[jonKranked]

So Al Franken's anti-rape amendment is at risk of being removed from the new defense appropriations bill. Big surprise! Defense contractors are lobbying the guy who originally proposed the bill (Dan Inouye, D, Hawaii) to remove the amendment, despite the fact it passed 68-30.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/frankens-anti-rape-amendm_n_329896.html

Granted, they may have a valid concern about this being abused over trivial incidents. But I think if that was their true concern, they would be trying to get the amendment changed, not removed altogether.

 

[dante]

So the US Gov't can't work with an organization that has had some of its employees commit voter registration fraud, but working with a company that not only had it's workers commit gang-rape but protected them from prosecution is ok?

That sounds like Republican logic...

 

[jimmydean]

It would have been ok if they would have gang raped voters.

 

[jonKranked]

I want someone to give Inouye the Glenn Beck treatment

Did Dan Inouye rape and murder a young girl in 1990?

 

[Silver]

So the US Gov't can't work with an organization that has had some of its employees commit voter registration fraud, but working with a company that not only had it's workers commit gang-rape but protected them from prosecution is ok?

That sounds like Republican logic...

And kidnapped her, if her story is factual.

 

[jonKranked]

And kidnapped her, if her story is factual.

Factual or not, an investigation needed to have been done, because the administration of the rape test kit was (from what I've read) not properly handled, and an accurate result was not obtained.

 

[Silver]

Factual or not, an investigation needed to have been done, because the administration of the rape test kit was (from what I've read) not properly handled, and an accurate result was not obtained.

The rape kit was given to her employer, where it promptly got lost.

Funny how that happened...