After rape victim used cell phone to call for help, KBR bans use of personal phones in Iraq.
By on Aug 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
After rape victim used cell phone to call for help, KBR bans use of personal phones in Iraq.
This weekend, defense contracting giant KBR announced it would ban the use of personal cell phones by its employees in Iraq, citing no specific reason. Though KBR has not indicated the ban is related to the numerous allegations of rape by female KBR employees by their male coworkers, the ban could endanger future victims. Jamie Leigh Jones, the first victim to come forward publicly, explained that after she was gang-raped by coworkers and held in a shipping container for days, “she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas.”
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Cheney would be so proud.
¶ AIO
August 4th, 2008 at 2:59 pmWhere would Mark Wahlberg have been in “Three Kings” without access to confiscated cellphones, eh goony bird?
August 4th, 2008 at 3:00 pmYeah — we can’t have rape victims blabbing now, can we? It might make us look bad!
/snark
August 4th, 2008 at 3:02 pmJust another example of Man’s Inhumanity to Man, and all with the complete support and blessing of our president.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pmCallin’ fer help when yer coworkers gang rape you and imprison you afterward?
You better believe that’s a paddlin’.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:05 pmThe more that we see of what’s going in Iraq, the more it seems like its the Iraqi’s who teach us a few things about democracy….
August 4th, 2008 at 3:05 pmI guess since Reid’s too busy to impeach bush…this’ll be set on the ‘back burner’ too….
…waaaaaaaaay back.
Our ‘christian democracy’…is there anything it can’t ignore for the good of its corporate masters?
August 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pmThe rogue warrior culture takes what it wants, regardless of who it belongs to, or who gets hurt. Bush and Cheney are rogue warriors, currently greasing the skids for an attack on a Persian Gulf country. Keep your eyes peeled for their next conquest.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/08/images/20080803-1_d-0195-3-515h.html
August 4th, 2008 at 3:14 pmAnd the U.S. Government’s paying them to do this! Un-believable! There is no, absolutely no, bottom to this insanity. Not content with allowing, almost licensing, rape, now the victims aren’t allowed to call for help?!?!?? What next, jail the victims for not yelling loud enough for help? No bottom to this particular fetid swamp.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:14 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
I’m sure it has been said before but, If this how we treat our own, I cannot begin to imagine the horror we have inflicted upon Iraqi people.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pmThis is way messed up.
“Ma’am, we’ve heard reports of screaming in the vicinity.”
“Yes, thank God you’re here, I was attacked and raped by those men over there. The ones laughing and pointing, holding my underwear and pants.”
“Ma’am, we have strict rules against disturbing the peace here, please come with me. Hands behind your back.”
August 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pmHow many women does it take to screw in a light bulb?
KBR doesnt care
August 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pmWhat’s the brass’ cut from the contractors? What the hell is going on in the minds of these men who are supposed to defend the lives and honor of Americans, especially women and children?
Sounds like a huge, corrupt frat house.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:26 pmespecially considering frat houses are full of spoiled brat pussies.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pmWe rape ‘em, hold them hostage in solitary confinement without rights of contact with the outside world. All the time we let interrogators talk to them to break their story.
Gitmo. But also victims of rape working for KBR.
Any chance we can start waterboarding the rape victims any time soon ?
August 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pmAnd this is the best possible argument for returning self sufficiency to the armed forces.
We shouldn’t need no stinkin’ KBR!!!
August 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pmWhat I can’t understand is why any female would willingly work for these people. I guess it’s the big bucks they pay. There would be no amount of money that could get me to work for these people since they totally lack morals.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:58 pmThese criminals need to have their wings clipped! Are we no longer a nation of law?
August 4th, 2008 at 4:10 pmThis is sick but that else can we expect from our bush regime. WE need a regime change!
August 4th, 2008 at 4:22 pmIt seems to dbadass that dbadass thinks that dbadass prefers the comic stylings of Daryll when it comes to bs sactimonious drivel. dbadass also feels no sandwich should ever be left only partially consumed.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:41 pmbitblt,
These facts would include these:
bit is illogical, does not cite his “facts” (including the ripping yarn about the “many” illegals who have killed US citizens), and overall makes an argument that is so transparently bigoted and false that it is just amazing.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:50 pmbit
Huh? First off, qualify “many” – what does that mean? 50%, 60% of adults? Huh?
August 4th, 2008 at 4:54 pmbit
At “any time” bit? Define “any time” – nevermind that you’re dead wrong anyhow. So the mid-third trimester is eligible for abortion at the woman’s whim?
August 4th, 2008 at 4:56 pmbit
Sexually perverted according to you? So you are now the moral arbiter for sexuality now? Also, aside from the fact that this has NO POSSIBLE connection to MEN gang-raping a WOMAN, or RAPE, or ASSAULT, or anything detailed in the post, what does the transference of marriage licenses over state jurisdictions have to do with GANG RAPE?
