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Command Rape: Unofficial Policy

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:04:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's become PAINFULLY obvious over the past few years that rape and sexual harrassment in the armed forces has become routine, and that if anything, more routine than ever.

One has to wonder if that's accidental.

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

IF you care about rape of female soldiers, you make it clear that cases, if fully proven, will result in hard time in Leavenworth, not administrative slaps on the wrist.

The armed forces definitely do pass the word on such matters when it matters, one really has to wonder if in this case, the idea IS to drive women out of the military - along with gays and persons of insufficiently evangelical faith, persons who also have been subject to such unwelcome attentions that also seem to be "unofficial" official policy.

Why, it's almost as if the army were trying to purge itself of anyone likely to have objections to things that reasonable persons might object to, like rape and torture. Certainly if they won't defend a squadmate from rape, civilians are shit outta luck.

Tags: ethics, military, rape

The Truth In Pornography

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:02:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The more I think about it, the more I realize that the objection is not to it's existence, but to the existence of some of it's direct and implied messages that contradict conventional (and in my humble opinion, dangerous and destructive) moralisms.

Clip Source: erotictruth.blogspot.com

There is really gross stuff out there, no question. Far more is not at all grotesque because (thank ghu) most people do not have the kinks that make the truly grotesque attractive. However, if you are heavily invested in maintain the social sexual status quo, it's the good stuff (in my humble opinion) that will truly screw with your preconceptions and cause you to wonder if the assumptions about yourself and your sexuality imposed by family and culture are, in fact true for you, or even true at all.

Tags: christianity, culture, ethics, liberty, morality, pornography, rape

Huckabee Soft-headed on Crime

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:37:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The more you look behind the smiling, nice guy, small town preacher facade, the more you realize you have met a plot device from a Steven King novel...

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

this is not about a governor carefully reviewing a case and finding grounds for reasonable doubt - in Huckabee's case, the process appears to be whimsical, insensitive and entirely inexplicable to the legal community.

When you talk to prosecutors around the state, many of them will tell you they're unhappy that Gov. Huckabee pardons criminals without letting law-enforcement officials or victims' families know why he's doing it, as he's required by law.
___ "He doesn't take giving clemency very seriously," complains Saline County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Herzfeld, who will push for new legislation next year to make the clemency process less secretive.

signally and contrary to the Arkansas state constitution, he refuses to explain his reasons for granting clemency.

Tags: mike huckabee, e, pardon, politics, rapist, rape, republican leadership, wayne dumond

That Inexplicable Clinton Magic

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:49:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I have never quite understood what it is about Bill Clinton that provokes hatred to such a degree that even otherwise fairly sensible people are perfectly willing to commit obvious and outrageous perversions of justice in what generally turned out to be futile efforts to discredit him. It turns out that this perverse "magic" predates his presidency and, of course, Ken Starr.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Politically, there existed a fervent movement that believed Dumond was the victim of a Bill Clinton vendetta, carried out by the state's Democratic political machine. That movement, which had helped Huckabee ascend to power just months earlier in 1996, ramped up pressure on the newly elected governor to rectify a wrong.

Huckabee himself was either friends with or associated to several of the key activists who publicly criticized Dumond's arrest. And Huckabee's particular religious background made him disposed to believing that Dumond -- who would go on to rape and murder another woman upon his release -- was either innocent of his crimes or had been rehabilitated in prison.

Those close to the case say that in the end, it was a combination of these factors that compelled Huckabee to ignore evidence, forgo advice, and ultimately press the parole board for the release of Wayne Dumond.

Tags: bill clinton, mike huckabee, wayne dumond, rape, rapist, pardon, politics, ethics, bizarre

I'm not "Pro-Choice." I'm Anti-Busybody

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:16:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's far more accurate to term militant anti-abortion activists as anti-choice than pro-life. Why? Because their own reasoning and rhetoric, as well as causes they support as well, show a complete disregard for human life that exists without adhering to their punitive moralistic code - and are entirely willing to call for the death (by stoning) of those who violate it.

I'm not "for" abortion. I'm not "for" stomach-stapling, either. But in either case, I believe circumstances dictate cases.

Clip Source: www.graphictruth.com

For myself, I believe that inasmuch as we have the medical ability to make childbirth as safe an option as an abortion, and the financial wherewithal to support any child not aborted, I feel it a moral imperative to offer those as options to people who have quite reasonable concerns.

I would certainly never, ever force a rape victim to bear a pregnancy to term, much less a victim of incest. But, I do observe that embryo transplants are quite possible. If the goal is to preserve the life of the foetus - why not just offer state-supported embryonic storage and transplant as an alternative to abortion?

After all, a child that a woman cannot support NOW may well be one she'd go to the ends of the earth to have in her thirties.

But this debate is clearly not about choices, or providing alternatives. It's about imposing a consequence - pregnancy - on people who have sex outside of approved contexts and making the pregnancy itself as dangerous as possible,

Tags: abortion. pro-choice, pro-life, rape, incest, contraception, family planning, tenth amendment, anti-choice

And you didn't hear about this from the MSM either...

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:07:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sanchez's attitude was: "The women asked to be here, so now let them take what comes with the territory," Karpinski quoted him as saying. Karpinski told me that Sanchez, who was her boss, was very sensitive to the political ramifications of everything he did. She thinks it likely that when the information about the cause of these women's deaths was passed to the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld ordered that the details not be released. "That's how Rumsfeld works," she said.

"It was out of control," Karpinski told a group of students at Thomas Jefferson School of Law last October. There was an 800 number women could use to report sexual assaults. But no one had a phone, she added. And no one answered that number, which was based in the United States. Any woman who successfully connected to it would get a recording. Even after more than 83 incidents were reported during a six-month period in Iraq and Kuwait, the 24-hour rape hot line was still answered by a machine that told callers

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.

The latrine for female soldiers at Camp Victory wasn't located near their barracks, so they had to go outside if they needed to use the bathroom. "There were no lights near any of their facilities, so women were doubly easy targets in the dark of the night,"

So the women took matters into their own hands. They didn't drink in the late afternoon so they wouldn't have to urinate at night. They didn't get raped. But some died of dehydration in the desert heat, Karpinski said.

Tags: iraq war, support the troops, women, women in the military, rape, sexual assault