| Avenger 2007-05-29, 3:25 am |
| Hey don't bother Poofy, he's working on a big real estate deal now. 2%
commission on a $300 trailer park space.
http://www2.dre.ca.gov/PublicASP/pp...nse_id=01783325
>
> Name:
> Hemingway, Carol A
>
>
> Mailing Address:
> 15300 PALM DR #211
> DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92240
>
>
> (Note: A real estate agent's "mailing address" is often his or her
> residence.
>
> 15300 Palm Drive in Desert Hot Springs is a mobile home park - Quail
> Hollow Mobile Home Park. #211 is presumably a space number. Does
> this explain how it is that a certain individual is able to move from
> city to city with such ease?)
>
>
> License ID:
> 01783325
>
>
> Expiration Date:
> 12/11/10
>
>
> License Status:
> LICENSED
>
>
> Original License Date:
> 12/12/06 (Unofficial -- taken from secondary records)
>
>
>
> (Note: Licensed for a little over five months. A mid-life career
> switch?)
>
> Former Name(s):
>
> NO FORMER NAMES
>
>
> Employing Broker:
> License ID: 01357104
> Dalton, Gerry Lyon
> 16900 DESERT CREST AVE
> DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA 92241
>
>
>
> (Note: The name of the business is Desert Crest Sales. It's not a
> very big agency as Carol Ann Hemingway is Gerry Lyon Dalton's only
> salesperson.
>
> As the employing broker, Gerry Lyon Dalton would be Carol Ann
> Hemingway's supervisor. A MALE supervisor. Is this Carol Ann's
> "business partner"? As in "My business partner is the opposite sex
> and the two of us support each other's goals and plans".)
>
> http://www2.dre.ca.gov/PublicASP/pp...nse_id=01357104 )
>
>
> Comment:
> NO DISCIPLINARY ACTION
>
>
> NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS
>
>
> (Note: If they only knew)
>
>
>
"Grizzlie Antagonist" <lloydsofhanford@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1180334640.384349.292470@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> Attention Hyerdahl: The women of Darfur need guns and rights!
>
> So get off your butt; get up out of that receptionist's chair in the
> real estate office, go to Darfur and give them some.
>
>
> http://www.journaltimes.com/article...s/d8pd5jfo0.txt
>
> Darfur Women Describe Gang-Rape Horror
> By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU
>
>
> KALMA, Sudan - The seven women pooled money to rent a donkey and cart,
> then ventured out of the refugee camp to gather firewood, hoping to
> sell it for cash to feed their families. Instead, they say, in a
> wooded area just a few hours walk away, they were gang-raped, beaten
> and robbed.
>
> Naked and devastated, they fled back to Kalma.
>
> "All the time it lasted, I kept thinking: They're killing my baby,
> they're killing my baby," wailed Aisha, who was seven months pregnant
> at the time.
>
> The women have no doubt who attacked them. They say the men's camels
> and their uniforms marked them as janjaweed _ the Arab militiamen
> accused of terrorizing the mostly black African villagers of Sudan's
> Darfur region.
>
> Their story, told to an Associated Press reporter and confirmed by
> other women and aid workers in the camp, provides a glimpse into the
> hell that Darfur has become as the Arab-dominated government battles a
> rebellion stoked by a history of discrimination and neglect.
>
> Now in its fourth year, the conflict has become the world's worst
> humanitarian crisis, and rape is its regular byproduct, U.N. and other
> human rights activists say.
>
> Sudan's government denies arming and unleashing the janjaweed, and
> bristles at the charges of rape, saying its conservative Islamic
> society would never tolerate it.
>
> It has agreed to let in 3,000 U.N. peacekeepers, but not the 22,000
> mandated by the U.N. Security Council. It claims the force would be a
> spearhead for anti-Arab powers bent on plundering Sudan's oil.
>
> Meanwhile, more than 200,000 civilians have died and 2.5 million are
> homeless out of Darfur's population of 6 million, the U.N. says, and a
> February report by the International Criminal Court alleges "mass rape
> of civilians who were known not to be participants in any armed
> conflict."
>
> Kalma is a microcosm of the misery _ a sprawling camp of mud huts and
> scrap-plastic tents where 100,000 people have taken refuge. It is so
> full of guns that overwhelmed African Union peacekeepers long ago
> fled, unable to protect it. It is so crowded that the government has
> tried to limit newcomers _ forbidding the building of new latrines, so
> a stench pervades the air.
>
> Anyone venturing outside must reckon with the janjaweed, as Aisha and
> her friends found out.
>
> In Sudan, as in many Islamic countries, society views a sexual assault
> as a dishonor upon the woman's entire family. "Victims can face
> terrible ostracism," says Maha Muna, the U.N. coordinator on this
> issue in Sudan.
>
> Some aid workers believe the janjaweed use rape to intimidate the
> rebels, and their supporters and families. "It's a strategy of war,"
> Muna said in an interview earlier this year in Khartoum, the capital.
>
> Sudan's government is especially sensitive about such accusations and
> denies rape is widespread.
>
> Sudanese public opinion would view mass rape much more severely than
> other crimes alleged in Darfur, said a senior Sudanese government
> official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation
> from his superiors.
>
> He acknowledged the janjaweed had initially received weapons from the
> government _ something the government officially denies _ and said
> authorities now are struggling to rein in the militias.
