Republican Dirty Tricks

Normal people know that the only reason Republican politicians go through the motions of political office, is to rig the game in favor of the corporations they truly work for.  Nothing speaks to that more than their recent vote in favor of rape.

In the recent Defense Appropriation bill, Senator Al Franken proposed an amendment that would  punish government contractors if they “restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.”   The Franken Amendment called for  U.S. defense contractors to allow their employees access to U.S. courts in cases of rape or sexual assault, nullifying any binding arbitration employment agreement the employee may have signed so they could work in this disastrous, Republican wet-dream economy in which job opportunities are limited.  The Franken Amendment was proposed in response to a heinous crime committed in 2005 where newly minted Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones was drugged and gang-raped by her co-workers while working in Iraq.  After brutally raping an unconscious coworker, the Halliburton/KBR ghouls then locked their victim in a shipping container for over a day to prevent her from reporting the attack.

After a day, a sympathetic guard gave Jones a cell phone and she called her father who subsequently contacted Republican representative Ted Poe who, in turn, contacted the State Department. Agents from the U.S. Embassy in Bagdad were then dispatched to free Ms. Jones from KBR clutches.  An interesting side note is that Halliburton/KBR has since banned the use of all personal cell phones – citing no apparent reason – but anyone with a brain can see that this was so the company can protect itself from future crimes being reported, never mind that this policy endangers all Halliburton/KBR employees who are attacked while on the company clock. Read more about that here.

The heinous crime Jamie Lee Jones suffered occurred outside the jurisdiction of U.S. criminal code, but to add insult to injury, Jones was not allowed to sue Halliburton/KBR because her employment contract said that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in the corporation-favoring process of “private arbitration.”  Jones testified under oath before the House Judiciary Committee that a feeling of lawlessness permeated Halliburton/KBR and fostered a hostile working environment for women and that she personally knew of 11 other victims of crimes perpetrated by Halliburton/KBR coworkers.

As more evidence to the fact that Republican politicians operate solely as conspiratorial “inside-men” for Corporate America, 30 (all-male) Republicans voted AGAINST Franken’s amendment and thus voted to ensure that American women who are the victims of sexual assault will have no recourse for justice if they are raped by government contractors.

Now these 30 pro-rape Republicans are upset that their pro-rape vote makes them look like the corporate, pro-rape, shills that they are.  Rather than take responsibility for their pro-rape stance, members of the so-called “party of personal responsibility” are blaming Al Frankin, the sponsor of the amendment, and whining that their reprehensible vote makes them look bad – no doubt employing the tactics of all rapists who have blamed their crimes on victims who dressed provocatively.

Republican for Rape, Sen. John Cornyn said in an interview, “Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this rape —and use that as a justification to frankly misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don’t think it’s a very constructive thing,”

Ironically, the stance of Republicans for Rape is similar to a rapist who blames a rape victim for dressing too sexy.  Normal people (non-Republicans) know that to expose the GOP as the pigs that they are is a good thing indeed.

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