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Whipping women, raping children comes up Trumps in Hollywood

Violence against women accepted in West! ABC news reader Juanita Phillips tweets, June 17:

Perhaps any study of Western Civilisation could examine how and why ­violence against women is such an integral and accepted part of it …

At least it’s not celebrated. Abigail Esman, The Algemeiner, June 19:

“In the West, batterers and wife killers are not celebrated — they are shunned. If possible, they are also prosecuted.” Yet those who commit honour killings and honour violence, (feminist Phyllis Chesler) said, “are viewed as heroes who have saved their family’s honour. Thus, they feel no shame or remorse.”

Except in Hollywood? Sasha Savitsky, news.com.au, yesterday:

Actor Peter Fonda … (tweeted) “rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with paedophiles” … (and) “see if mother (Melania Trump) will will (sic) stand up against the giant a**hole she is married to …” His tweets were in response to a Trump administration policy which has reportedly separated nearly 2000 immigrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border. (A rep for Fonda told Fox News … “My response is … same as the Pope.”) … The 78-year-old actor also went on a tirade against (White House press secretary Sarah) Sanders and Secretary of Homeland Security (Kirstjen) Nielsen … (tweeting: Kristjen (sic) Nielsen is a lying g*** that should be put in a cage and poked at by passers-by. The g*** should be pilloried in Lafayette Square naked and whipped by passers-by while being filmed for posterity.) Fonda called for violence against both … women saying Sanders’ … children should be taken away and given to Trump adviser Stephen Miller “for safe keeping”. He also compared Miller to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Fonda’s tweet where he called for Nielsen to be stripped naked and publicly whipped was applauded by Nancy Sinatra …

Abuse of children unconscionable! UN News, June 18:

“In the past six weeks, nearly two thousand children have been forcibly separated from their parents,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said … to … the Human Rights Council … “The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,” he said, calling on the US to immediately put a stop to the policy, and ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Except when it’s done by UN peacekeepers? Sreem oy Talukdar, Firstpost.com, June 18:

What happens when a 71-year-old institution that faces obsolescence has as the head of its human rights arm a quasi-Islamist (High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein)? We get tendentious nonsense … Al Hussein has no moral authority to pass judgment on human rights … (after) his role in the suspension of whistleblower Anders Kompass — a senior UN aid worker (was exposed) … Kompass leaked to French prosecutors a UN internal report that had damning disclosures of rape and sodomy of boys as young as nine by French peacekeeping troops whose responsibility it was to protect the homeless children. Kompass was troubled that the UN had failed to take corrective action to stop sexual abuse of children. For his bravery, Kompass was suspended as director of field operations in … 2015 … and Al Hussein … requested his resignation. … (a report) exonerated Kompass of any wrongdoing, but he eventually resigned, protesting the UN’s failure to take action against senior officials involved in the cover-up.

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