(It's well past time that the military took sexual assault against its members seriously. - promoted by boadicea)
Camouflaging of sexual assault in the military and how the military ignores the culture of sexism.
In a recent hearing of the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs Dr. Kaye Whitley, director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SARPO), and Michael Dominguez, principal deputy undersecretary for defense, were subpoenaed to testify but Dr. Whitley did not appear under direction of Dominguez. This is just the latest resistance from the Department of Defense in regards to sexual assault and sexual harassment in the military.
UPDATE: CNN and other sources continue to refer to the 12 year old girl in this story as "white." The DMN and other sources, however, are calling her "hispanic."
Politicians and pundits advance their careers by playing on hopes and fears, unaware or just not caring that the things they say have consequences. The overheated rhetoric surrounding immigration doesn't distinguish between immigrants from Mexico and Americans of Mexican descent (they're trying to take back Aztlan, didn't you hear?), much less between legal and illegal immigrants.
Thursday, April 27, 2006; Posted: 12:38 p.m. EDT (16:38 GMT)
SPRING, Texas (AP) -- Two white teenagers severely beat and sodomized a 16-year-old Hispanic boy who they believed had tried to kiss a 12-year-old white girl at a party, authorities said.
