Ritter Says He Won't Be Silenced

Albany Times Union ^ | January 23, 2003 | Alan Wechsler

[Shermy]

Scott Ritter said he doesn't want forgiveness.

Speaking publicly for the first time about the sex charge he was arrested for in 2001, the former U.N. arms inspector and one of the leading critics of the Bush administration's plans to attack Iraq said he has been held accountable for breaking the law. And it would be a shame, he said Wednesday, that his arrest could derail his efforts to help prevent a war in the Middle East.

"I think it's important to put a human face on this, to remind people that there are issues out there bigger than a two-year-old dismissed case," he said. "I'm not asking people for forgiveness.

In June 2001, he was charged in a police sting operation with trying to lure a 16-year-old girl he met on the Internet to a Burger King. Later in Colonie Town Court, the case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal after six months. Half a year later, the case was sealed.

"I was arrested on June 15 (2001) and charged with a class B misdemeanor," he said. "I think it's important for people to know that I stood before a judge in a public court, with my wife by my side ... and the case was dismissed."

Ritter, 41, a Delmar resident, spent Wednesday afternoon in a frenzy of television and newspaper interviews. He had been at the center of a national controversy that exploded this week when the arrest came to light.

A former Marine, Ritter served as a U.N. weapons inspector for seven years. He resigned in 1998, saying that Iraq remained a threat. He also accused the United States of damaging the inspection process by using intelligence from the U.N. to determine subsequent bombing sites.

In September, Ritter visited Iraq to urge Saddam Hussein to allow inspectors back into the country. Hussein agreed to do that a few days after Ritter left.

On Wednesday, Ritter said he's trying to put his life back together after the attention of the last few days. He declined to speculate on who may have released information from the sealed file.

"The timing is definitely suspicious," he said. "I have no insights as to who or why. I know what the impact is, which was to prevent me from getting on an airplane as I planned to do so ... to fly to Baghdad."

Ritter was to fly to Iraq on Tuesday to meet with the country's government, along with many other figures in the peace movement, to help avoid a war. Ritter bowed out of the trip because of the recent attention.

Colonie police Chief John Grebert said he did not blame any of his staff for the controversy. Though the case was sealed, he said, his detectives were not barred from talking about it, according to two lawyers he consulted. Furthermore, the case had been reported on Channel 13 in 2001 and many people were already familiar with it.

"This case is going on two years old," he said. "This case has been discussed fairly openly over the past year. A person who becomes more and more of a public figure increases the chance that anyone's going to talk."

WNYT Ch. 13 had the story on the arrest in 2001, but did not identify the man charged as the former weapons inspector. The station has said Ritter was charged under his given name -- William S. Ritter -- and the station did not make the connection at the time.

Ritter said this would be the last time he plans to discuss the situation with the media. He said he has been encouraged by hundreds of positive e-mails from around the country. His family is also with him.

"I'm very supportive of Scott, 100 percent or more," said his wife, Marina. "I'm very proud of him and everything that he has achieved."

Ritter and Marina, who married 12 years ago after they met in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, are parents of two young children. Ritter said it was difficult explaining to his kids about what happened, but expects to soon put this behind him.

"I will continue to speak where I'm invited and permitted to speak," he said. "This will not silence me."

Staff writer Mike Goodwin contributed to this report.

[Shermy]

Ping.

[Blue Screen of Death]

I bet Saddam promised him 72 YOUNG virgins.

[dead]

"I will continue to speak where I'm invited and permitted to speak," he said. "This will not silence me."

It certainly won't silence you, but now everybody will know that your opinions are the opinions of a pedophile, and they will treat them accordingly.

[Grampa Dave]

This was an interesting quote from the former investigator, and the current predator, Ritter: "This case is going on two years old," he said. "This case has been discussed fairly openly over the past year. A person who becomes more and more of a public figure increases the chance that anyone's going to talk."

Gee I don't remember anyone discussing this in the past two years until it got outed here on Free Republic on 18 January 2003!

[linn37]

i bet it is hard telling your pre-teen girls why daddy wants to play with his penis in public.shmuck

[Xenalyte]

"I'm very supportive of Scott, 100 percent or more," said his wife, Marina.

Apparently they have fuzzy math in Russia, too.

[Steven W.]

this guy has total Clintonite mentality - expecting forgiveness for his indecent behaviors and his unwillingness to apologize for it? outrageous!

[mdittmar]

I think it's important to put a human face on this,.

