00                CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 22(RLS)                                                               
01 Denouncing the National Entertainment Collectibles Association's production of the                                      
02 Rapist No. 1 collectible doll.                                                                                          
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04       WHEREAS Alaska has the highest per capita occurrence of sexual assault in the                                   
05 nation; and                                                                                                             
06       WHEREAS, in 27 of the last 27 years, Alaska has ranked among the top five states in                           
07 the nation for rape and sexual assault; and                                                                             
08       WHEREAS the incidence of rape in Alaska is 25 times the national average; and                                   
09       WHEREAS every two and a half minutes someone is sexually assaulted in the United                                
10 States; and                                                                                                             
11       WHEREAS one out of six women and one out of 33 men in the United States have                                    
12 been sexually assaulted; and                                                                                            
13       WHEREAS, in the years 2004 and 2005, an annual average of 200,780 people were                                   
14 the victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault nationwide; and                                                  
15       WHEREAS, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, more than                                  
16 half of all rapes go unreported; and                                                                                    

01       WHEREAS April 2007 is Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Alaska; and                                             
02       WHEREAS the National Entertainment Collectibles Association is producing a                                      
03 collectible doll modeled on a character called "Rapist No. 1" from the recent film                                      
04 "Grindhouse";                                                                                                           
05       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature emphatically deplores the                                      
06 manufacture and sale of the Rapist No. 1 collectible doll; and be it                                                    
07       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature denounces the National                                       
08 Entertainment Collectibles Association's casual disregard for the most personal of violations;                          
09 and be it                                                                                                               
10       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges all Alaska                                             
11 businesses and consumers to boycott the sale and purchase of these collectible dolls; and be it                         
12       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges all Alaskans to both                                   
13 recognize the severe consequences of rape and the glorification of the crime of rape that this                          
14 doll represents.                                                                                                        
15       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Carlos Gutierrez, United                               
16 States Secretary of Commerce; the Honorable Sean Parnell, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska;                                
17 Joel Weinshanker, Chief Executive Officer, National Entertainment Collectibles Association;                             
18 Jeffrey P. Bezos, Chief Executive Officer, Amazon.com; H. Lee Scott, Jr., Chief Executive                               
19 Officer, WalMart; Gerald L. Storch, Chief Executive Officer, Toys "R" Us, Inc.; Daniel                                  
20 Grossman, Chair, Toy Industry Association, Inc.; Tracy Mullin, Chief Executive Officer,                                 
21 National Retail Federation; and the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Lisa                                        
22 Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of                                  
23 the Alaska delegation in Congress.