Sexual Assault in the U.S. military...

[bridgit]

Run time: 27:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IzFIk-XQvY   Posted on YouTube: January 16, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 26, 2007 By DU Member: bridgit Views on DU: 532

 
'PRESS CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF SUZANNE SWIFT Veterans For Peace National Convention, Seattle, WA August 12, 2006

www.suzanneswift.org

www.veteransforpeace.org

www.couragetoresist.org

www.ivaw.net

"Suzanne Swift is a veteran of the Iraq war who is now held in custody at Fort Lewis, Washington. Suzanne had completed a tour of duty in Iraq, where she was sexually harassed and assaulted at the hands of three of her commanding officers continuing over the course of her entire deployment. Her efforts to report her treatment were met with disrespect and dismissed. Finally, Suzanne suffered a breakdown due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and went absent without leave. She was apprehended in Eugene, OR in June, 2006 and instead of seeing her rapists investigated, Suzanne herself is facing court martial and prison time."

"It has now been 74 days since Suzanne was taken in handcuffs to jail and we are still working hard everyday to get her the honorable discharge she deserves. Suzanne has to be one the bravest people I know." Sara Rich, Suzanne's mom.

Col. Ann Wright US Army, retired

Sharon Kufeldt National Vice-President Veterans For Peace

Ellen Barfield National Vice-President Veterans For Peace

April Fitzsimmons USAF Intel. Analyst, 85-89

Kelly Dougherty Founding Member of Iraq Veterans Against the War

Sara Rich Mother of Suzanne Swift

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[glowing]

1. It was long... but so important.

[bridgit]

2. a belated welcome to du, glowing...

:toast:

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. "Only in America", seems to be proved no less than the truth on a daily basis.

Things that cry to Heaven for vengeance are routinely swept under the carpet by the very officials who are supposed to uphold even the minimal standards of the most brutish societies, but fail even in those elementary duties. I suspect even in Chile under Pinochet, his own troops would have been more correctly disciplined, however extraordinarily demonic his treatment of those he deemed and treated as his enemies.

I swear there must be more devils running your country than in the rest of the world combined. No horror seems to be the last word. There's always some new outrage, more improbable than the last. How true the tenet of both the Jewish and Christian religions that Man cannot be the equal of animals; he will either be above them or below them.