Your tax dollars at work — ArmorGroup military contractors (presumably heterosexual) are working hard for more money than the average U.S. servicemember), to wank away, swing their naughty bits around and do a lot of ass-grabbing like a bunch of frat boys. In this case, eight of the ArmorGroup contact guards identified by a State Department staffer investigating this have been fired.  It makes you wonder what else these macho men were doing (well, I’m sure some of you out there might know how people cut up to “relax” when off duty, but sh*t, this is outlandish)?

This continues in more detail — and NSFW fashion — below the fold.Karen Ocamb @ Bilerico, with Homosexuality as a Weapon of Torture:

When I first saw the explicit photos on Gawker of the “sexually confused frat boys” who are under contract with the US State Department to guard the US Embassy in Afghanistan, my brain just could not stop screaming about the total hypocrisy of military and paramilitary life.

500x_Picture_13.pngThese hyper-macho straight contactors, many former military personnel, according to the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight (POGO), get to party down in drunken exhibitions, pretending to have anal sex, doing “butt shots,” and “eating potato chips out of ass cracks” to blow off steam in the high-pressured environment of fighting a war. But if a gay military guy in Afghanistan – or any other situation – even mentions his sexual orientation, he’s kicked out of his job and ex-communicated from the religion that worships all things male.

Surely the gay community would rise up and point to these sexual party pictures as evidence that the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is inherently unfair. Nope. In fact, many of the gay guys with whom I shared emails shrugged and said these naked sexual frat boy hazing “animal house” activities go on all the time. No big deal.

If you’re not depraved and willing to haze and be hazed in the situations (among contractors or our military), what on earth do you do to survive? As Elaine Donnelly and her ilk screech about gays and lesbians serving openly, apparently the real problem is homo-obsessive behavior in the form of taunts, simulated sex acts and bullying of men (and the pattern of rape of women as sport),  is not something the military is addressing — and doesn’t want to. After all, you know they are thinking that if the homos are out and serving, ACTUAL homo-hazing will occur at the hands of randy gay men and horny lesbians. No simulation needed. And we can’t have that, can we? God almighty.

Aaron Belkin of The Palm Center has a post up, “Is Hazing a Form of Torture?”

First, in no way do these incidents represent “bad apples” or isolated cases. One of my doctoral students just completed her dissertation on military training, a project for which she actually went through boot camp as a part of her research. I begged her not to go to boot camp to do her research because i believed she could get assaulted. Sure enough, every single woman in her training was sexually harassed, including one woman who was raped. The reason behind the pattern is that in order to train our troops for combat, we train them to brutalize one another.

Second, these cases are not hazing, they are torture. By referring to torture as “hazing,” or “homosocial behavior” we make the violence seem like it is okay, just boys being boys. Hog-tying someone to a chair and then shoving him into a dog kennel full of feces, as was done to the gay sailor, is not boys being boys. In fact, the victims of such treatment often develop PTSD. One of the sailors implicated in the Bahrain scandal died from suicide, while another told me that he developed suicidal ideation as a result.

Third, the pattern of violence is not an accident, but reflects official policy, including the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law which makes it almost impossible for gay victims to report abuse. And even though the military does have policies in place to deter violence against women, these policies often produce contradictory results. For example, I am aware of a rape case that was not reported because the base commander had announced a “zero-tolerance” policy for assault, which the troops took to mean (accurately according to people I interviewed) that he did not want to hear about incidents.

Is The Peter going to feature this manifestation of rank heterosexuality and condemn it?

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Related:

* Investigating Bad Behavior At The US Embassy In Afghanistan