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| India - Many females are enslaved in modern India. |
BLACK LIVES MATTER : Protesters have very good cause to take to the streets against USA police violence and arbitrary public killings of arrested "suspects", which is a stain on any and all civilised nations. The Ku-Klux-Klan and similar vile fascist organisations were thought to be disbanded. Apparently not.
I strongly believe, as Isaac Asimov wrote, that "violence is the last resort of the incompetent". It should never be a sociopolitical action. It reduces us and all citizens to beasts.
BUT, when governments deliberately and arrogantly ignore mass demonstrations and marches, they provoke the escalation of peaceful, thoughtful citizens into angry crowds - and invite and incite violent mob reactions.
I cite just two such mass protests in the UK: One-Million people marched through London protesting against Tony Blair's 2003 Iraq War. He ignored them and sent in troops to kill tens of thousands of innocent middle-east civilians; men, women and children. That was horrible State violence.
In 2018 One-million citizens marched through London protesting against Brexit. Six Million signed a Stop Brexit petition. Sixty-percent of voters voiced their anger. Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings ignored them all. As Brexit departure looms, 31st December 2020, and 7 million jobs are threatened as the UK sabotages half of its exports by spurning and insulting the EU - there is likely to be violent, desperate protest. Dominic Cummings welcomes such disruptive chaos. Who is the most violent - the Tory Brexiters or the silenced, ignored marchers who may well smash windows and surround Westminster?
BUT, when governments deliberately and arrogantly ignore mass demonstrations and marches, they provoke the escalation of peaceful, thoughtful citizens into angry crowds - and invite and incite violent mob reactions.
I cite just two such mass protests in the UK: One-Million people marched through London protesting against Tony Blair's 2003 Iraq War. He ignored them and sent in troops to kill tens of thousands of innocent middle-east civilians; men, women and children. That was horrible State violence.
In 2018 One-million citizens marched through London protesting against Brexit. Six Million signed a Stop Brexit petition. Sixty-percent of voters voiced their anger. Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings ignored them all. As Brexit departure looms, 31st December 2020, and 7 million jobs are threatened as the UK sabotages half of its exports by spurning and insulting the EU - there is likely to be violent, desperate protest. Dominic Cummings welcomes such disruptive chaos. Who is the most violent - the Tory Brexiters or the silenced, ignored marchers who may well smash windows and surround Westminster?
However, hi-jacking Black Lives Matter as a protest against historic slavery is a sly, daft and ill-advised piece of theatre. Tearing down statues and re-writing history in The 1984 Ministry of Truth is plain silly. The real history, part shameful, is recorded; protesters can publish it and make films etc.
Most African tribes practised slavery, some still do. The Israelites were Egyptian slaves - then in turn they owned slaves. The Old Testament is full of slave stories. Britons were Roman slaves. Chinese were Japan's slaves. Arabs conducted the North African slave trade for hundreds of years. It was ubiquitous world wide. To now, in 2020, ascribe slavery to Old White European Men is disingenuous - and futile. Name ten African leaders who used cruelly treated forced labour. Throughout history and herstory - millions of peaceful families were enslaved.
Today, if the anti-slavery activists truly want to eradicate slavery - then forget the past millions and concentrate on the modern billions - about 1.5 billion - cruelly treated, deprived of rights, forced into labour, denied human rights and regularly beaten and raped - females. Turn your righteous anger against the religions, politics, economic forces, socio-cultural customs that abuse females. In many parts of the "civilised" world - women and girls are the most discriminated against populations.
Thousands of millions - billions - are daily abused. Often the LAW protects the largely male abusers. I cite below a few well known regions that are notorious for terrible crimes against females. But you can supply hundreds more examples:
Forget Nelson, Baden Powell, serial wife-killer, syphilitic, obese Henry VIII, forget dead plantation owners and the rest. Get out and arrest the contemporary villains and sexual abusers. Some of our great modern leaders are the worst offenders. Tear them down - and LOCK THEM UP.
INDIA - 128,000 rapes per year.
"Yet while the horrific crime has prompted hundreds to take to the streets, and calls for lynching and hanging in parliament, it was far from an isolated incident. According to statistics, a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes.
India is the most dangerous place to be a woman, according to a survey by the Thomson Reuters Foundation last year, and the stark reality of this was brought to the fore this week. As well as the Hyderabad case, there was the abduction, gang rape and murder of a young lawyer in Jharkhand; the rape and murder of a 55-year-old cloth seller in Delhi’s Gulabi Bagh neighbourhood; and a teenager in the state of Bihar was gang raped and killed, before her body was set on fire on Tuesday."
AFRICA & USA
The ten countries with the highest rates of rape (number of incidents per 100,000 citizens) are:
- South Africa (132.4)
- Botswana (92.9)
- Lesotho (82.7)
- Swaziland (77.5)
- Bermuda (67.3)
- Sweden (63.5)
- Suriname (45.2)
- Costa Rica (36.7)
- Nicaragua (31.6)
- Grenada (30.6)
South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world of 132.4 incidents per 100,000 people. According to a survey conducted by the South African Medical Research Council, approximately one in four men surveyed admitted to committing rape. Although the Parliament of South Africa enacted the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act in 2007 attempting to amend and strengthen all laws dealing with sexual violence, the rates of reported rape, sexual abuse of children and domestic violence have continued to rise.
The United States has a rape rate of 27.3. As in many other countries, rape is grossly underreported in the United States due to victim shaming, fear of reprisal, fear of family knowing, cases not being taken seriously by law enforcement, and possible lack of prosecution for the perpetrator. Only 9% of rapists in the US get prosecuted and only 3% of rapists will spend a day in prison. 97% of rapists in the United States will walk free.
Focus your righteous anger in 2020. Protect your women folk from crudely "being grabbed by the pussy"; and far, far, far worse. These are truly enslaved world citizens.
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