#this mutilation is state sanctioned

[justsumtransdude2000]

So tired of bitches with zero credentials trying to tell me if I'm trans or not. Like, my gender identity has been carefully observed and confirmed by multiple people with PHDs, and I'm not sure you passed middle school. Fuck off.

[sparklestheunicorn]

If supporting a woman committing horrific murder to horrible people is wrong, then I don't want to be right

[misshorrorotaku]

A non binary Teen by the name of Nex attacked and died by peers in the school bathroom.

In 1996, a gay man was beaten and left for dead on Wyo. Fence.

It’s 2024 and nothing has fucking changed.

“Palestine hates queer people!”

THE US HATES QUEER PEOPLE TOO!

Except it's not legalized to kill us here, you freak. There is a difference between some people being pieces of shit and STATE-SANCTIONED FUCKING MURDER.

Edit: DO NOT LOOK IN THE NOTES OF THIS POST. I'm working on trying to remove it or something but someone posted pictures of dead and mutilated children. Seriously, do not look in the notes!

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

After Iranian-financed-and-trained Hamas terrorists – together with Palestinian Authority and civilian Gazan terrorists – murdered, gang-raped, gouged, mutilated, dis-limbed, beheaded, burned and tortured over 1,200 Jewish Israeli babies, children, men and women (including dozens of Americans), wounded over 5,000 more and took another 250 more hostage on October 7th, President Biden correctly declared that Hamas’ atrocities were “pure, unadulterated evil.”

Yet now, the Biden/Blinken/shadow-Obama administration is deliberately siding with and defending pure, unadulterated evil. This is sinister. During Biden’s April 4, 2024 phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden threatened Israel and demanded an immediate Israeli ceasefire, aligning the U.S. with Arab terrorist Hamas’ demands. (On the same day, Hamas launched a series of rockets into Israel’s civilian areas. So how on earth can Biden be demanding an Israeli ceasefire?) Biden threatened surely hostile-to-Israel policy changes if Israel doesn’t accede to U.S. demands.

If Israel succumbs to Biden’s immediate ceasefire demand, this would leave the remaining hostages subject to Hamas’ continuing rape and torture indefinitely; leave Israel with no negotiating leverage or military options for obtaining the hostages’ release; and would enable Hamas to emerge victorious, regroup, rebuild, and murder and torture Israelis again and again and again in the future, as Hamas leaders have promised. Biden’s demand thus calls for Israel to lose the war against Arab terrorist organization Hamas, a proxy of our arch enemy, the evil terrorist Islamic Republic of Iran. 

Moreover, on the same day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken falsely, sickeningly and outrageously suggested that Israel is at risk of becoming indistinguishable from Hamas if Israel loses its reverence for protecting every human life – but ignored Israel’s real, extraordinary efforts and record of protecting Gazan civilians. As Colonel Richard Kemp, former British Commander in Afghanistan explained, Israel has the world’s most moral army and takes risks to protect civilians that no other army in the world has ever taken – while Hamas’ official policy is committing war crimes. Similarly, the Chair of West Point’s Modern War Institute, Major (ret.) John Spencer, and human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky noted that “accusing Israel of intentionally targeting civilians . . . is a malicious distortion of truth,” and that in fact “The IDF has gone to unprecedented lengths, not seen in the history of modern warfare, to abide by the laws of war and avoid harm to civilians, even when doing so puts the IDF’s own soldiers at risk.” Israel has the lowest ratio of civilian-to-combatant terrorist deaths in history.

From this U.S. administration’s outset, it has pursued policies deliberately designed to weaken, harm and endanger Israel and empower Iran and Iranian proxies bent on destroying Israel. Upon taking office, Biden immediately stopped enforcing maximum sanctions – and enabled Iran to advance from near-bankruptcy of $4 billion in reserves to $100 billion in reserves, rescuing Iran’s ability to fund its proxies Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s attacks on Israeli civilians and armed forces. Biden also immediately resumed funding UNRWA (which is full of Hamas terrorists, hides Hamas weapons and control centers, and teaches children to murder Jews); and resumed funding Palestinian Authority government functions (enabling the PA to continue its $400 million per year of pay-to-slay payments to Arab terrorists to murder Jews).

And virtually every person Biden appointed to an important post is hostile to Israel or Jews, or both.

In May 2021, when Hamas launched 4,500 rockets at Israel in 10 days, Biden demanded that Israel agree to an early ceasefire that enabled Hamas to regroup, rebuild and prepare for October 7th.

In October 2022, the administration pressured Israel to surrender 330 square miles of natural-gas-rich maritime territory to Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, thereby enriching Iranian terror-proxy Hezbollah with billions of dollars, and weakening Israel. Hezbollah’s attacks on northern Israel in recent months have displaced some 80,000 Israelis.

Biden imposed a boycott on Israeli scientific and academic cooperation over the artificial “green line.” And the Biden administration initiated a Negev Forum that transformed the Abraham Accords from a Sunni-Israeli alliance against Iran into a Sunni-U.S. alliance against Israel. The entire basis of the Abraham Accords was to end the Palestinian Arab veto over Middle East peace; but Biden and Blinken reversed this.

