Another KBR Rape Case

Edify_Always_In_All_Ways · 08-06-08, 03:48 PM

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It was an early January morning in 2008 when 42-year-old Dawn Leamon, a paramedic for a defense contractor in southern Iraq, woke up to find her entire room shaking. The shipping container that served as her living quarters was reverberating from nearby rocket attacks, and she was jolted awake to discover an awful reality. "Right then my whole life was turned upside down," she says...

...Leamon felt very alone. But she was not.

In fact, a growing number of women employees working for US defense contractors in the Middle East are coming forward with complaints of violence directed at them. As the Iraq War drags on, and as stories of US security contractors who seem to operate with impunity continue to emerge (like Blackwater and its deadly attack against Iraqi civilians on September 16, 2007), a rash of new sexual assault and sexual harassment complaints are being lodged against overseas contractors--by their own employees. Todd Kelly, a lawyer in Houston, says his firm alone has fifteen clients with sexual assault, sexual harassment and retaliation complaints (for reporting assault and/or harassment) against Halliburton and its former subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root LLC (KBR), as well as Cayman Island-based Service Employees International Inc., a KBR shell company. (While Leamon is technically an SEII employee, she is supervised by KBR staff as a KBR employee.)

Basically, a KBR employee was anally raped by her own colleagues in a foreign country, then cut off from the mainland by her superiors so she couldn't complain. And I haven't seen anything about it on the forum yet?

Middleground · 08-07-08, 06:01 PM

*** crickets***

Nothing to see here, folks.

mpg · 08-16-08, 02:06 PM

It's Bush's fault.

DeeJayH · 08-16-08, 03:45 PM

i dont see anybody posting about the woman raped in the town next to me last week

could it be that these incidents are statistically not suprising

Middleground · 08-17-08, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by DeeJayH

i dont see anybody posting about the woman raped in the town next to me last week

could it be that these incidents are statistically not suprising

Can you imagine being raped by someone you work with, and instead of giving a ****, the company that you work for does everything it could to hide that fact? Can you imagined being raped, and there was NO ONE you can got to for help? Why do I believe these rapists would not do such a thing in a different environment (such a back in the US, in a policed state)? This a huge problem that need addressing, don't you think?

DeeJayH · 08-17-08, 01:40 PM

i take issue with Huge
and i am sure it already is being addressed, especially since it is in the press

1069 · 08-17-08, 02:35 PM

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Can you imagine being raped by someone you work with, and instead of giving a ****, the company that you work for does everything it could to hide that fact? Can you imagined being raped, and there was NO ONE you can got to for help? Why do I believe these rapists would not do such a thing in a different environment (such a back in the US, in a policed state)? This a huge problem that need addressing, don't you think?

Don't bother, Middleground.
Posting things like this on Debatepolitics is an exercise in futility, and only elicits mockery and contempt for both you and the victim of the crime.
There are progressive forums where people actually care about such things, and might wish to discuss them.
But I'm sure you realize this is hardly the appropriate forum on which to invite others to share in your outrage at this latest travesty.

Middleground · 08-18-08, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by 1069

Don't bother, Middleground.
Posting things like this on Debatepolitics is an exercise in futility, and only elicits mockery and contempt for both you and the victim of the crime.
There are progressive forums where people actually care about such things, and might wish to discuss them.
But I'm sure you realize this is hardly the appropriate forum on which to invite others to share in your outrage at this latest travesty.

Maybe I should start a rumour that John Edwards did the raping. That would be the only way this topic would get any attention. Pathetic.

UtahBill · 08-18-08, 09:44 AM

Not being a woman, I cannot understand their motivations for wanting to work in a predominantly male environment, especially when the sexual outlets available to those men are severly limited.
Back in my navy days, when they first started sending women sailors to GTMO, Cuba, I saw one woman whose motivations were obvious. She was as close to a nympho as I have ever seen. She could have been selling it for a small fortune, but gave it away to any and all who asked. She wasn't much to look at, but the male sailors could care less in the dark.
But that kind of woman is the smallest of minorities, I suppose.
Surely women taking jobs in such an environment know in advance the risks they are taking?

Iriemon · 08-18-08, 10:09 AM

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Not being a woman, I cannot understand their motivations for wanting to work in a predominantly male environment, especially when the sexual outlets available to those men are severly limited.
Back in my navy days, when they first started sending women sailors to GTMO, Cuba, I saw one woman whose motivations were obvious. She was as close to a nympho as I have ever seen. She could have been selling it for a small fortune, but gave it away to any and all who asked. She wasn't much to look at, but the male sailors could care less in the dark.
But that kind of woman is the smallest of minorities, I suppose.
Surely women taking jobs in such an environment know in advance the risks they are taking?

Your point is that the women are either nyphomaniacs who invited sex and complained about it, or should just accept rape is part of the job for a woman who works in a predominantly male environment and she shouldn't be able to complain because she should have expected it?