NOT EVEN SKY?

Last week in my French class the teacher was teaching us about TV programs of France. Since my teacher is from Cuba immeditely we started talking about TV programs of Cuba. Cuba is a country that is caracterized by having a government that few countries in the world have, known as Socialism. Socialism is a type of government known as GOVERNMENT CONTROL EVERYTHING .. but when I used to think about it I did not taught it was so radical. First of all government control works, food and EVEN TV! TV is controled in a way that people only have 4 TV chanels, but the thing here is that they do not have TV'ads!!!.. I think these is one of the most radical types of governments and i'm really against it, people have to always be allowed to earn money to buy wht they want, work in what they want, get the life they want! BUT how can this be so radical? and also how can people still follow that type of government. I do not say that Mexico's type of government is the best one or that people live better in here than in Cuba, but where are people rights? WE ARE FREE! we do not need some one to speal neither to gave us what they think we need. SPEAK OUT YOUR RIGHTS

Lack of Coherence

This post is not to express if I agree or not with gay marriage, it’s more to give my opinion of what I’ve heard of it. Even we live in the XXI century, in a society which demands for freedom of expression and for respect, we don’t agree with it. It’s kind of incoherent. I’ve heard things like “I don’t have anything against gays, but they can’t get married, it’s just wrong”; “they can get married, but they can’t adopt kids, they will suffer a lot”; “I hate gays, they shouldn’t exist. I admit it, I’m homophobic”; “gays can get married, but they shouldn’t get out together to public places. It is just disgusting”.

Most of what I’ve heard doesn’t make a lot of sense. People demand for some things, and when they actually get them, they get upset because it didn’t worked exactly how they wanted to.

The gay marriage is something really new for a lot of us. It can be hard to assimilate but we need to be coherent with what we say. Sometimes it’s just better not to give our opinion about something because later on, we can regret. As long as we don’t affected by the gay marriage, we have no right to discriminate or to make gays feel bad about it.

This is a very controversial topic, but we need to focus on more important things that are damaging society.

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" Ernest Gaines

Women Selling Women

This is a fact that you will rarely see or hear about in the media, that the main culprits are women. On 11th February the United Nations issued a report on human trafficking. The report looked at 155 nations which accounted for over 60 percent of human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Convictions between September 2007 and July 2008 were looked at during which time 22,500 victims were rescued, mainly from sexual exploitation and forced labor. Antonio Maria Costa is the director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. He said in an interview:

“Women commit crimes against women, and in many cases the victims become the perpetrators, they become the matrons of the business and they make money. It’s like a drug addiction.”

Two of every five countries mentioned in the report had not recorded any

convictions from 2007 to 2008. Costa remarked: “Either these countries are blind to the problem or they are ill-equipped to deal with it. We only see the monster’s tail, how many hundreds of thousands of victims are slaving away in sweatshops, fields, mines, factories, or trapped in domestic servitude? Their numbers will surely swell as the economic crisis deepens the pool of potential victims.”

The investigation into an offer to sell young women’s virginity – the offer appeared on a Russian online discussion board - resulted in an immense scandal. It became known as a result of the investigation that it was young women’s mothers that were selling their daughters’ virginity.

Two adult women learnt from their acquaintances that virginity was highly valued then and that they could receive very good money from wealthy men willing to pay for a sexual experience with a virgin.

The first woman, Maria G. (42), was offered the price of 200,000 rubles ($6,000) for her 16-year-old daughter’s virginity. The other woman, Svetlana K (35), was offered even a bigger price – 400,000 rubles ($12,000), for her 13-year-old daughter’s virginity.

Both mothers confessed later, that they had been first shocked by such offers. They could not even imagine that one night of sex could cost so much. The mother of 16-year-old, named only as Polina, personally brought her daughter to the client for the sake of money.

WOMEN must cease this evil trafficking!

China and the Human Rights

I think this picture is very funny because IT IS TRUE. China is one of the countries that executes as a punishment for criminals, as well as in many other countries. However, China is the leader country in death penalty.

In China, people in the death row do not have the right to a fair trial, which attempts against human dignity and rights. Moreover people in jail, live in inhuman conditions.

Chinese laws punish about 70 crimes with death penalty and some of these crimes are non-violent crimes, such as crimes that have to do with selling or consuming drugs.

