Women weren't mentioned in our Constitution or Declaration of Independence. The 19th century movement to allow women to vote, that promoted voluntary motherhood and other women's rights caused a backlash of laws making abortions illegal and even birth control in some states.

In April 2009, the National Abortion Federation reported these incidents of violence and disruption against abortion providers in the U.S. and Canada since 1977: 8 murders, 17 attempted murders, 41 bombings, 100 butyric acid attacks, 659 anthrax threats, 175 arsons, 96 attempted bombings/arsons, 390 invasions; 1,400 vandalisms, 1,993 trespassings, 179 assault and battery incidents, 406 death threats, 4 kidnappings, 151 burglaries, 525 stalkings, 13,995 hate mail/harassing calls, 339 email/internet harassments, 148 hoax devices/suspicious packages, 642 bomb threats, 141,837 incidents of picketing, 763 clinic blockades and 33,834 arrests, with many assaults on escorts and patients never reported.

America has its own religious police and they've intimidated mostly Republicans to throw women under the bus so they can get elected by voters who believe a pregnant woman in a Catholic Hospital should die rather than have an abortion to save her life, which was a news report recently in the 21st century. Federal funding for those hospitals should end until they change that extremist religious policy.

Women have the right to religious freedom but their beliefs have been usurped by fundamentalists who are getting misogynistic laws passed that are clearly unconstitutional, but the mostly-male politicians are too cowardly to enforce the federal Roe v Wade law and provide reproductive health services to poor women just as they do for poor men.

The same conditions exist in America. Women are brutalized in their homes and are raped and murdered at an alarming rate. Why doesn't our government declare war one itself for what is becoming an increasing problem? Because the lawmakers who decide such things are also lawyers, and lawyers make billions off those who predicate such crimes. It is far more lucrative for them if they allow abuse, rape and murder to continue. If a man commits these crimes, he costs money to keep behind bars, but produces income for them when he is allowed to continue his crimes against women.

For women today, the court system is set up so that she cannot win. Less than 5% of rapists are ever brought to justice and the reason is not lack of evidence. It is evidence that is never gathered or gathered improperly or never presented in court because someone has paid for this to happen. Rape victims in America do not have a journalist who will stand by them and report the anguish that they go through. But the predator does. Oh, poor man, he has been accused.

Today, when a man commits an act of violence against a woman in America, these acts are not judged in a court of record, they are judged in family courts, where there is no record that is made public. We have no journalist to report to the world what these courts do to us. He is not sentenced to jail, but to Anger Management. These classes teach a violent person how to be more violent without leaving marks and the judge seals the records of violence so that he is free to offend again and again. Time Magazine is not there to report that.

Where are the journalists that report on the corruption in the police departments that allows the violence against women in America? They are all too busy misdirecting attention away from the problems here to report that a woman is raped every 2 minutes, that 9 children and 4 women die every day because someone in the law enforcement and court system turned their backs. They are too engrossed in sending up red herrings and doing the bidding of our government to state one important fact of life here.

AMERICAN WOMEN ARE DEAD WOMEN WALKING.

Edward Bernays.

Most people are too simple to get beyond sound bites, and I don't know what to do about it.

The CIA isn't going to give up its' opium profits that easily…
Opium production EXPLODED after the US invasion.
Ever wonder why?

CIA Heroin has a premium over generic in the world market. Good profits too!

Posted by: Ydotheyhateus on Jul 16, 2008 8:28 AM

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There was a point in Afghanistan's tortured history when the future looked bright, when a determined effort to lift the country and its people out of backward agrarian feudalism almost succeeded.

It began with the formation of the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) back in the sixties, which opposed the autocratic rule of King Zahir Shar. The growth in popularity of the PDPA eventually led to them taking control of the country in 1978, after a coup removed the former Kings' cousin, Mohammed Daud, from power.

The coup enjoyed popular support in the towns and cities, evidenced in reports carried in US newspapers. The Wall Street Journal, no friend of revolutionary movements, reported at the time that '150,000 persons marched to honour the new flagthe participants appeared genuinely enthusiastic.' The Washington Post reported that 'Afghan loyalty to the government can scarcely be questioned.

Upon taking power, the new government introduced a program of reforms designed to abolish feudal power in the countryside, guarantee freedom of religion, along with equal rights for women and ethnic minorities. Thousands of prisoners under the old regime were set free and police files burned in a gesture designed to emphasise an end to repression. In the poorest parts of Afghanistan, where life expectancy was 35 years, where infant mortality was one in three, free medical care was provided. In addition, a mass literacy campaign was undertaken, desperately needed in a society in which ninety percent of the population could neither read nor write.

The resulting rate of progress was staggering. By the late 1980s half of all university students in Afghanistan were women, and women made up 40 percent of the country's doctors, 70 percent of its teachers, and 30 percent of its civil servants. In John Pilger's 'New Rulers Of The World' (Verso, 2002), he relates the memory of the period through the eyes of an Afghan woman, Saira Noorani, a female surgeon who escaped the Taliban in 2001. She said: “Every girl could go to high school and university. We could go where we wanted and wear what we liked. We used to go to cafes and the cinema to see the latest Indian movies. It all started to go wrong when the mujaheddin started winning. They used to kill teachers and burn schools. It was sad to think that these were the people the West had supported.”

Under the pretext that the Afghan government was a Soviet puppet, which was false, the then Carter Administration authorised the covert funding of opposition tribal groups, whose traditional feudal existence had come under attack with these reforms. An initial $500 million was allocated, money used to arm and train the rebels in the art in secret camps set up specifically for the task across the border in Pakistan. This opposition came to be known as the mujaheddin, and so began a campaign of murder and terror which, six months later, resulted in the Afghan government in Kabul requesting the help of the Soviet Union, resulting in an ill-fated military intervention which ended ten years later in an ignominious retreat of Soviet military forces and the descent of Afghanistan into the abyss of religious intolerance, abject poverty, warlordism and violence that has plagued the country ever since.

Brzezinski confirms: “Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”
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