August 4th, 2008 at 4:58 pmbit
Let’s see the statistics please. Oh yea, this is a complete fabrication with NO BASIS IN REALITY.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pmbit
Aren’t you for the free-market? Anyway, how do you sell morality? Property isn’t to be sold?
You’re completely nuts, considering the first European settlers here came for economic reasons. (See Roanoke – moron)
August 4th, 2008 at 5:02 pmbitblt wins for the most Outrageously Moronic Troll of the day.
Congratulations for lowering the collective intelligence of all the posts on this board to the level of a sea cucumber. That’s how much of an outlier you are here.
I mean, I’ve read some really hateful and ignorant stuff on here, but somehow you’ve managed to take something that EVERYONE should be outraged about and turned it into some perverse soapbox on which you spew your bigotry and illogic for everyone to suffer from.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pmNice going, KBR.
NOT.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pmI understand that psychiatrists worry a little about someone who refers to himself in the third person.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:10 pmJebus. The trolls are defending gang rape?
Now I have seen everything…
…and I wish I hadn’t.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pmbit may actually be the most homophobic troll we have here. Even more than Daryll. And that is going a LONG way down the sewer pipe!
August 4th, 2008 at 5:14 pmThanks for flushing the sick f uck bitblt troll, TP — thanks to Tweedster.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pmAnnie, it’s even worse than that.
Google: McCain gorilla rape
August 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pmbitblt Says
August 4th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
_________________________________________________
Wow — you’ve spewed so much claptrap that it’s tough to know where to begin.
Your premise is that our moral standards have deteriorated to the point where nobody had a conscience left to prevent them from doing horrible things — is that more or less the point you’re trying to make?
You may have a point, but I don’t think you have backed it up very well.
First — while I’m sure there are some people who have no problem with adultery, most Americans still regard it as morally wrong. But even though adultery is repugnant, it and rape are different things.
Second — a woman cannot “choose to destroy her unborn baby at any given time.” She may choose to terminate a pregnancy within the first trimester, and during the second trimester when certain conditions are present. But abortion and rape are different things.
Third — yes, in two states, gays can legally get married. You have something against monogamy and commitment? It really doesn’t matter — a gay couple pledging lifetime commitment to each other has nothing to do with rape. Do you honestly think that gang-rapists would claim that California law regarding gay marriage would lead them to rape somebody?
Fourth — I know of no place in the United States that would provide sanctuary or immunity to ANYONE (here illegally or not) who committed murder or other serious crime. This might have something to do with rape (in that rape is also a crime) if it was true, but you’ll have to provide the names of some actual places where these killer illegals are getting protection from justice.
You use these points to somehow explain why people would gang-rape a woman. Quite frankly, I don’t see the connection. I DO see a connection between rape — an act of power assertion and complete selfishness — to a mindset that celebrates greed, power, superiority, and an “I got mine” attitude. In other words, the very same values the current bunch of neocons have been pushing.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:32 pmmisshusseinmolly,
Great response. I thought of trying to counter his post, too, but with one arm in a cast, it makes my typing too slow. And they went ahead and deleted it anyway (it appears). But your response was excellent.
You make a good point to keep bringing up that this is about rape, not “deviant sex” of any kind. The trolls don’t view rape as a crime, apparently.
BTW, what the right-wing homophobes keep ignoring is the Constitution:
Article. IV.
Section. 1.
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
If a state wishes to say that two persons shall be recognized as “married”, all the other states have to do that, too. That’s why they are so afraid of any state allowing same-sex marriages.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:00 pmI bet bitbit’s mother wishes daily she’d chosen abortion.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pmNice retort molly.
Thanks Zooey.
Sometimes the trolls on here are vaguely entertaining in a “I-want-to-kill-some-time” kind of way, but bitblt went totally overboard on this. Disgustingly so.
bitblt is on the list of trolls that deserve no quarter. Anytime I catch this weasel on TP I’ll make a special point to refute and humiliate his idiotic stances on things.
Thanks bit, you’ve re-ignited my passion for troll hunting. Might as well change your “handle” now – I mean, it won’t work to hide you, but it’ll be another highlight of how desperately pathetic and fearful you are.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:26 pmShayne,
There’s still hope.
Considering he doesn’t seem to have developed a conscience, or empathy, or anything decent, one could probably argue he is a “unborn” human. I mean, aside from a loose grasp on language, I view bitblt as less of a living being than a zygote.
He can still be aborted, according to his twisted logic.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:29 pmI know of no place in the United States that would provide sanctuary or immunity to ANYONE (here illegally or not) who committed murder or other serious crime.
~misshusseinmolly
Actually, and under the risk of going seriously off-topic, the city of San Francisco actively shielded from deportation underage illegal aliens who committed felonies. It all became a major political hot potato for the city a few weeks ago, when one such felon shot and killed a father and his two sons in cold blood, in plain day light.
