Editorial 11/Nov/96
MILITARY RIFE WITH SEXUAL HARASSMENT CHARGES
Sexual harassment and women's rights have
again been thrust upon the public attention. In a series of reports
from all branches of the United States military, there has been
revealed numerous incidents of serious infractions of the Uniform
Code of Military Justice. Considering the numbers, it seems that the
incidents reported in the military may in fact be lower, per capita,
than corresponding crime rates in civilian society. That could prove
to be an interesting statistical study in demographics that might
reveal how the immense amount of information available to us (and its
manipulation) is being used to shape public opinion.
Were the increase of information availability
and the sharp rise in the fracturing and disintegration of American
society graphed side by side, their curves would most likely track
each other perfectly. When any society is confronted by such a
quantity of information about so many subjects, as this nation now
is, the results will always be whatever those who are "smithing" or
manipulating the information desire. When data is manipulated and
selectively presented, such as that which is given us by the national
and world news media, social unrest is a simple matter to
accomplish.
It is simple also, and highly advantageous
for those wishing to perfectly control a civilization, to set at odds
as many differing segments of a culture as possible. They then can
offer solutions which will even further advance their control. They
become, at once, devil and saviour--creating chaos then presenting
solutions.
It is really only necessary to control two
areas of any society to absolutely control its direction and
therefore its destiny. Those two areas are money and information.
Realistically, if one is fully in control of the flow of information,
he will be not far from an iron-fisted control of the economy as
well. The economy of any nation in this age is information
driven.
We have seen this invisible hand
accomplishing just such social fracturing by pitting one part of our
nation against another. One of the most visible areas of this control
is in its interpretation of the relationships between men and women
in our country. We are continually confronted with much publicized
instances of men abusing their wives or girlfriends. This is done by
presenting only information designed to polarize opinion. The obvious
conclusion, in this example, being that the domination of society by
men is wrong and that it results in the oppression of women. While it
is certainly true that oppressing women is wrong, it is also true
that the disintegration of our social structure is not nearly as
pronounced as when the created order of things is reversed or
drastically altered. When the roles of men and women in any culture
have become indistinct or eradicated, the effect has always been
destructive.
To create that scenario, we have been
consistently given either too much information about inconsequential
things, or data that is outright inaccurate. For example, we have
been told repeatedly of terrible instances concerning spousal abuse
by men of their wives. But consider the following taken from a recent
California statistical study by social psychologists on spousal
violence. In the study, funded by that state, they determined that:
The increased incidence of sexual harassment
of women in the U.S. Military has again made headlines with all of
its attendant outcries by the special interest groups. With the
violation of historical, not to mention Biblical, norms against
incorporating women into armed forces, we have now seen the tip of a
very formidable iceberg portending the complete collapse of a
nation's social and family structure.
In the recent past U.S. armed forces
respectfully recognized the essential differences between its men and
women. They divided them into separate departments of service. The
Army called theirs the Women's Army Corps (WACs), the Air Force and
Navy likewise had their own divisions. Now that distinction has been
all but erased as women have become more and more integrated into the
mainstream of military activity. As a direct result of this there are
now coming to light innumerable accounts of sexual harassment and
rape against women serving in the military.
Can it not be seen by the fruit that it
bears, the results of removing women from their God-appointed high
place in society and degrading them to the heap of bloodletting? A
military organization's entire purpose is focused on violent
solutions to problems (real or imaginary) that its government sees as
a threat to its security. It is said that it exists primarily to
"kill people and break things." Its members are essentially trained
killers. Is it such a strange thing that undesirable and violent
results occur when it has placed within its ranks those whose created
purpose is the bearing and nurturing of children and the fashioning
of a caring and nurturing home environment? Even in the work place
the natural qualities of women may lend a healing balance.
With the intentional blurring of the lines
separating the genders so that no clear distinction remains as to
what is the place or purpose for each, the only result will be
confusion and chaos. This result will always deliver a society's
power and freedom into the hands of those who control the
aforementioned sources of information and money. Any time the
established order of creation is disturbed by man, the outcome will
inevitably be dissonance and confusion--and--history teaches us--the
complete extinction of any given culture.
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