During the past six months, the administration has intentionally ratcheted up harmful-to-Israel actions and anti-Israel propaganda. The administration released $26 billion to Iran – while Iran is financing Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s terror wars against Israel. The administration also repeatedly falsely accused Israel of not doing enough to protect Gazan civilians – despite Israel’s extraordinary record of protecting civilians while fighting vicious terrorists; demanded “pauses” and other forms of ceasefires; demanded that Israel cannot leave a buffer zone in Gaza to prevent future October 7ths; and tied legislation to aid Israel to unpopular unrelated legislation – which would prevent or hamper the aid to Israel from being enacted.

The administration also repeatedly betrayed Israel (and Israeli and American hostages) at the United Nations Security Council. On November 14, 2023 (the same day that 300,000 Jews demonstrated support for Israel in Washington, D.C.) the Biden administration enabled the passage of UNSC Resolution 2712 (2023) calling for days-long “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip.” On December 22, 2023, the Biden administration enabled passage of UNSC Resolution 2720 (2023), which helped Hamas obtain supplies to continue its war crimes and called for urgent measures towards stopping the destruction of the Hamas terrorist evil. And on March 25, 2024, the administration enabled passage of UNSC Resolution 2728 (2024) calling for an immediate ceasefire – without making the ceasefire conditional on releasing the hostages.

The administration also used the occasion of Israel fighting for its life to repeatedly demand that Palestinian terrorists must be rewarded with a Palestinian Arab terror state; and to try to undermine Israel’s binding legal rights to Judea/Samaria and Jerusalem. In February 2024, the administration falsely declared that Jews building homes in Judea/Samaria is illegal (reversing the “Pompeo Doctrine” which confirmed that Jewish communities in Judea/Samaria are legal). And on February 1, 2024, Biden issued an antisemitic executive order, accompanied by a coordinated State Department announcement, imposing sanctions on Jews in Judea/Samaria, while ignoring rampant Arab terrorism in and stemming from Judea/Samaria, incited by the Palestinian Authority’s Nazi-like “pay-to-slay” rewards to terrorists to murder Jews.

Biden also falsely condemned Israel for “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza and an “over the top campaign.” Such false charges are hardly the statements of a true friend and ally. And Biden/Blinken’s latest condemnation of Israel unintentionally killing members of a food convoy, when Biden/Blinken knows that these tragic mistakes happen in any war – including in America’s wars against Iraq and Afghanistan – again shows the U.S. attempting to weaken the U.S.-Israel alliance. 

In addition, Biden’s March 7, 2024 State of the Union address was the most hostile, anti-Israel SOTU address ever: Biden demanded a Palestinian state “solution” that imperils Israel’s very existence; overstated displaced Gazans and never mentioned the 200,000 Jews still displaced by Hezbollah’s bombardments in the north and Hamas’ destruction of southern Israeli communities; wrongly demanded that Israel must make protecting Gazan civilians Israel’s “first priority (not defeating Hamas and recovering the hostages); parroted Hamas’ unverified and surely false propaganda casualty numbers; falsely intimated that Israel is using humanitarian aid as a “bargaining chip” and isn’t “doing its part” – while completely ignoring that Hamas steals the massive humanitarian aid that Israel has facilitated into Gaza; spoke of working for an immediate ceasefire; and omitted Iran’s role in Gaza, Lebanon, and the October 7th massacre.

Unfortunately, the horrors listed above are only a partial list of the Biden/Blinken/Obama shadow administration’s deliberate acts to weaken Israel and strengthen the terrorists that are trying to destroy Israel. For instance, see more here, here and here.

It is deeply disturbing that our nation’s administration is intentionally siding with the forces of pure unadulterated evil against our human-rights-loving ally, the democratic Jewish State of Israel.

It is painful for us to say this, but all of the evidence indicates that the Biden/Blinken/Obama policies are not mere attempts at misguided appeasement, or the results of stupidity or ignorance or false hope. But, in fact, these anti-Israel policies are made with full understanding of their dangerous import. All the evidence indicates that this is a conscious attempt to weaken Israel, or worse.  

[motziedapul]

#NeverForget

The child killing, genocidal apartheid state of Israel must be disarmed and sanctioned for their mass killing in a country that's 47% children (as of 2023). Whatever you think Israel has done; it has done worse.

There is extensive video evidence and evidence on the bodies of survivors; such as a young child recovering with the PCRF from being showered in White Phosphorus. Anyone who is still pro-Israel to this day is pro-child killing and child mutilation, pro bombs and pro war crimes.

They have killed tens of thousands of children, civilians, and hundreds of medical workers and aid workers, and journalists, just in one year. They've killed members of the UN, Doctors Without Borders, World Central Kitchen, Red Crescent.

A terrified little girl named Hind Rajab was stuck in a car with her murdered parents and the IOF waited for rescuers to come for her before shooting them all to death.

Bombs deployed by Israel have dismembered and decapitated infants and young children. A viral photo of little girl's body hanging from a wall with her legs exploded off was one of many photos seen after an Israeli airstrike. She was so small she couldn't have been older than 11. A viral video went around of a man holding his baby's body after an airstrike on their tents; the baby had no head.

And still the USA sends them bombs to continue their slaughter.

