight-month-old raped and left by the roadside. "
http://tinyurl.com/2dz5m8r
Rape Troubles Nearly All in South Africa
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Gallup survey of South Africans conducted March 21-April 7, 2009, reaffirms the extent to which the issue of rape plagues the country -- with 97% of residents calling it a major problem.
The Gallup survey results add to statistics from Interpol estimating that a woman is raped every 17 seconds in South Africa, and that one in every two women will be raped in their lives in the country. According to Interpol, South Africa has the highest number of declared rapes in the world, with nearly half of the victims younger than 18.
In a recent survey conducted by South Africa's Medical Research Council in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces, one in four men admitted to having raped someone, and nearly half said they had attacked more than one victim. The report also found acts such as gang rape to be common because they are considered a form of male bonding, or a way to prove one's manhood or power."
It really saddens me of all the widespread evil that is corporate Republican.
@3: nullbull: You're right--this spot on article SHOULD be on Bushiemedia-contaminated Fox News. Trouble is, nobody who buys their Tea-Bag bullshit would believe it. I think that to get the point across, we need to lock up every Republican pig and ignorant member of the Tea Party in a room, and subject all of 'em, gagged and bound, to repeated readings of Brendan Kiley's article until they scream for mercy.
Okay. I'm done.
Goddam amazing series.
I've smoked my share of 'real' weed, but it never had me even close to passing out behind the wheel - especially at 11am. Is synthetic weed really that potent?
As for those who feel that the picture is too extreme an image to publish, I'm glad The Stranger made the decision to do so.
The pics on BorderlandBeat/BlogDelNarco of the December 29th Acapulco nightclub display of skinned heads and chopped up bodies....now THAT's nasty!
As for those who feel that the picture is too extreme an image to publish, I'm glad The Stranger made the decision to do so.
The pics on BorderlandBeat/BlogDelNarco of the December 29th Acapulco nightclub display of skinned heads and chopped up bodies....now THAT's nasty!
Its not the legalization that the problem as it is the feeding frenzy for lawyers and the kicks in the teeth for politics in general as no one has the balls to face the machine that "IS" America for any of its poor failures at everything?
Come a big problem like a bad economy and the very first thing to Pansy out and go limp wristed and desert the American people is the American Government?
You make Heroin legal and the floor of congress will be a carpet of needles?
New Orleans has a Hurricane party as an F-5 monster named Katrina rolls directly at them and they don't even know if the water pumps work or not?
They "should" make sharp objects illegal
Maybe the commenter posting the links to stories about rape is suggesting a new topic you could look into? I can't wait to see what you write about next.
Thank you. And yes, the photo was called for.
P.P.S. Amazing and thorough journalism. I would forward it to everyone I knew if the picture was removed or placed behind a warning.
P.P.S. Amazing and thorough journalism. I would forward it to everyone I knew if the picture was removed or placed behind a warning.
Thank you Brendan. I came here because of Savage Love but I have stayed because of your critical work. Bravo.
Be careful. You're valuable. And thank you.
Eric the Mostly Gaseous Fartman has no sense.
Apparently he thinks it's his charm.
My guess is that he's also the poo guy in ANON as well. That's about his speed.
I don't necessarily agree, but given the quality of the perspective, I don't really have a disagreement to stand on. Which means: I'm off to the library to better inform myself and form a more complete opinion on the matter. And if that is the goal of true journalism, which it should be, then you sir have succeeded.
are crossed? It appears that he may have also been raped,
in view of the pants and the body having been turned over.
This is very disturbing.