Here are some important and relevant statistics that might be interesting for you to know.

The reason that they are important is because they show you how important men are in the world.

I know a lot of women who have been abused and used hate or don’t want men in their lives.

I understand that feeling and have been there myself. It’s not unusual or even unhealthy. It is only unhealthy if you get stuck there.

Unfortunatly a lot of women do get stuck in that pattern.

Then they are upset about how much crime is going on in the world and how much of it is directed towards women.

These statistics show that a lot of the very horrible crimes that women are so upset about are directly influenced by the men in our lives, and probably not in the way they suspect.

63% of youth suicides are often from fatherless homes. (source: U.S. D.H.K.S., Bureau of the Census)

90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.

85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless home. (Source: Center for Disease Control)

80% of rapist motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes. (source: Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol 14, p-403-26, 1978)

71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools)

75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes. (Source: Rainbows for all Gods Children)

70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes. (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept. 1988)

Now, it is VERY important for you to know that staying with a dangerous or abusive man will NOT prevent these crimes or problems.

IF YOU ARE WITH A DANGEROUS MAN, LEAVE!!!!!! Get help and get OUT!

What I am saying is that somewhere in your life as a woman it might be a good idea to find a man who is safe and good to be with somewhere down the line, and that it will actually greatly assist the world to be a better, safer place for women!

It might seem strange.

I was certaintly shocked and greatly suprised at how dramatic the effect of a man’s presence is in creating emotionally healthy children/people.

Men are important. They are valuable.

Just like women are.

If we want a world with no crime, it looks like women better start working equally with men instead of just blaming them.

Eldra McCracken
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P.S. I have a blog about cheovenist women I wrote on myspace that I’ll reprint here too, so you can see what I had to say about this before I even came across these statistics!

I was at my relatives house the other night. We were all hanging out, and this girl, I’ll call her Shiela to maintain her privacy, realized that she had a message on her phone and was freaking that it was her father.

Now, her father is abusive, and she hangs out at my cousins a LOT because she feels safe there.

They mean well, but the mother isn’t equipped to handle other people’s drama like that. She wants to assist her, but has no other solid advice other than to stay away from Shiela’s father.

To her credit, they did call the cops on him one time, but apparently the father is good at pulling snow jobs on people and getting them to think he hasn’t done anything wrong - a lier basicly.

Lately he’s been using drugs really heavy and the level of violence has escalated. So my cousin didn’t want Shiela to go home.

That is pretty logical. I mean if she has somewhere safe to stay, why not stay there right? Only my cousin is worried that she will get cited by the police for kidnapping or something like that, so she’s only adding to the drama!

So this girl is hovering around the house in high tension, freaking out, calling her Aunt (only telling part of the story) to ask what she should do, etc….

Well, all this is just really getting to me. It’s frustrating to see them all freaked out when there is something specific they can do to limit the destruction or harm!!!

So I talked to her, asked questions, provided some LEGAL answers, self protection answers, and some VERY basic training. She was VERY interested.

She also brought up her concerns and questions about wondering if it was allowed because she is Christian, and we cleared that up very easily and quickly.

If you would like to know what steps I had her take for her situation, just start your back stage pass. I’ll detail exactly what I told her and what I taught her.

A few hours later, her father called. Instead of avoiding his call and acting scared, asking “What should I do? Should I answer or talk to him?” like she had earlier in the evening… She simply answered the phone.

He must have said something to the effect of where are you and what are you doing? She told him that she was staying at my cousin’s home.

He was confused.

So she repeated herself, more forcefully this time, and clarified that she meant all night.

There was no coaching from me. I had finished talking to her, we had all finished talking about it.

She was all on her own here, and her behaviour was DRAMATICALLY different.

He was angry of course, but he must have known she meant it (It was probably all a shock to him.), because he just hung up on her, and he didn’t call again that night, or try to come by and get her or anything.

It was wonderful to see her transformation into a confident, young woman who knew she had options to protect herself.  It was like night and day from only 2 hours earlier!

All she needed — All most women need in dangerous situations like that, is someone to teach them their options.

