tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35919153607025708902024-03-06T09:04:18.362+01:00Batcheeba's inner worldI love and I hate. It's all very uncomplicatedBatcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-84171381925807038152017-06-17T14:54:00.001+02:002017-06-17T15:03:46.991+02:00Grooming - Get with the program!Norwegian post - use google translate.<br />
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Grooming. Er du 13 år og har hørt ordet? Er du en pappa på 40? Er du en mamma? Er du jente, er du gutt? <br />
Begrepet er forholdsvis nytt i Norge med en lengre brukshistorie i USA. Grooming er den farligste prosessen i å manipulere barn, nettopp fordi grooming sikter seg inn på behov barn har for å bli sett, hørt, beundret. Barn forstår ikke hva de utsettes for, foreldre ser ikke hva målet er. <br />
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<a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/grooming" target="_blank">Grooming</a> slik vi kjenner ordet betyr å stelle, katter vasker pelsen til kattungene, aper renser pelsen til hverandre og nyter prosessen. Grooming oppleves godt. Det skaper trygghet. Tillit. Fysisk og psykisk behag.<br />
Det skaper også lojalitet, videre følger et gi og ta-premiss. Forskjellen er at denne lojaliteten gir rom for å flytte grenser, litt og litt. Deretter følger skyld, skam, frykt og til sist en totalt fastlåst situasjon. Ingen fluktmuligheter.<a href="https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-abuse-and-neglect/grooming/" target="_blank"> Overgripere mestrer denne prosessen så godt</a> at foreldre ikke ser hva som foregår, barnet er manipulert og kan ikke fortelle på grunn av frykt for konsekvenser.<br />
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"Om du forteller, kommer jeg i fengsel og tar mitt eget liv." Eller "Mamma og pappa vil ikke tro det du sier, de vil bli rasende og kaste deg ut fra hjemmet." Eller: "Du likte det, du kom tilbake, du tok imot alle gavene, hvem vil de tro på? Meg en voksen, eller deg et barn?"<br />
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Andre eksempler handler ikke om det man sier, det handler om situasjonen overgriper har satt barnet/ungdommen i: De har gitt ungdommen jobb, dyre gaver, subtile eller direkte kontakt med familiemedlemmer som sender tydelige signaler om at snakker du mister du alt dette.<br />
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Typen grooming jeg er opptatt av i dette innlegget er den typen som foregår via sosiale medier. Maktbalansen handler om tenåringer i alderen de begynner å oppdage seg selv og kropp, der oppmerksomhet fra gutter er spennende, det gir selvtillit, status. Grooming på nett er svært vanskelig for foreldre å oppdage, nettopp fordi det skjer i en lukket sfære der unge skal få være unge. Det er meningen de skal ha privatliv, de har begynt å få secrets, de eksprimenterer og forteller ikke lenger mor og far men venner om det som skjedde i helgen. Videre har kommunikasjon på nett psykologisk sterk effekt, man hopper over de normale steg man tar RL i prosessen man blir kjent. Chat blir raskt personlig, man forteller fortere om egne problemer, at man har vanskelig forhold til foreldre, blir mobbet på skolen, at man er usikker på om man er streit eller skjev. Svært mange foreldre har ikke nok tid eller overskudd, eller teknisk kompetanse, til å delta i ungdommers nettliv. Balansen er krevende, invaderer jeg, bryr jeg meg for mye, skaper jeg bare avstand til ungen min når jeg stiller spørsmål? Unger derimot har tid, masse overskudd og enorm teknisk kompetanse. For Kayleigh endte nett-grooming med død. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4088510/I-hope-story-save-Chilling-film-murder-rape-online-grooming-victim-Kayleigh-Haywood-15-viewed-million-times-24-hours-released-online.html" target="_blank">Se filmen med tenåringene i hus.</a><br />
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Det er ikke kun voksne og barn som beveger seg i denne prosessen. Barn
og unge voksne, tenåringer og tenåringer, barn og tenåringer.... <br />
Youtube. Harmløst, hva? Masse søte tenåringsgutter som covrer hit-låter med Bieber-sveis og sukkersøtt dådyrblikk. Vi har vært der alle sammen. Forskjellen var at min generasjon så idoler på TV, på plakater på soverommet, i ungdomsblader. Avstanden var total, vi kunne bare drømme, fnise og snakke med venner om drømmeidolet. Nå er avstanden redusert til en melding på Snap, Insta, Twitter....Og det er utallige idoler på Youtube. Unge jenter dåner, bruker timesvis på videoer, kjøper merch, laster ned låter fra Itunes. Og mange får svar når de tar kontakt, en like, en follow, en private message, whats your number? Oh my god, han vil snakke med meg og bare meg! Unge poster bilder av sine beste kvaliteter, det de tror andre vil se.<br />
Hvorfor er alle unge på sosiale medier? Hvor er samfunnets fokus? Hvor er ditt fokus, mamma og pappa? Strikkeoppskrift på face, naboen poster bilder av ny motorsykkel på insta. Jeg ser dere på bussen, foreldre. Blikket låst på den lille skjermen. Ungen får ikke blikkkontakt. Kanskje andre kan se meg, kanskje andre kan gi meg bekreftelse på at jeg er fin, interessant.<br />
Unger vil bli sett. Derfor. Unger sier: Se meg.<br />
Og nettet
tilbyr umiddelbar tilfredstillelse. Fra ukjente og kjente. Overgripere
kan være barn, tenåringer og voksne. Og hvem som er hva vises ikke
utenpå.<br />
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Jeg vil at du mamma og du pappa skal lese <a href="https://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/jones-complaint.pdf" target="_blank">denne saken</a> sammen med tenåringene i huset. Austin Jones, online heartthrob og Youtube famous. Ikke sensurer innholdet i rettsdokumentet: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/14/youtube-austin-jones-child-abuse-images" target="_blank">Dette er virkeligheten. </a> Kun to jenter har stått frem, men det er nå videoer på Youtube der <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMybYKlJzA" target="_blank">jenter forteller</a>
de har opplevd det samme. For 2-3 år tilbake. Hvor mange jenter
tilsammen? Og hvorfor kunne dette pågå så lenge? Selv om Austin Jones
for 2 år siden sto frem og <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niaIgUQsbDc" target="_blank">beklaget "uanstendig oppførsel med fans</a>."
Les tekstmeldingene som er sendt. De gir et godt blikk inn i hvordan
grooming utspiller seg. Det psykologiske spindelvevet. Han har også <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOD4PPDwMU" target="_blank">vist jenter hvordan </a>de
skal gjøre det han vil, hva de skal si, hva de skal ha på seg i videoer
han ber de sende, presser de til å sende. Jones har 500.000 følgere
bare på youtube. Alderssnittet er jenter 12-16 år.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>During their conversation, which JONES referred to as a “try out,” “hard <br />work,” and an “opportunity,” and Victim A referred to as an “audition,” JONES <br />instructed Victim A to make videos of herself dancing in a sexual manner and <br />performing sexual acts, and directed her on what to do and say in the videos. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Victin A expressed that she was tired and did not want to <br />continue Jones continually encouraged her to “go give me a boner,” asked her if <br />she wanted to “try out more” and provided directions regarding how she should <br />dance, what she should wear, how she should adjust the camera in the videos, and <br />that she should talk about her age “the whole time.” He explicitly instructed her as <br />follows:<br />JONES: Okay. Go make it clap super loud and talk about your age the <br />whole time. Got it? <br />*** <br />JONES: Clap it super loud. And say these lines: I’m only (age), yeah only <br />(age) years old, this ass is only (age) years old</i></span>.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Victim A begins the video by saying, “Hey Austin, my name is [Victim A’s first name] and my butt is 14 years old.” Victim A proceeds to stand up and is nude from the waist down, with her buttocks exposed. Victim A places her hands against the wall and begins to dance. While dancing, Victim A states, “it’s 14.”</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Victim B: During the conversation, Victim B stated that she was JONES’s biggest <br />fan. JONES repeatedly told her that she was “so lucky” to have his attention and <br />that she needed to “prove” that she was his biggest fan. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Victim B then stated to JONES<br />that she wanted to “make you happy an all but I don’t was either of us getting inn trouble over it,” to which JONES responded “Of course you can keep making videos! You’re doing a great job! and nothing is going to happen.” JONES then stated that “I guess you really aren’t my biggest fan.....ok then.” He then threatened to leave the chat unless Victim B would do as he said. She responded that she would “do as much as I can.”</span></i><br />
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Bry deg. Følg med. Snakk med ungene om grooming. Om grenser. Press. Skyld. Skam.<br />
Snakk med de om dette i dag. La de lære begreper og varseltegn via <i>deg</i>, ikke via en traumatisk opplevelse. <br />
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<br />Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-14193205214726349972015-10-27T15:17:00.000+01:002015-10-27T15:21:15.639+01:00One of us! One of us!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Så er har jeg blitt en av de. De som skriver innlegg i avisen og poster blogger om hvordan det oppleves å ha høyere utdannelse men ikke jobb. Jeg har lest om så mange av dere og tenk at situasjonen som beskrives er absurd. Hvordan er det mulig at resurssterke, kompetente mennesker ikke får drømmejobben?<br />
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Da vi bestemte oss for å flytte til en liten by på Sørlandet var det ikke et tema engang at jeg var den av oss to som skulle få vanskeligheter med jobb. Han har to bachelorgrader og en master innen et langt snevrere felt enn meg som er utdannet barnevernspedagog. Han fikk drømmejobben i god tid før vi flyttet og vi konsentrerte oss om praktiske sider av prosessen med salg av leilighet i Oslo, renoveringsplaner av hus og lignende. Jeg skulle jo bare flytte ned, søke på en av de mange spennende og relevante stillingene og begynner å jobbe etter et par måneder. Jeg ble kjent med naboer og den samme frasen ble sagt: <i>"nå prioriterer vi renoveringen så begynner jeg å jobbe i august tenker jeg</i>." Nå er vi i slutten av oktober og i dag kom nok en mail i innboksen med den velkjente beskjeden: <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"<i>Vi vil med dette meddele at stillingen nå er besatt av en annen søker.</i></span><br />
<i>Vi takker så mye for din interesse, og ønsker deg lykke til videre</i>." Jeg har ikke engang blitt innkalt til intervju.<br />
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Jeg - Hun som alltid har jobbet, hun som bare har tatt en telefon, eller blitt huket inn via andre. Hun som bare kunne sende en mail og være på plass i ny stilling et par uker senere. Jeg - som har jobbet siden jeg var 16 år er snart 40 år, høyere utdannet med et lass kompetanse, erfaring, kurs, innen rus, psykiatri, barnevern, veiledning, barn og foreldre i alle aldre. Jeg er god. Jeg er faktisk jævlig god i jobben min. Er det noe jeg er trygg på her i verden er det min kompetanse.<br />
Nå sitter jeg her i et ferdig oppusset soverom, om en uke fylles huset av eletrikere, snekkere, rørleggere, fliseleggere og gudene vet hva for å renovere badet. Det som skal bli drømmebadet, i drømmehuset, i drømmebyen. Dette var drømmen vår.<br />
Stikke fra 8 år i Oslogryta for å begynne et fredligere liv, med hus, hage og gode jobber. Vi var så inderlig optimistiske for fremtiden.<br />
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Han går ut av huset kl 07:30 for å gå på jobb, mens jeg organiserer renovering av huset. Bevares, det er nok å gjøre. Men jeg ofret ikke blod, svette og tårer i full jobb under utdanning for å være husfrue. Riktignok er jeg frustrert, men jeg er Bushi - kriger. Jeg brenner for faget, for barnas rettigheter, for den anerkjennende samtalen.<br />
I mellomtiden tar jeg vare på nabolagets fugler og katter. Redder Tordivler og vakre larver fra den sikre død i møtet med hard asfalt. Får etterlengtet fagorgasme i nerdesamtale med fysioterapivenn på besøk - Hun: "<i>pasienten har lammelser i høyre side og lang historie med overgrep..</i>." Jeg: "<i>Det må et tverrfaglig syn inn... biopsykososial modell... har du lest hvordan krenkende barn blir syke voksne skrevet av </i><span class="st"><i>Anna Luise Kirkengen?!</i>" Pure bliss.</span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".e3.$mid=11407870329498=2742ffc3e9b0e4a5812.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span class="null">It's
that cracking sound that gets me going. That gets my attention. I look
down. At my left thigh. A 20 cm long tear starting from just below my
crotch. Brownish. Black in the middle. No smell. No liquid. No puss. No
maggots. I reach down and with my right hand pull the skin slightly
aside. To have a closer look. I've had dreams like this. Where I take my
eyeballs out of the socket at bedtime, and place them on the bedstand.
As you do with dentures. Only difference is you place it in water. Next
day. Waking up. The eyeballs are dried out and upon touching them they
smolder like layered onions. </span></span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".e3.$mid=11407870329498=2742ffc3e9b0e4a5812.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span class="null">As I pull on it, the flesh opens wider.
Down to the edge of my kneecap. The sound is like that of ripping up
fabric. Then it stops. I put two fingers inside my thigh. No pain. It's
deep. My fingers slip inside, the flesh like dried up wood but with a
slight give. I press slightly and then I hear a muted snapping sound.
The flesh losens from my thigh bone. The bone, yellow brown dusty
fragile. With some remains of dried up flesh still attached to it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".e3.$mid=11407870329498=2742ffc3e9b0e4a5812.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span class="null"> I
pause for a few seconds. Pull my fingers out. I move myself closer to
the end of the bed. Both feet planted on the floor. I use my arms to
push my self to an upright position keeping the weight on my right foot.
I stand like this for a minute maybe more. Then. I lean over and shift
the weight over to my left side. Silence. And then a loud cracking of
bone. I fall to my back and a fine white dust cloud of bone meal gently
lingers in the air. I wonder how it will feel once this spreads up to my
belly. And beyond. </span></span><br />
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Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-7588264220664848272013-09-08T16:43:00.001+02:002013-09-08T16:54:11.809+02:00David Bowie - Singing about necrophilia and pyromania!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a response to <a href="http://undreverset.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/grasoner/">this blog post.</a><br />
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I feel it's important to join this brave woman in her witch hunt for male musicians who degrade women with their songs on pro rape, death and mutilation. I simply cannot stand by and do nothing. <br />
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The brave woman translated the English lyrics to nynorsk, because that does not in any way, shape or form, change the content of the original lyrics. Adding personal interpretations certainly does not by any means distract the readers from the musicians intent with the track. At all.<br />
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So I wanted to dissect, erh.... I mean reveal, the true meaning behind David Bowie's "putting out fire" from the famous film Cat People. (whom everyone needs to know is about zoophilia and incest by the way).<br />
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(Red text is my objective opinion, not at all influenced by feminists like Andrea Dworkin.)<br />
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It's important to put a stop to pop music that promote such horrible acts on women. I suggest politicians form a task group, supported by the police, where all lyrics and videos must be approved before being put on TV. If we can save just ONE female from necrophiliacs, it's worth it!<br />
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If we don't stop this now, men all over the world will take to the streets attacking women and defending their acts by saying: "David Bowie told us to do it" We all know men are unable to view anything on TV without their sexual preference and their moral and ethics being completely distorted.<br />
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Let's look at the lyrics: <br />
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<b>"Cat People (Putting Out The Fire)"</b><br />
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See these eyes so green<br />
I can stare for a thousand years - <span style="color: red;">Here Bowie is proving his male superiority by slapping women in the face with his "stare down contest skills"</span><br />
Colder than the moon<br />
It's been so long - <span style="color: red;">Bowie is yelling at women for being cold, frigid and that he hasn't gotten off for ages because of it. </span><br />
And I've been putting out fire <br />
With gasoline -<span style="color: red;"> And since Bowie is so sexually frustrated by cold, frigid women, he is running round pouring gasoline on buildings already on fire because that give his sexual release!!</span><br />
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Feel my blood enraged - <span style="color: red;">He is so angry with women who wont fuck him, his blood is litterary boiling!</span><br />
It's just the fear of losing you<br />
Don't you know my name<br />
Well, you been so long - <span style="color: red;">Classic abuser psychology: They hit you and then say they are sorry and that they love you. Breaking you down until you feel worthless! Worthless I say!<br />
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See these eyes so red<br />
Red like jungle burning bright- <span style="color: red;">He is now referring to women who has been crying so hard their eyes are red, and I would suggest suffering from broken blood vessels from domestic abuse too! (I would like to add that it's more than likely that Bowie was in Nam killing, raping and putting things on fire there too - ref. jungles burning)</span><br />
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Those who feel me near<br />
Pull the blinds and change their minds - <span style="color: red;">"No means yes" Women he wants to rape, they just shut down, they pull down their mental blinds and just die inside. </span><br />
It's been so long - <span style="color: red;">Again he's horny.</span><br />
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Still this pulsing night<br />
A plague I call a heartbeat - <span style="color: red;">The pulsing is obviously his dick filled with blood from erection, and he cant keep his erection if the woman he is raping is still alive, so he has to kill her, stop her heartbeat, for him to get off. </span><br />
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Just be still with me - <span style="color: red;">Just die already! Bowie wants to fuck a dead woman! </span><br />
Ya wouldn't believe what I've been thru -<span style="color: red;"> Scare tactics. "Shut up or else, if you knew what I've done to others before you..."</span><br />
You've been so long<br />
Well it's been so long - <span style="color: red;">The woman has been dead now for weeks, and he is annoyed about the dead body in his flat stinking up the place. </span><br />
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And I've been putting out fire <br />
with gasoline<br />
putting out fire - <span style="color: red;">And while the dead body is decaying, Bowie is out getting his arson rocks off again.</span><br />
with gasoline<br />
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See these tears so blue - <span style="color: red;">And here he has another woman, in tears, probably from brutal violence.</span><br />
An ageless heart <br />
that can never mend - <span style="color: red;">Ageless heart means he will do them all young or old. And after he is done with her, she will never be the same. Forever ruined.</span><br />
These tears can never dry - <span style="color: red;">She will never stop crying because of the horrible shame!</span><br />
A judgement made<br />
can never bend - <span style="color: red;">He is judging all women as whores, and nothing will ever change his mind.</span><br />
See these eyes so green<br />
I can stare for a thousand years<br />
Just be still with me<br />
You wouldn't believe what I've been thru - <span style="color: red;">Repeating his mantra as to brainwash females.</span><br />
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You've been so long<br />
Well, it's been so long<br />
And I've been putting out fire - <span style="color: red;">Again, irritation over dead body in flat, putting more stuff on fire.</span><br />
with gasoline<br />
putting out fire with gasoline.<br />
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Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-56512236058512491752013-08-07T09:42:00.002+02:002013-08-07T09:42:46.388+02:00Hvordan kan selvbevissthet føre til anerkjennende kommunikasjon i sosialt arbeid?
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<b><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Kunsten
å kjenne seg selv.</span></span></i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Bevissthet
om eget reaksjonsmønster er viktig i møte med mennesker i kriser.
Sterke fortellinger om vold, overgrep eller omsorgssvikt kan være
smertefullt å ta inn over seg. Som sosialarbeider møter man ofte
mennesker som er sinte, som anklager eller bruker personangrep. Å
kunne møte mennesker med anerkjennelse, uansett hvilke emosjonelle
reaksjoner som kommer til uttrykk i samtaler, er nødvendig for å
sikre både etisk og faglig godt sosialt arbeid (Killén 2009).
"Forskning viser at måten man ordlegger seg på har mye å si
for hvordan den andre parten responderer på en verbal henvendelse
eller et utsagn." . </span>
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<b><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Konsekvenser
av uformell implisitt kunnskap:</span></span></i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Uformell
og implisitt kunnskap innebærer at handlingen man utøver ikke har
grunnlag i bevisst, lært metode og heller ikke er uttalt. Kari
Killén skriver om behandlers overlevelsesstrategier i </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Sveket
</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">(2009)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">,
og projektiv identifisering er en av disse mekanismene som kan være
en strategi i møte med klienter. "Vi tillegger foreldrene våre
følelser, egenskaper og holdninger isteden for å leve oss inn i
hvordan de i realiteten har det." (Killén 2009, 69). Er det en
mor man har jobbet sammen med over tid, kan det være emosjonelt
vanskelig å rapportere hennes svakheter eller å snakke med henne om
disse svakhetene. Man kan da, gjennom projektiv identifisering,
tillegge foreldre egenskaper de ikke har, altså ikke anerkjenne
foreldrenes utfordringer, fordi vi </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>ønsker</i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
at de skal være bedre omsorgspersoner. Ikke bare skader denne
manglende anerkjennelsen barnet, men også foreldrene fordi man
lukker øynene for de smertefulle realiteter som kan føre til at en
mor mister omsorgen for sitt barn. Ved å tillegge foreldre
egenskaper de ikke har, blir de ikke møtt på sine svakheter, ergo
deres faktiske behov for hjelp. Det å ikke klare å leve opp til
forventninger, kan også føre til ytterlige nederlag for en forelder
som allerede er i en utfordrende livssituasjon. Vi kan kanskje si at
barnet, foreldrene og sosialarbeideren kan inngå i en slags synergi
der alle lukker øynene for de faktiske realiteter i omsorgssvikten.
