this isn't about kbr

UPDATE: (a couple of hours after i posted the story): kbr has looked at this posting at least once - although i suspect more than once. i could only identify their isp once though. at any rate, INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT BLOG POSTS ABOUT PFC LAVENA JOHNSON (they hit on the kbr i'm sure. i don't think they give a flying fuck about pfc lavena johnson). why don't you hire some private investigators to find out what really happened to pfc lavena johnson AND IF ONE OF YOUR EMPLOYEES WAS RESPONSIBLE for her murder. don't you want to know? if one of your employees WAS indeed responsible (i can't say what i really want to say here and we all know it) don't you want to make them accountable? don't you want to apologize to the united states of america? don't you want to do ANYTHING but protect your name and your contracts? don't any of you have beating hearts?

although it is THE first time i have read their name in connection to the death of lavena johnson. every story i've read (and i've read MOST of them out there) mention her body was either dragged from the tent of a "contractor" (now of course i KNEW who the contractor had to be, they were just always nameless) to her own tent or found in the tent of that contractor. the military claims pfc johnson shot herself, committed suicide. well i suppose it's possible after all, pigs do fly. pfc johnson's body had bite marks on it. it was bruised. her teeth were knocked out. her genitals were burned with what appears to be acid. the angle of the bullet wound is all wrong (for suicide that is) and then after she did all that to herself she set her tent on fire (or the contractors tent). yup, suicide all right.

the military still insists this was a suicide.

what this posting IS about is justice for heroes. specifically WOMEN (this time, but all heroes over all)

pfc johnson was raped and murdered. if i was the president of the united states of america i would DEMAND answers and now. he doesn't because he doesn't care. we should be screaming from our rooftops for justice. for pfc lavena johnson, for ALL. we should NOT accept lies from the d o d, from the military, from our king or from his good ol' white boy network. this is OUR country. why are we allowing this to happen?

the article below mentions the following women:
Army Spc. Suzanne Swift
Army Pfc. LaVena Johnson,
Army Pfc. Tina Priest
Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach
Red Cross employee Ingrid Torres

Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?

by: Col. Ann Wright, Truthdig
There was quite a struggle in Congress this week. The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday's hearing on sexual assault in the military. Rep. John Tierney, chair of the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, angrily dismissed Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Michael Dominguez from the hearing when Dominguez said that he, the DoD chief of legislative affairs and the chief of public affairs, had ordered Dr. Kaye Whitley, chief of SAPRO, to refuse to honor the subpoena issued by the subcommittee for her appearance. Full committee Chairman Henry Waxman called the DoD's decision to prevent Whitley from testifying "ridiculous and indicating DoD is covering something up." It could also place Whitley in contempt of Congress. Rep. Christopher Shays said the DoD's decision was "foolish." ..........

................Rep. Elijah Cummings joined Rep. Waxman in speaking of cover-ups. Cummings raised the cases of military women who had been sexually assaulted before dying in "non-combat incidents." He spoke specifically about Army Pfc. LaVena Johnson, who was found beaten and dead of a gunshot wound at Balad Air Base, Iraq, in a burning tent owned by the contractor KBR. Her parents suspected that Johnson had been murdered and that the homicide was being covered up by the Army, which deemed the death a suicide............

.............Of the 2,212 reported rapes in the military in 2007, only 8 percent of the cases ended in court-martial of the perpetrator, while the rate of prosecution in civilian courts is 40 percent..........

oh and the parents of pfc lavena johnson STILL aren't hearing the truth from the military