December 17, 2008
Sen. Thune seeks aid to stop rapists on SD indian reservations
SD Senator John Thune and twenty-one other senators have written Obama seeking his support of a two billion dollar aid package for tribal health, law enforcement and water projects. In an interview yesterday with the Argus Leader editorial board Thune said;
One-third of Indian women will be raped in their lifetimes… we need to get these crime issues under control. We're going to push hard on the new administration to help us do that.
Note that he did not say the solution to the rape problem on the rez is more abortion. Those who profit from abortion can be frequently heard in South Dakota talking about the rape problem on the rez and how it is therefore absolutely essential that these poor women have increased access to "abortion care."
I'm with Thune… let's go after the rapists and not execute a capital punishment on an innocent child for the crime of their father.
Planned Parenthood leads the world in the exploitation of women. They support sex criminals and rapists by aborting the evidence and refusing to report the crime to law enforcement. Planned Parenthood has been caught on tape three times THIS MONTH covering up rapes against 13 year old girls. I propose we take the $335 million tax payer dollars presently going to Planned Parenthood and diverting it to something that helps women not something that helps rapists.
Comments on Sen. Thune seeks aid to stop rapists on SD indian reservations »
Ceecee @ 11:21 pm
I don't know anything about Sen. Thune and what he thinks about abortion. I do hope that Sen. Thune has plans here to kick some rapist butt, and not just to kill babies for the crimes of their fathers.
Indian Law Expert @ 2:51 am
Sen. Thune's plan involves throwing people into federal prison for up to three years per charge without the right to an attorney. Reservations currently do not have to provide an attorney for those who cannot afford it because they are not part of the US and not subject to all the Constititutional provisions. However, they can only incarcerate someone for up to one year and only in a tribal jail. This is the trade-off. Thune wants to increase jail time and throw them in the Pen without a lawyer. This won't help stop rapists - it will bring national gangs to the reservations and increase all crime.