by: Marceline Donaldson<\/p>\n
My name is on this writing because it is time for all of us to come out of the shadows of shame and into the light with our truth. We have been attacked and are being attacked, apparently to shut us up. \u00a0Trying to destroy Bettina Network, inc. and me is keeping some few people busy. \u00a0 However, we shall go on as long as we can.<\/p>\n
Nothing you do – \u00a0 nothing that others do to you – nothing in your life as you have lived it should be in even a small bit of shade. \u00a0Nothing should be pushed into that corner of your memories where you shove those things of which you are ashamed. \u00a0Clean them out! \u00a0Bring them out into the open.<\/p>\n
Shame is what has allowed sin to fester and grow into the slime and horribleness that is showing all around us. \u00a0The most effective part of sexual abuse and sexual harassment and sexual assault is the shame which has been dumped on the victim by the victimizer and the society. \u00a0Isn’t that one large reason why it is so hard to recover from abuse, harassment and assault?<\/p>\n
Society’s message is – SHUT UP – we don’t want to know what happened to you because it does not enhance the mythology we have created around this society for generations.<\/p>\n
It is time for that message to be – OPEN UP, PLEASE. \u00a0We want all of this awfulness to come out into the light of day. \u00a0We want to know what happened to you. \u00a0We want you to know we love you, we understand, we are here for you as you work towards healing. \u00a0WE SUPPORT YOU.<\/p>\n
To all victims of sexual abuse, harassment, assault, please share what happened to you we want to take a part of what you have gone through into ourselves to share that part of your life which we should have been there to help you with. \u00a0We are so sorry we were busy doing other things with other priorities that we could not be your support.<\/p>\n
WE ARE HERE NOW!<\/p>\n
HOW?<\/p>\n
This “COMING OUT” – this “OUTCOMING” of Christine Balsey Ford needs to be a coming out for all women.<\/p>\n
Her hearing needs to be the second stage of Congressional Hearings on the sufferings of women inflicted by men all over these United States. \u00a0In her case it is a coming out by telling the truth about someone who is a Republican Political Operative and was trained to be such to attain to and acquire glory and money and reputation in his field. \u00a0He needs to be saved and CHRISTine can offer him the opportunity to look at, hear and address his values before it is too late for all of us.<\/p>\n
The Congressional Hearings need to be the beginnings of hearings by many groups around this country holding open hearings to which women are invited and supported in telling their stories and shining light into those dark corners we have kept musty, damp, full of all kind of germs which infect the soul.<\/p>\n
Those hearings need to be held in an environment free of bullying, threats, and all the other uglinesses that were characteristic of Congress as exhibited during the hearings held to hear what happened to Anita Hill. \u00a0The conditions under which she had to suffer to be able to do the job she enjoyed, was qualified to do and which she did very well were replicated in those hearings. \u00a0That was not our finest hour. \u00a0Everything said about her carefully excluded her qualifications for the job she was doing and the incredibly efficient and substantial way she did her job. \u00a0The shame of those hearings even went to the Republican Congress people hiding and not allowing corroborating witnesses to appear.<\/p>\n
The focus in all of these cases is on sex. \u00a0While sex is used as the weapon against women, it is really about power, control, greed and a sex drive completely distorted in ugly ways to serve bullying, over-aggressive, insecure males.<\/p>\n
It is no accident that these happenings in Congress very much parallel and reflect what is happening in the Catholic Church. \u00a0The priests who have been sexual predators and those higher up in the Catholic Church trying to cover the sins committed very much reflect the Congressional people now trying to stifle, submerge, crucify and destroy CHRISTine. \u00a0Those same needs and urges are behind the way sexual predators in high places are handled by Congress and all the other “big dogs” in this society.<\/p>\n
The thousands of children in the Catholic Church who were the victims of such sexual predatory priests are replaced in this society by women – their mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins. \u00a0And very soon, if we do not act to stop all of this, those women – as they have been in the Catholic Church – \u00a0will be replaced by our children. \u00a0That has already happened in the immigration area – Donald Trump and his administration are replicating the Nazi Concentration Camps with Immigration camps being designed to house children. \u00a0And those children will soon and are currently becoming the object of sexual predators. \u00a0Rape of the children is not uncommon in the structures Donald Trump has designed and which are coming to pass. \u00a0We have heard only the beginnings of such as the stories leak out.<\/p>\n
Either we act now or this society is consigned to total corruption. Evangelical christians claim Donald Trump is being used as their gods instrument to bring about his view of the world. \u00a0It looks more like their god is named Satan and for him Donald Trump is doing an excellent job.<\/p>\n
Regular weekly Congressional Hearings need to be set up to follow the hearing in which CHRISTine tells what happened to her and the planning for that needs to start NOW.<\/p>\n
State Legislatures need to organize to take up from the U. S. Congress hearings in their areas where women are invited – supported – and where their stories are given wide national coverage as are the hearings being held in the U. S. Congress on a weekly basis and laws need to be drawn up from those hearings which allow and support us as we put sex out of the picture and acknowledge the humanity, the love, the work we can do together as a society without all of the power, control, greed tactics which are now structured into all of our institutions.<\/p>\n
