I too have signed the petition yesterday. My heart healing and love I send to this woman. It is a horrific crime for a woman to suffer. For many women to have to still suffer and pay the crimes for nothing but just living their life. I say to especially pay the consequences for the crimes and beliefs of men and there own fears. For their need to control a woman's body, soul and to rip her spirit out and blame her for being a woman. Many over time have said oh she is the fall of Eve. My pun is was it really just a bone that they claim they took from Adam, or was it really his spirit and humane self. Then and only then to lead him to believing he is the only one who is great ,or the one deserving of power and decision over a woman's life; a life that is just as precious as he thinks his is. Her son to feel the loss every day and fight for her because's he needs his mother to be there and he has to feel sad and angry and witness her suffering on this endeavor of hypocrisy. Shame on the politicical attitude that degrades her and tells her she has no power. The shame for taking her away from the ones that love her.


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Elvina Van Aert

Thanks for your words of encouragement, Beverly, but we have very different views of our Secretary of State.

Personally, I wish that Hillary Clinton were president. I believe that she has the experience, passion, and can do spirit that is a daily inspiration to those of us who look to her as a role model.

While I honestly appreciate your kind comments about me, I don't feel that I begin to compare to Hillary Rodham Clinton. In fact, I am working to organize a "Draft Hillary for President" campaign, for the 2012 elections.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17124346730
I also agree with this quote of Hillary's.
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"I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
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My defense of Hillary Rodham Clinton. via mostly her own words during her first term as First Lady of the US.
She received a great deal of condemnation for this speech, and some Chinese officials demanded that she "soften" these remarks. Hillary refused. Here is what she had to say.
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"It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.

It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution.

It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.

It is a violation of human rights when individual women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war.

It is a violation of human rights when a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence they are subjected to in their own homes.

It is a violation of human rights when young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation.

It is a violation of human rights when women are denied the right to plan their own families, and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights
-and women's rights are human rights.
Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard. (from 'Women's Rights Are Human Rights' Speech Beijing, China: 5 September 1995)"
— Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Just as she is now limited to doing what the president allows her to do, Hillary Clinton has been limited in what she could accomplish throughout her life in politics. She is just a human being doing all she can. After a women's market was bombed by the Taliban in Turkey, Hillary made some angry remarks regarding this and the lack of action in many of our nation's allies to capture key figures in the Taliban. For her efforts, she received countless death threats. As usual, she shrugged them off and kept up the pressure, using our nation's financial aide as incentive to help us in our battle to end the Taliban's terrorist attacks.

As is all too often the case, her efforts are not covered much by the media, but nonetheless, polls now show that she is the most respected and "approved of" member of President Obama's administration. As a woman in what has traditionally been a man's sphere, Hillary Clinton has had to walk a razor's edge to remain not only viable, but become increasingly well liked and respected. I have nothing but respect for Hillary Clinton.

Here is what she had to say to the Brazillian Foreign Minister as Sec. of State.
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Remarks of Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2010

"It should be our goal that every child born in the Americas, or anywhere in the world, for that matter, has the opportunity to live up to his or her full God-given potential.

Now, this goal would be impossible, however, if half the population is left behind. So our memorandum of understanding on women and girls will spur greater cooperation on eliminating violence against women, combating the trafficking of women and children, increasing the participation of women in decision making, improving equality and equal pay in the workplace, and creating new opportunities for women everywhere. This is not only the right thing to do, but Brazil and the United States agree it is the smart thing to do. Investing in the potential of women and girls is one of the surest ways to achieve economic progress, political stability, and greater prosperity."

Remarks With Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Brasilia, Brazil
March 3, 2010
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When you consider what this woman has managed to accomplish, compared to, well, who? First "First Lady" to run for, and win a seat in the Senate. First former "First Lady" woman to run for president of the United States. First woman to win a single state in any presidential primary, and then she went on to win state after state.

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"We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton (It Takes a Village)

"In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
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And this is one quote very near and dear to my heart.
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"Too many women
in too many countries
speak the same language,
of silence..."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton (Living History)

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Here's to ending that silence, whether we always agree or not.
Again, thanks for your kind words for me. I really do enjoy a compliment now and again.


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To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
Carrie Chapman Catt

Ulyssa, this is wonderful news

Bringing awareness to this crimes, a show of strength, in these petitions to public officials, is the reminder that the world is watching .....

I did note that it was the British that spoke out on this atrocity

Our Secretary of State seems disinterested in anything other than herself.

I am not sure what she has done, in her two years in office

Our government seems to be interested only in matters that will profit the government.

They are only concerned with getting money, exploiting the natural resources of other countries, exploiting the poor for a cheap labor base.

In the absense of good government, it is very good to have ULYSSA, and all the other women she is able to network with.

Well done, ladies


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Beverly Prather