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In the "no doy" department, Craigslist in Baghdad is a hot bed of horny young military members looking for some release. I guess whenever you confine a bunch of 23-year-olds in one place, they're gonna get laid or post penis pics trying.
The men for men section is by faaaar the most robust, followed by men for women. There are women looking for men (15 total), and ladies looking for ladies (two of those). Oh, and some good samaritans (?) who are just writing NSFW erotica specifically for military men.
If you're interested in placing an ad (or replying to one!), it's totally legal within the confines of the military, unless a higher up cracks down and issues a no more buttcracks order.
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THE MEDIA ON STREET & SEXUAL VIOLENCE:
Compatriots,
I recently posted on street and sexual crime statistics in Ghana/Africa, to explain the seriousness of seismic increases in various forms of violence and general corruption in Ghana. This second part of the essay presents the reality of street and sexual violence from media sources. For brevity, each news report will be immediately followed by critical analysis.
VICTIMS OF STREET CRIME
The following violent incident titled, Innocent Man Taken for a Thief and Lynched, is a sneak-preview of what mainly occurs on a fairly regular basis in the major cities of Ghana. Clearly the spark that tolled the alarm bells leading to the young man?s unfortunate death, was the resentment that had built up in the resident, ?whose house had been burgled about the same time?. Many Ghanaians have had some experience of crime. Therefore, like the alarmist above they keep a pressure cooker of vengeful resentment against criminals. A resentment compounded by an all too frequent experience of police inaction to crime resolution. This is evidenced by the level of unrestrained violence against alleged criminals who get caught:
?A 25-year-old man mistaken for a thief has been lynched by a mob at Nii Boi, a suburb of Accra. The young man was said to be loitering around the area at dawn, prompting a resident whose house had been burgled at about the same time, to raise an alarm. The victim was later discovered to be innocent after the lifeless body was paraded in front of a house identified as the family house of the deceased?.
?Assembly member of the area Michael Zigah told Joy News the Tesano police is investigating the case. ?Unfortunately, information that I am also getting now, tells me that the person is not a thief but he is somebody who lives in the community, sells at Lapaz and has family in the community.? He confirmed that the police have been in the area to pick up some people they suspect of killing the young man?. (http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/201105/65706.asp).
Critical Analysis
This violence is often perpetrated by both male and females with equal gratuitous violence and self-relish. Sadly this phenomenon has come home to roost in Ghana. It only requires an alarm, ?awi!? or ?julor!?. Someone is pursued, caught and beating to death. Nearly always the police appear to lack the logistics or inclination to successfully investigate and arrest the perpetrators of the mob crime. This reality of instant justice is indicative of public lack of confidence in the professionalism of the police or criminal justice system.
Unlike metropolitan centres of the industrialised world, with rapid police response times, the Ghana police service tend to respond too late. The cumulative result is that mob justice has sadly become a regular feature in Ghana. It would seem that this is a pervasive African problem. In the mid 1980s I observed many people being burnt alive in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. Their apparent offence: running after being called, ?ole!? (thief). Pursued and caught, they were ringed with vehicle tires and burnt. The police mopped up the carnage weeks later ? they always come too late!
THE WRONG DIAGNOSIS OF CRIME
In a recent article titled, Mass Unemployment Is Contributing to Armed Robbery, Ghanaweb.com columnist, Alex Bossman Baafi wrote:
?Many concerned people are worried and trying to find out what is causing the upsurge in armed robbery because the state of insecurity these days had become a topical issue nationwide. In my opinion, the increase in armed robbery is due to multiplicity of factors. These include the influx of foreigners from our West African sub-region, increase in drug abuse with substances like marijuana, which is common in our society, effects of increase in dehumanizing conditions emanating from slums settlements in our cities, idleness and poverty arising out of mass unemployment among others?.
?In my opinion, joblessness is also contributing in no small measure to the current upsurge in crime including armed robbery and rape causing insecurity in the country. In search for the solution for this unacceptable social ill, the government should not discount unemployment and sweep it under the carpet. The government must accept the responsibility to tackle the problem of unemployment head-on and must be one of the main priority areas as part of its Better Ghana Agenda dispensation?. (Ghanaweb, Feature Article of Thursday, 4 August 2011).http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=215422)
Baafi corroborates what I have said about the meteoric rise in crimes in Ghana. He is right about its the multiple reason: the effects of slum living, idleness and poverty ? links between crimes and unemployment. However, I am not so sure of his other causal analysis. The jingoistic (anti foreigner) assumption, that Ghana is somewhat being swamped by criminals teaming from the West African sub-region, is the same argument used against Ghanaians and other West Africans by the Nigerian media during the ?Agege Years? of mass Ghanaian out-migration to Nigerian.
