his wife just outside of cleveland and the kicker is this former politician was actually just recently released from prison after serving only nine months on a two year stretch and bet she can't guess what he would have been for. violently assaulting his now murdered way in front of their children but that wasn't the only bad news on international men's day we also had the chicago mercy hospital shooting that left three dead because according to witnesses the gunman who also died in the shooting was upset that one of the victims dr tomorrow neal broke off their engagement and he allegedly wanted his ring back and just when you think the new was on international men's they couldn't get any worse insteps a male gunman from st louis who handed toxic masculinity his beer and then walked into a religious supply store sexually assaulted one woman shot another woman in the head and then escaped into the suburban wilderness. watchers the true tragedy here isn't

that these brutal crimes occurred on international men's day that's just another cute day on the calendar no the true tragedy here is that these violent crimes committed by men against women well they happen every day of the week three hundred sixty days a year which is why we need to always be watching the hawks. as . they like you know that i got. this. well gorilla to watch and i robot and. welcome the

international i always hope every year it's going to be this day where there is actually going to be men celebrating and coming together and kind of showing the same kind of camaraderie that women show on things like international women's day and stuff but it never quite happened but to see those three stories and the twenty four hour period. it just really speaks to the problem the six to the problem it completely speaks to the problem because look people want to sit and complain. you know you're piers morgan you're ruining everything toxic masculinity is it doesn't exist and it's attack on all things men blah blah blah blah blah blah blah you're only feminists only anger if i'm asked to be attacks like apparently right you know people like piers morgan think because here's the problem a lot of these cry they come out of the world of you know the idea that men are supposed to show their emotional needs that men are only supposed to be aggressive

are only supposed to be fall into these very small box of parameters and right successfully be a guy and that's ridiculous because that's where you get this pent up rage that's where you get this rage that would go into a religious supply store and you know rape assault and then shoot somebody or assault your broke off and engaged and and then say i want my ring back and i'm also going to shoot a bunch of people that was about the ring i think that's something we have to know is that most cases it's not about the ring it's there there is a a huge part of all women's lives that we know just by being women and it's that if you break up with a man there is a very real possibility that you could be hit that you could face some sort of violent backlash and that's an everyday occurrence i mean just google it you will hear women stories over and over i broke up with me came to my house he tried to kill me stalking at the least. that's the thing so the world health organization

reports when you look at the numbers it's there i mean it's there and it's it's sad numbers for everybody so what they said is that partner or spouse is the killer in thirty eight percent of women's homicides i mean that's i think it's the first it's usually someone you know it's usually someone close to you in the review us research actually suggested that about. intimate partners carry out more than forty percent of homicides of women and only about seven. per cent of homicides of men. and then it's estimated thirty five percent of women worldwide have experienced either physical or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner not including sex at some point not including sexual harassment some point though a source saying is every day and when women say that i think you have to understand now that we say that we're like every day we have to worry every time we walk out or we can't walk our dog at night you can't go to the store at night you can't do anything without seriously we can't wear headphones so exactly and that's the problem we're like i get that your guys are upset right now because they don't understand the boundaries and all of this and it's like dude we've had to run

around worrying about our lives every second and here's an interesting thing is the you know realistically when you look at it you know we had a lot of been shocked when that kind of discover a woman could just walk down a alleyway without thinking about being assaulted or things like that maybe you should think about this too because according to our men are more likely to be involved in a homicide than a woman seventy seven percent of homicide victims are ordered to the f.b.i. while more than ninety percent of. our male right men are the ones doing all the killing men should be just as afraid walking down the street as we are and not support what we try to say is this idea of being like none of us should be this afraid and none of this should be going on because you know the patriarchy herdsman too and i just think that's the thing it's you know every day get closer apart while we're not afraid of each other just for being who we are. tyson banker actually served in the u.s. marine corps in iraq where during the two thousand and three invasion he took part

