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Posted on 06/17/2015 9:28:30 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
For Texas Republican Ted Cruz, it got personal Tuesday when he joined a bipartisan group of senators trying to reform the way the military prosecutes sexual assault within its ranks.
"I have two little girls who are seven and four," Cruz said during a Capitol Hill press conference Tuesday. "As I've approached this issue, I've thought about when my daughters come of age, if they choose to step up and serve the country, what rules should be in place to protect my daughters from sexual assault?"
Cruz supported an amendment that would establish military prosecutors to investigate allegations of assault, taking the cases out of the ordinary military chain of command. The Pentagon has opposed the measure sponsored New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand. It failed to gain the 60 votes it needed to pass, but backers vowed to press on.
"This is a common sense reform that makes the prosecuting decisions be made by a professional military prosecutor," Cruz said. "Leaves it in the military, but simply leaves it with a prosecutor rather than the immediate commanding officer who many times may face a conflict of interest."
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Ted Cruz Ping! Not sure what the best route is to tamp false accusations. They need not prosecute anyone without evidence.
Cruz hasn’t served a day in the military and doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
The chain of command is exactly where allegations in a military setting should first be heard.
Turning prosecution and investigation over to others is a terrible precedent.
When Beau Bergdahl deserted, who had the right info? The president, the lawyers, the generals. Heck no...it was the troops in his own squad.
He doesn’t have a clue on this.
Wanna reduce sex assault my orders of magnitude? Screen out Liberals.
Who commits the vast majority of straight sexual assault? Liberals.
Who commits ALL of the gay sexual assault? Liberals.
Who commits the most crime period?
L I B E R A L S.
Get rid of them from the ranks and crime and most issues in the military simply leave with them.
Therein lies the issue. How many times have we heard that superiors in these instances do NOTHING? It is quite a bit.
Sex is more a private matter where the troops would not have the right info. On one hand, Cruz has a point with conflict of interest. On the other hand, there should be no prosecution unless there is evidence and many if not most rape accusations are false. I’m a little torn on this one. Hopefully Ted will expand on his position. It is a little ambiguous.
What do expect superiors to do without evidence? Throw the accused in prison at the word of the accuser?
Makes sense to me.
Seems like the immediate commanding officer has an interest in making sure his command goes smoothly even if it means ignoring things that should be reported.
If they'd just gone with the testimony of the troops at Haditha, instead of going with reporters, lawyers, politicians and politicized generals, Haditha would have been dropped.
The local units did their own investigation and found the Haditha combatants not just innocent but worthy of praise.
Guess who turned out to be right? The troops on the ground.
Cruz is a lawyer, and he's supplied a totally disconnected lawyer's answer.
Exactly. He will also tell us a lot of BS about his father fighting in Cuba that does not add up.
No, of course not. But you are being blinded as well that all of the accused who are guilty are punished. The military turning a blind eye to things like this has been well documented
The troops know or at least have invaluable insight.
It should begin with the lowest levels: company, battalion, brigade. Period.
That’s the history of the nation. This is simply choosing lawyers over the guys in boots who are on the scene.
Having done countless 15-6 investigations and presiding over a couple of Article 32s, I must say I am not a huge fan of the current system.
They assign officers to perform these investigations who, like myself, have no experience in investigations, court room procedures, etc.
There has to be a better way of investigating potential wrong doing.
Exactly the opposite. The immediate command is respected for honesty, integrity, and attention to detail.
He supplied a feminist pandering answer, whether that was his intent or not. He has my 100% support, but what he said here doesn’t make a lot of sense. I hope he means he would turn it over to a prosecuter once there is evidence. The false rape witch hunts are the biggest issue concerning America with regards to rape.
And I’m betting that your best info came from the troops.
Dear Ted, Most rapes are male on male-—since before the Spartans. Rape is domination and males are the target for most males unlsss the extremely weak, immoral ones who pick on women or children.
CHANGE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM-—as Cicero stated was NECESSARY for a JUST society. PROMOTE “public virtue” as all Just Law HAS to do.
No sodomy (vice) promotion-—no Pride in Vice days-—NONE-—only moral-—Natural Laws-—promotion of Individual dignity and worth-—NO DEHUMANIZING, vile behaviors can be protected-—or ideologies like Marxism allowed-— which think of humans as godless animals to be herded and controlled.
We can’t have any immoral people in the army-—power tends to corrupt anyhow and non-christians do not believe in Individual Natural Rights form God-—basis of US Law—that which gives ALL human beings dignity and worth and equal Rights which ONLY come from God.
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