Det kan i ytterste konsekvens føre til at en påfører barnet
ytterligere skade ved at det dysfunksjonelle i relasjon foreldre og
barn ikke blir behandlet faglig korrekt. "Disse reaksjonene
knytter seg også til grunnleggende verdier og adferds normer i den
kultur som har preget oss, som vi er identifisert med og som
forkaster den adferd det dreier seg om." (Killén 2009, 65). Å
anerkjenne foreldres svakheter, å kunne være ærlig med foreldre i
kommunikasjonen, er altså etisk og faglig riktig. Å snakke åpent
med foreldre om utfordringene de har som omsorgspersoner, er å
anerkjenne foreldrenes problemer, problemer de ofte har vanskelige
tanker om selv.</span></div>
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i møte med smerte.</span></span></i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Langballe
har en utdypende forklaring på hvorfor vi som mennesker verner om
oss selv i møte med andres smertefulle opplevelser; "Voksne er
redde for å bryte barnets grenser for intimitet, redde for å såre,
krenke eller oppskake barnet, og også for hvilke konsekvenser mulige
avsløringer kan få for barnet. Videre er voksne ofte engstelige for
sine egne reaksjoner(...)" . Å føle sterkt ubehag når et barn
forteller sterke historier er en reaksjon de fleste har. Det smerter
å høre om andres smerte, spesielt når historiene kommer fra barn. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Det er ikke sjelden å registrere
at den voksne "tar over samtalen” når barnet begynner å
fortelle. Dette kommer både av at det er slik vi er vant til å
gjøre det, fordi vi ønsker å trøste og hjelpe, eller fordi
barnets fortelling berører oss i en slik grad følelsesmessig at det
føles bedre å snakke selv. Dette skjer gjerne uten at vi selv
forstår og hører hva vi gjør. .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Om
vi som voksne er redde for våre egne reaksjoner, kan vi da være en
faglig god sosialarbeider i møtet med barnet? Klarer vi som voksne å
observere barnets behov og anmodninger? Anerkjenner vi barnets
følelser når vi er opptatte med våre egne? Killén (2009) skriver:
"Det rører ved dype følelser i oss, som blant annet knytter
seg til vårt forhold til egne foreldre, eventuelt egen foreldrerolle
og egne barn. Det aktiviserer minner, fantasier, følelser og
impulser i oss som kan skape uro." (Killén 2009, 65). Killén
(2011) beskriver introjisering, handlingslammelse eller
uhensiktsmessig aktivitet som konsekvens av å ta smerten og kaoset
opp i seg selv. Når man har et ubearbeidet forhold til egne
reaksjonsmønster, kan klientens situasjon bli overveldende og føre
til at hjelpetiltakene er uhensiktsmessige, at man vegrer seg for å
gå inn i saken og saksgangen utsettes eller går sakte. Situasjonen
barnet befinner seg i kan bli for smertefull, og resultatet kan da
bli et "jeg-vern" og ikke et barnevern (Killén 2011).
Sekundært traumatisk stress er en situasjon som oppstår når
sosialarbeideren opplever tilsvarende følelsesmessige reaksjoner som
den de prøver å hjelpe. Denne diagnosen kan oppstå plutselig og
kan komme av et sterkt ønske om å hjelpe klienter som befinner seg
i traumatiske situasjoner, at man stiller høye krav til seg selv om
å klare å endre situasjonen, samt et intenst nært forhold til
klienten over tid (Killén 2011, 79). Klientens traumer kan trigge
ens egne minner og følelser fra lignende traumer og kan føre til
psykisk sykdom (Killén 2011, 80).</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #00000a;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Anerkjenne
seg selv og den andre.</span></span></i></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Når
man har anerkjent sine egne redsler og eventuelle traumer, kan man
som sosialarbeider ha et tryggere fundament for faglig godt arbeid.
Man kan da møte mennesker i krise med empati og anerkjennelse uten
at dette skaper redsel eller en potensiell sykdomsfremkallende
identifisering med klienter. Er man trygg på seg selv, kan man være
trygg for andre, være forutsigbar og ta de riktige faglige
avgjørelser. Denne tryggheten betyr ikke at man blir ufeilbarlig som
sosialarbeider, men har man kontroll og kjennskap til egne
emosjonelle prosesser er grunnlaget for å kunne møte klienter med
anerkjennelse bedre. "Fremfor alt er det profesjonelt å vite
hva man føler." (Killén 2011, 82). Carolina Øverlien (2012)
gir et grundig innblikk i hvordan barn lever med vold i hjemmet.
Øverlien benyttet narrativ metode i intervju med barn i sin
forskning for å kunne la barna fritt fortelle sin opplevelse av
voldsepisoder. Øverlien skriver at narrativ analyse ble valgt som
metode for at hennes rolle som forsker og intervjuer ikke skulle være
ledende eller dominerende i møte med barna, og nettopp for å kunne
komme "nærmere innpå". Hun skriver:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Som jeg nevner i kapittelet er
det ikke de "verste" historiene jeg velger å presentere
her. Likevel berører og ryster de, noe alle vi som vil hjelpe må
tåle. Hvis barna og ungdommene er modige nok til å fortelle, må vi
være modige nok til å lytte. . </span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Å
la barn snakke fritt om traumer krever altså at den som hører på
respekterer barnet som individ, anerkjenner dets opplevelse av
hendelsene og det krever en trygg lytter. Som nevnt tidligere ønsker
ofte voksne å hjelpe barn som snakker om vanskelige tema ved å
fullføre setninger eller stille lukkede spørsmål. En
sosialarbeider som er faglig trygg på eget reaksjonsmønster vil
kunne legge bedre til rette for f.eks. et livsformsintervju eller et
narrativt intervju med barn (åpne spørsmål), fremfor en
intervjuform som er preget av sosialarbeiderens ubehag i møte med
barnets traumer (lukkede spørsmål).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Begrepet
"nullstille seg" blir brukt av Eva Hærem og Bente Nes
Aadnesens bok </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Barnevernets
undersøkelse </i></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">(2008)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.
Begrepet forklares som å ha fokus på fakta i saken og ikke
forforståelsen i etterkant eller i forkant av f.eks. første
hjemmebesøk. (Hærem og Nes 2008, 100). Boken problematiserer også
hvordan mennesker ikke reagerer nøytralt, men har iboende verdier og
normer som preger våre handlinger og holdninger. I møte med en
familie som har fellestrekk med mange andre familier, er det
menneskelig å reagere ut ifra eget verdi- og normsystem. Men nettopp
det å ha et bevisst forhold til utfordringen i å møte andre med
forforståelse, kan hjelpe sosialarbeiderens anerkjennende
kommunikasjon og hjelpetiltak. Ved å stille seg selv spørsmål om
hvorfor man reagerer med sinne eller ubehag, kan man forenkle egne
utfordringer i krevende saker. Historier og problemstillinger kan
være like, men mennesket og dets opplevelse er unik. Erfaringene fra
eget liv og tidligere møter med klienter bør danne et grunnlag for
anerkjennende kommunikasjon. Selvbevisstheten vi har belyst
nødvendigheten av, bør være en prosess som varer livet ut. </span>
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Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-31166552102785211442013-03-21T10:20:00.000+01:002013-03-21T10:22:39.485+01:0022/7 I SOSIOLOGISK PERSPEKTIVDette er en oppgave i sosiologi der vi skulle ved hjelp av
sosiologiske forklaringsmodeller se på hvordan media fremstilte en
aktuell barnevernsak. Jeg valgte Breivik.<br />
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<b>INNLEDNING</b></div>
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I denne oppgaven vil
jeg gjennom sosiologiske forklaringsmodeller forsøke å belyse
Anders Behring Breivik som fenomen. I del I vil jeg se nærmere på
hvordan media har omtalt personen og fenomenet Breivik, hvordan
Barnevernet er fremstilt av journalister, og hvordan media implisitt
påvirker oppfatning av medvirkende ansvar. I del II vil jeg skrive
om ulike sosiologiske forklaringsmodeller og belyse hvordan samfunn
og sosialisering inngår i en dialektisk prosess. Jeg kommer til å
se nærmere på noen prosesser som kan ha hatt direkte og indirekte
effekt på Breivik som individ, og forsøke å belyse ulike prosesser
som kan ha påvirket samfunnets reaksjoner (respons og sanksjoner) i
etterkant av terrorangrepet. Målet med oppgaven er ikke å gi
entydige svar, men å belyse ulike perspektiver som har blitt
presentert gjennom media ved hjelp av sosiologiske
forklaringsmodeller og bevisst kildekritisk holdning.</div>
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<b>PROBLEMSTILLING</b></div>
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I denne oppgaven vil jeg ta for meg hvordan mediene betrakter
Barnevernets rolle i Breiviksaken, og om det foreligger noen
fordeling av skyld i den forbindelse. Jeg vil også belyse ulike
holdninger via sosiologiske forklaringsmodeller i forlengelse av
førstnevnte.</div>
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<b>DEL I</b></div>
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Del I vil forsøke å
belyse hvordan media har fremstilt Barnevernet og dets rolle i
Breiviksaken. På grunn av den store medieoppmerksomheten denne saken
har fått har det vært nødvendig å avgrense kildetilfanget. Jeg
har derfor valgt å fokusere på Aftenpostens nettutgave, som
representativt for et av de mest innflytelsesrike mediene i Norge.
Del I vil i stor grad handle om medienes situering, og sakens
kontekst, implisitte og eksplisitte budskap.</div>
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Media hadde fokus på
Breiviks barndom i tiden tett etter terrorangrepet og det ble rettet
kritikk mot et barnevern som i medienes øyne sviktet. Som jeg kommer
nærmere innpå i del II, var barnevernet involvert i Breiviks
familie, og rapporter om atferd og mors rolle ble gransket av norsk
media. Dette fokuset forteller oss noe om behovet for å vite noe om
årsaken bak Breiviks handlinger 22. Juli.
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Kommunikasjonsmodellen
er et kjent redskap i tekstanalyse ("Hvem sier hva til hvem hvor
hvordan hvorfor når"). Aftenposten er gjerne oppfattet en
relativt konservativ avis med en relativt stor brukergruppe, og
hvordan en sak omtales forteller oss noe om hvilken del av
befolkningen journalisten ønsker å nå. Vi kan anta at synspunkter
som kommer til uttrykk i Aftenposten vil være representative for
store deler av målgruppen, og at avisen øver innflytelse på denne
gruppens holdninger til barnevernet.</div>
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<b>ÅRSAK</b></div>
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Den første
artikkelen jeg har valgt ut ble publisert 12. oktober 2011
(Aftenposten.no 12/10 - 2011) og har tittelen <i>Vil ikke snakke om
oppveksten i avhør. </i>Ved å ikke si noe om hvem som ikke vil
snakke om oppveksten, henvender journalisten seg til ett innviet
publikum. Det er underforstått at det er snakk om Breivik.
Artikkelen henviser til en rekke andre saker, og vi kan kanskje si at
journalisten her skaper eller bruker en kollektiv forventning, ved å
skrive om Breivik uten hans navn i overskriften. Målgruppen kjenner
sakens kontekst og forstår uten ytterligere informasjon hva den
dreier seg om. Vi kan videre lese at "Anders Behring Breiviks
forsvarer vil ha etterforskning av barnevernet for å finne ut
hvorfor de ikke fulgte opp to rapporter på 1980-tallet."
(Aftenposten.no 12/10 - 2011)
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Setningen nevnt over
fremstiller Breivik som et offer for et barnevern som sviktet.
Lippestad er folkelig sett djevelens advokat i rollen som Breiviks
forsvarer, men Barnevernet fremstilles i artikkelen i et mindre
heldig lys. Spørsmålene man sitter igjen med er hvorfor ikke
psykolograpportene ble fulgt opp, og hvorfor ønsker forsvarer
etterforskning av rapportene. Implisitt handler dette om
skyldfordeling. Artikkelen hevder at Breivik vil ikke snakke om sin
oppvekst og journalisten lar spørsmålene henge i luften: Er
barndommen for smertefull, eller er Breivik en lite samarbeidsvillig
tiltalt som nekter å uttale seg om relevante spørsmål i avhør?
Utfra konteksten er det ikke unaturlig for leseren å trekke
konklusjonen at det er barndommen som er for smertefull og at
barnevernet dermed har feilet i sin oppgave.</div>
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Videre kan vi lese
at "(...) det var moren som tok kontakt og ba om hjelp." (
Aftenposten.no 12/10 - 2011) Mor fremstilles som en ressurssterk
omsorgsperson som aktivt har søkt hjelp hos systemet. Mors evne til
omsorg for sønnen er ikke fokus for artikkelen, kun at "(mor)
søkte hjelp med avlastning fordi hun hadde ansvaret alene for de to
barna, uten noe nettverk som kunne stille opp." (Aftenposten.no
12/10 - 2011) Det er Barnevernets manglende oppfølgning, og ikke
forholdene i hjemmet som belyses og vektlegges av journalisten. "Det
jeg har kunnskap om er at man ikke gjorde det rapportene anbefalte,
og at det ikke ble fulgt opp utover at man hadde noen tilsyn hjemme."
(Aftenposten.no 12/10 - 2011) uttaler Lippestad. Journalisten
vektlegger her Lippestads kunnskap om saken, selv om den er
mangelfull.
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Artikkelen bruker
også et vanlig journalistisk grep i saker hvor offentlige instanser
fremstilles som å neglisjert sitt ansvar. "Enhetsleder Åse
Nesbu i Ullern bydel i Oslo kommune vil ikke kommentere
opplysningene." (Aftenposten.no 12/10 - 2011) Det nevnes ikke at
Nesbu har taushetsplikt og dermed ikke kan uttale seg om saken. Nesbu
forklarer korrekt saksgangen angående bekymringmeldinger jf
Barnevernloven, men dette blir ikke kommentert av journalisten i
artikkelen. Etter å ha lest artikkelen kan man oppfatte det slik at
årsaken til 22.juli og Breiviks avvikende handlinger, i stor grad
grunnes Barnevernets manglende og sviktende innsats. Mor fremstilles
som sliten alenemor, som aktivt har søkt hjelp uten å ha blitt møtt
for sine behov.</div>
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I en artikkel fra Aftenposten nettutgave datert 8. juni 2012
(Aftenposten.no 08/06 - 2012) blir Barnevernsaken også belyst, men
med et annet fokus. Overskriften <i>Barnepsykiater får ikke vitne i
rettsaken </i>sier oss implisitt at barnepsykiateren ønsker å vitne
og dette forsterkes av ingressen "Oslo tingrett nekter psykiater
Per Olav Næss, som behandlet Anders Behring Breivik da han var fire
år, å vitne i terrorsaken." (Aftenposten.no 08/06 - 2012)
Tingretten fremstilles her i et negativt lys siden de nekter en
fagperson å vitne uten å oppgi en årsak. Årsaken skriver
journalisten om i første del av hovedteksten "Retten mener at
Næss ikke kan fritas for taushetsplikten og derfor kan han ikke
føres som vitne." (Aftenposten.no 08/06 - 2012) Taushetsplikten
er et viktig prinsipp, men blir av journalisten fremstilt nærmest
som en bagatell man burde kunne se bort fra i denne spesielle saken.</div>
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Det er ikke før neste avsnitt leseren får vite hvorfor
barnepsykiateren ikke kan vitne "Behring Breiviks mor trakk
onsdag tilbake sitt samtykke til at barnepsykiaterne som vurderte
Breivik da han var barn, blir fritatt fra taushetsplikten."
(Aftenposten.no 08/06 - 2012) Det er altså mor og ikke tingretten
som hindrer barnepsykiater fra å vitne om Breiviks barndom.
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Journalisten opplyser at det var mor som tok kontakt med Barnevernet,
men i motsetning til den før nevnte artikkelen, hevdes det her at
mor tok kontakt med barnevernet angående avlastning pga sin sønn
hun opplevde som "vanskelig" (Aftenposten.no 08/06 - 2012).
Barnepsykiater som undersøkte Breivik "(...) <b><span style="font-weight: normal;">anså
hjemmesituasjonen som så alvorlig at han anbefalte at gutten
umiddelbart ble flyttet i permanent fosterhjem.</span></b>"
(Aftenposten.no 08/06 - 2012) Her kommer det tydelig frem at det er
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Vedtak om å overta omsorgen for et barn jf § 4 – 12, kan ikke
treffes før § 4-4 ,§ 4-10 eller § 4-11 er utprøvd med mindre
situasjonen er akutt. (<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">LOV
1992-07-17 nr 100: Lov om barneverntjenester (barnevernloven).</span></span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
2012)</span></span></span></span></span> Dette er kunnskap de fleste
av Aftenpostens lesere ikke sitter inne med, og journalisten
fremstiller det som om Barnevernet kan ta barn ut av hjemmet uten et
strengt regulert regelverk. Videre leser vi "Breivik ble ikke
flyttet til fosterhjem, men bodde i perioder i et avlastningshjem."
(Aftenposten.no 08/06 - 2012) Barnevernet har altså fulgt opp
familien og iverksatt tiltak som skulle forbedre hjemmesituasjonen.
Avlastningshjem fremstilles som en dårligere løsning enn
fosterhjem, og leseren opplyses om at også avlastningshjemmet sendte
bekymringmeldinger til Barnevernet. Barnevernet hadde tilsyn i
hjemmet i 6 mnd, og fant et ryddig hjem og "(...) oppførselen
psykologen i utgangspunktet hadde reagert på la man ikke lenger
merke til." (Aftenposten.no 08/06 - 2012) derfor ble Breivik
boende hos sin mor. Når Barnevernet har tilsyn i hjemmet i 6 mnd, og
ser en klar forbedring i forholdet mellom mor sønn, skal selvsagt
ikke vedtak om omsorgsovertakelse fattes. Dette blir ikke belyst av
journalisten i artikkelen. Man sitter igjen med et inntrykk av at
Barnevernet har gjort slett arbeid, at barnepsykiater og
avlastningshjem har sendt sine bekymringmeldinger fånyttes. Det er
altså ikke det dysfunksjonelle forholdet i hjemmet som har fått
fokus i artikkelen. Man kan si at Barnevernets inkompetanse
fremstilles som et medvirkende grunnlag for Breiviks handlinger 22.
juli.</div>
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<b>MENNESKESYN</b>
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Menneskesynet som
kommer frem i artiklene dreier seg om systemet rundt Breivik heller
enn Breivik som individ. Man velger å fokusere på institusjonenes
svikt, fremfor å stille spørsmål rundt hva som var galt med den da
fire år gamle Breivik. Dette kan man se i lys av systemkritiske
modeller, som jeg vil komme videre inn på i del to.</div>
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<b>STRATEGI</b></div>
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Jeg har valgt å tolke denne delen av oppgaven til at jeg skal
resonere rundt mulige strategiske løsninger på Barnevernets
utfordringer i etterkant av 22. juli, dette har jeg basert på
mediekildene jeg viser til i oppgaven.
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I etterkant av
terrorangrepet har det vært rettet kritikk mot Barnevern, politi,
psykiatri, politikere høyreekstremisme og media. Debatten har også
omhandlet ytringsfrihet versus ytringsansvar. Hvilken strategi som
fremheves for å bedre samfunnet etter 22. juli vil variere med
hvilken gruppe man stiller spørsmålet til. Når det gjelder
Barnevernet har det generelt vært stort fokus på en sviktende etat,
som i og for seg ikke er et nytt tema. <span style="color: black;">I et
større perspektiv kan ikke et velfungerende demokrati sikre seg
totalt mot terror eller forhindre skjevutvikling hos barn uten å
underminere en rekke demokratiske rettigheter som spesielt gjelder
barn i vårt tilfelle.</span></div>
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Et studie viser at
antall barn under 6 år som har mottatt tiltak fra Barnevernet har
økt med 22% på 13 år. (Forskning.no 27/7 - 2012) Det er positivt
at flere melder fra om omsorgssvikt og at Barnevernet griper inn
tidligere for å kunne sikre barn en tryggere oppvekst i eller
utenfor hjemmet, men dette er i seg selv ikke en løsning. Skal
Barnevernet kunne uføre sitt mandat, må sosialpolitikken sørge for
at midlene som bevilges er gode nok og at rammebetingelsene forøvrig
er tilstede. En stadig utvikling av den indirekte, statlige
barneoppdragelsen krever kvalitetssikring økonomisk, pedagogisk og
juridisk.
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<b>DEL II</b></div>
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I denne delen av
oppgaven vil jeg forsøke å se saken via ulike sosiologiske
forklaringsmodeller samt vektlegge ulike påvirkningprosesser som kan
ha hatt en avgjørende rolle i tiden før 22. juli.
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Med tanke på sakens
omfang har jeg komprimert ned til de viktigste prosessene.
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<b>NORM OG
ROLLEPERSPEKTIVET</b></div>
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Ulike sosiologiske
forklaringsmodeller kan se Breivik i et annet lys enn bildet vi får
gjennom mediene. Norm og rolleperspektivet forklarer at mennesker<span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
samhandler ut fra allerede gitte normer og tradisjoner. Om individet
ikke har en velfungerende sosialiseringsprosess og gjennom denne
prosessen tilpasser seg storsamfunnets normer, vil det oppstå et
avvik. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Garsjø
2001) </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Om
individet ikke faller inn i en konform rolle, men har </span></span>fundamentalt
ulike verdier, blir en sosialiseringsprosess i storsamfunnet svært
vanskelig. Personen plasserer seg selv på utsiden av samfunnet, og
samfunnet skyver avvik fra seg. Avvik utgjør en risiko i et
demokratisk system.
