Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse at Haliburton subsidiary KBR, it just did.  The fuckers have now banned private celluar and mobile phones at their places.

So, what do this has to do with anything?  Well, KBR has blatantly covered up the gang rape of women such as Jamie Leigh Jones.  Then, Ms. Jones was stashed away in some shipment container for weeks in a concerted effort to prevent her from reporting the sexual assault. Next, the Dept. of Justice never took up the case and KBR lied about losing critical evidence when in fact, they deliberately destroyed the evidence.  A guard loans her his moblie phone, and Ms. Jones calls her father in the States, who called his Representative and secured her escape.  If that jailer hadn't given Ms. Jones that phone, heaven would only know where she would be today. 

So, the employer allows a group of fellow employees to gang rape a woman, then she is kidnapped and held prisoner.  Haliburton doesn't care about it.  Not. one. bit.  Female employee makes a lot of racket, embarassing Haliburton and KBR in the process and possibly crippling them financially.  Haliburton and KBR bans personal celluar and moblie phone use, citing safety and security concerns.

One thing I won't do is believe Haliburton and KBR.  Not as long as my name is Morrenin Jovan Byars.  Haliburton and KBR have zero credibility and I will continue to be suspicious of them until they are charged with fostering a hostile work environment.

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[cross-posted at Aiken Area Progressive]

 STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Some people just don't get that their actions can have major consequences. Case in point, the pseudo-feminist named Kyle Payne. From Ren:

"As I mentioned previously, I have faced a great deal of criticism through the internet. Since November 2007, I have maintained a personal blog through wordpress.com entitled “The Road LessTraveled” (kylepayne. wordpress.com). Through this blog, I have spoken out in support of feminism and other social justice movements, particularly against different forms of violence (e.g. physical,sexual, military). In the days following my guilty plea, a pro-pornography blogger picked up the story, and having identified obvious discrepancies between the “public face” on my blog and my criminal actions, began an online smear campaign. This effort, which has garnered support from over fifty prominent bloggers from around the world, as well as at least one official trade publication of the pornography industry, has raised considerable public attention toward my actions, and it has alerted me to the larger political consequences of those actions. While many of the criticisms online are based on inaccurate or incomplete information about my case, the feelings and concerns behind them are highly appropriate."

We are smearing you, Mr. Payne? That is a heap of bullshit. Not to mention laughable. Listen, Mr. Asshole Payne. You touched that woman against HER will. You videotaped that woman against HER will. You raped that woman. You violated that woman. Just like that. Period. Game over.

You did this to yourself, Mr. Payne. You were the one who preyed on that woman. It is your fault. And you are the offender.

Now, Mr. Payne, when are you gonna quit whining and take responsiblity for your actions? Women don't need pseudo-allies like you. In fact, you no longer have a place in feminist circles, no longer have a place anywhere where victimized females may be, no longer have a place speaking for or with us, you knucklehead. Can't you take a hint? Every type of feminist -- from sex-positives like Ren to radicals like Debs from the Burning Times 1645 -- hammered you over this.

Your whole post is pathetic, Mr. Payne. What about her? Do you mention your victim in your self-serving sideshow of a post? What a moron. Women don't exist for you. The last thing women or the feminist movement need is YOU, Mr. Payne.

Go away at once, Mr. Payne.

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[Cross-posted from my Blogpost, Aiken Area Progressive]

COLUMBIA -- Just when you thought big government conservatives would really want to repair their image, the misogynist state legislatures here in my home state want to ban all abortions by stating that life begins at the point fertilization. And one of the most vocal supporters of this Taliban-like measure is none other than Mr. Taliban of South Carolina himself, Johnny Gardner. From The State (the newspaper's report in black):

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The abortion debate is heating up again this year at the State House with a new bill that asserts life begins at the moment of fertilization.

But others who attended the subcommittee meeting, including members of the S.C. Coalition for Healthy Families, say the bill threatens women’s access to birth control.

In particular, it might affect access to the morning-after pill, an
emergency contraceptive that is a high dose of the drug found in many regular birth control pills. Taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, it greatly reduces the risk of pregnancy.