The worst terrorist of the modern world, bombing multiple sovereign nations and killing countless civilians every day.

(P.S. the numbers shown in the article are bare minimum numbers; these are the lowest possible estimates of slaughter. Whatever is listed above; Israel has killed more)

[reasonsforhope]

"When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.

The Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement, is now an American story, not just a civil rights story, said Till’s cousin the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr.

“It has been quite a journey for me from the darkness to the light,” Parker said during a proclamation signing ceremony at the White House attended by dozens, including other family members, members of Congress and civil rights leaders.

“Back then in the darkness, I could never imagine the moment like this, standing in the light of wisdom, grace and deliverance,” he said.

With the stroke of Biden’s pen, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located across three sites in two states, became federally-protected places. Before signing the proclamation, the president said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to “find faith and purpose in pain.”

“Today, on what would have been Emmett’s 82nd birthday, we add another chapter in the story of remembrance and healing,” Biden said...

On Tuesday, reaction poured in from other elected officials and from the civil rights organizing community. The Rev. Al Sharpton said the Till national monument designation tells him “that out of pain comes power.”

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jefferies said the monument “places the life and legacy of Emmett Till among our nation’s most treasured memorials.”

“Black history is American history,” he said in a written statement...

Till-Mobley demanded that Emmett’s mutilated remains be taken back to Chicago for a public, open casket funeral that was attended by tens of thousands of people. Graphic images taken of Emmett’s remains, sanctioned by his mother, were published by Jet magazine and fueled the Civil Rights Movement...

Altogether, the Till national monument will include 5.7 acres (2.3 hectares) of land and two historic buildings. The Mississippi sites are Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River just outside of Glendora, Mississippi, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett’s killers were tried...

The Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Emmett’s funeral was held in September 1955...

Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan, 90, was a freshman at Mississippi Valley State College in 1955 when he attended part of the trial of the two men charged with killing Emmett. As a state senator for the past 30 years, Jordan, who is Black, spearheaded fundraising for a statue of Emmett Till that was dedicated last year in Greenwood, Mississippi, a few miles from where the teenager was abducted.

On Tuesday, Jordan praised Biden for creating the Till national monument.

“It’s one of the greatest honors that a president could pay to a person, 14, who lost his life in Mississippi that’s created a movement that changed America,” Jordan told the AP."

-via AP, July 25, 2023

[magz]

Palestine summary for April 24 to April 26, 2024 from LetsTalkPalestine.

[Lets Talk Palestin Link Tree, with ways to help and sources.]

April 24, 2024.

Day 201:

• 79 Palestinians killed, 86 injured in Gaza in last 24 hours

• IOF bombed home in Gaza City, killing a mother & her child and injured 6

🇪🇬 Egypt detained 10+ women, among them lawyers, journalists & civil society leaders, protesting in solidarity w/ Gaza & Sudan

• Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoon & Jabalia in north Gaza under continuous Israeli strikes since ordering evacuation in Beit Lahia, giving them minutes to flee

🇯🇲🇧🇧 Jamaica & Barbados officially recognize a Palestinian State

• Israel built 6 new military outposts since Jan, totaling 9 outposts each within 3 miles of Gaza + plan to transfer 2 combat brigades (4-10 thousand soldiers) from Lebanon’s border down to Gaza — fueling fears of a looming Rafah invasion

🇩🇪 Germany to soon resume coordination w/ UNWRA after Israel failed to provide evidence on its allegations against the agency’s employees

🇺🇸 Biden signed to law aid bill giving $26bn to Israel

• IOF abducts 15 Palestinians including former detainees overnight in West Bank

April 25, 2024.

Day 202:

• 43 Palestinians killed, 64 injured in the last 24 hours

🇺🇳 UN to investigate Nasser Hospital mass graves as Israel denies reports of 392 bodies showing severe signs of torture and mutilation

• Hundreds of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Compound under IOF protection as raids across West Bank cities intensify

🇧🇪 Belgian aid worker & his 7-year-old son killed among 7 others in targeted bombings on Rafah despite disclosing his location to Israeli forces; 6 aid groups affected by recent attacks

🚢 Freedom Flotilla Coalition delays from departing Turkey due to Israeli pressure on Guinea Bissau in an effort to prevent aid delivery to Gaza

• Israeli forces abduct three 13-year-olds from Ramallah, West Bank as 200 children remain captives in Israeli jails

🇫🇷 France to expand sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in violence against Palestinians, with recent EU sanctions imposed on settlers and organisations for similar reasons

April 26, 2024.

University encampments going global 🌍🔥

🎓 Encampments for Palestine which started in US universities have now spread to France, Australia, and the UK, advocating for divestment from companies & arms manufacturers complicit in the Israeli occupation.

The 42 encampments are mostly in the US, but include 2 in Australia, 1 in France, and 1 in the UK, with more expected.

🤐 Arrests at Columbia (100+), Yale (50), Emerson (100+), NYU (dozens), USC (93), Uni of Texas in Austin (55) & more as US political & corporate elites fear the surging power & popularity of the Palestine solidarity movement.

Columbia canceled in-person classes, NYU built a wall around the encampment.

👩‍🏫 Many faculty have joined in protest of their administrations’ Zionist stances.

Biden admin. & Netanyahu, a foreign leader, released statements condemning the students.

🔥 In 1985, students forced University of California to divest $3.1bn from South African apartheid

Inspired? @ pal_actionus posts advice on starting one 🫡

Day 203:

•⁠ 51 Palestinians killed, 75 injured in the last 24 hours

•⁠ ⁠Rising temperatures in Gaza worsens condition of displaced Palestinians in tents, UNRWA added 2 kids so far killed by the heat

•⁠ Former head of HRW accuses Israel of obstructing investigation into Nasser Hospital mass graves

🇳🇱 Netherlands to consider resuming UNWRA funding after Israel failed to provide evidence on its allegations against the agency’s staff’s complicity in Oct 7

•⁠ Eastern Rafah under continuous Israeli shelling, targeting homes, injuring at least 2 Palestinians

🇺🇸 US puts halt on potential sanctions against 1 Israeli military unit, despite allegations since before Oct 7 of severe human rights abuses in West Bank

🇱🇧 2 killed in Israeli strike on a car in south Lebanon

🇪🇺 EU announces $73m in essential aid to Gaza despite refusing to sanction Israel

⚖️ ICJ to soon announce ruling on Nicaragua’s case against Germany, seeking emergency measures to halt German military assistance to Israel

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Marc Home

Published: Jun 29, 2024

Alan Cumming and Miriam Margolyes join secular society campaign that says policy breaches UN convention on children’s rights

Scotland’s policy of funding religious circumcision through the NHS will breach new human rights legislation and must be scrapped, campaigners have claimed.

The Scottish health service is the only one in the UK that allows for non-medical ritual operations to be paid for and carried out at NHS hospitals.

The National Secular Society, which has the backing of the actors Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming, insists that genital cutting is incompatible with the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child.

The legislation, which was incorporated by the Scottish parliament and will come into force on July 16, stipulates that no one should be “subjected to unnecessary medical or surgical treatment during infancy or childhood” and that children’s “bodily integrity, autonomy and self-determination” must be protected.

“The government in Edinburgh has set out the lofty aspiration of making Scotland the best place in the world to grow up,” said Alejandro Sanchez, a former NHS doctor who is the human rights spokesman for the society, which campaigns against religious privilege. “How do they plan to reconcile that with a state-sanctioned programme of ritual genital cutting? The legislation will introduce a public sector duty not to act incompatibly with the convention. It will be extremely interesting to see what happens when it comes into force.”

Sanchez insisted that children are incapable of giving consent to harmful, painful and medically unnecessary procedures. “Ritual circumcision is dangerous, irreversible, violates the child’s right to bodily autonomy and deprives adults of important erogenous tissues,” he said.

“The NHS notes that individuals experience a permanent reduction in sensation as a complication of this procedure. It’s completely at odds with child safeguarding norms which rightly demand that the most vulnerable are afforded the greatest protections. It is absurd that it is illegal to tattoo a child under 18 but legal to surgically excise the most sensitive part of their penis.”

[ Miriam Margolyes, who is Jewish, and Alan Cumming say circumcision is “mutilation” and “ridiculous” ]

Since 2008 the NHS in Scotland has allowed religious circumcisions to be carried out in hospitals by trained paediatric surgeons under general anaesthetic. In England and Wales the NHS will only perform circumcision on boys for medical reasons.

Margolyes, 83, who played Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films and has appeared in Blackadder and Doctor Who, has lent her support to the society. “I will always be Jewish but the practice of circumcision is one I can no longer support,” she said. “You are mutilating a child.”

Cumming, 59, who was born in Perthshire, has described non-medical circumcision as “ridiculous”. He said: “I am horrified that it is happening with so little discussion or forethought about the dangers and the impact on the future lives of the little boys involved.”

The Humanist Society Scotland, whose celebrants conducted three times more weddings than the Church of Scotland and Catholic churches combined north of the border in 2022, called for the NHS to reconsider the policy. “Children are not the property of their parents to mark as they wish for ritual reasons,” said Fraser Sutherland, its chief executive.

“The NHS should not be funding non-medical circumcision for religious reasons. This is especially true for patients that are not able to consent to the procedure due to their young age. NHS Boards providing such a procedure need to review how they are considering the child’s best interests when making such decisions.”

However, Shiban Ahmed, a consultant paediatric surgeon who works in Liverpool, has claimed that carrying out circumcisions outside of hospitals by individuals who are not properly trained can cause far greater problems. He has operated on more than 20 boys whose genitals were damaged by botched private operations.

“I believe that the operation should either be performed safely or it should not be done at all,” Ahmed said. “The NHS guidelines for the hospital operation are the minimum standards of care for medical circumcisions.”

In the UK fewer than 9 per cent of males are circumcised, with the majority being Muslim or Jewish. This contrasts starkly with the United States where more than 80 per cent of males are circumcised, mostly for non-religious reasons.

In Jewish practices, circumcision is performed at eight days old, while in Islamic practice it is encouraged to take place before puberty.

The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities said it supported the provision of NHS circumcisions, but stressed that procedures were largely carried out by “our own highly trained experts”. A spokesman said: “Brit milah, literally the ‘covenant of circumcision’, of a baby boy is one of the most fundamental tenets of Judaism. “It is practised almost universally amongst Jewish people worldwide, no matter what their level of religious commitment.”

