{"id":15043,"date":"2009-10-14T09:25:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2009-10-14T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T14:25:33","slug":"military-rape-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15043","title":{"rendered":"Military Rape Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Veterans for Peace have declared this “Military Rape Awareness Week” and announce that they’re so enlightened, that they actually oppose rape in the military.<\/p>\n

Actually, I oppose rape, too. But can anyone doubt that Veterans For Peace oppose rape because they can use it to smear the troops? In, fact, if you heard that this crowd of anti-troops organizations were protesting at a military recruiting station in Times Square, would you really think they were protesting rape?<\/p>\n

In New York City on Tuesday, October 13th members of VFP, Iraq Veterans against the War, Granny Peace Brigade, Codepink: Women for Peace, World Can’t Wait, Artists Response Team, We will not be Silent, and V-Day will gather at the Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square to warn potential women recruits about the alarming rates of sexual assault and rape of women in the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, they really had to dig to find a “scientific” study (link is to a .pdf file)<\/a> that would back their charge that 1-in-3 women in the military are raped. If you look at the sampling for the “study”, the “researchers” sent out questionnaires to more than 2100 women and less than a third replied. I guess it never entered their pointy heads that women who had suffered rape while in the military would be more likely to reply, huh?<\/p>\n

I don’t doubt that rape is a problem in the military – even if there was only one rape in twenty years, it’s a problem. But 1-in-3 women? Of course, the study further prostitutes itself by pointing out that 75% of the victims never report those rapes. Oh, and did I mention that the report was done in 1996 and the women were in the military in the previous twenty years?<\/p>\n

But no corrupted study will prevent the forces of peace and enlightenment from standing their unwashed asses in front of a recruiting station and accusing recruiters of facilitating rape.<\/p>\n

The other day, we saw a video of Matthis Chiroux who charged the military with “dehumanizing” foreigners. The anti-war crowd “dehumanizes” the entire military by making specious charges like this. This is the 21st Century version of spitting on the troops.<\/p>\n

I remember the anti-war protests ended during the Vietnam War when once, in New York City, construction workers got tired of the hippies protesting one day. The construction workers climbed down off of their steel perches and proceeded to pound the protesters. <\/p>\n

I’m just sayin’…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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