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Ex-Va. ACLU Head Sentenced For Child Porn
CBS News ^ | Sept. 8, 2007 | AP

Posted on 09/08/2007 8:10:19 AM PDT by DTogo

(AP) A man who for 12 years served as president of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union was sentenced to seven years in prison for downloading what authorities said was some of the "most abhorrent" child pornography they have ever seen.

The prison term for Charles Rust-Tierney, 52, of Arlington, is one year less than the minimum sentence suggested under federal sentencing guidelines, and more than the five-year term defense attorneys wanted.

Rust-Tierney said depression and "plummeting self-esteem" led him astray.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: aclu; charlesrusttierney; childporn; dianrusttierney; rusttierney; tierney; vaaclu
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To: DTogo

He’ll be someones sex toy in prison and it is just what he needs.


21 posted on 09/08/2007 8:34:43 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: CRBDeuce

You are obviously a racist xenophobe. True believers know she was actually 9 years old.


22 posted on 09/08/2007 8:35:50 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: DTogo
Alexandria, Va. (WUSA) -- A public defender from Arlington now finds that he is the accused. Fifty-one year old Charles Rust-Tierney appeared in United States District Court in Alexandria Wednesday.

He’s accused of receiving and possessing child pornography, and investigators outlined what they say they found after searching his home.

They say Rust-Tierney had video showing, among other things, the sexual torture of infants and toddlers. The judge said she’d never heard of child pornography that vile and said because of that, Rust-Tierney would stay behind bars until his trial.

Rust-Tierney is a father himself and also a coach of Arlington-area youth little league and soccer teams. In court, dozens of his friends and family members voiced support for him. They say they have never suspected him of improper contact with kids.

More from O'Reilly at Human Events. He focuses on the media suppression angle.

One of the images Tierney was in possession of showed a little girl tied up and screaming while being violently raped.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/03/charles_rust_ti.html

23 posted on 09/08/2007 8:38:11 AM PDT by EverOnward
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To: DTogo

Would love to see Mr, Charles Rust-Tierney in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Hard Knocks High”, a real prison, not a country club or play school....the ACLU has knocked on the Sheriff’s door more than once....it would be just desserts for Tierney.


24 posted on 09/08/2007 8:39:47 AM PDT by yoe ( NO THIRD TERM FOR THE CLINTON'S!!!)
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To: DTogo

The ACLU is rotten on every level. They should be banned from existence.


25 posted on 09/08/2007 8:45:33 AM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: pissant

Indeed, the very essence of an “enemy within.”


26 posted on 09/08/2007 8:46:45 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: DTogo
All computers assigned to or belonging to ACLU staffers need to be examined.

This is probably the most corrupt, anti-American organization in the land. This organization needs to be listed as subversive.

27 posted on 09/08/2007 8:52:32 AM PDT by fweingart (Tom Tancredo Will Get The Job Done! (PS: I Don't Like The Clintons.))
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To: DTogo
"I know what I have done is wrong, morally and legally," he said Friday. "My conduct in paying the producers of this material is reprehensible. I am filled with contrition, remorse and shame."

The POS doesn't own up to his sickness, only vaguely alluding to "paying producers." He's a disgusting excuse for a human being.

Several dozen people wrote letters to the judge on Rust-Tierney's behalf, and more than 20 people attended Friday's hearing to support him...

All who "support him" are condemned by me as enabling, disgusting, filth, just like the ACLU pervert.

Ellis said Friday that the pornography downloaded by Rust-Tierney "was of the most abhorrent kind," including torture and sexual assaults on children as young as 6.

Rust-Tierney paid hundreds of dollars to subscribe to multiple illegal child pornography Web sites ...

< Prosecutor Edward McAndrew...suggested in court papers that many of Rust-Tierney's supporters would be less likely to stand with him had they actually seen the type of pornography that Rust-Tierney was receiving.

He should get at least 25 years, imo.

28 posted on 09/08/2007 8:56:24 AM PDT by subterfuge (It's GREAT, to be, a Florida Gator!)
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To: fweingart
Founded by pacifists, feminists, socialists, anarchists, and communists.

"Subversive" is an understatement, IMHO.

29 posted on 09/08/2007 9:01:13 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: chiefqc

I hope they throw him in GP.


30 posted on 09/08/2007 9:07:07 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: DTogo

Is there an ACLU ping list? If so someone please sign me up. I want to do a hitpiece documentary on them. Thanks.


31 posted on 09/08/2007 9:45:18 AM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813
Hitpiece documentaries are only for hefty, scruffy, Lefties from Flint, Michigan...

;^)

32 posted on 09/08/2007 9:49:01 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: EverOnward
Rust-Tierney is a father himself and also a coach of Arlington-area
youth little league and soccer teams.
In court,
dozens of his friends and family members voiced
support for him.


I hope that having polite public contact with a person like this...
NEVER blinds me into being an advocate of such a person.
33 posted on 09/08/2007 9:52:42 AM PDT by VOA
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To: 3AngelaD
You are obviously a racist xenophobe. True believers know she was actually 9 years old.

Split the difference... She was 6 when they married, although it wasn't consummated until she was nine (according to the Koran, but nobody really knows this for a fact). By age 11, she was a widow...

the infowarrior

34 posted on 09/08/2007 10:12:27 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: 3AngelaD
More than one "postie" counted this guy as a very close friend and confidant.

They're quakeing in their boots over there, all the way to the Board Room.

This is consistent with the deal some years back where the top guys sent a team down to the quadrennial Boy Scout Jamboree to talk sex with some of the boys.

That problem, too, went all the way to the top. The Board tried to make an appearance of dealing with the problem at that time. This time, though, I think the ACLU guy is going to rat them out trying to get his sentence reduced.

35 posted on 09/08/2007 10:16:22 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: EverOnward

One of the facets of this type of crime that I find particularly horrifying is that so many people come to the defense of such a person.

“In court, dozens of his friends and family members voiced support for him. They say they have never suspected him of improper contact with kids.”

Those who do this sort of thing would have you believe that they are just like you and me. They are not. And just because they act “normal” around you and me does not mean that they are not a danger. Of course they are “normal” with you and me, because we are not children.

Even if they try to use the argument that they only look and never touch, that means nothing to me. The fact that they look means there is a market for their twisted perversion. That market severely harms children. There is no excuse for a person like this.


36 posted on 09/08/2007 11:20:19 AM PDT by generally (Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
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To: Roberts

“Low self-esteem”?! Give me a break. The cure for low self-esteem is to go out and do something worthwhile. Something that you can be proud of. Wallowing in scum is just the opposite of what he should have been doing. Maybe the porn is what caused his low self-esteem and not the other way around. I’d have low self-esteem, too, if I did something so scummy.


37 posted on 09/08/2007 11:22:08 AM PDT by generally (Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
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To: AmericanMade1776

John Wayne Gacy was a good Democrat.


38 posted on 09/08/2007 11:24:28 AM PDT by BBell
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To: fweingart

“All computers assigned to or belonging to ACLU staffers need to be examined.”

I agree totally.

I am also very concerned about the incestuous relationships among lawyers and judges. (no pun intended) They all look out for each other because they know each other so well. Wrongdoing by “one of their own” seems to be punished far less severely than wrongdoing by a random member of the public. If anything, the opposite should be true. Lawyers and judges should know better and be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. Same goes for Congressmen (who are mostly lawyers, anyway.)


39 posted on 09/08/2007 11:25:39 AM PDT by generally (Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
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To: DTogo

I saw alan colmes defending this pervert on H&C and saying “the right” was just using this guy to attack the ACLU.


40 posted on 09/08/2007 11:29:38 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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