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amelliagrace -> RE: Pussy Nation (6/23/2009 1:48:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Leonidas
The FBI, it seems, has opened 184 cases of these crimes in in the 5 years between 2002 and 2007. This is from about 65 million people who took a cruise in the same period of time.
Sounds to me like cruising is considerably safer than driving a car or walking into a convenience store after 10 PM...what an outrage!
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Our Senators were particularly distraught to hear from one of those 184, who apperantly was trapped in a lounge and forced to give a blow job to some Portugese crewman. I'm not sure what the relevance of him being Portugese is, but the Senators and assembled media were suitably horrified.
Speaking as someone who's been there, done that, got the t-shirt when it comes to having been raped, I'd be the first to say the fellow, Portugese or not, would be on my personal extermination list. That doens't mean I think he deserves a slot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. I'd also be the first to say what with all the hienous crimes perpetuated in our society, not the least of which is the ever increasing erosion of liberty, it isn't the worst thing that can happen to someone - not by a long shot. Without all the facts, it sounds to me like a terrible, regretable, bad thing to have happened to someone, but to elevate it to such prominant standing on the Horrors and Atrocities List is a major insult to the many who've endured far worse, with nary a word spoken in their defense by a Senator.
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I couldn't make this shit up if I tried. Senate hearings on something that effects an infintessimally small percentage of people. At all. I would like to propose the Frightened Little Bitch act of 2009. It would mandate that people who would like to live their lives without taking any risk at all should lock themselves in their houses and stay the fuck home. It would further mandate that any lawmaker caught pandering to the media on behalf of a Frightened Little Bitch be locked in with one of them for the remainder of their elected term.
OK, that was crass, crude, and terribly funny. You make a good point there. It is a sad state of affairs when individuals are willing to rush into prisons of their own make, forged of their own unreasonable fears, demanding that society free them from those prisons to which only the inmate holds the key. What isn't so funny is how many of those inmates reside in the good ol' US of A.
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The above is a symptom if the fact that we've built a world that isn't fit for humans. Our brains are designed to process and react to signs of danger, but in a world where the electronic media makes the irrelavant and distant sound just as important as something that might actually kill us, we're overloaded, and we're wringing our hands over shit that just flat doesn't fucking matter.
That is what happens when people buy the lie that life is safe, that all people are gentle, caring, and have the best interests of others at heart. It is what happens when we insist on ignoring instincts honed over millenia for the preservation of the species. It is the result of majoring on minors, and minoring on majors. We have here the result of refusal to look at the world and its occupants in a manner devoid of rose colored glasses and halucinogens. This is what happens when individuals abdicate the health and safety of themselves and their loved ones to "society" and "government". Welcome to the Darwin Awards on a society-sized scope.
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To paraphrase the good Dr. Lange, let those who fear to board the cruise ships not board the cruise ships. By catering to the media stoked fears of the Frightened Little Bitches among us, we are heaping layer upon layer of regulation upon our lives that will ultimately make them not worth living.
News flash - It isn't just "Frightened Little Bitches". There are more than a few Terrified Little Bastards cross pollinating with them, even as we type.
Regards-
Grace
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