State-Sponsored Domestic Terror Perpetrated By The US V. US Women
It is when things remain hidden that they are the most dangerous
From a female National Security Analyst:
"Only 15% of stalking cases are prosecuted with over 3 million reported annually in the United States. The lack of prosecution and failure to take these cases seriously comes with dire consequences (just women..eh..who cares?).
Research finds that 76% of women murdered by an intimate partner were stalked first, while 85% of women who survived murder attempts were stalked.
Either the laws need to change or they must be enforced!"
A victim speaks out:
“Police don’t do anything at all about stalking now. Following me in his car while I was exercising wasn’t stalking. Sitting outside my home in a fold up chair wasn’t stalking. Following me into shops wasn’t stalking. Parking in my street wasn’t stalking. Contacting my family and friends to tell them I was lying about being abused or I was mentally ill wasn’t stalking. If stalking isn’t stalking I wonder what offensive behaviour will constitute stalking? I’m exposing the perpetrator is construed as us stalking them or telling our stories of being tortured and abused since its offensive to the perpetrator to have everyone know what he did!”
Another victim speaks out:
“My ex-husband was/is a domestic abuser. I was with him for 18 years before he decided he needed a new punching bag. I feel that had he not decided to move on, on his own volition, I would be dead by now. He tried to kill me twice by choking me and once with a shotgun. I feared for my children if I went to the police or told anyone what he was doing to me. I felt that if he was trying to kill me, he would leave the kids alone. There are too many stories in the news like this and I felt he would make good on his threats.”
A victim advocate:
“Sadly it is only those who die who even get thought of. Severely coercively controlled, battered women who “only” have their lives destroyed, their children, their ability to work and their homes taken from them, and some even jailed on nothing more than the false allegations of their male abuser, are completely ignored. No one helps them.”
This means that women are being forced to stay with their predators to save their own and their children’s lives.
There are HUGE powerful implications from this data.
Our country is over-run with terrorized women, U.S. citizens paying their taxes like everyone else, at the mercy of murderous predators. There is no other conclusion from this data.
Law enforcement that enforces laws to protect women needs to be a number one priority in our country.
Our tax dollars go to pay for law enforcement that protects us.
We deserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as much as the next guy.
The men don't seem to give a damn, so as women, we need to stand together and demand law enforcement that enforces the laws to protect us, and force our law makers to protect its own damn citizens.
This article came out a few weeks ago in the New York Times:
Opinion This group has a shocking concussion rate. It’s not football
By Rachel Ramirez, Luke Montgomery and Julianna Nemeth October 31, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
Rachel Ramirez is director of health and disability programs at the Ohio Domestic Violence Network and founder of its Center on Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury. Luke Montgomery is a physician investigating the association between post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injury in domestic violence survivors through research at Ohio State University College of Public Health. Julianna Nemeth, an assistant professor of public health at Ohio State University, works on increasing access to health services for survivors of trauma.
Halfway through the National Football League season, it’s no surprise that player concussions have been generating headlines full of outrage and worry. But with every outburst of public attention toward injured athletes, we, as experts in brain injury, can’t help thinking of another group that experiences concussions at an alarmingly high rate and whose plight goes largely ignored: domestic violence survivors.
Research at Ohio’s domestic violence agencies has shown that over 80 percent of survivors accessing services have experienced some type of abuse that could lead to concussion or another type of brain injury. They’ve been punched in the head. Thrown against an object. Hit in the skull with something hard. And all without the protection of a football helmet.
Given that 1 in 3 women worldwide will experience intimate partner violence at some point in their lives, it is likely that millions of victims have experienced concussions or other head, neck and brain injuries from violence — including strangulation, chokeholds and suffocation. Not only that, but severe, repetitive head trauma is extremely common, with close to 50 percent of survivors having been hit in the head too many times to count.
This is a crisis. And it should garner at least as much attention as the stories of concussed football players.
