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ldren have pondered the meaning of those words for centuries and only understood them fleetingly and through a dark glass we don t think those words are useful in real life which is harsh and hard and technical and practical and scientific and rational and emotionless many people sneer at those words christina and think they are nice enough in a song but of no useful significance others think they can use them in their churches and synagogues and mosques and decide what they mean in those limited places and forget what it means to bring them out into the world the real world that often doesn t look as though it was made for love but was i ve had a bad year myself christina i watched a livestream of some very vengeful men hurting some peace loving gift bearing people on a ship bound for a place called gaza and it affected me profoundly even though i wasn t quite sure how i watched a bunch of vengeful men and probably some women intimidate corral beat and imprison some friends of mine in toronto and it affected me profoundly even though i wasn t quite sure how it has seemed in the past year that everything i ve always worked for and towards was in tatters and that the world was going from bad to worse i wondered if there was anything i could really hope for or in any more i ve been pretty angry and have often felt embittered i use that word embittered because i felt someone made me bitter i didn t take responsibility for choosing bitterness that was dumb of me i take that back i am not bitter i was just being stupid for awhile you have caused me to wake up a bit i want this bad death that has been inflicted upon you by all of us to lead to something better if not something good like a world where kids can admire and respect and actually learn some wisdom from their elders because their elders have taken the trouble to be respectable and wise a world where it s actually sensible to participate in the ways we govern and nurture ourselves and look after others because we do our best at it and respect ourselves and others who try hey christina a world in which we ve taken the trouble to know ourselves and understand what a good life might be and care enough to work for it if we got that for ourselves if we thought enough of ourselves to demand it we wouldn t be able to help being good to each other because that s what being good to each other requires we need to grieve you now child i admit i m trying to get on the grief bandwagon here quickly and take over i know i m going to be angered by the way your death gets exploited and people tread either too hard or too lightly on your life and its meaning i know i m going to get it wrong too i just hope i can stay committed to a gentle path of grieving you one on which i don t cling too hard and fast to anything in particular and don t respond too nastily to others who think they know what you meant and what you mean i do think i know something though i ll try to hold onto it and share it in your honour without wearing my rage you are so beautiful i m glad to know you and so sad you are gone posted in child abuse war tagged 9 11 christina taylor greene culture death gabrielle giffords love politics us america 4 comments what of our stolen sisters a post mortem posted on october 24 2010 by elizabeth 3 i know everybody s tired of it and of him but questions linger and the post mortems are just as or more important than the explosion of media reporting that accompanies the events we all know how bad that was except for this and i m not sure if it counts since it s on the blogs and not in print john cruikshank prolly doesn t even know it s there the post mortems are threatening to be equally bad even when of the more er thoughtful kind take this from the globe and mail in 1941 american psychiatrist hervey cleckley published a seminal book about psychopaths called the mask of sanity in which he described an intelligent and cunning person skilled at manipulating others and indifferent to their pain a man like this dr cleckley explained finds no real meaning in love or horror or humour as if colour blind to human feeling dr cleckley used interviews observation and medical records to learn about his patients but today brain imaging offers scientists a new way to peer behind the mask a growing number of them now see psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder one in which a combination of genetic and environmental factors such as neglect or poor bonding with parents lead to deficits in the brain and if biology is to blame can society hold the psychopath responsible the brain deficits that neuroscientists have documented affect the ability of psychopaths to feel emotions and learn from their mistakes as if they have a learning disability that impairs their emotional development says kent kiehl a neuroscientist at the university of new mexico the differences have been seen in the brain images of children as young as 5 there is much that i find interesting and important in these theories and findings including that it might be quite beside the point to blame and punish psychopaths though it s still important to find humane ways to protect ourselves from them but what they almost always leave out as in this case are questions about gender and race perhaps that comes later for scientists and most media types but i think the issues need to be addressed now why are criminal psychopaths most often male why are their victims most often female and children if we remain obsessed by the neurobiological importantand intriguing as it is we fail to properly address the fact that psychopathology results from a complex process involving not just the biological but also the social and environmental cops miss this too even when they acknowledge the interconnections for instance the fbi produced a monograph on serial murder after a multi disciplinary symposium on the topic held in san antonio in 2005 here s something the monograph says about causality and serial killing serial murderers like all human beings are the product of their heredity their upbringing and the choices they make throughout development though the monograph does discuss this in somewhat more complex terms like environment it never really gets beyond the issue of upbringing within the family it never gets to the social at all beyond pointing out that serial murders are present across racial and socioeconomic divides when it addresses the myth that serial killers are mostly white males it explains how that is not so in terms of race but never deals with the issue of gender i m thinking there weren t any feminists at the symposium a feminist might ask why male psychopathy more often leads to serial death than female psychopathy might also ask why the victims are more often women especially when murder is combined with sexual assault a feminist might think certain social divisions need to be investigated like women s inequality like the objectification and sexification of women like the violent images of women s victimhood so beloved in the western world that they comprise a multi billion dollar industry and not just in porn like the vulnerability often imposed on women by race and poverty like the masculinization of power but while we re on race and poverty one thing that i do like about the fbi monograph is that it points out how rare serial murdering is serial murder is a relatively rare event estimated to comprise less than one percent of all murders committed