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<b>NORM</b></div>
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Selv om Breiviks
tanker og handlinger er avvikende fra storsamfunnets normer, deler
Breivik noen av holdningene sine med andre som har valgt å ta
avstand fra utbredte norske normer. Hans forakt for Arbeiderpartiet
og pluralismen er ikke et unikt fenomen. Hans søken tilbake til noe
opprinnelig er en tanke han deler med mennesker fra flere ulike
politiske grupperinger med varierende grad av høyreradikal ideologi.
<span style="color: black;">Herunder kommer også kritikk av
kvinnefrigjøringen, demokratiet, det politiske system, og kirkens
rolle. Ulikt fra nynazistene vi kjenner fra 90-tallet i Norge, er
dette Israelvenner og sterkt islamkritiske aktivister. Breivik og
hans meningsfeller er også forfektere av konspirasjonsteorier som
Eurabiateorien hvor det hevdes at europeiske ledere samarbeider med
arabiske land, at målet er islamsk overtakelse av Europa og at dette
er en planlagt prosess. Breivik er en del av et fellesskap på
utsiden av storsamfunnet, og dette er basert på egne normer. Det er
likevel viktig å påpeke at selv i dette ekstreme fellesskapet blir
Breivik sett som avviker av mange pga brutaliteten i handlingene 22.
juli. Denne graden av brutalitet gjør at Breivik er en avviker både
fra det norske samfunnet og i de høyreekstreme miljøene. Vold er et
akseptert virkemiddel i </span><span style="color: black;">høyreekstreme miljøer, men øyensynlig ikke
mot barn eller i denne graden. Altså er Breivik også en avviker i
deres interne normsystem.</span><br />
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<b>ROLLE</b></div>
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Hvilken rolle har
Brevik, og har han bevisst valgt denne rollen? Er denne rollen en
selvvalgt og bevisst rolle om å ta sterk avstand fra det norske
demokratiske samfunn, den ubevisste rollen han har endt opp med pga
psykisk sykdom, eller rollen samfunnet har gitt Breivik som ond og
grusom? Spørsmålene er allerede problematisert om vi tar Rousseaus
filosofi til etterretning: er det mulig for Breivik å ha fri vilje
eller er han et hjelpeløst produkt av andres forventninger og
handlinger? Om vi legger til grunn norm og rolleperspektivet kan vi
kanskje si at Breivik faktisk er et produkt på tross av, og på
grunn av, samfunnets normer og verdier.
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Når individet ikke
deler samfunnets verdisett, oppstår det et avvik. (<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Garsjø,
2001 s. 90)</span></span></span> Det pluralistiske samfunnet makter
ikke integrere mennesker med et sterkt tradisjonelt samfunnssyn.
(Monokulturalisme, nasjonalisme og lignende.) Avvikere kan oppleve å
bli presset ut, og tar derfor avstand fra samfunnet. Kanskje man kan
si at denne prosessen er en dialektisk prosess. <span style="color: black;">Storsamfunnet
setter sikkerhet og trygget høyest. Avvik truer det etablerte.</span>
Å ekskludere avvik kan fungere som et forsvar for et
selvpreserverende maskineri Jf. Cathrine Bells begrep <i>Rituals of
resistance. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">(</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bell,
2009)</span></span></span><i> </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Eksempler
på rituell motstand er rosetoget og den kollektive avsyngingen av
</span><i>Barn av regnbuen. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Man
reagerer kollektivt for å gjenerobre maktposisjonen på vegne av
storsamfunnet. </span>Blir gruppen avvikere stor kan den utgjøre den
en trussel mot samfunnets egenforståelse, og Breivik har vist at en
ensom avviker kan utgjøre en reell og stor trussel i regi av seg
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Er rollen bevisst
valgt dersom individet er alvorlig psykisk sykt? Om det er samfunnets
ekskludering av avvikeren Breivik som har fremdyrket sykdom, er det
da samfunnet som har ansvaret for rollen han trådte inn i? Dette er
en aktuell debatt i kjølvannet av rettsaken. <span style="font-style: normal;">Om
Breivik er traumatisert som resultat av hans barndom, er rollen hans
vanskelig å klassifisere. Han kan da kanskje være et offer som
angriper samfunnets grunnstruktur. Samfunnet som svek barnet Breivik.
Dette er relevant for å forstå medienes behandling av saken, slik
den er fremstilt i del 1.</span></div>
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<b>SYSTEMFORKLARING</b></div>
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Denne tankerekken
leder logisk i retning av en form for systemforklaring. Den første
rettpsykiatriske rapporten fremlegger at Breivik ble utsatt for
omsorgssvikt som barn og hadde et opphold på både avlastning og
psykiatrisk sykehus der en barnepsykolog på det sterkeste oppfordret
til omsorgsovertakelse. Foreldrene hans skilte lag, og barnevernet
var lenge involvert i hans barndom. Mor ønsket å avslutte
barnevernets tiltak i og utenfor hjemmet, og barnevernet med sine
lovpålagte regler involverte seg ikke videre i Breiviks barndom.
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La oss legge til
grunn for problematikken at systemet sviktet Breivik som barn og
sviktet hans familie. Systemforklaring fjerner skyld fra aktørene og
reduserer mennesker som inngår i samfunnet til viljeløse og styrte
aktører. (<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Garsjø,
2001 s.85)</span></span></span> For eksempel har det gitt seg utslag
i det jeg oppfatter som følgende folkelige meninger: Barnevernets
manglende oppfølging av familien medvirket til drapene på 77
mennesker. I tillegg har psykiatrien skyld i at Breivik som barn ikke
ble fulgt godt nok opp. Mange vil også peke på det politiske
systemet og de folkevalgte, som årsaken til terrorangrepet på grunn
av multikulturell utvikling.</div>
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Ulrich Becks teori
om risikosamfunnet baserer seg på hvordan det postindustrielle og
postmoderne samfunnet med sine uendelige valgmuligheter, medfører
risiko og ikke kun goder. <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gunnar
C. Aakvaag oppsummerer Becks teorier rundt risikosamfunnet slik:
"(...) et deregulert, de-standardisert, og destabilisert samfunn
som overlater til den enkelte å løse identitetsproblemet. Vi er
dømt til å velge". (</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Aakvaag,
2008 s. 270).</span></span></span> Man kan kanskje si at en
systemforklaring har vesentlige svakheter fordi aktører i et
demokratisk samfunn vedlikeholder systemet de lever i gjennom
deltagelse. Dermed kan man kanskje si at mennesker selv har
medvirkende ansvar for systemet og medansvar for systemsvikt.</div>
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FORKLARINGER</b></div>
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En dialektisk
prosess mellom mennesker, det sosiale samspillet, er et viktig moment
når man skal forsøke å belyse hvorfor mennesker handler som de
gjør. Sosialisering er kanskje selve grunnstenen i menneskers
utvikling mot autonomi, og har en stor påvirkning på hvordan deres
adferd arter seg. "Mennesker orienterer sine handlinger i
forhold til hverandre." (Garsjø, 2011 s. 85)</div>
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Rettsaken har pekt
på et avvikende forhold mellom Breivik og mor. Breivik beskriver mor
i kompendiet som for preget av feminismen, og mor beskriver sin sønn
som krevende og utagerende som barn, og som irrasjonell og mentalt
ustabil i tiden før terrorangrepet i intervjuet med rettpsykiaterne
bak den første rapporten. (rettspsykiatrisk erklæring, 2011 s. 83
gjengitt av VG.no, 2012) Far var fraværende i Breiviks ungdom, og i
kompendiet tar Breivik et sterkt oppgjør med feminismen. Han ønsker
passive, hjemmeværende mødre som skal føde hvite, europeiske,
kristne barn, en ledende maskulin patriark, og kvinner som
underdanige deltakere i et konservativt ekteskap. (Breivik 2011)
Basert på Breiviks egne ideer om ekteskapet og kjønnsroller, blir
relasjonsforklaringsmodellen ganske tydelig. Hans ideal er en
underdanig mor, en sterk, tilstedeværende far i et nasjonalromantisk
idealisert, og illusjonspreget, samfunn. I en slik samfunnsmodell
blir skilsmisser kanskje ikke-eksisterende, et ønsket katarsis.
Relasjonen Breivik hadde til sine foreldre har iallefall påvirket
hans syn på kjønnsroller i sterk grad.</div>
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<b>OPPSUMMERING</b></div>
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I denne oppgaven har
jeg vist hvordan media fremstiller Breiviks avvik delvis som et
resultat av sviktende Barnevern. Det blir vist til at Breivik tidlig
var under oppfølging av Barnevernet, over en lengre periode, men
media har valgt å fokusere på systemsvikt fremfor omsorgssvikt.</div>
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Videre har jeg
gjennom ulike sosiologiske forklaringsmodeller pekt på ulike andre
måter å oppfatte Breiviks avvik på. Systemforklaring fritar
aktøren for skyld, og vil i vårt tilfelle støtte medias syn i noen
grad. Relasjonelle forklaringer vektlegger den dialektiske prosessen
mellom mennesker og samfunn. Dette vil jeg langt på vei oppfatte som
en mer helhetlig og nyansert modell. Norm og rolleperspektivet viser
oss hvordan normalitet og avvik påvirker hverandre i en balansegang
som medfører risiko.
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3591915360702570890" name="EndNote Citation {Aakvaag, 2008 #14}#000008"></a>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aakvaag, Gunnar C.
2008. Moderne sosiologisk teori. Oslo: Abstrakt forl.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aftenposten.no 2011
Vil ikke snakke om oppveksten i avhør [Hentet: 2012-08-16
Tilgjengelig:
<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Vil-ikke-snakke-om-oppveksten-i-avhor-6668494.html">http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Vil-ikke-snakke-om-oppveksten-i-avhor-6668494.html</a>
]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aftenposten.no 2012
Barnepsykiater får ikke vitne får ikke vitne i terrorsaken [Hentet:
2012-08-16 Tilgjengelig:
<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/22juli/Barnepsykiater-far-ikke-vitne-i-terror-saken-6845887.html">http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/22juli/Barnepsykiater-far-ikke-vitne-i-terror-saken-6845887.html</a>
]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bell, Catherine.
2009. <i>Ritual theory, ritual practice</i>. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Breivik, Anders
Behring 2011 <i>2083 - a European decleration of independence.</i> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Forskning.no 2012
<i>Flere barn i barnevernstiltak</i> [Hentet: 2012-08-16</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tilgjengelig:
<a href="http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2012/juli/328586">http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2012/juli/328586</a>
]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Garsjø, Olav. 2001.
Sosiologisk tenkemåte: en introduksjon for helse- og
sosialarbeidere. Oslo: Gyldendal akademisk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>LOV 1992-07-17 nr
100: Lov om barneverntjenester (barnevernloven).</i> 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rettspsykiatrisk
erklæring avgitt den 29.11.11 (2011) Gjengitt i VG.no Les de
psykiatriske rapportene om Breivik 2012 [Hentet: 2012-08-16
Tilgjengelig:
<a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/22-juli/psykiatrisk_vurdering/">http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/22-juli/psykiatrisk_vurdering/</a>
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You know what? This is beyond words messed up. I knew it would come, I knew it would only be a matter of time. The now arrested porn star ans prostitute Luka Rocco Magnotta killed and dismembered a Chinese student he had an affair with, posted the vid of his acts on the net and sent limbs to the cops.<br />
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And now my dear readers...this video...the video of the actual killing is online. And less than a day after it hits the net, youtube are filling up on "1 lunatic 1 icepick reactions", similar to 2 girls 1 cup. The actual killing of a real life human being, is being watched like entertainment. With comments.<br />
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This vid is not snuff as some claim, but it is the closest thing I've seen.<br />
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Internet, you are so messed up.<br />
So beyond words fucked up.<br />
I've seen messed up shit online for 20 years, Sickestsites and all that. I will not link you up, I know most of you will google this sick shit anyways. Will not tell you to not watch the vid as that is not up to me to decide, but I do ask of you to feel something while doing so. Anything. Anything at all.<br />
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Ppl...this is a real murder. If you do not feel sick from watching this, I seriously recommend you slap your self real hard cross the face. Cuz you are numb.<br />
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What the hell.<br />
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<br /></h3>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-88433479113081603182012-01-30T11:10:00.000+01:002012-01-30T11:10:05.156+01:00Å ikle seg andreNorwegian post this time, please use google translate.<br />
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<a href="http://www.vg.no/vgpluss/article/1Lbbyjnj">Dagens sak</a> i VG: Elisabeth Skarsbø Moen har ikledd seg niqab og vandret rundt i Oslo sentrum i to timer, og har skrevet om sin erfaring. Hun beskriver hvordan hun veksler mellom å føle seg avstengt, fremmedgjort, hun setter seg fast på trikken, syns det hele er komisk og det hele ender med at hun må kle av seg plagget grunnet en følelse av angst.<br />
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Jeg reagerer sterkt på denne saken. For det første treffer det meg på et personlig plan, mere om det senere i posten. For det andre er det en eksotifisering av en religiøs gruppe, noe som gir meg dårlig smak i munnen. Om Moen fikk en makeup-artist til å gjøre hennes hudtone mørk, ville hun ikke hatt en opplevelse av hvordan det er å være feks en kvinne fra Kenya i Norge. Å forsøke å ikle seg et annet menneske sin identitet, religiøsitet, etnisitet, eller kultur er utstudert, nedlatende og ikke minst respektløst. Det er et umulig prosjekt å forsøke å oppleve et annet menneskes liv gjennom å ikle seg en kultur som ikke er ens egen. Det gir kun Moen en opplevelse av hvordan det er å være en etnisk norsk kvinne, med en god jobb, en høyere utdannelse, som med et bevisst mål for øyet ikler seg et plagg hun har en forutintatt mening om. Hun opplever disse to timene basert på sin kulturelle identitet, hennes politiske ståsted, hennes livssyn og hennes kvinnesyn. Det er et umulig prosjekt nettopp fordi Moen ikke kan legge bort sin egen identitet og forentninger av hvordan opplevelsen skal fortone seg for henne. <br />
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Jeg kan ikke vite hvordan kvinner som bærer niqab opplever det. Jeg kjenner ikke vedkommende jeg ser gå forbi meg på gaten med dette plagget like lite som jeg kjenner Moen. Om jeg kledde på meg hennes klær i to timer, ville jeg fortsatt ikke vite noe som helst om hvordan det er å være Moen. Det er kun individet, kvinnen som har tatt valget, som vet hvordan det er å være den hun er. Jeg ser kvinner i niqab og jeg er overhodet ikke redd. Jeg husker spesielt en kvinne som satt ved siden av meg og ventet på trikken. Hennes sønn var moteriktig kledd, med nydelige øyner, og mens han sang en sang, møttes blikkene våres, hans mor og meg, i et folkelig smil. Det var ikke problematisk å kommunisere med henne på samme måte som jeg folkelig smiler og nikker til fremmede på gaten. Intensjon er avgjørende for hvordan et menneske opplever sine handlinger. Intensjonen til Moen er vesensforskjellig fra kvinner som bærer plagget daglig. <br />
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Problemet er ikke plagget, problemet er ikke at Moen ikke ser kvinnes munn. Problemet er at Moen ikke utfordrer sine motforestillinger og møter disse kvinnene med samme respekt som hun forhåpentligvis gjør med andre. Min far løp i panikk og gjemte seg bak et tre første gang han så en mørk mann da han var 10 år. Min far er snart 70 og løper ikke lenger i panikk. Skal samfunnet vårt fungere, må mennesker som Moen våge mere. Denne vestlige eiesyken på begrepet feminisme er det på tide å ta et oppgjør med. Menneskerettigheter, friheten til å være et individ og ikke minst evnen til å godta at andre kan ta valg du selv ikke ville tatt, det er et velfungerende demokrati.Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com158tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-85848042611914179182011-07-01T22:36:00.000+02:002011-07-01T22:36:59.470+02:00Assraping a nun - The gonzo rmx of the year.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOEWhsq7nQcTlgA_UZpZZoyuQQ0y4pJNye6rxQUA-9B3fWyAHY50eb8rtM6RqVCWTqEXnWIf5vNlMPNWquswk85g0ef0zffXulIJDHImywgZc1ZSdD4GlY_fZeAfZCgYATbURQDn8xrJP/s1600/cover+%2528tasty+version%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOEWhsq7nQcTlgA_UZpZZoyuQQ0y4pJNye6rxQUA-9B3fWyAHY50eb8rtM6RqVCWTqEXnWIf5vNlMPNWquswk85g0ef0zffXulIJDHImywgZc1ZSdD4GlY_fZeAfZCgYATbURQDn8xrJP/s320/cover+%2528tasty+version%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>"This thing started out as something of a joke, about how some bands can get away with the most inane and infantile track and album titles. I said "I'm gonna make a track called Assraping a Nun". Before I knew people said they wanted to do their own versions. And that's what happened."</i><br />
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Gird_09 gives you a collection of rmxs done by several well known people such as Larry Kerr, Batcheeba, Frostwinter, Epilektrician and P. Emerson Williams. A loving tribute to the at times silly title names we see in our genre.<br />
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Download, share and enjoy! <br />
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<a href="http://frp93.blogspot.com/2011/07/assraping-nun.html">Download here.</a>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-42960128804677257702011-05-29T14:32:00.002+02:002011-05-29T15:43:08.375+02:00Rape - Ritual resistance.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg175BskVycJQioNbnTyGH8yAu85EC6A_jt7KZiyoHNlfsJTETwnTLJHRWD-1r-AlvDkLaYgEGuhWlmqxhpQO6xYZkxQhosEI0kLdH2WZyO0Yy-bxh7UROtG5yWkcfprJfCBQz7ATZWCn5S/s1600/peterpaulrubens_rape_of_the_daughters_of_leucippus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg175BskVycJQioNbnTyGH8yAu85EC6A_jt7KZiyoHNlfsJTETwnTLJHRWD-1r-AlvDkLaYgEGuhWlmqxhpQO6xYZkxQhosEI0kLdH2WZyO0Yy-bxh7UROtG5yWkcfprJfCBQz7ATZWCn5S/s320/peterpaulrubens_rape_of_the_daughters_of_leucippus.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br />
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Rape.<br />
The word itself causes the well known knee jerk response. Recently there were several assault rapes in the course of a few nights in Oslo. This received massive media attention and girls all over town got a microphone shoved in their faces with the following question: Are you afraid? Fuelling the fire of fear and contributing to the mass hysteria. Men used Twitter, Facebook and commercial media to proclaim that they were taking a stand against rape, to prove their evolution from primal to intellectual man. Some even claimed that rape was all men's responsibility. To make things even more heated, the police published a research report on rape, documenting that women subjected to rape consistently had very high levels of intoxication. They linked this to a party culture, a more experimental sexuality among younger people, and urged girls to take precautions.<br />
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This enraged feminists, and the same old mantra "Rape is never the girl's fault" conjured up a storm of debates, blogs and in social media in general. The message was clear: Girls can go anywhere, wear whatever, and be as intoxicated as they please. The police report was, in their eyes, in fact suppressing women. Limiting women from free speech, free movement and free dress code if you will. <br />
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Personally I see it as harmful to override intuition. Humans have natural reactions to potentially dangerous situations. The media, and feminists in specific, are coercing girls to override this vital instinct. I counter those feminists by saying: do not place yourself in locations and/or situations your intuition tells you to stay away from. An antelope will not tell itself to get it's act together on the Serengeti once it senses a lion. The antelope will run to safety. If we as humans don't learn from our experiences, we will place ourselves in harm's way over and over again. Placing oneself, and/or others in harm, is highly irrational and will never alone eliminate the scource of danger and/or fear.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX88mwvgjZVnBv36EIQA0i-CoJVWECNT7lCaj_4rH2nSxeru6YY0f3BufZ_vF7Lm_ykmoNN3CHamWAH6hkI-xWtX-NHfI3-enKtH5cFUKJfIr5oZsuWJuMCDFZXYeAVGJxpig3rjxUdeyC/s1600/femalejihadi2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX88mwvgjZVnBv36EIQA0i-CoJVWECNT7lCaj_4rH2nSxeru6YY0f3BufZ_vF7Lm_ykmoNN3CHamWAH6hkI-xWtX-NHfI3-enKtH5cFUKJfIr5oZsuWJuMCDFZXYeAVGJxpig3rjxUdeyC/s200/femalejihadi2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>A rapist is an individual, with his (or her) personal and mental problems. Rape is not about sex, it is about exercising power, about trauma, about frustration, violence and anger. I want to draw a parallell to serial killers who, interestingly, have evolved from primal murder to existential murder: "The only thing I ever wanted was to kill god." The serial killer is, by his actions, trying to punish socity as a whole, not realizing that society consists of individuals. These feminists are using the same technique: By declaring a war on rapists. Not realizing that rapists are indeed individuals and not, as mentioned, the manifistation of patriarchal oppression. <br />