>
> Nasser Kambal, a prominent human rights activist and co-founder of the
> Amel center, a Sudanese group helping victims of rape and other abuse,
> offers a similar view.
>
> "I don't think raping was planned by the government. Killing and
> looting and torture, yes, but not rape," he said.
>
> Kalma isn't the only place where multiple accounts of rape have
> surfaced. Some 120 miles away, in the town of Mukjar, two men
> separately described women being brought into a prison where they were
> being held and raped for hours by janjaweed.
>
> They said the assailants shouted that they were "planting tomatoes" _
> a reference to skin color: Darfur Arabs describe themselves as "red"
> because they are slightly lighter-skinned than ethnic Africans.
>
> According to Muna, U.N. agencies are working closely with Sudanese
> authorities to improve the government's response to rape allegations.
> In 2005, the government created a task force on rape in Darfur, headed
> by Attayet Mustapha, a pediatrician, government official and women's
> rights activist.
>
> In an interview this year, Mustapha said social workers were being
> deployed to address the problem and a special female police unit was
> being assembled in Darfur.
>
> "We tell officials that the government has decided to enforce a zero
> tolerance policy toward rape in Darfur," she said.
>
> U.N. workers say they registered 2,500 rapes in Darfur in 2006, but
> believe far more went unreported. The real figure is probably
> thousands a month, said a U.N. official. Like other U.N. personnel and
> aid workers interviewed, the official insisted on speaking anonymously
> for fear of being expelled by the government.
>
> Victims usually can't identify their aggressors, which makes
> prosecutions impossible. Only eight offenders were tried and sentenced
> for rape crimes in Darfur by Sudanese courts in 2006, said Mustapha,
> the task force leader. "They received three to five years prison, and
> 100 lashes" in accordance with Islamic law, she said.
>
> In May, after the top U.N. human rights official charged that Sudanese
> soldiers had raped at least 15 Darfur women during one recent
> incident, Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi asked where the
> evidence was.
>
> "We always seem to get sweeping generalizations, without naming the
> injured, without naming the offenders," he told reporters.
>
> In Kalma, collecting firewood needed to cook meals is becoming more
> perilous as the trees around the camp dwindle and women are forced to
> scavenge ever farther afield. It is strictly a woman's task, dictated
> both by tradition and the fear that any male escorts would be killed
> if the janjaweed found them.
>
> Agreeing to tell the AP their story earlier this month through a
> translator, the seven women's voices wavered and hesitated, broken by
> embarrassed silences. All gave their names and agreed to be identified
> in full, but the AP is withholding their surnames because they are
> rape victims and vulnerable to retaliation.
>
> The women said they set out on a Monday morning last July and had
> barely begun collecting the wood when 10 Arabs on camels surrounded
> them, shouting insults and shooting their rifles in the air.
>
> The women first attempted to flee. "But I didn't even try, because I
> couldn't run," being seven months pregnant, said Aisha, a petite 18-
> year-old whose raspy voice sounds more like that of an old woman.
>
> She said four men stayed behind to flay her with sticks, while the
> other janjaweed chased down the rest of her group.
>
> "We didn't get very far," said Maryam, displaying the scar of a bullet
> that hit her on the right knee.
>
> Once rounded up, the women said, they were beaten and their rented
> donkey killed. Zahya, 30, had brought her 18-year-old daughter,
> Fatmya, and her baby. The baby was thrown to the ground and both women
> were raped. The baby survived.
>
> Zahya said the women were lined up and assaulted side by side, and she
> saw four men taking turns raping Aisha.
>
> The women said the attackers then stripped them naked and jeered at
> them as they fled. On their way back, men from the refugee camp
> unraveled their cotton turbans for the women to partly cover up, but
> the victims said they were laughed at when they entered the refugee
> camp.
>
> "Ever since, I've made sure that women living on the outskirts of the
> camp have spare sets of clothes to give out," said Khadidja Abdallah,
> a sheika, an informal camp leader, who took the women to the
> international aid compound at the camp to be treated.
>
> They were given anti-pregnancy and anti-HIV pills, thanks to which
> their families haven't entirely ostracized them, the women said. The
> baby Aisha was expecting at the time is doing well. His name is Osman.
>
> Sheikas in Kalma said they report over a dozen rapes each week. Human
> rights activists in South Darfur who monitor violence in the refugee
> camps estimate more than 100 women are raped each month in and around
> Kalma alone.
>
> The workers warn of an alarming new trend of rapes within the refugee
> population amid the boredom and slow social decay of the camps. But
> for the most part, they added, it all depends on whether janjaweed are
> present in the area.
>
> The sheikas say they are making some headway toward persuading
> families to accept raped women back into their embrace and let them
> report attacks to aid workers. One advantage is that they get a
> certificate confirming they were raped.
>
> "We tell husbands they might be compensated one day," said Ajaba
> Zubeir, a sheika. "But I don't think that's going to happen."
>
> The seven women say they haven't left the camp since they were
> attacked. They have started their own small workshop and make water
> jugs out of clay and donkey dung to sell to other refugees.
>
> As they worked on their large pile of jugs and bowls, they said they
> are even poorer than before, because they now have to buy their
> firewood from other women.
>
> "But at least we never have to go out again," said Aisha.
>
> None of the women has any faith that Sudanese or international courts
> will ever give them justice. All Zahya asks is that one day she can
> return to her village.
>
> "If people could at least help end the fighting, that would be
> enough," she said.
>
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