As long as that face is a female,16 and under. Ha!,This guy is a non issue.

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[Grampa Dave]

There is a thread on Free Republic right now that links into the predator Ritter: (Link to more perverts on the UN group in Iraq)

[1Old Pro]

The Pervert really needs help.

[Humidston]

He said he has been encouraged by hundreds of positive e-mails from around the country.

...NAMBLA

[AppyPappy]

You mean he is going to continue to ask little girls to watch him choke his chicken?

[DoughtyOne]

What an egotistical self-absorbed pervert. The human face on this war in the middle-east is Saddam Hussein's. All he had to do was come clean. He didn't.

Ritter can flatter himself that he can't be silenced, but if he doesn't get his mush-filled mug on camera, or his garbage thoughts in print, he is silenced no matter what.

[icwhatudo]

All right stop what you're doin'
cause I'm about to ruin
the image and the style that you're used to
I look funny
but yo I'm makin money see
$400,000 for an Iraqi movie
Now gather round
I'm the new tool in town
and the scuds laid down in the underground

I'll take up all the TV time ya got on ya shelf
so just let me introduce myself
My name is Ritter
pronounced like "litter"
young ladies oh how I like to funk thee
and all the legal aged chatters on AOL
please allow me to bump thee
I'm stepping tall y'all
and just like Humpty Dumpty
You're gonna fall when MSNBC pumps me

I like to lie
I like to beat myself funky
I'm spunky
I like my oatmeal lumpy
I'm sick with this
straight WMD fact
but sometimes I get ridiculous
I'll lie about your weapons and your licorice
hey yo underage girl
come here are ya ticklish
Yeah I called you underage
look at me I'm old
it never stopped me from playin on the bowl
I'm a freak
I like the weapons with the boom
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom
I'm crazy
allow me to amaze thee
they say I'm ugly but it just don't phase me
I'm still gettin' in my own pants
and I even got my own dance

The Ritter dance
here's your chance
to do the hump
To Yourself

[Steven W.]

maybe Ritter's wife deserves a subscription to Hustler or some other kiddy-porn mag - has their address been publicized? I might be tempted to give them a gift they seem to desire.

[The Great Satan]

"The timing is definitely suspicious," he said. "I have no insights as to who or why. I know what the impact is, which was to prevent me from getting on an airplane as I planned to do so ... to fly to Baghdad."

How did this prevent Ritter from flying to Baghdad, exactly?

[Catspaw]

"This will not silence me."

Yeah, but who's going to listen to Ritter without thinking of an overweight 41 year old man masturbating in front of a teenager.

[Grampa Dave]

There is a thread on Free Republic right now that links into the predator Ritter: (UN appears to be a magnet for deviants like the predator Ritter)

[DoughtyOne]

Since when to people get to plea bargain away pedophilia?

Seems to me the left gets a free pass for whatever the hell they wish to participate in?

[Peach]

Ritter says he won't be silenced; I'll bet he's wrong. Hussein silenced him when he threatened to release information this was going on while Ritter was in Iraq pre '98. See Lucianne's site today for more on this little tidbit.

[DWSUWF]

"..."I'm very supportive of Scott, 100 percent or more," said his wife, Marina. "I'm very proud of him and everything that he has achieved."..."

English Translation:

"Anything to keep him out of my bed! Even that fat boy who lost all that weight eating sub sandwiches is sexier than this chicken-choking putz I'm married to!"

[BigWaveBetty]

And it would be a shame, he said Wednesday, that his arrest could derail his efforts to help prevent a war in the Middle East.

My, my, Scott has a rather bloated opinion of himself.

[eddie willers]

"This will not silence me."

No....but your words will fall on deaf ears.

[Shermy]

Seems that this wasn't such secret news to the locals, despite insinuations that someone must have "leaked" this story.

When you think about it, who in the know is not going to talk about it, especially with concerns about other children, coupled with the attention given to him in the media?

I think the story was only "reportable" by local standards when coupled with the scandal of why the case was treated secretly in the first place - which resulted in the firing of an assistant DA. There was also a doctor arrested for crack cocaine treated whose case was treated secretly which raised local concerns.

[Kewlhand`tek]

i think he already has been silenced :p

[Grampa Dave]

This is great!

Is it sung in rap style?

[South40]

I saw a Ritter interview with Aaron Brown of CNN last night.

Ritter refused to discuss the reason why he was arrested, stating emphatically that it would violate some court order.

