The Pap Attack: Republicans for Rape
30 GOP Senators vote against Franken's anti-rape bill
Friday October 30, 2009 3:30 p.m.
I checked to make sure that the 30 Republican Senators who voted against Jamie Leigh Jones' anti-rape bill two weeks ago had wives and daughters. Most of them did. But their love for defense contractor PAC money is obviously greater than their love even for their own daughters. The Senate bill was simple to follow: if a contractor like KBR has an employee who is sexually assaulted on the job, that employee has a right to have a jury hear and decide the facts of the case. If the contractor denies the victim that right, then the U.S. government won't do business with that contractor. In 2005, Jones, a KBR employee, was gang-raped in Iraq by KBR workers. After she was gang-raped, KBR security held her prisoner inside a 5' x 6' shipping container to make sure she kept her mouth shut.
The vote to enact the bill was 68 to 30. Go to the website Republicans For Rape, and you can see the list of those 30 GOP leaders who voted against offering justice to victims like Jamie. They argued that it is too harsh to force a valued defense contractor like KBR or Haliburton to appear in front of a civil jury to face outraged and repulsed fathers, mothers, and sisters when stories like Jamie's are told. What those 30 all-male, all-Republican Senators would prefer is that Jamie and victims like her would be raped again by KBR by appearing in a closed door, secretive, arbitration hearing where no one would hear the details of the assault.
It's worth mentioning that Jamie was also drugged while she was held captive by KBR management employees in that shipping crate so no one would hear her cries to be allowed to simply go home to her family. The drugs were supposed to keep her quiet in the same way that the KBR good ol' boy corporate arbitration panel would keep the details of this disgusting story quiet.
The GOP Senate leaders were not in the dark about the details of Jamie's rape. They knew she had been repeatedly sodomized and that her body was so torn up that she needed reconstructive plastic surgery. They knew that KBR's own security force held Jamie as a prisoner after the rape, denying her food and medical treatment.
And we are aware of how at least a couple of those 30 GOP leaders regard women. Louisiana Senator David Vitter had a “stable” of female prostitutes at his beck and call when he wanted female companionship. John Ensign had his wife and at least one girlfriend around when he wanted the company of a woman. Women were at the top of mind for those two GOP leaders mostly out of convenience. But stories like the Jamie Leigh story are never convenient. We have to hear them, and the people responsible for that evil need to be held accountable in courtrooms instead of getting closed-door, corporate arbitration hearings where a victim's chances to obtain justice are over at hello.
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Scott
I think you should read the White House's response to the bill. While the DoD was concerned about the reach of the amendment, the White House said it supported the intent and was working to make sure the bill was enforceable.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/vitter-confronted-by-ra e_n_342051.html
This just in on the AP wire: “French Chefs Ask Pope to Remove Gluttony from List of Seven Deadly Sins.” Can rape be far behind?
When you gather together repugs and other violators of the cardinal rules regarding mortal and venial sins, you’re bound to encounter the raw dung of sanctimonious broken-down non-policy, and it smells, silage of both serious and silly types. The practice is known well lately in that cold malarial swamp known as D.C., especially when considering the amount of nonsense and blather the average repug drinks in and the sophisticated and precise movements required when taking out the shrivelled apparatus of what used to be called their "platform" in order to allow free flowage of urine. Both complex movements and the necessary impaired status of the brain in order to pull these functions off without embarrassment or ridicule are seldom seen simultaneously in the same herd mentality, thus the latest mortification. Like Goat Polio, unprovoked urinating and repug "policy" is one and the same.
Symptoms include depression of common sense, increased appetite for obvious pandering, leaning or stumbling or moving in one direction only while lollygagging, slack jaw mouth breathing, and drooling during Republican primaries. Diarrhea is present when conservative principles or so-called “family values” are instigated while lacking any discernable point or value. Embracing GOP talking points can be mistaken for rabies, i.e., Glen Beck. Immediate treatment is critical - Recovery is more "iffy" than with Goat Polio.
The exact manner in which both republican ideology and Goat Polio affect the average Palin "real amerikan" is not well understood at this time. Treatment involves administration of high doses of boot leather to the dumb ass of the victim every six minutes for three to five days, then daily for an additional seven days. Forty-thousand IU per kg of body weight of common sense is needed to cross the blood brain barrier and put sufficient amounts of grey matter into the tissue of the dope’s central nervous system. Remember that one kilogram (kg) equals 2.2 pounds.
Now that the White House has announced that it doesn't support the bill either. Should we also say that Obama is pro-rape... Some of his blind supporters are a bit biased.
Women should target these 30 (no-backbone) Republicans. Our service men and women whether serving in the Military or in any other capacity should not be assaulted or treated in this manner. This contractors became rich and we now even have a Mercenary group of people that will answer to no one. Thank you very much Mr. Bush for your service to our Country.
Mama_Bear...you said it best
Congress should defund KBR. Don't hold your breath.
The whole story is absurd, and the KBR security people should also face kidnapping charges, as well as those who actually participated in the rape. I'm also outraged that KBR has gotten off scott free on the shoddy workmanship that cost the lives of American soldiers (yes, that's plural) electrocuted in the showers. KBR apparently can't even be sued in a civil court.
Who approves these contracts anyway? And why isn't something being done? Why should it take an act of Congress to force action on obviously criminal acts? This makes no sense!
Maybe Alan Grayson would introduce a similiar bill in the House? Would like to see how my congressman would vote on it.
May all of those who voted against this come back in their next life time as a female rape victim. . . .
@Billy
Doesn't surprise me a bit. The 30 male Repug Senators all value the contractors, whose job it is to engage on a daily basis in senseless brutality, more than they value American or non-American women who might fall victim to these pumped-up overgrown playground bullies who have little chance of finding other work outside of asking "Do you want fries with that?" in our modern economy.
Womens' groups, and everyone else for that matter, should target all 30 of these creeps for defeat in their next re-election cycle.
One other issue raised by this incident: given what these pigs did to an American colleague, does anyone doubt any of the stories of prisoner abuse that come out of Iraq any more?
The fact that anyone could vote against this bill leaves me speachless.
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