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Being a woman in a Republican world

by: Lucy Edwards

Fri Sep 30, 2011 at 16:25:57 PM EDT
I hope the good men who frequent this blog have stopped for a minute, after they read my previous diary about my encounter with Senator Barnes at the Deerfield Fair (I'm sure you read it), and thought a bit what it must be like to be a woman in NH these days.  If you thought I overreacted to Barnes, think about all those women who were a majority in our State Senate and lost their seats, and all the women in the House who lost their seats and how the women of NH must feel about that loss - I feel empty and scared.  
Lucy Edwards :: Being a woman in a Republican world
Think about the loss of Carol Shea Porter, one of our great champions.  Think about the anti-women legislation, the Executive Council refusing to fund health care for women, the proposal to give women guns with their restraining orders, the cuts in services to children, and on and on. Think about the bullying women are subjected to in the House by O'Brien.

Jack Barnes was trying to bully me.  He was demeaning me.  When he reached for my face, I am sure he was going to pat me on the cheek and tell me to calm down, little woman, I'm only teasing you.  Imagine how you would feel.  
And then read this.
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Public Radio (4.00 / 2)
was reporting today that the three Executive Councilors who voted against the Planned Parenthood contract are now asking the federal government to reconsider the direct award of the contract.

(I was on the road, and so not have a link.)  

Seems to me like that is going WAY out of their way to make women's lives more difficult.

And as I said before, these three Councilors are, themselves, defying the duly elected legislature which voted the funding for these services.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Marcus Aurelius, courtesy of Paul Berch

Some things (0.00 / 0)
don't change. They should.


Moochelle (0.00 / 0)
went shopping at Target.  
It's called assault. n/t (0.00 / 0)

Yes, but simple assault is just a misdemeanor and has to (0.00 / 0)
be witnessed by law enforcement to be charged.  That's another example of the law being on the side of those who coerce. Which, of course, is what the deprivators are after.
What's aggravated assault? One that causes permanent injury, such as a bone protruding through the skin, material damage.
We really need a new name for these purveyors of destruction. They are not concerned with the public's business (res publius) and they conserve nothing. Indeed, conservation is the very opposite of what they are about.  Like "clear skies."
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Not quite accurate. (0.00 / 0)
No assault needs to witnessed by anyone to be charged.

I think that you are thinking of the rule that, with a couple of exceptions-- and a domestic assault is one of them--- a police officer needs to get a warrant to arrest for a misdemeanor that (s)he didnt witness). People are arrested all the time for assaults not witnessed by police officers.  

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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