This is also an interesting point to make, when the fight against victimizing women is the very core of feminist ideology.<br />
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Human society breeds violence and we as humans must adjust accordingly, not by becoming paralyzed by the reality of violence, but by adapting to it, learning from it and through constant vigilance be better equipped to face the modern and dangerous world.Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-46533630501997275142011-05-11T11:55:00.000+02:002011-05-11T11:55:15.980+02:00Video for "Witch"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/vqGf-L4Uc0A?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Homemade video for my track "Witch." Taken from "A Collection Of Trails" released on Inner -x-Musick in 2011.<br />
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Play it loud.Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-8934226120970975012011-03-18T14:41:00.005+01:002011-03-18T23:13:04.897+01:00Hvem svikter barna?(Norwegian blog this time, to my english readers: Please use google translate) <br />
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Jan Bøhler uttalte seg <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4062999.ece">følgende i Aftenposten</a>: <i>"<b>De som går mot datalagringsdirektivet svikter barn som utsettes for overgrep</b>. <b>Det er veldig alvorlig, vi risikerer at Norge blir en honningkrukke for de som bedriver internettrelatert kriminalitet</b>."</i><br />
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Denne uttalelsen var å lese på nett sammen med <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4062999.ece">Kripos sine emosjonelle, og ikke minst politiske</a>, utspill i kjølvannet av en "pedofiliring" Europol har avdekket. Overskriftene var ikke overraskende tabloide, med tykke fonter og ord som trigger ryggmargsrefleksen hos de aller fleste. Kripos fikk oversendt en rekke trafikkdata og står igjen med 34 norske IP-addresser. Dette blir vinklet til at 34 norske pedofile kom seg unna Kripos sine klør. Dette til tross for at Kripos ikke kan bevise at IP-'ene "peker mot like mange unike personer." Det er noe ganske annet enn "34 pedofile". Disse menneskene som har vært inne på denne siten av uvisse grunner er ikke identifisert, de er altså ikke tiltalt, dømt eller har fått en klinisk diagnose stilt av en fagperson. Men Kripos vet å manipulere.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLvQxWs1Gxfdbp4GE86uZNS5G7GSDNr1kKPegbFxk_H65VKw5nZQfJdwM_K8ccgZoiqS7yW9pWt7drHbkHYREPMcHciZa25IrIdkW4DaL-qpQOZEr1MX-FZFjmqdy_AUa5kji8TEkjXouB/s1600/pedo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLvQxWs1Gxfdbp4GE86uZNS5G7GSDNr1kKPegbFxk_H65VKw5nZQfJdwM_K8ccgZoiqS7yW9pWt7drHbkHYREPMcHciZa25IrIdkW4DaL-qpQOZEr1MX-FZFjmqdy_AUa5kji8TEkjXouB/s320/pedo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Så har vi Jan Bøhler. Han sier altså at de som er <a href="http://stoppdld.no/">mot DLD</a> svikter barn som utsettes for overgrep. Denne uttalelsen provoserte meg så grundig at jeg sendte Bøhler en mail der jeg i tydelige ordlag forklarte ham hvor langt han gikk over streken. Selvsagt uten å få svar. Jeg vil tro alle som jobber for å få stanset DLD lar seg provosere. De fleste er etablerte med barn. Ingen foreldre tar lett på at en politiker anklager dem for å svikte barn som utsettes for overgrep. Mine tanker går da spesielt til de som er profilerte DLD-motstandere i media. Hvilke signal sender Bøhler til deres barn? Det er en virkelig uheldig og korttenkt uttalelse av en politiker.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6x1GwrVSJvwl_tKJDuiAji9ygnQQTFQkOeTkoPqmRI2lD0GNvKkBq4ICR3CfPLmJdBXObJvZfBXg91wALCuSTkHw3g5_vrF9Vaobo7-blAa_fOIJB1TT-nUHcwfzFeiTElk_0HB60Q7W/s1600/b%25C3%25B8%25C3%25B8%25C3%25B8%25C3%25B8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6x1GwrVSJvwl_tKJDuiAji9ygnQQTFQkOeTkoPqmRI2lD0GNvKkBq4ICR3CfPLmJdBXObJvZfBXg91wALCuSTkHw3g5_vrF9Vaobo7-blAa_fOIJB1TT-nUHcwfzFeiTElk_0HB60Q7W/s200/b%25C3%25B8%25C3%25B8%25C3%25B8%25C3%25B8.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Hvorfor ble jeg personlig så provosert? Jeg har ikke barn. Jeg har derimot jobbet med sårbare barn i 9 år. Jeg har erfaring fra psykiatrien, fra skole, fra barneboliger og avlastninger. Og i motsetning til Bøhler har jeg jobbet tett med barn som har blitt utsatt for overgrep. Vi snakker om seksuelle overgrep, vold og omsorgssvikt. Vi snakker også om svikt i systemet fra barnevern, fylkesmenn, kommuner, ledere og kollegaer. Jeg har i løpet av mine 9 år sett mer elendighet og tragiske historier enn jeg egentlig makter å ta innover meg. Og tro meg når jeg sier at ingen av disse overgrepene ble dokumentert på nett. Disse overgrepene skjedde hjemme hos barnet, i instutisjonene, de ble utført av mødre og fedre, av nattevakter, av feige ekstravakter, av tafatte ledere, av grådige kommuner og fylkesmenn som er mere opptatt av regler. Jeg kan med hånden på hjertet si at jeg ved et par tilfeller har hatt et sterkt behov for å sette meg i en bil med barnet og forsvinne. Fordi disse overgrepene får lov til å fortsette nettopp pga regler politikere som Bøhler er med på å lage.<br />
Så hvem svikter barna, Bøhler?<br />
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Jeg har taushetsplikt og kan derfor ikke uttale meg om spesifikke saker. Jeg kan uttale meg generelt. Jeg kan si at jeg har jobbet med en minoritetsgruppe som er så politisk betent at ingen ville gripe inn i saken. Vi i skolen skrev bekymringsmeldinger, jeg jobbet dobbelt i boligen der brukeren bodde for å trygge i en kritisk fase og boligen skrev bekymringsmeldinger, støttekontakten som hadde kjent bruker fra hun kom til landet skrev bekymringsmeldinger. Ingenting ble gjort for å stanse at denne brukeren ble tvangsflyttet fra en trygg bolig til families kommune. Det var en total politisk sperre. Og jeg var vitne til at et barn, så totalt ødelagt, gav opp alt håp.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0m-qQD3CK9dBftk0VRAlAmbtG5zJnxVV83yfBSIMahnlPFRn8wnKpMeKOkEg2LJB91mXbkKyTdSK_8ytv_Clegs-BOE0LhNXrjkFSOoza8j5JSOx1452idta23a0-Na-YCkBRc72JBez2/s1600/hush.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0m-qQD3CK9dBftk0VRAlAmbtG5zJnxVV83yfBSIMahnlPFRn8wnKpMeKOkEg2LJB91mXbkKyTdSK_8ytv_Clegs-BOE0LhNXrjkFSOoza8j5JSOx1452idta23a0-Na-YCkBRc72JBez2/s200/hush.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Jeg vil si litt om <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect_%28law%29">Chilling Effect</a> ved innførelse av DLD. Jeg har iløpet av mine 9 år i dette yrket, vært vitne til at folk vegrer seg for å melde fra. De er usikre, nervøse og ønsker ikke lage trøbbel for seg selv, brukeren, familien, lederen eller andre som er involvert. Jeg har ved flere anledninger gått videre med grove episoder jeg har vært vitne til på arbeidsplassen, men som har rent ut i sanden. I kommunen er det tette bånd mellom ledere og det er svært vanskelig å nå frem med slike saker. Vi ser at overflytting er å foretrekke fremfor oppsigelse. Så flytter man overgripere fra etat til etat. Og det er en selvsagt hysj hysj-mentalitet som råder. Unge ekstravakter er redd for å miste jobben, de er redde for å ikke få en god referanse, de er redde for at om de sier fra vil det slå tilbake på dem i fremtiden. Jeg forstår dem, men resultatet er at grove brudd på <a href="http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-19821119-066-005.html">Kapittel 4A</a> får fortsette og barn som ikke kan forsvare seg fysisk eller verbalt er og forblir ofre. Så hva vil DLD føre til?<br />
Terskelen for å melde fra vil bli høyere. Tanken på at man har vært i en intens konflikt med sjefen, at slike data kan lagres og bli brukt mot en ved senere anledninger er skremmende for ungdom. Det er skremmende for de fleste av oss. Det er lettere å lukke øynene. DLD kan altså føre til at færre melder fra om overgrep på arbeidsplassen.<br />
Så hvem svikter barna, Bøhler?<br />
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Da jeg var ung jobbet min tante på et krisesenter. Jeg var 10 år da hun og en ung jente kom for å bo hos oss i en uke. Det er noe jeg aldri glemmer, og det var en opplevelse som direkte førte til mitt valg av yrke i voksen alder. Dette å ta vare på de alle svakeste. Denne unge jentens barndom sto i skarp kontrast til min. Jeg forstod ikke hvorfor hun ikke lekte med dukkene jeg tilbydde henne. Hun gjorde kun det jeg ba henne om å gjøre. <br />
Dette er denne apatien jeg får mest vondt av hos barn. Barn skal ikke være apatiske. Jeg har lært iløpet av mine 9 år at så lenge barn er sinte, redde, skriker, gråter, slår seg selv og/eller andre så er det fortsatt tid. Lite tid, men fortsatt tid igjen for å hjelpe. Det er når barnet trekker seg helt inn i seg selv jeg blir virkelig bekymret.<br />
Og de gangene jeg har sett dette blikket hos barn, vet jeg at det er grunnet et politisk system som vedlikeholder overgrepene år etter år.<br />
Så hvem svikter barna, Bøhler?<br />
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Det er ikke vi som jobber med barna som svikter, det er ikke de som jobber for å stoppe en implementering av DLD. Det er dere som lager reglene, som tviholder på en papirmølle, som ikke bevilger nok penger, som er frekke nok til å gå ut i media å påstå at DLD vil redde barna fra overgrep.<br />
Det er, som jeg skrev til Bøhler i mailen, en hån mot meg, en hån mot mine kolleger og ikke minst et hån mot barn. Hva gjør dette fokuset på barn og overgrep med de barna som faktisk befinner seg i en overgrepssituasjon? De får en tilleggsbyrde, en redsel for at nettopp deres overgriper har lagt ut bilder på nett av han/henne i de mest sårbare situasjoner. Trygghet, Bøhler? Barnet vet hva som vil føre til at volden opphører. Og det er ikke DLD.<br />
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DLD skaper ikke trygghet, det gjør vi som medmennesker. DLD gjør alle til mistenkte, og <a href="http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=606">DLD handler om så mye mere enn IP-addresser </a>som Kripos provserende nok påstår er det eneste som kan hjelpe dem i etterforskningen i denne saken. <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/12/16/nyheter/innenriks/politietterforskning/overgrep/14736700/">Work harder!</a> IT-bransjen sitter på kunnskapen, snakk sammen. Gi Kripos redskapene som er dokumentert effektive og ikke <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/verden/1.7224275">ineffektive</a> , og slutt med <a href="http://www.abcnyheter.no/verden/080914/faerre-overgrepsbilder-enn-man-tror">disse skremmebildene.</a> DLD er lett å <a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/2010/04/14/slik-omgar-du-datalagringsdirektivet/">omgå</a>, så bruk heller disse milliardene på å sikre barna der det virkelig trengs. Hør på oss som <a href="http://www.barneombudet.no/horingsutt6/2010/horing-om-/">jobber med barn</a> og <a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/pages/2281080/redd_barna.pdf">for barn</a>. Det er ikke slik at svimlende mengder informasjon fører til bedre etterforskning. Det krever enorme ressurser og enorme summer i tillegg til de milliardene DLD selv vil koste. Dette er penger <a href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwj2VGEl29orDUze3dnN1S90KIXt-yc9CnIAXpmSjzST94nwPY">Høyre</a> og <a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund-rapporten">Arbeiderpartiet </a>mener er fornuftig å spy inn in DLD, isteden for å bruke disse pengene der vi vet det virker. Jeg vil ha meg frabedt at Bøhler bruker barna som politisk skjold.<br />
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Mens mennesker gjennomgår en av verdens største katastrofer, velger Jørgen Meberg Gilbrant, journalist i Dagbladet, å gjøre en <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/03/14/nyheter/japan/utenriks/jordskjelv/tsunami/15812879/">sak på hvorfor mennesker i ulike deler av verden "plyndrer"</a> når de er fanget i en naturkatastrofe.<br />
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Det er faktisk ikke relevant for min reaksjon at han har intervjuet en sosialantropolog om "kulturforskjellene" i USA og Japan. Om det var hans ønske å lyssette kulturforskjeller som han sier i mailen, burde han ha valgt et annet bilde. Et slikt bilde skapte furore i USA nettopp pga denne fremstillingen om at "hvite skaffer seg mat", mens "sorte plyndrer". Jørgen Meberg Gilbrant påstår at det er jeg som trekker frem hudfarge, og mener saken hans er nøytral. Det er grov ansvarsfraskrivelse. <br />
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Jørgen Meberg Gilbrant mener hans sak handler om kulturforskjeller. Jeg mener hans sak er _vinklet_ bevisst for å spille på den voksende fremmedfrykten og rasismen vi ser her i landet. Det er populisme. Det finnes ikke et annet ord for det. Sitater han har tatt med understreker nettopp dette: "<b>Idiotiske fenomener som at folk strømmer på og plyndrer supermarkeder er noe man ikke opplever blant japanere."</b><br />
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Det overrasker meg ikke at en norsk journalist velger å vinkle en slik sak. Her i landet er vi grenseløst naive, og pga vår rikdom, vårt demokrati, og vår ytringsfrihet har vi blitt late og bortskjemte. Vi har liten innsikt i hvordan det er å gjennomgå traumer. Dette ser vi også i møtet med flyktninger med PTSD. Vi har ikke kompetansen til å møte mennesker med krigstraumer.<br />
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Vi er heldige som bor i dette landet. Problemet er at denne behagelige tilværelsen fører til arroganse og uvitenhet. Og som i tilfellet med denne journalisten: Total manglende forståelse på et meget betent tema. Hvordan hadde denne saken blitt mottat i USA? <br />
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<i>Update: "Al Jazeera's Steve Chao, reporting from Iwate prefecture says some 140 cases of looting were reported just south of Morioka - the first cases of looting since the earthquake struck exactly one week ago"</i><br />
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<i>Mitt navn er ..., og jeg ble ganske satt ut av din sak i går om hvorfor japanere ikke "plyndrer" slik som folk med mørkere hud. Ja, jeg settet artikkelen din litt på spissen, men jeg tror virkelig ikke du vet hva denne saken gjør med folk. Når det gjelder Louisiana var det ikke bare de med mørk hud som "plyndret" som det er blitt omtalt. Forskjellen på bildene vi så i media var at når hvite skaffet seg mat, var det overlevelse, og når de med mørh hud skaffet seg mat, var det plyndring. Det er rasisme period.<br />
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Dette var en stor sak i USA i kjølvannet av Katrina. Og du som journalist burde ha satt deg litt mere inn i hvordan situasjonen var. Du burde forstå at en slik vinkling, med de bildene du har valgt, trigger noe i hodet på folk i dette landet som tror at vi fortsatt opererer med "rase" og at graden av melanin i huden har noe å si på hvordan man reagerer ved en naturkatastrofe. Jeg ser i dag at kommentarfeltet er stengt. Er du overrasket?<br />
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Smakløst, populistisk vinklet og rett og slett provoserende. Jeg håper jeg ikke er den eneste som har skrevet til deg. Men jeg tipper du har fått noen "heia-mail" som skryter av deg for å påpeke hvor primitive disse svarte er.<br />
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Not good, mate. Not good.<br />
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<i>Det er selvsagt ikke bare dem med mørk hud som plyndrer. Chilenere plyndret, engelskmenn plyndrer når det flom, amerikanere plyndrer, osv osv. Det er du som trekker konklusjonen at det har noe med hudfarge og gjøre og blir støtt. Dette handler om KULTURELLE forskjeller, som mange synes er interessante - og som det finnes vitenskapelig grunnlag for, derfor intervjuet jeg også en sosialantropolog.<br />
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Jeg vil påpeke at jeg ikke konkluderer med at dette handler om hudfarge, jeg konkluderer med at saken er lagt frem på en måte som gjør at den blir oppfattet slik.</i> Det<i> er uheldig og ja, populistisk.<br />
Dessuten er ordet "plyndre" ladet, mennesker i nød plyndrer ikke. De gjør det de kan for å overleve. Å plyndre er å rane eller å stjele. Mennesker i nød har faktisk rett ved lov til å skaffe seg mat om myndighetene ikke er i stand til å gjøre det for de. Ergo er ikke loven brutt.<br />
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I japan får folk hjelp der det er mulig å hjelpe. I Louisiana fikk de ikke hjelp før det var for sent for svært mange, og mange mener det var nettopp fordi det var i et område med få hvite. Dette har Bush fått intens kritikk for i etterkant. Han sendte soldater med våpen før han sendte hjelp. Jeg kan love deg at hadde du trykket denne saken i en amerikansk avis, hadde reaksjonene vært svært sterke. Jeg forstår at du er journalist og ønsker at dine saker blir lest. Denne gangen har du fått reaksjoner så det monner. Hvorfor ble kommentarfeltet stengt pga rasistiske kommentarer tror du, om saken din ikke fyrer oppunder nettopp rasismen som viser seg i dette landet? Om det ikke var din bevisste intensjon, vil jeg påstå at du som journalist er en smule naiv.<br />
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</i>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-5145636280027826972011-01-08T13:33:00.001+01:002011-01-08T13:35:15.805+01:00To The department of justice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD0Im8orKdLg86QVggzcrbEOot-S8ZZhNSAA8qpHmqoSSqYz7pfK7vgZ2VXxA-cn8o8h4-QGwmqUpPLpQG9cfi-Uyt0y8UVzquwI9Fsz2Wz3QhhGHJE8gi6P0FriYLnTW7gKLYs6ngXwua/s1600/Cyber-Rights.GIF" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD0Im8orKdLg86QVggzcrbEOot-S8ZZhNSAA8qpHmqoSSqYz7pfK7vgZ2VXxA-cn8o8h4-QGwmqUpPLpQG9cfi-Uyt0y8UVzquwI9Fsz2Wz3QhhGHJE8gi6P0FriYLnTW7gKLYs6ngXwua/s1600/Cyber-Rights.GIF" /></a></div>The department of justice <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/us-twitter-hand-icelandic-wikileaks-messages">seeks private information about Twitter users</a> who voice their support for WikiLeaks. We know this because the Icelandic MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir informed us about this via Twitter. And had it not been for Twitter's denial to comply, it would never have reached the public nor her. I find it deeply disturbing that you feel a need to gather intelligence in secrecy about political activists using their democratic right to free speech via the Internet. The Icelandic minister of Justice is now looking into the case.<br />
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Regarding WikiLeaks, I have been active both on Twitter, Facebook and blogs voicing my support. All citizens have a natural right to know everything their elected officials and their policy making employees are doing on their behalf. (res publica). Anyone who seeks to stand in the way of this right is an enemy of democracy, and a supporter of an authoritarian state. <br />
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It scares me that my belief in freedom of information, right to privacy and free speech is such a threat to your system that you feel the need of prosecution. And as disturbing these news are, it's even more disturbing knowing that most other online fora most likely would comply, unlike Twitter. It's what we don't know that's the really frightening scenario. I have a democratic right to openly support Wikileaks, and you have an obligation to serve the public trust.<br />
