Posted on 04/17/2022 11:42:29 AM PDT by impimp
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jQSTHvD2z1c
Scott Ritter Part 2
In the video above he rants for an hour, persuasively making the following points: 1.Russia is winning 2.Russia is not at war with Ukraine as it is only a Special Military Operation. He points out in real war (as in Iraq) you immediately take out all communication, transportation, and critical industrial infrastructure. Russia is purposely going in soft so as to minimize harm to Ukrainian citizens. 3.Bucha atrocities were committed by Ukrainian soldiers who killed Russian sympathizers. 4.The attacks on Odessa and Kiev were not unsuccessful- they were never the true targets, but rather attempts to pin down Ukrainian forces so that they couldn’t reinforce the Donbas.
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The current situation today is that the Ukrainian forces in Mariopal rejected the compassionate and generous Russian offer for them to surrender. The Russians are currently in the process of killing thousands of pinned down Ukrainian soldiers who have little to no food, water, fuel and ammunition. Many American and foreign mercenaries are losing their lives right now.
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From Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Overton described a spectrum from "more free" to "less free" with regard to government intervention, oriented vertically on an axis, to avoid comparison with the left/right political spectrum. As the spectrum moves or expands, an idea at a given location may become more or less politically acceptable. After Overton's death, his Mackinac Center for Public Policy colleague Joseph Lehman further developed the idea and named it after Overton.
Political commentator Joshua Treviño has postulated that the six degrees of acceptance of public ideas are roughly:
Unthinkable, Radical, Acceptable, Sensible, Popular, Policy
That there can be more than "A or B -- choose one" disturbs those who would limit thought to a dualistic anaylsis. And of course, there is in the choice of two, only ONE correct choice. Meaning no choice at all, eventually.
What is occurring in the Ukraine is horrid, but what has occurred in the Ukraine in the recent past has also been horrid. "Binary thought" is a perfect vehicle for greater war, chaos and mayhem. From the comments on a number of threads, what seems certain is that none of us is packing to enter the fray on side A or side B. From the arm chair and computer keyboard, so much can be launched without hazard to one's self.
When I selected “impimp” 20 years ago I had no concept that I would wind up being called a pimp hundreds of times. Unfortunate coincidence but I can live with it.
When I selected “impimp” 20 years ago I had no concept that I would wind up being called a pimp hundreds of times. Unfortunate coincidence but I can live with it.
It's why the Left prefers to play that card endlessly.
Go on Twitter for endless examples.
Scooter Libby. Oliver North. Roger Stone. James O'Keefe. Dinesh D'Souza. All the Trumps [the Left on Twitter has convicted all of them of numerous felonies]. G. Gordon Liddy. The January 6th political prisoners. And on and on and on.
Note that there aren't any convicted Democrats - at least none worth noting. 
“What is occurring in the Ukraine is horrid, but what has occurred in the Ukraine in the recent past has also been horrid. “Binary thought” is a perfect vehicle for greater war, chaos and mayhem. From the comments on a number of threads, what seems certain is that none of us is packing to enter the fray on side A or side B. From the arm chair and computer keyboard, so much can be launched without hazard to one’s self.”
I agree with your thoughtful analysis. Thanks for the post.
Think weaponization of the law.
Weaponization of the law must become cause for total destruction, extermination.
No coexistence
There is nothing worse that redundancy and needless repetition.
Scott Ritter, former chief United Nations weapons inspector, right, is led from the Monroe County courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, October 26, 2011. Ritter was sentanced to 18-66 months in state prison after being convicted of unlawful contact with a minor and other felonies.
Escorting Ritter is Deputy Scott Martin from the Monroe County Sheriff’s office. (AP Photo/Pocono Record, David Kidwell) MANDATORY CREDITDAVID KIDWELL
Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter was sentenced Wednesday to up to 51/2 years in a Pennsylvania state prison after a judge denied his request for a new trial.
The judge also refused to allow Ritter to remain free on bail pending an appeal.
The 50-year-old Delmar man was sentenced for his conviction on six counts, including felony unlawful contact with a minor, following a spring trial in a northeastern Pennsylvania courtroom. He had remained free on $25,000 bail pending sentencing, which was adjourned several times.
Evidence showed that in February 2009, Ritter masturbated on a Web camera and engaged in a sexually graphic online chat with an undercover Barrett Township, Pa., police officer posing as a 15-year-old girl.
A daylong proceeding in a Stroudsburg courtroom culminated with the sentencing by Judge Jennifer Harlachar Sibum to a minimum of 11/2 years and a maximum term of 51/2 years. The minimum must be served before Ritter would be eligible for parole, Assistant District Attorney Michael Rakaczewski said. He said Ritter had served no jail time that could be credited to him,
Under the Pennsylvania sentencing guidelines. the judge gave Ritter 18 to 66 months, including some consecutive terms and some concurrent ones for the six charges of which he was convicted.
Before it was handed down, Ritter told the court he accepted full responsibility for his actions and had learned his lesson, Rakaczewski said. Defense lawyers asked that their client be given community-based supervision, basically probation, the prosecutor said.
Further, the judge ruled that Ritter met the criteria as a sexually violent predator, the highest category on the Pennsylvania sex offender registry. He must register in that state as a sex offender and will remain on the registry for life, Rakaczweski said.
At trial, Ritter, testifying in his own defense, said, he believed he was having an online sexual encounter with an adult female who was acting out her fantasy of being a minor.
