Help: Justice denied Denise should not now be denied Louisa too!

A call to action: Letters for Louisa.

The end is fast approaching and it will soon be too late for sending letters.  Your request must be mailed by January 12^th.

Please join us in writing letters to Judge Liliana S. DeAvila-Silebi.  She will be sentencing George Hartwig for his heinous crimes on January 27th, 2012.  Our goal is to have the Judge sentence this beast to the maximum and consecutive sentences, rather than the minimum and concurrent sentences. 

Louisa’s abuser not only pled guilty to all 10 counts, including 2 counts of attempted murder, he then had the audacity to beg for leniency.  He asked for the minimum sentences allowed and to serve them concurrently. Instead of up to 68 years – he wants 10-20. If the Judge takes the time served in the local jail into consideration and the fact that most criminals only serve about 85% of their sentences, he could be out of jail in as little as 5 years!

Please help us stop this outrage, George was never brought to trial or sentenced for what he did to Denise. He was out without bail when he shot her sister. He got away with that Scott free!

Urge the judge to sentence him to serve the maximum time for the 2 most serious crimes he just plead out to, which would be 40 years.  Also, urge the judge to make the sentences consecutive.  If he serves the sentences consecutively he won’t be out for about 30 years.

Louisa will never recover and did not receive any leniency from George Hartwig.  The least we can do for her make sure that George Hartwig doesn’t get leniency either.

If you haven’t read about what happened, please follow this link to story and pictures.

http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/he-came-to-kill-me-dont-think-for-one-moment-he-didnt-succeed

Example letters to help you write yours can be found at the following link:

http://louisaslaw.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/help-get-justice-for-louisa/

Please post to your blog and FaceBook pages.

We need hundreds of letters sent in to the Judge.  Please help us let the Judge know, there is an army of women who are not willing to remain victims.  We are important and we are crying out for justice! Louisa, asks for Justice.

Thanking you in advance for your support!

Ending Domestic Violence is not just another cushy Government Job

BettyJean – TMU WOMEN Coalition

Webmaster Needed;  Any volunteers? BJ@Free-US-Now.com

Have you noticed whenever a problem exists- our government finds a way to set up a bureaucracy to fill the need. Up goes a new agency, and a machine is created. It’s a political machine;  jobs are filled with cronies and monies is funneled into funding yet another big business with the sole purpose to grow more jobs but itself get little done which was intended in the first place.

I’m not against creating jobs, but ‘do nothing jobs’ at the expense of victims is unconscionable especially when there are thousands of us out there who are working for free to assist victims and are thwarted by these agencies who are putting victims at risk.

I am getting fed up with the salaries of these folks remaining high while there are shrinking funds to actually help victims. Much like charities – the lion’s share of the funds go to running the enterprise rather than to those in need! Enough is enough, I say we expose this exploitation of limited funds at the expense of victims!

Public oversight will stop the exploitation of already limited funds at the expense of victims. A coalition of independent women’s groups have had enough too.

The TMU WOMEN’s Coalition founded the National Domestic Violence Oversight Committee NDVOC.com. We are a non-partisan volunteer group determined to reform domestic violence and stalking victim resources and public policy so that no victim is left behind.

URGENT: WEBMASTER NEEDED. The purpose of the NDVOC web site is to serve as a forum for survivors to share their experiences and rate victim service providers in the United States. The goal of this site is to hold victim service providers, courts and public safety agencies accountable and to ensure the needs of victims are met.

According to Alexis Moore of Survivors in Action, This is desperately needed. “I still remember like yesterday being turned away and ignored by the DV shelter, National Stalking Resource Center and other national, state and local crime victim agencies wondering where do I go to file complaints for being re-victimized?” Today after talking to thousands of victims across the country with the same complaint—NDVOC is vital in the efforts to reforming victim resources and ensuring that no victim is left behind”..

Maria DiBari of Tri-County Crisis Center agrees there is no oversight and no one is watching those who should be watching where the DV funds are going.

Together with TMU and others we have been three years forming this committee and now we need volunteers across the country to make it happen. 

