letter arrived today all official from the police, obviously my first thought was a speed related offence, but it was marked confidential and my address was hand written, not like the usual traffic offence notices. I opened it up and it was from an officer investigating a sexual assault, of a girl i knew. scan reading has its merits but for a moment i thought, jeez some girl has made some allegation about me but it turns out it was a young girl i helped when i worked in a crisis refuge, she had alleged a sexual assault in 1995 and i the case deemed to be on hold, and now there was a dna match so the coldcase was reopened and the police wanted to ask me about the night. Obviously i can't recall any specific events from my years working in crisis services, we basically moved from crisis to crisis, it was our normal working environment, but i did recall the girl. so here i am captain mission helping the police with enquires. i told the dectective she must be good at her job to have tracked me down, having been somewhat nomadic over the last 11 years.
working in crisis services for years was an amazing experience, a lot of these young people were actually really nice kids who were dealing with very serious issues, ie. sexual assult, abuse within the family. the problem was the services i worked for all were run by young women who seemed to have no idea, no patience, no tolerence for dealing with young boys. everytime i went into work my co workers had evicted the boys, girls within the refuge system had all the resources, boys were expected to be politically correct ideologically sound people and if they were not or refused they were evicted. this culture was rife within the industry, possibly becuase all the women who worked in these services had issues with men themselves, the more i attempted to advocate for boys the more i myself was persecuted, once i was even suspended. It was a bizzare situation and it's not surprising that adolecent suicide is a major problem, as is the displacement of young australian males.
intresting that the letters in the SMH this morning about the Paul Sheehan comments were very critical of him as usual however the reasons why these people didn't like what he wrote were becuase he is a man, writing about feminine/religious issues, apparently this is taboo, not one person in support of what he was saying, just letters attacking him becuase of his sex. this is another example of why i hate the left so much, becuase they are ignorant and randomly attack anything that is trendy to attack. all the socialists i know live in huge homes and drive two cars and have high incomes or they are teenagers who have very little experience in the world but read newspapers. there are of course exceptions but few and far between.
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No, on those grounds I can't understand why Paul Sheehan was attacked either. His paragraph on the van Gogh killing gives a clue as to why hardly anyone, feminist or not, dare speak up against the fundamentalists, one person taking up the issue singly would either be incredibly brave or insanely mad, no in-betweens. As he said, this goes back to the Middle Ages and is no simple matter. Here in the UK within the last two weeks, reports in I think Leicester, of the first conviction of a father for killing his daughter, which in his eyes was perfectly lawful as she'd gone against the family by taking on western ideals and gone against her father's wishes of who she must marry. This is the sort of thing that has gone unreported over here, as these men think it's within their religious rights to kill their non-conformist daughters.
There are way too many contradictions. I find myself contradicting my beliefs, after the London bombings I went down to the predominantly Muslim Sunday east end markets, firstly to show I wouldn't be intimidated by terrorists, secondly to show I wouldn't judge a whole race/religion by the actions of a few. However, through the fervency of their beliefs, I still think Muslims are one race who could prove to be most dangerous on a global scale, not just on their attitudes towards women. I've lived in London at the time of the IRA bombings, and Israel when bombs were going off right left and centre, and never felt that frightened. A long time ago now though. I feel shakey when I think of Muslims and how their strong beliefs embedded over centuries make them feel whatever they do is right, is God's will, and how they never seem to question or compare their religion against others. So for one sparseley numbered group, western feminists, to comment on the suppression of Muslim women could be classed as foolhardy at least, making themselves an easy target for those suppressors. Without doubt its an issue that needs tackling, but it would need many voices altogether, and could be the tip of the iceberg for the bigger issues that could emerge from it. It's an issue I've thought of before, it's very complicated with many hidden depths, but I'd be scared, personally.
It's hot in London you'll be interested to know, 37 degrees on my thermometer earlier and very sticky but hey, this is England but not as we know it!
i do sympathize, i to need to 'check' my own balances and judgements but in radical islam there is a danger and a certain urgency that people need to wake up to, especially the media and the left. i don't want to spread dissent or use my blog as some weird propaganda tool, i do want people to wake up to the fundamental truth of political reality in the conflict between islam and the jews, the rest of the world cannot ignore the evidence as iran moves forwards to nuclear missiles and chemical warheads, its agenda is very clear, the writings on the wall, only the very brave are reading it.
I heard its hot over there, i saw a picture of some english chap laying in the sun, red as a lobster, lookin very happy. here its still freezing and wet, i wear a wet suit around mission control at night its so cold.
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