We're Next to None.

Rules and regulations are the checks and balances that keep some of us honest and the rest of us safe. We modify regulations in accordance with evolving science, state law, and political pressure. Regulations are openly discussed, periodically adjusted and always enforced with political will and state's sovereignty. The law of this country governs any and all who happen to be here or pass through this country.

പട്ടിണി കിടന്നു ചത്താലും ആത്മാഭിമാനം പണയം വെക്കാതിരിക്കുക എന്നതാണ് തറവാട്ടില്‍ പിറന്നവരുടെ രീതി. രാജ്യത്തിന്റെ അഭിമാനം ചോദ്യം ചെയ്യപ്പെടുമ്പോഴാണ് ഒരു ഭരണകൂടത്തിന്റെ കാര്യക്ഷമത കൂടുതല്‍ പ്രകടമാവേണ്ടത്. യു പി എ സര്‍ക്കാരും അതിന്റെ തലപ്പത്തിരിക്കുന്ന ഇന്ത്യന്‍ നാഷണല്‍ കോണ്‍ഗ്രസിന്റെ നേതാക്കന്മാരും തറവാട്ടില്‍ പിറന്നവരാണോ എന്ന് വരും ദിനങ്ങളില്‍ കണ്ടറിയാം.
ഇറ്റലിക്കാര്‍ക്ക് അവരുടെ അമ്മായി ഇവിടെയുള്ളത്കൊണ്ടാണ് ഇത്തരമൊരു ആനുകൂല്യം ലഭിച്ചതെന്ന് ഓരോ ഇന്ത്യക്കാരനും വിശ്വസിക്കാതിരിക്കണമെങ്കില്‍ ആ കൊലയാളികളെ പിടിച്ചു കൊണ്ട് വന്നേ മതിയാകൂ.
എത്ര ശക്തമായ നിലപാടുകളെടുത്താലും അന്താരാഷ്‌ട്ര സമൂഹത്തിന്റെ പിന്തുണ ഇന്ത്യയുടെ പക്ഷത്തുണ്ടാവുമെന്നതുറപ്പാണ്. ഇത്തരമൊരു പച്ചയായ കരാര്‍ ലംഘനത്തെ ലോകത്തെ ഒരു രാജ്യത്തിനും പിന്തുണക്കാനാവില്ല. ഇന്ത്യയെ സംബന്ധിച്ചിടത്തോളം ഇറ്റലി പിണങ്ങിയാല്‍ കോലോത്തെ തമ്പുരാനോട് കള്ളന്‍ കോവാലന്‍ പിണങ്ങിയ പോലാണ്.

The Rape Myth

The leading rape myth used to be about what a woman was wearing. The twisted logic goes like this: Women who wear provocative clothing are sluts who are “asking for it.” But the feminist movement has seriously chipped at this rape myth.

Thousands of women in Muslim countries who wear the burqa and hijab and dress modestly are raped and sexually assaulted. Egypt’s Interior Ministry reports that 20,000 women and girls are raped every year. Alcohol is involved in a staggering number of sex crimes. In a national study of college students, 75% of males and 55% of females involved in date rape had been drinking or using some other drugs prior to the sexual assault.

According to a study conducted by the American National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: "At least one-half of all violent crimes involve alcohol consumption by the perpetrator, or the victim, or both".

Researchers have consistently found that men who have been drinking alcohol commit approximately one-half of all sexual assaults. Depending on the sample studied and the measures used, the estimates for alcohol (ab)use among perpetrators have ranged from 34 to 74 percent. Has anybody looked into its application in cases like Suryanelli, since in India, according to the National Crime Registry, a woman is raped every 20 minutes?

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An addendum ( written a few days ago):

Prof. Alex Odikandathil Ph.D.

March 9

On this post-Women's Day, for you to read: It Wasn't Bad Sex, It Wasn't a Mistake, 'It Was Rape': The film grapples with society's dark side. Jennifer Baumgardner's powerful new documentary gets eight women to describe one of the worst moments of their lives.

Baumgardner’s latest project, a 60-minute documentary titled 'It Was Rape', opens with a warning: If the movie purports to be an emotional trigger, “please take care of yourself, even if it means leaving the theater".

The reason for this heads-up is that sexual violation is an abysmally common crime. According to a 2011 report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in six US women and one in seven US men have been raped at least once. These numbers make the film’s admonition especially poignant since it is likely that audience everywhere will include people for whom rape is not a theoretical issue, but a lived reality.
Baumgardner calls rape 'the feminist issue that never changes.' 

She hopes the film will nudge viewers to listen to victims’ stories without judgment or condemnation.

The following shows how law enforcement is more forceful in the west than in India. Baptist Pastor told the 17 year old girl that Jesus 

wanted them to have sex. Indiana pastor Jack Schaap exploited an underage girl's' belief in God to coerce her into sleeping with him. 


As a pastor at an Indiana megachurch, Jack Schaap persuaded a 17 year old girl to have sex with him by creepily claiming it was all part 

of God’s plan. He wanted to put her on a “better path of living,” he said, adding “that’s what we call Righteousness,” letters provided by 

prosecutors reveal. It’s all very gross, but the most disturbing God-wants-you-to-bone-me moment may have come when Schaap 

wrote, “That is exactly what Christ desires for us. He wants to marry us + become eternal lovers!” 

Schaap pleaded guilty last year to transporting his victim across state lines. Prosecutors say Schaap persuaded the church to bring her 

to his cabin in Michigan, claiming she was in an “extremely vulnerable state” that could be cured only with 'alone time' with him (and his 

penis). Prosecutors also allege that he had sex with the girl on his property in Crete, Illinois and in the First Baptist Church offices.

The underage victim, who spent her entire life in the church listening to Schaap preach three times a week, wrote that she thought he 

was the voice of God. 

“He told me to confide in him, to trust him, and he made me feel safe and comfortable around him as a man of God,” the girl wrote in 

official documents. “[Schaap] preyed on that trust and my vulnerability.”

Schaap is scheduled for sentencing in March. The Government and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jill Koster recommend he receive only ten 

years for pleading guilty before charges were filed.