Webmaster Needed;  Any volunteers? BJ@Free-US-Now.com

See : http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/sue-else-even-one-death-resulting-from-an-ineffective-nnedv-program-is-one-too-many

Afshan Azad Retracts Nothing

by Phyllis Chesler

Excerpt:

Potential honor killing victim, Harry Potter actress, Afshan Azad, may not have been the one who asked that charges against her father and brother be dropped. One of my wonderful readers, a legal secretary, read the British media more carefully than I did and pointed out that Afshan herself is simply not on record as saying that she wanted the charges dropped or that she wanted to retract anything. While she may have said this, we have absolutely no record of her having done so. I did not note that this quote about dropping the charges was attributed to the lawyer, John Wolfson, who is representing the jailed father and brother.

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Did you know that one of the actresses in the Harry Potter films, Afshan Azad, (who played the very lovely Padma Patil), was threatened with death and attacked by her father Abdul and her brother Ashraf Azad in an attempted honor killing? The actress lives in Manchester and was studying at school. This attack happened in late May but was only announced yesterday.  We now know that her family was angry because of her relationship with a Hindu man (she is Muslim), but most of the original articles about the story failed to mention this motive for the attack. Afshan is lucky that she lives in England because they have the best police and law enforcement understanding of honor killings. I doubt Afshan will ever again be safe at home or even near home. Hat tip to author Nonie Darwish for calling this to my attention last night.

Afshan  has appeared in four Harry Potter films including 2007′s The Order Of The Phoenix

Man gets 17 ½ years for sex trafficking

Contributed by: Lisa Thompson

By SEAN EMERY

2010-06-10 18:02:25

SANTA ANA – A Washington, D.C., man has been sentenced to 17 and a half years in federal prison after admitting to arranging for two teenage girls to travel to the West Coast to work as prostitutes in several locations, including Orange County.

Dwayne Lawson, 29, pleaded guilty in a Santa Ana federal courtroom Thursday to one count of sex trafficking of children but admitted in a plea agreement to directing two teenage girls to engage in prostitution, prosecutors said.

Police took Lawson into custody in April of last year, shortly after Los Angeles Police Department investigators arrested one of the two girls, a 17-year-old, on prostitution charges.

Authorities identified the girl as a runaway from Florida, determining that she worked for a pimp they later determined to be Lawson, who reportedly went by several other aliases, including “Staydown” and “Christopher Tyrone Young.”

Prosecutors say Lawson contacted the girl through MySpace in the fall of 2008, promising to make her a star. Lawson in his plea deal admitted to giving the girl a bus ticket from Florida to Las Vegas, where he picked her up to drive her to Orange County.

Lawson had the girl work as a prostitute in several cities, authorities say, including Anaheim, Pomona, Montclair and Las Vegas.

Lawson in his plea agreement also admitted to driving the second female victim from Miami to Orange County in 2008 and having her work as a prostitute in “various counties and states.”

“The young people in this case were victimized and exploited in a horrific way,” United States Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said in a written release. “This sentence demonstrates that sex traffickers and pimps will suffer severe consequences for their reprehensible conduct.”

Contact the writer: 714-796-7939 or semery@ocregister.com

Women Physically Fight Over the Burqa in France

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media

Excerpt:

Earlier today in Nantes, France, two women—three women really–actually came to blows over the burqa. The burqa wearer (actually, the niqab wearer), claims that she heard two women, one a 60-year-old lawyer, make “snide” and “insulting” remarks about burqa wearers. The lawyer and her daughter claim that the burqa wearer physically assaulted them. After which, the lawyer ripped off her veil.

One thing is clear: The shop manager and the burqa wearer’s husband “moved in to break up the fighting.” Everyone was arrested. Of course, the burqa wearer has filed a complaint for “an insult of ethnic, racial, or religious character”; the lawyer and her daughter have filed a complaint for violence.

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Stop the Tamkeen Law

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From The Guardian:

“Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had promised to review.

The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work.

“It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying ‘blood money’ to a girl who was injured when he raped her,” the US charity Human Rights Watch said.”

