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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Who had the truth about Beau Bergdahl: the local troops and command OR the higher ups?
I’d bet my house that the number of innocent punished are greater than the number of guilty unpunished. Best thing a man can do is deny the sex ever even took place. If they can’t prove that there is no case. Otherwise, you find yourself on that slippery slope of defining consent, which the feminists are bringing closer and closer to defining as a fully executed contract between two parties.
I’d take the integrity of a company commander or a battalion commander over a chairman of the joint chiefs any day of the week and twice on Sundayss.
Do the lawyers not interrogate the guys whose boots are on the scene?
I was never in the military but some things work the same way.
When I was a factory foreman, and crap always found its way to me because I was immediately responsible. It was always better for me that it rise to my level than find its way to the top and come rolling downhill.
Obviously I never dealt with anything as serious as rape but I did “fix” problems so my superiors didn’t have to know about them.
Exactly. Those who have served know an officer is appointed to actually interview/investigate the matter. Yes, I was an article 32 officer in late 69 as we had an SF SFC drop his death from about 100 feet during rappelling training from a chopper at Bragg. I am fairly sure the doughnut ring was not rigged right, but; I could not prove anything. I just forwarded facts. The military justice system whether it is drugs or murder is as good as civilian.
Back in the old military this would not be necessary but now that we allow any gender (male, female, male in a female body, female in a male body) maybe things are just so confusing a professional on gender issues is needed. Kinda like the old soviet army where a professional political officer was required to keep the polictics straight. We certainly are starting to resemble the old USSR.
Yep, what they have done to the military is a travesty
Abu Ghraib comes to mind.
We don't want his daughters, or other females serving, get them out.
Agreed, and ignoring the despicable John Murtha would have been a good start.
Bingo indeed!
Who is in a better position to quickly get the unbiased evidence?
A commander who is dependent on good reviews for promotion or a trained legal officer whose only consideration is determining the truth and prosecuting any guilty parties?
The legal officer would have better knowledge of the military justice system and could resolve cases quicker and more efficiently.
This will surely be of value, but does not address the root causes.
Spoken like a true bleeding heart liberal.
Liberals always personalize national issues. By inserting his family into an issue that he really knows nothing about in order to justify a position that according to all the Military Freepers on the forum is a wrongheaded decision, he has engaged in a typical liberal fallacy of trying to tug at the heartstrings of his listeners rather than convince them using facts and logic.
So in that way, Cruz has taken the bleeding heart liberal approach to this issue.
If it was Jeb Bush who said the same thing you would be ridiculing him.
How about Kung Fu and Concealed Carry?
That doesn’t mean he can’t make a rational decision based on looking at the outcomes of the trials. His teachers have said he’s a brilliant debater.
And it would be even better if the questions came from a trained investigator.
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