in a number of operations that ended up killing civilians his squad participated in beatings of detainees and other less than humane actions many of our soldiers were forced to take part in during that invasion of iraq upon returning home maker suffered from p.t.s.d. but at the time the office of veterans affairs was far less than equipped to handle it which led him to use medical marijuana that uses suffering but it had only just begun. done as the office of veterans affairs dishonorably discharged maker for about marijuana use that means he lost all of his v.a. benefits and when he trying to get the discharge upgraded as the marijuana use was related to the p.t.s.d. he got while serving the naval discharge review board rejected it as they do an eighty five percent of requests but a group of yale law students decided that maker and soldiers like him deserve better in march of twenty two the students filed a class action lawsuit against the navy on behalf of maker and other navy and marine veterans claiming the less than honorable discharges and refusal to upgrade

them showed quote a systematic institutional bias or secret policy that discriminates against applicants who suffer from p.t.s.d. and this week a federal judge in connecticut ruled that their class action lawsuit could go on just by objections by the navy the national veterans counsel for legal redress as executive director gary monk told stars and stripes magazine that he filed we filed this lawsuit to make sure that the iraq and afghanistan veterans with service connected p.t.s.d. do not suffer the same injustices as the vietnam generation this is a store i am so happy that. you brought you know you because you told the story and brought it to our attention here what a great story it's just spirally a better pages turn for a broad term so. and it's interesting that you know it was a thing about saying of vietnam because we've seen it in you know we do rolling thunder already these veterans events and we talk to them and every time i'm interviewing guys that were in korea or vietnam in that era they have that same

thing that p.t.s.d. just wasn't dealt with and then when they first came back from iraq and that was the thing that they hoped didn't keep going with the next generation of soldiers takes these lawsuits to get there but i'm happy that the lawsuits are allowed to go forward it didn't take a lawsuit at the end of the p.t.s.d. is a real summary of the loving you know me i'm sorry but the pentagon has the money like the military has the money to treat them you know. should be without question they can spend six trillion dollars on the war on terror since nine eleven i think they have a little bit of funds that they can give to those they better at the end of the day what's interesting though is statistically it's very interesting the army in the air force actually granted about fifty one percent of discharge upgraded kitchen's involving p.t.s.d. but the may be only granted sixteen percent the hugely behind of the time on this absolutely ridiculous seems very odd and the worst part is so yeah it's not a dishonorable what he got was not exactly a dishonorable discharge it was

a less than honorable discharge which seems like it should be not as severe as it is by the other than honorable disk conditions discharge is actually the most severe this is what you get when you have security violations we use of violence conviction conviction in a civilian court that involves a sentence that has prison time or oddly enough being found guilty of adultery and a divorce hearing i swear but this is the one that's the most serious and all no benefits are kept i mean even to dishonorably discharged person can have certain benefits so tell us make our side told again told the stars and stripes those he said this decision is a victory for the tens of thousands of military veteran suffering from service connected p.t.s.d. and t.b.i. traumatic brain injury the fact that the court has now recognized this class of veterans is further evidence that apartment offenses describe violation of the legal rights of men and women who have served their country yes that's very true and i'm sorry the diode be described politicians in this country was you do see they do scrapes all the time because they're always there to stand with them by the

parades they're always there to you know the d.o.b. is more than willing to pay for a jet to fly over a stadium and things of that nature but when it comes time to actually take care of the soldiers that's a whole nother story and then love you know when you're come and kill people for a certain we don't care about you want to want to come here every year like i said it rolling thunder that we cover here we may come there you don't see people from any administration it is it was a. on a b. to c. i believe was my pompei who actually know about my problem the previous secretary of state of iraq had showed up but it was very interesting to actually see people showing up and actually standing there with veterans especially for something that i my eye is that you don't see it on the mainstream media doesn't even cover veterans' issues like that they'll do what a round memorial day but they don't cover it the way it should be a barely a whisper i mean less and less i mean the one year where there were mainstream media was like all over the place and it was a truck because trump got better talk they didn't talk to any veterans they watched

him on my lap what we did we did the opposite while everybody else was about to go out we were up interviewing and the better words are going on you look at how these guys get p.t.s.d. too i mean a banker was the source of this how he got p.t.s.d. was was just atrocious at the end of the day i mean it's truly sad and it was something where you know as friend gets killed mr clean out the and the cleanup the how it's going to spring out killed him and his number like i said there's a lot of things we just need to treat those treat people are people better yes we definitely do all right as we go to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered of facebook and twitter and see our poll shows that r t v dot com coming up we welcome author and survivor mr griffith discuss are incredible book tears of the silent tears the live off the sexual physical abuse happening inside our country here in the united states stay tuned for watching the.

