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National Organization for Women-New York State says Monserrate's Fate Negotiated Behind Closed Doors

Press Release: Monserrate's Fate Negotiated Behind Closed Doors For Immediate Release Date: January 11, 2010 Contact: Marcia A. Pappas, President 518-452-3944 NYS Senate Committee's Clandestine Meetings are an Affront to New York State Women National Organization for Women-New York State Calls for Transparency (Albany, NY-1/11/2010) Today, January 11, 2010 at 4:00 PM, the NYS Senate Special Committee will hold yet another meeting to deliberate or, as NOW-NYS President Marcia Pappas puts it, "negotiate, the fate of NY State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who was recently convicted of misdemeanor assault for slashing his woman friend to such an extent that she needed forty stitches. Several previous meetings on the subject have been listed on the NYS Assembly web site as "public hearings." But these stealthy gatherings have been anything but open to the public." According to the National Organization For Women-NYS President, "the Senate Committee's perpetual calls for 'executive sessions' have shut out both individuals and press interested in the safety of women and girls." Pappas remarked: "One has to wonder what they fear. This very public issue affects millions of New York's women and girls. And the 'top secret' treatment on these discussions is an affront to every female. Indeed it's the same-ole, same-ole of which all citizens are extremely tired." Pappas continued: "The legislature is very far from the transparent government citizens demand; and these closed-door meetings can only lead to more mistrust of our elected officials." In closing Pappas reports that "the National Organization for Women-New York State is calling upon the Special Senate Committee to stop these mysterious meetings and to keep our legislative processes open to all those, both inside and outside of the walls of Government, who care about the well being of women." -end-

National Oranization for Women-NYS calls on Justice Erlbaum to make the right decision. Monserrate Waives Right to a Jury Trial

Dear Supporter of Women's Rights,

 

Seeking justice for women is never easy. We are asking you to participate in a letter writing or call in campaign to insist that Senator Monserrate be brought to justice.  You probabaly remember that he was indicted for allegedly slashing his girlfriend with a broken glass back in December, 2008.  NOW-NYS was in the forefront demanding that the Democratic leaders in the NYS Legislature take action and remove Monserrate from his position of power. He held a postion of Chair of a committee. He was not removed. This was a disappointing decision by the Democratic leadership.

 

Today in several publications, it was reported that Senator Monserrate  has waived his right to a jury trial and that one judge will make a determination regarding this case.  We must insist that Justice Erlbaum do the right thing for women.  Below you will see a sample letter along with contact information for Justice Erlbaum of Queens, NY. 

 

Call or write the Honorable William M. Erlbaum.  Send a message that violence against women must be stopped and perpetrators must be brought to justice.  The trial has been rescheduled to begin September 21st. Time is of the essence. Please act NOW!  Thank you for your hard work and support for women and girls.

 

*****

Hon. William M. Erlbaum
Supreme Court, Queens County
125 01 Queens Blvd.
Kew Gardens, NY 11415
(718) 298-1401

Dear Justice Erlbaum:

Today I learned that NYS Senator Monserrate has waived his right to a jury trial.    The Senator allegedly slashed his girlfriend's face with a broken glass on December 19, 2008.   

On March 23, 2009, a Queens grand jury indicted Monserrate on three counts of felony assault on Giraldo and three counts of misdemeanor assault.  If convicted, the maximum sentence would be seven years.  Monserrate denied the charges, saying "Listen, the reality is that from the very beginning I have said this was an accident. My girlfriend said it's an accident. This is an accident and we look forward to the dismissal of all these charges based on the truth." 

According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence "One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. The majority (73%) of family violence victims are female. Females are 84% of spousal abuse victims and 86% of abuse victims at the hands of a boyfriend. Further, it is common for the victim to deny abuse for several reasons. Once of which is fear of retribution. 

The above statistics prove that this case should be regarded as a "hate crime," with no talk of  "he only did it once, or it's a crime of passion."  Such excuses are not acceptable.

The word "gender" is already included in the New York State "hate crimes" definition. The NYS Penal Code reads as follows: "Penal § 485.05 Hate crimes. 1. A person commits a hate crime when he or she commits a specified offense and either: (a) intentionally selects the person against whom the offense is committed or intended to be committed in whole or in substantial part because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct..."

I believe that the crime that Senator Monserrate has  been arrested for is truly a hate crime. It is time to put a stop to these acts of violence against women.  

I implore you to do the right the right thing by punishing Senator Monserrate giving him the maximum sentence allowable by law.   By doing so, you will be sending a very important message and that is that violence against women is a serious crime. 