She was confident. Unafraid. Feeling like she could DO something for herself about the whole thing –even if he did lie to the cops. She knew what to do about it!

And that is what this site is ALL ABOUT!

Women learning to take care of themselves in a crazy world of violent crime, trauma, and abuse.

Are you going to do so as well?

Eldra McCracken

http://www.beautifulwarriorwomen.com

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Whether you’re looking for self-defense classes or just a great way to keep in shape, martial arts are both educational and physically demanding.

Martial arts are as much a study in mental mastery as they are physical exercise. And very traditional schools sometimes also incorporate spiritual teachings into the training as well.

The first step to finding a martial arts program and instructor to try out a lot of styles and do some research.

Look all over the internet and try classes at different schools. Many offer a free or introductory priced trail class. These are great to make use of.

While it may take several tries to find the perfect chemistry, trust your instinct and you’ll know when you’ve found the right dojo and instructor.

There are many, many styles and it can get VERY overwhelming. In addition there are teachers and masters coming out with their own styles as well that are new or incorporate teachings of many styles they have learned.

While each discipline can be sub-divided into specific categories and techniques, the main thing to look for is wether it is a kicking and/or boxing style, grappling style such as wrestling, weapons teachings, or a mix of all the above.

Here is a list of some of the most popular styles.

Aikido. The Japanese art of unarmed self-defense, Aikido encourages discipline and is comprised of moves made of joint twisting, grabbing and bending.

Judo. Meaning ‘The Gentle Way,’ Judo is a method of turning an opponent’s strength against him or her through a series of throwing and flipping techniques.

Karate. An offensive and defensive art form that contains both hand strikes and kicking techniques, Karate includes a variety of blocks and powerful blows.

Kung Fu. A Chinese art form, Kung Fu is divided into several different styles, and is made up of balance and combination techniques. It also incorporates an arsenal of unique weapons.

Tae Kwon Do. Perhaps the most popular martial art among American children, Tae Kwon Do is a native Korean art form comprised of mostly kicking.

Once you’ve found a discipline that’s right for you, it’s time to look for a studio, often called a dojo, and an instructor, called a sifu or sensei. There are different terminologies and language used depending on where the style origionated from.

Unlike most traditional exercise classes, the relationship between sensei and student is more involved. The teacher is more aware of what each student is doing and corrects technique, and if it is a traditional style studio the teacher also teaches spritual teachings as well as mental and emotional techniques.

The relationship is grounded in tradition and should be one built on mutual respect and positive reinforcement. A good instructor is demanding, but never demeaning. Never train with anyone who treats you like a jerk.

Colored belts show your progress in most styles, but some do not use this system.

The colored belts worn by students in martial arts classes indicate levels of progression.

The sequence of colors differs with each style, but one example is white, yellow, orange, green, blue, red, brown and ultimately, the black belt, and from there there are additional levels which are master levels.

Each belt requires examinations (sometimes both physical and written) for advancement; and each student moves at a different pace. Some schools only have specific times they test, so if you want to move ahead quicker you must find a studio that has that built in or train in personal one on one lessons.

While the cost may vary from school to school, your cost will average approximately $100 per month for beginner classes that meet twice a week.

If you take private lessons the cost will be dramatically different, and if your teacher is world famous that will also increase costs; expect these to be at least $120-$180 a lesson.

How often do you practice with your weapon or style of choice? When you are in a life or death situation you only do what you practice.

Too many people don’t even think about this.

There are women who actually carry mace in their overcrowded purse, who have never even purchased one extra canister to use in a practice run.

When a criminal attacks it is the WRONG time to fumble around in your purse, then attmpt to read the instructions while he’s strangling you!

Buy extra canisters. Take a day a month and just run through it. Practice as if you were being attacked. Include pulling it out of your purse! Try different directions. Spray something.

If you are using a Taser or a gun practice using it! It’s okay to take your kids along. Just make sure everyone is following proper safety rules!!!!!

I’ve heard people say, “oh, I have a laser site on it. I don’t need to practice.” Well, a laser sight will do you no good if you don’t remember to pull the slide and actually get a bullet in the chamber!

And what about if you choose to be a knife fighter?

