Got back into Vancouver this morning.
Quick flight from YYZ to YVR. Took less than the 5 hour scheduled time.
The 777 is a nice plane.
The concert that I went to was a bust.
The artist is definitely a studio musician. Their songs and their song writing are great, but they just don’t translate into live performance songs, especially not if they’re being stripped down and performed as “acoustic” versions.
And I’m sure that the venue works very well for EDM raves and Hip-Hop shows that need to give the audience a lot of space to move to the energy, but this artist doesn’t have that type of energy to give. They’re more appropriate for a seated venue.
While partaking in some wandering around in Toronto I came across an interesting news story.
It was related to child sexual abuse in the British military.
Basically the same shit that I went through.
She went through it with the British Forces as opposed to the Canadian Forces.
But same shit.
Which would make sense as Canada used to be a British colony and our justice system and our military are based upon British origins.
It’s shocking but also a relief to see that the same fuck-ups and flaws that harmed children on Canadian Armed Forces bases across Canada also harmed children on British Forces bases in the UK. What’s interesting is that the victim that is the initial subject of this story was sexually abused in Germany on a British base there. Canada had bases in Germany as well. Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest that Canadian base brats were sexually abused there as well.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if the stats for child sexual abuse are grossly under reported to the public by British military officials as is alluded to in the article. A few years ago I requested from the Department of National Defence a list of all sexual assault investigation undertaken by the CFNIS since its inception in 1998.
I received a document that listed hundreds of sexual assault investigations.
You know what this document didn’t list?
GO 2011-5754.
The 2011 CFNIS investigation into my complaint of childhood sexual abuse on Canadian Forces Base Namao was not included on a list of sexual assault investigations from 1998 onwards.
So, if DND withheld the existence of my own case from me, how many other cases are they hiding and refusing to acknowledge?
The article also mentions the parochial patriarchal society that existed within these military communities which would often lead to the victims of child sexual abuse being forced and intimidated into silence.
Sadly I don’t think that we’ll ever see this type of reporting here in North America.
All of our Canadian Newspapers of any importance are owned by America hedge funds. And no society based upon subordination to patriarchal capitalism will do anything to upset its military.
Men fucking and raping women in the military is apparently okay. There is still some consensus in the military community and those around the military community that blame the sexually assaulted women for their own assaults as “they knew what they were getting into”.
Men fucking and abusing children in the military can’t be acknowledged least our enemies use it as propaganda to demoralize our troops and our society.
Children that commit suicide due to military sexual abuse don’t commit suicide due to military sexual abuse. Oh no, they commit suicide because they were nutcases or societal malcontents. And as long as the military pretends that child sexual abuse doesn’t exist in the military community, military dependents that kill themselves either as children or later in life as adults are just written off as mentally unstable nutcases seeking attention.
The Canadian Armed Forces will not, under any circumstance, disturb that old timey quaint notion that children are the safest in military communities. I would never trust the military to ever properly investigate any matter involving children on defence establishments, especially not if it risked tainting the public image of the military.
This is why I really want some form of basic acknowledgement for what I went through before I die so that the Canadian Armed Forces can’t simply write me off as some insane nutcase.
I am really hoping to undergo medical assistance in dying for this exact reason. If I were to commit suicide, then the Canadian Armed Forces win. If I undergo medical assistance in dying then the Canadian Armed Forces don’t win. I get to die knowing that medical professionals agreed that the events of CFB Namao were too traumatic and more than what anyone should have ever had to go through.
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