Rape who you want, as long as you’re defending freedom

Item 3 of Naomi Wolf’s “Fascist America in 10 easy steps” involves the development of a thug caste:

The years following 9/11 have proved a bonanza for America’s security contractors, with the Bush administration outsourcing areas of work that traditionally fell to the US military. In the process, contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars have been issued for security work by mercenaries at home and abroad. In Iraq, some of these contract operatives have been accused of involvement in torturing prisoners, harassing journalists and firing on Iraqi civilians. Under Order 17, issued to regulate contractors in Iraq by the one-time US administrator in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, these contractors are immune from prosecution.

Existing outside the law, they can do what they like, and (so it would appear) there’s nothing anybody can do about it. Not even when one of their own is gang-raped by her fellow employees: