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To: Cathi

From Wiki all about Scott Ritter:

Arrests and conviction for sex offences
Ritter was the subject in two law enforcement sting operations in 2001.[28] He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.[29][30] He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of “attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child”. The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of pre-trial probation.[30][31] After this information was made public in early 2003, Ritter said that the timing of the leak was politically motivated in order to silence his opposition to the Bush administration’s push toward war with Iraq.[29][30][32]

Ritter was arrested again in November 2009[33] over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.[2] Ritter said in his own testimony during the trial that he believed the other party was an adult acting out her fantasy.[34] The chat room had an ‘age 18 and above’ policy, which Ritter stated to the undercover officer.[2] The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on a $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included “unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation”.[35] Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011.[2][36] In October 2011, he received a sentence of 1½ to 5½ years in prison.[37] He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.[38][34][31]


12 posted on 09/26/2022 4:53:49 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC
So? Why are you so intent on shutting down a guy who was well connected in the past to our intelligence community and might have a different view about the situation than the current neocons running our country?

Are you in favor of another protracted foreign war like Iraq and Afghanistan? Are you so obtuse that you can’t see we’re being drawn into a possible WWIII scenario with Russia?

If you disagree with Scott Ritter and other alternative news sources like him, then scroll past. If you agree with everything the mainstream media is shoving down our throats—even after 6 years of daily attacks on Trump and 2 years of covid hysteria—then don’t bother doing your own research about what’s happening in Ukraine. You’re way past trying to save.

But don’t complain when it’s your children and grandchildren being sent to fight in another foreign land!

Many of us here are hoping to avert any further escalation so that doesn’t happen and to stop the financial hemorrhaging we’re all suffering from as a result of our involvement. And for our trouble, we get called all sorts of inflammatory names by other Freepers. It’s bizarre!

27 posted on 09/26/2022 7:07:45 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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