Why Would United States Senators Vote to Protect Corporations Over Rape Victims?

spike

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In 2005, a female employee of KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq, was drugged and gang raped by several of her male colleagues. This was done after she reported several times the sexist behavior of many of the men. When she reported the rape to her supervisor, she was locked in a metal shipping crate. She only got out of Iraq by calling her father, who got in touch with their local Congressman in Texas. When she got home and reported the rape, she was told that an arbitration clause in her contract made it impossible for her to sue Halliburton or the men who raped her. She would have to settle for binding arbitration, which meant little if any penalty to the company and no criminal penalty to the men involved.

Recently, newly appointed Senator Al Franken (D-MN) introduced his first bill to Congress, a very narrow addition to the Defense bill that said that the US would not contract with any companies that made arbitration the only way to handle internal crimes of sexual assault or rape. It passed by a vote of 68-30. However, 30 Republican Senators voted against the bill. Please note that many of these Senators were also the ones outspoken about cutting off funding to ACORN for talking about illegal sexual-related matters.

And my questions to those 30 Senators are the following: Why do you feel it necessary to protect the rights of an organization and its employees who may commit rape against those of a woman raped by her colleagues? Where is your morality? Your ethics? Does everything have to be partisan in Congress?

This bill was a no-brainer: protect the rights of rape victims. Did you see a Democrat offering a bill and just deny it out of hand? Did you see Al Franken offering a bill and just deny it out of spite? Or do you really believe that the rights of an organization to protect its employees who committed rape are greater than the rights of the person who was raped?

I would like an answer to these questions from the following Senators:

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

I would especially like an answer from former Presidential candidate John McCain.

If your Senator is on the above list, please call him and ask why he voted against a bill to help rape victims.
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Professur

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I read this on another site. Can someone tell me why the US senate is concerning itself with what's written into a private contract while congress is offering blanket anti-sue protection to vaccine companies?
 
spike

spike

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Professur said:
I read this on another site. Can someone tell me why the US senate is concerning itself with what's written into a private contract
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I think it's because the contracts prevent individuals from seeking justice in criminal matters like in the raping of this woman.
 
Gonz

Gonz

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If the crime happened out of the jurisdiction of the United States, all the laws in the world won't help.

Iraq authorities need to investigate.
 
spike

spike

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Gonz said:
If the crime happened out of the jurisdiction of the United States, all the laws in the world won't help.

Iraq authorities need to investigate.
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Wow, you want to give Iraq authorities jurisdiction over our contractors over there? Bold move.
 
Gonz

Gonz

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spike said:
Wow, you want to give Iraq authorities jurisdiction over our contractors over there? Bold move.
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If our contractors commit a crime (one not involved with their official duty)...

Iraq is not US sovereign soil so our jurisdiction does not cover crimes there. Possibly military court.
 
spike

spike

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So if you get raped by KBR employees go to the Iraqis and have them prosecute. I think that crimes by US citizens against US citizens being tried in Iraqi courts would be a new precedent.

However, there's still this contract to deal with that doesn't allow it. So it's a good thing we're trying to get rid of those.
 
ResearchMonkey

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Gonz said:
If our contractors commit a crime (one not involved with their official duty)...

Iraq is not US sovereign soil so our jurisdiction does not cover crimes there. Possibly military court.
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Some people actually believe in US imperialism and that we should have this power. They believe their own crap.
 
Cerise

Cerise

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:shrug:

That is terrible, if true.


Strange how it is acceptable to the dems for the Kennedy and Clinton rapes to go unpunished, though.
 
Winky

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Government intervention in the finest granularity
of every action and policy of American free Enterprise
knows no borders, no limits. Their powers are supreme!

But wouldn’t organizations,
at a certain point simply begin to ignore
their childish meddling and do as one pleased?
 
ResearchMonkey

ResearchMonkey

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Cerise said:
:shrug:
That is terrible, if true.

Strange how it is acceptable to the dems for the Kennedy and Clinton rapes to go unpunished, though.
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True enough, manslaughter and rape makes for a good politicians.

MaryJo sacrificed so much for the betterment of our nation. :retard4:
 
spike

spike

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Cerise said:
Strange how it is acceptable to the dems for the Kennedy and Clinton rapes to go unpunished, though.
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WTF? Dems would like any rape to be investigated and tried.

What do you have against the woman in this case pursuing justice for her rape?
 
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