Information On An Effective Alternative Cancer Treatment
When a person is first diagnosed with cancer, here is a typical scenario…
With most types of cancer there is initial surgery, followed by radiation or chemotherapy, sometimes both. You have had a difficult time with those treatments but have been told by your health professional it was successful and you carry on with your normal life, very relieved your cancer is gone.
Sometime later you have another small niggling health problem in another part of your body and you find, to your horror, the cancer has come back but it’s now in a different location. What has gone wrong? It is now recommended you have more treatment, similar to the first one, which obviously didn’t work. What you don’t know is the treatment you first had only treated the symptom of your problem, not the cause of the problem or the reason why your cancer first grew and this is why the cancer has returned. With your future not looking very bright it is now time to look for other methods to treat your cancer and this is precisely when most people start to look at alternative cancer treatments.
Firstly alternative cancer treatments should be called natural treatments because that is what most of them are. Most natural treatments aim to strengthen the bodies ability to fight all diseases, including cancer. The body will then remove the cancer safely without any side effects.
Cancer is simply a disease of a weak immune system which has been weakened by our modern way of living, with our intake of many processed foods that are not suitable for human consumption. Our lack of exercise is another important factor, as well as the toxic products we use on a daily basis which do cause us harm.
Right from my early days of cancer research, I have been a great advocate of the “Gerson Diet” as it makes more sense than any of the others. But even this therapy doesn’t address all the issues that cause cancer. Their therapy involves consuming large amounts of our natural foods, most of it in juice form and in doing so will strengthen the immune system. A strong immune system will eliminate cancer, no matter where it is located in the body. The beauty of this therapy is you can achieve it in your own home and more importantly, no one can make any money out of it, unlike our mainstream treatments.
An alternative approaches to healing, uses the bodies wisdom and capability to overcome health problems. Their goal is to support and strengthen the powerful healing forces that we are all born with and are with us right through our lives. There are of course alternative methods that have no merit and some that make fraudulent claims, but there are certainly many that have been of great value to countless number of people. The sadness is that very few alternative methods have been given the opportunity to be tested or appraised impartially and most doctors will have little to do with them.
To summaries alternative cancer treatments.
- Most alternative treatments share certain characteristics and focus on strengthening the body and the body itself will eliminate of the cancer growths.
- Alternatives attack the cause of the problem, and the cause of the problem is why the cancer first grew.
- Alternative treatments aim to strengthen the body, especially the immune system which is our natural built in defence system.
- Alternatives mainly use natural products and are very cheap compared to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
- Alternative treatments attack all cancers regardless of where they are in the body.
- Alternatives have no side effects.
- Alternatives have a high safety record.
You can only make an informed decision on alternative cancer treatments if you have all the information on the subject. Cancer is a survivable disease, but our modern medical approaches are not necessary the most effective method towards achieving a cure
Alan Wighton
http://www.articlesbase.com/cancer-articles/information-on-an-effective-alternative-cancer-treatment-741739.html
Information On An Effective Alternative Cancer Treatment
When a person is first diagnosed with cancer, here is a typical scenario…
With most types of cancer there is initial surgery, followed by radiation or chemotherapy, sometimes both. You have had a difficult time with those treatments but have been told by your health professional it was successful and you carry on with your normal life, very relieved your cancer is gone.
Sometime later you have another small niggling health problem in another part of your body and you find, to your horror, the cancer has come back but it’s now in a different location. What has gone wrong? It is now recommended you have more treatment, similar to the first one, which obviously didn’t work. What you don’t know is the treatment you first had only treated the symptom of your problem, not the cause of the problem or the reason why your cancer first grew and this is why the cancer has returned. With your future not looking very bright it is now time to look for other methods to treat your cancer and this is precisely when most people start to look at alternative cancer treatments.
Firstly alternative cancer treatments should be called natural treatments because that is what most of them are. Most natural treatments aim to strengthen the bodies ability to fight all diseases, including cancer. The body will then remove the cancer safely without any side effects.