The Muslim Council of Scotland and the Muslim Council of Britain did not respond to requests for comment.

The Scottish government declined to comment on the suggestion that religious circumcisions would be incompatible with the incorporation of the UN convention. A spokesman said: “In Scotland religious circumcision is carried out in one of the four paediatric centres by trained paediatric surgeons, under general anaesthesia, as part of a regulated NHS system. NHS guidelines on how male circumcision should be performed have been in place since 2008 to ensure procedures are carried out safely.”

Female genital mutilation has been illegal in Scotland and the rest of the UK since 1985.

[ Via: https://archive.today/I5QDl ]

==

Once again, the US is an outlier.

[russalki]

When we are told by mass media and surveillance technology to dismiss our grief by engaging in consumptive distractions, we are also being told to look away from the source of our grief. Most of us have experienced immense heartache, but there is certain heartache that some of us should not have had to feel; for example, when we lose our loved ones early due to state-sanctioned abuse that is racist, transphobic, ableist, colorist, and classist. Domestic violence is a direct result of patriarchal hierarchies and supremacy, which parallels the violence of war and genocide. All these forms of abuse require people to be violent to maintain positions of control. In The Will to Change, bell hooks wrote extensively about the dominator culture that demands “psychic self-mutilation” to sustain itself and kill off our emotions. When we are told to “not be sad,” we are also being ordered to look away from what is required for change.

— Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love

[horizon-verizon]

I don’t care if a woman commit adultery, puritans should remember that it was once normal for men who murdered their wives to get away with it, or have reduced charges, because of “sudden discovery of a spouse’s adultery.” Infidelity stigma and adultery laws maintain social norms which justify violence, discrimination and oppression of women. To this day, there are many countries in the world where a husband, brother, or father is legally permitted to mutilate or commit an honor killing against a wife, sister, daughter, or girlfriend, if she “strays” or commits a sexual folly, and in the form of state sanctioned forms of violence such as stoning, flogging or hanging for adultery. In Europe, husbands and boyfriends still murder their adulterous wives/girlfriends. Philippines’ law still criminalizes adultery and concubinage, and both are deemed “crimes against chastity” and, unsurprisingly, the law differentiates based on the gender of the spouse. A wife can be charged with adultery, while a husband can only be charged with the related crime of concubinage, which is more loosely defined and harder to prove.

As you shouldn't. Anon may refer to this recent post I reblogged from another.

I'm still iffy about what "concubinage" versus adultery even means in the Philippines, you reminded me to research.

[ivygorgon]

AN OPEN LETTER to THE PRESIDENT & U.S. CONGRESS

The United States must uphold universal values of fairness and equality

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President Biden, Ladies and gentlemen of Congress,

I rise today deeply troubled by the ongoing atrocities committed by Israeli soldiers, which include acts of rape, theft, murder, mutilation, torture, starvation, kidnapping, occupation, and terrorism. These actions, while perpetrated under the guise of self-defense, cannot be ignored or excused.

For far too long, Israel has played the victim on the international stage while simultaneously rejecting international law and engaging in egregious human rights violations. This pattern of behavior has persisted for nearly a century, and it is time for us to acknowledge the truth and take a stand for justice.

As representatives of a nation that claims to uphold universal values of fairness and equality, we cannot turn a blind eye to the suffering of innocent civilians at the hands of Israeli forces. Our unwavering support for Israel must not come at the expense of ignoring the injustices inflicted upon the Palestinian people.

It is incumbent upon us to hold Israel accountable for its actions, to demand adherence to international law, and to advocate for a just and peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We cannot claim to champion justice while defending such grave injustices.

America must demand an immediate end to Israel's genocide of Palestinians and the ecocide of their land. We must enact laws that grant Palestinians freedom from occupation, starting with a permanent ceasefire, dismantling apartheid policies, divesting funds and arms, and implementing sanctions against Israel.

The weaponization of starvation by Israel cannot be tolerated. America must ensure that humanitarian aid flows freely into Gaza to alleviate the suffering of innocent civilians trapped in this conflict.

It is time for us to take meaningful action to address these grave injustices and work towards a just and peaceful resolution for all parties involved.

Your immediate attention to address my each concern is needed without delay. I look forward to your response.

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"... the discourse of criminalization fails to capture the complexity of the relationship between the First Nations and the criminal law, because it directs our gaze only to the criminalized and away from others. As with Peaychew, many forms of engagement with the criminal law are described in this book. I have found cases in which First Nations individuals laid Informations against white men as well as men from their own communities, alleging different types of offences, such as theft and assault; cases in which Aboriginal women and girls appeared as informants and witnesses and charged white and Métis men, as well as men from their own communities, with forms of sexual interference with, or “carnal knowledge” of, them or their daughters; cases in which only a handful of First Nations women and girls appeared as accused persons, charged with or implicated in the theft of small items, such as a tea kettle from an empty house, a silver spoon from an empty schoolhouse, the clothes that First Nations children were wearing when they ran away from the industrial school, or, in the case of Betsy Horsefall and Benjamin Gordon, in the theft of a horse that Betsy said was hers.

