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I’m 5′2″ and after taking martial arts for 3 years (after being raped, as a way of preventing it happening again) I learned that a 5′2″ female martial artist is no match for a 6′2″ male martial artist, and other assorted real limitations of martial arts.

So I got a gun and learned to shoot and got my concealed carry permit. And was damned glad to have that gun when a thug tried to follow me up the stairs into my apartment one afternoon when, due to a holiday, I was home early and the place was otherwise deserted.

I didn’t have to actually draw on him, confronting him verbally got him to go away, but I was 7 months pregnant and it was a very near thing and as a result of my “delicate condition” martial arts wouldn’t have done me a damned bit of good.

I have no idea if I’d have been less confident in confronting him if I hadn’t known I had a gun concealed but in easy reach for a fast draw if needed.

I’m “attracted to guns” because for a little tiny woman like me, my having a gun can mean the difference between my being raped and murdered, or my surviving an attack unscathed to go home to my family that night.
Living through a rape was bad enough the first time. I don’t intend to let it happen again.
by Julia Cochrane

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Wow.

I just did something that got me shaking in my boots.

I met a family about 3 months ago, and we have been setting up play dates for our little ones.

Well, the mother told me about an incident she saw involving her child.

A man who works for her husband is living at the back of their property as partial payment for the work he does.

Well, the mother saw this man with his hand down the front of her 5 yr old sons pants.

She fought with her husband who refused to report it, because he doesn’t think he will find anyone else to fill the position on the terms he can give.

The mother was angry, but didn’t tell. (I think she is afraid of them going broke too.)

She told me all of this and then of course said not to say anything.

Great! What do I do? Say something or just let it go and hope the mother does a good job protecting her child (which she said she was doing)?

Well, I decided to say something.

This is the first time I have ever been faced with this.

All the other people who have told me of their sexual abuse were adults, and supposed to report it themselves — which you CAN do by the way, and it will still be prosecuted. The abuser still can go to jail for it.

So this was definatly a challenge. We didn’t want to loose the friendship for my daughter (I know I can always meet new people, but it’s harder for the little ones.).

But I decided it was more important to report it, and possibly loose a friend even if it’s rough for my girl.

So I called the police tonight and told them everything the mother told me.

I was sooo suprised at how intimidating it was for me — the mighty warrior. Hu! (mocking myslef here

Courage is all a matter of commitment in the face of fear.

I was shaking all over. It was a lot because it was so new and new can be scary.

But the dispatcher was kind. I reported anonymously, and it worked out just fine.

They are going to investigate and see what they can come up with.

It would be a good thing for this world if everyone who knew about abuse was brave enough to call and report it.

It certaintly would have saved me years of abuse if someone had reported my abuser. (I don’t know if anyone knew, and as a scared little child I did not tell.) He sexually abused many children.

So I challenge you to call about any abuse you have heard of.

It’s not your job to prove or disprove anything. The child services or police will investigate and prove or disprove it, and decide how to proceed.

It’s just your opportunity to create safety for a child by doing what YOU can.

This will do more to create safety for children than any new laws.

Even the story mentioned previously about the $22 fine. I’m sure the parents can call the press and make a big fuss, and protest the punishment till the legal system has to take a look and do something better to get that pedophile off the streets.

So do your part today, by reporting abuse. Even if it scares the pants off ya’.

It did me, but I just DID IT before I could get too scared to do it.

That is the biggest and most important part of keeping that child safe because then it’s not a secret anymore and something can be done about it.

Eldra

P.S. This blog is not to tell you how brave I was, but instead how scared I was. And to illustrate that no matter how scared you are — you can own your inner warrior power and create safety for someone with it!

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I believe the world and nations obsession with violence in our movies, television, and politics is because people are looking for answers about our own inner aggression.

We all know there are times where violence is appropriate, and we all know that there are times where it is not.

Most people are very unclear about the what, when, where, and why though.

Are you looking for answers about violence? Do you want to know when it’s okay, how far to go, and how NOT to abuse such potent power?

Do you feel fear when you know other criminal people who don’t care about others wield such power because you don’t feel you have it yourself?

Please comment and let me know what you feel, what you’re looking for, and what answers you want.

Eldra

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Have you purchased your Girl Scout cookies yet?

It’s the Season!

Did you know that when you purchase Girl Scout cookies, the girls get credits that they can use towards camps, troop activities, and more!

Each box earns credits, so every little bit helps.

So if you want to empower young girls, teach environmental responsibility, wilderness survival skills, and leaving the world a better place than you left it, then support your local Girl Scouts!

Remember to read that list of Girl Scouts in a previous blog who are currently famous.

Eldra

This story was sent to me by a dear friend in Australia. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. 

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At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.

After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: “When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection.

Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?”

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. “I believe that when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.”

Then he told the following story:

Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball Shay asked, “Do you think they’ll let me play?” 

Shay’s father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

Shay’s father approachedone of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play.

The boy looked around for guidance and said, “We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning.

I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.”

Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. His Father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart.

The boys saw the father’s joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.

In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field.

Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again.

Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. 
 
At this juncture, do they letShay bat and give away their chance to win the game?

Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threwthe ball right over the first baseman’s head, out of reach of all team mates.

Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, “Shay, run to first! Run to first!” Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, “Run to second, run to second!”

Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball … the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team.

He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman’s head.

Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, “Shay, Shay, Shay, all the WayShay”

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, “Run to third!Shay, run to third!”

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, “Shay, run home! Run home!”

Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team.

“That day”, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, “the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world”.

Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

AND NOW A LITTLEFOOTNOTE TO THIS

STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces. 
 
If you’re thinking aboutforwarding this message, chances are that you’re probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren’t the “appropriate” ones to receive this type of message. Well, I believe that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the “natural order of things.”

So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?

A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate amongst them.

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Eldra’s comments:

This might not seem like it fits the warrior woman theme.

If you think that then you don’t understand the message I’m promoting.

While I do promote people protecting themselves from other predators and criminals, I also promote using that power wisely (not abusing it).

This power is not for proving anything to anyone.

It’s not about being tough or macho. It’s about being safe.

In social situations it behooves us all to create love. 

Because only then will the world be a better place to live in.

I myself have had the opportunity as a child to be kind to someone normally ostracized by society or not, and then have that person die only shortly after. This has happened more than once, so I learned this lesson young.

It is true that you can never tell what difference you may make in the life of someone. I didn’t always do the kind thing, becuase of being worried about what others thought, and other times I did. I’ll write a blog about it sometime soon.

Eldra

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Here is a post of someone I met on Cafemom. 

In January 2007, Andrew C. James, a man with two prior domestic assault convictions, pled guilty to sexually assaulting a 4-year-old boy in Vermont. In a plea bargain, he was given a $22 fine and sentenced to rehabilitation and lifetime probation. Today, he walks a free man.*

Want another story?

Last year, a Vermont judge who sentenced a man convicted of raping a 6-year-old girl over a four-year period to only 60 days in jail. The convicted man’s friend, who also allegedly raped the girl, received 12–15 years. After Bill O’Reilly confronted the judge with his cameras, the first man’s sentence was extended to three years.*

Does this just make you want to vomit? It should. It should make you mad. It should make you want to scream from the rafters. It should make you want to get up and help stop these sick bastards from hurting our children. But what can we do? What can YOU do?

If you haven’t been a victim of rape or “inappropriate touching” from that favorite uncle of yours, consider yourself lucky. HERE ARE SOME SCARY FACTS:

• Of the more than 600,000 convicted and registered sex offenders living in the United States, 100,000 are missing.
• California is the state with the highest number of registered sex offenders at 109,000. Second is Texas, with 50,000. Ranking third is Michigan, with 40,000.
• Only 1 in 3 sexual offenses against children are ever reported.
• 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys will be sexually victimized in some way in the United States before they turn 18.
• Forty to 50 percent of those who victimize girls are family members, but only 10 to 20 percent of those who victimize boys are in the family.

THE LAWS NEED TO CHANGE!We, as a nation, need to come together and stop this, STOP THEM.  It’s starts with us, the moms of the United States, to rally all the other moms, dad’s and family members to stand up and say…

GET THESE BASTARDS OFF THE STREETS FOR GOOD! It starts two ways.

• We educate our children AGAIN and AGAIN to NEVER get in the car with a stranger, to NEVER let an adult touch their PENIS OR VAGINA and to always, always come and talk to you if they ever need to!
• We need to have our voices heard by our government representatives.

offer to sign a petition. Now all you need to do is click-click-click, sign your name, and let your Congressman and Senator know that you won’t put up with this any longer. Let’s change the laws. Let’s make the United States a safer place for our children and our grandchildren to play in.

We Can Change the Laws. 

Let’s do it together. Get mad and stay mad until we get ALL these sick bastards in jail for LIFE!

Want to read more?

Click here to go to National Center For Missing & Exploited Children

MY REPLY:

There is definatly a problem with pedophiles and rapists not getting the max punishment. They should.

There is a fundemental problem with the laws in a far different way as well though.

All sex offenses are treated as the same. A flasher is labeled the same as a rapist, but the crimes are very different and need to be punished differently.

Also, some people are getting RAPED in the prison system because they are believed to be perverts, when they are really only in jail for having sex with their girlfriend who happened to only be two years younger than them. They were convicted of a sex crime, so the other prisoners assume it’s pedophilia and rape them. Is that Okay? No.

And rapists have been determined to never be able to be treated for their problem, whereas pedophiles have been able to be treated to some extent. There obviously needs to be more research on the subject, but in the meantime they should not be allowed to walk the streets having access to even more potential victims.

It angers me that drug addicts are getting longer sentences than murderers and rapists.

But we must also be very wise and aware when urging the passing of more laws.

There are plenty of laws to protect our children. The laws are not the problem. The judges are.

Any logical person could be a judge and realize that the man needed to be locked up forever or until actually proved scientificaly (and there are such tests) to be not sexually attracted to children any more.

The judge was obviously on the take, and that is tragic. We need to pass laws that will rid us of evil men or women being the judges in such cases. THOSE are the laws we need.

Laws to rid us of corrupt and screwed up legal and political administrators.

Eldra

P.S. I have been sexually abused so don’t think I’m speaking too dispassionatly. I know firsthand the pain and truama that sexual abuse causes.

Eldra

We are in the proccess of adding some protection items to keep children safe. We will definatly adding more as time goes on, but always remember YOU are your childs best defense.

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