Sincerely,

(your name goes here)

(http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/14/2009-09-14_state_sen_hiram_monserrate_chooses_judge_over_jury_in_girlfriend_slashing_trial.html

Women's Groups and GOP Senators angry Sen. Monserrate Still Serving; See Legislative Gazette Article

"Womens groups and GOP senators angry Sen. Monserrate still serving"

By KATRINA KIELTYKA
Gazette staff writer

 

The Senate’s only two female Republicans, along with women’s rights groups, are
saying Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith hasn't taken enough action against recently indicted Sen. Hiram Monserrate, a Democrat from Queens................

 

Story continued: Page 6 of Legislative Gazette

http://www.legislativegazette.com/back_issues/09-3-30_for_web.pdf

A Universal Doctrine of Women's Rights

A Universal Doctrine of Women’s Rights.

By Phyllis Chesler and Marcia Pappas

It is time for feminists, both women and men, of all faiths, and of no faith, to stand together for a woman’s right not to be murdered in the name of family honor. Indeed, we welcome men and women of all faiths, including Islam, to stand with us against female genital mutilation/castration, forced veiling, child marriage, arranged marriage, polygamy, and “honorcide,” and in favor of a woman’s right to live as a westerner in the West without being threatened and beaten for refusing to wear hijab, wanting to have non-Muslim friends, wear makeup, attend college, drive her own car, or end an abusive marriage. Muslim and Sikh women have been honor murdered in North America

for all these alleged crimes against their religion and their culture.

Here are some specific examples of how American feminist leaders have addressed the problems of

Third World women, including Muslim women, both here and abroad. While there are exceptions, most feminists seem to feel more comfortable criticizing their own government. They hesitate to criticize foreign, Third World governments, lest they be demonized as “crusaders” or “politically incorrect racists.”

In the 1980s, feminists respected Alice Walker’s brave stand against female genital cutting/mutilation. Walker, a feminist-”womanist,” focused on perpetrators who were usually women of color, in the Middle East and Africa, who were savagely mutilating their own daughters and granddaughters to render them “marriageable” for men. As an African-American legend, perhaps Walker

was viewed as morally “entitled” to criticize foreign, including African, sexism. (Walker finally published her book about this, Warrior Marks, in 1993). In the 1990s, NOW national and state Presidents also spoke out against female genital cutting/mutilation.

Today, sadly something has changed. The unspoken politics of racism among the feminist intelligentsia, and among feminist philanthropists is as follows: If the victims are women of color, especially if they are Arabs, definitely if they are Palestinians, or Muslims, their suffering and their deaths matter—but only if their abusers and murderers are white, European, American, or Israeli. If dark-skinned Africans or Muslims of color gang-rape, kidnap, sexually enslave, bury alive, immolate or stone women of color, including Arabs, Palestinians, and Muslims, (in the West Bank and Gaza, in Afghanistan, Iran, Algeria, Sudan, Somalia), or if one Muslim denomination (Sunni) blows up the other, (Shiaa) in Pakistan and Iraq, it is simply not politically correct to say so. Muslim-on-Muslim crimes do not count in the same way that white European or American-on-Muslim crimes seem to matter.

This is the party line in our universities, in our mainstream media, at the United Nations and in international human rights organizations.

Why are Second and Third Wave feminists buying into this? Why are feminists sacrificing so many women to the dangerous ideology of “cultural relativism,” a belief system in which concerns about sexism are always trumped by concerns about racism? The authors are not saying that racism does not exist, that it does not matter, that it must not be addressed. We are saying that women are affected by both. And when a man or a woman seeks to objectify, abuse or murder women, they should be called out on it, no matter what their skin-color or gender may be.

Conflicting views about whether womens’ rights are universal or not seem to be surfacing in contemporary feminist circles.

In the mid-1990s, and to her credit, Ellie Smeal, a former NOW President and long the head of the Feminist Majority, began appearing on American television to condemn the Taliban’s outrages against Afghan women. While no one went further than this: no one sponsored military-like rescue missions, or raised money to sponsor a multitude of Afghan women for political asylum, Smeal and other feminists were not afraid to speak out in favor of womens’ global rights. Their feminism was not tempered by a fear that they might be called “racists.” Smeal and others understood that the Taliban were male Muslim fundamentalists.