Perhaps the strongest argument of this book concerns the form and content of law and reflects my long-standing commitment to the importance of attending to the specificity of different legal forms and the relationship between them. The book represents a sustained call for a more precise definition and use of the concept of criminalization, one in which distinctions between criminal law as a legal form and other forms of law are recognized, and that seeks to apprehend the contexts, circumstances, and sites in which actions and practices of Aboriginal peoples were prosecuted – as crimes or as regulatory or other statutory offences.

Some of the historical literature reveals a certain imprecision with respect to the definition and scope of criminal law. Many scholars adopt a wide approach to criminal law, in which all legal forms that have an air of compulsion, coercion, or sanction are coloured with a criminal law brush. Recent work examining the efforts of the Canadian state to restrict and curtail traditional forms of Aboriginal expression and activity, including dances and ceremonies, hunting, and fishing, uses the language of criminalization to characterize them. For instance, a now iconic exemplar of criminalization is said to be found in amendments to Indian Act in 1884 that prohibited particular kinds of dances and celebrations (such as the potlatch in British Columbia). For the Plains First Nations, the most expansive and relevant Indian Act restrictions were introduced in an 1895 amendment to s. 114 that prohibited dances involving giveaways and wounding or mutilation. Although historical evidence implicates the police as well as Indian Department officials in efforts to enforce the prohibitions and prosecute these offences, the historical evidence also indicates that these prohibitions were resented, resisted, and ignored as well as only occasionally and unevenly enforced (indeed, they were almost unenforceable) on the ground. In any event, these provisions fell outside the ambit of criminal law.

Admittedly, caution is in order here. Interdisciplinary scholarship in socio-legal studies argues for a broader notion of crime – one that challenges the historical preoccupation with crimes of individual wrongdoers and the historical neglect of crimes of the powerful, including the state and corporate actors and institutions, as well as the historical neglect of the experience of the environment, culture, and entire communities as victims of forms of seldom criminalized violence. If one proceeds with criminal law narrowly construed (excluding some of the coercive provisions of the Indian Act, for instance), one may risk proceeding with too narrow an understanding of crime. The importance of critical engagement with a self-referential notion of true “criminal law” cannot be denied. The content of criminal law is neither universal nor transhistorical; and, importantly, criminalization is not self-evident.

The process of criminalization occurs when people are criminally prosecuted and convicted for forms of conduct that have become defined by the state as crimes. It may encompass the extension of criminal law over formerly non-criminal behaviour, or it may involve the systemic targeting, overpolicing, and criminal prosecution of particular groups and communities for particular kinds of offences. Inevitably, it is intended to express and enforce social denunciation for socially injurious conduct. In legal scholarship, it is important to be attentive to the analytic distinction between legal and extra-legal forms of compulsion and legal coercion, between prohibition and regulation, and between committal and conviction, in order to precisely identify the nature of the law under discussion.

To insist upon specificity in the scope and definition of criminal law need not lead one to an uncritical acceptance of the legitimacy of its norms. It is important, however, to be attentive to questions of form, content, and diversity of legal instruments deployed by the state, many of which contain offences but which do not involve the denunciation and sanction normally associated with criminal law.

An important and related line of inquiry concerns the way in which legal historians have or have not addressed the specificity of the two legal regimes of the Indian Act and the criminal law, and the sites of intersection between the Canadian government’s “Indian policy” and the criminal law component of its national policy. The Indian policy of the Canadian government intensified over the last two decades of the nineteenth century with the introduction of increasingly oppressive amendments to the Indian Act.

In recent work examining the efforts of the Canadian state to restrict and curtail traditional forms of Aboriginal expression and activity, the language of criminalization has been invoked. For some scholars, the prohibition of some forms of religious ceremonies and dances, together with special practices and policies, such as the pass system, offer evidence of the nature of the Canadian state’s treatment of Aboriginal peoples. For the most part, these initiatives occurred under the legislative auspices of the Indian Act or the administrative initiatives of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and his Indian Agents in the field. It has become commonplace in some of the literature to refer to the criminalization of Indians and Indian religious celebrations.

There are other voices in the historical literature that offer different emphases. It is significant, in my view, that one recent study expressly devoted to law, colonialism, and First Nations addresses the struggle over the right to fish and the regulatory framework, including offences, of the Fisheries Act. Nowhere in Douglas Harris’s careful study of the restriction and regulation of the Aboriginal fishers of British Columbia does he characterize the process as one of criminalization. Similarly, Katherine Pettipas’s equally rigorous study of the interference with and prosecution of First Nations ceremonies on the Prairies characterizes government policy as one of regulation.

We can also, however, find instances and forms of NWMP resistance to federal Indian policy. Pettipas’s carefully researched study of the regulation and repression of indigenous religious ceremonies on the Prairies provides irrefutable evidence of the legalized campaign of repression of forms of religious celebrations. Nevertheless, although her work demonstrates the lengths to which the government went to circumscribe and curtail these forms of religious expression, including the prosecution and imprisonment of a number of Aboriginal celebrants, she also notes that some members of the NWMP actually ignored orders to prevent dances and instead facilitated the events. Both Pettipas and John Jennings cite Stipendiary Magistrate Macleod’s refusal to convict Indians who had been arrested for performing a sun dance. Macleod, a former commissioner of the NWMP, is said to have delivered “a scathing rebuff” to the police who had made the arrests, likening their conduct to having made an arrest in a church.

