Memory is a record.
People only have substance within the memories of other people. And that’s why there were all kinds of myself. There weren’t a lot of myself per se, I was just inside all sorts of people, that’s all.

To confront the matter of a lopsided, state-run media, [Alfred] Sireleaf created The Daily Talk, a free-of-charge, independent news-aggregator—written by hand on a blackboard. Each morning, at 10:45 AM, Alfred Sirleaf heads down to his bulletin board to post the day’s news, culling together a slate of stories his countrymen might otherwise never see. Grateful readers line up in droves, on foot and in cars, to read these updates, in what has been described as the country’s—and most likely the world’s—only analog blog.

Reblogged from veelajolras, Posted by the-unpopular-opinions-deactiva. Filed under: #human rights #death penalty #Universal Declaration of Human Rights #UDHR #legal #laws #corrections #government #rehabilitation #tw #trigger warning #violence #rape #abuse #torture
the-rani: milligans: supernatural-std: 1864impala: the-unpopular-opinions: Killing a man who kills to show others that killing is wrong makes us all killers. Discuss or disagree: thegirlwhosmiledtoomuch.tumblr.com  You give me a child abuser or a rapist or an animal abuser or someone else who has done something as sick and as cruel and that and then tell me they don’t deserve to die. I want them to bring the death penalty back. If that makes me a killer then so be it. ^^ i love you. You would kill them, even though in some cases, these people hate themselves and death would just be  a blessing for them and something they want?  I think jail time is a much better punishment, personally. I would like to see the death penalty completely abolished. Why kill them? The punishment is quick and often fairly painless. Let them rot to death. Let them be alone in a small room for the rest of their lives. Let them have to fight to retain what small shred of sanity they have left. Let them be hated by everyone in the prison. Let the guards look the other way when they bleed and fall and cough and shake. Let nobody mourn their eventual withering. The death penalty isn’t nearly punishment enough. The death penalty has yet to deter violent crime, rape, torture, abuse, any of the crimes that the death penalty is applied to and inhumane treatment leads to inhumane treatment. The correctional system itself needs to be corrected; overcrowding needs to be addressed; rehabilitation needs to be in place; the appeals process has to be overhauled; sentencing rules need to be reviewed, re-written; laws need to be changed. Medical resources — for general health, mental health — should be widely available and accessible to all. Work, food, child care, transportation…so much more can be done than to kill someone.

the-rani:

milligans:

supernatural-std:

1864impala:

the-unpopular-opinions:

Killing a man who kills to show others that killing is wrong makes us all killers.

Discuss or disagree: thegirlwhosmiledtoomuch.tumblr.com 

You give me a child abuser or a rapist or an animal abuser or someone else who has done something as sick and as cruel and that and then tell me they don’t deserve to die.

I want them to bring the death penalty back.

If that makes me a killer then so be it.

^^

i love you.

You would kill them, even though in some cases, these people hate themselves and death would just be  a blessing for them and something they want? 

I think jail time is a much better punishment, personally. I would like to see the death penalty completely abolished.

Why kill them? The punishment is quick and often fairly painless.

Let them rot to death. Let them be alone in a small room for the rest of their lives. Let them have to fight to retain what small shred of sanity they have left. Let them be hated by everyone in the prison. Let the guards look the other way when they bleed and fall and cough and shake. Let nobody mourn their eventual withering.

The death penalty isn’t nearly punishment enough.

The death penalty has yet to deter violent crime, rape, torture, abuse, any of the crimes that the death penalty is applied to and inhumane treatment leads to inhumane treatment. The correctional system itself needs to be corrected; overcrowding needs to be addressed; rehabilitation needs to be in place; the appeals process has to be overhauled; sentencing rules need to be reviewed, re-written; laws need to be changed. Medical resources — for general health, mental health — should be widely available and accessible to all. Work, food, child care, transportation…so much more can be done than to kill someone.

Reblogged from emilytheslayer, Posted by deadpandahh. Filed under: #tw #trigger warning #lesbian #lesbian gay transgender rights #human rights #equality #equal rights #rape culture #hate crime #udhr #universal declaration of human rights #lgbt #lgbtq #homophobia #violence
emilytheslayer: *TRIGGER WARNING* dyellowpandah: This is Millicent Gaika. She is a 30-year-old South African woman who was tied up, beaten, strangled, tortured and raped for five hours. Why was she battered and rape? She is victim of a practice called corrective rape, a term that describes the process of men raping women who claim to be lesbians until they have been turned straight. Such a practice is particularly popular in South Africa, and of course, homosexuality cannot be ‘cured,’ and Millicent is not the first woman who was victimized. The most vicious form of torture a woman can experience in South Africa for being a lesbian is having her genitals mutliated by sharp objects. 24 out of 25 men who are accused of doing such crimes walk free. More than 500 corrective rapes are reported each year, and more than 30 South African lesbians have been murdered because of their sexuality over the past decade. There is a petition that is aiming to expose these crimes in South Africa. The mission is to get police to be more responsive to the corrective rapes and charge reasonable fines to the men performing these rapes. Sign the petition here. It only takes a name and an address. That’s all. Please sign it. And I’m not usually the person to say it, but please reblog this. Please get the message out there that this is happening out there in the world. Please.

emilytheslayer:

*TRIGGER WARNING*

dyellowpandah:

This is Millicent Gaika. She is a 30-year-old South African woman who was tied up, beaten, strangled, tortured and raped for five hours.

Why was she battered and rape? She is victim of a practice called corrective rape, a term that describes the process of men raping women who claim to be lesbians until they have been turned straight. Such a practice is particularly popular in South Africa, and of course, homosexuality cannot be ‘cured,’ and Millicent is not the first woman who was victimized. The most vicious form of torture a woman can experience in South Africa for being a lesbian is having her genitals mutliated by sharp objects. 24 out of 25 men who are accused of doing such crimes walk free. More than 500 corrective rapes are reported each year, and more than 30 South African lesbians have been murdered because of their sexuality over the past decade.

There is a petition that is aiming to expose these crimes in South Africa. The mission is to get police to be more responsive to the corrective rapes and charge reasonable fines to the men performing these rapes. Sign the petition here. It only takes a name and an address. That’s all. Please sign it.

And I’m not usually the person to say it, but please reblog this. Please get the message out there that this is happening out there in the world. Please.

(Source: deadpandahh)