On Oz and proposed new consenual sex laws (!!)

MP wants women to sign sex contracts

ANN Bressington today confirmed she was serious that women should sign a contract before sex to combat false rape allegations, if proposed laws are passed.

The independent MP yesterday told Parliament the planned new laws - which make it an offence to continue a sex act with a person after consent if they changed their mind - would make it easier for men to be accused of rape.

Hansard transcript - Read Ann Bressington's comments in Parliament

She also claimed "one-night stands" and casual relationships would become a "high-risk activity". "Perhaps this parliament could devise a contract which men could carry around in their pocket, next to their condoms," she said during a speech to Parliament.

"There could be a waiver should a man meet up with a woman who has had a couple of drinks before they engage in sexual intercourse.

"The contract may contain the name and address of the women, with her driver's licence number, so that the man can see the signatures match, clauses that state that the woman has or has not been drinking or taking drugs - licit or illicit - and that she consents to foreplay."

The proposed contract would also include details of the woman's marital status, whether she has children and whether she consents to being taken to another location to engage in sexual activity.

Bressington: Yes, I was serious

On ABC Radio this morning, Ms Bressington confirmed she thought men should carry sex contracts if the current Bill passed both houses of Parliament.

"(The Bill) opens the door to more false allegations that are already occurring. Men will have no defence from women falsely crying rape," she told the ABC morning show.

"This Bill makes men guilty until proven innocent and they will have no defence."

When quizzed further about the contract idea, she said she was serious because it would prevent men being falsely accused.

Fellow independent MP Kris Hanna, who has been pushing for new consent laws for years, said the Bill's intention was to prevent men being able to claim consent was given in ridiculous situations - such as when a women was unconscious or blind drunk.

"We are trying to encourage reasonable conduct," Mr Hanna told the ABC. He said juries "usually come up with a commonsense result" in the types of cases Ms Bressington was referring to.

Controversial Bill

The same controversial Bill led Independent MP Bob Such to claim T-shirts emblazoned with provocative slogans encouraged sexual assaults when it was debated in the Lower House earlier this year.

Ms Bressington said the planned laws "make men guilty until proven innocent" and suggested the low conviction rate in rape cases was because of inadequate investigative practices rather than poor laws.

She said government was invading "our bedrooms or even the back seat of our cars".

Yarrow Place Rape and Sexual Assault Service director Vanessa Swan said the laws brought SA in to line with other Australian states.

"I think it is a really positive development and will improve the situation for victims of sexual assault," she said.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23475662-5006301,00.html

The US does NOT own the world; Okinawan women

A Message from the Women of Okinawa

To All US GIs in Okinawa

By CounterPunch News Service

Once again, American GIs have raped an Okinawan girl, one from junior high. We are angry.

We do not believe that all of you are rapists. But given the long history of similar crimes over the sixty years from the Battle of Okinawa continuing to today, one could be forgiven for thinking so. If you are a female GI, can you trust these male GIs ?

We know that this incident is only the tip of the iceberg. There have been so many rape victims who have told no one and wept silently in their beds, that you are probably confident that you could get away with it, aren't you. But those days are now over.

We are not going to let us and our mothers, our sisters and our daughters be humiliated any longer. Whatever you do, wherever you go, we'll be watching you.

You have been turned into killing machines. The military organization has sought to teach you to see people not as people, but as something to kill. It is that same training that has taught you see us as someone you can rape casually. Go back to your hometown, where your mother is, and try to get yourself back to being a decent human being.

We do not hate you as individuals. But as members of the US military organization, you are unwelcome here. Maybe you imagine you are protecting Okinawa. But because you are here, we never feel safe. Because you are here, we feel constant fear.

You think that because the US military shed blood to seize Okinawa in World War II, the place belongs to you and you can do anything you want here, don't you.

But whatever countries or governments may have won or lost whatever wars, we have our dignity, our honor, and our freedom, and these are our islands, our land, our sky, our sea. It is here that we maintain the chain of life, giving birth to children, and raising them to be adults. This is the women of Okinawa. And this is what we are proud of. We will not allow you to continue to insult the pride, the honor, the dignity of us and our mothers, sisters and daughters. Go back to America. Now.

Okiinawan women are handing this statement to US military personnel. Contact address: ushiibaakami@yahoo.co.jp

Rape: Just Another Prerogative of the State

by John M. Regan, Jr.
by John M. Regan, Jr.

In Saudi Arabia, a young woman is violently gang-raped by strangers. Her rapists receive a light punishment, but she receives punishment as well. When she and her lawyer complain about it, her punishment is increased and the lawyer is disciplined for making such a fuss. The rape victim’s punishment has yet to be carried out. In the meantime, the whole episode is an international outrage.

In the United States in the State of New York, a young woman is violently raped at knifepoint by a stranger. Her rapist receives a light punishment but she receives punishment as well. When she and her lawyer complain about it, her punishment is increased and the lawyer is disciplined for making such a fuss.

In the United States case, the rape victim is now in prison. Nobody seems to be too worried about it, though, except her and her lawyer.