Feminists were ready to take up this fight because Muslim women–who had either suffered female genital mutilation and/or had suffered at the hands of the Taliban –were guest speakers at NOW and at other feminist conferences. They begged American feminists for help. Feminist activists listened, cried, and vowed to take a stand against Muslim violence against Muslim women.

Then, 9/11 happened and America finally responded to the attacks against us which began when Khomeini took power in Iran and held Americans hostage for 444 days. Once we invaded Afghanistan, American feminists grew conflicted, often silent. They sometimes spoke out—for the NGOs, against the American “invasion;” sometimes, feminists maintained an uneasy silence. Sometimes, the same feminist leader did both.

For example, on October 8, 2007, NOW national President, Kim Gandy issued a statement in which, to her credit, she urged the United States to “call strongly for the protection of the millions of women who will become victims of stoning, stabbing, maiming, forced suicide, beheadings, acid throwing and many other cruel punishments with the false justification of “family honor.” Gandy was supporting House Resolution (H.Res) 32, which denounces the practices of “female genital mutilation, domestic violence, ‘honor’ killings, dowry deaths, sexual slavery and other gender-based persecutions.” (This bill was passed by the House but seems to have gone no further). At the time, Gandy noted that such gender-based crimes, (honor killings, beheadings), are “often sanctioned by religious and ethnic traditions” and ignored by law enforcement authorities.

However, by early 2009, when an actual beheading of a Muslim woman took place in  Buffalo, New York, not on foreign shores, Gandy contradicted herself and insisted that this particular crime had nothing to do with any religious or ethnic tradition, certainly not with Islam.

Like many other feminists and domestic violence activists, NOW President Gandy seems afraid of denouncing violence done in the name of religion—especially if that religion happens to be Islam. NOW has no such hesitation when it comes to fundamentalist Christianity. Under the leadership of Patricia Ireland NOW launched an effective media campaign against fundamentalist Christians a.k.a The Promise Keepers, a misogynistic, mainly Caucasian group.

NOW’s campaign against the “right wing conservative” Promise Keepers, a campaign launched by former President Patricia Ireland, and by current President, Kim Gandy, urged the members of NOW “to take action in response to a dangerous, new group quietly building a mass movement in the United States. Promise Keepers is the fastest growing segment of the religious right wing.” They define responsibility as taking control and women taking a back seat. They extol the “God-given” right of men to lead and repeatedly call on wives to “submit” to their husbands.” NOW’s criticism was clearly based on the fact that: “This right-wing group stands against nearly everything we believe in.”

Islam, as practiced under Sharia Law, by many Muslims in Muslim countries and in Muslim communities in the West, sounds a lot like the Promise Keepers whom then NOW VP Gandy once condemned.

In 2009, President Gandy also excoriated the Catholic Church for having ex-communicated the physicians who performed an abortion on a nine year old girl in Brazil whose father had raped and impregnated her. Fair enough. But why doesn’t Gandy cite Islam, as practiced by its fundamentalist adherents in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, who allow under-age girls to be married i.e. raped by men who are old enough to be their fathers or grandfathers, and who murder girls and women whose “disobedience” is viewed and treated as a capital crime?

In addition, in early 2009, President Gandy issued a statement in which she completely contradicted her support for H.R 32. Gandy presents both Rihanna’s beating and Aasiya Z. Hassan’s beheading in Buffalo–as if the two are the same or of equal importance. (And, by the way: Where is the Reverend Al Sharpton on the matter of the Rihanna beating? Rest assured, if her batterer had been a white man he would have taken to the streets as he did in the falsified matter of Tawana Brawly which, arguably, made Sharpton’s career).

But wait just a minute. The victims of the dowry burnings, acid throwings, and honor killings (which Gandy referred to in her 2007 statement, in favor of H.Res 32), are mainly women of color who are Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs. Why refrain from saying so? Why would a national NOW President seek to protect men of color from being held accountable for their reigns of domestic terror in America? For not only beating their wives and daughters but, in the Buffalo

case, for beheading a wife in America?

How can Gandy support H.Res 32 meant for abroad, and yet adopt such a position at home? What has changed since she wrote her article in support of H.Res 32?

We understand and sympathize with the demands of national leadership. We also understand that a culturally relativist view has taken over the world. However, we would hope that feminist leaders would resist, not succumb, to such a viewpoint. Alas, that is not the case.

If Gandy and other feminist leaders would stop being afraid of being labeled as “racists” they might consider the following: That battered immigrant daughters and wives may have special needs and may be at risk in ways that are different from native-American victims of domestic violence. There is no shame in admitting that needs are different. In fact, it’s more racist to deny it.