We were reminded of this again last month after Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa experienced not one but two dangerous blows to the head just days apart. The footage was horrifying. In each case — rightly so — Tagovailoa was swiftly attended to on the field, then removed and given further medical attention. In the aftermath, there was heated discussion about whether proper concussion protocols had been followed.
Domestic violence survivors, by contrast, experience these injuries alone. For them, there is no “return to play” protocol. Rest is the foundation of concussion recovery. Yet nearly all survivors soldier on — working, parenting, carrying on activities — unaware of the damage to their brains. Without the proper time to heal, survivors can experience physical and psychological symptoms long after their initial injury. And their symptoms are often misdiagnosed or ignored.
Brain injury from concussions can cause memory and concentration difficulties, increased anxiety and depression, and problems with headaches, vision and balance. In domestic violence survivors, these symptoms are often misidentified by law enforcement and first responders as substance use, mental health issues, or purely erratic behavior — not as the signs of acute head trauma they are.
These misdiagnoses don’t only imperil survivors’ health. The symptoms above can also be used against victims. Abusers claim that survivors are lying, mentally ill or on drugs and that violence never occurred. Survivors, unaware of their injuries, are gaslighted into believing they’re “crazy.” Law enforcement, service providers and the judicial system fail victims when the effect of brain injury is ignored. Even worse, at the evidence of cognitive challenges, they question the validity of survivors’ experiences.
We must do better.
Law enforcement officers at the scene of a domestic disturbance should be aware that victims could have sustained a brain injury, especially when visual injuries or attacks to the head, neck or face — or strangulation — are reported. Concussion symptoms can influence how a survivor behaves. Rather than attribute odd behavior to substance use or psychiatric concerns, law enforcement should consider the possibility of brain injury.
As survivors seek services from domestic violence agencies, the people interacting with them must make education about brain injury a priority. Organizations should consider implementing “Care,” an evidence-based approach to advocacy that gives providers the tools they need to address brain injuries and their effects on survivors.
Without prompt and appropriate medical care, survivors can go decades without making the connection between being hit in the head and their chronic headaches, memory loss and concentration issues. Seemingly unrelated struggles such as maintaining a job, experiencing nonspecific health problems and keeping custody of children can be long-term consequences of unidentified brain injury.
After each of Tagovailoa’s hits on the football field, people were right to be concerned. But he is one man. Imagine if this type of attention were focused on the millions of domestic violence survivors, most of them women, who will experience or have experienced terrible, untreated brain injuries. These survivors live with the consequences for years. It is high time we stop ignoring them.
To no response.
I no longer see this as neglect, I see it as a coordinated effort. Do you see that?
State-Sponsored Domestic Terror Perpetrated By The US V. US Women
-Thurston County Sheriff
-Thurston County Prosecuting Attys Offc
-Thurston Cty Pub Defenders Offc
-Kaiser Permanente
-North Thurston School District
-DSHS WA
Life Demolished! Barely hanging on by tattered strings! 10 yrs Post IPV!
Robbed of my motherhood and 2 lil ones their childhoods!
Perjury, Hearsay, Insulted, Invalidated, Hearings & Orders Majority Ex Parte!
Full custody to an angry, controlling, woman hating, 2x Penitentiary stayed violent convicted felon, with Pedophile tendencies & a long documented case file that was refused to be reviewed...
Stripped of all of my said rights, my voice, my choice, and my child!
Demoralized, dehumanized, pathologized, and yep I have felonious criminal charges pending for HUGGING my daughter!!??
Erroneously & Absurdly sanctioned without any verification or validation of my ability to accomodate! Ordered to comply to my "Abuser"-- involuntary servitude slave!
My daughter imprisoned, isolated, alienated, berated, diminishing, traumatized, psychologically abused & distorted, molested, suffering from being severed from her "only" primary attachment!
Years of our overall life expectancy GONE & the clock isn't stopping!