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And failing terribly.Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-26179238446323580582010-12-15T09:58:00.071+01:002010-12-19T18:40:23.443+01:00Wikileaks - Big brother's big brother<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qWL924kWVFTz0d0Pxlg__aea8PjYQqnWwSDvjKGDa2KntTKlVMjFN8fIq38UDABoiwbbHo8gSsrNuJ2yFUpJAyEVXBcxEi_Jyu6p-g2WY99_sa6ocvRWn3yMcYb_DS-K-VyP39McqTrv/s1600/julian-assange-wanted.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qWL924kWVFTz0d0Pxlg__aea8PjYQqnWwSDvjKGDa2KntTKlVMjFN8fIq38UDABoiwbbHo8gSsrNuJ2yFUpJAyEVXBcxEi_Jyu6p-g2WY99_sa6ocvRWn3yMcYb_DS-K-VyP39McqTrv/s320/julian-assange-wanted.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550943530075149378" border="0" /></a> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">UPDATE: Swedish prosecutors have lost their High Court appeal against bail granted to the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The greatest threat to society is ignorance. I see this posing a massive threat against us regarding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive">data retention directive</a> (<a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet">DLD</a> in Norwegian), and with freedom of press and freedom of expression regarding <a href="http://213.251.145.96/mirrors.html">Wikileaks</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange">Julian Assange</a>.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">On a weekly basis I talk to people who ask me questions regarding both subjects. And I am shocked by their lack of knowledge. Wake up and smell the coffee, sweetheart...the government has been oppressing you since t<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUe7xxko48FdjEkk5h7bBqaJNRIGEfZX6SLcfmyatchWWIjhuHeZ0L9Xp_q3fagj5Vzu23lEhyphenhyphenU7V4RWllX_KvDB3HBWt4UoYzAIA-m-OSMy7TKXpROGc8PPa3JQqDlvJ5t-_ItknWRk7/s1600/Julian-Assange-arrives-at-007.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 117px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUe7xxko48FdjEkk5h7bBqaJNRIGEfZX6SLcfmyatchWWIjhuHeZ0L9Xp_q3fagj5Vzu23lEhyphenhyphenU7V4RWllX_KvDB3HBWt4UoYzAIA-m-OSMy7TKXpROGc8PPa3JQqDlvJ5t-_ItknWRk7/s320/Julian-Assange-arrives-at-007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550954853996966290" border="0" /></a>he day you were born. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I don't enjoy <a href="http://www.steamcrow.com/image/cache/poison_death_unicorn_brn-800x800.jpg">destroying their illusions</a>. If people don't start waking up, they will unknowingly ruin my freedom. These people are<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan"> drones</a>, and waking up to reality is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha#Departure_and_ascetic_life">deeply uncomfortable</a>. Democracy is constantly evolving, and if you don't participate it will evolve into something you really don't want it to. Use that freedom of expression to make sure you remain a free human being.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ&feature=related">Use it or loose it.</a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I am growing tired of debating with ignorant people. If I can access the information, then so can you. The government prefer you to stay stupid and ignorant, we see it in the states where the education system has left the country on the break of total destruction. And in Norway education is not prioritized, the politicians want you working, not educated. Work, make them money, stay dumb. If that does not work, they will start censoring <a href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/verden/1.7425818">the news papers</a>, the ra<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirRioEWA9UObpfDcKo7JWdN2U9aNu-xwaKYVuBqkE9cqC5RmyxCRvUOaTHx7AzlEMVjVPngGk4pbUylX52HRcfvkfz6mDm_OC6DefbVjDYRIhGqZbo5i0jd4X-rp9mIpbUFHKefhPp6xli/s1600/110106surveillance1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 178px; height: 129px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirRioEWA9UObpfDcKo7JWdN2U9aNu-xwaKYVuBqkE9cqC5RmyxCRvUOaTHx7AzlEMVjVPngGk4pbUylX52HRcfvkfz6mDm_OC6DefbVjDYRIhGqZbo5i0jd4X-rp9mIpbUFHKefhPp6xli/s320/110106surveillance1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550947884116929074" border="0" /></a>dio, they will twist and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/">distort your information</a> claiming it's for your own good. As with data retention.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Mass surveillance is for our own safety. They are doing this to protect us from terrorists, predators, Pirate Bay and other «serious crime». They are creating an enemy, whom we did not fear at all, mind you. This is information you willingly pass on to the next person. Spreading misinformation like a virus. You recognize China as a supressed country, but fail to see the same prosess at work at home. Res publica. Look it up.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Wikileaks is to me the best example of how this prosses works. Wikileaks has revealed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0">serious war crimes</a>,<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> human rights violations, and corruption spread out over a 4 year period. From human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay, corruption in Kenya, opening up church of scientology, corruption on Iceland, the collateral murder video, the Granai airstrike, the Afghan was diaries, not to mention the diplomatic cables that made governments over the world have a total fit. The list goes on.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Now the US are censoring it's newspapers, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/04/state-department-to-colum_n_792059.html">students are instructed not to read about wikileaks</a>, <a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/12/why-the-library-of-congress-is-blocking-wikileaks/">library of congress are censoring the material</a>, <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/hackers-website-bank-froze-wikileaks-funds/">MasterCard, Visa and Paypal</a> refuse to offer their service to Wikileaks, (<a href="http://emoney.allthingsd.com/20101208/paypal-releases-funds-to-wikileaks-as-supporters-strike-back/">that was dealt with</a>) hindering you and me to spend our money the way we want to, claiming Wikileaks is engaged in illegal activities. (Paypal lied and you can read all about that <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/paypal-wikileaks/">here</a>.) (And let's never forget <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html">B</a><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html">radly Manning</a>.) Yet in spite of all this, wikileaks has not been convicted of <span style="font-style: italic;">any crime</span>. Wikileaks is the messanger, and operates as a media organisation in collaberation with important media such as Guardian, Der Spiegel and New York Times. Yet these are not being persecuted for publishing the same material as Wikileaks. Nor has any other media covering the leaks from across the globe. This is freedom of press. We demonize other countires for censoring people such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo">Liu Xiaobo</a>, yet we prosecute our own freedom fighters. And we still like to believe we are fully democratic in the west. <em></em><em></em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks is, as we speak, in solitary confinement. He has not been charged with any crime, he has very restriced rights, he is being watched 24/7. Because 2 Swedish girls accused him of rape. I don't see the personal life of Assange to be relevant, but with all the misconseptions I see it as important to sort some facts out.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Assange had<span style="font-style: italic;"> consensual </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCzlF4HEwlZyZ8cwU4CKmt49nRRrdyQ-xUKPAjoOtxE37rE0GMsCUDyDtYcFSZEE4VtIATEgIIJPUq7NfWYNEUogSjGMGcqp1KD8phdGLPHeKw6XryQeoeb1XKOqLUdVbnwpsWluyZNI4s/s1600/ardin_twitter1.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 42px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCzlF4HEwlZyZ8cwU4CKmt49nRRrdyQ-xUKPAjoOtxE37rE0GMsCUDyDtYcFSZEE4VtIATEgIIJPUq7NfWYNEUogSjGMGcqp1KD8phdGLPHeKw6XryQeoeb1XKOqLUdVbnwpsWluyZNI4s/s320/ardin_twitter1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550943855256028146" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">sex</span> with Anna Ardin while living in her flat for a few days. She invited Assange to Stockholm to speak at a seminar hosted by The Brotherhood Move<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTI-7djHDm23I7Y6z586t4dey_gXVBeXWhhNDidiE90dQv3TKivWFm8-_s8zEeB3C7-jwoF5EIJfvQKVQZ-NcSc3vV08cxF_g4A6gIvqCruCRqZf0wXLhF4gky-_FfrI19-Y_qK4lYPk9/s1600/ardin_twitter2.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 42px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTI-7djHDm23I7Y6z586t4dey_gXVBeXWhhNDidiE90dQv3TKivWFm8-_s8zEeB3C7-jwoF5EIJfvQKVQZ-NcSc3vV08cxF_g4A6gIvqCruCRqZf0wXLhF4gky-_FfrI19-Y_qK4lYPk9/s320/ardin_twitter2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550944107717759650" border="0" /></a>ment, and was briefly appointed his press secretary during his visit. Ardin tweeted <--this the same day, and the day after, the alleged rap<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2rWl4FwFfFEVxDJ5KMLQbGr0wkuQobFgRirMu8jA5YstD_NOyytOmo4rIWfmVgwrWfII3rKkCdLFGhOiWdRSEExI1amTR_qrejZO_VSyiDNi_Yr_JJmxesdMQ9oK9HCPhRjx8HsWMqTp/s1600/den+andra.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 73px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2rWl4FwFfFEVxDJ5KMLQbGr0wkuQobFgRirMu8jA5YstD_NOyytOmo4rIWfmVgwrWfII3rKkCdLFGhOiWdRSEExI1amTR_qrejZO_VSyiDNi_Yr_JJmxesdMQ9oK9HCPhRjx8HsWMqTp/s320/den+andra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551012771016138146" border="0" /></a>e. (Since deleted) Ardin explains how wonderfull it was to hang out with "the coolest people in the world". Wilèn who attended the seminar, more or less stalked Assange.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">This ^tweet, her now only listed tweet, is dated desember 12th 2010: <span style="font-style: italic;">"I'm so sick of everything that's happening, will it never end? Want to tell the theoreticians that "the other one" was equally pushy".</span> I have deep sympathies with genuine rape victims as I know a few, but not with Ardin. If you are worried about STD, you go to the doctor, not the cops. This whole thing was a matter between Ardin and Assange, not for the public eye and certainly not for the cops. If your date don't call you the next day, take it up with your girlfriends, not a lawyer.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Please read more about the details <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-sweden">here</a>, <a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/02/sex-by-surprise-at-heart-of-assange-criminal-probe/">here </a>and <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/swedens-reputation-is-on-trial-in-julian-assange-case/story-e6frfhqf-1225965772832">here</a> and last but not least: <a href="http://www.samtycke.nu/2010/09/fallet-assange-uppgifter-raderas-om-och-om-igen/">here</a>. (Last link is in swedish, please use google translate if needed) The rape charges were dropped the same day, as there were no evidence of rape. Then the charge were changed to <a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/02/sex-by-surprise-at-heart-of-assange-criminal-probe/">«sex by surprise»</a>. (In Sweden having consecual sex without condom is apparently rape, not listed <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/45054644/Swedish-Rape-Law">here</a>.) Assange offered to come in for questioning while in Sweden, but this was denied. He did stay 1 month longer than planned in order to get the questioning done. Denied. He was told he was <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-free-to-leave-sweden/story-e6frf7jx-1225926081054">free to leave the country</a>. 3 months later he is wanted by the <a href="http://www.interpol.int/public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2010/PR101.asp">Interpol</a> for questioning in Sweden. (Read Wolf's thoughts on the state pimping feminism <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/jaccuse-sweden-britain-an_b_795899.html?ref=tw">here</a>) I agree whole heartedy with Wolf in what Ardin and Wilèn are doing, is a grave insult to rape victims all over the world.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Assange has to this day not been charged with anything, and his lawyer has not been presented with any evidence. He has repeatedly offered to go in for questioning at the embassy in London or via video link, but this has again been denied. Assange gave the british police his contact information as soon as he arrived in England, and he turned him self in. Assange has been granted bail, but that <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/15/julian-assange-bail-decision-uk">was appealed</a> by the UK authorities (!) And now we have to wait for another 24 hours to know the outcome of that. If he is released on bail, he will be kept in house arrest, he has to report everyday, he has to hand over his pass port and wear a electronic tracker. If he's not released on bail we are looking on months of appealing. What a massive<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932010"> waste of money</a>.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> We know the US are doing everything they can to extradite Assange and charge him with <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/10/julian-assange-lawyers-us-charges">espionage</a>, when he in fact wanted to<a href="http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Letter-to-US-Ambassador-from-Julian-Assange-28-Nov-2010.pdf"> involve the US government.</a> But this request was <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/20/wikileaks/index.html">denied</a>. The US are sending shock waves through free press all over the world: Assange is not the criminal, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-NgUY4pnwB2i0GZUDTOixqbbXDDfOn1muLH7Wpy_RJGssYsjubgJV4jJF0M2VILwGNV5ZKQ2ZIO486pQ8g3P3CwFUyTw9LycM5MxYju4xmgfwzvQXs2TT9WYMnY6nnelUETy-DAQM-cku/s1600/AssangeA.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 113px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-NgUY4pnwB2i0GZUDTOixqbbXDDfOn1muLH7Wpy_RJGssYsjubgJV4jJF0M2VILwGNV5ZKQ2ZIO486pQ8g3P3CwFUyTw9LycM5MxYju4xmgfwzvQXs2TT9WYMnY6nnelUETy-DAQM-cku/s320/AssangeA.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550944620353636370" border="0" /></a>the governments who committed the war crimes, the corruption, the human rights violations are the criminals. The same people who now want him <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/12/2010123144744513729.html">dead</a>. There has not been <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332">a single piece of evidence </a>as to claim Wikileaks has put any lives at risk.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/dont-shoot-messenger-for-revealing-uncomfortable-truths/story-fn775xjq-1225967241332">In his own words</a>: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Every time WikiLeaks publishes the truth about abuses committed by US agencies, Australian politicians chant a provably false chorus with the State Department: "You'll risk lives! National security! You'll endanger troops!" Then they say there is nothing of importance in what WikiLeaks publishes. It can't be both. Which is it?"</span><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> In fact Assange is just letting you and me know whats really going on, putting his life on the line. Julian Assange is the Robin Hood of the information age. Wikileaks is opening up Governments. And you<span style="font-style: italic;"> better</span> be grateful enough to take that information and educate yourself any way you can.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">This is historical, this is about internet freedom, and about press freedom. And you <span style="font-style: italic;">have</span> to use these rights to maintain them.<br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">On a brighter note: I want to point out that Wikileaks now have 2.194 <a href="http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html">mirror sites</a>, and a massive support group across the globe. Assange had 382.o24 votes on Time's "Man of the year" (He didnt win, big surprise), more than 10 people offered large sums of money for his bail. Wikileaks has massive support with the people ( 1.371020<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>fans<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>on Facebook), and functions as an inspiration for new similar organizations just starting up. Demonstrations has taken place is several countries. People are indeed waking up.<br /></p> <h6 class="uiStreamMessage" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Finally I highly reccomend the </span><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/an-interview-with-wikileaks-julian-assange/">Forbes interview</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> for a good look into the mind of Assange and the workings of Wikileaks.</span></span><br /></h6>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-1465040580264249522010-12-07T12:27:00.004+01:002010-12-07T12:36:47.920+01:00Operation Payback - Anonymous Message About ACTA Laws, Internet Censorsh...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzL19Eem-g-RNf8jmjydfY-O4oCancyj2D1GAx1oJukUsoTlp6XJ8lVgrH3BfLnPrqRWSGIXeuB-kYjLcFCKZex7T7ZG-vXTf5uqR_VVl09JLgpnAh2eley08g8X6IbIkIjT-K19aRKrn/s1600/Cyber-Rights.GIF"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzL19Eem-g-RNf8jmjydfY-O4oCancyj2D1GAx1oJukUsoTlp6XJ8lVgrH3BfLnPrqRWSGIXeuB-kYjLcFCKZex7T7ZG-vXTf5uqR_VVl09JLgpnAh2eley08g8X6IbIkIjT-K19aRKrn/s320/Cyber-Rights.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547901312250520626" border="0" /></a><br />What happens when the governments of the world tries to take away our freedom? What happens when freedom fighters are being <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-us-embassy-cables-live-updates?CMP=twt_gu">hunted down and arrested</a>? The people fight back. The internet belon<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaoiUUFzhANrl6QDKh_57y_6NTo5swY1HtpNgZIGNstagch_IJ3zOtDF0_fFLRTAapdsZe3xSU69Rtmx-FAhM-mEhTN0WBNIF7Kk2K7xBtv50RshOepBWhkkQmLGtLBSxNfBvhKuhNf6kU/s1600/SMASH_STATE_T_01.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaoiUUFzhANrl6QDKh_57y_6NTo5swY1HtpNgZIGNstagch_IJ3zOtDF0_fFLRTAapdsZe3xSU69Rtmx-FAhM-mEhTN0WBNIF7Kk2K7xBtv50RshOepBWhkkQmLGtLBSxNfBvhKuhNf6kU/s320/SMASH_STATE_T_01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547901600336389682" border="0" /></a>gs to us. And the hackers are our soldiers. No blood, no killing. This is information war. This is payback time. It's on.<br /><br />My <span style="font-style: italic;">deepest thanks and all my respect and support </span>goes out to "Operation Payback" <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/hackers-website-bank-froze-wikileaks-funds/"> that shut down</a> <a title="http://www.postfinance.ch/" url="http://www.postfinance.ch/" href="http://www.postfinance.ch/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="twitter-timeline-link">www.postfinance.ch</a> We will support you any way we can.<br /><br /><br /><span><-0-></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 93 Thank you 93</span> <-0-><br /><br /> - Support Wikileaks -<br /><br />From Operation Payback:<br /><br />"Operation Payback (is a bitch), this is the Internet, we run this. An open message from Anonymous to the governments of the world and their legal leeches regarding the motivation of the cyber protests.<div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><p> Corrupt governments of the world, we are anonymous. For some time now, voices have been crying out in unison against the new ACTA laws. The gross inadequacies of the new laws being passed internationally have been pointed out repeatedly. Our chief complaint is that such measures would restrict people's access to the internet.</p><p> In these modern times access to the internet is fast becoming a basic human right. Just like any other basic human right, we believe that it is wrong to infringe upon it. To threaten to cut people off from the global consciousness as you have is criminal and abhorrent. To move to censor content on the internet based on your own prejudice is at best laughably impossible, at worst, morally reprehensible.</p><p> The unjust restrictions you impose on us will meet with disaster and only strengthen our resolve to disobey and rebel against your tyranny. Such actions taken against you, and those you out source your malignant litigation too, are inevitable, unavoidable and unstoppable.</p><p> We Are Anonymous,</p><p> We Are Legion And Divided By Zero.</p><p> We Do Not Forgive Internet Censorship</p><p> And We Do Not Forget Free Speech.</p><p> We Are Over 9000,</p><p> Expect Us!"</p></div></div><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kZNDV4hGUGw?fs=1" frameborder="0" height="344" width="425"></iframe>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-77597093360937166502010-12-02T16:54:00.003+01:002010-12-02T18:57:19.644+01:00Contest<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7O9FjD8rK1LpUr7BZyqNUHMgcnDJ2O5k1JlA3SJhoMxcPPV5ZyzT7xxrjirWfz3onPuxqThCKd5UfowNDaAQMTwSg3qzjZf5DDgrN9jlUTYniZ66nKGCNO8vfOv9o4Pce7Z5hPMYQQEbF/s1600/fronttrails+copy.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7O9FjD8rK1LpUr7BZyqNUHMgcnDJ2O5k1JlA3SJhoMxcPPV5ZyzT7xxrjirWfz3onPuxqThCKd5UfowNDaAQMTwSg3qzjZf5DDgrN9jlUTYniZ66nKGCNO8vfOv9o4Pce7Z5hPMYQQEbF/s320/fronttrails+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546114095906544258" border="0" /></a><br /><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="messageBody" style="font-size:100%;">Batcheeba will be giving away 3 CDs. So let's have a little contest. Take a picture you feel fits the title "Those Without Skin", and add it to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#%21/pages/Batcheeba/139189406121367">fan photos on facebook </a>(One photo per person). I will pick 3 winners and send them a copy of "A Collection Of Trails" . The competition will last until Saturday 12/12.<br /><br />Enjoy.</span></h6>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-16865707920029893992010-11-05T09:54:00.008+01:002010-12-07T23:44:06.809+01:00To the American embassy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDUlLQSFcg1YYbON0UfaPMUxb2QEbaTIf535ZHOFxexove74krt1mu3pM1erKHz87ntKpkYU8SXer1PYeIPE-awPt6gbfgLPp7PXa9ss32Bstdpxo-HYISHC6wFbjeoswQ10Z3FniJ2qN/s1600/untitled.bmpjln.bmp"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDUlLQSFcg1YYbON0UfaPMUxb2QEbaTIf535ZHOFxexove74krt1mu3pM1erKHz87ntKpkYU8SXer1PYeIPE-awPt6gbfgLPp7PXa9ss32Bstdpxo-HYISHC6wFbjeoswQ10Z3FniJ2qN/s320/untitled.bmpjln.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535990831463768226" border="0" /></a><br /><p>This is my email to the American Embassy. I suggest you write your own.<br /></p><p>My name is-----, and I want to know if my name has been registered by the Surveillance Detection Unit (SDU) in the SIMAS data base. <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article3890223.ece">Today Bjørn Erik Thon, th</a><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article3890223.ece">e director of data security in Norway, stated in Aftenposten</a> that anyone who has been at a demonstration outside the American embassy, should get in contact and demand answers. So, as a Norwegian citizen who has been part of numerous LEGAL demonstrations, i demand to know if my name has been ILLEGALLY registered by the Surveillance Detection Unit. If so, that is a violation against Norwegian laws and action will be taken.