Article: In light of Coulter's Darfur remarks, I am reposting this past article

As we have read of some rape cases being discussed in the news in Iraq at the hands of US soldiers, we are not hearing of rapes such as the ones mentioned in Ms. Goodwin’s article. Since these heinous acts are not being reported by the mainstream press, they must not exist. Well they do. The Nation’s articles do not get the media focus as the little tiff between Barbara Walters and Star Jones and the media should be ashamed of themselves for ignoring this story. Ms. Goodwin is correct when she asks, “Yet where is the international media coverage? The outrage? The demand for justice?” I thought that the media changed after Katrina when you saw reporters such as Anderson Cooper visibly shaken to the core, but the news cycle changes as quickly as someone clicking the buttons of their remote control.

If Ann Coulter thinks that liberals are “Godless”, let us be real as you read this passage, “I had never before come across the cases described to me by Congolese doctors, such as gang-rape victims having their labia pierced and then padlocked." They usually die of massive infection," I would call this one of the most Godless acts known to mankind. As Coulter spews her hate towards liberals or those with a conscience, the true Godlessness can be found in the Congo. As she reaches into her darkened soul wishing death to those in the New York Times building, she rages on against those of us who will ask just where our government is to confront these vile acts.

On June 29th Congressman Ron Paul of Texas and Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina spoke of the Iraq War in which I mentioned in a previous editorial that their speeches were not witnessed by every single congress member. I guess the full congress did not see that as being worthy of their time to show up. I wonder if they would show up to hear what is written in this passage of Ms. Goodwin’s article, “30 percent of rape victims are sexually tortured and mutilated during the assaults, usually with spears, machetes, sticks or gun barrels thrust into their vaginas. Increasingly, the trigger is being pulled.” Or are they out on the campaign trail raising war chests for their upcoming campaigns?

I have been to a few fundraisers, hearing the back slapping speeches that really say nothing as a member of both parties and left feeling empty in my soul. I guess I was not made to play party politics when I hear of crisis issues such as this. I know if I were to approach any candidate running for any office no matter what party they belong to; I would ask them, just what are they doing to raise the awareness of this issue as they travel around making stump speeches.

Would they have the temerity to say, “Folks put away your wallets to fund my campaign in which I only attack the other side and send that money to organizations such as Doctors without Borders”? I guess that is wishful thinking and naïve of me to even think it. No, greed feeds the beast of party politics.

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