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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Biden just signed an executive order that makes military sexual harassment a criminal offe
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President Biden just signed an executive order that makes military sexual harassment a criminal offe (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Jan 2022
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Hekate
(90,806 posts)1. And some day we'll get it out of E.O. territory and Congress will make it actual law
This is a good start.
RockRaven
(15,002 posts)2. Oh, great!!!...
So this totally won't get systematically ignored/covered up like the rapes and murders within their ranks which are also already criminal offenses, but ignored/covered up nonetheless...
Good times we are living in!
mrsadm
(1,198 posts)3. Great news!
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,563 posts)5. For this thread
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)6. All right! He's toughened up the Vanessa Guillen act he signed in December
after congress passed it as part of the defense bill. I wasn't paying close attention, but seemingly there was resistance in congress to requiring independent investigations and criminalizing...crimes, and our margin is currently too narrow for liberal ideals to always prevail.
Predators need to be afraid and stopped. Innocent people on all sides of this need to be protected.
Biden acted.