</p><p> </p><p>Regards ----.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh BTW. Here's looking at YOU motherfuckers:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLisZUbxWIRUTsIpJkc3dsIR7IXrzWsGAP3L9pgPcqhVweRh-WvjwchDUsJtNZ6cNLxbDJKI_xsLR6_3D-04vKdjsljEdFiMYxoFErUJtp5sF-4KZ94idQhQrwhS2v3Uktbewvs5mlTHB5/s1600/busted.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLisZUbxWIRUTsIpJkc3dsIR7IXrzWsGAP3L9pgPcqhVweRh-WvjwchDUsJtNZ6cNLxbDJKI_xsLR6_3D-04vKdjsljEdFiMYxoFErUJtp5sF-4KZ94idQhQrwhS2v3Uktbewvs5mlTHB5/s320/busted.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538901715528885170" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5KKCyKZ-__H4imtqVFLSPTUpG4M0E6Y6lGencsvqg8FD9UHTGa6DZbR9YXIpxSaLc5vHJWKKT7QGJQ8wJuedKj53I6e_ygzLEcpShwNgPXqIBsbid_PzDh6GPeIGGuKSt7r3Kz8q3lmO/s1600/I+know+motherfuckers.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 182px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD5KKCyKZ-__H4imtqVFLSPTUpG4M0E6Y6lGencsvqg8FD9UHTGa6DZbR9YXIpxSaLc5vHJWKKT7QGJQ8wJuedKj53I6e_ygzLEcpShwNgPXqIBsbid_PzDh6GPeIGGuKSt7r3Kz8q3lmO/s320/I+know+motherfuckers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536034712925740274" border="0" /></a></p>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-66822724080916338892010-10-11T09:30:00.073+02:002010-10-16T12:17:46.802+02:00The sexy underground<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQA5yrrnl9ESbP7lmGTukOBwkJ6BYjgeav111_yqnxrG3vPAbPgUFl9DugR1qXP-JFt5Eg9dS36_bGqJ7T3EAYqPrDCl_aPEKZT6oIWUELjf6PyyOyJmpamfBX62kXBtmyLyrbAc_pk-W/s1600/Y2NA1ciNooj4t5dtOY5hwRNLo1_500.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 344px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQA5yrrnl9ESbP7lmGTukOBwkJ6BYjgeav111_yqnxrG3vPAbPgUFl9DugR1qXP-JFt5Eg9dS36_bGqJ7T3EAYqPrDCl_aPEKZT6oIWUELjf6PyyOyJmpamfBX62kXBtmyLyrbAc_pk-W/s320/Y2NA1ciNooj4t5dtOY5hwRNLo1_500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527449174601674226" border="0" /></a><br />Long overdude post on various fetishes people engage in.<br />I asked my readers months ago to pick a topic out of many. And most answered they would like a general introduction to more common fetishes. Most of these are linked, and I will try to present the various types accordingly. Some are funny and silly, some are darker and more serious.<br /><br />First I would want to educate all of you, a fetish is not always a sexual activity.<br />In many cases it's all about playing games or roleplaying. Sometimes the fetish activity involves nothing sexual, until the person is alone a few days later. For others it's very sexual.<br />What is sexuality? Who has the right to label it, or limit it? This blog post is quite long, even though I try to make each subject as short as possible. If you don't want to read all of it, just skip to the parts that interest you.<br /><br />Let's start of with furries. Many of you know about this fetish, so I won't go into great detail. There are thousands of sites online dedicated to this, with equally many films, cartoon and pictures. So what is a furry?<br />As with every fetish ther<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9eB6Dk5XiaxqVojx8hrelOr1cBXGz9p1S2G0PbblRef_z0QmRGyQ6C_7HFC_1q8r94f8wq1xwkIx4AqQd1joHjmXfTHM8VAE2Sf3SQO84_lW4ZnMIma221bA3EOXPiwOghYv5dUOSCSEz/s1600/3685823328_13a7ff6dc4-450x313.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9eB6Dk5XiaxqVojx8hrelOr1cBXGz9p1S2G0PbblRef_z0QmRGyQ6C_7HFC_1q8r94f8wq1xwkIx4AqQd1joHjmXfTHM8VAE2Sf3SQO84_lW4ZnMIma221bA3EOXPiwOghYv5dUOSCSEz/s320/3685823328_13a7ff6dc4-450x313.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527449269265770562" border="0" /></a>e are huge variations, but basically furry fandom is a man or a woman who finds great pleasure, sexually and/or psychologically in dressing up in cute, animal custumes, or more specifically as anthropomorphic animal characters. They walk on two legs and they do talk. Some will play with other furries over a weekend, some have sex (yiff), some live a lifestyle at home with a partner as a furry. Some have sex with furry sexdolls/toys (Plushophiles), some meet up at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_convention">furry conventions</a>. The furry kink is harmless yet complicated. Most people enjoy dressing up pretendin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8hykZcKJht9SRdN3gk0z9ZLH1RPg7QelVozLGK0HbMmopMhYKOf2SXGO9AvZCpi0GXjSifGW7tzi956rtriBlkrGvLK4tBlaHtnOI5XKoVRsZV7tKdoi8jeCRXa3hClAKY3QomVroRpO/s1600/TaniDaReal___Fursuit_by_Fursuiters_club.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8hykZcKJht9SRdN3gk0z9ZLH1RPg7QelVozLGK0HbMmopMhYKOf2SXGO9AvZCpi0GXjSifGW7tzi956rtriBlkrGvLK4tBlaHtnOI5XKoVRsZV7tKdoi8jeCRXa3hClAKY3QomVroRpO/s320/TaniDaReal___Fursuit_by_Fursuiters_club.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527515330037046306" border="0" /></a>g to be someone we are not, or someone we feel like deep inside. Once dressed up, we immediatly become the costume mentally. If you were to dress up as a cop, you would copy a cops mannerizms. We enjoy taking on roles, it's a healthy break from our normal, boring, stressed out self. For a furry it's also about being able to be playful, childlike, talk in a funny voice, play with toys, act cartoonish. Some spend huge amounts of money on making costumes, and there are people who specialize in making custom made custumes that costs thousands. As with everything else, if there is a demand someone will pick up on that and make it into a money machine. Feel like dressing up as a racoon? Then furry fandom is for you.<br /><br />The darker side of the furry fetish kan be linked to <span style="font-weight: bold;">vore</span>.( Latin <i>vorare</i> to "devour") People into vore fantazise about being eaten by animals, or other animals being eaten. Obviously this deals with elements of submission/domination. Some women will fantasize about being some fragile, beautiful animal, like a unicorn, that gets eaten alive by an aggressive pack of wolves. It's fascinating to me to see how c<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFzq80vJ4KT-v7sf5u6GRx1uKWtNJMmsRlkghyphenhyphen6dYRGtbYMHx-Y65WwkPQMWcBwhCrK8o5ec0Bt3MieCUXjbzSF5rBbtPhen_R0ZAHmpcTJKgHsDzOyd-wNiFfnbHSAS3w7lyfn-fYLh4/s1600/snake_feed.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFzq80vJ4KT-v7sf5u6GRx1uKWtNJMmsRlkghyphenhyphen6dYRGtbYMHx-Y65WwkPQMWcBwhCrK8o5ec0Bt3MieCUXjbzSF5rBbtPhen_R0ZAHmpcTJKgHsDzOyd-wNiFfnbHSAS3w7lyfn-fYLh4/s320/snake_feed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527450503632659970" border="0" /></a>omplex some people will make their sexual fantasies. For some it's enough to say "please tie me up and spank me", others will play out a whole other universe to be able to get off. People want to be eaten by anything you can possibly imagine: dragons, whales, lions, frogs, snakes or wolves... Anything goes.<br />To some people national geographic is porn. No, I am being serious. On forums you will find people discussing yesterday's program like it was Caroline Pierce's newly released Bang Bros production. This fetish deals with pain, fear, adrenaline, being helpless or being in control, causing others pain and/or controlling life and death.<br /><br />The fantasy of being eaten is actually not so uncommon. I once stumbled upon a site (taken down years ago, (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021201095351/www.casti.com/big-gulp/main/main.html">this is the archive</a>) named The Big Gulp. Introduction: "<span style="font-style: italic;">If you're a psychology major reading this site because you're writing your thesis about us, please let us know if you figure out why we have this kink: we'd like to know!"</span><br />This site was dedicated to the idea of<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuJ3ULfjhbQTYgh_sJuLr_JEF4bi8VhMzZPeygS8pcWT74LXqYVseVz_5IRAQcDrzqa1FnkKWb2IUv2GFGUZqjN4xnr6CFR1ST932rkLCHyP4kyfJUp2WuUcH8bqpSFCgoqKXWF-8m9OaD/s1600/bonhomme.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuJ3ULfjhbQTYgh_sJuLr_JEF4bi8VhMzZPeygS8pcWT74LXqYVseVz_5IRAQcDrzqa1FnkKWb2IUv2GFGUZqjN4xnr6CFR1ST932rkLCHyP4kyfJUp2WuUcH8bqpSFCgoqKXWF-8m9OaD/s320/bonhomme.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527451087679132882" border="0" /></a> being a tiny man/woman being swallowed/eaten by a normal sized woman/man. The site was filled with fantastic photomanipulations of sexy, flirtatious women dangeling a helpless lille man between her fingers over her open mouth. That was years ago and a google search today will land you hundreds of sites dealing with the same fetish. To most it seems being swallowed whole is the main interest, to others being chewed and digested is the kink itself. As with vore this is <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdxEX1G-2MUdqpmdeX0CNN1XMCGRRJJVT_lOnvMRVmzfzPviZ731bgyUZW-mWwAoffOIKqMxkTPHjGTg3KIs-KPVr-DxKAo5ZFEJljMmzg9aYcVno4viGrRBOnw4NWOnDz0nMcp3SdS8E/s1600/781186104.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 157px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdxEX1G-2MUdqpmdeX0CNN1XMCGRRJJVT_lOnvMRVmzfzPviZ731bgyUZW-mWwAoffOIKqMxkTPHjGTg3KIs-KPVr-DxKAo5ZFEJljMmzg9aYcVno4viGrRBOnw4NWOnDz0nMcp3SdS8E/s320/781186104.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527521223350672226" border="0" /></a>a fantazy, it's not something anyone can play out in real life. Psychologically this is very Freudian of course. A man who want's to be eaten by a mother figure: return to mother. <span style="font-style: italic;">Unbirthing</span> is a subgenre to vore, where the person is being eaten by the vagina (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata">Not vagina dentata</a>), and sometimes absorbed by the female body. To men who devouring men (<span style="font-style: italic;">Cock vore</span>), you have the theme of male pregnancy. This deals with the need to feel protected, nurtured by someone you deeply trust, for others it's bondage, as in being restricted inside someone elses body. For others it deals with age regression. It's very complex and multi layered. I guess we could see all of this as a form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodrama">psycho drama</a>. (I won't mention necrophilia as<a href="http://batcheeba93.blogspot.com/2009/10/sexual-necromancy-illuminating-black.html"> I have written about that subject before</a>.)<br /><br />Ok let's move on.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Crush fetish</span>. I can't write about this fetish without writing a little about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_film">Jeff Vilencia.</a> Jeff, as many do, had a kink and he thought he was the only one. He made a film about his fetish and was suprised by the number of people who contacted him because they shared his very spesific fetish. Jeff is well known for his controversial <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0136536/">smush!-films. </a>People who are into the crush fetish enjoy to see bugs, slugs, worms or similar being crushed under pretty, large female feet, preferably wearing massive, long spiked heals. Foot fetish being an obvious element.<br />They fantasize about being under the women's feet, being crushed, and since that is not po<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpwP5-_vBRMAGwutpuS15l2Jr2qyJ5TCi9Vxu0MIEkNnOLcQDKYYUNoO_XumLu7NGtaQqGBkrRqoQPtHKz7gN55SAhaj6TbjW8WdRVJXGDZJffU2tBg4DzHHkEjIdOpk9pKhorsZhxJ_1/s1600/images.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpwP5-_vBRMAGwutpuS15l2Jr2qyJ5TCi9Vxu0MIEkNnOLcQDKYYUNoO_XumLu7NGtaQqGBkrRqoQPtHKz7gN55SAhaj6TbjW8WdRVJXGDZJffU2tBg4DzHHkEjIdOpk9pKhorsZhxJ_1/s320/images.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527451286988607154" border="0" /></a>ssible in real life, a bug or similar is a valid substitute. I will mention that <span style="font-style: italic;">Hard Crush</span> involves larger animals such as kittens, frogs and birds. As of today these videos are illegal because this is without a doubt animal cruelity. There was a lenghty legal process banning it, then making it legal and then banning it once again. I won't post pictures of how terrible this fetish can turn. I don't care what you do, as long as it's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe,_sane_and_consensual#Safety">safe, sane and consensual</a>. Killing kittens is NOT.<br />Jeff holds lectures about his fetish, and lives without a life partner. At one of these lectures a girl asked him "doesn't it get boring, doing the same thing over and over again? " Jeff answered "does intercourse get boring to you?" Great comeback. For a submissive man to imagine himself as a helpless worm being squashed under mighty female feet, is the ultimate submission. The<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJVHRo7OTrRmDMWuHHp7hHcuW6i5viv8eLi3lBhm_QQPuxOAC7v_0LNvpXm7eHIChcNvISu14E_6devSOlsyqtLSNsZQa2PH-db_UGYOis5t6BX0hNOFZh6WFWPd7xAT0uE4Mw-jFYOF/s1600/alicia_helena061.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 159px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBJVHRo7OTrRmDMWuHHp7hHcuW6i5viv8eLi3lBhm_QQPuxOAC7v_0LNvpXm7eHIChcNvISu14E_6devSOlsyqtLSNsZQa2PH-db_UGYOis5t6BX0hNOFZh6WFWPd7xAT0uE4Mw-jFYOF/s320/alicia_helena061.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527456058374276882" border="0" /></a> total destruction. Others prefer being crushed themselves, this is a very layered subject and I will only mention it passingly. In this category you will find face sitting, trampling, being run over by cars and so on. These men (mostly men) actually harden their rib cage over time due to massive pressure and can take alot of weight on their torso. Some want 3 plus size females sitting/standing on them. People hav died from this fetish, some get crushed by cars, tractors or other motorized vehicles. (I have written about <a href="http://batcheeba93.blogspot.com/2009/09/auto-erotic-asphyxiation.html">asphyxia</a> before.)<br />It's not all just imagination: I read about one man who saw his friend's mother crushing his turtle by mistake in between the kitchen door when he was a young child. The turtle didn't die, so she stomped it with her high heals as he tried to save it, squashing his finger in the prosess. He now get's his kicks hiding out in football tribunes, sticking his finger out hoping that some random woman will squash his finger as she sits down. He only get's off if the skin splits open. Very painful indeed.<br /><br />I guess we could continue onto <span style="font-weight: bold;">giantessophiles</span>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">(</span>also known as macros and gulliverians [if<br />t<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKerI_P1e0SZj0oopgJaIKaXG6QZycF7176llRKhIFscj6Q-LRxrdBbZcmTTPMCfXKiNFj_ihPcc3FSYLVoA5KTvv3VkqWHwgFrz_PVnqWET0lGX6TtAg3wFONd1rQES8qK2WhHS6Yo9fx/s1600/girl-giantess-macrophile-fantasy.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 166px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKerI_P1e0SZj0oopgJaIKaXG6QZycF7176llRKhIFscj6Q-LRxrdBbZcmTTPMCfXKiNFj_ihPcc3FSYLVoA5KTvv3VkqWHwgFrz_PVnqWET0lGX6TtAg3wFONd1rQES8qK2WhHS6Yo9fx/s320/girl-giantess-macrophile-fantasy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527467663323705826" border="0" /></a>hey fantasize about giant men])<i>. </i>Another HUGE subject with multiple layers. In short this is all about men fantasizing about very tall women. As in VERY tall. Think "Attack of the 50 foot woman". Many of these cheesy films from the 60's are porn to these people, even ads and comercials are sexually interesting. The deal is: very tall women dominating and/or playing out a certain tailored setting. A famous lady in this business is <span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"><a href="http://www.queenadrena.com/">Queen Adrena</a>, former wrestle</span></span><span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search">r. </span></span> You will fi<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSVfDBTb9ldtzZNT_r6Dh6aK_hF30r_OVZhptZWpMVq3GCN8W_vkTqHwc9DkYmUkkNm4ewoFtTPQMNVhWlYtWkaHSKzIIj-VupfKIr25aGFdGiInKLB3L48TCW_077EaEe1_T64TZnmkOc/s1600/mailedD36.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSVfDBTb9ldtzZNT_r6Dh6aK_hF30r_OVZhptZWpMVq3GCN8W_vkTqHwc9DkYmUkkNm4ewoFtTPQMNVhWlYtWkaHSKzIIj-VupfKIr25aGFdGiInKLB3L48TCW_077EaEe1_T64TZnmkOc/s320/mailedD36.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527456661525438978" border="0" /></a>nd a huge gay community into this as well. Really tall men or women, stombing on buildings, or mastubating with bridges. These women are very scary, dominating, overpowering, highly sexual, and there is no way of escaping. Again closely related to BDSM. I will point out that not all dominatrix are tall, some just act tall, building a mini scale city with skyscrapers and planes crashing into buildings. All very low tech, but it works for their customers: Ron. H runs a magazine called Black Giantess filled with his hand made collages. He has sold over 350 copies. He also runs Zena Rules. Zena is a part time Dominatrix specializing in foot fetish. Zena is a real live Godzilla. It all sounds really fucked up, but to them this is normal living.<br /><br />Let's stay in the subject of growth.<br />If I tell you that the scene where Violet eats the magic piece of gum in "Charlie and the chocolate factory" and grows to a giant blueberry, is porn to some people, would you be amazed? Well it's true. Thousands have the original film for the sole purpose of masturbation. But n<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9oBHE7HDwet51BkYFRLaJZnXjJFe0fw4aF4dSDKRdf4cLsqOUUffQwh_ODEOUq_nXI3aYQTRLGcIlRSQZTeSf2KCG-VoXtUpa4n7vKBGdZqzc9Cpuv0BUuzY62WOJlnvj2yjQuvtHH7qJ/s1600/drf0.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9oBHE7HDwet51BkYFRLaJZnXjJFe0fw4aF4dSDKRdf4cLsqOUUffQwh_ODEOUq_nXI3aYQTRLGcIlRSQZTeSf2KCG-VoXtUpa4n7vKBGdZqzc9Cpuv0BUuzY62WOJlnvj2yjQuvtHH7qJ/s320/drf0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527456992368011346" border="0" /></a>ot just that scene or that film, ANY film involving unwanted instant growth. It can be the whole person, or just the breasts or other body parts. Some fantasize about being the subject others about being the voyeour. This deals with the overflow of sexuality, the ultimate motherly breast. But also about dominating others<br />i<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hlWDiPeczwEXMr3GtlPfJdOR9EKjeOaVx81cP8ICcYZ5PVIZ3bkWfa_Jrp_VpXaSzvx6DaQ5Ua_r-tslQARu_ZlxFDFQGy2LWksL6gSIQlprvsMjwdyQX2P6s7M3Lp52n0FTYS7jtr60/s1600/0.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hlWDiPeczwEXMr3GtlPfJdOR9EKjeOaVx81cP8ICcYZ5PVIZ3bkWfa_Jrp_VpXaSzvx6DaQ5Ua_r-tslQARu_ZlxFDFQGy2LWksL6gSIQlprvsMjwdyQX2P6s7M3Lp52n0FTYS7jtr60/s320/0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527516423203368226" border="0" /></a>nto immobility. Growing and growing...until the pressure tears you apart and you finally blow up is unmistakenly a masochistis fetish. And let me tell you that the amount of money people will spend on their never ending hunt for the ultimate growth is pretty amazing. I know some will spend several thousands on custom made rubber suits that gets inflated by heavy pumps. Others indulge in elaborate drawings where shirts will rip and buttons fly. There is a huge amount of sites with tons of material on this fetish, photo manipulations and drawings for everyone. And let's not forget the written stories with more detailed descriptions than in a modern cook book.<br /><br />Several fetishes are related to this, such as feeders/feeding/fat admiration. The idea of feedin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKF73tGgNeaBnRmT5Jj_puwYjuSRBFb8KbQCNjs-9x7tktsaCvnXxzb7PEkHF4Yn3ACiv6vIy0tLoY9WEgicLFe-Xmfwzy7_VEiQCU6ZIz8R0wK74UOWeqmyQfJHF1oC_Pr3ArH7lYP7b/s1600/macygiantessblue.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 156px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKF73tGgNeaBnRmT5Jj_puwYjuSRBFb8KbQCNjs-9x7tktsaCvnXxzb7PEkHF4Yn3ACiv6vIy0tLoY9WEgicLFe-Xmfwzy7_VEiQCU6ZIz8R0wK74UOWeqmyQfJHF1oC_Pr3ArH7lYP7b/s320/macygiantessblue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527520680103533394" border="0" /></a>g a woman/man until she/he becomes morbidly obese. (Men: chubby chasers) For some meaning immobile, and dependant on the feeders care. Very controversial. This deals with the overflow of femininity, the whole body being sexual, the feel and texture of the rolls of fat. The main interest is focused on the belly. Women (gainers) will film themselves eating a huge meal, and then messure themselve after. It's those numbers that are so sexual to the feeders. Some of these girls makes a living from their websites with thousands of devoted fans. The belly <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYqx9FOwDgKQ3yYtRmKQRYmN0XDtvc8YOrKOYzoffJFH5RyTWRt1N6YBr6BVrWTK3sQrCWMdBTad4mPkAkSTXpXcppJjLElSAl7wl84M-ocOZrh5UImEDP5UDXgWzFZSAFHuQY4zBdv0s/s1600/93inches2.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 178px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYqx9FOwDgKQ3yYtRmKQRYmN0XDtvc8YOrKOYzoffJFH5RyTWRt1N6YBr6BVrWTK3sQrCWMdBTad4mPkAkSTXpXcppJjLElSAl7wl84M-ocOZrh5UImEDP5UDXgWzFZSAFHuQY4zBdv0s/s320/93inches2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527460698410606322" border="0" /></a>in the picture belongs to a famous Super sized BBW named Betsy. I'm not talking about a chubby girl, I'm talking women weighing 550 lbs. These large women is seen as godesses to these men. Many in this community are pissed at the constant hassle the get. They claim they can be morbidly obeese and healthy at the same time, and don't want the stigma. Some organizations for overweight people claim this fetish is a form of abuse. That women are being taken advantge of by men who only want to be able to fulfill their sexual fetish. Regardless of the health risk the woman might suffer from. The debate is hot tempered. I personally feel that if you can't walk, you are not healthy. Besides that, what you want to do with your body is nobody's business but your own.