Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal
Won't Go Away
Halliburton, Dyncorp lobbyists stall law banning human trafficking and sex slavery
Halliburton, Dyncorp lobbyists stall law banning human trafficking and sex slavery
Almost a year after Representative Cynthia
McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush
administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with
government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children
who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton subsidiaries
, Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment
elite.
On March 11th 2005, McKinney grilled Secretary
Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal.
"Mr. Secretary, I watched President
Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in
which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for
the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very
moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the
buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going
on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax
vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine
Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government
to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?"
The response and McKinney's comeback was
as follows.
Rumsfeld: "Thank you, Representative.
First, the answer to your first question is, is, no, absolutely not, the
policy of the United States Government is clear, unambiguous, and opposed
to the activities that you described. The second question."
McKinney: "Well how do you explain the fact that
DynCorp and its successor companies have received and continue to receive
government contracts?"
Rumsfeld: "I would have to go and find the facts,
but there are laws and rules and regulations with respect to government
contracts, and there are times that corporations do things they should not
do, in which case they tend to be suspended for some period; there are times
then that the - under the laws and the rules and regulations for the - passed
by the Congress and implemented by the Executive branch - that corporations
can get off of - out of the penalty box if you will, and be permitted to
engage in contracts with the government. They're generally not barred in
perpetuity."
McKinney: "This contract - this company - was
never in the penalty box."
Rumsfeld: "I'm advised by DR. Chu that it was
not the corporation that was engaged in the activities you characterized
but I'm told it was an employee of the corporation, and it was some years
ago in the Balkans that that took place."
Watch the video here.
Rumsfeld's effort to shift the blame away from the
hierarchy at Dyncorp and onto the Dyncorp employees was a blatant attempt
to hide the fact that human trafficking and sex slavery is a practice condoned
by companies like Dyncorp and Halliburton subsidiaries like KBR.
What else are we to assume in light of recent revelations
cited in the Chicago Tribune that Halliburton subsidiary
KBR and Dyncorp lobbyists are working in tandem with the Pentagon to stall
legislation that would specifically ban trafficking in humans for forced
labor and prostitution by U.S. contractors?
Three years has now elapsed since President Bush's
promise to bring an end to this disgrace and the Pentagon is still yet to
actually bar the practice.
And the employees themselves that are burned for blowing
the whistle, like Kathryn Bolkovac who
was sacked for reporting on Dyncorp officials who were involved
in the Bosnian sex trade.
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is one of very few
representatives in high office aside from Cynthia McKinney to demand
answers on this issue.
We applaud Blagojevich's eforts. The iron curtain of
official denial and soft-peddling is falling down.
What has happened to the children who were sold into
slavery and forced to satisfy the demands of sick pedophiles working on
behalf of the US government?
Where were the investigations and convictions in other
cases of establishment orchestrated child slavery and prostitution?
Like the NATO
officials responsible for the mushrooming of child prostitution
in Kosovo?
What happened to UN officials identified as using a
ship charted for 'peacekeepers' to bring
young girls from Thailand to East Timor as prostitutes?
In addition, we received an E mail from
a person claiming to be a Dyncorp employee stating that a high level Dyncorp
official is breaking the law by accepting payment from the US government
and in turn the American taxpayer by falsifying timesheets and claiming
pay for hours not worked.
The contact states that this was repeatedly
brought to the attention of DynCorp program managers by Dyncorp employees
but they were told it was "none of their business."
It is important to stress that at the
moment these are allegations and we have no proof of this other than the
validity of the e mail.
The e mail is a reminder that we should
always consider the fact that the vast majority of Dyncorp employees are
just doing their jobs and have nothing to do with this scandal. It is a
small faction at the head of the hydra that have authorized and engaged
in these horrors.
We have a government that says it doesn't
advocate torture and yet tries to block a law that would end torture. We
have a government that repeatedly burns lower level minions to wash its
hands of every major scandal that encompasses policies directly administered
by the government itself, as in the case of Abu Ghraib and the Dyncorp sex
scandal.
A government that covers-up for those
who force children into prostitution and slavery is a clear danger to our
very way of life.
We must demand answers and finally put
an end to a process that exploits and wreaks terror on the lives of the
most innocent and vulnerable members of society, whether they be in the
Balkans, East Timor or here at home.
Our own children.
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