A followup on the KBR rapes
Submitted by ShelaghC on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 12:11pm.
On the blog Four Freedoms, Raine posts about more rapes reported by female KBR employees - including the mother of a soldier. Your Vagina's Belong to Them - V.2
In the past week, we have learned of another rape. Another story of an American woman being raped with ties to KBR. This time, it is with a twist... This time it involves a soldier. In this Article from the Nation, she is Lisa Smith. It is a psuedonym. In this article, we read the following: "That dawn, naked, covered in blood and feces, bleeding from her anus, she found a U.S. soldier she did not know lying naked in the bed next to her: His gun lay on the floor beside the bed, she could not rouse him and all she could remember of the night before was screaming and screaming as the soldier anally penetrated her while a colleague who worked for defense contractor KBR held her hand -- but instead of helping her, as she had hoped, he jammed his penis in her mouth." The article goes on to tell us more of the same type of cover-ups from KBR as I posted previously. A soldier did this to her.
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And STILL... as I posted back in February... NO ONE HAS BEEN CHARGED.
As of today, April 10th, There are NO criminal charges pending in ANY of these cases.
NO one is being charged in a criminal court for the RAPE and SODOMY of American women by American men. Is this what we are fighting for? Is this OK? Is this legal?
As I mentioned in my previous blog, I say no. But this Department of Justice has said nothing... they have turned a blind eye to the EEOC, VII...
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Has Rape become OK when a company sanctions it?
The silence from our government says yes. They decided FINALLY to send someone to this hearing, although I somehow find it suspect. Let me make this clear: Lisa smith was anally and orally raped by members of the US armed forces/and KBR. KBR told her to shut the f*ck up. The US armed forces have done nothing that we know of...
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No sexual assaults are acceptable to me, but 60% of those 2,688 cases were RAPE. In this war the message is being sent that woman are just a mere sacrifice for the good of the mission and the profit margin of the private corporations. With no one held accountable, it seems as though the message from KBR is "yes, rape is acceptable". As long as this administration does nothing, the silence from them makes then complicit in privatizing rape for American Women.
I say No.
OUR Vaginas belong to US.
There's a lot more at the link. I urge you to read it, then contact your senators and congressperson to demand justice be done for these women.
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