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mind make the most culpable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said their forwards who are already sent a statement that i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with solving their crime. but mr griffin finally escaped or appears in the amish community she had a third grade education severe p.t.s.d.

and a desire to save other people from the horrors she experienced in her book tears of the silent and honest true crime memoir of childhood sexual abuse brutal betrayal and ultimate survival she tells her story from the age of six she was forced into a religion and lifestyle that saw her as less than human that punished her for her abuse or sins and her secrecy allows cruel physical psychological and sexual abuse to go unchecked and cloistered communities like the amish across the united states we started by asking mistake about how she first became a part of an amish community. well when i was about six years old my stepfather started having my family dress live like the amish so we started started down like a journey in that direction and by the time i was ten years old we were fully dressing amish and amish clothes. we started slowly like living the

lifestyle we lived on a ranch when i was eleven and that's when my sister and i were sort of isolated on a mountain. and. yeah at that point that's when life got like really hard like my sister were almost completely isolated we had very little contact with the outside world and my mother and stepfather were extremely abusive and when i was nineteen i almost nineteen i tried to run away off the mountain and. my stepfather was afraid that perhaps i would make it off the mountain one day go to the police so a few months later they took us to an amish community and i was integrated into the community i learned german in my sister and i both to be. members of the church. you know one of the things that you mentioned in your in reading your book. is that the abuse that happened to you was interest sexual or psychological. there was

a lot of physical abuse in the name of religion and one thing that stuck out to me was was that sort of beating the devil out of someone wasn't just an expression where you were can you how how was the faith because i know a number of families i grew up around them and reading your story horrified me because i think we just start to realize how much we don't know is going on in these sort of communities how was faisal expressed with violence i mean in be amish community you were involved. so. most of the physical violence that i experienced was when i was a child with my mother and stepfather and they were not really amish they were just sort of mimicking the lifestyle. but. among the amish like there is you know violence domestic violence you know child abuse those kinds of things. it's considered to be necessary in order to keep people in line like

if there is not strong discipline then the devil conservative take your soul so in order to keep you on the straight path then you need to keep everybody in line and if that requires force then you have to use force yeah some people do say it's beating the devil like for me in my case like i always heard it was beating the devil out of me basically. you know i want to ask you this too with its sense of the how is. you know that we're talking about abuse in these communities how common is sexual abuse in our communities and and how common is that the victim is actually blamed for the abuse whether whether it's sexual or violent or physical you know how common is the victim blaming in these communities. pretty much in every case that i know of the victims blamed like in my community there was

a fourteen year old girl who was sexually abused and the rumor i mean this is adult men married fathers who are saying this that the reason she was sexually abused was because she was too friendly the guy that it was like in his fifty's in this girl was fourteen and she was traumatized from what happened to her in the room or around the whole community like people would talk about it and everybody always said it was because she was too friendly i mean they couldn't say it was because the way she dressed you know some christians say you know if you dressed right or if you didn't go to parties or if you were alone with men this wouldn't happen to you but in the amish you can't say that because everybody is dressed from head to foot so there has to be an excuse and it can't be that man's fault because usually it's considered. that the person who has the abuse to do so for some reason somehow so it has to be the victim's fault and the only fault they could find was that she was a very friendly girl and they said that's why it happened to her bridgewater or just

. awful. oh i'm one of those you know i we've talked a lot about lately on our show about cults about how you know people sort of be brainwashed or held in to be situations and you talk a little bit and you talk in your book about. about the bishop when you were sent to live with just the bishop and what happened there and i think your story is one that that actually shows that something happened to but. can you tell a little bit about just just a little bit about what happened and where are the gentleman who abused you and it up. my case i went to be a made for the bishop and his family the family that i was assigned to in the amish community was having some problems so the bishop said you know come live with us they had seven children all under the age of twelve so i basically moved in with

them to help out in the family and right from the beginning the bishops started molesting me. so it was about six months of that and i started to suspect that he was molesting his children and one morning he came into my room an attack to me and it was a pretty brutal attack and that's when i went to the police but he wasn't arrested at that time he wasn't charged with anything and he ended up excusing him to canada and ten years later his three oldest daughters they asked a neighbor lady for help and he was finally arrested but by that time he had molested almost all of his children. so. so there's really i mean i commend you and i just tell you how strong it is that you did that not for yourself but for somebody else and for you i mean and that being the point when you leave something

