Showing posts with label rape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rape. Show all posts

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Please Take Two


Take two minutes everyday
For freedom and liberty
For every man and woman who have GIVEN THEIR LIVES in these pursuits through the centuries and across the world
Remember in silence their deaths given, freely, but with such a hi high price

American Revolution War – 50,000+
French-American War – 556+
War of 1812 – 25,000+
American Civil War – 646,392+
Spanish-American War – 4,068+
World War I – 320,518+ [missing3,350+]
World War II – 1,076,245+ [30,314+]
Korean War – 128,650+ [4,756+]
Vietnam War – Cold war – 211,454+ [2,489]
War on Terror – 96,860+

1775-present death total of American fighters= 2,722,991*
[*including multiple Indian/Island/Expeditions/Other nations -/Wars 0f 1813-1848]

Take two minutes every day for the DEATHS of World Earthly Disaster
Indonesia Tsunami - 230,273–310,000
Haiti Earthquake - 316,000
Burma Cyclones - 138,366
Katrina – 1,836
…and so many more

Take two minutes every day for all those who DIE from Famine every day
Who starve to death, everyday
25,000 People Every Day
1 in 6 Americans

Take two minutes every day for all those who DIE from Aids every day
1.5 million Every year
At least 4110 every day
One Every 20 Seconds

Take two minutes every day for all those who DIE from Malaria every day
About 1 million every year
%90 of them in Africa

Take two minutes every day for all those who DIE from Poverty Every day
People Die of Disease and Hunger and
Could be fed
Saved
Cost 195 billion a year
That is a about $30 a month per person
A Dollar a day to
Feed, Medicate, Clothe, and Educate
All people who need it worldwide


Take two minutes every day for all those Modern Slaves every day
Worldwide
12 – 27 million Worldwide are slaves
Today
2.45 million people are being trafficked in the world at any given moment
half of those being trafficked are for commercial sex exploitation

Take two minutes every day for all those who DIE from Suicide Every day
About 300,000 worldwide
30,000 or so are within the US
750,000 or so Americans attempt suicide every year
About 82 a day complete that attempt

Take two minutes every day for all those who must DEAL with repercussions on Rape/Sexual Assault every day in the US
207,754 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year
That are report in the US
1 sexual assault every 152 seconds, or about 1 every 2 minutes.
2 minutes
That last for a lifetime

Take two minutes every day for all those who SUFFER from a Mental Illness, including Eating disorders
estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older, about one in four adults, suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder a year
57.7 million People
In the US
1 in 17, suffer from a serious mental illness

Take at least 20 minutes everything to think about others
Give silence and respect for those who die and suffer
And ask yourself
Who am I and what am I doing?
Don’t compare
Just
REMEMBER

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Life Is Death

There is this rotting pain, deep in my stomach. Churning, burning, fuming...disgusting. I feel hurt. I feel hate. I feel...to much. I feel numb.
The memories burned in to the back of my eye lids that haunt me in my sleep. But darkness fills my days. My mind can't make sense of it all, sadly, my body does. The reactions of actions taken so long ago, or maybe not that long ago.
Some children were killed today. By a very broken person. They morn for the children. I can see why. I wish I could be one of them...so I would have to deal with the shit I've been through. So I could be set free. But yeah, morn for them. I suppose I do. Innocence lost. Souls who watched, burdened, forever, Stained. This society doesn't care enough about the things that could help this...no we talk about guns and rights. That man had a right. Not to kill. Not to hurt. That is never a right. Taking a life is a heavy burden, any one who can so willing rip life away, well, there are consequences for them.
Life should be seen as precious. He was broken, and not enough was done to save that man...who could have saved all those children...
But what does this society care about other peoples "issues". Nothing, right?
Mental health is a big deal. But we don't make it that. Violence. We accept it, unless it happens in real life or to us. We are a sick country. It isn't about the guns. It isn't about our rights. It is about our communities and our health. Two things that have slid dip into the ditch where no one cares to look or dig it up out of. This will continue to happen. People will die in awful ways.
People will kill themselves.
People will treat others like shit.
Because...we have lost our morals.
We have lost it all.
Because we are not as caring a community as we claim. Or today wouldn't have happened. Stress is a killer, and it doesn't care who it takes down or how many. Evil lurks in the sweetest of places.
Those of us who have to sit and morn alone, for the prices we've had to pay for evil, for the crimes silently made against us. The nation will never know. They will never, ever care. If anything I suffer more because, why, well it isn't ever simple. Wicked people are broken people. People society pushes aside, ignores them and hopes they will go away.
You as a society created this. and you know it.
There are worse things that happen every day and we can't scream loud enough for anyone to care, especially never morn, for the things we have lost and will never, ever get back.
I am a sad lonely creature who will probably die alone. But so what. No one will morn for me.
Something I am to slowly coming to terms with.
I once was so in love with love, and service and hope, and joy, and life....but they stole that and now I seem nothing more then an old bitter crone....so sad,