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Republicans Refuse To Combat Sexual Assault In The Military! Congress Even Attacked Rape Victims!

9/5/2013

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Background:
GOP Lawmakers In Arizona Use Todd Akin's Logic To Declare That Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception
Mitt Romney: For & Against Abortions. Typical GOP Leader Will Say Anything You Want To Get Elected!

GOP Leaders Defend Thier Stance On Forcing A Women To Have Her Rapist's Baby
Colbert Report: Meet "Team Rape" (People NOT Exposing Them Will Come Next)
Combating sexual assault in the military: 
Related Articles:

1. "From denying abortion to military rape victims, to aiming for total bans in the states, the GOP's assault continues"

2. Article: "Raped in the military, then raped by Congress"

3. "Legitimate rape" stops pregnancy because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," says McKaskill's GOP opponent

4. From Mother Jones: "Under Ryan's pro-life bill, a rapist could go to court and prevent his victim from getting an abortion."
WEB EXTRA: Rape in the military, Part 2: 
By Mick Krever, CNN - It is not every day that the man in charge of all of America’s Air Force calls a modest sergeant. Which is why Jennifer Smith was so surprised to get General Mark Welsh’s call.

Sgt. Smith had filed a formal complaint alleging sexual assault and harassment, which she said had gone on for years. When she finally revealed the assault to her superior officers, after years of keeping it a secret, she expected the Air Force to act.

“I was so caught off-guard by the fact that he called me, and considering who he is, and I know my place, I said, ‘Yes, sir. Well thank you for calling me.’”

“He just said that he was going to do the best that he could,” Smith told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.

But as far as Sgt. Smith is concerned, the phone call, and all the conversations with her superior officers that led up to it, have amounted to nothing.

“They know the case,” she said, “but as far as I’m concerned, nothing has been done.”

The fact that Smith reported the assault, one of several she suffered, was in itself a rarity.

According to the recent documentary “The Invisible War,” about rape in the military, 33% of sexual assaults are not reported because the victim’s superior officers is a friend of the assailant. And 25% are not reported because the superior officer is himself the assailant.

“I kind of didn’t tell anyone,” Sgt. Smith said. “I came back, went to work the next day like nothing happened, and buried it.”

Sgt. Smith said she knew many people who were assaulted. But for many like Smith, who is a 17-year-veteran of the Air Force, they feel like they have invested too much in their careers to jeopardize it by reporting assault.

Often, the harassment comes in a seemingly more benign, but just as destructive, form.

Sgt. Smith was compiling a report from files on a shared server when she came across a songbook with explicitly pornographic lyrics.

The page read, “F*** songs and Trash Tunes.”

“The reason that I didn’t come forward was because of stuff like this,” she said. “I just didn’t think that it would be taken care of or taken seriously.”

The pornography seemed like it was almost de rigueur for the Air Force.

But the event that truly changed Sgt. Smith happened while she was stationed in Balad, Iraq.

“I was assaulted by an Army personnel and he basically just grabbed and threw me up against the wall,” she said. “When I came back from Iraq I was different. That time was very different because it was so aggressive and it was so hostile.”

After some time back in the U.S., her husband convinced her that she needed to seek medical help, and come forward to her Air Force superiors. She was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Regarding her complaint she said, “I started at the lowest level of the chain, and went all the way to the top.”

Sgt. Smith is a 17-year veteran of the Air Force, and has come forward with her story just a few years shy of being able to retire with full pension and benefits.

“My father was in Vietnam,” Sgt. Smith told Amanpour. “And I remember coming home when I was a junior in high school and saying, ‘Dad, I think I want to join the army or the Marine Corps.’ And he said, ‘No, honey, we’re going to take you down to the Air Force recruiter, because you’ll be safe there.’”


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GOP Leaders Defend Thier Stance On Forcing A Women To Have Her Rapist's Baby

9/4/2013

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Background:
Mitt Romney: For & Against Abortions. Typical GOP Leader Will Say Anything You Want To Get Elected!

Rick Santorum on abortion: A child conceived through rape should be accepted as a 'gift from God'...
At the end of the following video Paul Ryan says 'The President sets policy and HE wants to support abortions for victims of rape and incest' (making it clear to his base that he still supports rapist babies and incest rape babies!): 
On a side note... did you know that the GOP is cut social & civil services in every State they are in to the point where child abuse is INCREASING? Texas has been under GOP rule the longest and is now the largest child abuser amongst ALL the States (& possibly the whole world, except war zones)

BBC reports on the general child abuse problem in the States.

From Dallas News: Texas child abuse, neglect deaths soar 31 percent

From the "Center for Public Policy Priorities": PDF Document showing that "Compared to Other States, Texas Has A Higher Rate Of Child Deaths from Abuse and Neglect"

Moment Of Zen On GOP "Lawmaking"

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Anderson Cooper tracks down the source of the "legitimate rape" rumors which have become GOP party policy: 
Article:After Akin, GOP Makes Extreme Abortion Policy  Flowchart: "Can I Get Pregnant?"Learn the biology of your body, according to conservative male lawmakers. Akin is the GOP: His remarks reveal, again, what Republicans believe about abortion, and women.
CNN's Peter Hamby says Mitt Romney's stance on abortion conflicts with the GOP platform that doesn't exempt rape... 
Doctors debunk Rep. Todd Akin's comments on rape and pregnancy: 
Article: The GOP: Party of quacks:How the antiabortion movement taught the Republican Party to hate
Moment Of Zen: George Carlin On 'Pro-Life' Conservatives...
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Articles:

1. "From denying abortion to military rape victims, to aiming for total bans in the states, the GOP's assault continues"

2. Article: "Raped in the military, then raped by Congress"

3. "Legitimate rape" stops pregnancy because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," says McKaskill's GOP opponent

4. From Mother Jones: "Under Ryan's pro-life bill, a rapist could go to court and prevent his victim from getting an abortion."