Universities need to take up the banner and hold such hearings for what happens on their campuses. \u00a0Sexual attacks, rapes, sexual abuse, sexual harassment needs to be outed in their hearings as well so our college campuses can be about the business of sharing knowledge and maybe even a bit of wisdom instead of shoring up their sexist and racist structures as their administration tries to figure out how to suppress women from coming forward to talk about what happened and is happening to them on these campuses, because that currently is looked upon as a failure of the school and a blot on its reputation so those in charge suppress and thereby provide fuel for the continuation of such attacks and uglinesses against women and against the souls of the men who are guilty of such attacks.<\/p>\n
And lets not ignore churches, synagogues, temples and all religious groups because there is a very fine line between religious fervor and sexual passion, which very few know about and study, but which can ravage and destroy or change a religion in short order – from where it started to what it becomes after giving way to such emotions incorporating the way to hide and camouflage them in its structures and destroy those who come forward to speak their truth.<\/p>\n
At the same time, there needs to be structured into each institution a way for the men to be treated for what they were raised to believe was their god-given right – superiority over the entire universe. \u00a0Treatment to relieve their male ego, which today needs to parade itself around in such a way as the current Republican Congress is giving us a premier example hoping we will follow.<\/p>\n
The GOP Congress is out its bullying and its need to exercise control – to destroy to prove its manhood even if that means destroying democracy in the process. \u00a0Total destruction is what this white male ego has wrought on this society.<\/p>\n
Who wants this democracy anyway. \u00a0It only stifles their ability to move back to what they consider the greatness of America, to the time when “White” men in this society were slave owners – “Make America Great Again” came from that wish trying to become a fact of life today in these United States. \u00a0Sex trafficking and all the other forms of human slavery still alive and well and protected by our structures are all thriving. These followers of Donald Trump want to go back to being those who could pass laws such as the Chinese Exclusions Act of 1882 to protect their superiority – the first act passed by Congress restricting immigration into the United States. \u00a0And that was passed after we horribly abused the Chinese living in these United States as no better than slaves who were conscripted to build our railroad under inhumane conditions and more.<\/p>\n
That is the act Donald Trump wants replicated to keep brown and black people out of this country. \u00a0He even wants to go into other countries to do the same for their governments. \u00a0That is who we will become if we don’t act now. \u00a0We have inched up to this place and now the forces of evil are breaking out all over since we elected that champion of evil as president. \u00a0Who has he hired as his White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and who will probably replace General John Kelly as White House Chief of Staff? \u00a0William Shine – \u00a0Roger Ailes’ former head of Fox right hand man and co-president of Fox News and before that Senior Producer of Hannity & Comes. \u00a0He was the man who spent his career covering up Roger Ailes’ sexual abuse, harassment and assault of women. He is the man now preparing Brett Kavanaugh for the testimony he will give at this hearing being planned and they have spent hours each day in that endeavor. He is the man who is programming Donald Trump when he goes out to give speeches and who programs and controls the White House’s face to the press and more. \u00a0How low are we going America!<\/p>\n
Maybe these hearings need to continue first by hearing from all of the women who have brought charges against the current president of these United States – Donald Trump. \u00a0Certainly that is an “oversight” area legitimately dealt with by Congress. A legitimate continuation of Congressional Hearings after the one set up for CHRISTine would naturally flow from that and then on to welcoming the women who have such stories to tell about others in Congress. \u00a0If these hearings are blocked by the Republicans in Congress I am sure others can find a way for such hearings to happen.<\/p>\n
We need to recognize that the conservative evangelical christians lobbying Congress and providing money to individual congressmen are the Protestant equivalent to the Catholic bishops, archbishops, and above who have worked mightily to hide and therefore allow the continuance of the sex crimes which happened on their watch and on the watch of those who went before.<\/p>\n
It has been clear to me for some time that to reach out to befriend a male creates a problem for both you and he. \u00a0He doesn’t know what to do if he is not attracted to you sexually – because friendship is not something he knows about nor is a friend without special privileges someone he can be. \u00a0 He assumes that offer of friendship has a sexual component. \u00a0That does not describe all men, but it certainly describes the majority. \u00a0That is a very sad – no, very tragic comment to make because that is what maintains and continues this system of misogyny defined as “dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women”. \u00a0A human being turned into an object which can be used, abused, shamed and then cast away or better yet kept around as an example and symbol to keep other women walking the trail of tears instead of being able to walk in her truth.<\/p>\n
Once a date has been set for the hearing of what happened to CHRISTine, another date needs to be immediately for the next hearing, inviting women who have been sexually abused, harassed, assaulted by the president of the United States. \u00a0A group needs to be constituted for the next hearings to pick up after those are finished to go on until the problem is solved, stopped and redirected.<\/p>\n
AMEN?<\/p>\n
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