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You'd Be Arrested if You Weren't on the Dance Floor

Its happening around you all the time. Doctors and lawyers are doing it. Bricklayers and truck drivers are doing it. Boxers, golfers and football players are doing it, and getting away with it. Why? Theyve gained something no books on seduction, women or men, relationships or self-improvement will ever give themthe immediate entree into anothers arms for much more than conversation. Guys, those folks have learned that virtually every womanyoung or old, rich or richer, married or otherwiseloves it; hour after hour, night in and night out. Ladies, you know the accuracy of the things Im bring to the mens attention. Im sure youll agree that most guys spend bunches of their time and money dreaming about being with women instead of taking a few steps and ending up with the lady of their choice in their arms up close and personal. Heres how its done. Its true, youd be arrested doing these things if you werent on the dance floor. On the street it would be three years in jail.

Khadija in the tent at Choucha transit camp that she and Omar share with another family.
UNHCR/A.Branthwaite

Giving up your child to save her: a tale from Tunisia

CHOUCHA CAMP, Tunisia, March 16 (UNHCR) – With smooth features and a calm way about him, Abdullah Omar, 25, comes across as someone accustomed to hard choices. But the decision to send his one-year-old daughter back to war-ravaged Somalia, because he could not afford to support her, was one of the hardest he and his wife Khadija have ever faced.

That was five months ago. "There is not a night that goes by when I don't lie awake thinking about my baby and worrying about her," Khadija told me here at the windswept Choucha transit camp just inside Tunisia.

For the young Somali couple it was the most challenging in a series of ordeals that they have endured in the four years since they fled Somalia – from a 10-day truck journey with people smugglers across the Sahara to serving time in detention and being hounded by racist thugs in Tripoli.

Now the pair have washed up in Choucha, along with hundreds of other Somalis who have fled the violence and conflict in neighbouring Libya.

"I am fearing for my family. I am fearing for my daughter. Really I am!," Omar told me on a stormy morning last week from the green canvas tent he and his wife now share with another family. "I am fearing that if I go back to [the Somali capital] Mogadishu I will be killed."

Refugees from Somalia, Eritrea and Cote d'Ivoire are a minority among the more than 200,000 people to have fled the violence in Libya in recent weeks.

But unlike migrant workers from more peaceful countries like Bangladesh, who came to Libya only temporarily and are now headed home, face an uncertain future.

Some may be resettled. Others will have the option of staying in camps in some other country. "I really don't know what I will do," Omar says.

His and Khadija's journey began four years ago in Mogadishu, when fighting between the Ethiopian-backed transitional federal government forces and Islamic Courts Union fighters forced them from the city. His sister was caught in the crossfire and killed; his wife was slightly wounded.

Since he is the eldest in his family, his mother told him that he must go abroad to help find a way out for the whole family. He and Khadija travelled first to Khartoum, capital of Sudan, where they arranged with people smugglers for passage to Libya. The 10-day journey in the back of an exposed Mercedes truck ended with their arrest at the Libyan border.

Omar was held in prison in the middle of the Sahara for five months. One day he and six cellmates (Khadija had been moved to a prison in the port city of Benghazi) decided to break out. "We thought: it is better to die trying to escape than go on living in this way," Omar explained.

They overpowered the guard and ran from the compound. Forty prisoners broke out on that day; 20, including Omar, got away. Escaping to the north, the Somali arranged to collect US$800 from his wife's uncle in Texas to pay for her release.

In Tripoli, Khadija worked as a cleaner. But then she fell ill. And Omar says he could not find a job. Many sub-Saharan Africans in Tripoli are only permitted to do menial work.

After their first child, Rayan, was born, "my wife was ill . . . I wanted my daughter to stay with us so much. But I could not afford even her milk. That is why I decided to send her away. To this day I am not happy without her." Khadija rummages in a dark corner of the tent and fishes out a photo of her baby taken the last time they saw each other.

The latest violence started with the announcement on state TV three weeks ago that sub-Saharan Africans were fighting Libyans and "killing them in their homes," Omar says. He and his wife knew what this meant: they would be targeted.

They barricaded themselves inside their apartment for two weeks, too afraid to go out even for food. Roadblocks festooned with green flags sprang up around their neighbourhood. "Libyan youths stopped you and kept asking questions you could not answer," Omar says. Finally, one week ago, the couple made a dash for the border, paying US$200 to a Libyan driver.