Or martial arts…

Do you EVER practice your forms, kata’s etc in the clothes you actually wear in your regular every day doings? 

I can tell you one thing. It’s VERY different doing a kick in jeans than it is in a gi. You will not be effective doing the moves without practicing them in what you REALLY wear.

Your feet move differently in shoes than barefoot. Do you practice your moves in your shoes? You will find it’s more difficult than when barefoot. You don’t spin around to face your opponent the same way in tennies on pavement as you do barefoot in the dojo.

A lot of this is common sense. Unfortunatly too many law abiding people don’t think about these details.

The criminals do.

I asked a gangster once how they ran away from cops in those ridiculous pants they wear. (I was hoping that somehow it would give the cop an advantage.)

He just looked at me for a second, then realized I wasn’t making fun of him, I really wanted to know.

He said,”We hold them up and run.”

Inside I was just busting up a gut! It’s like women of old hiking their skirts!!!

You would think that someone putting themselves in constant danger of being arrested would come up with a more conducive style than that, but…. the point is they have already thought about the limitations their clothes have and know what they are going to do about it to get away.

What are you going to do to get away from an attacker?

Practice stages first, so you don’t forget your most important option — Running away!

Practice in your mind too. If I’m walking; running away. If I’m in my car; driving away or using it as a weapon to protect myself. Then if this happens…. Then if that happens….. etc.

You don’t have to get carried away with this and dwell on it all the time, because the truth is violence never looks the same from one attack to another. You will NEVER be able to plan for the exact event.

It is mostly just an excercise to keep your mind aware of all it’s options, so that when an attack occurs you are thinking logically, or if you’re too scared to think that your muscle memory will already be acting out a plan.

Remember, make time to protect yourself, and you will feel the confidence of being safe!

Eldra McCracken

http://www.beautifulwarriorwomen.com

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Do you ever have dreams about stopping cruddy people from hurting others?

I don’t usually, but did last night.

Some guy was abusing his 3 or 4 yr old daughter and baby, choking them and slamming them against a the wall of a store.

When I stepped in to stop him, he turned and began to attack me.

So I just started picking targets and in no time he was laying on the ground with crushed testicles and a broken ankle and knee.

Now normally I wouldn’t be one to smile at that sort of an end, but I do now because it shows me how far different my life is from when I was scared to death all the time of any one bigger or stronger than me.

I used to be the one who would run terrified in any dream involving danger, or hesitate to step in — afraid of exactly what the guy did — that he would turn on me, and I would be hurt!

Now my mind is in such a different place. This dream made that VERY obvious to me.

It’s so refreshing that I can’t help but smile!

It’s nice to feel the confidence that I can handle people like that. The knowledge that even if my verbal skills (which obviously I would use first) wouldn’t take care of it, then at least I wouldn’t be in harms way.

That’s a really good feeling.

Now it’s probably important to address the fact that it’s not usually a good idea to step into other peoples situations unless you know the whole story or it’s an intimate family member you’re protecting.

You open your self up for a lot of legal liabilities usually.

But somehow I think that if it was little children who were obviously dong nothing to provoke the man and who was obviously hurting them VERY badly, that it would be appropriate to step in.

Of course I’m not an attorney. And the laws would make that a different situation in every state. But I don’t think I could just stand by and do nothing in a situation like that.

I would just hope that the Jury (common law juries have this power) would say that it was appropriate to step in and that any crappy laws that would punish anyone for helping little children that way would be inapplicable in that situation.

Just keep in mind that sometimes people end up being screwed for doing good deeds because of bad laws or good laws inappropriatly used.

This is why VERY often people will not step in to assist someone being attacked. They are afraid of legal liabilities.

So just know if it’s worth it to you before you stepped in.

Eldra McCracken

http://www.beautifulwarriorwomen.com

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CHILD PROTECTION OPTIONS

By George and Lisa Demetriou
Copyright © 1999 and 2003
Reprinted from the AWSDA journal, The Fisted Rose™, with permission of the authors

A young Long Island mother of 4 month old twins returns home after a visit to the pediatrician. Before she can remove the infants from her sport utility vehicle she is confronted by a man who tries to throw a towel over her head. She swipes the towel away not even sure if this is a prank or not. It is not. The man who had the towel also has a knife.