like that how did it feel because the outside people don't leave these sort of course certain environments whether it's amish mennonite or any number of them it's people don't leave so how do you feel when you first left and and what was that transmits what helped you during that transition. so for me like coming from the background that i came from you know you were taught that if you ever leave the amish you're going to hell that's what you're taught from you know if you're born into it you're taught that from basically when you're a baby so leaving is traumatic in itself because you're kind of scared you know am i going to hell am i doing the right thing and for me that turning point was me realizing that basically everything i had been taught was a lie because you know they're telling me if i leave this church i'm going to hell but in this church they are committing all of these horrific crimes against

humanity so i that opened my eyes you know that day i went to the police and he says something's not fitting together here there's something wrong with this picture and that's when it all kind of just came together for me that what i had been taught had been a lie basically and that gave me the strength to to leave you know i felt i couldn't stay in that culture i felt like i would be an accomplice to these crimes if i stayed so that's what finally. gave me the strength to leave i guess i didn't want to be a part of that and you know for full disclosure i'm still a christian so i believe my faith in god hope to me through that transition time but leaving the amish was six very scary i mean it was like being teleported from the seventeen hundreds into the two thousands i mean i pretty much didn't know anything that was going on in the outside world so. i'm glad you said that because

i did want to ask you about your faith did you how was your faith tested your personal faith tested by learning or did you hold on to it was it hard to to walk out of that and still have your faith your religious faith. once you realize that people of faith to you and other people without a hard transition or is that work for kept you going. i would say that's what kept me going i get so many people that ask me you know how can you still be a christian you know that doesn't make any sense you know christians are the ones that they did this to you i mean almost killed you basically i mean that these were christians and i tell them no these people were not following jesus example just because they claim to be christians does not mean they were actually christians so

for me i don't believe my faith was tested because. for some reason i just had a strong faith since i was a small child and i believed god would get me out of that situation one day and i mean he did i believe he did. so i believe it made my faith stronger and that's why i'm here today. you know i want to i think it was did you think that your experience was indicative of the communities as a whole or do you think it was just you know kind of this one community that you were involved. and what can people do who find themselves in similar situations to you to kind of climb out of you know and find that help and find a new way of life and find a freedom. that kind of appears. yes it is indicative of the whole amish religion basically because they all have

the same underlying. beliefs and the belief is that. we are the amish and we do not. contact the outside world we do not turn a brother or a sister over to their outside the law those things have to be handled in the church and by the church and if you go to the outside law in some cases you can be shunned. sometimes you come across a piece of human ingenuity so cool that it makes you wonder why we can't fix all the rest of our problems in the world that same kind of brilliant creativity case in point the good folks at the european space agency who have been child on least upon plato for the first time busy with moon well in actuality it's fake moon dust that basically works just like the real stuff but thankfully you don't have to go to the moon and back to get it anyway our friends at isa have used a three d.

printer loaded up with fake moondust to print small screws gears bolts and even a fake coil the wire so you scientists and researchers making stuff you could just as easily find in your junk drawer well because they're looking for a forward thinking solution to the costly and logistical problem of bringing supplies back and forth to a future moon base or colony in other words you don't have to bring the hardware store to the moon if you can utilize one of the biggest natural resources are there areas to human ingenuity and i'm looking forward to three d. printed supplies in my moon condo right isn't that is not cool and then you see is that these little to you and i guess there are they have like the density of like a dinner plate like they're ceramic as opposed to like a metal but they're very strong yes i mean susie ceramic and sometimes ceramics they used on the bottom sides of shuttles they used to use and it was a ceramic but it was stronger than almost anyone they found is that they've also i guess back in august they've also been making bricks in the same process out of

moon dust where that way then when you're up there you don't have to bring all this with you you could make it out of the resources that are out there i definitely want my condo on the moon to be made out of bricks loom bricks the bricks are about as our sort of view that they remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are loved up so i told the wall i love you i am tyrone but to adopt out of the alice he's been watching those talks that were great day and night. seemed wrong but old rules just don't. let me. get to shape out just to come out again and engagement because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

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