For example, a shelter for battered Muslim women who have escaped potential femicide, might require different services than one for Orthodox Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant women. For example, they might require a halal kitchen, access to social workers who can speak Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Hindi, Urdu, and Kurdish for starters; access to mullahs and imams who have already begun the work of campaigning against domestic violence and against femicide/honor killing; law enforcement ties that understand that such victims, as opposed to victims of other cultures and other faiths, may require the equivalent of a federal witness protection program.

Gandy is certainly not alone. Many Muslim-American groups, other serious feminists, and even a coalition of eight Erie County domestic violence advocacy groups recently attacked Marcia Pappas. Unfortunately, they have not posted their letter in cyberspace and so we cannot link to it. Suffice it to say, they add nothing new to the conversation. All they do is denounce Pappas in abstract and politically correct ways. They do not give a single example of a real woman who is, in reality, in any way endangered by a departure from the politically correct line.

Perhaps politically correct funders are viewing what Pappas has said as “Islamophobic” and domestic violence advocates are running scared, afraid of losing their funding. In any event, the fact that these activists felt it important to write to Pappas in a “coalition,” suggests that they might have been contacted by national NOW or by its many allies who work against domestic violence and asked to do so. Of course, this might not be the case.

Surprisingly, Gandy also wrote to President Obama in 2009. She presented him with an agenda. Included are the following:

“Address Violence Against Women Around the World and Stop Sex Trafficking…. Pass the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), which provides an opportunity for the  United States to be a leader in preventing violence against women around the world… Provide asylum rights for women to protect them from violence and end “honor killings,” forced marriages, genital mutilation, femicide, child marriages, mass rape as a weapon in armed conflict, and other atrocities.”

Thus, on the one hand, NOW’s Gandy is concerned with honor killings–as she imagines them to exist: Far away, in  Third World countries, Muslim lands, Arab lands, and perhaps among Sikhs. She is just unwilling to imagine that they exist in the West, in the  United States, in New York State, in Buffalo.

Gandy and her many feminist supporters still refuse to consider that Muslim women and immigrant women in general probably face much greater danger, both in terms of being beaten and being killed than do non-Muslim and non-immigrant women; that Muslim women in Muslim countries are prey, targets, human sacrifices, every single day; and that if we do not stop the forces of jihad that are headed our way that many more women will be beaten, veiled, and killed both at home and on the street. Instead, Gandy joins many Muslim/Islamist groups who all insist that honor killings either do not exist or have nothing to do with Islam; that an honor killing is simply domestic violence; that economic stress, war, colonialism, or decadent Western mores (!) lead to such gruesome acts as the beheading of a wife.

One might conclude that womens’ rights may not be Gandy’s primary concern. What she is most concerned about is this. In her own words:

“Despite these patterns that are typical of spouse abuse and murder (only the manner of killing was atypical), most of the conservative commentary has focused not on male violence toward women….but has focused instead on attacking the Muslim community. Although the crime was quickly decried by Muslim groups, many talk shows and blogs used the horror of (Buffalo-based) Muzzammil’s (Hassan’s) act to indict an entire community — in a way that they would never have accused the entire Christian religion because a Methodist man murdered his estranged wife in a horrible way. Three weeks ago, a Chinese graduate student at Virginia Tech cut off a female friend’s head with a knife. Not a single news outlet referred to his religion.”

Why does Gandy, like so many other feminists, carelessly jump right on board the politically correct anti-globalization, anti-Guantanamo, anti-post 9/11 “redlining” bandwagon? When they do, they are not thinking about womens’ rights and about feminist responsibilities but rather about the rights of innocent Muslim and Arab men not to be viewed with suspicion in America. We agree with that concern–but not at the expense of a woman’s right to live and to live free of violence.

Gandy, like so many other left-leaning secular fundamentalists, views fundamentalist Christianity and Catholicism as fair feminist targets–but not Islam. This is mind-boggling but it is part of an anti-western, pro-totalitarian mindset. Thus, we are not surprised to see that Gandy also keeps referring to the “cycle of violence,” as if domestically violent men, (like Palestinian terrorists), are involved in a “cycle” of violence, one in which the perpetrator is somehow “provoked” by equal and opposite acts of violence. But this is not the case. Men who beat and murder female intimates, who honor murder family members, or who blow up Israelis and civilians everywhere, are all perpetrating violence against innocent non-combatants. They do so as a way of systematically terrorizing others into submission. With each violent act, they are seizing and retaining control, and advancing their agenda of male supremacy and/or of Islamic jihad.

