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Heritage Foundation, Part of Right Wing Infrastructure, Defends 30 Republican Senators Who Enabled Rape

Submitted by mark karlin on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 11:09am.

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BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

For BuzzFlash, when it comes to enabling rape, the Republican think tank-media-political infrastructure sticks together: a bunch of white guys -- primarily from the South -- who believe corporate criminal personhood trumps the rule of law when it comes to gang rape.

I have written two pieces on the extraordinarily shocking and ethically sick vote of 3/4s of the GOP Senate delegation who voted not to cut off the contracts of defense contractors who prohibit employees from suing them for job-related rape.

Sure enough, the right wing Heritage Foundation -- who, along with the American Enterprise Institute, is a favorite of the "respected" RWNJs --wrote a convoluted defense of the 30 GOP Senators who claimed that not interfering with Halliburton/KBR and other leeches on the government was more important than holding them accountable for preventing rape in the workplace.

The Heritage Foundation managed to, in the same "defense of rape" article, argue that because the federal courts held that Halliburton/KBR could not prevent a rape victim from suing, there was no need to punish them for trying to prevent such a suit (still trying by the way). Heritage also managed to blame the whole idea of allowing a lawsuit for rape against the likes of Halliburton as a stealth tactic by attorneys to launch frivolous lawsuits that would result in the creation of fewer jobs.

Excuse us, we are talking about rape here.

So now we are discussing the vast right wing infrastructure created over three decades supporting rape. If you are a woman, how can you vote Republican? It's a question of backing a party that enables rape, period, whatever specious defense they cook up.

A satirical site posted the photos of all 30 GOP Senators who voted for corporate noblesse oblige privilege over rape prevention and accountablity. You can view the rape rogues gallery, with a pink frame for any Republican Senator from a state where both Senators voted for rape.

I guess if you're in the GOP, rape and racism are as American as apple pie and a noose.

Didn't they used to lynch black men for just looking at a white woman the wrong way?

These are some twisted, perverse minds in the GOP, and enablers of crime.

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Conservatives

Submitted by cd348 on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 6:29am.

What a benign term for a group of people who are bent on destroying the humanity of the world and what is left of human decency. Inhuman, inhumane, unfeeling, uncaring, are the terms that I prefer for these perfidious slime.

30 Conservatives 'Honor' woman's rape

Submitted by Chuck38 on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 10:49pm.

Chuck38 These sexist assholes still view women as 2nd class, property, slave to men.

All they are really seeing is their next bowel movement as it descends into their consciousness,

because that's where their heads are.... and where they remain. Pass the toilet paper!!!

I Know!

Submitted by neoconned on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 8:59pm.

Let's allow these 30 Good Christian Conservatives to share a cell - er, bunk with Bruno and Bubba for a night over at the local grey bar hotel. They just might decide to alter their opinions by breakfast.

What else is new?

Submitted by rlkirshy on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 6:57pm.

While beyond disapointed, I am not shocked. Since I began to pay attention some years ago, I have watched the hypocracy of the conservatives/republicans play itself out. But what is worse to me is how people follow them blindly. They pin God to thier chests and then spit on humanity, compassion and fairness. They care for nothing beyond themselves so why should a rape victim get their support.

It's actually a lot more pervasive than that.

Submitted by kathy2 on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 4:15pm.

But the rape of female military personnel just isn't occurring with KBR and the private sector. Some veterans' studies put its incidence at 30%, and that's with an estimated 80% of the victims not coming forward:

http://www.msmagazine.com/Fall2008/TheScandalOfMilitaryRape.asp

I don't believe the "enablers of crime" are a small group of GOP senators and private contractors or part of "the right wing structure." That's putting a very selective spin on a crime inflicted upon large numbers of women serving in the military.

Show me a Conservative and

Submitted by Atmost11 on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 3:22pm.

Show me a Conservative and I'll show you a Bi-Partisan, Moderate, Centrist who lets him get away with it.

Media Coverage of Rape Votes

Submitted by lapdogs on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 1:46pm.

Can BuzzFlash Readers across the country please tell me just how much your local newspaper and local TV "news" stations covered this hypocritical vote?

Or does this prove you have to watch Jon Stewert's Daily Show to get the news?

Like Jon said, this Bill by Al Franken was a "no brainer" and yet it got 30 NO VOTES from Republicans.

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Liberal Media? What Liberal Media?

When will we realize....

Submitted by Chabuka on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 1:05pm.

that many of those "on the right" are not just honest brokers of right-minded" ideologue thinking, but are actually, dangerous sociopaths....?

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