“Do these lawmakers want to tell the women in their districts that
they’re denying them access to birth control?” said Brandi Parrish, coordinator and legislative liaison for the coalition.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Greg Delleney, R-Chester, said the subcommittee will get clarification from McMaster on whether and how the bill would affect birth control access before scheduling additional public hearings.

The bill is viewed by some as the latest attempt to chisel away at
abortion rights in the Palmetto State.

Last year, a bill was introduced that would have required a woman
seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound image of the fetus.

Thursday marked the fourth time the Right to Life bill has come before the House subcommittee. Last year, it made it out of the House but died in the Senate.

Some women, like Kathy Finger, of Columbia, say only pregnant women and those close to them have the right to decide whether an abortion is the right option.

In 2004, Finger, who was pregnant, learned she had cancer and needed chemotherapy to survive — a move that would hurt her fetus.

She opted to take a limited amount of chemotherapy drugs until after
the baby was born.

Today, Finger and her daughter are doing well.

“Myself, my husband, my family, we were the only ones who could decide what was best to do in our situation,” she said. “For anyone to presume to make the decision for us, that would be audaciously presumptuous.”

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I absolutely agree with Mrs. Kathy Finger.  The very people who are pushing for this so-called "Right to Life Act" are all men, all of whom can never get pregnant: Gov. Mark Sanford, AG Henry McMaster, Gardner, and state Rep. Greg Delleney. This is yet another attempt by the anti-choice lunatic fringe to rape women on the spot. The SC Coalition for Healthy Families is correct: this bill would outlaw birth control. And did anyone notice that this is a trigger law -- meaning that it would take effect should the Supreme Court strip what little rights women have left right out of our Constitution?

This bill is a blatant attempt by our state government to control women's bodies. And it must be stopped at all costs. The people of South Carolina have an obligation to defeat any and all measures by our state government to control women's bodies. And there is one co-incidence I found with the bill: it was introduced on Valentine's Day. We tell women that love don't have to hurt, but the state government sure don't want women to be free. I have posted about attempts by Colorado, Georgia, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Mississippi wanting to force its sharia laws on women. Other bloggers -- such as Cara from the Curvature -- have talked extensively about attempts in Missouri, North Dakota and Indiana by rogue state legislatures to put their sharia laws on women. All of these laws would allow the government to rape women. Forced pregnancy is rape. And these laws make the antis very similar to the Taliban.

We must change the faces of the people who make laws if we are going to assure that women are going to be free.

Posted by jovan29853 at 1:08 PM EST

Updated: Friday, 15 February 2008 1:21 PM EST

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When the Georgia State Legislatures go back in session on Monday, state House Member Martin Scott plans to introduce a constitutional amendment banning all abortions, saying that "fetuses have been slaughtered in huge numbers" in the Peach State.  The fact and the matter is this: what Martin Scott is introducing is something that only 3d century cavemen would be proud of. 

The Human Life Amendment is the most barbaric piece of legislation ever thought of in our country's history, and it does nothing to protect women or their babies.  Instead, the Amendment makes it legal for the government (in this case, the Georgia state government) to slaughter innocent women during childbirth by the thousands.  I talked about the need for a billboard showing a live crying baby and the baby's dead mother being carried away in a casket with the caption: "This is what happens when women have no choice" on Feministing.  That kind of billboard I discussed on Jessica Valenti's blog is need in Atlanta, Georgia highlighting the millions of women slaughted annually during childbirth before Roe v. Wade because they were denied life-saving abortions.  Furthermore, the federal, state, and local governments; as well as nearly every hospital in the nation; blatantly covered up the hundreds of thousands of maternal deaths annually before Roe.

Georgians need to know that such proposed amendments are why we, the United States of America, have one of the worst women's rights record in the world today.  They also need to call their state House and Senate representative and tell him or her to oppose the Human Life Amendment at ALL COSTS.  And also, everyone across the country need to be involved and come to Atlanta, Georgia and speak out against this draconian, Taliban-like amendment.  We all know who the misogynist assholes are: Martin Scott, Sonny Perdue, and their ilk.

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