Justice for Vanessa

Meet PFC Vanessa Guillen. She was stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas until she disappeared over a month ago. Her mother, in an interview with a Spanish news station said the following:

"Her mom spoke with a Spanish news station, she said she knew something was wrong with her daughter. She begged her to tell her and she finally told her mother that she was sexually assaulted by an NCO. Her mother told her to report him and she replied “I can’t, many have and nothing has been done.” “If I report him I will be in danger” her mom asked for his name but she wouldn’t give it to her. She told her mom I will take care of it and then she went missing."

"If I report him I will be in danger". No truer words were ever spoken. 

They killed her. Years from now they will dig up her remains while excavating for new construction. by then it will be too late. What people do not understand is that EVERY day the military releases sexual predators into the civilian world with no warnings or repercussions. Many of these creeps are honorably retired and the only reason it's honorable is because of the string of damaged women who were systematically ignored when they complained or were threatened into silence. All those 'borderline personality disorders' discharges given to female first terms are just a tool they military uses to keep women in line. This is bullshit. They know she's missing or else she would have been listed as AWOL and when the 30-day mark rolled around she would be charged with desertion and so far, neither of those has happened. CID needs to start questioning every male NCO in her chain of command, and the females as well. Senior female NCOs generally know more than they are telling. It's time for them to start talking. Command needs to own up to the fact that they are no longer covering for a sexual predator, but a killer.

There is an online petition making its rounds about the internet. This petition is a waste of time. Trump isn't going to do a damn thing about this child being missing. In 2013, before he even made a serious effort to run for president, he tweeted this: "26,000 unreported sexual assults* in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" The future CIC of the armed forces declared women in uniform should expect to be sexually assaulted by male troops. That tweet reminded me of something I heard a male NCO tell all women arriving for duty at our little airfield in Germany way back in the bad old days when women were first being integrated into traditionally male-only units. We were told the only reason women were being sent to Europe was to keep American GI's away from the local women because the local mem "really hate that shit". Yes, a male NCO was telling female soldiers they were whores in uniform sent overseas to service the male troops.

Anyone remember the confirmation hearings of Air Force Gen. John Hyten? He was nominated for the position of vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs. His nomination was delayed when he was accused of sexual misconduct by a former staff member.  Here is a summation of the entire farce from the local PBS station. The accuser, an Army colonel with years of honorable service was all but called a liar by Senator Martha McSally (former Air Force officer and Trump sycophant appointed by Governor Ducey to finish Senator McCain’s term) all but called a sister-officer a liar on the senate floor. 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-joint-chiefs-nominee-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-faces-senate-questioning

This is what McSally, a woman who went into great detail of how she was sexually assaulted first by her high school track coach and then by one of her instructors at the Air Force Academy, said about this officer: “This wasn’t just a jump ball. Not a he said, she said,” McSally said. “Sexual assault happens in the military. It just didn’t happen in this case.” She added that she prays that “the accuser gets the help she needs and finds the peace she is searching for. But it cannot be by destroying General Hyten with false allegations.” To this day McSally has as yet to name her attackers, and as a US Senator, albeit one who was appointed and not elected, she should be immune to career threatening. I can’t help but wonder how many other cadets fell prey to McSally’s attacker when she could have stopped him by filing a complaint.

Now you see why women are reluctant to report unwanted sexual advances or sexual assault to their chain of command. All it takes is one Blue Falcon in the Chain of Command to end a career. In every judicial system in America, meaning every police station, every lawyer, every judge, and every person sitting on a jury knows you can no longer bring up a person’s previous sexual history during the prosecution of a rape case. That is in a civilian court. The military will resort to rumor and innuendo while bringing the plaintiffs past sexual history into evidence even though it hasn’t got a thing to do with the incident in question. These women go from victim to sexual predator out to ruin an innocent man’s career at warp speed.

Sign all the petitions you want. It won’t do any good. Trump won’t read it and if he gets someone to summarize it for him, he won’t care. After all, this is what happens when you put men and women together….

*his misspelling, not mine.