Posted on 06/02/2007 2:35:21 AM PDT by aclusux.com
A former president of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union pleaded guilty Friday to federal child pornography charges.
51-year-old Charles Rust-Tierney entered his plea to one count of receipt of child pornography in US District Court in Alexandria. He had been indicted last month on one count each of receipt and possession of child pornography.
Prosecutors say from March 2005 until October 2006, Rust-Tierney bought at least five subscriptions to child pornography Web sites and downloaded other illegal materials offered at additional cost.
Rust-Tierney, who also coached Little League baseball in Arlington, has been in jail since his arrest in February.
The charge carries a mandatory minimum of five years in prison.
Prosecutors said they would not seek more than eight years and one month, which is in line with sentencing guidelines.
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Wow. shocked.
They need to send him down here to the Baltimore prison system for a few days.
Up here, where ever...
No, I have no interest or desire to even be near such materials, I am merely asking from a Freedom lovers, point of view. I think people deserve jail for what they do, not simply what they think.
Yes, it is funny that Mr. ACLU is off to the Big House.
Yeah, shocked he’s not threatening to sue the Feds are violating his civil rights...
Imagine how this would be covered if the organization in question were the NRA instead.
The issue is whether this attorney had used his aclu position to advocate adult sexual use of children or of pornography in any way.
No surprise, given what that communist front organization believes.
ruth buzzy ginsburg will be horrified when she wakes up from a nap on the SCOTUS bench!!!
I think these were ‘real children’.
yeah that is about it.
Anyways, I hope the scumbag suffers while he's in the joint. His wife is a big wheel for the ACLU as well. You have to wonder what she knows about this scumbag's need for child porn.
Downloading child porn and viewing it is an action, and if done intentionally, it violates the law. He would no more be arrested for what he thinks than you or I are for the terrible thoughts we sometimes have. I often have had revenge fantasies about people that have done me wrong. That is not a crime against society (it is against God). But I would be arrested if I bought a gun and filed off the serial number in preperation for the revenge. As far as it being a victimless crime, he is the demand side of the business, and the children in the pornography are the victims.
Very creepy.
Yeah, in this case, they are. I was responding to a question about written description of child abuse. In thos case, since no image of ‘real children’ involved, IIRC, they are protected by the 1st.
Problem is, I’m picturing somebody like Janet Reno or Mike Nifong simply seizing somebody’s computer and loading evil pictures onto it and resetting the dates on them and trying to figure out how anybody would defend themselves from that in a courtroom, and I’m not coming up with anything.
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