Read more here:

 

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Send this message:

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The Women of Camp Ashraf

by Phyllis Chesler

Excerpt:

I am—finally!—taking a long weekend away. And, even if it rains, (let it snow, what do I care?), I will be happily ensconced, reading book after book, surrounded by views of the blue bay, water, water everywhere and more than a drop to drink!

Therefore, I cannot attend an important press conference which is taking place today.

My colleagues, Soona Samsani, and Rabbi Daniel Radamuz, have just alerted me to the fact that The Friends of Camp Ashraf are holding a press conference today, August 14th, at the UN Plaza from 11am to 1pm. They are speaking on behalf of the endangered members of this Camp, which is located on the border between Iran and Iraq.

Samsani is an Iranian Muslim woman who wears hijab and who has organized a Senate Press briefing and a panel at the United Nations in which I’ve participated. I have written about these events elsewhere, here and here.

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Open Season on Christians in the Islamic World

Open Season on Christians in the Islamic World

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
August 12, 2009

Excerpt:

For centuries, Muslims committed genocide against Hindus in India and what is now Pakistan. Today, in Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Kenya, Turkey, Pakistan, Gaza, and Iran, it’s open season on Christians.

Lubna Hussein, the Sudanese journalist who is facing 40 lashes for “indecency” because she wore trousers—has just been barred from leaving Sudan.

Interestingly, Hussein is a Christian, not a Muslim; she is also a former UN worker. (For the sake of this lawsuit, she immediately quit her UN job which would have provided her with immunity from such prosecution). The Sudanese Islamist authorities are not allowing her to do an interview in Lebanon. Sarkozy, who has called for a ban of the burqa in France, has invited Hussein to Paris. Please note: In Sudan, non-Muslim women are being punished if they do not dress according to Islamist standards.

All infidels, including the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) are an endangered species in Muslim countries. Always have been.

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New Jersey-based sex trafficking ring

Lisa Thompson

Below you’ll find a link to a television news report, as well as a newspaper article concerning the bust of a New Jersey-based sex trafficking ring. If the news accounts are accurate, this ring was in operation for nearly two decades! Additionally, the pimp, Allen Brown, Jr. went by the name Prince, and allegedly had a throne in his home and wore a crown (visit the links to see photos). His mother, niece, and girlfriend have also been indicted — so notice how sex trafficking can be a family enterprise.

The especially good news about this case is that Brown is not only being charged with promotion of prostitution, but human trafficking as well. All too often men who pimp women who are U.S. citizens are not recognized as sex traffickers. Fortunately this is not the case here. Hopefully this will mark the beginning of a new trend. Remember pimps recruit, harbor, transport, and provision persons for purposes of commercial sexual exploitation — that’s sex trafficking. They also typically use a wide range of physical and psychological coercion — that’s a severe form of human trafficking as defined by federal law and prosecutable.

Congratulations to the New Jersey officials who investigated this case and who are bringing the charges. Now, let’s hope the trafficking victims are getting the assistance they undoubtedly need.

Abolition!

Lisa

http://www.breitbart.tv/crown-wearing-new-jersey-pimp-known-as-prince-ruled-operation-from-thrown/

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/head_of_jersey_citybased_sextr.html

Child Barbarians in Phoenix: Obama Extends Their Stay

 

Liberian Boys Gang-Rape an Eight-Year-Old; Just Like Old Times

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
July 31, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/595/child-barbarians-in-phoenix

Excerpt:

Most Americans have no idea how different our culture is from cultures in the Middle East, central Asia, or Africa. If differences are acknowledged, America and the West are blamed for them. The barbarism, genocide, perpetual civil and religious wars, the cruelties of shari’ah law, (stoning, cross-amputations, be-heading), and the utterly tragic treatment of women, children, and the poor in the Third World–all, all are blamed on western imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism.

Not true–or so I have been arguing for years. Some barbarism is indigenous to a region. But even if it were true–what’s to be done now? Should we willingly welcome cannibals, gang-rapists, child-rapists, polygamists, (dis)honor murderers to our shores?

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