Our Embassy in Afghanistan Is Guarded by Sexually Confused Frat Boys

As a long time advocate for the repel of Don't Ask Don't Tell, I find the recent revelations about the sexually explicit hazing popular with certain elements of the heterosexual security contractors in Afghanistan most enlightening. The whole alleged purpose behind DADT and the exclusion of LGBT citizens from the military is to maintain morale and unit discipline, yet the conduct of these straights would embarrass most drunk fraternity boys. To me, the whole breaking scandal helps to underscore that the REAL reason behind DADT is the legalization of religious based discrimination and pandering to the Christo-fascists of the far right. The Gawker has a telling article and some very illuminating photos of what gay fearing straights do to one another. Here are some story highlights:

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Wonder what it's like to guard State Department facilities in Kabul? In photos first published by Gawker, security contractors get their kicks peeing on one another, simulating anal sex, doing "butt shots," and "eating potato chips out of ass cracks."

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These photos were provided to us by the Project on Government Oversight, which has just written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton detailing its investigation into the "Lord of the Flies environment" that has overtaken the private contractors who guard State Department employees in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to POGO, employees of ArmorGroup North America—a unit of contracting giant Wackenhut—get their jollies off by "deviant hazing [that] has created a climate of fear and coercion, with those who declined to participate often ridiculed, humiliated, demoted, or even fired."

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What sort of hazing? The traditional desperately homoerotic frat boy kind, mostly involving eating and drinking things off of other men's butts. Also some nipple-biting, as you can see below. One POGO whistle blower described it thusly [PDF link]: "They have a group of sexual predators, deviants running rampant over there. No, they are not jamming guys in the ass per say [sic], but they are showing poor judgenment [sic]." Most of it appears to have been voluntary, but those who didn't really want to drink vodka shots out of the clenched butt-cheeks of their male co-workers were penalized and reported barricading themselves in their rooms.

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So anyway, these are the people who are guarding our national security in Afghanistan, being paid vast multiples of what soldiers, sailors, and marines get with your tax dollars. Are these guys asking, or telling?

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Honorable LGBT servicemembers get drummed out of the military but this bullshit is allowed? It certainly shows how hollow the arguments in favor of DADT have become when heterosexuals freely engage in such conduct.