In sum, Pettipas’s study of the regulation of Plains Indian religious ceremonies evinces a nuanced analysis, showing the uneven and contradictory tensions that accompanied this damaging legislative initiative. She reminds her readers that only some forms of dances and celebrations (those involving “giveaways”’ and “piercings”) were prohibited by the Indian Act; that because of its vagueness, the police often declined to enforce the infamous s. 114 of the Indian Act; and that even Indian officials were of the view that a prosecution should be undertaken only as a last resort. It is also clear that some First Nations people were prepared to “test” the strength and limits of the law.

In conclusion, the “self-evidence” of criminalization is a trap for the unwary. Criminal law becomes all law; criminalization becomes an umbrella that covers all manner of legal forms (from liquor violations, to hunting and fishing offences, to the Indian Act, and sometimes even criminal law). In critical legal historical work on criminal law, criminal law is depicted “in one dimensional terms” – criminal law “acts against” subordinate people (women, indigenous peoples, workers, and so on). This is the dominant account in the critical literature – inequalities of class, race, and gender are reinforced as the criminal law bears down on those brought before it. And yet some of the literature may also be read to offer a more relational notion of criminal law, even in a colonial context."

- Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press for the Osgoode Society, 2012. p. 19-22

[readingsquotes]

"Increasingly I feel the emotional weight of these experiences bearing down on me. I don’t know that I have ever spoken with the family of a murder victim, and in one day in Sabastiya, I found myself in multiple living rooms with weeping mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers, sisters, and cousins recounting the atrocities committed against their loved ones. I met with a young man who has not recovered from the shock of seeing his best friend’s mutilated body, still smoldering from forty bullets searing the inside of his head, neck, face, chest, and groin. I sat with a boy who was shot in the leg by a soldier one week earlier (his plans to finish high school now put on hold). I met a father of four (including newborn twins) who was shot in the stomach by a settler in October, much of his digestive tract currently taped to the outside of his body, just released from the hospital for a brief rest (and a chance to feel his children’s skin against his own) before he goes back for more surgeries—while we spoke, the settlers returned with IDF soldiers to continue tormenting the village, as they do almost daily. The way that bullets casually fly here and destroy bodies and lives—it’s just staggering. And this is all state-sanctioned. The knowledge that none of these murderous soldiers and settlers will ever be brought to justice casts a sickening pall over these meetings that has left me actually, literally, genuinely speechless on several occasions."

[brandwhorestarscream]

Correct me if this question has already been asked (cuz I don't remember), what are the autobots thoughts on rung more precisely about the fact that he is Primus and supports the original cause of the Decepticons and, even in current times, not the bots.

I... don't think they know Rung is Primus. I don't think even Rung knows that Rung is Primus 😂 its been a looong time since I read IDW and MTMTE, but iirc Rung is like. An unaware Avatar of Primus, like a little sliver of him but not the whole thing and he was unaware of that fact

But, in a hypothetical situation where everyone is aware... the autobots are probably shocked. Snubbed. The almighty god of life that created their entire race thinks they're wrong?! And is siding with the decepticons? Why?

It couldn't possibly be that millions of years of oppression, unethical slave labor, and state sanctioned lobotomies/mutilations are bad, no no, so clearly it must be something else 🙄

Rung is about to sit them down and lecture them about how tone deaf they are and to stop treating other people like sub-classes to yourselves smh

[formularunning]

Long ago BIG INTERNATIONAL SPORTS EVENTS stopped giving a FUCK to me, now they seem to me trivial events, loaded with political ideology and strong economic interests, with an obvious halo of corruption and favoritism, from the World Cup Soccer, the Super Bowl, the Major Leagues, the NBA and by of course, the OLYMPIC GAMES.

And it's not that this has started in Paris, the Qatar world cup left hundreds, maybe thousands of immigrants dead, forced to work in the desert under the terrible sun, in temperatures exceeding 40 degrees to build the stadiums where the parties, workers in slavery conditions without any nation defending freedom, democracy and human rights saying anything.

Some of the cities that were Olympic headquarters could never recover from the economic cost that an event like this brings, such as Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the same Greece that shortly after experienced one of its worst economic crises and others whose nations practically disappeared as Sarajevo 1984, whose country, Yugoslavia, disintegrated a few years later, even the Olympics of Mexico 1968, which was DAMNED by the murder of students, only 10 days earlier, in the Plaza de las Three Cultures in Tlatelolco, and not to say Munich 1972, which would be the most modern Olympics until then in history, the first to use electronic timers, the most modern stadiums, the most advanced technology of its time, tarnished by the killing of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Villa itself by the SEPTEMBER group black is where the point is.

The Olympics emerged in ancient Greece 700 years BC, this, to worship the God Zeus, was held every 4 years, on Mount Olympus, hence the name, the purpose, besides the religious character, was the competition between the different states that confirmed Greece, nations in conflict and wars, but that for a moment, for a week, these were set aside, left weapons and exchanged for bullets, disks, jabalines, races, the fight was one of the most anticipated events where the best warriors competed naked body to body, but without getting to death, every hostile act was left for a week forbidden, even the common crime, to call it somehow, was a week of veneration, peace, a truce that everyone respected, even after confrontation and war returned.

