Posted on 09/08/2002 7:54:11 PM PDT by doug from upland
FReepers, if you have a few extra minutes, will you join me in this effort? I will be sending postcards to Hillary Clinton at her Senate office and asking her to help arrest the man who raped Juanita Broaddrick. A paper supply store has 8.5 x 11 bright neon card stock. Cut in four pieces, they are the perfect postcard size.
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On the front, address the postcard as follows:
The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton
United States Senate
477 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
On the back, type the following message:
Dear Senator Clinton:
Thank you so much for you fight against rape and for women's rights. We remember vividly your statement on 10-20-97: "We do not believe that violence against women is 'simply cultural' -- we believe it is simply criminal..."
Juanita Broaddrick, a nursing home operator from Arkansas, was brutally bitten and raped. Authorities have interviewed her at length and are convinced she is telling the truth about the alleged rapist. He was a state attorney general at the time and has subsequently been disbarred. No arrest has been made. Can you help bring him to justice?
Description: Male, 6' 2" tall, 200 pounds, mid '50s, white hair, left handed, Southern accent; he lives at 15 Old House Lane in Chappaqua, New York.
Please show America that you are serious about the issue of rape and do not simply make empty statements.
President Hillary! would almost make the idea of doing a Baldwin and moving to France palatable. Unlike Alec, I'd probably have to follow through.
There is nothing honorable about her.
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May 17, 2002
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Janet D'Alesandro, janetd@ajj.com, (856) 256-2422
Forensic Nurse, Crime Experts, Urge Senators to Overhaul DNA Analysis System
PITMAN, NJ — Testifying before a Senate panel last week, a Delaware forensic nurse and member of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) said that the country?s health care and judicial systems continue to fail 8 out of 10 rape victims.
Debra S. Holbrook, a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE), told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs that nurses continue to witness ?patients being re-victimized when they come to ERs.? She said victims now face ?hit or miss with their judicial outcome? because so many health care providers have not been trained in forensics and frequently ruin valuable DNA evidence.
The May 14 hearing was called by subcommittee Chairman Joseph R. Biden (D-Del). Biden and several other members of the Senate and House have introduced bills to solve widespread problems that have left thousands of rapes and other violent crimes unsolved nationwide.
Along with better training for health care workers, law enforcement officers, and others who respond after a rape, Biden said he was introducing a comprehensive bill ?to strengthen the existing federal DNA regime as an effective crime fighting tool.? A major part of the legislation focuses on a staggering backlog of DNA evidence in rape kits that is now sitting on shelves in law enforcement offices and laboratories across the country. Biden said ?woefully inadequate funding? has left 180,000 to 500,000 rape kits unprocessed.
Biden?s bill will provide the funds to process the kits, improve computer software for the national DNA database, and authorize an indictment process for unidentified, or ?John Doe? defendants. The bill will now go to the Senate Judiciary Committee for consideration and Biden said he would work with those who have introduced similar bills – including Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) – to form one comprehensive package.
During her testimony, Holbrook urged increased funding for SANE programs across the country that are in danger of closing due to lack of both money and cooperation from law enforcement.
?Many prosecutors do not understand how crucial [SANEs] are to pulling together cases that yield convictions,? Holbrook said. ?We need federal mandates that victims of all ages be taken to trained and regulated SANE teams...and funding for salaries and education to keep these programs viable. Forensics in this country is mandated for dead victims, but not required for those we treat who are very much alive.?
Holbrook, who works at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Delaware, also spoke for IAFN and the forensic nurses who are on the frontlines of care for rape victims. She told the Senate panel that SANEs, registered nurses trained in forensics, provide a ?vital link? between health care and law enforcement.
?Forensic nurses are the only specialty that have answered health care?s call to care for victims of sexual assault,? she said. IAFN serves as a clearinghouse and international resource for SANEs, who are also trained in law and court testimony; criminal investigation; documentation; and evidence collection. IAFN sets standards of care and nursing practice, provides training and education, and tests and certifies practicing SANEs.
In addition to Holbrook, those testifying at the hearing included Sarah Hart, director of the National Institute of Justice; Dr. Dwight Adams, FBI laboratory assistant director; and Linda Fairstein, Former Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit, New York County District Attorney?s Office.
The committee also heard emotional testimony from Debbie Smith, a Williamsburg, VA, woman who was raped in her back yard in 1989. Smith described the pain and fear she struggled with for six and a half years due to delays in DNA processing and cross-matching. One of the pending Senate bills bears her name: the ?Debbie Smith Act,? and addresses the lack of trained specialists, the need for standardized kits, better resources, and expedited evidence analysis.
IAFN supports any federal legislation that results in quality forensic care for victims of violence and sexual assault. In cases of sexual assault, IAFN supports legislation that ensures DNA evidence is collected by qualified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANES), secured, and entered into the Combined DNA Index System in a timely manner.
More information about IAFN is available on the Web at www.forensicnurse.org. Compete testimony of all witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing is available at http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=252.
For more information about forensic nursing, contact IAFN at East Holly Avenue, Box 56, Pitman, NJ 08071-0056; phone: 856-256-2425; fax: 856-589-7463; e-mail: iafn@ajj.com Web site: www.forensicnurse.org.
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Perhaps those involved in this project need to be informed that they have been used by the wife of a rapist who was never brought to justice.
And keep some little larval orc in Hillary's office busy doing something other than working on her Heinous' plans of conquest for a while. :-)
Mine's going out tomorrow.
That's exactly what the "Progressives" (that's the new word for 'liberaly', FYI) are banking on....suckers like you that suck up their BS
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