Cancer is simply a disease of a weak immune system which has been weakened by our modern way of living, with our intake of many processed foods that are not suitable for human consumption. Our lack of exercise is another important factor, as well as the toxic products we use on a daily basis which do cause us harm.
Right from my early days of cancer research, I have been a great advocate of the “Gerson Diet” as it makes more sense than any of the others. But even this therapy doesn’t address all the issues that cause cancer. Their therapy involves consuming large amounts of our natural foods, most of it in juice form and in doing so will strengthen the immune system. A strong immune system will eliminate cancer, no matter where it is located in the body. The beauty of this therapy is you can achieve it in your own home and more importantly, no one can make any money out of it, unlike our mainstream treatments.
An alternative approaches to healing, uses the bodies wisdom and capability to overcome health problems. Their goal is to support and strengthen the powerful healing forces that we are all born with and are with us right through our lives. There are of course alternative methods that have no merit and some that make fraudulent claims, but there are certainly many that have been of great value to countless number of people. The sadness is that very few alternative methods have been given the opportunity to be tested or appraised impartially and most doctors will have little to do with them.
To summaries alternative cancer treatments.
- Most alternative treatments share certain characteristics and focus on strengthening the body and the body itself will eliminate of the cancer growths.
- Alternatives attack the cause of the problem, and the cause of the problem is why the cancer first grew.
- Alternative treatments aim to strengthen the body, especially the immune system which is our natural built in defence system.
- Alternatives mainly use natural products and are very cheap compared to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
- Alternative treatments attack all cancers regardless of where they are in the body.
- Alternatives have no side effects.
- Alternatives have a high safety record.
You can only make an informed decision on alternative cancer treatments if you have all the information on the subject. Cancer is a survivable disease, but our modern medical approaches are not necessary the most effective method towards achieving a cure
Alan Wighton
http://www.articlesbase.com/cancer-articles/information-on-an-effective-alternative-cancer-treatment-741739.html
Government Grants for Alternative Energy
In his State of the Union Address for 2007, President George W. Bush called for a 22% increase in federal grants for research and development of alternative energy. However, in a speech he gave soon after, he said to those assembled, I recognize that there has been some interesting mixed signals when it comes to funding.
Where the mixed signals were coming from concerned the fact that at the same time the President was calling on more government backing for research and development, the NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of Golden, Colardo was laying off workers and contractors left and right.
Apparently, the Laboratory got the hint, because soon after the State of the Union Address, everyone was re-hired. The second speech of the President’s was actually given at the NREL. There is almost unanimous public support for the federal backing through research grants, tax breaks, and other financial incentives of research and development of alternative energy sources.
The NREL is the nation’s leading component of the National Bioenergy Center, a virtual center that has no central bricks and mortar office. The NREL’s raison d’etre is the advancing of the US Department of Energy’s and the United States’ alternative energy objectives.
The laboratory’s field researchers and staff scientists, in the words of Laboratory Director Dan Arvizu, support critical market objectives to accelerate research from scientific innovations to market-viable solutions. At the core of this strategic direction are NREL’s research and technology development areas.
These areas span from understanding renewable resources for energy, to the conversion of these resources to renewable electricity and fuels, and ultimately to the use of renewable electricity and fuels in homes, commercial buildings, and vehicles. The federally-backed Laboratory directly helps along the United States’ objectives for discovering renewable alternative fuels for powering our economy and our lifestyles.
The NREL is set up to have several areas of expertise in energy research and development. It spearheads research and development efforts into renewable sources of electricity; these would include such things as solar power, wind power, biomass power, and geothermal power.
It also spearheads research and development of renewable fuels for powering our vehicles such as biomass and biodiesel fuels and hydrogen fuel cells. Then, it seeks to develop plans for integrated system enginnering; this includes bringing alternative energy into play within buildings, electrical grids and delivery systems, and transportation infrastructures.
The Laboratory is also set up for strategic development and analysis of alternative energy objectives through the forces of economics, market analysis and planning, and alternative energy investment portfolios structurings.