The woman watches the knife go up, as if it were in slow motion, and then plunge into her shoulder. She falls to the ground and fights from her back. As she attempts to get back to her feet she feels a second knife stab into her back.

She didn’t realize there were two attackers! The woman continues to fight with both assailants, while doing so she locks the truck doors with the remote switch, then rolls under her truck. By now this has apparently taken too long and been too much work for her assailants so they leave. They walked away, laughing. The woman suffered 7 stab wounds, a punctured lung and a broken jaw from this assault. More importantly she protected her children, herself and even her property. The emotion during the attack was anger- “These guys are trying to kill me in front of my kids!”

A Brooklyn woman out with a friend and the boys nephew were enjoying the park when a man walked up to the five year old nephew and placed a knife to the boy’s face. “Give up your money or I cut him”, the assailant demanded. Naturally the adults complied, but the woman saw anger in the man’s face and noticed the robber was not leaving even though he got what he wanted. Suddenly the woman snatched the assailants hand, not wanting any harm to come to the boy. The robber was so startled he dropped the knife and ran. No one was hurt.

A woman seated in the back of her parked car feeds her infant child. While tending to the baby and waiting for a friend a man slides into the driver seat and proceeds to drive away. The car jacker ignored all the woman’s pleas to stop and let them go. The woman was terrified and felt the carjacker was probably armed. The woman remembered her cellular phone was in the baby bag and dialed 911 without removing the phone completely. She spoke to the assailant, asking where he was taking them all the while giving directions to the police dispatcher. 18 minutes later the police stopped the vehicle and placed the man under arrest. No one was harmed.

All the above-described incidents are true. As a concerned parent or a person interested in controlling one’s own destiny these incidents contain valuable lessons:

1. These women had the “warrior spirit” to fight against criminals, even armed criminals
2. Action is better than inaction when defending others or yourself
3. It is possible to remain calm and strategize under extreme duress
4. Your destiny and your children’s destiny should not be left up to some thief or predator.

What are you prepared to do in similar situations? Have you a plan in case some thug picks your family as the victims of the day for a robbery, carjacking or worse? I hear you yelling out there. This kind of thing does not occur often or doesn’t occur where you live. Well we don’t have the stats for this for two reasons. The first, if it happened once it could happen again. To this day the perpetrators from incident one and incident two are still at large. But even if they were caught these assailants did not invent this sort of thing. Carjackings and robberies are not uncommon. The other reason is these type of incidents can occur wherever there are human beings, you do not have to be in a so called “bad neighborhood”.

Do not mistake the message here. This is not about trying to cause unnecessary fear or panic. In fact the message is a positive one. This is basically about awareness. The real life incidents described above all have one thing in common-they all have happy endings.

While preparing for violent confrontations while we are with our children we organized three main principles: Awareness, Strategy and Tactics. Everything done in Child Protection Options can be modified, added to or deleted, but it will fall under these three principles. It is easier to remember concepts, especially under stress, than having to remember every single thing you learned in some specific order. But everyone can remember to be aware (once they know what to be aware of) strategy (once the awareness is raised) and tactics (simple physical principles for self-defense and defending others).

AWARENESS

Criminals, whether they are petty thieves or vicious predators, look for the “weakest gazelle in the herd”. They look for the “easy” target. The people who commit robberies are not looking for a challenge. The first line of defense is not looking like the weakest gazelle in the herd. When you are truly aware of yourself and what is going on around you the bad guys will know. To a bad guy an alert person means potential struggle which is time consuming and noisy. The two great enemies of criminals everywhere are time and noise. Bad guys know that a struggle, especially a long, noisy one, could lead to police response or the involvement of Good Samaritans. Bad guys will go to great lengths to avoid capture. Criminals understand that a person who is not paying attention, the person thinking about bills, the children’s health, the argument they had with a relative, is vulnerable to a sudden attack. Yes, they can look at you and see you have other things on your mind other than the present moment.

