Attorney General of California trivializes rape

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer says, "I would love 
to personally escort Lay [Enron energy company chair--MC5] 
to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude 
who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey.'" Even Chicago 
Tribune editorial board bourgeois mouthpiece Steve Chapman 
thought that was too much repression and indecent to say 
about any potential prisoner. "Suppose we take a 
conservative estimate and say that one of every 10 inmates 
suffers this misfortune. With more than 1.8 million men 
behind bars at any given time, that means at least 180,000 
inmates are forcibly violated every year. And that's not 
counting what goes on in juvenile facilities. For 
comparison's sake, in the entire United States, there were 
124,730 rapes of females in 1999." The point Chapman makes 
is an example of why MIM says that gender is not just 
genitalia. Prisoners raped are facing gender oppression --
and as Chapman also points out, most prisoners are there for 
non-violent offenses. Since rape can easily lead to AIDS and 
other diseases, it means prison authorities are winking at 
additional punishment of prisoners -- perhaps including a 
death sentence. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, 
the Enron chair may be in prison, but we communists will not 
be creating oppressed genders in any context. Rape will not 
be tolerated in prison or anywhere else.

Note: Chicago Tribune 7June2001, p. 29.