Per the 14th Amendment and the Supreme Court, corporations in America are deemed to people in certain situations for their benefit only. If "personhood" was applied thoroughly, KBR and Halliburton would be sentenced to many years in jail for a brutal rape of an employee in Iraq. However, we do not live in a perfect world and the story of Jamie Leigh Jones is an incredibly sad one to hear.
From ABC News:
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job."Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here, and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.
Only because a sympathetic guard let her call her father did she get out of that container. Congressman Ted Poe made the necessary calls to get her out and is 100 percent behind her, yet more than two years later, there has been no justice for Jamie.
The government is helping KBR hide her rapists and the company as a whole from litigation. Convenient loopholes have let them escape prosecution. Now Jamie is trying to use the civil courts as a last hope at finding justice, but KBR is fighting her every step of the way. The Bush Administration is of no use to her. If Bush had to choose between a rape victim and a war profiteer corporation, he would always go with the latter.
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