Sexual Violence In The Military

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Reverend Dorothy H. Mackey, M.P.A. has forwarded this letter to The Honorable President Jimmy Carter, The Honorable Governor Janet Napolitano of Arizona, and The Honorable Governor Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. She also has forwarded it to media outlets in Canada and United States. She has asked me to post the letter to bring awareness about rape and torture in the United States Military. She has given me permission to post this story.

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Dear President Carter and Madames Governors:

Thank you for your authentic integrity and willingness to stand up, be a voice of clarity, affirmation and awakening for those being tortured, abused and ignored both nationally and internationally. Each of you have made remarks and taken public action calling for significant changes that acknowledge the need for human dignity, respect and the preservation of a higher law and order. You have affirmed by your word and actions, just as I have, that you see the bigger vision; that unconstrained abuse and torture is a toxic danger to human rights, community safety, and national as well as global security.

I am writing to request your assistance and to offer my voice to these issues. Military members, whether U.S. citizens or not MUST feel that their lives matter, and that they are safe from torture and abuse from their our own nations sanctioning. But, this is not the case! I know this first hand. I am a torture and rape survivor of the US military, whose assailants were given immunity under 5 US Congressionally passed laws. Four other service women’s cases stand along side of mine as testimony to the dire situation we continue to face. Our plight doesn’t remain in the military. The poison of abuses leaches into society undermining the US military, allowing for torturers and rapists to spread abuse globally. I hope after reading the enclosed summary of research facts and legal precedence information I have provided you will be so moved that you will contact me. I can provide further assistance, including solutions I have gathered that will work. I have worked in this field for over 14 years with knowledge of information that goes back both experientially and academically 25 years. While the information is overwhelming I can assure you it is accurate and that there are viable solutions available which I have repeatedly shared with US governmental leadership which I will share with you as well.

When I began my research I kept asking “what is the source of the torture, rape and abuse?” There are many paths we can take to stop these abuses, many have failed, yet, it is equally important to know and cut these abuses off at their source so that the poison does not spread. There are many sources of this poison, and yet through strategic and tactical thinking, with innovative and creative ways we together can stop these abuses and tortures, thereby protecting citizens and world communities in finding true global security. I hope you will assist me in my mission.

I thank you for your time and consideration in this matter. I hope you will consider contacting me for further joint possibilities in resolving these ongoing crises issues. I am interested and dedicated to the healing of these issues through fiscally viable solutions.

Respectfully,

Reverend Dorothy H. Mackey
Former US Air Force Captain and Commander
4th US Supreme Court Case Listed in Summary

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“What is the source of the torture, rape and abuse?”