Amnesty International thinks that the crimes punished with the capital punishment must be reduced and people in the death row should be allowed to have a fair trial and good lawyers and to receive visits from their families. In my opinion, China should not kill criminals. Killing is not the solution. And we can notice that; since the beginning of times, governments have killed criminals in order to punish them and make the others see what would happen to them if they commit the same crime. But, does that stop them? I firmly believe it does not. People keep commiting the same crimes over and over again, they seem to do not fear death. Death penalty has not reduced the number of criminals. I think that criminals would suffer more in they stay in jail for the rest of their lives than if they are executed immediately.

Racism against Haiti

Last week the deputy from PRD Ariel Gómez León during his radio program said some comments about the people from Haiti. Hearing this you would think he had said something about being soildare with their condition and that as a society we should join and help them; but to the contrary he started to say tha the people from Haiti are "muertos de hambre" and really despective comments about the people. He also said that they deserved to die because they are black more exactly he said " negros abusivos!!!"; In what way could he think people from Haiti are abusive?

I think that after everything they are suffering people shouldn´t be critizing them nor beeing racist at them, we should all be trying to help. If they were a poor country now they are even worst than you could imagine.

As far from the deputy Ariel "El Chunko", its a shame that someone like him is representing us;he is supose to have if not the same critiria Mexican citizens have at least watch what he is declaring because we may not all agree with him. Ariel should recieve a strong punishemnt.

Sexual Traffic Of Children

You may not hear this problem very often and governments don't give to much attention to it. But the traffic of children is a very serious problem and every year its increasing. Its annual revenues were estimated in 2003 to exceed half a trillion dollars globally. This is twice the value of all United States currency currently in circulation at any given time, more than the annual gross national products of many countries.

To understand the sheer size of profits accruing from such terrible misery, consider this: a million dollars in gold would weigh as much as a Japanese Sumo wrestler. A half trillion dollars would come close to exceeding the entire population weight of a medium sized Australian city.

The profits come from child sexual trafficking in all its forms: white slavery, sex rings, pornography, the sex tourism industry, lap dancing, bogus adoption schemes, the untold millions of children globally entrapped in the sex trade industry who are forced to allow their bodies to be used in exchange for food, money, shelter, alcohol and drugs.Children are bought, sold, traded and misused in underground child sex markets daily. It is estimated that the profits would draw an interest exceeding US $2 million an hour. The sexual trafficking in children is not so much an industry but a global empire.Governments pay more attention to Mafia and Narcs struggle, to try stop corruption,try to give jobs but this is a big problem because people are abusing children, snatches them, never to be seen again.

The predators who control the sexual trafficking in children are well organized. They have thugs who snatch and break the resistance of children; banks who account the empire's profits without asking questions; ships that convey the hapless children from one continent to another and private planes that transport them to clients around the world.Yet there is little or no cohesive and sustained war against this terrible evil.

City surveillance: Crime deterrent or invasion of privacy?

The governments say they are doing all of this for our safety, but I don't think that way. They say is easier to caught people who commit crimes thanks to all this surveillance devices. That is okay as long as is for solving crimes only but now individual citizens are also having their privacy invaded in the work place by employers who utilize surveillance cameras and computer software programs to monitor their employees and forcing their workers to sign waivers of their expectations of privacy.

Today the right of privacy is also coming to the forefront as more and more employers operate surveillance systems in areas in which their employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy. In an effort to prevent theft, sexual harassment, the viewing of pornography on office computers and the perpetration of actionable civil or criminal acts, employers are in many instances intruding on and invading the privacy of their employees. Employers are using hidden cameras, workplace searches, keystroke monitoring computer programs, e-mail, website and voice mail monitoring, and other software to snoop on their employees while cloaking themselves with the claim that their actions are being done to protect their employees.

Also the government of Mexico is saying that we have to register our cellphones numbers for our own security. They are sending helicopters very near to the ground of cities, you know why?, because the helicopters have a special device that can hear or intercept the call made on telephones and cellphones to be able to track persons involved with the narcs. But the government doesn't have the right to hear and intercept our calls. In Mexico D.F. police officers can enter your house without an order if they want to with the pretext that is for looking narcs. If we don't stop this right now you is going to stop the government of controlling our every action. I rather be free and be insecure but with hopes of a better future than being a prisoner in my own house knowing that I can't do anything about it.