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the franken amendment remains in jeopardy. today we have this news, via ThinkProgress:
Defense contractors are lobbying Sen. Dan Inouye (D-HI) to strip Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) anti-rape amendment from the defense appropriations bill. The amendment would withhold defense funding from companies barring their employees from taking sexual abuse cases to court. “The defense contractors have [...]
for most people, the polanksi arrest and subsequent hand-wringing from the pro-child-rape contingent (there’s nothing else to call people who support a man who raped a child orally, anally and vaginally after drugging her) is yesterday’s news.
those of us for whom rape is not passe feel differently. the polanski case is not over. nor is rape.
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