Don’t believe me? It’s all a matter of public record. The rape victim’s name is Sephora Davis. She was prosecuted in Livingston County, New York by District Attorney Thomas E. Moran under indictment number 2004-276. Mr. Moran explicitly stated in court papers that it didn’t matter that Sephora Davis was raped.

The courts of the United States agreed with Mr. Moran and put Sephora Davis in prison, where she remains, at the Albion Correctional Facility. Her inmate number is 07-G-0011.

Her lawyer is…….me.

Supposedly, the reason for the outrage over what occurred in Saudi Arabia is that the regime there "oppresses women". Why is there no outrage over the exact same thing happening in the supposedly much more enlightened People’s Republic of New York? Because in theory, we don’t oppress women; we just worship the state, and the state’s power. We nurture it, feed it, justify it, lie and cheat for it. We adore it and nothing else. So in that context, oppressing women is okay.

You see, Sephora Davis’ rapist was an agent of the state – a police informant who, along with his police officer sponsor, falsely implicated her in his own crime – an armed robbery he and two accomplices committed shortly after the rape. By that time Sephora had been drugged and was passed out in the car. That has also never been disputed and is also a matter of public record.

From there, this is how it works in New York. The police informant gets backed up by the police, naturally. Then the District Attorney backs up the police. Then the court backs up the District Attorney. Then the appellate courts back up the lower court. Yes, this is how political power works.

But sometimes it gets embarrassing. I mean, look what has happened in Saudi Arabia.

Of course, Saudi Arabia is an ignorant and backward country. In their courts they publicly acknowledge that the young woman before them was raped and carry out their judicial atrocity in the light of day. What a bunch of rubes.

We in New York are much more sophisticated, so here our judges write court opinions pretending that no one ever said anything about Sephora Davis being raped, then we put her in prison where she gets her number. And now we can forget about it, because she is a "criminal", and who cares about them?

You’d think the "media", the venerable "fourth estate", would be all over this. Think again. The local newspaper barely mentioned the little rape problem – although that is at least more than the courts would do. And in a remarkable inversion of their usual journalistic policy they refused to name the rapist even though they named his victim. I think it’s because a rape isn’t a rape unless and until the government says so through some authorized "official".

Go to Hillary Clinton, you say? The front-running presidential candidate and junior United States Senator from New York? The feminist ideologue, natural champion of rape victims? Sephora’s mother did, but….not a chance. Hillary will spout off about the woman in Saudi Arabia, but the task of siding with a lone constituent against the state’s entire legal power structure is politically problematic, even if that constituent is a rape victim. Besides, the Saudis are such an easy target – and so conveniently far away, too.

Hillary understands how political power works. On to the presidency, I guess.

But surely there are appeals and whatnot? Oh, sure – well, sort of. There are endless pleas you can make – all equally meaningless, devoid of substance and futile. In practical terms, it is fair to say that criminal convictions in New York are easy to get and never overturned – at least not for people who are actually innocent. The "system" is broken underneath a hollow façade. How do you think something like this can happen in the first place?

Don’t take my word for it, though. It has been scientifically established.

On that subject, while I certainly admire the Innocence Project and their work very much, I have to respectfully disagree with their conclusion that the legislature can do something about the broken system. The problems run far deeper than misinterpreting evidence or misapplying the law. It’s more like there’s no genuine concept of "evidence" or "law" at all. In most cases, making "arguments" before a judge in New York is like trying to reason with a barbarian, a simple creature that can understand only force: as a general rule, don’t bother. And you cannot cure barbarism by passing new laws – barbarians can’t really read them.

Fortunately, New York is emptying out of civilized human beings. The young, especially, are leaving in droves. Those few that remain are increasingly fodder for a ludicrously overbuilt and fundamentally parasitic prison system, overfed by petty tyrant prosecutors like Mr. Moran. Of course, the civilized world understands that dysfunctional justice systems go hand-in-hand with the economic decline so painfully evident in the region. But an economy is not grounded in force, so this simple connection is beyond the comprehension of New York in the early 21^st century.

We speak only the language of power. And in that language, prosecutors and judges are "public servants" and their victims have prison inmate numbers.

Feminists have long argued that rape is about power, not sex. I used to think that was bullshit.

November 24, 2007

John M. Regan, Jr. [send him mail] is a sometime attorney precariously living in Rochester, New York. He has filed a petition on behalf of Sephora Davis with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C.

Copyright © 2007 LewRockwell.com

Abu Ghraib revisted (sick making)

http://www.aztlan.net/abu_ghraib_revisited.htm

After that, the four soldiers raped me alternately the matter which made me lose my consciousness. When I regained the consciousness I found myself in the cell and the traces of their teeth, nails and cigarettes are in everywhere in my body.

Nadia stopped narrating her tragedy to wipe her tears, then she continued: After one day Mary came and told me that I was cooperative, and I will be released but after I watch the film that they have shot. I was in pain when I saw the film, and she (Mary) said: you have been created for the sole purpose for us to enjoy

UPDATE

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One of our subscribers has located the above referenced disturbing new video that was deleted from YouTube.com. We are informed that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division is presently investigating the allegations made in the video. Please be warned, the video below is extremely disturbing: