Posted: Apr 12, 2008, 3:50 AM CST
Zarah wrote:Recently when I was living in the middle east I was visiting with some friends at a apartment complex...I went out to grab some arabic sweets and bread and shortly returned to enjoy the night with their family....
I stupidly forgot which door and barged through what I thought was the correct apartment, only to be faced with about fourteen arabic men sitting in a circle on the floor with more artillery in the middle of them than a small platoon....there was everything from grenades to huge machine guns...
They all just stared at me and I froze...
I did the only thing I could think of that was slightly wise. I turned and calmly walked out of there and kept walking down the street. I was more worried for the friends living in the complex so I just kept going...
The next day when I walked from the Saudi national bank, a german man was shot five paces near for no known reason...if that was menat for me or a warning...well I will never know...
When I worked in Palestine I had to drag a couple of boys that had been shot to safety..We were 20 seconds short of being blown up by a car bomb...
It breaks my heart now to be living in a country that suffers little for people to take their lives for granted....
Zarah, I've seen the same crap in the US. I worked with a guy who was a gun nut and told the cops bad things were about to happen.
I could go into details and it doesn't matter. People died. The Da's office and reporters bugged me. I've seen enough over the past 20 years, I'm happy to go to jail.
That was my last choice. Rape, or jail. Well considering it was a police chief, it was consent to his deal, or jail. I chose jail, thanks!
After the past 25 years, I need to meet a decent guy. I don't know what it is about me that screams, "Use me, beat me, abuse me, Please!" But I've had to talk my way out, fight and opt for jail to keep from killing the last SOB. If another tries it, I'm gonna kill him. I have been molested, I've been beat, I've damned near died and I was willing to go to jail to maintain some integrity. What's a woman's life worth in the US? Not much.