The fact that Islamic gender apartheid has been penetrating the West, including North America, should be of prime concern to President Gandy of NOW. The fact that it is not–is worrisome, tragic, and sadly, all-too-predictable.

It is time for feminists, both in NOW and in other feminist organizations, to unite to stop Islamic gender apartheid from infiltrating the  United States any further. We do not want to become like Europe. We want immigrant women to be able to lead safer lives here than they might do back home in Pakistanor Afghanistan.

It is also time for feminists, both in NOW and in other feminist organizations to take a strong, principled stand against multi-cultural relativism and in favor of universal womens’ rights. Phyllis Chesler has been writing about this for years, most recently, in The Death of Feminism. Recently, Artemis March has supported this point of view in a very good position paper of her own on the subject.

We call upon men and women of all faiths, all skin-colors, to join us in this task.

We understand that we will be attacked for taking this position. But, we also know that we have many allies, including all the incredibly brave dissidents in Muslim countries, or who live in exile in the West, who have faced serious death threats and enormous slander and ostracism for their principled stands.

As feminists, we know that speaking truth to power is always a dangerous proposition. In this instance, the positions of power are being held, not only by Islamist terrorists but by Western collaborators, including feminists who believe in “multi-cultural relativism” and who have deserted their original feminist vision of universalist human rights.

Dr. Phyllis Chesler is a well known author, an Emerita Professor of Psychology, and the co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology, and the National Women’s Health Network. She may be reached through her website www.phyllis-chesler.com. Marcia Pappas is a feminist/activist, holds a Bachelor of Science in Cultural Studies, and is currently the President of the National Organization for Women- New York State. Pappas may be reached through her website: www.nownys.org NewYorkStateNOW@aol.com

Woman Beheaded in New York State-National Organization for Women-NYS Questions Media Blackout

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For more information contact: Marcia Pappas, 518-452-3944

Woman Beheaded in New York State

National Organization for Women-NYS Questions Media Blackout

ALBANY, NY (02/16/2009; 1237)(readMedia)-- On February 12, 2009, in Orchard Park, Buffalo, NY, forty-four year-old Muzzamil Hassan, a prominent Muslim businessman, was arrested for having allegedly beheaded his wife, thirty-seven year-old Aasiya Z. Hassan. What was Aasiya's crime? Why, Aasiya was having Muzzamil served with divorce papers. And apparently, on February 6, Aasiya obtained an order of protection which had forced her violent husband out of their home.

NOW New York State is horrified that Erie County DA, Frank A. SeditaII, has referred to this ghastly crime as "the worst form of domestic violence possible." The ridiculous juxtaposition of "domestic" and "beheading" in the same journalistic breath points up the inherent weakness of the whole "domestic violence" lexicon.

What is "domestic" about this violence? NOW NYS President Marcia Pappas says "it is high time we stop regarding assaults and murders as a lover's quarrels gone bad. We further demand of lawmakers that punishments fit crimes. We of NOW decry the selective enforcement of assault laws and call for judicial enforcement of our mandatory arrest policy, even when the axe-wielder is known by his victim."

And why is this horrendous story not all over the news? Is a Muslim woman's life not worth a five-minute report? This was, apparently, a terroristic version of "honor killing," a murder rooted in cultural notions about women's subordination to men. Are we now so respectful of the Muslim religion that we soft-peddle atrocities committed in it's name? Millions of women in this country are maimed and killed by their husbands or partners. Had this awful murder been perpetrated by a African American, a Latino, a Jew, or a Catholic, the story would be flooding the airwaves. What is this deafening silence?

And exactly what do orders of protection do? Was Aasiya desperately waving the order of protection in Muzzamil's face when he slashed at her throat? Was it still clutched in her hand as her head hit the floor?

You of the press, please shine a light on this most dreadful of murders. In a bizarre twist of fate it comes out that Muzzamil Hassan is founder of a television network called Bridges TV, whose purpose it was to portray Muslims in a positive light. This is a huge story. Please tell it!

Images of Women. Does it add to Violence Against Women? Let's talk.

The National Organization for Women wants to know what you think!  Do you think that images of women in the media has impacted the increase of violence against women in this country and around the world?  Lets talk!  Watch this video and tell us what you think.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1993368502337678412

Kathleen Parker Doesn't Get It-Sexism starts with antiquated belief that "boys will be boys" attitude

 

In her 12/14/08 op-ed "Check Cellphone at the Door," Kathleen Parker berates NOW and other feminists for our outrage at Obama’s speech writer, Jon Favreau's having been photographed groping a cardboard statue of Senator Hillary Clinton. Parker dismisses the incident with the words: “Clinton - or at least her image - is being treated disrespectfully by the boys.”

