Do You Know What Helps Contribute to a Culture in Which Powerful People Will Knowingly Shelter A Child Rapist?

Making rape jokes. And this:

Leaving aside the irony of embracing rape as a means of punishing it, it points up how unsurprising widespread tolerance of the abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and Bagram really are: for a depressingly large number of citizens, the torture that already exists in American prisons is merely value-added.