Yes some non Ghanaian criminals have been apprehended and been successfully prosecuted by the law, but there is no valid ?foreign? crime data to support Baafi?s allegation. Baafi may be scapegoating here. He also stereotypes the issue in stating, ?substances like marijuana, which is common in our society? causes crime in Ghana. In the West where major studies have been done on the link between drugs and crimes among the ?under-classes?, there is abundant information to suggest a causal link between crime and stimulant (opposed to sedative) drugs like, cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, mephedrone, etc. The A-Z of Drugs, Chilling out on the job on ?weed?, informs us:
?Cannabis: It is a mild sedative (often causing a chilled out feeling or actual sleepiness) and it?s also a mild hallucinogen (meaning you may experience a state where you see objects and reality in a distorted way and may even hallucinate). The main active compound in cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)?. (http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs.aspx?id=172).
Taking cocaine makes users feel on top of the world. Its effect is like the stimulant ?amphetamines? (speed) but is stronger and doesn?t last as long. People taking it feel wide-awake, confident and on top of their game:
?The effects of crack [cocaine] smoking?Users feel alert, confident, euphoric and talkative, and some feel greater empathy with those around them?Mephedrone: A stimulant drug belonging to the chemical family of cathinones?the family of amphetamine compounds. The amphetamine-like drugs include amphetamine itself (speed), methamphetamine and ecstasy (MDMA), among many others. Mephedrone produces euphoria, alertness, talkativeness and feelings of empathy. It can also cause anxiety and paranoid states and risks overstimulating the heart and circulation? (http://www.talktofrank.com/drugs.aspx?id=7513).
(http://www.talktofrank.com/cannabis.aspx?id=3247).
CONCLUSION
So science, not non-science (nonsense) speaks: sedative drugs like marijuana equal sleepiness, distortion of reality. Stimulant drugs like crack cocaine and amphetamine-like drugs equal users feeling ?on top of the world?, euphoric and alert. If I was a thief I would rather be euphoric, alert and keep my faculties sharpened rather than sleepy and lacking of reality ? would you not? Marijuana users are more likely to fall asleep (chilled out) on the job or eat a lot(have the ?munchies?) than want to speed down the motorway on a hot tropical afternoon to commit highway robbery!
It is certainly true drug usage can contribute to criminal activity. But we must reject the common-sense social notion in Ghana that links all aggressive or wayward behaviour to marijuana (?wee?). Like the statistical data given in the first seam of the essay, what we need in Ghana is a detailed study of the causes and solutions to the rise in crime. The blame game, as Ghanaian political protagonists tend to do, will only confuse and frustrate genuine attempts at finding solutions.
What is generally correct about all crimes, is that they are rooted in poverty, unimaginative national programmes for jobs and career opportunities for the youth and unemployed, material fetishism (unreasonable greed and worship of material things in society) low nation administrative checks-and-balances that causes corrupt leaders to side step professional and ethical practices, etc. It can even be argued low national export earnings is the fundamental that cause of high crimes. The necessary Development and Modernisation Programme (DMP) that ought to be launched, to comprehensively industrialise and modernize Ghana, is held at ransom to the bankrupting IMF-SAP programme.
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The next essay is titled:
T O F I A K W A!: SEX CRIMES, STREET VIOLENCE & CORRUPTION IN GHANAIAN SOCIETY (4a OF 6): SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST AMINA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, LEGON.
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DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) ? Flash flood waters swept a tour bus with 33 people aboard hundreds of yards down a wash in northwestern Arizona and the vehicle flipped on its side, but no one was injured, officials said.
The Las Vegas-bound bus was returning Sunday afternoon from a day-trip to the Grand Canyon's west rim when the driver attempted to cross the wash on a rural road.