But now, beyond the SINGING BEHEADED QUEENS, Drag Queens dancing sensually next to children, semi-naked men showing their genitals, transvestites, sexualized children, no longer gay couples, but GROUPS, the performance of the Last Supper by Drag Queens, a grotesque FREEDOM with morbid obesity, the promotion of BODY POSITIVE, i.e. the "pride" for the physical and the body, regardless of whether you weigh 130 kilos which is harmful to health, WOKE culture, PROGRESS, PRIDE, "love is love" the Rastia P D and a GROTESCO and BIZARRE Daddy Smurf belly showing his testicles blues, all of this, in an "INTERNATIONAL, FAMILY, SPORTS EVENT" that looked more like a bacanal or an 0rgy4 or a ritual on Jeffrey Epstein's island.

Even more ABOMINABLE than this: the SEGREGATION of Russia and Belarus because of the conflict in Ukraine.

Forced to attend as NEUTRAL NATIONS, unable to use their flags or sing their anthems, this, while Israel attends without any problem despite the G NOCIDIO in Gaza, would seem to be the same: an INVASION of Russia to Ukraine and Israel to Gaza, but it is not so, while Israel bombs a poor nation, civilians, women and children unarmed, defenseless, hungry, sick, mutilated, Russia fights from your to you against an army, against NATO, against the European Union, against the United States, Russia is the most sanctioned country currently and has offered the peace practically from the beginning of the conflict, those who do not want peace, are the companies, the dark interests, the arms industry, many of them, PRESENT, PROUD SPONSORS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES.

Why is one nation forced to conceal it's identity and another not? It's not that Israel was done to the same thing Russia has, it's that no nation should be segregates

[jimi-rawlings]

The Sierra Leone Civil War started in 1991 and continued until 2002, costing at least 50,000 lives and causing local people to suffer killings, mutilation, rape, torture and abduction, mainly due to the brutal warfare waged by rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) claimed that they supported causes of justice and democracy in the beginning, but later on they started to control the villages and to prevent local people from voting for the new government by chopping off their limbs. Victims included children and infants. It created numerous examples of physical and psychological harm across Sierra Leone.[27]

Moreover, they also occupied the diamond mines in order to get access to funding and continued support of their actions.[28] For example, during that time, RUF was mining up to $125 million of diamonds yearly. Since diamonds are used as a funding source, they also created opportunities for tax evasion and financial support of crime.[29] Therefore, United Nations Security Council imposed diamond sanctions in 2000, which were then lifted in 2003. According to National Geographic News, all of these civil wars and conflicts created by rebel groups resulted in over four million deaths in the African population and injuries to over two million civilians.[30] Another latest conflict diamond statistic from Statistic Brain, revealed that Sierra Leone has been listed as second highest in the production of conflict diamonds, which is shown as 1% of the world's production, after Angola, which produced 2.1% in 2016. 15% of Sierra Leone's diamond production are conflict diamonds. It shows that the production of conflict diamonds still exists in Sierra Leone.[31]

According to the 2005 Country Reports on Human Right Practices of Africa from the United States, serious human rights issues still exist in Sierra Leone, even though the 11-year civil conflict had officially ended by 2002. Sierra Leone remains in an unstable political situation, although the country has elected a new government. The huge consequences of blood diamonds still remains a mainstream issue in Sierra Leone. One of the biggest issues is people still being abused by the security forces, including rape and the use of excessive force on detainees, including teenagers. Child abuse and child labor are other serious issues which took place in Sierra Leone after the civil conflicts.[32] As they need a huge number of workers, the security forces started kidnapping and forcing young adults to be their slaves; children were forced to join their army as soldiers, and women were raped. They even burned entire villages. Thousands of men, women, and children are used as slaves to collect diamonds, and they are forced to use their bare hands to dig in mud along river banks instead of digging with tools.[33][34]

Based on the report, The Truth About Diamonds: Conflict and Development from Global Witness, it mentioned that Sierra Leone is listed as second from the bottom of the United Nation Human Development Index. It also shows that Sierra Leone still makes slow progress, in 2016, in such different aspects as, for example, education, health, and human rights, since 1990, which is also the year that conflicts took place in Sierra Leone. It shows that it is a huge consequence of blood diamonds that it brought into Sierra Leone.[35] Even though the war had ended in 2002 and the government tried to improve and adjust the cooperation of the diamond industry. Sierra Leone resulted in an increase of over US$140 million in 2005 and attempted a percentage return of export tax to diamond mining communities. However, it does not improve anything – the money is not reaching the public and it has not provided benefit to anyone in the communities. For instance, the Kono district in Sierra Leone has been mined for 70 years, but they still have no basic facilities, like electricity and repairing of roads. Houses are destroyed because of the civil wars.[36] It also examines the ethical issues of how rebel groups treat those locals. They used brainwashing of inexperienced young children and forced them to be child soldiers as they lost their personal freedom and rights under command that included violence and intimidation.

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