curious. under the Uniform Code of Military Justice lots of consensual sex that is legal for civilians is still a crime carrying prison terms for military service members
Service members have been sent to prison for committing adultery for example. Most people in the military know this, since publications like "Army Times" cover it. There is a famous case of wipe swapping in Alaska, essentially consensual communal sex, but since it was adultery the people involved (who were just bored at their outpost) ended up in prison. So it seems odd to me that military people would do anything that constituted sex with these prisoners, since it is much more legally hazardous than it would be for someone, eg in the CIA or NSA. And then there is the fact that Naomi Wolf, whose ron paulish politics I like, had that breakdown in an airport where she was texting people that the government delayed her flight to keep her separated from her daughter etc last year On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:17 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [image: AlterNet] > Why the Pentagon is probably lying about its supressed sodomy and rape > photos By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet > Posted on May 30, 2009 > http://www.alternet.org/story/140357/ > > The* > Telegraph<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html> > * of London broke the news -- because the U.S. press is in a drugged > stupor - -- that the photos President Barack Obama is refusing to release of > detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier > raping a female detainee and a male translator raping a male prisoner. > > > The paper claims the photos also show anal rape of prisoners with foreign > objects such as wires and lightsticks. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba > calls the images "horrific" and "indecent" (but absurdly agrees that Obama > should not release them -- proving once again that the definition of > hypocrisy is the assertion that the truth is in poor taste). > > Predictably, a few hours later, the Pentagon issues a formal > denial<http://news.aol.com/article/iraq-torture-photos/501890?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl1%7Clink2%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Firaq-torture-photos%2F501890> > . > > > It is very likely that the Pentagon lying. This is probably exactly what > the photos show, because it happened. Precisely these exact sex crimes -- > these exact images and these very objects - -- are familiar and > well-documented to those of us who follow closely rights organizations > reports of what has already been confirmed. > > > As I wrote last year in my piece on sex crimes against detainees, "Sex > Crimes in the White > House,"<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/sex-crimes-in-the-white-h_b_111221.html>highly > perverse, systematic sexual torture and sexual humiliation was, > original documents reveal, directed from the top: > > > > - President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense > Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were > present in meetings where sexual humiliation was discussed as policy. > - The Defense Authorization Act of 2007 was written specifically to > allow certain kinds of sexual abuse, such as forced nakedness, which is > illegal and understood by domestic and international law to be a form of > sexual assault. > - Rumsfeld is in print and on the record consulting with subordinates > about the policy and practice of sexual humiliation, in a collection of > documents obtained by the ACLU by a Freedom of Information Act filing > compiled in Jameel Jaffer's important book *The Torture Administration* > . > > The image of the female prisoner, probably Iraqi, being sexually assaulted? > That image, or a similar one, has been widely seen in the Muslim world. > Reports of the rape scenes described have also appeared in rights > organizations summaries since 2004. > > > And scores of detainees who have told their stories to rights organizations > have told independently confirming accounts of a highly consistent practice > of sexual torture at U.S.-held prisons, including having their genitals > slashed with razors, electrodes placed on genitals, and being told the U.S. > military would find and rape their mothers. > > > Is systemic sex crimes practiced by the U.S. in a consequence of the > lawlessness of "the war on terror" surprising to those of us who work on > issues of sexual abuse and war? It is totally predictable: When you give > soldiers anywhere in the world the power, let alone the mandate, to hold > women or men helpless, without recourse to law, kidnap them as a matter of > policy -- as the U.S. military kidnapped the wives of "insurgents" in order > to compel them to turn themselves in -- strip them naked, and threaten them, > you have a completely predictable recipe for mass sexual assault. The > magisterial study of rape in war, Susan Brownmiller's *Men, Women and Rape > *, proves that. > > > But what is far scarier about these images Obama refuses to release and > that the Pentagon is likely to be lying about now, is that it is not the > evidence of lower-level soldiers being corrupted by power -- it is proof of > the fact that the most senior leadership -- Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney, with > Rice's collusion -- were running a global sex-crime trafficking ring with > Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Baghram Air Base as the holding sites. > > > The sexual nature of the torture also gives the lie to Cheney's and others' > defense of torture as somehow functional: The sexual perversity mandated > from the top reveals that it was just plain old sick sadism gratified by a > very sick form of pleasure. I also pointed out in "Sex Crimes in the White > House" that the escalation of the sexual abuse showed the same classic > pattern shown by sex criminals everywhere -- you start with stripping the > victim, keeping him or her completely in your power, and then you engage in > greater and more violent excesses with more and more self-justification. > > > The lightsticks, for instance? We in the human rights world know about the > lightsticks. Probably dozens of prisoners were sodomized with lightsticks. > In the highly credible and very fully documented Physicians for Human Rights > report, "Broken Bodies, Broken > Lives<http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2008-06-18.html>," > doctors investigated the wounds and scars of former prisoners, did analysis > of the injuries, assessed the independent verification of their stories, and > reported that indeed many detainees had in fact been savagely raped with > lightsticks and by other objects inserted into their rectums, many > sustaining internal injuries. > > > This same report confirms that female military or other unidentified > U.S.-affiliated personnel were used to sexually abuse detainees by smearing > menstrual blood on their faces, seizing their genitals violently, or rubbing > them in a sexual manner against their will. In other credible accounts > collected by human rights organizations, many former prisoners in U.S.-held > prisons report that they had been tortured or humiliated by female agents > who appeared to be dressed like prostitutes. > > > Indeed, early on, intelligence spokespeople boasted in the *New York Times > * of the use of female agents to sexually abuse and humiliate prisoners: > it was called in their own material "invasion of space by a female." > > > Today at lunch, I happen to have sat next to the lovely and brave Dale > Haddon, the "face of L'Oreal," who is also a tireless advocate for women and > children through UNICEF. She is heading for Congo, to help hold accountable > rape and sex crimes institutionalized as acts of war. Those criminals will > face trials and convictions. > > > In Sierra Leone, the soldiers and generals who used rape as an instrument > of war have been tried and many convicted. In Bosnia, likewise. But at > another lunch party, Haddon, who travels in many circles, may well be seated > next to our own former leaders, violent and systemic sex criminals who are > still at large. > > > When will we convict our very own global rapists, the ones who gave the > U.S. the hellish distinction of turning us into the superpower of sex crime? > Convictions must come, but first we must see the evidence. > > > And women especially, who understand how sexual abuse and rape can break > the spirit in a uniquely anguishing way, should be raising their voices > loudly. > > > Whom are we protecting by not releasing the photos? The victims? Hardly. > It's, as feminists have been saying for decades, not their shame. The > perpetrators? Their crimes are archived; if not this administration, another > may well obey the law and release the images, which are evidentiary (again: > that rape and sodomy were directed form the top; prosecute those at the > top). > > > These photos go to exactly why Obama is burning what is left of the shreds > of the Constitution by calling for pre-emptive detention for about 100 > detainees. It ain't because they are "too dangerous," his pathetic > justification. It is because their bodies are crime scenes. It is because > the torture, including possibly the sexual assault, they experienced is > likely to be so horrific that if they were ever to have their day in court > it is others whom Obama needs who would be incriminated. > > > In the 19th century, when a woman had been raped, or had experienced sexual > abuse in the family, the paterfamilias would say she was crazy, get her > declared "too dangerous" to be free, and lock her up forever so her story > would be interred with her. > > > That is what Obama is trying to do with pre-emptive detention for these > detainees. > > Well, America? 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