The NREL is additionally equipped with a Technology Transfer Office. This Office supports laboratory scientists and engineers in the practical application of and ability to make a living from their expertise and the technologies they develop.
NREL’s research and development staff and its facilities are recognized for their remarkable prowess by private industry, which is reflected in the hundreds of collaborative projects and licensed technologies that the Laboratory now has with both public and private partners.
Warren Peters
http://www.articlesbase.com/environment-articles/government-grants-for-alternative-energy-128045.html
911: THE ROAD TO TYRANNY – Marines Policing US Neighborhoods
Marines doing urban warfare exercises
on live American neighborhoods, and
training to take over the civilian
government.
Swansboro, North Carolina and
Hebron, Maryland.
http://www.infowars.com/
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Do you believe in the illuminati and the new world order?
I read in a website that the illuminati are working on the new world order and they worship satan. Is it true?
For those who scoff and mock this occurring it is very real. Not just the presence of the Illuminati but also the Masons and the Bilderberg Group. However, while many may deny their influence upon the world there is a highly visible and relatively unknown presence of the Georgia Guidestones.
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the American Stonehenge. Though relatively unknown to most people, it is an important link to the Occult Hierarchy that dominates the world in which we live. The messages engraved on the Georgia Guidestones deal with four major fields: (1) Governance and the establishment of a world government, (2) Population and reproduction control, (3) The environment and man’s relationship to nature, and (4) Spirituality.
THE MESSAGE OF THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.
Limiting the population of the earth to 500 million will require the extermination of nine-tenths of the world’s people. The American Stonehenge’s reference to establishing a world court foreshadows the current move to create an International Criminal Court and a world government. The Guidestones’ emphasis on preserving nature anticipates the environmental movement of the 1990s, and the reference to "seeking harmony with the infinite" reflects the current effort to replace Judeo-Christian beliefs with a new spirituality.
The message of the American Stonehenge also foreshadowed the current drive for Sustainable Development. Any time you hear the phrase "Sustainable Development" used, you should substitute the term "socialism" to be able to understand what is intended. Later in this syllabus you will read the full text of the Earth Charter which was compiled under the direction of Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong. In that document you will find an emphasis on the same basic issues: control of reproduction, world governance, the importance of nature and the environment, and a new spirituality. The similarity between the ideas engraved on the Georgia Guidestones and those espoused in the Earth Charter reflect the common origins of both.
Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, was recently quoted as referring to the American Stonehenge, saying:
"I want people to know about the stones … We’re headed toward a world where we might blow ourselves up and maybe the globe will not exist … it’s a nice time to reaffirm ourselves, knowing all the beautiful things that are in this country and the Georgia Stones symbolize that. " (1)
What is the true significance of the American Stonehenge, and why is its covert message important? Because it confirms the fact that there was a covert group intent on
(1) Dramatically reducing the population of the world.
(2) Promoting environmentalism.
(3) Establishing a world government.
(4) Promoting a new spirituality.
Certainly the group that commissioned the Georgia Guidestones is one of many similar groups working together toward a New World Order, a new world economic system, and a new world spirituality. Behind those groups, however, are dark spiritual forces. Without understanding the nature of those dark forces it is impossible to understand the unfolding of world events.
The fact that most Americans have never heard of the Georgia Guidestones or their message to humanity reflects the degree of control that exists today over what the American people think. We ignore that message at our peril. Lest anyone thinks I am exaggerating there are 572,000 article about the Georgia Guidestones on the internet. Plus there are 281,000 results for the Bilderberger Group.
gatita_63109
Apostolic Believer In One God, Jesus
If there is a new world order or an Illuminati why do people think the members are only Republicans?
First I am not into grand conspiracies. In fact I find most of them just plain silly. However, everytime I see mention of these groups it seems they are almost always equated with Republicans. If there is a New World Order or an Illuminati isn’t it much more likely that these groups would non specific in party affiliations and corrupt all politicians equally in order to achieve their goals.
roady42: Where exactly did you me placing any blame on anyone in this question?
The previous statement should read see me placing blame.
G51044 & GTR: That is not an answer, it’s a commercial for a conspiracy website. I seen the site already. I’ll pass thanks.
the liberal patriot: I am not speculating one way or the other whether there is a New World Order. I am merely stating that in a preponderous of posts which I see on the matter it is often associated with Republicans exclusively.
Well, not that I myself buy this particular conspiracy hypothesis–really, "theory" is the wrong word for it, as theory implies that it’s something with substantial evidence to back it up–but, to Answer your Question here, I really think it’s obvious.
This whole "Illuminati" business is about taking over the world via money, by way of Big Business and its connections. And….in the 20th century at least, in the United States, *much more* often than not your conservative, Republican elements have been *about* being pro-big-business, they’ve been *about* putting the interests of Big Oil (Halliburton? Iraq war?) and Big Banking (severe and recent changes to bankruptcy laws putting *most* ordinary people *one* crisis away from being de facto indentured servants) above those of ordinary voting citizens.
You can call it an accident of history really. In what remains of the old Soviet Union, the people who would be most aligned with "Illuminati" interests aren’t even politicians, but rather the "oligarchs" or big businessmen whose interests border on organized crime and racketeering. And in what *was* the United States before the Civil War, one could argue that the pre-Lincoln Democrats were once closer to "Illuminati" interests.
This is why I think the hypothesis fails to some degree. The whole conspiracy operates on one *simple* heuristic–follow the money, more specifically the Old, Landed Money. Problem is….that heuristic fails to take into account that "Old Landed Money" has a habit of changing with the passing of decades and centuries….even Big Banking has changed the way it does business in so many ways that bankers in the 1950s would have trouble recognizing some features of today’s landscape (trading in derivatives versus stocks, emphasizing the *buying and selling* of debts versus keeping people *in* debt). It also fails to take into account the changes in technologies (no, not the internet–that was stifled pretty effectively. I’m talking about the rise of Big Oil itself.), or the market shifts that can take place (people didn’t see the rise of Asian economies–Japan, then China, then Southeast Asia, then China *again*–and they likely *won’t* see the rise of India or Russia either when that hits) from nation to nation and culture to culture.
In very plain terms: The hypothesis is *too* simple to be as all-encompassing as it claims to be. Only *one* conspiracy? Only *one* group of wannabe-all-mighty-then Muckety Mucks who want to take over the world? Ok….
And if they’ve been active all this time, and so rich and powerful…where are their successes? Really, why haven’t they taken over completely yet? It’s not just a question of timing or agenda here–the lack of world conquest at this late date forces me to ask the question: If the Illuminati Hypothesis is true at all…then why are people still free? Does this mean that *no one* in on the conspiracy is *competent* at all? ^_^ Reduction to absurdity. The world conquest doesn’t happen according to plan because the hypothesis is itself absurd.
But I digress. Point is, if you take the hypothesis at face value, you do have a "follow the Old Money" mindset, and that means you look for the political party that caters to Old Money first.
Which is a mistake if there actually *are* any conspiracies afoot, just because for all we know, the conspirators may well have it in their best interests to *have* a sold-out, ineffective version of "mainstream liberalism" at their beck and call (they do, it’s called creating a false division to draw attention away from the real ones). They may have it in their best interests to *underfund* critical social services when the need for them is on the *rise*, things like the police, public schools, and healthcare (they do…it’s called keeping the peons *desperate*, ignorant and terrified).
My take on it is that there are at *least* five or six *different* conspiracies afoot at any given moment, and these days, they’ve all had one horrid effect: To sabotage the way the United States works, in an attempt to weaken Western Civilization. And I doubt it is from these multiple conspiracies working together so much as it is that nobody’s really paying attention to the *needed* things and in so doing, every plotter gets at least a *brief* free ride.
Essentially it’s like a stray dog that’s been out in the alleys too long: fleas alone won’t kill a dog, but if the dog already has ticks, worms, lice, an infected wound and a leech already to deal with, then yes, *one more* parasite will drag it down.