in any given year however there is a macabre interest in the topic that far exceeds its scope and has generated countless articles books and movies we ve certainly experienced that in canada this past week there isn t a way to diminish the suffering of the lloyd and comeau families or the tragedy of the deaths of these sisters and daughters but their deaths and the prurient and sensational interest in colonel williams and others like him does diminish our aptitude for further examination of the lives and suffering of others for instance apart from a few brief mentions does anyone seem to care much for the women who survived attacks by williams that is apart from antonia zerbisias and why isn t the media all over the stories of missing and murdered aboriginal women if williams had chosen from among them would anybody have noticed from amnesty international canada according to a canadian government statistic young indigenous women are five times more likely than other women of the same age to die as the result of violence indigenous women have long struggled to draw attention to violence within their own families and communities canadian police and public officials have also long been aware of a pattern of racist violence against indigenous women in canadian cities but have done little to prevent it the pattern looks like this racist and sexist stereotypes deny the dignity and worth of indigenous women encouraging some men to feel they can get away with acts of hatred against them decades of government policy have impoverished and broken apart indigenous families and communities leaving many indigenous women and girls extremely vulnerable to exploitation and attack many police forces have failed to institute necessary measures such as training protocols and accountability mechanisms to ensure that officers understand and respect the indigenous communities they serve without such measures police too often fail to do all they can to ensure the safety of indigenous women and girls whose lives are in danger what about our stolen sisters a new report has added 62 more names to a growing list of missing or slain aboriginal women and girls across canada the report by the native women s association of canada pegs the total as at least 582 the data is drawn from the last three decades with 153 of the cases occurring between 2000 and 2008 most of the women in the database were killed while 115 are still missing i challenge the mainstream media to make a big event of these numbers and the lost lives of these women stephen harper certainly won t posted in canada feminism indigenous peoples sexism violence against women 3 comments coverage of the colonel case puts us in a coma posted on october 21 2010 by elizabeth 2 read this and substitute the words paul bernardo for russell williams the paul bernardo case like every similar investigation had its share of human error but this is not a story of human error or lack of dedication or investigative skill it is a story of systemic failure virtually every interjurisdictional serial killer case including sutcliffe the yorkshire ripper and black the cross border child killer in england ted bundy and the green river killer in the united states and clifford olsen in canada demonstrate the same problems and raise the same questions and always the answer turns out to be the same systemic failure always the problems turn out to be the same the mistakes the same and the systemic failures the same that was mr justice archie campbell in 1996 in his report on the investigation into the crimes committed by paul bernardo if we need a detailed examination of the similarities between the case of colonel russell williams and no i won t stop calling him colone l and those of bernardo it wasn t the one that christie blatchford provided on wednesday go there if you really want to read about how these two serial rapist murderers are the same and how they re different and which one is best but this just is not what matters why do we need to think about the bernardo and williams crimes together not because of the details of the crimes themselves but because of the law enforcement and media response the ineffective and misleading response perhaps the most important thing that campbell pointed out in his report was this what is needed is a system of case management for major and interjurisdictional serial predator investigations a system that corrects the defects demonstrated by this and so many similar cases a case management system is needed that is based on cooperation rather than rivalry among law enforcement agencies a case management system is needed that depends on specialized training early recognition of linked offences co ordination of interdisciplinary and forensic resources and some simple mechanisms to ensure unified management accountability and co ordination when serial predators cross police borders as antonia zerbisias pointed out in a column at the star as long ago as february various detachments of the ontario provincial police along with belleville police did no such communicating and coordinated case response why not at the time that paul bernardo was operating there was no viclas automated crime linkage system in place as campbell pointed out in his report such a system would likely have alerted police to the fact that rapes being committed in scarborough ontario were related to rapes in st catharines there was no system that would recognize the wider public interest in catching a serial rapist interest that went beyond that of one particular community it s my understanding that there are such systems in place now but the police have to use them did anyone in tweed or belleville or brighton enter information into the system that should have linked the sexual assaults of laurie massicotte and jane doe with the rape and murder of corporal marie france comeau what about the series of break and enters in these communities that involved the theft of lingerie and other personal items of the women who lived there given that police take such crimes to be so unimportant and trivial that has to be unlikely i want to know given the slow speed at which the police and our justice system incorporate the knowledge that could lead to saving the lives and bodily and personal integrity of women we can t get the answers to these questions soon enough four days of courtroom time this week did not give these answers or even ask the questions much as it troubles and tires me to say this we need a public inquiry conducted by someone with the integrity of an archie campbell are we going to get one or have we been so mesmerized by visions of the colonel wearing stolen underwear that we have lapsed into our own private comas as campbell said so many years ago there must be a public recognition that these problems are not just problems for the police and law enforcement communities they are problems for the community as a whole a commitment to correct them is necessary in order to guard against another case like this is anybody listening these cases make for a whole lot of noise and no action that s femicide for ya h t to anna willats for reminding me of the campbell report update for the sake of all that s sacred read this blog post by antonia zerbisias the only member of the journalistic tribe that knows how to report this case if that sounds biased you re damned right update ii from laurie massicotte one of the women who survived an assault by russell 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