The first way to make yourself a “hard” target is to be aware constantly. The time for pondering is not when you are out driving or walking with your children. Walk with your head up scanning the area. Scan while you are driving or more importantly, while you are waiting at a light or parked somewhere. Be aware of who is by your home or your car. Avoid activities that impede on awareness-driving while on the phone(unless it’s an emergency),running or walking with a walkman on, playing the car stereo loud, reading in the car (yes, we often see this one in the morning). Most of defending yourself and protecting loved ones is common sense. Yet we find that in many self- defense situations common sense is uncommon. Children have been abducted right out from underneath their parents. This could only happen when awareness goes astray. A heightened awareness may be the factor that sends the bad guys looking for another target. If being aware is not enough and there is an attack it is important to have a clear mind as opposed to one that is “cluttered” or fixated on one thing in particular.

TRUSTING YOUR INSTINCTS

Everybody is born with a tiny voice inside their head that let’s you know when something is very wrong or there is danger approaching. As we get older we rely more on rational thought and don’t trust the tiny voice, the instincts as much. Those instincts are there for a reason and will always serve you, but you have to listen and trust. Instincts or intuition has nothing to do with rational thought which is why people often ignore the signals sent. We may dismiss that “bad feeling” by trying to rationalize-”Why would he do that?” or ” Nah, it can’t be.” In her book Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, Dr. Christine Northrop defines intuition as “the direct perception of the truth or fact independent of any reasoning.” To truly understand trusting your intuition read the book, The Gift Of Fear, by Gavin de Becker. As soon as you’re done read de Becker’s second book, Protecting the Gift, which addresses vital information for protecting your children. Read these books and in the meantime when you have a bad feeling about a particular person or situation act on it. Trust the feeling. Do not try to understand “why?”.

STRATEGY

Pre-confrontation strategy is basically “hardening” your family as a target and mentally preparing to avoid or escape an assault, robbery, abduction or worse. In order to strategize at this stage we must place ourselves in the shoes of a potential assailant and recognize our vulnerabilities. It is human nature to relax (read: be in a state of dulled awareness) when we are entering or leaving our homes. This is an Area of Vulnerability (AOV). Who expects to get attacked on their own driveway? Not too many people. Yet it happens and not infrequently. Consider entering or leaving your vehicle. It’s been done thousands of times without a problem. Then one day while taking your child out of her car seat a stranger approaches and begins punching you. This is an AOV too. The fact that you are engaged in a routine, predictable action while remaining almost stationary makes certain places AOV. Realizing when one is vulnerable is the first step toward mapping out Pre-confrontation strategy.

PRE-CONFRONTATION STRATEGY CHECK LIST

• When possible observe the area you are about to enter before leaving the building you are in.
• Practice getting your key in the car door lock and house door as quickly as possible without having to focus on the locks.
• Practice getting children in your car and in your home as quickly as possible.
• Encourage children as young as possible to enter your vehicle on their own-under parent supervision. In case you have to fend off an attack as you are entering your car.
• Instruct children on use of an alert word or phrase to communicate possible danger. Yelling, &quo;tGet down” to my children while in a car will cause them to IMMEDIATELY drop to the floor without asking, “Why?”. This takes practice, so make it a game.
• Look into your car before getting in or placing a child in. Bad guys have been known to enter cars and wait until an unsuspecting person gets in.
• Whenever practical walk around the entire car and look before getting in. Some criminals have caused damage that is not meant to disable a car immediately, but down the road, away from a busy area. Others have actually attacked women while hiding underneath the car. This is one reason why it is important to think about vulnerabilities. Who looks under their car before getting in?
• Make sure your car is well maintained and gassed up at all times. Carry spare key.
• Get a cell phone. Even if you have it just to call 911.
• Never pull up to the bumper of the car in front of you. Leave enough space to escape without having to backup.
• Scan while driving and while parked.
• In extreme emergencies be prepared to violate traffic rules to escape danger. If you feel something is wrong do not wait at the red light.
• Be prepared to place small children or infants on the floor of the car in order to make a quick getaway from approaching bad guys. As soon as it is safe pull over and make the proper adjustments.
• Do not get out of a vehicle solely because a person bumped you with their car or because someone told you there was something wrong with your car. If the accident was legitimate you can exchange information where there are more people around or you can tell the other motorist to call the police while you wait in your car with the windows up and the doors locked. If there is truly something wrong with your car you will see, hear, feel or smell it before another motorist does.
• When shopping put your children in the car before you put the packages in. This places them in a position of relative safety as opposed to being in a parking lot while you’re concentrating on what you just purchased. Some have said that this strategy is poor because a car jacker could take off with your child. Maybe. I know a car jacker wants my keys. Armed with this fact and knowing that the assailant expects compliance creates opportunities. More on that later.
• Consider this: It is very difficult for a bad guy to take you, your property or your loved ones if your car is moving. The less time being idle the better.
• Do not drive home if you believe you are being followed. A good way to tell if you are being followed is to make 3 consecutive right or left turns. It is highly unlikely that another motorist will do the exact same thing unless you are being followed. If you are being followed go to a well lighted, populated area.
• Visualize attacks and how you would successfully deal with them.

