Turkish STRONG

Not a Merry Christmas for some people who are still fighting for basic freedoms around the world. But this just in after I thought the Turkish protest have died down a little, another outburst.

Tonight on my news-feed I see that protesters in different cities in Turkey have gone to the streets again to protest the long overdue resignation of the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan is the 25th Prime Minister of Turkey since around 2003. He also used to be the major of Istanbul. There has been a major shift in his powerful political rule over the last few years. People are calling for him to step down now. Recently Tayyip has replaced 10 political ministers after a very major corruption investigation. Politics and corruption? Peas in a pod indeed. 

Environment Minister Erdogan Bayraktar has stepped down after his own two sons were arrested for allegedly fraudulent money transfers and bribes for construction projects. Mind you this whole prostest started because Tayyip wanted to reconstruct a major tourist spot in Turkey. Bayraktar has complained that the Prime Minister Tayyip himself approved these construction brides and says that Tayyip should resign. It's quiet funny how everyone is telling on him now that they are out of jobs. A lot of prominent figures in this political pa

rty have been dismissed because of the money fraud including police in Turkey. 

The police violence in Turkey is becoming overwhelming for the protesters who are at the blunt end of the water cannons, tear gas, and anything else being hurled at them. People have been very critically injured, hurt and have even died as a result of the brutality of the police trying to disperse thousands of people.  People cannot even march or protest to express how they feel about the government without being threatened. Have we not seen this before? How many Human Right violations have been committed in Taksim and around Turkey so far? When will stubborn Erdogan listen to the people?

Confessions of a sexual sadist

People, PLEASE
PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN

silent drones

Drones Drones Drones

I hate this word. DRONES

I am sure many of us heard this word before, and half of us don't even know what the hell a drone is. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVS for short are aircraft. Used mainly for spying, reconnaissance, surveillance, and war. Usually armed with missiles and bombs. If I am not mistaken there are no pilots in drones. They are controlled from the ground. I think, don't take my word on that. 

Now why the U.S feels the need to use drones I have no idea whatsoever. I am still struggling to understand how the U.S can justify using drones to kill people. The government doesn't seem to care or give a fuck about anyone other then themselves and the global elite. 

Something I struggle with is how IGNORANT most of us are when it comes to understanding with that fuck it is we actually vote for. The fine print. How is it some can block out the reality of drone use in our country and around the world. Most people I know don't even know what a drone is. Its maddening. Your president knows what a drone is, and he isn't coy about using them.  Why do you feel the nation and governents need to keep tabs on the society? Has this become so routine that we become desensitized to the possibilities of a sky full of drones in our future?

Some children around the world have been killed by drones. Innocent children, men, women, people, you, I, us. It could be any of us. I have seen babies, toddlers, face down with their heads blown off, limbs blown off, parents mourning over the bodies wondering "why?" I would never wish that on anyone. Many people want to know how we justify killing families in drone wars? How do we justify this? Does the C.I.A sanction innocent people. My thoughts are all over the places on this one because I constantly bewildered by these questions I ask myself from time to time. Some days I have nightmares about drones flying over my house and killing my family. Whats even more disturbing that my nightmare is a very real reality for families in the middle east who have heard the humming of a drone and a loud explosion. Children recall seeing their grandparents blown apart. Confusion, anger, grief, fright, would have to be an understatement to describe how that must feel. 

We go on about our day as usual, angry that the customer ahead of us is taking too long to order their latte. Maybe what we wear the next day is a more important issue. Or which one of the Kardashian sisters will be on the front cover of a magazine. Love and Hip Hop can comfort us perhaps? Your daily ratchet ass dose of ill-scripted disgusting reality shows. Basketball wives? The next action movie?

What do children all over the world want most? Peace? Safety? Love? Laughter? We need to make sure that the people who put in office, will not use our hard earned tax dollars to sanction a unspeakable hell for others around the world. 

To you

This is unnatural....this...how often I think of you
I can't just love you a little bit, I breath the memory of you
My emotions at any given moment just fall apart all around me. The world stops when I cry. I have to hold my breath to forget.
Listen, all I need you to do is love me.
Don't let me die this way
-Isabella

I am not strong

I can no longer allow the fear of your opinion to sap the energy out of my body and grip me with depression. I don't think I can take the feeling of anxiety replace my lungs anymore. 

I envy people who seem to be able to take such blows and go about their day

Once in a while I get overly attached to people who use me. I try to fill a void and I end up burned.

Sometimes people's only interest is sex and control 

Not only have I lost control. But I am so afraid of you. I know you lie. I know you bully.

I am not strong and cannot find my grip. Forever will I always be in the clutches of this loveless dance. 

Cheaters and liars always get away. 

Eating my flesh and putting me down. Striking me to the floor

Am I not allowed to be angry? 

I know my place, it's six feet under. 

I am not strong 

-Isabella 

What is wrong with people?

Just a small rant to vent

What is wrong with us as people? As a nation, as a whole? All this stuff happening in the world right now, and some of my peers still manage to remain undaunted by the diabolical world around them!
It astonishes me what we as human beings have been capable of doing to each other since the beginning of time. Just recently an eight year old girl died on her wedding night...

HER WEDDING NIGHT!

She bled to death while her HUSBAND tried to have sex with her. What the fuck are people thinking? Her parents, the adults? What kind of person is sadistic enough to have sex with a child? A CHILD!  I am at such a loss for words that at times I feel so hopeless. Like..fuck it. Forget it. What is going on with Human Rights? In Turkey a protestor was killed by the police. Again, what goes through someones head when you try to take their life? What the hell are you thinking? What is it that makes us think this is ok? In Syria the people including children, have been plagued with chemical warfare and unspeakable atrocities. 

Maybe we are wired to be cruel.

Maybe war is the answer

Maybe, this world is just a fucked up place to be

Humans, you disappoint me