In recent times a new venue has come about for committing acts of domestic violence and that new venue is the Internet. The laws that protect us from those that would abuse us are worthless when it comes to the Internet. I have seen many people being attacked relentlessly by their abusers and while all are in agreement that it is sick and that the intent is to be abusive, there is nothing that they can do about it.
This must bring great comfort to the abuser as they move forward each day destroying the live of the people they target. Like cowards hiding behind trees or in the shadows they hide behind the "Freedom of Speach" clause of the Constitution. A recent Supreme Court ruling has upheld the right of racist groups to have websites dedicated to their message of hate as a protected form of free speach.
I do not believe that the justices in their great wisdom nor our founding fathers ever intended to include acts of domestic violence as protected free speach. This is a fight that I am now taking up and only God knows where it will take me and what challenges that i will face because of it. It is something that I decided yesterday and since than I have already been contacted by someone that committed suicide because of this. They were relentlessly attack for a prolonged period of time and was isolated because of it.
No one could help her because the laws allowed it to happen. All they could do for her was to tell her, 'you don't have to look at it'. Finally in death she has the peace that she wanted in life and no one could give her. Her abuser won because what they were doing was completely legal and protected. Any action by her would have resulted in charges being brought against her and she would have lost.
Blogs and the many websites out there are meant to inform and provide entertainment. We should not allow the web to become a 'safe zone' for those that would abuse others. If we allow that to continue than the more they know the more we will become victims of their abuse. There will be no way to stop they and all the 'Orders for Protection', no contacts orders, harassment or restraining orders will all be meaningless. Those that are currently victims of abuse will remain victims as there will be no place to hide and they can be haunted and attacked no matter where in the world they go to hide. Someone will find the blog dedicated to destroying them and believe what is said and turn on the victim and isolate them.
Our laws as they are written give the abuser complete and total control over the lives of their victims. This cannot be allowed to continue and has to stop for the sake of all those that have been victims of domestic violence.
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