Rebecca Dickinson is a Navy officer and “Lt. Cmdr.” who also moonlighted as a call girl for Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s escort service. Dickinson was forced to testify as a witness in the case against “D.C. Madam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Dickinson quit because she She is now a lieutenant commander six months from retirement, but she has been put on leave and could lose her job and pension. Again, I’m wondering why someone like Dickinson should be punished for providing a service (yes, it’s sex) which will never go out of style or demand. Interestingly enough, another woman who worked for Palfrey is a retired occupational therapist with a doctorate in higher education! But what I think we should be scandalized by is another story involving sex and the military.For example, did you know that rape in the military has become so rampant, and so condoned, that women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq? You probably didn’t. Because unlike “Rebecca Dickinson” “Jane Harmon” the congresswoman who wrote an oped about this frightening fact, never got to be on google trends top 10 hot trends.

! Support The Military Extraterritorial Jurisdictional Act, which holds criminal contractors accountable under enforcable Federal law to Protect Americans working for U.S. contractors in Iraq. Here’s a story that demonstrates why this is so important:  Jamie Leigh Jones was working in Iraq for Halliburton/KBR when she was drugged and brutally sexually assaulted by co-workers. See her in the video below.  For the last two years, she’s been asking the US government to hold the perpetrators accountable, but the men who raped her may never be brought to justice because Halliburton and other contractors in Iraq aren’t subject to US or Iraqi laws. “In theory” the US contractors could be held accountable in the defendant’s state of residence. The Military Extraterritorial Jurisdictional Act passed in 2000 “may” give the state department some jurisdiction in prosecuting military contractors in Iraq, but there have been a number of civilian misconduct cases referred to the state department, yet there has not been a single prosecution for criminal government contractors working abroad!