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family values

On Organized Fearmongering Revealed, Or, "Lock Up The Kids…It's The Gay!"

by: fake consultant

Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 14:37:01 PM EDT

The airwaves (and the print and blog waves, for that matter) are filled with the news that a Federal Judge in California has declared that State's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional, which could clear the way for the resumption of same-sex weddings in the State.

Ordinarily, this would be the point where I would present to you a walkthrough of the ruling, and we'd have a fine conversation about the legal implications of what has happened.

I'm not doing that today, frankly, because the ground is already well-covered; instead, we're going to take a look at some of the tactics that were used to pass Prop 8, as they were presented in Judge Vaughan's opinion.

It's an ugly story-and even more than that, it's a reminder of why it's tough to advance civil rights through the political process, and what you have to deal with when you're trying to make such a thing happen.

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Judd Gregg's Family Values - an editorial

by: susanthe

Fri Oct 09, 2009 at 07:21:49 AM EDT

(Maddening. - promoted by Dean Barker)

Jamie Leigh Jones went to Iraq in 2005, to work for Halliburton's then subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown, and Root. When she signed the contract, she was shown pictures of a small trailer where she would live with other women. The reality was quite different. She found herself assigned to a huge barracks full of men. She complained to the company. Nothing happened. Four days after her arrival, she was socializing with some coworkers. One of the male firefighters handed her a drink, while making a comment about "roofies."  Ms. Jones was 21, and believed that she was working with people who were all on the same side. She thought he was joking. She remembers taking a few sips. After that, she has no memory.

Ms. Jones woke up naked and in pain. She'd been gang raped and sodomized. One of the men was still there, passed out. He wasn't worried about the repercussions, you see. The men had learned that there would be no repercussions. She reported the attack to the company. A doctor examined her, and a rape kit was done. It was turned over to KBR officials, and has never been seen since. Jamie Leigh Jones was locked in a shipping container with no food or water. She was told that she needed to "get over it." She eventually convinced one of the guards to allow her to use his cell phone. She called her father, who called their Congressman, and she was rescued, and brought back to the US. She had to have reconstructive surgery on her breasts.

Halliburton/KBR took no action against her attackers. The military, and the US Dept. of Justice did not prosecute. The contract she'd signed forced her into mandatory, binding, arbitration with the company. Halliburton would hire the arbitrator, the proceeds would be secret, and Jamie Leigh Jones would have no right to appeal if she lost. Halliburton had only lost 3 arbitration cases.  

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Dick Cheney's Pottymouth Enables TV Obscenity

by: elwood

Tue Jun 05, 2007 at 09:40:21 AM EDT

The NYT tells the story.

Cheney's "Go f--- yourself" to Senator Leahy was considered evidence by the court that such obscenities are now mainstream and cannot automatically elicit FCC fines.

The Republican Party: For Family Values.

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