There is more to Pre-confrontation strategy but this is a good starting point. The idea is to think about things pertaining to family safety you may not have thought about before. Just visualizing problems and their solutions will give you more of an edge than you had. When you have heightened your awareness, trust your intuition, have your pre-confrontation strategy in order and things are going bad anyway it is time for Confrontation Tactics.

This is the “hands on” portion of the lesson. It is important to remember what was mentioned previously in this article Bad guys want to avoid capture therefore they want to avoid noise, time consumption and injury. As a chosen target you always have one thing going for you the bad guy thinks he has you beat already. A target is chosen based on the assailant’s perception that he (they) think they can get away with the crime with relative ease. If criminals enjoyed challenges they would probably have legitimate careers! A criminal may expect token resistance, but they will not expect a sudden, vicious onslaught by the intended “prey”. Especially when you appear to be going along with the script that they mentally rehearse. There is a saying from where the authors train-”If I control your body I’ll beat you half the time, but If I control your mind for even a split second I’ll beat you every time. I will have taken too much of an edge.” You can control an assailant’s mind for at least a split second by cooperating then going on the offensive just when the assailant seems to think things are going according to his plan.

If you have no self-defense experience you will want to find someone who can specifically help with this particular topic. Being a martial artist is not good enough. You want to seek out a person who trains for the reality of a dynamic, violent confrontation not the instructor who has the most tournament trophies in the window of his school. This should be well researched. Protecting your family and yourself has nothing to do with protocol, ranking, belts, rituals or sport. Parents are to their children what the secret service is to various dignitaries with one major exception-YOU ARE NOT EXPENDABLE! You have to survive in order to protect your loved ones. The following should be included when training specifically to protect yourself and your children at the same time:

1. Where to position the children should I have to fight.
2. Tactics if one or both hands are occupied.
3. Tactics if my hands are occupied by a child.
4. What can I show my kids to help themselves not get taken away by a bad guy?
5. Tactics if the assailant is in the car with me.
6. What if there is multiple assailants?
7. What if a person is demanding my car and my children are already inside it?
8. What if I’m grabbed as I’m walking into my house or getting into my car?
9. What if the assailant has a weapon?
10. What can I do if I’m grabbed from behind while I’m holding my infant child?
11. Should the children run for help?
12. What should the function of both parents or 2 adults be during an assault while in the company of children?
13. What to do if an assailant reaches into the car while the car is parked?
14. Discussing bad guys with the children.
15. Tactics while walking with a baby carriage, shopping cart or stroller.

Gaining insight and increasing awareness regarding child protection can be done in a few hours. Training for a real situation will take time and practice. The training should include confrontational simulations (instructors with full protective gear “attacking” trainees in various scenarios) and a realistic environment (a bus, train, car, an elevator, a narrow hallway). Remember the actual incidents from the beginning of this article. Those women used their fear and anger for action. They kept their cool and employed the greatest weapon of all - the mind.

