Amy discovers that her boyfriend’s war game unfolds very differently when the player chooses a female character. -Inside Amy Schumer, Comedy Central (August 26, 2014)
The sketch says it all… there’s a reason the majority of service members don’t report crime. Character assassination and retaliation is real for both male and female victims of crime in the military. Their lives, reputations, careers, and futures are dependent on the actions of the convening authority who has the power to do nothing. In the civilian world, after reporting a crime to the local police department and evidence is gathered, a prosecutor determines whether or not a case moves forward in the judicial system. The Military Justice Improvement Act (MJIA) attempts to mirror this process and was reintroduced in June 2019, yet again was not allowed on the Senate floor for a vote. The last cloture vote on the way the military should handle felony crimes was on March 6, 2014. Invoking cloture means 60 Senators or two-thirds is required for passage of a bill as opposed to the majority of Senators. The biggest opponents of the MJIA were former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and former Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), both since voted out of the Senate and replaced by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Senator Martha McSally (R-AZ). This pair of military officers are proponents of keeping the Chain of Command involved in the decision making process of adjudicating felony crime despite what the majority of military sexual assault survivors have asked for because the fear and retaliation continues. Meanwhile, the fight for military justice reform rages on. #PassMJIA
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Jennifer Norris: Senate bill will still keep military sexual abuse cases within the chain of command of the military, leaving victims vulnerable to retaliation
Only CB & MM have my number. But this sounds like Jeremiah or obviously someone on behalf of Jeremiah.
Only moments ago, I received five text messages from an unknown number. Each one contained threats to include but not limited to posting a legal incident in my past all over the internet. We own having PTSD and getting triggered by the cops.
Both my husband and I have PTSD. We also own that we were struggling at the time of said incident. But the charges that were alleged were also dropped. That never made the paper.
I recently was successful at getting the newspaper clipping removed from on line because it contained my physical address. I told them that this article was causing me safety concerns because it did contain my physical address. This is the same article that a “veteran advocate” and friends shared on their Facebook pages.
I submitted the following response addressing the local police’s horrible handling of two veterans in crisis, one feeling suicidal.
Read more here.
Breaking the chain: Sen. Gillibrand’s mission to change military policy on sexual assault
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is on a mission to change how the military prosecutes sexual assaults. She points to one statistic to explain why: 60 percent of those who reported sexual assaults last year were retaliated against by their superiors. “The victims tell us over and over again that they don’t trust the chain of command,” Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, told “The Fine Print.”
Gillibrand is calling for removing sexual assault cases from the chain of command, so decisions on whether to try such cases would be made by military prosecutors, not commanders.
Discharge dropped for airman who claimed retaliation
Senior Airman Ciera Bridges, who had been facing discharge under other than honorable conditions, was featured in an Oct. 7 recent Air Force Times report on three airmen who claim they were retaliated against after accusing superiors of assault and harassment. Bridges was cited repeatedly for minor misconduct after she began making complaints against superiors for the harassment, which she said began soon after she arrived at Nellis in November 2009 and persisted for nearly three years.
Air Force Drops Discharge Of Sexual Assault Victim – After Story Breaks
The Air Force has dropped its recommendation to discharge a servicewoman who claimed that she was sexually harassed and assaulted by three of her superiors — two days after the Air Force Times first reported on the alleged retaliation.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/10/air-force-sexual-assault_n_4078687.html
MILITARY JUSTICE FOR ALL 