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Yes, you. I think you are fucking disgusting. Wait, I take that back. I only think you're disgusting if you are an American citizen; you Brits and Scots can rest easy. Now, you may be wondering why it took me so long to realize that you are lazy, filthy, awful creatures. Turns out I didn’t know so many of you were okay with gang rape.

Last month a woman came forward to reveal she had been gang raped while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq. I cannot fathom the strength it would take to tell the nation you were gang raped by fellow employees of a company working under a government contract.


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.


I guess we can be happy they didn’t kill her; because that is the only thing worse I can think of in this situation. The story is truly horrifying and it sounds like they may have actually planned on killing her, but she managed to call her FATHER.


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.


Yeah, I’m sure they were just keeping her in that container until she calmed down from the gang rape. No way they were discussing killing her. Jones managed to convince a sympathetic guard to give her a cell phone, which she used to call her father.


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.'


Just the kind of call a father wants to receive. Dad called his local Congressmen, who called the State Department, who then sent agents from the US Embassy to the base, where they freed Jones from the container. Army doctors examined Jones and determined she had been raped "both vaginally and anally." Then they gave the rape kit to Halliburton/KBR security officers, who made sure it disappeared.

That was two years ago. During those two years it became apparent our State Department and Justice Department are not going to do anything about a young woman being gang raped by other Americans while working in Iraq.


Over two years later, the Justice Department has brought no criminal charges in the matter. In fact, ABC News could not confirm any federal agency was investigating the case.


Why? Because private contractors operate outside of the law in Iraq. Apparently, they can rape at will, without expectations of any punishment. Without any criminal prosecution forthcoming, Jones sued Halliburton/KBR in civil court. But that might also be a problem.


KBR has moved for Jones' claim to be heard in private arbitration, instead of a public courtroom. It says her employment contract requires it.

In arbitration, there is no public record nor transcript of the proceedings, meaning that Jones' claims would not be heard before a judge and jury. Rather, a private arbitrator would decide Jones' case. In recent testimony before Congress, employment lawyer Cathy Ventrell-Monsees said that Halliburton won more than 80 percent of arbitration proceedings brought against it.


Politicians, like Hillary Clinton, then demanded hearings and asked why there was no justice for this woman. Of course, through all their blustering, our lawmakers failed to mention that they are partially at fault. Congress left these giant private contractor legal loopholes open. Congress has not created proper oversight in regards to Iraq, and that created the environment that led to a woman being gang raped by her fellow employees.

The press dug up more instances of overseas rape, which the Justice Department ignored.


The Department of Justice declined to prosecute a State Department employee who allegedly sexually assaulted a female Halliburton/KBR worker in Iraq, despite a recommendation from the State Department that he be charged


Then Congress had a hearing on December 19th, but the Justice Department decided to take a pass and refused to send a representative to answer questions.


I'm embarrassed that the Department of Justice can't even come forward," said the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, D-Mich.

“This is an absolute disgrace. The least we could do is have people from the Department of Justice and the Defense over here talking about how we're going to straighten out the system right away."


So, here we are over a month later. The State Department and Justice Department are stonewalling Congress.


A Republican lawmaker wants Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to answer questions in person about the high-profile rape case of Jamie Leigh Jones, after lower State Department officials failed to provide information that satisfied him.


One branch of our government is asking another branch of our government why they are blowing off the gang rape of an American citizen. The answer is simple: The gang rape is the result of the Bush administration’s total lack of oversight of private contractors in Iraq. At the same time, the Justice Department has been turned into a political wing of the White House and the case of Jamie Leigh Jones is a glaring example of what happens when our system of law is usurped by politics. The rule of law crumbles as it caters to political interests. This is the sort of case that can explode and shine a light on the entire system.

Now, why do I think you are disgusting, filthy animals? Because, what the fuck have you done? I immediately wrote my Senators and Congressman, explaining my disgust. The fact that America is quietly sitting around, after a woman was gang raped, while her rapists are protected by our government is sickening. The fact that the system is set up to allow something like this to happen is repugnant. But what is more repugnant is that we sit on our fat asses doing nothing, while women are gang raped and people are killed.

If we put massive pressure on our government to answer for this injustice, there would be action. That is sort of how a Democracy works. And you fuckers are silent. Which makes us complicit in the gang rape of an American citizen. Or you, anyway. At least I managed to take time out of my day to write an email and make a phone call. But don't worry about it, after all, you've got that Lost message board to get to.

 

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mervin335538

mervin335538

Saskatoon, SK
July 2007

JAN 31, 2008 08:54 PM

Doesn't it though? I know it takes power to make change, and I'm not talking about that "every vote counts" crap. The system needs to change. Unfortunately it needs to be changed from within, and that's a very monumental task.

DarKangelAZRAEL

DarKangelAZRAEL

Albuquerque, NM
June 2004

JAN 31, 2008 08:58 PM

you got it man. That's what I mean by saying the voting thing can't do it because no one we vote for actually represents us in this government. And getting them all to get behind a huge change like this???????? Well shit you might as well try to shoot the moon out of the sky with a pellet gun. We need to get the young ones in on this early enough for them to set a path towards change. We are not going to be able to do it in our lifetimes.

goatinamoat

goatinamoat

New York, NY
March 2006

JAN 31, 2008 09:07 PM

So I make the Reaper sick. BFD. I can live with that. Somehow this problem is related just to the USA. And everywhere else...not a problem at all?