The chances of being attacked while with your children are slim. If it is something that concerns you then it’s worth looking into. Just questioning yourself about “what you would do if?” is a good start. Increasing overall awareness, trusting your intuition, and getting proper training is the winning formula. The goal is to have options should the bad man and your family cross paths.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: George Demetriou is a Detective with the NYPD and the Police Training Supervisor for Modern Warrior Defensive Tactics Institute www.ModernWarrior.com in Lindenhurst, NY. Lisa Demetriou is a Detective with the NYPD and a student at Modern Warrior. George and Lisa have 3 children, the oldest of which had a gun put to his head while his grandmother was being robbed several years ago! George and Lisa presented Child Protection Options at the 1999 American Women’s Self Defense Association (AWSDA) seminar. Modern Warrior specializes in real world self-defense. AWSDA’s motto is “You have an absolute right to defend yourself”. George and Lisa welcome your comments or questions. They can be reached at Modern Warrior-631-226-8383 or by email at GeorgeD@ModernWarrior.com.

Here is what one of my subscribers wrote about the last blog…

Wow! This is excellent, but it is way out of my price range.  It is too bad that such is not offered at a drastically reduced price especially for people who may be more likely be in these types of situations. 

Although we never know where, to whom and when violence may strike, it is too bad that such can not be accessible to all.  Thanks though.
 
May Peace always be with us.
Marietta

Being someone who never had a lot of money growing up I can understand the statement and the feeling.

But it IS available to everyone. They just have to come up with the money to get it.

Most people will go into serious debt to have the car they want, so it really wouldn’t be difficult to pay good money to learn to save your life. It’s just a matter of perspective and what you really want to spend your money on.

Personally I would rather know how to protect myself and drive an older car, and I do!

And the average teenager spends Thousands of dollars on their:
Ipods ($150),
music ($.99 to 30.00),
movies ($15-25 each),
gaming systems (XBox $350-450 + PS3 $399-500 + Nintendo Wii $ 250-300),
games for the gaming systems ($30-50 each and one of the most popular games these days isvGuitar Hero wich is $89.99 for the game ONLY [you have to have the system to run it too])
accessories for all this stuff, etc.

If they want it they REALLY could afford it. It’s simply a matter of what they feel it’s important to own.

Another way to look at it is… most people will pay thousands of dollars over the years to learn a martial art.

If you pay $20 a week for 48wks for lessons, that comes to $960 for a year.

Now, most black belts take about 5 years to get. So $960 times 5 yrs ends up being $4,800.

Most people in the fighting and martial arts worlds learn more than one style and go on to collect black belts from a variety of martial arts (because it doesn’t contain some of the basic info TFT does).

So that ends up being $4,800 x ????

Tim’s information is actually VERY affordably priced considering the fact that it is THE best information on the market for how to protect yourself — with or without weapons (thought there are others who are better at teaching how to use a firearm, fencing, archery, boxing and other specialties).

And it SAVES LIVES.

It is the information that lets you handle any thug, any gangster, any rapist, any burglar, any killer.

Is there any need to continue? It suddenly doesn’t look so expensive, does it.

The facts speak for themselves really.

The only ones who really can’t afford it are small children, the truely destitute due to circumstances out of their control IE: refugees, or people who are being controlled by a scary person. And they need to GET OUT! (their 1st and most important option to use.)

Everyone else has options — even if it takes a while to save the money for something this important.

I don’t feel sorry for anyone who pays thousands of dollars for the lastest hottest car, gaming system, most stylish clothes, etc. and then whines about the price that it costs to learn how to pretect themselves and all their precious stuff.

But because I’m such a sweet heart and I like to assist people, I’ve decided to give away our home protection e-book worth at least $97 for FREE!

Mostly it’s just ’cause I’m so excited to be able to offer Tim’s great info that I want to celebrate with all of you.

So here is the link to the FREE e-book. It’s great info. And I may decide to charge for it again later, so take advantage of it while it’s available.

http://www.beautifulwarriorwomen.com/homeprotectebook/index.html

And HERE is the link to Tim’s system, Surviving the Most Critical 5 Seconds of your life.

http://store.beautifulwarriorwomen.com/tft5ss.html

Remember to register your ebook to read all the chapters. And send it to everyone you know while it’s available. It will get the work out about what we are doing and help everyone be safer!

Take care everyone.

Eldra McCracken

http://www.beautifulwarriorwomen.com

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