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With a female one star general in charge over the gulag that these war crimes were committed in and a couple of female soldiers gleefully taking part in torturing naked men the military in its infinite wisdom has decided that the first offender to face a court martial will be a man. I am sure this is just the way it turned out. There was of course no coercion to prosecute a male first I am sure.
Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits of Hyndman, Pa., a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, will face a military court less than a month after photos of prisoners being abused and humiliated were first broadcast April 28.
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the military in its infinite wisdom has decided that the first offender to face a court martial will be a man. I am sure this is just the way it turned out. There was of course no coercion to prosecute a male first I am sure.
The needle on my factometer budged almost imperceptibly when I read this. Sarcasm? In any case, what does it matter, even if political considerations of gender entered into the decision (this seems impossible to prove, without the testimony of those involved). It would be nice to know one way or the other; more important is whether justice will be gender blind. Faced with incontrovertible photographic evidence of the oppression of prison inmates by females--a fact which has stunned a more than a few female commentators I've read, presumably because this explodes the uncritically accepted preconception of the female as the victim of male oppression in all societies, cultures and situations--it is more important that the military courts will do their patriotic duty to turn a blind eye to the gender of the defendants.
This is not to say that females cannot be victims of oppression; it is to give lie, through a seemingly endless series of photographs of torturers who obviously relish their work, to the myth that females are never oppressors, and to illustrate that we haven't even begun to plumb the depths of denial surrounding the female capacity for oppression, for committing war crimes and for committing sex crimes.
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I'm still focused on the female general in charge of the prison and what if any legal/ professional price she will pay.
It's interesting that some people actually believe that Aileen Wuornos was the *first* female serial killer.
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by Anonymous User on 09:04 PM May 10th, 2004 EST (#4)
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"It's interesting that some people actually believe that Aileen Wuornos was the *first* female serial killer."
I ran across the history of this female serial killer over the weekend,
"Elizabeth's old nurse testified that about 40 girls had been tortured and killed. In fact, Elizabeth killed 612 women -- and in her diary, she documented their deaths."
(Click) Elizabeth Bathory, 1560 - 1614
Ray
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by Anonymous User on 04:15 PM May 11th, 2004 EST (#5)
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Ray.
That IS spooky...!
Thundercloud.
"Hoka hey!"
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