Armed Forces Network is a DoD operation. Contacting them about Pigface is useless

[Stinky The Clown]

Contact the White House, to whom the DoD reports. Leon Panetta is in charge and can effect change.

[onehandle]

1. DoD Main Phone Number and the Secretary of Defense's snailmail address:

But yes, I would contact the White House first.

From here:
http://www.defense.gov/landing/comment.aspx

703-571-3343

Leon E. Panetta
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1000

[Stinky The Clown]

3. White House switchboard here:

202-456-1414

Online contact here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

I'm guessing the online contact is the better course. At least its what I tend to do. I only called once, a long time ago.

[csziggy]

2. A linkage that may get some traction

Our armed forces have an acknowledged problem with rape in the ranks to the point that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has called it "the epidemic" of rape and sexual assaults in our armed forces. "In 2010, an estimated 19,000 service members were raped or sexually assaulted by other service members. Clearly, more resources devoted to counseling for victims and training for prosecutors and judges will help." http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/07/opinion/speier-military-rape/index.html

* 3,158 military sexual assaults were reported in fiscal year 2010, a decrease of 2% from fiscal year 2009. Only about a quarter of these sexual assaults occurred during deployment to a combat zone.
* While sexual assaults are notoriously under-reported, this problem is exacerbated in military settings. The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that only 13.5% of survivors report the assault, and that in 2010 alone, over 19,000 sexual assaults occurred in the military.
* Approximately 55% of women and 38% of men report that their assailant sexually harassed or stalked them prior to the incident of rape or sexual assault.
* Prosecution rates for sexual predators are astoundingly low—in 2010, less than 21% of reported cases went to trial. Of these 529 alleged perpetrators who were prosecuted, only 53% were convicted while 41% were acquitted or had charges dismissed. An additional 6% were discharged or resigned in lieu of courts-martial (RILO), which effectively means the military allowed rapists quit their jobs in order to avoid facing charges.
http://servicewomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/R-SASH-Quick-Facts-081811.pdf

Rush's misogynist attitudes could contribute to the attitudes that lead to the rape problem in the military.

[mercuryblues]

4. thnx

for that info. I have some more letters to write in the morning.

[Mimosa]

5. Plenty of women serve in the military these days.

What Pigface said was obscene and insulting to all women and men, too.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Contact with AFN results in a non-answer if one is not in the military

So suggests the stock reply that Sparkly got from them. Others have posted the very same non-answer reply from them.

So, either the members of the military have to tell them to remove PigBoy or he stays.

Unless we can put pressure on the SecDef, who works for the POTUS, to do something.