 

 

But it’s not about Senator Clinton. It never has been.  Yes, women and progressive men were offended by the way our Senator was treated during the primary. But the crux of our argument is that women are treated this way every day, and they are tired of it. Many women are tired of being treated like objects to be ogled, groped, and regarded as something less than human. We are tired of the sexism and misogyny that permeates our society.

 

 

Both women and men are influenced by the images they see in the media. When we allow one woman to be demeaned, it hurts all women. It diminishes our very existence and creates a world that is contemptuous towards women. Today it's an tacky prank, tomorrow it's inequality in other areas, as for example, the persistent wage deficit women experience compared to men. 

 

 

One might ask "what’s the harm?”  Well here it is: First of all, we're not talking about a fraternity prank. This is an official to the President-elect of the United States of America. And secondly, exactly whose "fun" are we spoiling? There was a day when people thought it was acceptable to grope women in the workplace, to use demeaning phrases about dumb blondes, and worse yet, to expect women to join in this “fun” in order to retain their jobs. How much "fun" is that for women trying to support their families?

 

 

Think about what would happen if the picture were a mob of whites groping a person of color. Doesn't the racial dimension make this act outrageous? Then why should not the gender imbalance? In other words, why are women still fair game when other groups have achieved at least some expectation of dignity? And should we not expect more from our officials the idiocy we see in this picture of Favreau and his buddies with the cardboard Clinton cutout?

 

 

Regarding Kathleen Parker, the next time a man says something inappropriate to her, perhaps she'll consider that it's because he was brought up in a society that has excused his behavior with “boys will be boys.” And maybe it will occur to her that the goings on she mentions in “Iran, where yet another woman recently was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery,” reflect the far extremes of these inequities we are trying to address.

 

 

We in the U.S. have been moving in the equality direction for some time now, what with women getting the vote, and winning the right to own property, and being able to control our own reproductive lives. We'd very much like to keep on in that direction, rather than backtracking into reverse.

 

National Organization for Women- NYS Stop Violence Against Women NOW

One of the worst stories we've ever heard. Ending violence against women will never stop until we make it stop! Read below 

Tuesday Dec. 16, 2008 Vol. XlI No.11

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Posted on December 16, 2008 by freemenow

No laughing matter CNN, no slap on the wrist matter either! Who will
join me?

Louisa’s law Maybe ? Keep the offenders away from these women not
drive the women into shelters and away from their homes.

Do you have any idea how many women get their brains blown out daily
in this country because we are too damned easy on men who abuse women?
They abuse their wives and their families and the major reason they
continue to do is because women have so little protection and because
they are slapped on the wrist - they keep getting away with it till
they finally blow someone’s brains out then they land in jail where
a lot of them should have been kept in the first place.

Better yet - the first time they started to show disrespect for women
and girls if we stood our ground- maybe it wouldn’t be a joke that
that leaves me tonight looking at two daughters battling for their
very lives! One from Cancer and the other from the gunshot wound to
the head from the 23 year abuser who was left to become worse and
worse till he finally became a would be murderer!

It all started with blond jokes- that the guys in the locker rooms
thought were funny at the girl’s expense. Unchecked it graduated to
degrading language then to shoves, then to short stints for spousal
abuse which wound up sending the abuser right back home to abuse
again.

Just On June 16th 2008 this man, attacked my sleeping cancer patient
daughter with a hammer to the skull for her pain drugs. He spent 3
months in Jail then pled guilty to a lesser charge and they let him
out ROR, and it ended up with her sister Louisa my youngest
daughter’s brains on the living room wall last night!

You bet the 180 degree turn-a-round from fire Favreau to maybe we
should send him to a battered women’s shelter and fix the bastard
was a bit personal! Now I am on a death watch for two daughters.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

This has got to stop - too many innocent females are destroyed daily
because we will not stand up and fight like hell. We want this stopped
this was not a laughing matter CNN boys - come to Hackensack, Medical
Center NJ and take a look at my daughter- Louisa Rodas. She has less
than a 50/50 chance of surviving and if she does she will have one eye
– one ear a half of a head and be paralyzed on one side – we have
no idea how much brain damage. STOP THIS NOW – PLEASE! For all our
daughters !