Several
presidents of the
United
States have been accused during or after their presidencies of
earlier committing
rape.
DNA tests have lent additional authority to
longstanding rumors that Jefferson fathered children by his slave
Sally
Hemings. Some say that relationships such as that alleged to
have occurred in Jefferson's case
[649], and the Jefferson-Hemings
relationship in particular
[650],
[651] could be
considered rape by modern standards since Hemings was presumably
unable to withhold
consent. Opinions vary on this conclusion,
however.
Writing about the relationship in the
Nashville City
Paper, Molly Secours said "for us to call it anything but
'rape' is disingenuous and dangerous."
[652] In
USA Today, DeWayne Wickham wrote that "to imply
that the sex between him and his slave was consensual, even in a TV
movie, is a cruelly dishonest portrayal of the dirtiest secret of
American slavery"
[653]; in the same article, Daniel
Jordan, president of the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation, is quoted as saying "whether it was love or
lust, rape or romance, no one knows, and it's unlikely that anyone
will ever know."
Recent evidence suggests one of the Jefferson
brothers, but probably not Thomas, fathered Hemmings's child
[654].
In April
1991, major newspapers carried the report
that actress
Selene Walters claimed that, in
1952, Reagan, when he was president of the
Screen Actors Guild, had raped her in
her home. The charge was initially publicized in
Kitty Kelley's unauthorized
biography of
Nancy
Reagan and then repeated in a
People magazine interview with Walters.
"I opened the door," Walters told the magazine. "Then it was the
battle of the couch. I was fighting him. I didn't want him to make
love to me. He's a very big man, and he just had his way."
According to Kelley, Walters shared contemporaneous accounts of the
encounter with friends. No physical evidence has been produced to
support the allegation.
[655]. No legal action, civil or
criminal, was taken against Reagan based on the
allegation.
In November 1998, Juanita
Broaddrick gave an interview
(transcript) to "Dateline NBC". The
interview, broadcast in February 1999, centered around Broaddrick's
accusation that Bill Clinton had raped her on April 25, 1978 during
his first campaign for the governorship of Arkansas. In the
interview, she declared that Clinton suddenly "turned me around and
started kissing me, and that was a real shock. I first pushed him
away. I just told him 'no.'... He tries to kiss me again. He starts
biting on my lip... And then he forced me down on the bed. I just
was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him
'no.'... He wouldn't listen to me."
Previously, in 1997,
Broaddrick had filed a sworn affadavit in the
Paula Jones case saying
Clinton had never assaulted her: "During the 1992 Presidential
campaign there were unfounded rumors and stories circulated that
Mr. Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the
late seventies. ... These allegations are untrue ...." In 1998, she
recanted that affidavit when interviewed by the
FBI about the Jones case; the FBI found her account
inconclusive. Broaddrick later said of the affidavit, "I didn’t
want to be forced to testify about one of the most horrific events
in my life. I didn’t want to go through it again."
[656]According to Jack Nelson,
Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, many journalists
were skeptical; "This is a story that's been knocked down and
discredited so many times, I was shocked to see it in the [Wall
Street] Journal today.... Everyone's taken a slice of it, and after
looking at it, everyone's knocked it down. The woman has changed
her story about whether it happened. It just wasn't credible."
[657] Joe Conason and
Gene Lyon's book "The Hunting of the President"
argued that Broaddrick's claim is not credible and contains
numerous inconsistencies. In contrast,
Michael Isikoff's
book "Uncovering Clinton" and
Christopher Hitchens' book "No One
Left to Lie To" both argue that Broaddrick's claim is credible. No
legal action, civil or criminal, was taken against Clinton based on
the allegation.
Bill Clinton also faced allegations of sexual
harassment and sexual assault by
Paula Jones and
Kathleen Willey. In the civil case of
Jones v. Clinton, the case was dropped after he settled with Jones
with no admission of guilt for $850,000 in order to put the matter
behind him.
