Leave Chris Brown ALONE! Rihanna Will Survive Her Beat Down!!! Part TWO

*** BACKING TRACK ***

"One Last Shot" by Klaus Badelt, Soundtrack Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl

I chose this soundtrack for it's fighting energy, and it's dramatic composition - because it reflects the dramatic response to this instance of DV. The tone of the video is deliberately mixed up, as a reflection of the somewhat erratic public attitude to the case.

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Well-known domestic violence victims - http://www.safe4all.org/essays/victims

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Domestic violence has an ugly face.
This, is the face of domestic violence.
Ever more devastating for its known beauty its popular youth and vitality.
So ugly, is this face, that it has made society turn away for years.
Burying its head deep in the sand of fear and ignorance,
Society has feared this face, vulnerable, violated and beaten up, by the very one it chose to love.
It is the face of human weakness and fraility, our universal aggression and ability to sink into depths of brutality and to indulge our predatory instincts.
It is a face that we are all familiar with
Whether it is secretly nursed, passive aggressively inflicted, sadistically expressed or criminally executed we recognise this face.

The fact that this expression of it belongs to the artist known as Rihanna, forces us all to snap our heads in the direction of a crime that has been taking place behind closed door for centuries.
Because of Rihannas prettier and more public face, other faces may count for more today.
The fact that women are by far greater numbers, the sex who suffer most from domestic violence which in no way shadows the percentage of the male population who silently suffer domestic violence in their homes notwithstanding, this fact, speaks to the mutual shame of our shared and universal humanity. Because it is from between her thighs, via her blood, strength and pain, that humanity exists. Period.

She bore the son who did this to a woman.
And she even bore the woman who did this to a man.
And yet,
So deep is her heart that she loves them both. The abuser and the abused.
She is life. She is earth. She is nourishment. She is love. She is peace. She is justice.
She is the reflection of every symbol of love, peace and justice that we have ever created. From The Statue of Liberty in New York, to The image of the Virgin Mary, to The Lady of Justice in London, to Greek goddess Venus She aims to stamp out the abuse of and on humanity.
And no abuse is more insidious than abuse inflicted upon a loved one.
And no abuse is more quietly, tolerantly prevalent in our various societies.

Be quiet now.
Because Im going to ask you something
And I want you to let your soul respond.
Today, right now, will you bury your head deep in the sand of fear and ignorance by choosing to hide from the face of domestic violence?
Will you brush it off as the crazy act of a disturbed person, who needs to be publicly vilified and privately crucified for perpetrating this heinous crime? Strip him of his medals, then kick him down in a sweaty pool of hate, spit and blood towards his rightful place amongst all the other aberrations of society in our jail cells?
Does that make you feel better?
Our disgust registered. Our lesson taught. Point made. Problem fucking solved.
Right? Yes? No?
Tar them all with the same brush and get that ugly face of domestic violence out of my focus. Now! Please

I am asking you, as the once scarred face of domestic violence, as witness to the pain of loved ones who endured even worst forms of domestic violence than I, one of whom went into to a womens shelter to escape her perpetrator

I am asking you, to HEAR and SEE that domestic violence is perpetrated by good human beings, who carry deep hurts and changeable flaws as much as it is perpetrated by violent and predatory criminals who are not easily reformed.

Acknowledge the humanity in YOU.

(Echo)
It is the face of human weakness and frailty, our universal aggression and ability to sink into depths of brutality and to indulge our predatory instincts.
It is a face that we are all familiar with
Whether it is secretly nursed, passive aggressively inflicted, sadistically expressed or criminally executed we recognise this face.

Treat sickness when it can be treated. Heal wounds that can be healed.

And domestic violence as a crime WILL lessen, in a slightly more healed and slightly more wholesome society.

(WRITTEN)

Love and compassion do more to improve human behaviour than judgement and unfairly measured chastisement. LadyD

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. Euripides

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilheim