Summary Of Torture And Abuse, By Dorothy Mackey

Dorothy Mackey, Rev.

Will you help us stop the torture, abuse and rape of women, men, and children, as citizens of this nation, and internationally? Will you help us reclaim our voices, our rights, our lives, our security and our peace?

By Citizen Correspondent Holly Desimone

Date Posted: 01/16/08

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From the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal, …endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…derived their just powers from the consent of the governed, (by You) That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the RIGHT of the People to alter or abolish it. And institute new Government…laying a foundation…to effect their Safety and Happiness. …but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them…it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Summary of Torture and Abuse: President Carter and Governor’s Letter

• It recent months, President Carter noted the U.S. is engaged as a nation using “torture”, his website goes on to state, while “combating terrorism defending human rights, and ensuring our collective security go hand in hand.”
• Both Governor’s Janet Napolitano (Arizona) and Kathleen Sebelius (Kansas) forwarded a letter to Secretary of Defense Gates calling for an inquiry on military sexual abuse of military women by their own.
• President George W. Bush justified going to war against Saddem Hussein noting one reason as his “torture and rape rooms.”
• President George W. Bush gave a special edict to the United Nations to stop the trafficking and rape of women and children globally.
• Globally the majority of nations recognize that rape is torture. However, the U.S. refuses to sign the international treaties: making Rape a War Crime and the International Criminal Courts Treaty, Bush noted he would only sign the latter, IF U.S. military had immunity. This was prior to the Abu Ghraib Scandal.

FACTS:
• 1983: The Buckmiller Case (Fort Ord, CA): Army military police (MP’s) gang rape female soldier Buckmiller, while the 2 (MP) were convicted, the U.S. Army wrote, “Rape is incidental to US military service.” New enlistees do NOT know this. [Information available upon request]
• The Uniformed Code of Military Justice has prosecution requirements by military for rape and abuse. However, according to “For Love of Country, Confronting Rape and Sexual Harassment in the US. Military” (*) by T.S. Nelson, (The Hayworth Press, Inc.