Exactly. Isn’t this POS a convicted pedophile? I’m not sure he should be breathing, much less allowed public comment.
Jimmy Page liked to screw 14-year old girls. That doesn't diminish the fact that he's an excellent guitar player.
Yes, Ritter has his convictions but if you disagree with his military analysis, argue your points. Otherwise, it's just an ad hominem attack.
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. 
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