Check this link to the San Francisco Chronicle. It was all a gross debasement -and absolute misapplication- of sanctuary laws. I have no idea how the city got to this point.
Now, having said all that, I don’t know that this is true in “many states”. It also has absolutely nothing to do with gang rape, and most certainly does not justify the actions by KBR’s management that could potentially endanger future victims.
I cannot understand how KBR didn’t take events like Jones’ assault into consideration when deciding on this policy. Or maybe they were.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:45 pmAnd, judging by what others replied, the troll is braindead. What else is new?
August 4th, 2008 at 6:49 pmThis and many other tread’s of late make me ill..First the rape’s, cover up’s KBR making their employee’s give up cell phone use and all the million’s of crime’s that bush/ cheney have comitted it’s become staggering to even read about on a daily bases..If the rape victom does survive many are plagued for life just like post tramatic stress disorder, it is a crime of violence and dominance and can leave a person, male or female with night terror’s that no shrink can fix, ever…Similar to war when a vet and I compared deadly experience’s…All I can offer is Blessings and hope the person can heal and that some point in time the criminal’s are brought to justice..
I beginning to think I need to be like all my neighbor’s, absent to all information, don’t vote and don’t care…..Since I can’t seem to help in any meaningful way, patition’s and marche’s don’t work I think I had best not bother and resign myself to tend to the Bear and the Tree’s….Blessings
August 4th, 2008 at 7:04 pmbit
A woman in the U.S. can choose to destroy her unborn child at any time.
Oh, so that makes it okay to rape them. I see how you think.
Carry on, then.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:24 pmI simply can not believe that this is happening in this century. Family values indeed! Mr. Prince should be spayed with an RPG.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:26 pmGregor Samsa Says: of sanctuary laws
August 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pmTo be fair Gregor, Many jurisdictions all over the US have been held back from using Imigration status checks when arresting/prosocuting criminals.
There are numerous accidents involing illegal who killed U.S.citizens at this link.
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/
Some stories are of murders and there are links to stories about illegals murdering citizens.
The point of this link…those whose duty it is to protect the citizens are abrogating their duties.
Why?
By abrogating these duties does anyone have increased respect for the rule of law in the U.S.?
August 4th, 2008 at 11:42 pmbitblt Says:
There are numerous accidents involing illegal who killed U.S.citizens at this link.
Bitostupidity. You arent too bright are you? You didnt really think that made any point did you? I mean there are millions of illegal immigrants in the US. So of course some of them will kill people. Do you have ANY evidence they are murderers in a higher percentage than US citizens? If you DO then cough it up if you dont then show yourself out in disgrace and spare us the stupidity.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:54 amI am so bummed that I had to work rather than enjoy the pummeling of the sandwich
August 5th, 2008 at 1:53 amTweedster Says:
bit
In two states, CA and MA, people of the same gender can enter into a state sanctioned, sexually perverted relationship and called it a marriage. It appears that there are people in these states who think the people in the other states should recognize the so-called marriages.
Sexually perverted according to you? So you are now the moral arbiter for sexuality now? Also, aside from the fact that this has NO POSSIBLE connection to MEN gang-raping a WOMAN, or RAPE, or ASSAULT, or anything detailed in the post, what does the transference of marriage licenses over state jurisdictions have to do with GANG RAPE?
you got to love the wingnut twisted sense of morality…consentual relationships between two people of the same gender is infinitely worse than nonconsentual, never mind the polite talk, RAPE…
At least I think that’s what he’s trying to say…
August 5th, 2008 at 5:21 amTwisted priorities bit. No wonder that you do not get any respect here…Your words make it sound like you would much rather hate against so-called “illegal immigrants” and the GLBT community than to actually protect our women from rape and sexual assault…I truly hope that this is not the case…
August 5th, 2008 at 5:22 amIf I were her father.. I can’t even imagine how HYSTERICALLY PISSED I would be.
August 5th, 2008 at 5:30 pm>>There are numerous accidents involing illegal who killed U.S.citizens at this link.<<
There wouldn’t be an illegal immigration problem if we simply punished the illegal employers. But I suppose it’s more fun to bash poor people and let their rich employers get away with breaking the law.
August 5th, 2008 at 5:49 pmLet’s just think about this for a moment, shall we? Heaven forbid we should draw any attention to these evil people doing evil things in the name of freedom.That poor woman.Rape is an act of violence. Just what they’re there for…how many others did they do that to? Cheney and his cronies…none of them have any moral compass. My goodness, McCain took his wife and daughter to the damn biker fest (read biker orgy)…offered his wife up. Think he condons this kind of behavior? You bet!Called her the “C” word…JOKED about rape. He’ll fit right in with the rest of the idiots. THIS is serious. If he gets into office, why would he change the contractor? He’ll probably think KBR’S doing a fine job! Any one reading this should be greatly disturbed, no matter what your political party.Shame on them. I hope she’s ok.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:06 pm