Republicans for Rape.
Republicans for rape may sound a little intense until you look at these two stories and realize, that no, they really don’t care about women’s rights - or the rights of raped women one bit.
The above link refers to the Franken amendment which was brought on by the Jamie Leigh Jones case.
Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
She was horrifically and brutally gang raped and sodomized by Haliburton employees and then locked by Haliburton into a cargo crate to prevent her from talking. This occurred in Iraq. She was lent a phone by a sympathetic guard. She called her dad. It took the State Department to get her out of the crate.
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.
“Don’t plan on working back in Iraq. There won’t be a position here, and there won’t be a position in Houston,” Jones says she was told.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave. Jones described the container as sparely furnished with a bed, table and lamp.
“It felt like prison,” says Jones, who told her story to ABC News as part of an upcoming “20/20” investigation. “I was upset; I was curled up in a ball on the bed; I just could not believe what had happened.”
Finally, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas.
“I said, ‘Dad, I’ve been raped. I don’t know what to do. I’m in this container, and I’m not able to leave,’” she said. Her father called their congressman, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas.
“We contacted the State Department first,” Poe told ABCNews.com, “and told them of the urgency of rescuing an American citizen” — from her American employer.
Poe says his office contacted the State Department, which quickly dispatched agents from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to Jones’ camp, where they rescued her from the container.
According to her lawsuit, Jones was raped by “several attackers who first drugged her, then repeatedly raped and injured her, both physically and emotionally.”
Jones told ABCNews.com that an examination by Army doctors showed she had been raped “both vaginally and anally,” but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.
Jones found all manner of legal hassle in trying to sue Haliburton for imprisoning her in a cargo container and disposing of her rape kit to protect its employees after she was brutally gang raped. This was because of the fine print in her contract that would send even criminal cases to arbitrations of Haliburton’s choosing. There was also a loophole that prevented her from pressing criminal charges since this happened overseas.
Al Franken introduced an amendment to a spending bill that very simply and narrowly would prohibit companies that had such clauses getting federal contracts unless they removed such clauses.
Sen. Franken’s Amendment to Force Corporations To Give Assault Victims Day In Court
Senate passes Franken amendment aimed at defense contractors
The amendment passed. No Dems voted against it but, nearly every Republican as in 38 out of 40 at the time voted against it. Their corporate masters are more important to them than the rights of raped women - even to the extent of locking those women in packing crates to silence them.
Now if you have read this far, you might be wondering why I am bringing this old news.
SpaceJesus posted today about a Bill that would help raped Native American women get justice by cleaning up jurisdictional procedures. Guess who didn’t like that bill either?
The House passed a bill that would make it easier for tribal courts with limited sovereignty and jurisdiction to prosecute non-native rapists who rape Native American women on tribal lands. There’s a huge jurisdictional mess when it comes to crimes involving natives and non-natives due to confusion between tribal, federal, and state court authority. It basically results in non-native rapists going free because it is difficult to ascertain what kind of court they should stand for trial in. This bill helps to clear some of that up, and make it so rapists can be dragged into court much easier and made to stand for their crimes when the act is committed on tribal land by a non-member. This is something pretty much anyone can get behind right?
Nope. Not if you’re a conservative Republican apparently, as the only people who voted against this anti-rape legislation (all 92 of them) are card-carrying members of the GOP.
Yep that’s the GOP we know and love.
GOP is pro rape. Well not really pro rape, they just don’t think that women should complain about it. They are certainly anti-women’s rights. Hell, they are certainly anti-woman.
Let’s keep that in mind in addition to all of the other heinous racist, homophobic, anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-environment things that they do.
The GOP really doesn’t care if women get raped.
How anyone can support these evil bastards is beyond me.
