I thought how lucky I was to have survived some near incidences without really knowing the dangers of being in another country or being in the military.
The world is still barbaric when it comes to equal rights for all humans. It's all about power and control.
Didn't I once say that on a polar opposite planet: the insane would be considered sane.
Well, here we are folks!
All these dictators, the insane, running the countries and controlling the people. They are allowed to shoot and kill innocent people. They command armies. Is this SANE?
And not far behind them are our American military commanders.
The military is a dictatorship. Our military runs with the same barbaric mentality that the Muslim world has towards its women.
Men controlling women with fear. It's all about power.
"SGT Havrilla deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. Her supervisor sexually harassed her, stating on one occasion that he “really wanted to fuck [her] right now.” On another occasion, as SGT Havrilla’s peers watched, he walked up behind SGT Havrilla, grabbed her waist and kissed and bit the back of her neck. He began to slap her bottom whenever he passed by. He also belittled and mocked SGT Havrilla [SGT] Havrilla suffered from the harassment to such a degree that she sought medical assistance. Subsequently, SGT Havrilla worked with an individual from a canine unit. That same colleague raped her. He pulled her into his bed, held her down, and raped her. He
also photographed the rape. SGT Havrilla reported the sexual harassment and rape within approximately one month, under the
military’s restricted reporting policy. In February of 2009 SGT Havrilla reported for four weeks of active duty training.
During this training, she saw her rapist in the shopette on Fort Leonard Wood. Upon seeing her rapist, SGT Havrilla went into shock. She immediately sought the assistance of the military chaplain. When SGT Havrilla met with the military chaplain, he told her that “it must have been God’s will for her to be raped” and recommended that she attend church more frequently.
SGT Havrilla suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic depression."
Unfortunately, when the military sends their women along with their men anywhere in the world, you would think the men would protect "their own" instead of being the threat. Not all soldiers are threats, but there are some in command positions that feel they can abuse women.
Now that a woman's defense organization is suing Defense Secretaries Gates and Rumsfeld for that mind set of controlling women through rape;
Defense Secretary Gates thinks he is covering his derrière by telling the Senate committee that the military is putting more people in charge of the complaints department.
Rumsfeld 'Ignored' US Military Rape Problem (news.sky.com)
........"Although she complained to authorities and was bruised from her shoulders to elbows from being held down, she says charges were not filed because the commander determined she did not act like a rape victim and did not struggle enough. The lawsuit alleges her attackers include an army criminal investigator and an army National Guard commander.It also asks for a third party to handle complaints as individual commanders have too much say in how allegations are handled."The problem of rape in the military is not only service members getting raped, but it's the entire way that the military as a whole is dealing with it," said Panayiota Bertzikis. a claimant in the lawsuit who claims she was raped in 2006.Ms Bertzikis, who is now the executive director of the Military Rape Crisis Centre, said authorities did not take substantial steps to investigate her claim.The now 29-year-old said she was forced to live on the same floor as her alleged attacker, where she endured name-calling from colleagues.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said in a statement that sexual assault is a wider societal problem and Mr Gates has been working to ensure the military is doing all it can to prevent and respond to it as a "command priority"."That means providing more money, personnel, training and expertise, including reaching out to other large institutions such as universities to learn best practices," said Mr Morrell.The military had already planned to roll out a new hotline victims can call in April, said Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith.
I was in the military and I know this attitude towards women by their superiors was real. I was fortunately too afraid to allow myself to be put in those situations, but if I did not have a choice and was armed, I don't think I would hesitate to warn them to stay away; especially if I feared for my life.
Unfortunately, I think most women in the military realize they have to take orders from their boss without question because the military is a dictatorship. ( governed by a dictator: typically one who obtains power by force.
I thought of how stupid it sounded for the Defense Secretary to act as if he needed more people, money and training to solve the problem.
The Defense Secretary or the President (the Commander in Chief of the armed forces) could have "Commanded" higher moral standards among his commanders in the field or be discharged.
Hello! It's a dictatorship.
To solve the problem of abusive behavior among the soldiers can be done very easily under a dictatorship. Commanders don't need university study panels.
It's a moral's issue. Either you have them or you DON'T.
Presently, the moral values of our military has been promoting a rapist to a higher rank while discharging the victim, the one who is 'weaker.'
Maybe, if the victim were stronger and cut off her attacker's penis; the victim would have gotten the promotion.
No way. Instead of saluting her, the men would be cupping their private parts; and how can they carry their gun too?It is the mind set of the military commanders that allows women soldiers to be raped and harassed by their fellow soldiers which makes them no better or different from other insane dictators who rule by fear.
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