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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBuck McKeon whines that it's "uncomfortable" to talk about rape in the military.
Victims tell him it's far more uncomfortable to be raped!Following a nine month investigation involving 550 investigators and 7,700 surveys, USAF Chief of Staff, General Mark A. Welsh III, testified that out of 46 recommended changes 45 would be instituted to prevent sexual assaults from happening in the future. Only 23 have been put into place so far and the other 22 are expected in November, according to Welsh.
The 46 recommendations could either be viewed as encouraging (so much is being done) or horrifying (so much has to be done).
However, for Congresswoman Jackie Speier, (CA-14) the number that should really stand out is one.
As in, not one of the 59 victims was allowed to testify at the hearing.
As in, not one of the 59 victims was consulted when crafting the 46 recommendations.
How could any of those recommendations be complete without first having talked to at least some of the victims? asked Speier.. She went on to admonish Gen. Rice for not even responding to a November 16, 2012 letter she written to him asking for the victims to be interviewed.
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/
PDJane
(10,103 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Despite Buck McKeon (my former congressman, until I recently got redistricted).
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Sorry you ever had to suffer that kind of pain, with him as your congressman!
pinboy!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)But Patty Murray, who's been a champion for women vets, put out a statement:
http://www.murray.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsreleases?ID=f0b0d74a-7cee-4345-afad-7886ecdb69e5
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)sheshe2
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)though. Their experiences should have been related by them and read into the record. That would have been important.
I can tell you though that you arent ready to make recommendations about the military or basic training after you graduate. You are talking about mostly 18 year old kids that dont know much about the military yet.
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Testifying, definately...gotta ask why that was denied...or maybe not. It seems to me that Womens voices don't matter to many. Who is more appropriate to give testimony than a woman.
Take Sandra Fluck for example.
He said that I was not an appropriate witness or a qualified witness. The appropriate witness part just really struck me because I cant imagine who would be more appropriate to address this policy than the stories of the women I wanted to share, Ms. Fluke told The Politicker. They are the women affected by this policy, they are the appropriate witnesses.
Darrell Issa denied her a place. Sandra Fluck was not deemed appropriate or qualified by Mr Issa....really a Woman!
The oversight committee...invited only men and religious groups. I have to ask the question to the GOP...why do they hate women so!
http://politicker.com/2012/02/sandra-fluke-discusses-being-rejected-from-house-contraception-hearing/
Separation
(1,975 posts)It's a sad state of affairs that we can't protect our sister in arms from people who are supposedly not a threat to them. It's not a subject of a lack of education, twice a year we have to sit through sexual harassment classes. So it's not like we don't know what's right, wrong, or even a grey area.
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Sisters need to be protected...always!