Just when you thought things couldn’t get any nuttier in the government’s war against citizens who choose to exercise their right to arm themselves in self-defense, comes this. It takes “nutty” to previously-unknown levels.
The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) is an arm of the Department of Defense created in 1971 (and reorganized in 1979 under President Carter). Its stated mission is to fight “intolerance.” The DEOMI commandant, a political appointee, answers to Obama’s new Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Jessica L. Wright. Wright, you may recall, recently complained to congress about the “devastating” impact of sequester cuts on the “quality of life” of military personnel.
And yet, even so, DEOMI apparently has the funds to produce a film using a cartoon to depict a woman’s brutal rape and murder, instructing Americans who might witness such a crime to use nonviolent methods like “humor” and “dialogue” to save the victim.
At this point, you’re probably looking at the tags on this post to see if one of them says “satire.” And oh, how I wish this were satire. But no…it’s real, and it’s taxpayer-funded. ........
Here are the nine points (or “strategies”) for “bystander intervention:”
1) Name or Acknowledge the Offense
2) Identify the Obvious
3) Interrupt Behavior
4) Publicly Support Aggrieved Person
5) Use Body Language
6) Carefully Use Humor
7) Encourage Dialogue
8) Ease Strong Feelings
9) Call for Help
The narrator explains that although “assault or rape” are the first things that come to mind when “bystander intervention” is involved, these “strategies” can also be used to combat “harassment, hazing, or discrimination in its infancy.” ................
The exploitation of the Genovese rape and murder for ideological purposes is vile. And the idea that any of the nine points provided in the video could have made one bit of difference in the Genovese case is pathetic. Genovese’s killer, a 29-year-old serial-rapist and murderer named Winston Moseley, told police that he loved killing people, and that he chose women because “they were easier and didn’t fight back.” After being apprehended in the Genovese case, he confessed to two other murders, and in both of those cases, he admitted to raping the women as they were dying or after they were dead (one victim was only 15 years old when he stabbed and raped her; the other, a housewife, was burned alive). Moseley was sentenced to death, but, of course, a New York appeals court overturned the sentence to life with the possibility of parole.