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Domestic Issues - Personal Abuse The United States suffers from severe pain that all people (consciously or unconsciously) try to hide — sexual and violent abuse. These censored experiences are shared by more people than you'd care to imagine, and an unbelievable number of children, and permeate our current struggle for dominance and authority in our daily lives. We challenge all Americans to set the lamp of truth on its stand, and let it shine everywhere, because God sees into all of our dark places. In terms of specific policy, we advocate longer sentences, lifetime national registration and real-time position tracking for sex offenders, and use of medical treatments to prevent recidivism. We also should empower our law enforcement to investigate our citizens who travel overseas to commit these abuses, because America is supposed to set an example for the world. Furthermore, we advocate increase of hospice care oversight to stop senior abuse in our homes and care institutions. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Thursday, May 1, 2008
2:51 PM
As for prostitution itself, this should be a lesson to any woman who might consider it a form of feminist empowerment. Palfrey believed she had power over her clients by the ability to shame them. Now she is dead. The rest of her circles of women are doubtless too afraid to talk. Prostitutes in Washington D.C. are again slaves to power.
Yet, the shame society and law attempt to impose on them does not have the desired effect. Instead, the illegality and shame of the dirty little secret is only used politically to perpetuate the system of sexual slavery.
Shoving secrets down in that societal dungeon where you think the children won't see simply does not work. All it does is leave women and children down there to suffer. If our society embraced the facts of how we were made, and nurtured the gifts God gave us instead of shaming ourselves, we'd make a lot more progress toward the egalitarian ideals on which our system of government is based.
I pray for Palfrey's soul and all the others.
D.C. madame's "suicide"
In January Brandy Britton and now today Deborah Jeane Palfrey have "committed suicide" rather than proceed with their trials for prostitution to America's most powerful politicians and officials. Palfrey had said she never would, and said she would reveal all of her clients if it came to that. Ask yourself a serious question. Are you going to continue to believe the illusion of American innocence? Someone got to her, probably threatened her family. The people running the country care as little about the lives of women as they do about the law.As for prostitution itself, this should be a lesson to any woman who might consider it a form of feminist empowerment. Palfrey believed she had power over her clients by the ability to shame them. Now she is dead. The rest of her circles of women are doubtless too afraid to talk. Prostitutes in Washington D.C. are again slaves to power.
Yet, the shame society and law attempt to impose on them does not have the desired effect. Instead, the illegality and shame of the dirty little secret is only used politically to perpetuate the system of sexual slavery.
Shoving secrets down in that societal dungeon where you think the children won't see simply does not work. All it does is leave women and children down there to suffer. If our society embraced the facts of how we were made, and nurtured the gifts God gave us instead of shaming ourselves, we'd make a lot more progress toward the egalitarian ideals on which our system of government is based.
I pray for Palfrey's soul and all the others.
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