Makes you wonder about how most armies and soldiers fail to see what and who they are supposed to be in service of. It’s this part of the article that struck me the most…
“Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters,” the soldiers at the base in Soanierana district said in a video posted on social media.
They called on soldiers at the airport to “prevent all aircraft from taking off” and those in other camps to “refuse orders to shoot your friends”.
“Close the gates and await our instructions,” they said. “Do not obey orders from your superiors. Point your weapons at those who order you to fire on your comrades-in-arms, because they will not take care of our families if we die.”
Bravo. These are true soldiers. Not the cowards holding guns in uniforms like in most places.
Because as long as the risk of coercion isn’t higher than the risk of homelessness in that situation, creeps will continue to do it because odds are in their favour. If you are in that precarious of a situation, and ending up on the streets in the cold and the rain is a larger possibility than the creep who exploits that precariousness to “get some” who might only get a slap on the wrist or dismissed in the courts as a possible outcome, this becomes the most probable outcome.
Most would say… call the police and ask them to listen in to these creeps “negotiating” their chances of sex after iniatially proposing them. No recording. Direct line and called in as distress in the form of coercion.
I agree, but… most people are still afraid of what people who are capable of these heinous propositions are still capable of doing to them after being exposed. Fear of retaliation. Added to the the fact that they’re still not gonna know where they’re gonna live.
Yes, this requires much more attention. And not just in the UK. Everywhere.
But I also need to say this… if nobody is under coercion, I have zero problems to the agreements that people come to on their own terms. It’s a tough and shitty world out there, and I’m not gonna shame anyone for making offers to get by or to get a roof over their heads. If both parties have no issue, neither do I.
But if there’s coercion. That’s the same as rape. Plain and simple.
If not, have fun and no need to bother anyone.