<br /><br />And staying in the growing genre, we have balloon fetish. Mostly gay men, but more and more women, inflate balloo<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLdrZHChamwUuFnRMtr8HkL6cYeQ_T8NdxMgGxgTH-Yk8Q5A9UhfLec0_Zp1b8t9xOvXAKtYqUSIKQk-8WAeZ42a_JVTOrpE1HVA_RqtmxD1Zn05pLxeh0DzqdIa9BPQ92hKTJ9dmzKLwr/s1600/buster001.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 221px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLdrZHChamwUuFnRMtr8HkL6cYeQ_T8NdxMgGxgTH-Yk8Q5A9UhfLec0_Zp1b8t9xOvXAKtYqUSIKQk-8WAeZ42a_JVTOrpE1HVA_RqtmxD1Zn05pLxeh0DzqdIa9BPQ92hKTJ9dmzKLwr/s320/buster001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527457311919742626" border="0" /></a>ns specific to their preferance. Noteable poster boy is <a href="http://www.bustersworld.com/home.html">Buster </a>who has done so much to get this fetish out there. Some want to blow up the balloon (poppers), some fear the big boom and don't want the balloon to burst, (non poppers). On youtube you will find several films of people blowing up, playing with, sitting on/inside, riding, laying on top off, or otherwize engage in activities with various balloons or other inflatable objects. Just last week I saw this very enthusiastic man riding a huge blow up killer whale in his flat, and after wresteling it for a while, he stabbed it repeatedly with a pocket knife. He seemed very pleased indeed. In Deviant Desire<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTjARXsrmXwEynWUkwQO9nK5GiGsAPhlwv8rJyV3KhUItyhC14zK06DFpVBpOsA9orWjLod-usEZG18VDboNYGAnUmdHE7Ztj7-EfhxfaKKThlTlNauaWpKnrsfTLOnYVaaYpZnwJ8AVb/s1600/dffdxvfd.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTjARXsrmXwEynWUkwQO9nK5GiGsAPhlwv8rJyV3KhUItyhC14zK06DFpVBpOsA9orWjLod-usEZG18VDboNYGAnUmdHE7Ztj7-EfhxfaKKThlTlNauaWpKnrsfTLOnYVaaYpZnwJ8AVb/s320/dffdxvfd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527474110152049858" border="0" /></a>s i read about an online debate spanning various forums: Is it sexual harrasement to get the unsuspecting lady at the balloon store to inflate a balloon? Valid question. I love these guys. This deals with fear, control, the smell of rubber and latex. (This is a well known fetish. Latex and rubber has a simillar smell to body odor.) It's indeed very phallic. It's playfull and harmless. We know fear and erection is linked, so it's not such a far stretch. So are you a popper or a non popper?<br /><br />Moving on to Broken Dolls.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlJKDTT3paGt1cjFaY346890ijMpCW2OVl-8_39nIK-BX8ODztbWDMAS7kjxvJegcNPB5nU6btkmPopBuFYDZkW9HnhY3Bwrb_XGyspucaeW8YsoPt53-NblBh5U3wU6TLt3UCk8DdaQw/s1600/1.jpeg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlJKDTT3paGt1cjFaY346890ijMpCW2OVl-8_39nIK-BX8ODztbWDMAS7kjxvJegcNPB5nU6btkmPopBuFYDZkW9HnhY3Bwrb_XGyspucaeW8YsoPt53-NblBh5U3wU6TLt3UCk8DdaQw/s320/1.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527461159784248418" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"> Romain Slocombe is a talented photographer who takes photos of asian girls in plaster and</span><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"> bandages. Japanese "</span>kegadoru" meaning injured doll. This is actually a growing fashion as well, in Japan. I guess maiden's uniforms just don't cut it anymore. The idea is of course the submissive helpless woman. Wearing plaster and bandages will make some men feel very sexually attracted, as they want to protect and take care of the injured woman. Psychologist Yu Yuki thinks the white bandages symbolise virginity. I have a few books on the subject and I have <span style="visibility: visible;" id="search">Sloco</span><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search">m</span><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search">be's book "City of broken dolls" The photos are quite fascinating, as you see no physical pain in t</span><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search">he eyes of these </span><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search">women. They are not screaming, they are calm, looking into the camera with this mystical stare. They seem supernatural in some sense. Out of this world, a</span>nd indeed very helpless. To me they look almost iconic, like a modern <a href="http://batcheeba93.blogspot.com/2009/09/virgins-pervs-and-chubby-baby-angels.html">virgin Mary</a>. I find the concept very interesting.<br /><br />And last but not least pony play. This is also a huge subject. This has nothing to do with zoophilia mind you. These people enjoy pretending to be horses, or to ride people who pretend to be horses. Very big i<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3o6i2hZ3rgXLHDc1gXyRRGyzVZAHqyGJ4WGHi0O5UQ96_pzfy7T9KVrUrchVoyxwTwc0vnMMT7Q9o2TaCqET3KScpMmX_LZiw0ImerGsFs5UEyUnFyg2w49-pF8SGiaIfoJqIKJabcnv/s1600/pony1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3o6i2hZ3rgXLHDc1gXyRRGyzVZAHqyGJ4WGHi0O5UQ96_pzfy7T9KVrUrchVoyxwTwc0vnMMT7Q9o2TaCqET3KScpMmX_LZiw0ImerGsFs5UEyUnFyg2w49-pF8SGiaIfoJqIKJabcnv/s320/pony1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527464676386734050" border="0" /></a>n Great Britain, Germany and the states. Basically a woman will be on all fours and her master/owner will ride on her back. She will be wearing the same gear as a horse would, custom made sadle and all. Even a tail. The owner will use his whip and command her. Massive amounts of training is involved where the master will teach her how to walk, canter, etc. <a href="http://equuseroticus.com/magazine/paul-reed-s-thoughts-about-pony-play">Notable trainer Paul Reed</a>, also the creator of legenday <a href="http://equuseroticus.com/magazine"><em>Equus Erotucus</em> <em>Magazine</em></a>. Or she/he can be upright pulling a cart with her master in it (cart pony), while he gives his commands. The rituals in the stables are also important (grooming). Some play this out during a weekend, while some live the lifestyle 24/7. There are shows were the pony girl/boy and her master will perform (show pony), some like to be "bred" by strange pony boys. All details are layed out in the contract (a written contract is a common thing in the BDSM community). A talented pony girl can carry her master for a long period of time, and have very life like horse manerisms such as body language and horse like sounds. Obviously related to BDSM. It makes sense in some strange way, sitting on someone's back gives you control, you can sense all muscle movement. It's a very intimate form of bondage. It looks very strange and weird to most of us, but this is a fetish for serious and deeply enganged people.<br /><br />Right.<br />This was just a very short introduction to a few subjects. If you would like me to write a more detailed blog on one of these, let me know and I will.<br /><br />And remember: Love all deviants!Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-52345987031957127122010-09-21T10:00:00.009+02:002010-09-21T16:14:42.671+02:00Sverigedemokraterna - Marie-Louise Enderleit<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fG543c6C4xyNX_V4xcud80fltj1j93U53pRgudjE-f0r_0YL-XlGrbRSh6Din8NdJrR72BvkaW2HE-S-Fx7_WbSM7wXcKEAYDMQdMojZMYN3vJBjgulFS_ty3yFm2aNlgu2mHKxi-YqM/s1600/27538_117863251587889_7514_n.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fG543c6C4xyNX_V4xcud80fltj1j93U53pRgudjE-f0r_0YL-XlGrbRSh6Din8NdJrR72BvkaW2HE-S-Fx7_WbSM7wXcKEAYDMQdMojZMYN3vJBjgulFS_ty3yFm2aNlgu2mHKxi-YqM/s320/27538_117863251587889_7514_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519276163478253570" border="0" /></a><br />Norwegian blog this time.<br /><br />Dette må deles, og spres.<br /><br />Sverigedemokraternas kandidat<a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=557575835&v=wall&story_fbid=146234775418310&ref=notif&notif_t=like#%21/marielouise.svensson"> Marie-Louise Enderleit</a> mener at <a href="http://www.trelleborgsallehanda.se/trelleborg/article1244383/Sverigedemokrat-skrev-rasistiskt-pa-Facebook.html">innvandrere bør stilles opp, skytes i hodet, pakkes i sekker og sendes tilbake der de ko</a><a href="http://www.trelleborgsallehanda.se/trelleborg/article1244383/Sverigedemokrat-skrev-rasistiskt-pa-Facebook.html">m fra</a>.<br />Det er ikke 15 år siden SD var et <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20071024SwedenDems1996.jpg">naziparti</a>, det er ikke 15 år siden SD var et rasistisk parti.<br />I går uttalte<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content"> en av de nye Riksdagen-representantene at man ikke kan være muslim og svensk.<br />I 2009 husker vel de fleste <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/03/29/nyheter/utenriks/politikk/tv_og_medier/5522684/">dette.</a></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2fG543c6C4xyNX_V4xcud80fltj1j93U53pRgudjE-f0r_0YL-XlGrbRSh6Din8NdJrR72BvkaW2HE-S-Fx7_WbSM7wXcKEAYDMQdMojZMYN3vJBjgulFS_ty3yFm2aNlgu2mHKxi-YqM/s1600/27538_117863251587889_7514_n.jpg"><br /></a><span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">Spre linken folkens, og send gjerne Marie-Louise en </span></span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">beskjed på facebook og fortell henne hva du tenker om s</span></span></span><span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">like holdninger.<br /><br />Ellers kan man lese fine uttalelser fra Facebook-gruppen i denne bloggen: "<a href="http://sverigedemokraternairiksdagenjatack.blogspot.com/">Sverigedemokraterna i riksdagen- Jatakk!". </a><br /><br />Marie-Louise Enderleit: </span></span></span> (30 oktober 2009): "Risken är mycket stor dom avlar som kaniner vissa tjänar bra på de tänk ha 10 ungar." og "(21 januari 2010): "Bilden får mig att drömma tillbaka när man gick till skolan med matlådan i handen då bodde vi på landet då hade man aldrig hört talas om invandrare o alla tala samma språk."<br /><span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content"><br /><br />Update: Hun har nå limited profile på Facebook, etter at jeg påpekte at å ha åpen profil som SD-politiker ikke akkurat er rocket science....<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Erowug28-ak3BNcm4FKSUK7DdFcK8bkUryVI3vvN4QXZz2ToVnSljoY8JAX-JqHj8b7cwDin9ZQKgyNFoMiVIqubR5udZ4dju5M0kVq1Jm9rh1hGbWNfPpWyWkdCgzHUUnfUZTKj9PLg/s1600/SDNAZZE.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 181px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Erowug28-ak3BNcm4FKSUK7DdFcK8bkUryVI3vvN4QXZz2ToVnSljoY8JAX-JqHj8b7cwDin9ZQKgyNFoMiVIqubR5udZ4dju5M0kVq1Jm9rh1hGbWNfPpWyWkdCgzHUUnfUZTKj9PLg/s320/SDNAZZE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519363206298282530" border="0" /></a></span></span></span>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-68592439774862731682010-09-01T16:08:00.002+02:002010-09-01T16:09:49.583+02:00Via thulethinks<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="http://thulethinks.blogspot.com/2010/09/nyt-norge-threatens-legal-action.html">Nyt Norge threatens legal action against blogger</a> </h3> <div class="post-header"> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content"> The Norwegian blogger <a href="http://www.christofferbiong.com/">Christopher Biong</a> is being threatened with a lawsuit by the government financed initiative <a href="http://nytnorge.no/">Nyt Norge</a> (enjoy Norway). The case is a result of Biong's use of Nyt Norge's logo for his adbusting campaign against what he rightfully sees as a distorted campaign.<br />Using a corporate logo in this fashion is a well established means of political expression, and should be protected by free speech. If you can't use a corporate logo to protest their actions your means of expression are seriously hampered. This is especially true if the corporation is run by the government - and in turn our money.<br /><br />We should make sure that these pictures recieve the attention they deserve, and that this turns into a public relations blunder for Nyt Norge. I would've never heard of these pictures if they didn't threaten legal action. Smart huh?<br /><br />So here are the pictures they've got their panties in a bundle over:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAh91BQNw0FCLI46cWp1UOjLrfLnnUdfo-mq9L8CcF4lA8Jl_kW8cwsOx1F2BM_ePohNQWZ7Dz5eOSuje4PEAhbLY3BJ94UZo9gTLOxMw59VtAXlpi5_kaTwmVMbP6zb3_mhU9rqKZw7Rm/s1600/46771_10150259163755347_836620346_14612406_3140803_n.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAh91BQNw0FCLI46cWp1UOjLrfLnnUdfo-mq9L8CcF4lA8Jl_kW8cwsOx1F2BM_ePohNQWZ7Dz5eOSuje4PEAhbLY3BJ94UZo9gTLOxMw59VtAXlpi5_kaTwmVMbP6zb3_mhU9rqKZw7Rm/s320/46771_10150259163755347_836620346_14612406_3140803_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511940226344278034" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8vK74nJy8icppO_-ZMRrocjLA9YmcLTNS5NQQnjzcbbdJ_TpZ9ql9-3PmOsRIOzr3J1k06ftyXd205DAIeQ4SGxQ-aCpwcSZmKFHYChb5TRq5zn_THhcs2fjUFnyAJlj0EDV4NCwrCokm/s1600/46727_10150259163720347_836620346_14612405_5489448_n.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 182px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8vK74nJy8icppO_-ZMRrocjLA9YmcLTNS5NQQnjzcbbdJ_TpZ9ql9-3PmOsRIOzr3J1k06ftyXd205DAIeQ4SGxQ-aCpwcSZmKFHYChb5TRq5zn_THhcs2fjUFnyAJlj0EDV4NCwrCokm/s320/46727_10150259163720347_836620346_14612405_5489448_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511940158790897794" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzH_KG6ROdjDaUtMV9wRhkWxnJb6dGZAVNtYt0GBqCNQydeS5hAh0844vvTSW_EVZJYugryRqlSI1iPj1PSgIy4vUCJoI_GfZbGWSN_FIjInAK9BLMPgXfbfHfHzhszmrfS5P1EKJWZqU/s1600/46727_10150259163715347_836620346_14612404_5217029_n.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzH_KG6ROdjDaUtMV9wRhkWxnJb6dGZAVNtYt0GBqCNQydeS5hAh0844vvTSW_EVZJYugryRqlSI1iPj1PSgIy4vUCJoI_GfZbGWSN_FIjInAK9BLMPgXfbfHfHzhszmrfS5P1EKJWZqU/s320/46727_10150259163715347_836620346_14612404_5217029_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511940086592786898" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SlfH-9x4QfeqxE4Db3KWQe9pLkURT0C-r1ToqW9kTH47P-B6kod3OJzx2Ixm3WQMvidhpdUtkZx2uvz-VU5dzdt_5hBalZtTDbg4n1MbH5h-0A0ptJKlsC-07gK4Ys1rDueVWsSaEVMd/s1600/44323_10150259163640347_836620346_14612402_943815_n.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SlfH-9x4QfeqxE4Db3KWQe9pLkURT0C-r1ToqW9kTH47P-B6kod3OJzx2Ixm3WQMvidhpdUtkZx2uvz-VU5dzdt_5hBalZtTDbg4n1MbH5h-0A0ptJKlsC-07gK4Ys1rDueVWsSaEVMd/s320/44323_10150259163640347_836620346_14612402_943815_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511940021974474482" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div class="post-feeds"> <div class="feed-links"> <a class="feed-link" href="http://thulethinks.blogspot.com/feeds/6230875975237944517/comments/default" target="_blank" type="application/atom+xml"><br /></a> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar-wrapper"><div class="sidebar section" id="sidebar"> <div class="widget-content"><br /></div><br /></div> </div> <!-- spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same height-->Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-28511490822601528882010-08-11T11:43:00.006+02:002010-08-24T00:22:15.165+02:00Some self promotion!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcXpetxEnYu_suRHjKnCOZ6e2lCIQqJ6WFEwE8DQVylolsnVSU_3XlEFvvplzCrWhcp_DKgO_OceWXcsFxUZUsl6N5YU8CKOsMPc93ZsMPeQz5wuLl0JsQqtrOFWf1wcy3kUwmCIkWQfD/s1600/fronttrails+copy.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcXpetxEnYu_suRHjKnCOZ6e2lCIQqJ6WFEwE8DQVylolsnVSU_3XlEFvvplzCrWhcp_DKgO_OceWXcsFxUZUsl6N5YU8CKOsMPc93ZsMPeQz5wuLl0JsQqtrOFWf1wcy3kUwmCIkWQfD/s320/fronttrails+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504087842037308002" border="0" /></a><br />After a year in the making, my solo CD is finally released on INNER-X-MUSICK!<br /><br />For those of you into the darker style of ambient, this is the soundtrack for you.<br /><br /><a href="http://innerxmusick.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/batcheeb/">Buy it here!</a><br /><br />If you are new to Batcheeba's musick, have a listen <a href="http://www.myspace.com/batcheebalyd">HERE</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-67307858264443803702010-08-04T10:58:00.005+02:002010-08-04T11:19:38.619+02:00You tell me!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflMixmVgv6PQI90QVjCWXY5t2i9KS5vS16wCGGKlv4w_2aWO4K1HZlUnDgwUDl1o9s5yx3G3KvdgMmu00zxkYlAkR5deV4-pnrGgVHMVeffQsjdIE9jZFG3mYinlz3ExTx4HPj50yAXzb/s1600/star-wars-and-waffles-fetish.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflMixmVgv6PQI90QVjCWXY5t2i9KS5vS16wCGGKlv4w_2aWO4K1HZlUnDgwUDl1o9s5yx3G3KvdgMmu00zxkYlAkR5deV4-pnrGgVHMVeffQsjdIE9jZFG3mYinlz3ExTx4HPj50yAXzb/s320/star-wars-and-waffles-fetish.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501481780018115554" border="0" /></a><br /><br />What should I write about in the upcomming blog post?<br /><br />I know most of my readers are hiding in the dark, living a double life, so feel free to write and vote anonymously.<br /><br />Here are the topics to choose from:<br /><br />Broken Dolls?<br />Pony play?<br />Food play/Splosh/Pie-sexuals?<br />Crush fetish?<br />Giantessophiles?<br />Balloon fetish?Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-57393090174181011422010-07-09T09:35:00.005+02:002010-07-09T09:53:28.237+02:00New blog for underground musick and art!Gird and I wanted to give the many amazing artists in the underground a little attention.<br />In this blog all the things we find interesting will be given a review. Be it musick, art work, books, films....and so on.<br /><br />Please stop by <a href="http://www.kaliglimmer.blogspot.com/">Kaliglimmer</a>, and come back often.<br /><br />Contact us if you have something you want us to review.<br />Please note that the material has to be underground, and that you will be given an honest opinion.<br /><br />We have no deadlines, we work in our own tempo. This blog has to be combined with jobs, and at times a rather unstable mental health.<br /><br />We both used to <a href="http://www.heathenharvest.com/search.php?mode=search&type=stories&author=1653">review</a> for the legendary, now late, <a href="http://www.heathenharvest.com/index.php">Heathen Harvest</a>, and have a large network of contacts.<br />Do enjoy, and feel free to leave comments if you see something you like.<br />Help us spread the link far and wide.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />Gird&BatBatcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3591915360702570890.post-16989173236499165242010-06-04T22:46:00.009+02:002010-06-05T13:36:36.139+02:00MV Mavi Marvara - Sailing sea of blood.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm88iKx33oR-yiUkqQyUBHysuISh1TdhgIrQZK1E1eq83amsNvZtFXsf7MD6XztM6IKl3uh0EQ4QFP6g7JtXGtz9Sa70DAs7EUvcVbVVH4oTeX882E6UUChiSC-2dzkEgfXeGESOvHJfsB/s1600/freedomflotilla.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm88iKx33oR-yiUkqQyUBHysuISh1TdhgIrQZK1E1eq83amsNvZtFXsf7MD6XztM6IKl3uh0EQ4QFP6g7JtXGtz9Sa70DAs7EUvcVbVVH4oTeX882E6UUChiSC-2dzkEgfXeGESOvHJfsB/s320/freedomflotilla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479240960894058626" border="0" /></a><br />My partner and I sat up that night watching the live streaming from <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC0QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMV_Mavi_Marmara&ei=_mYJTKW8NoehOMydXQ&usg=AFQjCNGn6po8MOpC23pEq-YJNR6K8rq4Bw&sig2=S7SfooYcaFKn4iJHBxqpWQ" class="l" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','3','AFQjCNGn6po8MOpC23pEq-YJNR6K8rq4Bw','S7SfooYcaFKn4iJHBxqpWQ','0CC0QFjAC')">MV <em>Mavi Marmara</em></a>. We could see the faces of the activist live, as they grew more and more fearful of what was to come.<br />After spending quite some time watching all these people and closely monitoring the ships' whereabouts via GPS, as well as getting updates via Twitter from people in direct contact with the people on board, we had this unsettling feeling. We are used to seeing horrible videos of people getting shot by police so horrific war crimes are not new to us. My partner and I have friends from parts of the world where oppression and violence is part of daily life. Even though I grew up in Norway and have never seen violence outside the numerous demonstrations we have attended, I certainly know more than most of what is going on in the world around me. Like I have said before my freedom gives me not only the possibility to speak up for those who can't, it actually means I am obligated to do so. And I do, every single day, any way I can.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZk3Fbn1pxo03W1nOPaOC7VON4KvdJDiW9G-Ewqbxt1DOPpBRO74gSN79cyBWuhOoXAmbhx1g_amOVAMOG0criZaD13a8bQsuxVPSrl_hrOQj_blEuSWkF8E17pUHztnXrWaxUVFIUqlU/s1600/attack.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJZk3Fbn1pxo03W1nOPaOC7VON4KvdJDiW9G-Ewqbxt1DOPpBRO74gSN79cyBWuhOoXAmbhx1g_amOVAMOG0criZaD13a8bQsuxVPSrl_hrOQj_blEuSWkF8E17pUHztnXrWaxUVFIUqlU/s320/attack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479241313397729026" border="0" /></a><br />We watched as this tiny young female journalist had trouble with the technical equipment, while trying to broadcast what was happening. The lights went on and off, and for every time the lights came back on, we saw their faces turning more and more terrified. Up until this point the people had been smiling, giving each other comforting pats on the shoulders, and hugs. I felt rather in awe over their calm and compassion for each other. We never saw anger or weapons. We only saw smiling eyes being filled with fear. Some 700 people from 37 different nations.<br />And then the live stream got cut off... Seconds before we could se the people on board looking up, turning round, listening and people that saying helicopters were right above the ship.