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RE: Resteem The Deadpost Initiative! - Week 15 - Share your most undervalued work + week 14 winners ($12 STEEM prize pool)
Fire Destroys and Fire Cleanses - Reflecting Upon an Assassination
This is a contribution of a different sort - my thoughts in the immediate aftermath of the killing of a blogger/journalist. While I did not predict her unfortunate demise - there is something else that I did rather accurately predict - and is going strong even now.
As always, thank you to @whatamidoing for the sterling effort(and also to last week's winners (I had 'not' noticed that last one!)!) :c)
A shocking event always ripples throughout the community, especially if it's violent and trespassing the rules accepted within community. I started asking myself sometime ago, how come that some of those whistleblowers or journalists, who expose the connections and works unseen to the public, get protection and some just die or are assassinated. Are some the chosen ones and the others just imposters? Or is it the males get the protection and the females don't? Does a woman get sacrificed, so she can raise out of the flames like some Jeanne D'arc? And the males get police/state protection?
Thank you for the very thoughtful comment as well as your up-vote @irastra. :c)
Yes, every such violent and deadly event ripples throughout any given community - threatening to redefine the core of that which defines it.
I honestly had not noticed that female whistle-blowers are granted less protection or a greater degree of persecution within 'western' nations. That being said, I am sure that you have a few other cases in mind when you say so.
Of course, whether any given whistleblower requires protections will vary from case to case and the nature of the 'slighted' party is perhaps the most notable factor to be considered.
I personally think that any measures of protection should begin from before the act of whistle-blowing - but then again, not everybody is so inclined to peruse of such protections because of reasons unique to each of them. In truth this rabbit hole goes deeper than can be given due consideration in a comment - but it bears thinking about that the consequences of such tragedies tend to fan out far beyond the person, time and place.
Thanks again. :c)
I remember reading about her and I really appreciate your eulogy as you say. A beautiful and important article.
Thank you kindly, @creationofcare, both for your up-vote and your encouraging comment. :c)
Her memory is currently undergoing that phoenix-like transformation the I mentioned therein. Powerful political forces are using her memory and the circumstances of her demise for their political gain, and for better or for worse that has served to cleanse the looser grime from her life - her less noble actions taken.
Human memory is a funny thing.
Thnaks again.