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Mitt Romney: For & Against Abortions. Typical GOP Leader Will Say Anything You Want To Get Elected!

9/4/2013

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Background:
The Machinery Of War Has Become WAY Too Powerful Without Transparency To Temper It!
There is only so much a woman can take...
Notice that at 1 minute and 25 seconds Romney was FOR Abortion and then Became Governor and became against abortion (he has a very long record of not keeping his words... calling these "flip-flops' is being way way way too nice to his past! (though this CNN documentary takes a major step forward).

Information About The "Moderate" That The GOP Stood Behind Without Question For Many Months:

From Huffington Post: Mitt Romney Vetoed Contraception Bill For Rape Victims As Governor          

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney artfully dodged a question about whether states have the right to ban birth control during Saturday's Republican presidential debate, calling the question "silly" and saying that states wouldn't want to do that anyway. But as governor of Massachusetts in 2005, Romney took a harder line on contraception, vetoing a widely supported bill that would make the morning-after pill available over the counter in that state and require hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims.

His surprising veto did not stand. The Massachusetts state Senate voted unanimously to overrule it, and the state House voted 139-16 to do the same.

Romney tried to explain his controversial act by arguing in a Boston Globe op-ed that he did it in order to keep a campaign promise not to change Massachusetts' abortion laws. But the scientific community and longstanding federal policy agree that the morning-after pill cannot end a pregnancy once it has begun.


Mitt Romney making money from aborted fetuses (i.e. dead pre-born babies):

Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show And these documents challenge Romney's claim that he left Bain Capital in early 1999. Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Coming during the heat of the GOP primaries, as Romney tried to sell South Carolina Republicans on his pro-life bona fides, the revelation had the potential to damage the candidate's reputation among values voters already suspicious of his shifting position on abortion.

From Mother Jones: "Under Ryan's pro-life bill, a rapist could go to court and prevent his victim from getting an abortion."

Links:

Corn on MSNBC: Romney's Abortion Investment http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/07/corn-msnbc-romney-abortion-investment

Romney’s latest abortion U-turn: A top surrogate shifts the GOP candidate's position on Roe -- again http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/romney_surrogate_lies_about_plans_for_roe

Romney Interviewer Told She Can't Ask About Abortion or Akin http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/romney-wont-talk-about-abortion-or-akin

Eight staggering GOP comments on rape and women http://www.salon.com/2012/08/22/eight_staggering_gop_comments_on_rape_and_women/

The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/republican-plan-redefine-rape-abortion

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How Big Money & Big Media Have Coupled To Create A 'Disney World' Of Democracy

9/3/2013

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Background:
"Republican's And Thier Revenue Sources Own 90% Of Media" Bernie Sanders via The Daily Show
A Bill Moyers Documentary Exploring How Mainstream Media Failed To Question The War In Iraq
Amanpour On CNN On Iraq: Where Were The Journalists?
Phil Donahue On His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When They Couldn't Tolerate Antiwar Voices
How big money and big media have coupled to create a ‘Disney World’ of democracy....
Big money and big media have coupled to create a ‘Disney World’ of democracy in which TV shows, televised debates, even news coverage is being dumbed down, resulting in a public less informed than it should be, says Marty Kaplan, director of USC’s Norman Lear Center and an entertainment industry veteran. Bill Moyers talks with Kaplan about how taking news out of the journalism box and placing it in the entertainment box is hurting democracy and allowing special interest groups to manipulate the system.

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Phil Donahue On His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When They Couldn't Tolerate Antiwar Voices

9/3/2013

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Background:
"Republican's And Thier Revenue Sources Own 90% Of Media" Bernie Sanders via The Daily Show
A Bill Moyers Documentary Exploring How Mainstream Media Failed To Question The War In Iraq
Amanpour On CNN On Iraq: Where Were The Journalists?
Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices...
In 2003, the legendary television host Phil Donahue was fired from his prime-time MSNBC talk show during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The problem was not Donahue’s ratings, but rather his views: An internal MSNBC memo warned Donahue was a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war," providing "a home for the liberal antiwar agenda at the same time that our competitors are waving the flag at every opportunity." Donahue joins us to look back on his firing 10 years later. "They were terrified of the antiwar voice," Donahue says.

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Amanpour On CNN On Iraq: Where Were The Journalists?

9/3/2013

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Background:
"Republican's And Thier Revenue Sources Own 90% Of Media" Bernie Sanders via The Daily Show
A Bill Moyers Documentary Exploring How Mainstream Media Failed To Question The War In Iraq
Amounpour CNN: Iraq: Where were the journalists?
How could so many incorrect assertions in the lead up to the Iraq war have been taken as fact?

After the war, some of the United States’ leading newspapers were forced to apologize for getting it so wrong.

But two reporters consistently got it right: Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, former Knight Ridder reporters for the McClatchy newspapers.

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour marking the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, they cited reporters’ access to top officials in Washington as one of the top problems. The top-level bureaucrats, they said, had more of a propensity to spin toward the line that the Bush Administration was pushing.

“Most of our reporting was with intelligence, military and diplomatic midlevel and lower level – the types that journalists don't really talk to or go after,” Warren Strobel told Amanpour.

In the video above you can watch the complete interview, reflecting on journalism in the lead up to the Iraq war. The journalists also explain why some of their own newspapers wouldn’t even print their stories.

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