This account that woman said about her abuse at the hands of Cheney very well may be true,Look at history Look at how leaders conduct double lives one where they are statesmen,the other sadists..It's all over history.Why should now be all that much different?
Cheny likes to hunt and kills massive amounts of creatures,Can he eat all those phesants? Bush blew up frogs and bullied kids.It's actually sadly typical of this civilization..
http://www.avoiceforfreedom.com/Final1.html"Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity."
--- Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt
As Sandra Bloom and Peter Reichert articulate in their book Bearing Witness,
We live in a society that is 'organized' around unresolved traumatic experience. By making this claim, we intend to show that the effects of multigenerational trauma lie like an iceberg in our social awareness. All we see is the tip of the iceberg that is above the surface crime, community deterioration, family disintegration, ecological degradation. What lies below the surface of our social consciousness is the basis of the problem the ways in which unhealed trauma and loss have infiltrated and helped determine every one of our social institutions. (1998, p. 9)
Current research is illuminating the devastating effects of trauma on the developing child, in its various forms of abuse, neglect, and oppression. "A rapidly accumulating body of scientific knowledge now supports the reality of a self-perpetuating cycle of violence that originates in the hurts great and small that we inflict on each other from childhood, through adolescence, and into adult life. We are beginning to understand, in fact, that virtually all of our human systems are organized around trauma and the prolonged, transgenerational, and often permanent, effects of traumatic experience" (Bloom & Reichert, 1998, p. 2).
The terrifying reality that our civilization is still so persistently denying is that we are on the brink of self-destruction. We are all victims and all perpetrators. Any attempt to right the wrongs of our civilized world necessarily begins within ourselves, where we are burdened with unresolved trauma and acts of violence. We cannot expect to radically shift civilization in a more sustainable, life-affirming direction without doing the same within ourselves. Within us all, there is a well-spring of love, compassion, and creativity that grows in this direction towards life. Yet we compulsively harm life. This paradox defines our present reality. We have yet to understand the full effects of the way we treat our children, the way we live our lives, and the way we leave this world for future generations. Until we are able to understand what we are doing to each other and ourselves, we are destined to perpetuate this cycle of violence, trauma, and oppression. We must find a way to get out of this trap.