The high waters pushed the vehicle down the wash for an estimated 300 yards around 1:50 p.m. near Kingman, said Patrick Moore, chief of the Northern Arizona Consolidated Fire District, which had firefighters at the scene. The crash happened as northern Arizona was hit with a second day of heavy rain.
The area where the bus accident occurred received 0.75 inches of rain in about an hour on Sunday afternoon, said Chris Stumpf, a National Weather Service forecaster in Las Vegas. A flash flood warning was in effect when the accident occurred, he said.
"It was a really strong storm dumping quite a bit of rain ... and it caused flash flooding," Stumpf said. "They were driving on a portion of the road where they shouldn't have tried to drive across. They should not have been driving through there."
Rhonda Ho, operations manager for Canyon Coach Lines, said the bus owned by the Las Vegas-based company was being driven by Joseph Razon, who saw a car right in front of him go through a section of the highway covered by some water.
"He thought, if a car can go through it, I can go through it," Ho said.
"Then he got slammed by a rushing current of water that came out of nowhere," she said. "He was driving in almost neck-deep water and trying to control the bus while it was floating."
She said the driver managed to bring the bus against an embankment so it would stop and passengers could escape. People inside the bus were able to climb out of the driver's side windows and walked to dry land.
"I'm glad the driver kept his cool and everybody got out safely. No one screamed on the bus and everyone kept their cool and that's amazing," Ho said.
She described Razon as a "very professional driver" with a spotless record. He has worked for the company since 2005.
Kingman is near the Arizona-Nevada stateline and about 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The bus passengers and driver returned on another bus to Las Vegas, where Ho was able to speak to the driver.
On Sunday evening, as a tow truck was preparing to take away the bus, it was lying on its side and had grass and other debris hanging from it. Two escape hatches on its roof were opened. Writing on the side of the bus said: "C.H. Destination" and "DBA: Canyon Coach Lines"
The passengers were no longer at the scene. The company had sent another bus to pick them up.
There were some swift-water rescues of stranded motorists Saturday night after a storm dropped nearly 2 inches of rain in about 90 minutes around Kingman, Stumpf said.
The flash flood warning around the accident scene has expired, he said, but there's a chance for more heavy rain and another similar warning on Monday.
The crash happened as Northern Arizona was hit with a second day of heavy rain.
The Arizona Department of Transportation closed an 18-mile stretch of Interstate-40 Saturday night between Flagstaff and Kingman because of the flash flooding.
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Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix and Martin Griffith in Reno, Nev., contributed to this report.
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British police on Sunday arrested a man in connection with online threats made toward a feminist campaigner, a case which has ignited calls for social media platforms to institute stronger protections against verbal abuse.
Caroline Criado-Perez says she has been facing a deluge of abuse ? including threats to rape and kill her ? over Twitter during the past several days. She said the threats started after her campaign to get a woman's picture on a U.K. bank note succeeded and resulted in the Bank of England's announcement last week that author Jane Austen will feature on England's new 10-pound notes.
In Britain, hundreds of people are prosecuted every year for Facebook posts, tweets, texts and emails deemed menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene. But while there have been several cases of online threats directed at sports figures and politicians, the verbal assault against Criado-Perez appears to have ignited an unrivalled response and backlash against Twitter itself.
The graphic and offensive threats come as combatting the scourge of violence against women has taken on a more public sense of urgency worldwide, when tales of gang rapes in India and Brazil circulated around the world. Earlier this year, more than 130 nations agreed on a U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women, "one of the gravest violations of human rights in the world," according to Michelle Bachelet, the head of the U.N. women's agency.
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chen, too, called violence against women "a global health problem of epidemic proportions" when the first major global review of violence against women came out in June ? a description that Criado-Perez drew on when writing in the New Statesman about the abuse directed against her. She urged Chen to "take a look at Twitter."
Already, Criado-Perez's experience has set off a campaign and petition to press Twitter to take more action to combat online threats.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper urged Twitter to carry out a full review of its policies on abusive threats and crimes, and a petition urging Twitter to introduce a "button" that would make it easier to report abusive Tweets has garnered 12,000 signatures.
On Sunday, British police arrested a 21-year-old man, who wasn't immediately identified, in relation to Criado-Perez's case.
She posted on Twitter that she was at a police station to make a statement and had many more threats to report ? followed by the hashtag "shouting back."
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