Jamie Leigh Jones was gang raped by several KBR employees two YEARS ago and apparently has NO legal recourse. Ms Jones now 22 years old was only twenty when this vicious attack occurred.She was drugged and repeatedly vaginally and anally raped by several KBR private contractors in the green zone of Baghdad. Brian Ross of ABC’s 20/20 reports on the story HERE. This story reflects the stone-hearted attitude of the whole damn Iraq mess our beloved administration has created.When L.Paul Bremmer,Viceroy first went to Iraq to oversee the rebuilding process, the FIRST thing he did was to hold harmless ALL corporations in the whole damn country. There are NO laws pertaining to private corporations in Iraq. They can kill,rape, steal and torture at will with impunity. Of course the Uniform Code of Military Justice applies to the troops the GOP claims to support, THAT’S why there are reservists rotting in prison for what is likely a CIA or private contractor torture issue throughout Iraq.
We KNOW the animals in the current administration give less than a rat’s ASS about what happens to people whose skin is brown. The State Department’s Blackwater mercenaries open fire on Iraqis for the hell of it. The Blackwater mercenaries were in NOLA before botteled water, protecting gated communities and stores with lethal force and lethal results….from black folks.
What is surprising about THIS incident is that it involves a pretty,white, green-eyed blond girl from Texas. She looks like she could qualify for the Dallas cheerleader squad. She was twenty when these monsters drugged her, passed her around like a toilet and when she told her supervisors about the vicious attack was locked in a God Damn storage container under armed guard (Private contractors again OF COURSE!!) and threatened with being fired. There was ONE guard who had SOME compassion and let her use his cell phone. She called her daddy in Texas and HE called his congressman, Ted Poe (R-Texas) who contacted the State Department who took her to a military hospital where she received treatment. The rape kit indicated that this poor kid had been vaginally AND anally raped. Of course that evidence disappeared. Nobody will be held accountable for what happened to this poor kid at the hands of AMERICANS from an AMERICAN corporation. Her only recourse is arbitration from an arbitrator hired by and under the employment OF the corporation whose employees raped her.
We Americans are so outraged by the treatment of women in Islamic countries. They are jailed and whipped for being raped and stoned to death for adultery. The main difference between us and THEM is that at least the rapists are jailed as well. HERE we just chortle and say that “boys will be boys” and “they were just letting off steam” or “she MUST have egged them on, that’s what she gets for being pretty”. Ms Jones hasn’t been whipped by her government, but she HAS been bitch-slapped by KBR, the State Department, the Department of Justice and the President of the United States. And what of her rapists? They are free to continue being boys.
(Hat tip to Traci Kelly co-host,EqualTime for alerting me to this outrageous story)
It’s a disgrace, we are penalised for being female! A female cannot defend herself against 1 rapists let alone a gang of rapists. I am a survivor of numerous rapes, including gang rapes, no one did anything for me, not my parents, not my community, not my so called friends, no one, none helped me not even the state would help me! At the time when i was suffering rapes from different men, no one laid blame at the door of the rapist, no one would believe a woman if she cried rape & also the likelyhood of my attackers being brought to justice was nil at every turn! Britain has condoned rape of it’s women for years and years, even so in this day & age the judicial system and other authorities continue to leave blame at the door of the victim, how is rape to be stopped or even eradicated with this attitude, it doesn’t stand a chance, therefore rape of British women will continue & the rapists given a ‘ Go Ahead ‘ to commit rape. It’s disgusting and male dominance & sexist prevails. No one is properly educated about rape & police officers are still free to class this crime as random acts of lust, it is sheer nonsense & propaganda to keep rape as a continuance within it’s society. One of my attackers knew exactly what he was doing, he knew that it would and cause suicide in a woman and that was his intent was to make his victim suffer & eventually become suicidal and hoping they would commit suicide. As a result of my many and numerous rapes i suffer with dissociation and post trauma, when i had flashbacks long after another of my rapes i was dealing with on top of all the ones i already suffered, i phoned the police, i became suicidal after 1 week of contacting the police, the same officer that had called to my house upon my report a week earlier, he procceeded to bully me whilst i was suicidal & attempted to commit suicide, again on another occassion when an ambulance was called when i was suicidal again, this same officer came out on the scene and he bullied me again, he said the most damaging things to me it was unbelieveable, such as ‘ You’ve been raped so many times you would be better suited to a rapist ‘ and ‘ You are a good time girl ‘ and you are a ‘ slut ‘ and he also went on to say when he made a private call to my house, not in the course of his duty he called me ‘ tartface ‘ he said ‘ your ugly ‘ and many other things before he left me in a state of dissociation and wracked with pain as he made me re-live the horror of all my gang rapes again. We are supposed to be safe with these sorts of officers looking after us?
it just goes to show that with police officers who act like this, it is the same with judical system and the laws within Britain as to regard of women and rape, is that Britain indeed condones rape of it’s women. there is so much hidden in the category of rape and women and it’s projection of it from authorities to the public, that rape is not serious and it doesn’t matter if it goes on, after all it’s just sex isn’t it. NO IT IS NOT JUST SEX, it is violation, violence on women and it is painful, destroying, distressing, anger, rage, shock, numbness, destroying self-esteem, fear and despair of a human life, it affects the family, it affects the community and it takes the life in either quality of life as with mental illness and not being able to function as a human being, or indeed in the area of suicide and a coffin.