Brown called him on it saying the entire legal staff at CNN could not find any such law, that only the prosecutors were disallowed from speaking on it and not him.

He still refused comment.

The man’s lost whatever credibility he may have had.

How pathetic.

[cyborg]

Words escape me as to comment on this post... rotfl

[Caliban]

Bigger issue...IF Ritter can be DUPED by a cop playing the role of a teenager...willing to "give" him somehting he desires and craves...what makes ANYONE think he isn't being duped time and time again.

One a DUPE...always a DUPE!

[TC Rider]

I bet Saddam promised him 72 YOUNG virgins.

Promised? Try delivered, and filmed, and videotaped.

[Revolting cat!]

"I will continue to speak to young girls, and conduct my research into pedophilia" he said. "This will not silence me."

[Lauratealeaf]

It's not that Ritter will be "silenced", it is just that no one will listen to him anymore. Pathetic pervert.

[Grampa Dave]

I bet the editors and publishers of the NY Slimes have known about this story within minutes after that local tv station ran it.

The spiking of this news story has been basically iron tight until this past week.

I still bet that some cop retired and took out the A$$t, DA and Ritter with this story.

Ritter is just like the Clintoons when they get caught. Oh this happened a long time ago, and only the evil VRWC's are now bringing it out.

If the left wing mediots did their job instead attacking President Bush and Conservatives, we would have read about this 2 years ago. Ritter would have had the validity that any sexual predator has, when he lied for his Uncle Soddomite.

[TLBSHOW]

and then there was the CNN interview last night that finished him off! LOL

[cyborg]

Yes it is... go on kazaa and listen to Digital Underground's Humpty Dance.

Also, these nations he's defending so much would chop him to bits for what he did. Child rape/molestation is punishable by summary execution, usually hanging or firing squad.

[The Great Satan]

Candy is dandy, but Ritter is quicker.

[Positive]

Wasn't this the same Scott Ritter who told the media that they had the wrong guy earlier this week?

Appears that the guy's first impulse is to lie, next is confusion about how to "explain" this to two kids who may be less than 12 years old, since he's been married for 12 years.

Finally, he won't discuss it anymore, tsk tsk. But he won't be silenced, so will he follow his current MO of lyng first to see how that works?

[Cyber Liberty]

By your description, Ritter sounds like the perfect UNMOVIC inspector.

[Grampa Dave]

Yes, a lot of the so called third and second world nations have zero tolerance for the Ritters in their countries.

Like the priests who like to abuse little boys, if they did that in these nations and got caught. Their time on earth breathing and perverting would be over.

Thanks for the feedback!

[Republicus2001]

Ritter and Marina, who married 12 years ago after they met in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia,

hmmmm

[Grampa Dave]

Didn't the Clintoon and his lawyers from hell try to use this as a defense in some of the bad stuff that was brought up by the investigations. That if he or his lawyers commented, it would violate the law or something like that.

Is the pervert getting coaching from the Clintoons ACLU lawyers?

[cyncooper]

Rush just played excerpts from the CNN Aaron Brown/Ritter interview from last night.

[Fred Mertz]

"I'm very supportive of Scott, 100 percent or more," said his wife, Marina. "I'm very proud of him and everything that he has achieved."

His wife is from Georgia/Russia and I suspect she is a KGB plant or whatever they call them these days.

[Tribune7]

I wonder if Iraq doesn't have something or other to blackmail him with.

[Grampa Dave]

What did Rush say about this sorry A$$ed attempt by Ritter to say if he talked, it would violate a court order? Thanks!

[1Old Pro]

Related: Schenectady Community College says show to go on - Sexual Pervert Ritter $4,000 speech

[The Great Satan]

Are you being investigated for espionage?

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy. So there is this form of harassment taking place.

Did you write a report, at the time you were doing inspections in Votkinsk in the Soviet Union in 1988 that said the group your wife worked for was full of spies?

No. I indicated that given past models of Soviet penetration techniques that these young girls, of which my wife was one, who were brought in by the Soviets to carry out translation services had been used in the past to attempt sexual compromise. I subsequently wrote a series of reports that said this did not appear to be the case in Votkinsk. In fact, because of the human intelligence work I did in the Soviet Union I was able to ascertain that the girls were actually dissatisfied with the Soviets. They showed a tendency to speak out against the KGB to the U.S. inspectors.

Scott Ritter in his own words