Olvido

Olvido

SUICIDEGIRL

Ecuador

JAN 31, 2008 09:18 PM

first America is not only USA its a continent, so you should say: North America, and yes not only north american citizens but every human is fucked up.

Roethke

Roethke

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JAN 31, 2008 09:28 PM

Olvido said:
first America is not only USA its a continent, so you should say: North America, and yes not only north american citizens but every human is fucked up.



Are you telling me that Canada is just another state in the USA? Wow.

Nessuno

Nessuno

Washington, DC
May 2006

JAN 31, 2008 09:35 PM

Roethke said:

Olvido said:
first America is not only USA its a continent, so you should say: North America, and yes not only north american citizens but every human is fucked up.



Are you telling me that Canada is just another state in the USA? Wow.



I think she is referring to the concept that all of us in the Americas (North, Central and South) are Americans. Simon Bolivar is one of the classic Latin American figures who states this, I believe.

We think through our language and saying Americans and only meaning citizens of the US is seen by many Latinos as innacurate.

Cye

Cye

SUICIDEGIRL

Oklahoma, USA

JAN 31, 2008 09:45 PM

that makes me fucking sick...

Roethke

Roethke

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JAN 31, 2008 09:50 PM

Nessuno said:

Roethke said:

Olvido said:
first America is not only USA its a continent, so you should say: North America, and yes not only north american citizens but every human is fucked up.



Are you telling me that Canada is just another state in the USA? Wow.



I think she is referring to the concept that all of us in the Americas (North, Central and South) are Americans. Simon Bolivar is one of the classic Latin American figures who states this, I believe.

We think through our language and saying Americans and only meaning citizens of the US is seen by many Latinos as innacurate.



I caught that. But it's rather silly to get uptight about using the term "American" to refer to residents of the US only, and then offer a correction that ignores yet another large group of people.

shapeshifter23

shapeshifter23

San Francisco, CA
September 2005

JAN 31, 2008 10:21 PM

I suppose there might be an issue of some urgency or import under discussion here. But I opted to not bother reading the article after the first paragraph of this author's typically juvenile attempt at ironic hyperbole and self-righteous posturing. If the topic merits my attention, I'll read about it on Democracy Now or Truthout.org...

code_red

code_red

Portland, OR
July 2005

JAN 31, 2008 11:24 PM

I did write to my congressman, along with the Secretary of the Navy and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Congressman told me that he would pressure and thank you for your dedication, Secretary told me that it was not a naval matter but he would "pursue within his legal abilities" and the Chairman referred me to the state department, since it did not involve DoD personnel or the military.

So, fuck you. wink

mervin335538

mervin335538

Saskatoon, SK
July 2007

JAN 31, 2008 11:29 PM

DarKangelAZRAEL said:
You mentioned how you have no formal training in law with which to help you on your quest where you live. But what's funny is, as far as most of society goes, don't the people who have a passion for it and go to school and study hard, get called sell outs, geeks, unsympathetic even i believe i heard once. Well the point is we put a stigmata on those people. Some get crushed and give up. Some become jaded and careless. VERY few actually pass all those tests of life coming out with the same conviction they had going in. Maybe we need to do something about that as well.



That's the problem. Seems you have to be (at least to date) a rich, old white guy to get anywhere in politics, and those fatcats have no desire to change anything because they're getting rich off of the system. I thought about going into law, to become a politician, but I'm worried that the system would corrupt me. Besides which, I can't afford it! It would be nice to be able to change that, but I think it's a pipe dream at this point. It will need some pretty serious shaking up to allow such radical change to take place. I also think there is a serious lack of education everywhere, which is also leading to problems now, and in the future.

Nixon

Nixon

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JAN 31, 2008 11:29 PM

Thanks for the links. Done and done.

I'm glad we're over there fighting the war. Cause, you know, those Iraqis treat their women like shit.

puke

TheAngrySloth

TheAngrySloth

York, ON
September 2003

FEB 01, 2008 12:25 AM

That's pretty screwed up. Please stop the world, I'd like to get off.

ILIKEPOTATOES

ILIKEPOTATOES

Brooklyn, NY
November 2007

FEB 01, 2008 12:37 AM

DaGhost said:
This is fucked up. At the same time, you may need to evaluate your understanding of the concept of cause and effect.

Your statement; "The gang rape is the result of the Bush administration's total lack of oversight of private contractors in Iraq."

Blatantly not true.

This statement; The gang rape is the result of a bunch of sick individuals violating this womans rights.

Probably closer to the truth.

Lack of oversight does not cause crimes. Lack of oversight causes crimes to go unpunished.

In my opinion, peoples lack of respect for both themselves and others contributes to their decision to commit a crime. Yes, I said their decision. Those people made a conscious decision to commit rape.



I think that was his point.

GrayRains

GrayRains

El Paso, TX
January 2008

FEB 01, 2008 12:55 AM

This kind of thing does not surprise me one bit. As a soldier who, as a young Specialist in the US Army who served in OIF 2, the things I would see where scarey. Cover-ups are the norm, and it takes something big to really blow an incident out of the water. Mercifully there are rules in place to keep soldiers from running rampant, tho sadly for every case reported and people punished for their crimes, maybe a dozen more go without the slightest bit.

Contractors having no oversight whatsoever tho is getting more and more troubling. At least Blackwater is getting their feet put to the fire, but if this is not getting any real action, then what will?

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