As Seen On The Bathroom Wall

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Rape Should Never Be Arbitrary

Take a look at these names:

Richard Burr (R-NC)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
John Isakson (R-GA)
John McCain (R-AZ)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Thune (R-SD)
David Vitter (R-LA)

Remember them come election time next year if they happen to represent your districts. These 9 men are part of a larger group of 30 who've chosen to take the side of large corporations who deem rape amongst employees to be something not worth criminally investigating but rather handled in-house via arbitration.

In layman's terms, they condone rape.

How? By believing that making contract clauses requiring victims of rape by fellow employees to not report said rape to the police illegal is wrongful governmental interference. Oh yes. The same individuals who went on for hours regarding ACORN, and how the government needs to get involved, are saying that the government should not bother with these corporations, that government shouldn't...well...govern, and that the Senate doesn't do things like that.

It's laughable, to be sure, to hear such a thing being uttered on Capitol Hill, but the sad reality is that there's nothing funny about rape. There's nothing amusing, enjoyable, or pleasant about it. How would any of those men feel if it had been their wife or their daughter who had been raped? How would they feel if their loved ones had been raped by a trusted co-worker, after being harassed without rebuke from supervisors, only to then be raped again - figuratively - by their employers who tell them that they can either handle it in arbitration or lose their job?

Well, I can probably guess, judging by their voting record and their speeches just what they think.

Tom Coburn, for example, condemns abortion in all cases - including rape - because his grandmother was raped.

It seems quite ironic, doesn't it? The Republican party strung up Bill Clinton by his balls in front of all of the world because he had consensual oral sex with an intern and set forth the only Impeachment ever to occur in the history of our country, and yet non-consensual sex, aka RAPE - RAPE-RAPE if Whoopi is reading this - is supported and protected! Who wants to be the person who voted in someone who condones rape? You? Do you want to be THAT husband? THAT father? Brother? Do you want to be that wife? That mother? Sister?

There are 30 men who run this country who condone rape, and we now know their names.

If we can't force them out, then let's vote them out.

Aloha!

3 Comments:

  1. ChristinaM1981 said...
    I hear this. Hear this. Hear.

    I wish all could hear. =/
    Anonymous said...
    It is outrageous that such a law exists. Do you know where I can find it? I will certainly e-mail my senators and congressman about it. How did it ever get passed? No, I know. $$$$$$$$
    Thanks

    btw Andrew Johnson (right after Lincoln) was impeached and acquitted by only one vote. One senator got up from his sickbed to cast the deciding vote.
    Anonymous said...
    I found it. It was the Franken Amendment to a defense spending bill. It passed without these bastards' votes. Yes, they were paid off by big business.

    coming up H.R. 1020 to amend the original Arbitration Act of 1925. There have been several or more since the original bill passed, a lot due to Supreme Court rulings on the original act.

    My senator's and congressman are all Dems, but I"m still gonna write to them about this.

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