Today, he worries about friends and thousands of other Somalis still inside Libya. He is on his mobile phone every day. He says he is hearing reports that the escape routes are now unsafe. Rumours reach the camp of Somali women being raped. "I am very very worried for the Somalis there," he admits.

To help people like Omar and his family, UNHCR is organizing the camps on the border, offering counselling on solutions for such families, which may entail resettlement to a third country or, if that is not possible, support in a camp or an urban community in another country and urging safe passage for all civilians from the conflict zone.

..my 19yo Spring/Summer 2010Lover...
We had ENTIRELY too much fun!
...& all things must pass...like when she set me up to be arrested, November 2010, & I was never told the charges of which I'd been arrested for....& my next door neighbor(George)caught her attempting to break into my apartment with a pry-bar while her loser boyfriend (whom she currently carries their child) waited in the get-away car...all this knowing I'd been locked-up (she'd done this before, to several other guys I found out). The second day I was in Sac Co Jail...the detective assigned to the "case" came to BEG me for "passwords, something" to use against me...he had absolutely NOTHING, & I was RELEASED the following day, FROM THE 8TH FLOOR...The MURDER/FELON Orange jumpsuit- wearin' Floor!!..WITHOUT EVEN ANY COURT APPEARANCE!!!! -& still, without being told anything about what the arresting charges were..I remember the jail intake deputy -a woman- asked, "Have you ever been to prison?"...like they had me to dispose off...- only to go back to my apartment & notice several thousands of dollars worth of electronics had been taken by the arresting officers & stashed -to this day- at a nearby facility...where I was told I couldn't retrieve the property because the "D.A. says they have a case" against me. ...is this how they go-about getting stuff to sell for the money needed to go on thier ever so popular drunkin Reno Snow Train Trips??
I feel robbed, & the detective realized Kattie was an adult & a nut with a felony arrest for home-invasion ( which she told me she'd been tazered while try'n to run from arresting officers), & she admitted to lying to them in order to get me out of my apartment to try & rob me (I also have her confession, of this, on audio tape), there simply is no 'case'. It's been suggested that I return with an aggressive attorney, from a high-profile firm, to seek the return of my property and possibly file for civil action.
Well, they've my DNA....to prove I've done nothing wrong...anywhere, anytime, ever...Maybe clone me in the distant future ...whatever... Whudda mess indeed!
...There's something to be said about these ambitious sheriffs who trump-up charges, feel they're above the law because they are the law, and hold a general attitude that everyone outside of themselves & their friends are "suspect until proven guilty" rather than innocent until proven guilty... they need to stop living beyond their means to begin with.
(Oh, in case you're wondering what's really goin' on with a 50-something dude messing with a 19yo chick let me say this....."Viagra", & all the other 'male-enhancement' wonder drugs got NUTHIN' on what is naturally produced, inside a young adult babe for a man to 'function properly'. If there were a way to collect it, maybe concentrate it too, the one who could market the real deal would become very wealthy, very quickly. Problem is, the real deal varies among men...what works for us, with what kinda woman, is absolutely random... ..race is not a factor... there would be a general enzyme/protein specifically containing that which does the trick for each guy....women lose this stuff as they get older, less & less with weak & weaker. So, this is the primary reason why we hear about these 'old guys' hookin'-up with women less than half, or even a third, of his age.)
So it's going on a year later, Kattie had her daughter, Maxine, & neither her, nor 'LA' (the father), have any responsibility in the present care & raising of this newborn baby. She should have been Kattie & My baby girl, but she isn't, & there's no difference in "EAST SIDE" Sacto day-to-day exsistance Kattie & her associates choose to wonder around waiting for money to fall from the sky, or outta some symphathetic, horny, social-drama fan's pocket...
Personally, I've done all I could to get her on a way up & in a productive headspace...took her to meetings, appointments, to get an ID, etc., etc...& like the Metro phones I bought her, it all last a little while before some frickin problem wipes everything out & it's back to square one...(again).

CRISIS LIVING is a chosen lifestyle for those who really know no other...never knew...hadn't a chance...nor clue...

October 2011 The 'facility' , after 90-days, "disposed" of my $2,200 worth of electronic property..I wasn't told this would happen...'just that the DA indefinitely had a hold on it...no notice, nothing.
So, let the maps of war be drawn...I've a claim to file!!

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