[658]<br>
No civil or criminal
legal action was taken against Clinton based on Willey's
allegation.
In
2002, Margie Schoedinger of
Missouri City,
Texas, filed a
pro se
lawsuit against Bush alleging that he had raped her in October
2000.
[659]. The complaint also claims she had
been harassed, that she had been drugged and sexually assaulted
numerous times by Bush and other men purporting to be FBI agents,
that her bank account had been interfered with, and that she had
been threatened and beaten. The suit also raised the allegation
that her husband might have been similarly raped. Her husband,
Christopher, did serve a year in prison after pleading "no contest"
to assault charges against his wife; he later filed for
divorce.
It has been widely speculated that Schoedinger suffered
from a mental illness such as
schizophrenia. Among American newspapers, the
story was covered by only the
Fort Bend Star, whose editor stated
"I had heard she was a nutcase."
[660]A notable excerpt from the
legal petition reads "
the Defendant [George Bush] also informed
the Plaintiff [Margie Schoedinger] that his only option to assure
his never having to answer for the previous contact would be to
simply see Plaintiff pressured to the point of committing
suicide"; another states that Bush never stopped watching her,
and never stopped having sex with her, had dated her when she was a
minor and that the entire affair was part of a racist conspiracy
against her. A year later, she died of a gunshot wound to the head,
which medical examiners ruled a suicide.
There is no evidence
that Bush was ever served with the complaint in the civil action;
no criminal action was taken against Bush based on the
allegation.
This summary about Margie Schoedinger conveniently
omits Jackson Thoreau's article in regard to her. And there are
numerous articles
circulating around this country and in other
countries which document far more than you go into here. What
Wikipedia has done here
is to slant the information in George
Bush's favor by not giving a
balanced presentation of the facts.
If you claim to be a legitimate
encyclopedia you must be neutral
in your reporting.
Leann Kleinzman reported accurately at first
and found herself and
her reputation under heavy assault by the
BUSH GANG. You saw what they did to Dan Rather when he reported a
truthful but unfavorable
account of George W. Bush's AWOL record
in the National Guard.
I have read Schoedinger's testimony, and
it far more compelling than
what you have listed here. She was not
the nut job that Bush has
made her out to be to coverup what he
did to her and her family. I am certain that you will delete what I
have written here posthaste, however, Bush is guilty not only of
attacking Schoedinger, but also of orchestrating her murder. It's
not like he hasn't done it in the past. And, while we're at it, we
both know that Bush is capable of creating major problems for
Wikipedia if you tell the truth about him and his Nazi sympathizing
family.
Just wanted you to know that not everyone out there is
in the dark
about the Bush crime family or the control they have
over all the mainstream media.
How do you think most Americans
would react if they knew of George HW Bush's connections to drug
trafficking for the CIA back in the 1950's using the rigs on his
offshore oil wells to smuggle these illegal drugs into the USA from
Columbia? Probaby not very well. Of course someday long after Bush
is dead, we will hear about it when it will no longer matter. This
is what these people excel at. Committing the worst crimes and then
intimidating anyone who finds out about them to keep quiet or face
the consequences. Think about that as you delete the only glimmer
of truth that is listed in
within this post in regard to what
really happened to Margie Schoedinger. To those who repesent a
threat to the Bush family,
federal intelligence etc. they are
quickly made out to be psychotic
to discredit them. This is
standard operating procedure for the intelligence community and
they coopt every person around the ones
they target who will then
take part in the attacks on said target
out of fear for their own
lives. And yes, the situation really is that
bad.
References
Gipper the Ripper? by Jack Shafer,
Slate, March 5, 1999 Is
Juanita Broaddrick Telling the Truth? by Bruce Gottlieb,
Slate, March 3, 1999 The Bush Rape Story by
Sean Carter, Counter Punch, 2002-12-20. files
lawsuit against President.htm Woman files lawsuit against
President by LeaAnne Klentzman, The Fort Bend Star,
2002-12-11.
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