Is this where we are as a country?
Where female villagers have to beg MPs not to swamp their rural community with more than a thousand single male migrants.
“What Trump is doing is he's instituting a worldwide trade extortion scheme. The tariffs are not about any particular outcome. They're about going to each country and saying, ‘Hey, nice country you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.’ And what he's seeking from each of these countries is submission. He wants them to submit their economic Independence and sovereignty to him.”
“And of course, the effect that that has in those countries is the opposite of what he wants. It puts the incentive to all of the politicians in Canada to oppose him, because if they do submit, they'd be thrown out of office right away. So what he's done is he's ensured the failure of his own policy and in doing so, ensured that the retaliation will come.”
“Now, while it's true that Canada will suffer more than the Americans, it's also true that the Canadians are so pissed off at us right now - 80% of Canadians are against the United States, for the first time in living memory - that they're willing to suffer more for the point of maintaining their sovereignty and standing up to Trump. And that's not the case in Michigan. That's not the case in Maine. People in America are not a fan of these trade wars. They’re not on board with Trump’s strategy.”
“So there will be political consequences, not for Trump, because he is not running, but for Republicans. But it's pretty clear that Trump doesn't care about that.”
34 hours until he is released. 34 hours until the justice i thought i got is half snatched away. He was sentenced to 17 years in Feb 2019, the first slap in the face was it being reduced to 15 years because "he did charity work in pakistan" while on the run for my rape. Second was finding out he is only serving 7.5 years of that reduced sentence.
Cant help but count it down even though I am torturing myself.
Worst thing is I will be doing this same count down 4 more times in the next 12 month as more are released at just 50% of their sentence.
This is the rape and child sexual abuse justice in the U.K.
None existent.
I know I should feel lucky that atleast mine went to prison in the first place, since less that 2% of rape cases even make it to court here, but i dont.
Instead I feel like the 5 year investigation and the hell i was put through was simply for nothing. I feel like justice was promised and dangled infront of my face, only to be snatched away again.
I was failed to begin with by the institutions letting my abuse continue for so long. It was enabled and I was blamed.
I was failed by having to fight just to be believed.
Now I feel failed again. I fought so hard but its getting snatched away again.
I dont know how the government expects victims to engage in this inquiry while releasing the very people that took their childhood and big chunks of their adulthood away from them.
Its like a cruel game that I do not want to play.