<br />Then nothing. We tried to get updates from our contacts via Twitter, but there was no news, nobody knew what was happening.<br />We were so tired, it was just after 02:00 in the morning, CET. We sat discussing if we should wait for another hour, but decided that we should go to bed. There was no news to be found anywhere. We did talk about what the outcome would be, Israeli soldiers boarding the boat most definitely, probably some violence during the takeover and arrest for sure. My partner was more calm because he had been following the boat on the map and the ship was miles away from Israeli waters. The people on the boats were safe, they had pulled back further into international waters so that people could sleep on shifts before morning. I felt assured by this, but still had this unsettling feeling as I was about to fall asleep.<br /><br />When I woke up the next morning, the first thing I did was to check the internet. It took me a few minutes before it really hit me. My partner could tell something was up as he asked me from the bedroom what was happening. People had been killed by Israeli soldiers just minutes after that live stream got cut off. As I was falling asleep, people were brutally killed.<br />It made me physically ill, more so than ever before and I literally felt like throwing up. I felt really sick. My mind and body was prepared for waking up to headlines about arrests, may<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IryZJJhP5WSmKw-O27D__FI4l9HO5IzzeBGaxyO-i8fR6BUVEVRryJoZfbfq_14YEee45qmfH3CikZVznPbPI93laxhIDs9ob_axv1M8Kovif9VROxsVf4UJAKIluiZmFlJIzkDUyFoo/s1600/uk.reuters.com.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 179px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IryZJJhP5WSmKw-O27D__FI4l9HO5IzzeBGaxyO-i8fR6BUVEVRryJoZfbfq_14YEee45qmfH3CikZVznPbPI93laxhIDs9ob_axv1M8Kovif9VROxsVf4UJAKIluiZmFlJIzkDUyFoo/s320/uk.reuters.com.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479241530005896162" border="0" /></a>be some violence, but never even anything close to a massacre of unarmed peace activists in international waters.<br /><br />The rest of that day was spent online, gathering information form our contacts and trying to find out what had happened.<br />That was not a very easy task as Israeli press was the only one able to tell it's story. But slowly news got out. 9 people had been killed - shot dead. 5 shot in the head, one at very close range (2-14 cm), Most of them shot in the back: "The results revealed that a 60-year-old man, Ibrahim Bilgen, was shot four times in the temple, chest, hip and back. A 19-year-old, named as Fulkan Dogan, who also has US citizenship, was shot five times from less that 45cm, in the face, in the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the back. Two other men were shot four times, and five of the victims were shot either in the back of the head or in the back, said Yalcin Buyuk, vice-chairman of the council of forensic medicine." <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-activists-autopsy-results"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Guardian.</span></a><br />Evidently they were running away seconds before they died...<br /><br />People from 37 nations were onboard the 6 ships and over 600 people had been brutally arrested. None of these were allowed any contact with their families, lawyers or their embasies. It took 2 days before people were released from Israeli custody and all cell phones, all cameras and all lap tops had been confiscated or thrown overboard by Israeli soldiers. 60 journalists was robbed of their equipment.<br />The question still remains: Why? If the Israeli soldiers had nothing to hide it seems illogical.<br /><br />The international community was enraged. Condemning these grave crimes against unarmed activists in international waters. And at the same time the Israeli propaganda machinery was fully operational. Edited videos of activists defending themselves against rapelling Israeli soldiers were posted and shown all over the internet and on every TV station. Soon the pictures came too, the proof of weapons on board: Sticks, metal pipes, kitchen knifes and so on. The Israeli message was clear: the activists attacked first, they were in fact trained terrorists that chose to use sticks and metal pipes to attack trained elite Israeli soldiers, instead of live fire, in order to come across as "more humane". The Israeli solders were so surprised by the brutal force of the attack, they claim they had no idea they would be met by such anger and violence, so they panicked and acted in self defence. Shooting and killing 9 wooden stick bearing activists and wounding some 60 others. First firing rubber bullets, then a couple of minutes after that - live fire. Combined with gas and concussion grenades.<br /><br />Mavi Marmara was in international waters. Once the Israeli army closed in the first time, Mavi Marmari went even further into international waters, so that people could sleep in shifts.<br />The ship had been followed by Israeli army for hours, and the people on board were tired, and needed rest.<br />At 04:00 in the morning, local time, many of the muslim men were gathered for prayer, as is customary. The Israeli army knew that the muslim men would be in prayer at this specific time. And that is why they chose to attack at this specific time. The Israeli army had no intention of boarding the ship in a calm and peaceful manner. They chose to board the ship duri<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_rnmiyOf0uP77nmO_C8Lo_01ywTaB_aSOW7w7_clNhooy-fGLVDhfG3cWUf0G9NG_HQt5YWQAw5oYggLbLR1CbFts3TOCn6ZzIvAu2FoRvnoKyjNqSvg8po1ywy3edFUCQ_ViUJj80W1/s1600/IsraelicommandosattackGazaaidflotillakill19_12395.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 163px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_rnmiyOf0uP77nmO_C8Lo_01ywTaB_aSOW7w7_clNhooy-fGLVDhfG3cWUf0G9NG_HQt5YWQAw5oYggLbLR1CbFts3TOCn6ZzIvAu2FoRvnoKyjNqSvg8po1ywy3edFUCQ_ViUJj80W1/s320/IsraelicommandosattackGazaaidflotillakill19_12395.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479242601316186018" border="0" /></a>ng night, while men were in prayer and others were sleeping, rapelling down from muffled helicopters, and attacking from all sides in zodiacs. The solders were in full battle gear. This was not meant to be peaceful in any way shape or form.<br /><br />The Israeli government demanded the ships inspected, unloaded, and the goods delivered via Israeli channels.<br />The ships' cargo was thoroughly inspected in turkey by neutral institutions, because the activists knew Israeli government would accuse them of carrying weapons and demand an inspection.<br />Now, some people say that if the ships had no weapons, they had nothing to hide and should willingly oblige the Israeli governments demands for inspections.<br />The answer to that is no, there is no reason why Israeli government should inspect the already inspected cargo, nor should the cargo be delivered via Israeli channels as Israel would deny cement into Gaza, as they claim it will be used to build tunnels, controlled by the terrorists in Hamas, not homes. Cement is banned in Gaza by Israel.<br />In the aftermath, Israel did send some of the confiscated aid to Gaza, but like the activists foresaw, Israel withheld 8.000 tons of building material. Hamas refused to allow the humanitarian aid into Gaza until Israeli authorities released all flotilla detainees and allowed building materials.<br /><br />I want to address the Israeli soldiers' claims that they were scared for their lives and acted in self defence.<br />Israeli soldiers are known as one of the worlds best. This are not amateurs without training or experience. These are elite navy soldiers, most have seen combat and have years of training and experience on how to deal with violence, stress and chaotic situations. That is their job. Claiming a small group of young men with sticks and metal pipes, justifies killing 9 and wounding 60 more, is nothing short of a disgrace.<br />It's a lie, it's propaganda and we all know it. These are soldiers trained to react according to their training. They don't panic over wooden stick or metal pipes. They are trained to deal with lethal weapons and dangerous situations. This situation should have been easy to handle.<br />If that was what they wanted.<br />Why the Israel army wants to portray themselves as weak, inexperienced pussies is beyond me. But that is the story they are going for: elite soldiers, in full combat gear, with helmets, bulletproof vests, gas and c<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Ls3-sJYDGJk21FmtzooM6hmWn9mvMET_AC2MlTCUBxhv_tdAG77EIwdaKHFmfNzDL79yjx8ueBNL_vgsRnZw63nl7929Y5rTw9bpsbAewlXwj4FqxT67RO2ysw4boXE5SpJirL-m4fEe/s1600/article-1283077-09D766B3000005DC-46_634x453.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Ls3-sJYDGJk21FmtzooM6hmWn9mvMET_AC2MlTCUBxhv_tdAG77EIwdaKHFmfNzDL79yjx8ueBNL_vgsRnZw63nl7929Y5rTw9bpsbAewlXwj4FqxT67RO2ysw4boXE5SpJirL-m4fEe/s320/article-1283077-09D766B3000005DC-46_634x453.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479242998230324354" border="0" /></a>oncussion grenades, were scared.<br /><br />There were no weapons on board besides kitchen knifes, angle grinders, wooden sticks, metal bars, and other supplies you would find on any large vessel.<br />The Swedish author Henning Mankell told the media his shaving razor was located in his room and confiscated as a weapon.<br />His shaving razor.<br /><br />The Israeli government has released a video of activist throwing concussion grenades at them. Norwegian activists told at the press conference that the soldiers threw these grenades onto the ship, and the activists threw them back over board. Bear in mind that these Norwegians just got off the plane and had not seen any pictures, and videos or read any papers. They were in fact very surprised over how much media attention this had gained. Pleasantly surprised, as they now felt secure the massacre would not be left untold.<br /><br />The israeli government put a close lid on all information. Meaning the names and nationalities of the dead and wounded was not revealed for days.<br />Leaving families all over the world terrified and feeling helpless. The embassies were refused information as well, causing anger in all the states involved in the peaceful action. 3 Norwegians were on board Mavi Marmara and the day before yesterday they were finally released and could tell us about their horrific ordeal.<br /><br />At the press conference they were exhausted, as they had been subjected to sleep deprivation, little or no food and water. They had been subjected to brutal treatment, and told the media that the Israeli soldiers had a racist agenda. The people with Palestinian background were badly beaten. They told about Israeli soldiers with laser sights pointing at the head of those who tried to speak. They gave accounts about writing SOS messages in Hebrew on paper notes to the soldiers at the ship, during the boarding, requesting aid for the wounded and dieing. Aid was however refused They spoke about stairs covered in blood, about people being shot in the head right before their eyes and about walking over dead bodies. They told us about long interrogations, about being disoriented not knowing date and time. In short, torture. Norwegian Nidal Hejazi told us about an Irish American who got hit in the back of the head with a night stick, his face immediately covered in blood as he fell to the floor. This was not during the boarding mind you, this was as the activists were getting ready to be deported. He did not join the other activsts on the plane out.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtsxn9YbcaBoO07fxqWdLzKLM96FF6JMZx9Lg7QnYietFkPJW-TdxhjDUb7vKvvoMCvC5UI-ZcXZxlur-ak_JKh8IsdPwl44tMdoHIuqb6t1-qKGnDSyp0fLsLdP1FBXHY6qGcTrBbdAd/s1600/norge.gif"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 162px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtsxn9YbcaBoO07fxqWdLzKLM96FF6JMZx9Lg7QnYietFkPJW-TdxhjDUb7vKvvoMCvC5UI-ZcXZxlur-ak_JKh8IsdPwl44tMdoHIuqb6t1-qKGnDSyp0fLsLdP1FBXHY6qGcTrBbdAd/s320/norge.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479243730412485394" border="0" /></a><br />Another got his arm and leg broken and when he screamed, the Israeli soldier actually put his foot into his mouth. At this point Hejazi was in tears and couldn't go on talking about his experience. I can't blame him.<br /><br />I want to write a little about the psychology behind fear.<br />I mentioned this in an earlier debate as well. In my line of work there is a lot of violence. I have been to numerous courses instructing me on methods of preventing and handling violence. We have been drilled in these techniques, and I know by heart what to do. I have to, because if I fail I put myself, the other users, and my colleagues at risk. The moment a situation arises, I react instinctively. I know what to do and I do it fast. Usually a situation is over in 5-10 minutes. I am trained on not reacting with the instinctive fear once someone strikes out at me, I am trained to go into the situation and do what has to be done.<br />And I am no soldier.<br /><br />Another thing I want to point out is what we call the <span style="font-style: italic;">threat of potential violence</span>. This means that the threath begins before entering my work place, knowing that during my shift I will most likely be hit, yelled at, kicked and sometimes subjected to grave violence. We are trained to deal with this feeling, venting it, and being aware of it. This is very difficult, but I can tell you that the people who don't have my kind of training, feel more fear, react much more violently, the situation lasts much longer, and their reactions are much stronger.So these elite soldiers with years of training could deal with this in an efficient and humane way - if that was their will and intent.<br />The activists reacted with the same kind of fear and stress as the people I work with who have no training. The activists were quite obviously not trained in handling fear, and they defended themself. That is the psychology of what happened.<br /><br />Now onto the legal aspects:<br />Israel has not signe<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7cR04Y8AqAPOnpmjMZuUBtwCPfPQKQViYAdJZximTNQLS6N4J_-6xb9JPLlBDdRgjfFvmgzgPYrErT8RDlNIjkPwYKsoxVTIBInFUPGj4y77d3ve4XS85coFD9GtgMuL25BpUiOpdoO_/s1600/10740823.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7cR04Y8AqAPOnpmjMZuUBtwCPfPQKQViYAdJZximTNQLS6N4J_-6xb9JPLlBDdRgjfFvmgzgPYrErT8RDlNIjkPwYKsoxVTIBInFUPGj4y77d3ve4XS85coFD9GtgMuL25BpUiOpdoO_/s320/10740823.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479244185765701298" border="0" /></a>d United nations convention on the law of the sea (UNCLOS).<br />While they have not signed not ratified the convention counts as international law as it has achieved 60 ratifications and thereby becomes law for all UN members. This means that Israel was in fact violating international law. (Specifically paragraphs 92, 94 and 96) Ergo making the argument that the Israeli soldiers were attacked false.<br />The activists were in international water, with no weapons on board. They were attacked by Israeli soldiers. The ones who used wooden sticks and metal bars, acted in <span style="font-style: italic;">_self defence_</span>.<br />They were not in violation of any international law.<br /><br />Another argument is that their intent was to break a blockade. While this argument is valid, the blockade is legally questionable and has come under heavy criticism for failing to meet international standards for legal blockade.<br />In 1909 an attempt was made to regulate the legality of blockades in the London declaration concerning the laws of naval war. How ever the law failed as it did not receive enough signatures to be made international law. Still it has been used and cited as the standard for blockades.<br />the law states clearly that a blockade needs to provide sufficient medical aid and food for the blockaded area. It also states that in order to intercept anyone breaching the blockade, they must be _actively_ doing so. Proven, or simply stated _intent_ is not enough. However since this law never became international law, blockades are regulated under chapter 7 of the United Nations charter, article 42. Witch states that the legality of a blockade must be founded on the security council. The Israeli blockade fails to met these standards, both according to the 1909 declaration and article 42. In fact the security council has called for the immediate cease of the blockade.<br /><br />Who were the organisers of the Free Gaza flotilla?<br />(Free Gaza Movement has been arranging similar actions since 2008.)<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Gaza_Movement" title="Free Gaza Movement">Free Gaza Movement</a> in collaboration with several other NGO's such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHH_%28%C4%B0nsani_Yard%C4%B1m_Vakf%C4%B1%29" title="IHH (İnsani Yardım Vakfı)">Humanitarian Relief </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHH_%28%C4%B0nsani_Yard%C4%B1m_Vakf%C4%B1%29" title="IHH (İnsani Yardım Vakfı)">Foundation (IHH)</a> , the Perdana Global Peace Organization from Malaysia, the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza, and a Swedish and Greek Boat. 6 boats in total.<br />All with one common goal: To aid the 1.5 million suffering people in Gaza.<br />The cargo consists of paper for school books, wheel chairs, cement, medication, toys, food, water purifiers and so on.<br />Not weapons, nor terrorists.<br /><br />Some claim, particularily the Israeli government, that IHH has links to Al qaeda and islamism. While these links have been present, they are not as strong or developed as one might suspect. After reading a a Danish report o<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYTEEPjIKukbvk-ce5vfnxz-D3uu-4EGt59giNUCZwiDT5XiccnOMM5-BPNNxgPOQjcI-tQ_jNHZqOR70OpKtD4imNNDDJcWCorzieDZyrX9ffARc8K3UU8RXrxg9n_kYx9HrkssQRHhti/s1600/YellowSailBoatLogo.png"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYTEEPjIKukbvk-ce5vfnxz-D3uu-4EGt59giNUCZwiDT5XiccnOMM5-BPNNxgPOQjcI-tQ_jNHZqOR70OpKtD4imNNDDJcWCorzieDZyrX9ffARc8K3UU8RXrxg9n_kYx9HrkssQRHhti/s320/YellowSailBoatLogo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479244723498930482" border="0" /></a>n IHH it is evident that the IHH has made some bad judgements in the past, and that for a period during the nineties the organization was in fact infiltrated by terrorist groups. However the organization itself is _not_an islamist group nor engaged in terror activities. Most of the evidence against them is clearly circumstantial and speculative. For instance the fact that IHH has participated in demonstrations against the American invasion of Iraq is counted as islamist behaviour. Many of my friends, including myself, demonstrated against the invasion of Iraq - and we are certainly not islamist.<br /><br />I strongly want to point out that this action was not a terrorist action. And when people link IHH to a vague and outdated past, they fail to realize that this has nothing to do with Hamas, the Jewish people or politics. This was humanitarian - period.<br />I also want to state that being opposed to the Israeli government and it's politics, is not the same as being opposed to the Jewish people.<br />Supporting the suffering Palestinians is not the same as supporting Hamas' politics and bombings. I do however recognise Hamas as the legally elected civilian authority.<br /><br />I want to state that Mister Obama, Mister Nobel Peace Prize, should be ashamed. I hope his nights are filled with nightmares<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7LC9PejMIhMNjSQ2lNWUMlAzo05bkRtz4B45-0zIW52HgqFTm5lcuAKAKDSbA9tohn7NHdes3VovKE8iAGjiGBArXWcC1hQ4DT1Qre82av-S0LVVMFO0ogNutmeo_xMm1qYUea1uTiES9/s1600/the_middle_finger.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7LC9PejMIhMNjSQ2lNWUMlAzo05bkRtz4B45-0zIW52HgqFTm5lcuAKAKDSbA9tohn7NHdes3VovKE8iAGjiGBArXWcC1hQ4DT1Qre82av-S0LVVMFO0ogNutmeo_xMm1qYUea1uTiES9/s320/the_middle_finger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479245129122062370" border="0" /></a>. So much for "change" and "hope", so much for reaching out an open hand to the muslim world.<br />Take a long hard look at my open hand, Mister Obama, as I flip you the bird.<br />You let everyone down, and the great people before you, are turning in their graves.<br /><br />People:<br />This was not about religion, politics or ethnicity.<br />This is about right and wrong.<br />And the Israeli government has to stop their suppression of the Palestinian people, and lift the blockade.The time has come, and the world is watching. The eyes of the world are on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rachel_Corrie" title="MV Rachel Corrie">MV Rachel Corrie</a> that got boarded by IDF today.<br />Named after the young American woman killed by a bulldozer in 2003, attempting to prevent IDF forces from demolishing the home of Palestinian Samir Nasrallah.<br /><br />I was just told that a <a href="http://palestinelibre.tumblr.com/">jewish ship</a> will sail for Gaza mid July.<br />What now, Israel?<br /><br />Free Palestine.Lift the blockade.<span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJcyaOy5JyuJRmGHZC5fYRawFJcnZle9m602dOGrPOiN3ynaLbmasz3PcBlTBmKPBHyrch0w3L6rW_jx5K4Q0CHWP8xQihmGaGphgsMbM9eaj0qSsJEaODpB2k1-UyejAXUXxJ5ktBl__/s1600/freepalestine.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJcyaOy5JyuJRmGHZC5fYRawFJcnZle9m602dOGrPOiN3ynaLbmasz3PcBlTBmKPBHyrch0w3L6rW_jx5K4Q0CHWP8xQihmGaGphgsMbM9eaj0qSsJEaODpB2k1-UyejAXUXxJ5ktBl__/s320/freepalestine.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479246090358527554" border="0" /></a></span></span>Batcheebahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913119533219119762noreply@blogger.com0