I hope this was helpful. -_- Thanks for your time.
Is it tyranny when a government forces its citizens to purchase a product simply because they are alive?
Yes it is without a doubt.
Violence Against Women
Violence Against Women: Issue Of Honor Killing
Definition
Honor crimes are acts of violence, usually murder, mostly committed by male family members predominantly against female [relatives] , who are perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by individuals within her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arranged marriage, being the victim of a sexual assault, seeking a divorce — even from an abusive husband, or (allegedly) committing adultery .The mere perception that a woman has behaved in a specific way to “dishonor” her family, is sufficient to trigger an attack.[1]
For example, honor killings can sometimes target those who choose boyfriends, lovers or spouses outside of their family’s ethnic and/or religious community. Some women who adopt the customs (or religion) of an outside group, may also be more likely to be victims. Furthermore, in certain cultures a raped single woman will garner no bride price if she marries, and thus be considered “worthless” to the family. There is some evidence that homosexuality can also be grounds for honor killing by relatives. Several cases have been suspected but not confirmed. There is also a documented case of a gay Jordanian man who was shot (but not fatally) by his brother.
Many hold the practice to be self-contradictory, since an honor killing is sometimes justified by its participants or supporters, as an attempt to uphold the morals of a religion or a code, which at the same time generally forbids killing as morally wrong.
Honor Suicides
Honor Suicides occur when, in an effort to avoid legal penalties for killing, a woman is ordered or pressured into killing herself. This phenomenon appears to be a relatively recent development. A special envoy for the United Nations named Yakin Erturk, who was sent to Turkey to investigate suspicious suicides, was quoted by the New York Times as saying that some suicides appeared to be “honor killings disguised as a suicide or an accident.”
History: Honour Killing
Based on proof
In the Valley of Mexico from 150 BCE – 1521 CE, the punishment for female adultery was death by stoning or strangulation, but only after the husband could prove the offence. According to interpretations of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the Halakha (Jewish law) punishes certain sexual misconduct for both men and women, with capital punishment (also through stoning) as approved by a court.
Honor killings, generally considered premeditated, are typically held to be distinct from Crimes of passion, which occur throughout the world. Crimes of passion often have special status under the law. For instance, until 1975, the French Penal Code commuted the sentence of a husband who killed his wife after finding her in the act of committing adultery; this law passed into the legal frameworks of the many nations who based their modern legal codes on the Napoleonic Code. Thus, Crimes of passion are different from honor killings, in the sense that they are spontaneous acts that aren’t planned. Furthermore, many honor killings (along with some Crimes of passion) are based on sheer suspicion as opposed to (what appears to be) factual proof, in relation to the idea that an individual has committed or been involved in an “undesirable act”, in the mind of the perpetrator(s).
Honor killing in national legal codes
According to the report of the Special Rapporteur submitted to the 58th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (2002) concerning cultural practices in the family that reflect violence against women:
The Special Rapporteur indicated that there had been contradictory decisions with regard to the honor defence in Brazil, and that legislative provisions allowing for partial or complete defence in that context could be found in the penal codes of Argentina, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Peru, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela and the Palestinian National Authority.
Some of these, including those of Turkey, have since been modified.
Countries where the law can be interpreted to allow men to kill female relatives in a premeditated effort as well as for crimes of passions, in flagrante delicto in the act of committing adultery, include:
Jordan: Part of article 340 of the Penal Code states that “he who discovers his wife or one of his female relatives committing adultery and kills, wounds, or injures one of them, is exempted from any penalty.” This has twice been put forward for cancellation by the government, but was retained by the Lower House of the Parliament.
Countries that allow men to kill female relatives in flagrante delicto (but without premeditation) include:
Syria: Article 548 states that “He who catches his wife or one of his ascendants, descendants or sister committing adultery (flagrante delicto) or illegitimate sexual acts with another and he killed or injured one or both of them benefits from an exemption of penalty.”
