{"id":37016,"date":"2013-08-08T15:37:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37016"},"modified":"2013-08-08T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:29:58","slug":"how-congress-will-cure-the-militarys-sexual-crimes-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37016","title":{"rendered":"How Congress will cure the military’s sexual crimes problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we’ve been reading lately how Congress thinks they know more about preventing sexual harassment and rapes in the military. They want to remove commanders from the process, because Congress knows better than military. Yeah, Congressmen like former Congressman, Bob Filner<\/a> currently the Democrat mayor of San Diego who has been buried in sexual harassment charges from 13 women so far. At least three of those women had connections to the military<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nurse Michelle Tyler on Tuesday charged that she approached Filner in June to ask for assistance dealing with the Veterans Affairs Department on behalf of her patient Katherine Ragazzino, an Iraq war veteran. Filner “made it very clear to me that his expectation was that his help for Katherine depended on my willingness to go to dinner with him, spend personal time with him and be seen in public with him,” Tyler said…<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Air Force veteran Eldonna Fernandez and Army veteran Gerri Tindley — also came forward with stories of unwanted advances from Filner. Both Fernandez and Tindley are survivors of sexual assault in the military and members of the National Women’s Veterans Association of America (NWVAA) in San Diego. The NWVAA’s president Tara Jones told CNN that she’s spoken to seven or eight women in the organization who had uncomfortable encounters with Filner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fernandez and Tindley were both speaking at events to educate the public about military sexual assault when Filner began harassing them. But, even though he mistreats women, he still has his supporters, you know, because the overall agenda is more important than a few distraught women;<\/p>\n

Seven community leaders sent an open letter to the NAACP, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported, urging the organization to help Filner. Noting that Filner was a part of the 1960’s civil rights movement and has a record of fighting for social justice, they said he’s being “assailed by economic and political forces” in San Diego.<\/p>\n

“We do not condone sexual harassment,” they wrote. “We do recognize that Bob Filner’s fight is our fight for the greater good of humanity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, so these are the people who want to scold the military and consider the military an inappropriate place to try sexual crimes.<\/p>\n

Thanks to BinhTuy66 for nudging me on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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