Franken Amendment may be stripped from final bill

Here's my question, shouldn't it be criminal to deny an American citizen justice by using employment contracts prevent employees from taking work-related allegations of rape and discrimination to court, at the very least it aiding and abeiting!

Heres MY answer-----------YES, it should be criminal,...and in terms of punishment,... I'm just sort of mulling over the notion; "was crucification REALLY so out of line"?

This is unreal. Our country has become very sick when corporations can cut language from a bill that would help prevent rape. All these guys will be sorry when women start working together, rather than rallying around men and take back the power they started to recieve in the seventies. I bet if some of these honcos got raped, it would be completly different.

Franken for president !

"The anti-rape amendment introduced by Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) may be stripped from the defense appropriations bill by Appropriations chairman Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI),"

This Inouye fellow is who we all need to write a letter too about the fallacies in stripping this amendment from the bill. Write him a nice, long, but firm letter about the reasons and your opinions why it should be allowed to pass. If we don't the white house won't do shit diddily crap.

WTF?!

Another fine example of corporate power -vs- citizens rights. Want to break the law ? Form a business...buy a politician; morally righteous need not apply. USA 2009

A democrat needing money? People here tend to make it out that only Republicans do that.

Ooops.

Nothing like a Democrat stomping on another democrat's toes. Looks like it hurt. -no comment-

Where's his balls now?

Um.. what the fuck?

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this is Sen. Inouye's contact info you can also send him a message on his website....tell him he's a dick
http://inouye.senate.gov/Contact/Email-Form.cfm

What is wrong with the Democratic leadership? This is BS.

That is exactly why WE THE PEOPLE need a new generation of politicians as Franken in power.

Out with the derelicts !

The youth of this country can do this just as easily as Grayson opens his mouth ;)

"He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done."- Leonardo da Vinci

"And on the most exalted throne in the world sits nothing but a man's arse." – Montaigne

I wasn't aware that private contracts trump federal laws... I said I wasn't aware, not surprised.

This is proof that many years ago our constitution allowed congress to build a special world where they could be above the civil law and setting on a throne in a higher realm than where we live. If congress can permit corporate Rape and crime, Just where is justice? We have a supreme court who is suposed to mete out law and Justice which is near to what a Loving God would propose. In Lieu of a God, Congress is the best the human race could afford but no one ever could have imagined that nearly all politicians could have been bought and sold by corporate America, nor could we have ever imagined that corruption could become a legal way of life for politicians. Its a shame but its a fact. Presidents and politicians can go begging for money for elections, while unemployed Americans with no income would be arrested for begging for money to feed his family. Police are supposed to enforce the law yet they support Corporate America above the people. Where is the scales of Justice?

Another earlier article on the same subject with some specifics

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I agree with all of you BUT why isnt this a stand alone bill instead of sliding it on a defense spending like they did the hate crime stuff why not make it the Fraken bill and push it through.The habit of our so called leaders of sliding stuff into bills that have no real bearing on what they are trying to do is the main reason our goverment is so corrupt.

Well, at least our government is consistent on ignoring its citizens problems.

I would expect no less in a society that is fundamentally run by corporations. But Inouye is taking a big chance. He is betting, I'm sure,that people will forget about this before he has to face the electorate. But the fact is, if this is stripped from the defense bill, he will lose his bid for reelection. And ironically, it will be his Republican opponent who beats him over the head with this. Then he'll go to work as a lobbyist for the defense industry.

What great Government we have!!

you liberals are so assed up it isnt even funny.

I am so glad I gave money to his campaign and so glad that I was able to support him in the primary thanks to Dr. Deans party building software. I knew from day one that Franken would make a great Senator because he's human, he's down to earth and not a career politician and that means he brings something thats much needed to the senate. A backbone and some common sense.

The links below explain people like clownpuncher to a T.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=internet+tough+guy
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/wanna-be-an.php
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-evolution-of-the-troll-from-internet-tough-guy-t...
http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/9316/dorquemadaaf0.jpg

It's more sad than funny, really.

I loved all Franken's books.