Countries that allow husbands to kill only their wives in flagrante delicto (based upon the Napoleonic code) include:
Morocco: Article 418 of the Penal Code states “Murder, injury and beating are excusable if they are committed by a husband on his wife as well as the accomplice at the moment in which he surprises them in the act of adultery.”
Haiti: Article 269 of the Penal Code states that “in the case of adultery as provided for in Article 284, the murder by a husband of his wife and/or her partner, immediately upon discovering them in flagrante delicto in the conjugal abode, is to be pardoned.”
Turkey: Recently Turkey changed its laws concerning honor killings. Persons found guilty of this crime are sentenced to life in prison.
In two Latin American countries: Similar laws were struck down over the past two decades: according to human rights lawyer Julie Mertus “in Brazil, until 1991 wife killings were considered to be noncriminal ‘honor killings’; in just one year, nearly eight hundred husbands killed their wives. Similarly, in Colombia, until 1980, a husband legally could kill his wife for committing adultery.”
Countries where honor killing is not legal but is frequently ignored in practice include:
Pakistan: Honor killings are known as Karo Kari (Urdu: ˜ÇÑæ˜ÇÑ? ). The practice is supposed to be prosecuted under ordinary murder, but in practice police and prosecutors often ignore it. Often a man must simply claim the killing was for his honor and he will go free. Nilofer Bakhtiar, advisor to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, stated that in 2003, as many as 1, 261 women were murdered in honor killings. On December 08, 2004, under international and domestic pressure, Pakistan enacted a law that made honor killings punishable by a prison term of seven years, or by the death penalty in the most extreme cases. Women’s rights organizations were, however, wary of this law as it stops short of outlawing the practice of allowing killers to buy their freedom by paying compensation to the victim’s relatives. Women’s rights groups claimed that in most cases it is the victim’s immediate relatives who are the killers, so inherently the new law is just eyewash. It did not alter the provisions whereby the accused could negotiate pardon with the victim’s family under the so-called Islamic provisions. In March 2005 the Pakistani government allied with Islamists to reject a bill which sought to strengthen the law against the practice of “honour killing”. The parliament rejected the bill by a majority vote, declaring it to be un-Islamic.
Incident in Pakistan:- Ghazala was set on fire by her brother in Joharabad, Punjab province, on 6 January 1999. According to reports, she was murdered because her family suspected she was having an ‘illicit’ relationship with a neighbour. Her burned and naked body reportedly lay unattended on the street for two hours as nobody wanted to have anything to do with it. Ghazala was burned to death in the name of honor. Hundreds of other women and girls suffer a similar fate every year amid general public support and little or no action by the authorities. In fact, there is every sign that the number of honor killings is on the rise as the perception of what constitutes honor — and what damages it — widens, and as more murders take on the guise of honor killings on the correct assumption that they are rarely punished.
Indian Scenario
“Honor-killings”, which are widespread in some of the economically advanced States, is an example. Perpetrated under the garb of saving the “honor” of the community, caste or family, such incidents occur often as the State governments are not keen to take action. The acts of violence include public lynching of couples, murder of either the man or the woman concerned, murder made to appear as suicide, public beatings, humiliation, blackening of the face, forcing couples or their families to eat excreta or drink urine, forced incarceration, social boycotts and the levying of fines.
The largest number of cases was found to have occurred in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh – most of the incidents reported at the convention took place in these three States. One reason for the increased visibility of such crimes is the trend of more and more girls joining educational institutions, meeting others from different backgrounds and castes and establishing relationships beyond the confines of caste and community. Such individuals, both boys and girls, are being targeted so that none dares to breach the barriers of castes and communities. Significantly, in the majority of cases it is the economically and socially dominant castes that organize, instigate and abet such acts of retribution.
In Muzaffarnagar district in western Uttar Pradesh, at least 13 honor killings occurred within nine months in 2003. In 2002, while 10 such killings were reported, 35 couples were declared missing. It was estimates that Haryana and Punjab alone account for 10 per cent of all honor killings in the country. It is not surprising that no such category of crime exists in government records. In fact, there is refusal even to recognise this phenomenon. Data for such incidents are seldom available and they would mostly be classified under the category of general crimes. Moreover, most of such cases go unreported and, even when reported, often first information reports [2] are not filed and post-mortems are not conducted.
Caste panchayats have come to play an increasingly important role in Haryana and elsewhere, especially in situations where political patronage also exists. Central to the theme of honor and violence is the subordinate position of girls and women in all castes and communities. A woman’s chastity is the “honor” of the community and she has no sovereign right over her body at any point of her life. The retribution is particularly swift and brutal if she crosses caste and class barriers to choose a lower-caste man as her partner.
Case Study
Location: Ludhiana
Date: 12 January 2005
Ø Four of the five accused, including a retired police Sub-Inspector, in the shocking honour killing of a couple case have confessed to hiring professional killers for the job. They stated that the main accused, Amrik Singh, who was in Australia, had hatched the entire conspiracy and knew the killers, the Sadar police claimed.
Ø The police has also initiated proceedings for deporting the main accused, Amrik Singh, father of one of the victims Amandeep Kaur, from Australia while hoping that he would return on his own and join investigations.
Ø The city police has claimed of taking the help of the Australian Embassy for the purpose even as a lot of loopholes exist in the police investigations conducted so far. The police has not been able to furnish any concrete evidence against the accused other than the complaint of the boy’s family that the relatives of Amandeep Kaur had been threatening the couple for the inter-caste marriage.
Ø The four accused are the killed woman’s maternal grandfather B. S. Randhawa (aged over 70), a retired Development Officer with the LIC, and three uncles (fufars) — one of them a former Punjab Police Sub-Inspector Kulwant Singh, serving Head Constable with Amritsar police Tejinder Singh and Sukhdev Singh.
Ø Addressing a press conference SHO Sadar Sandeep Sharma claimed that the four accused had confessed before the police that the couple — wood trader Harpreet Singh and his wife Amandeep Kaur, a BDS student — was ‘punished’ for marrying outside their castes.
Ø They said Amandeep Kaur had lowered their image in the community by marrying outside the caste. They stated to the police that it took them nearly a year to carry out murders as they had been waiting for an opportune time.
Ø The revelation that two cops, one retired and one serving, were involved in the case has again put the Punjab Police in bad light. Four years ago, the infamous Jassi murder case hatched on similar caste lines also had a serving cop in the list of the accused.
Ø The case now hinges on the return of Amrik Singh from Australia with the arrested persons putting all blame on him and the city police convinced with the statements of the accused as well as the complainants without securing any evidence.
Ø SHO Sandeep Sharma said Kulwant Singh and Sukhdev Singh were arrested from Amritsar while Tejinder Singh and B. S. Randhawa were arrested from the local railway station here when they were trying to flee the city.
Ø The SHO said that the accused had threatened the couple and the boy’s relatives during their ring ceremony in Amritsar and later again at their marriage ceremony in Mariot Hotel in Ludhiana. The couple had got married in a city court about 11 months ago.
Ø After that Amandeep Kaur’s relatives had invited them to their homes and claimed they had accepted the couple. They had then organized formal ring and marriage ceremonies.
Ø Interestingly, the relatives of the accused had been claiming that the police had raided their houses and picked them up and kept them in illegal custody.
Ø The prime accused, Amrik Singh, had pleaded innocence in the case and counter alleged that some relatives of Harpreet Singh were involved in the murder. When asked if the police would register a case against them too as Amrik Singh has also made a statement like the complainants, the SHO said the police would investigate the charges.
Ø Meanwhile, the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mr G.C. Garg, remanded four accused of infamous couple murder case in one-day police remand.
Ø Amandeep Kaur and her husband. Hardeep Singh, was murdered mercilessly, allegedly by the family members of woman by hatching a conspiracy.
Ø The prosecution sought the police remand for further investigation. The judge remanded the accused.