Wednesday’s proceedings began with attorneys for Ritter, one of the U.N.’s chief weapons inspectors in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, asking the judge to set aside his guilty verdict and give him a new trial based on last week’s ruling by an Albany-based appellate court. The request was denied as well as a motion to adjourn the sentencing once again.
The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court held unanimously Oct. 20 that prosecutors in Pennsylvania should not have been allowed to use evidence against Ritter about his two prior cases in Colonie that were dismissed in 2001. At the time of the ruling, one of Ritter’s attorneys, Todd Henry of Philadelphia, said the decision could “change the landscape of the case.”
The appellate court reversed a June 2010 ruling by Albany County Judge Stephen Herrick that allowed Rakaczewski to use the previous sealed cases against Ritter at his three-day trial in April in Monroe County, Pa. Ritter, whose first name is William, was identified in the appeals court ruling only as “William T.”
In denying the request for a new trial, the judge left it to the defense attorneys to use the New York appellate ruling in their appeal of Ritter’s Pennsylvania conviction.
In the spring of 2001, Colonie police said Ritter showed up twice for meetings that he believed would be with teenage girls. The first time he was questioned but let go. Two months later, Ritter turned up at a fast-food restaurant in Colonie where a police officer had set up a sexual meeting while posing as a 15-year-old girl. Ritter was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of soliciting a minor. Months later, the case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning if he stayed out of trouble for six months to a year the charge would be dismissed and the case sealed.
When the Colonie sting came up at his trial, Ritter testified that he knew cops were on the other end, and he wanted to get caught, realizing he had a problem and couldn’t help himself, Rakaczweski said.
Testifying Wednesday at a pre-sentencing hearing was prosecution witness Paula Brust of the Pennsylvania Sex Offenders Assessment Board who said Ritter met the criteria as a sexually violent predator. She referred to the Colonie cases, and defense attorney W. Gary Kohlman of Washington, D.C., made a standing objection to any reference to those earlier incidents, Rakaczewski said.
The defense called Richard Hamill, a clinical psychologist from Albany, who testified that Ritter was receiving sex offender treatment, the prosecutor said.
https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Ritter-gets-prison-time-2237126.php
It was just coincidental, I'm sure.
Just like the release of the list of GiveSendGo donors to the Canadian truckers convoy was just a "hack", and TOTALLY not Canadian/US government black hat infowar actors. 
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Absolutely agree. Ad hominem attackers are full of shit. They are showing that they have no real response, probably because they are wrong and they know it.
Yep
Shoot the messenger
Ritter has no higher-ups or media contracts to suck up to and limit his analysis. Been shutdown several times by twitter ( a sign his analysis is over target);
Read what he says, then decide.
Btw…those heroic neo nazi Uke holdouts that were ordered to stand and die by Zelensky…are executing their own including foreign mercs and NATO trapped with them,
A question. When this is all over where do you think Putin will launch his next compassionate and generous invasion?
Ukraine became an independent state, formalised how?....with a ‘Referendum’ in December 1991.......over 30 yrs ago and it still cannnot stand alone - with countless protests/ uprising that turn on a dime, civil wars from within and without and often a combination of the two....fighting Oligarchs to Political Politicians - it has never known “Peace” nor prosperity. And it won’t because it can never agree with itself.
General Comment, I’ve heard enough about “I don’t trust our media”, well, in comparison, there is no freedom of the press in Russia, so where are Ritter’s credible sources? Why buy what he has?
And here, if one doesn’t like ABC and so on, we do have plenty of alternative sources, Daily Wire, Breitbart, Daily Caller, PJ Media, BizPacReview, Townhall, really a long list.
So, yeah, I don’t trust their media but their media is a total joke for ferreting out the news.
You make a persuasive argument
ROTFWL! (<~~~that always convinces me)
Ritter is one of the go-to sources on this war if one wants to cut through all the propaganda out there.
Kind of you to say. On a site such as this, it seems so odd that some few behave as if this was open season on others using ad hominem instead of sourced citations and argumentation. Best regards.
Ad hominem attackers are full of shit. They are showing that they have no real response...
Nice try, but you were not paying attention in logic and argumentation class. The original poster has no evidence, and not even his own opinion. He just makes an argument to authority, citing Scott Ritter and saying that Ritter is "persuasive".
The first step in rebutting such an argument is to point out that Ritter, who impimp is citing, or maybe pimping, is not a reliable source. Ritter has no knowledge about the situation other than what he reads in the newspapers or twitter, and he has shown himself to be unreliable, dumb, and a pervert in the past.
It is not an "ad hominem" to point out that the source of some opinion or purported fact is not credible, uninformed, or otherwise likely to be wrong.
Most of us have better things to do than respond to the "rants" as the original poster characterized them of convicted pedophiles.
Ritter's statements are just Russian propaganda talking points and each is unsupported by evidence.
It may be difficult to know what is going on at a detail level, but considering that you can watch the killing of civilians in Bucha by Russians on videos, from satellite images, and can hear direct from eye witnesses there isn't much doubt what happened. The idea that the atrocities were committed by Ukrainian soldiers is not even remotely credible. The fact that Scott Ritter is repeating that propaganda talking point shows how much of a shill for Putin he is.
Anyone who says they believe that Ukrainian troops did the killing in Bucha is either lying or utterly unable to accept a reality documented in hundreds of ways.
Ritter is probably just lying. The big question is why?
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