Rape in the Ranks Film: Effectively Banned in the US

Or the military has been diligent to make sure no publicity gets out, especially on American websites. This film could be a big liability for them. They might have to go out and find a few scapegoats to courts martial.

One month is a short time to understand rape? I can understand in the few minutes it takes to watch the news video above. There's nothing complicated about rape.

By the way Pascale is a WOMAN.

>"Or the military has been diligent to make sure no publicity gets out, especially on American websites."<
You mean like this one? I suppose I should be expecting a knock at the door by the men in black helicopters then? Rarely do i find a self evident logic flaw of this magnitude. I'd claim rofl, but honestly I'm just awed.

>"One month is a short time to understand rape? I can understand in the few minutes it takes to watch the news video above. There's nothing complicated about rape."<
I'm not talking about the definition of the act. I'm talking about the situation. The question is not one of whether sexual assaults took place, it is of the military's reaction and behavior in regard to those assaults. One month is a short time to understand the military infrastructure, and it's an unbelievably short time to do a film in.

>"By the way Pascale is a WOMAN."<
WGAF. Her sex is not germane. I'm interested in the work, not which bathroom she uses. Interesting to know the name is female though, I'd never seen it before. How did you know that BTW? Her gender is not listed anywhere I found when I did searches on the film.

Watch out for net neutrality.

Yeah, you actually have to have a brain to understand the concept of morality. I guess in the military morality is suspended. It's kind of like working for satan.

I guess it would really hurt recruiting if guys weren't allowed to rape women. That's probably one of the big reasons most of them join up.

At least they'll always have wartime where they can rape and pillage the "enemy" women and children. Killing babies is another big rush.

Hoorah! The American heroes.

If what you say is true, then this would be an equal problem for every coed military. I've hear that the Israeli military has similar problems but just about every military in Europe is coed too.

I don't think the "all soldiers are ravening bastards" argument will wash.

@JonRaymond. You seem like such a narrow minded individual. Do you think we are all the same? Are you basing your judgment of all the armed forces on the actions of a few? In which case do you believe that all americans are serial killers like Ted Bundy or that all muslims are terrorists?

Its not just a few. I believe that it's a standing unofficial policy of the US military that rape is OK. They cover it up and you won't see it much during peacetime or on US bases. But out in the war zone, anything goes. Anything to keep up morale.

How do you know for a fact how many or how few rapes there are if they are covered up? It's just like media coverage of the war. The military keeps a close eye on that and only approves what gets out.

Understand that the military has marshal law over troops. It's not like troops have the rights that we do.

Now it may also be true that some women who join up like being around all the testosterone. Some may even like the gang rapes, and there are gangs rapes. The problem is that no one comes forward until they decide they had enough and feel violated. By then it's too late because they mysteriously end up dead.

Consider this. Of all the hundreds of thousands of troops in the military don't you think there would be a percentage of rape going on, just like in the rest of society? Yet try to find any reports of rape. When you find them the military plays them down or covers them up.

Why also is Franken's amendment against rape allowed for mercenaries being stopped in Congress? Don't you find this questionable? It's obvious to me that rape is considered a perk of military life in the war zone. They can take any women they want, 12 years old or what ever. We have had reports of this. This has been our policy and if this is stopped we'll have a huge morale problem on our hands. The mercenaries got their training as US troops. It's all the same thing.

Now I don't contend I have hard evidence and hard facts. But that is the problem. We can't get these facts or evidence until someone comes forward or someone makes a documentary to expose it.

Why would you protest this documentary anyway, or my post here? What's in it for you?

I never said all troops are the same. But it does appear this is a standing policy to allow rape. If I am wrong then there should be no problem to screen films like this.

>"I believe that it's a standing unofficial policy of the US military that rape is OK."<
Just because "you believe" doesn't make it true. Can you produce anything credible?

>"How do you know for a fact how many or how few rapes there are if they are covered up?"<
How do you? I'm not the one claiming to know, you are.

>"The military keeps a close eye on that and only approves what gets out."<
Oh please! In the age of the internet the Chinese government can't even do that and they have a lot more control of their people than the military does over the media. How on earth is the military going to effectively control reporters? They can't arrest them or shoot them.

>"I Understand that the military has marshal law over troops. It's not like troops have the rights that we do."<
That you use that phrase implies that you don't understand it very well.

>"Consider this. Of all the hundreds of thousands of troops in the military don't you think there would be a percentage of rape going on, just like in the rest of society? Yet try to find any reports of rape."<
From the above article, you know... the one you posted:
"The Pentagon has acknowleged receiving 3,000 reports of sexual assault in 2006 alone."
You really should read what you write.

>"Why also is Franken's amendment against rape allowed for mercenaries being stopped in Congress? "<
Everything is here. http://current.com/items/91248659_frankens-anti-rape-amendment-may-be-stripped-b...

>"Now I don't contend I have hard evidence and hard facts."<
Yet mere belief shall set you free. As long as it's yours. I've got a term for you. "witch hunt"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt

Actually it's always been this way. It's just policy to cover it up, just like the media black out in Afghanistan and Iraq that our military imposes.

God knows what our troops do to the Afghan civilians if they can rape our own women troops without punishment and as unofficial official policy.

@ johnraymond: An interesting choice or words.
"just like the media black out in Afghanistan and Iraq that our military imposes."

Would that mean then that because a media blackout doesn't actually exist either that what you say here is also untrue?

The military is notorious for media blackouts, official or not. They are also notorious for unofficial official policy, such as racism toward all civilians of the countries we are at war in. They routinely refers to Muslims as "hodgie" (for hajji) to instill in the troops a dehumanization. This make the troops willing to kill and unconcerned when innocent people do get killed. This has happened in the military in very war and it's in all military not just the U.S. That's just one example.

I know first hand as a film producer that it is impossible to get distribution for a film that sheds a negative light on the military and makes the other side appear human (I'm also a military veteran, 11 years service, including Desert Storm). Distributors here won't touch it. Studios won't touch it. Maybe it's their marketing model. They have a standing belief that people in the U.S. do not want to see a film about the U.S. troops getting killed or portrayed as the antagonists and they don't want to see films about Muslins as protagonists. Of course, there may be a few exceptions. But that is the general rule.

Is that a military media blackout? Maybe, maybe not. But it is EFFECTIVELY a ban on anti-US material in this country. That is my point.

Find me some films that show US troops as the bad guys and the innocent Muslim civilians as the good guys. You can't, can you? Especially not dramatic narratives. Hardly a single one (except one or two docs like ReThink Afghanistan). And yet this is the reality of what is going on. How many people do you know who have seen reThink Afghanistan or even know of its existence?

Is this relevant to the rape of US women troops? Yes. Because this pro US military unofficial policy pervades all of film distribution n this country.

So yes, it is EFFECTIVELY banned in the US, with few exceptions like the New York Independent Film Festival, that obviously has some balls.

So by that logic Pauley Shore was banned too then. No one will produce his stuff either because he produced like 4 money losing crap fests in a row.

To probably badly misquote Samuel L Jackson; "Hollywood only sees one color and that color is green."
If hollywood is willing market zombie hooker movies they would be willing to market one of these. They just don't think it's worth their time.

I'm more interested in your statement about negative Muslim work though. Could you present some examples please? There are several instances where this is untrue. One of the more recent Russel Crowe movies comes to mind for one. There's even a TV series called "Little Mosque On The Prairie" on cable. Does reasonably if not impressively well I understand.