Conclusion
From the above case it is very clear that not only Islamic society but, different societies in India are increasingly facing the problem of honor killing, to which the state authorities like panchayats and police are a party. Thus in such an ailing situation it is very important that such incidents are taken care of properly by the state and also the society. Such crimes can only be eradicated by:
1. Putting very serious penal sanctions.
2. Active police and panchayat body; as these crimes are mainly confined to rural or village areas.
3. Imparting education to the village people at large.
4. Judiciary must be positive on such cases.
Research from around the world point to the fact that violence against women can only be combated if there is a healthy partnership between women’s groups and the state apparatus. While women’s groups must protect their independence, on certain issues they have to work effectively with the criminal justice system, joining forces to protect the rights of women victims. Moreover, law is an important tool but it is one of the many strategies available to us. While fighting for justice through the legal system, we should also try and put in place education policies, health strategies and community level programmes that promote equality between men and women and teach non violent methods of resolving conflict. A multipronged approach to violence against women will result in far reaching changes, transforming attitudes and practices so that men and women can live in equality and dignity.
Bibliography
Books and Articles:
“Jordan Parliament Supports Impunity for Honor Killing,” Washington, DC: Human Rights Watch Press Release, January 2000
Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men Alleged first-person account of a victim of an attempted honor killing (ISBN 0-446-53346-7) The work is based on a repressed memory report and its authenticity has been questioned.
The Varied Contours of Violence Against Women in South Asia; Coomaraswamy, Radhika.
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What is the nature of the corruption in Afghanistan?
I understand that besides defense and reconstruction, another reason for armed forces being there is to fight the corruption. I want to know what form this corruption takes.
I hope ot get a clear and serious answer. Can anyone contribute such a response?
Russia is a major problem there, Pres. Putin is a corrupt dictator supporting the problems there. The Taliban is a real problem that infected the place like cockroaches! We built a soccer stadium there a few years back before Dubya, and then we found out that the Taliban were using it for an execution arena? Great place right? And people were attending that like a gladiator sport? Guess what? Blow it up and start over and that is what I think of all those third world areas, if they can’t put a lid on their crap? It is coming to Black and White, Feast or Famine and we better be aware of that here as well. No more Gray areas, just get it done or else is the point of no return! Our backs are against the wall here, we can’t worry about a place you have never been and never will be, you must survive here and protect our soldiers there and have a home for them to come back to?
Not give it away to all these foreigners and sell us down the river and then what do we tell our soldiers? oh well dear John sorry but we hocked the country at the pawn shop? Get on the real here they are people yes but we come first!
Corruption – Does a falling tree make a sound in the forest if no one is around?
The media provides coverage of corruption in some form or fashion on a daily if not weekly basis, right?
Politicians doing wrong in this, that or the other while receiving special treatment due to their high profile "status." Special treatment defined as not being subjected to the same punishments as citizens of the U.S. The media simply reports the story for Americans.
Can you imagine how high the levels of corruption must be behind closed curtains that never make it to the public eye?
Thoughts?
Should we be thankful for the "leaks" within any agency or entity?
Does this finally lay the question to rest? A tree falling does make a sound even if no one is around because of the aftermath that has occured?
As to the tree, I must respectfully disagree with your stated position. I believe Cosmos is right. The tree falling created sound waves, but without a proper decoder (an ear) the waves cannot become sound.
The aftermath is a result of forces such as gravity and impact but not sound. But alas, the tree and sound are really irrelevant aren’t they?
To the real question at hand and a good one at that….
The levels of such corruption often lead right to the top. Perpetrated mostly I think by arrogant self righteous jerks that believe either the ends justify the means, or that they are somehow simply taking what is due to them. In the case of Richard Nixon he demonstrated a little of both.
Enron CEO Kenneth Lay thought he was smarter than everyone else and that he was simply taking what he had due him.
Maybe in the end this is very much like your tree.
The corruption itself is the cause of the aftermath and may leave physical clues to be discovered later.
But without the media translating the sound waves for us when they discover these plots, we are like the deaf man standing under the tree. We’re gonna get hurt and the sound is irrelevant.
I can imagine the corruption goes to the highest levels and much will never be known.