The Curious case of Jamie Leigh Jones
Posted by Anthony at December 11th, 2007
The blogosphere is currently abuzz with a case of Jamie Jones - a woman from Texas who was employed by Halliburton/KBR. She alleges she was gang-raped by her Halliburton co-workers, locked up without food or water for a day - and all of this just happened to be an active cover-up of Halliburton, and the U.S. Government that went on for 2 years.
While I cannot bring any expert knowledge to the details of the case and objectively judge the genuineness of her claims I found it quite amusing to read the responses of conservative bloggers. As you can guess, some of them are somewhat “dismissive” of her claims.
For instance “Jawa Report” calls her claims “Too perfect“. Really? Well of course, when according to them, “.. nearly every villain in the left’s panoply of villains is included in the story”. Interestingly enough, when the rape perpetrators are muslims “Jawa Report” didn’t display the same kind of incredulity - in fact they have a simple explanation ready (psst, it’s the evil feminists’/lesbians’ fault). Oh, that makes perfect sense.
Or take this fine gentleman pictured above who happens to be Ms Jamie Jones’ fellow Texan Chris Jones, a prominent conservative blogger for TheHotJoints and RedState. Here’s a direct quote from his blog:
“Immunity for “contractor on Iraqi” crime is one thing, but I never considered that immunity would extend to “contractor on contractor” crimes. Or more specifically “American on American” crimes. Shooting an Iraqi in a war zone is one thing, but American contractors gang-raping a 20-year old American woman is f*cking outrageous.”
So let me see if I understand. What Mr Jones is saying here is that killing, maiming and raping of Iraqi men/women/children when performed by American contractors is all fine and dandy, but if it’s done to a white woman we’ve gone too far. Outrageous, indeed.
The ultimate irony of this rather ugly situation is that the bloggers that seem to be displaying the most sympathy and compassion with regards to Miss Jones case are of the kind that she most likely despises the most. You know, tree hugging, godless, pinky, sandal-wearing hippies that kind.
Not that the leftist bloggers would ever be politically motivated…
I don’t think I said anything about “maiming” or “raping” Iraqi’s and I definitely didn’t say anything about kids.
What I meant was that I have no problem with contractors having immunity when they have to use deadly force while performing their mission.
Secondly, I don’t think I mentioned Ms. Jones’s color at all. Raping a co-worker (or anyone else for that matter) is totally repugnant regardless of the victims skin color.
What I find interesting about you left-wingers, is that you seem to only have compassion for foreigners.
If this story had been about KBR contractors gang-raping an Iraqi girl, it would be wall to wall coverage. There would be staged gang-rapes on the steps of the capital and other such “hippie” bullshit.
Since it was an American girl, the left assumes the bitch probably had it coming for being apart of the “imperialist war machine.”
That’s why it’s so funny when “progressives” pretend to be so compassionate, when in reality they’re the most hateful among us.
Chris Jones
I don’t think I said anything about “maiming” or “raping” Iraqi’s and I definitely didn’t say anything about kids.”
Of course you didn’t. However, you must realize that this is what immunity from prosecution means. No crime, however big or small is off the table. It’s a moral blank check that they are free to cash at their leisure and indeed - they do. The recent case with Blackwater proves that contractors can and will abuse their immunity powers.
What I found most hypocritical was that you seemed to have had no qualms with Blackwater; and indeed you supported them. However, when a bona fide white American girl fell victim you cried foul. Hence you must realize that you claims of seeing no color or race sound a bit.. disingenuous.
Anthony