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Teacher in sex case an apparent suicide (Boy Scout volunteer and 20-year National Guardsman)
http://www.mcall.com ^ | Jan 2010 | By Kevin Amerman

Posted on 01/22/2010 6:30:38 PM PST by Maelstorm

A former Bethlehem middle school teacher whose nature program for seventh-graders won national acclaim apparently killed himself Thursday about an hour before he was scheduled to plead guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage boy, a charge that shocked the community and cost him his career.

Gregory G. Ritter, 45, a longtime Boy Scout volunteer and 20-year National Guardsman, was found dead next to a picnic table at the apartment complex in the Poconos where he recently moved, according to police, who said he had a gunshot wound to the head.

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KEYWORDS: boyscout; gay; molest; pedophile; rape; suicide
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Sorry, you are confused.

It is the people who oppoze protecting children from pedophiles who fit that discription.

That would be you.

Looking back, there has never been a thread you commented on with pedophiles and male victims where you personally did not alledge the charges were false.

Ever.

This is a pattern with you.


81 posted on 01/23/2010 8:11:45 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

> It is the people who oppoze protecting children from pedophiles who fit that discription.

Nope — it fits you just fine.

> Looking back, there has never been a thread you commented on with pedophiles and male victims where you personally did not alledge the charges were false.

LOL! You’re a joke. A sick joke, but a joke all the same. As a Conservative I object to lynch law and concluding guilt before a trial has taken place. As with this case.

I haven’t “personally alleged the charges are false” — that’s a straw man. He is however innocent until proven guilty: a cornerstone the the judicial systems in the US and in most civilized countries of the world.

So I say again: why don’t you go boil your head. Creep.


82 posted on 01/23/2010 8:25:41 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Nik Naym; DieHard the Hunter

Tis unfortunate you and your die hard buddy can’t comprehend what I’m talking about, it sounds like both of you have mental issues and don’t realize it, your replies to me are so similar maybe you might want to consider moving in together with each other, altho you probably would start attacking and insulting each other after awhile.

I suggest either of you get more spiritually enlightened so you can understand the world through the prism of good and evil, life is a continual learning experience and we have yet to discover all the answers so don’t assume either of you know them all, check out my home page and learn something.


83 posted on 01/23/2010 10:33:53 PM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: whatisthetruth

> Tis unfortunate you and your die hard buddy can’t comprehend what I’m talking about, it sounds like both of you have mental issues and don’t realize it... (snip)

Take a flying leap, Bozo.


84 posted on 01/23/2010 11:06:33 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: whatisthetruth

“I suggest either of you get more spiritually enlightened “

I suggest you go f yourself.

I shall now cease feeding this troll.


85 posted on 01/23/2010 11:17:27 PM PST by Nik Naym (Hey Sarah, I luv ya, but stumping for McCain??? You just let me down.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter; SandRat
Disappointing from the Boy Scouts — they should have instead issued him an administrative suspension

As a volunteer he should never have been alone with a Scout.

86 posted on 01/23/2010 11:17:49 PM PST by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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To: MarMema; SandRat

> As a volunteer he should never have been alone with a Scout.

Agreed. Particularly nowadays that was a really poor idea.


87 posted on 01/23/2010 11:22:45 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Sure is good to know you’re not an American citizen, we don’t need your kind over here.


88 posted on 01/23/2010 11:32:26 PM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: Nik Naym

Your language belongs over at DU, you are proving to me just how morally bankrupt you are, no wonder you can’t understand truth.


89 posted on 01/23/2010 11:34:05 PM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: whatisthetruth

> Sure is good to know you’re not an American citizen, we don’t need your kind over here.

I’m sure you illegal aliens don’t. Maybe you should go home to Mexico before the DHS catches up with you.


90 posted on 01/23/2010 11:36:21 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
G'day, brother. How's summer going? It's mighty cold and damp in West Virginia. I'm all wrapped up in globull warming over here, but stopped by to read some funny stuff.

I long ago have given up on those FReepers who quickly judge and damn. If you don't agree with their lynchings, you are considered a cohort or supporters of the ALLEGED acts or crimes. Many of them must have some real personal torment going on. I wouldn't bother myself over their plaint and wailing.

I am a Christian, and a conservative. I am also a sinner, as are we all. But, sin is an action, not just a state of being. It always involves conscious choices. Those who wish to claim some sense of moral superiority or "personal holiness", are quite often involved in something, that if exposed, would bring them to feel a sense of shame, themselves. The proper term is hypocrite.

Jesus had some things to say about them. He constantly railed against the "Scribes and Pharisees". They love to be seen as RELIGIOUS. They love to sit in the front pews, and boast loudly about their religiosity. Many of them are perfectly willing to bow down to statues and pray with beads, and call it reverence and worship of God.

Don't waste your time on them. Too many aren't willing to hear truth or reason. They've been told the way to think, and had it beaten into their knuckles. Their morals are guided from other men. It's also amusing to hear the musings about "single men" in light of the many Catholics replying to this thread.

The only unforgivable sin is blasphemy. The only Judge is God. All else is vanity. When you lie down with dogs, you get fleas! When you try to argue reasonably with these petty trolls, you demean yourself. They will get their reward, and find the truth for themselves (or not!).

The easiest admonition to remember is found in Matthew 7...

... 1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

6 "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

91 posted on 01/24/2010 12:28:22 AM PST by WVKayaker ( Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. -George Eliot)
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To: WVKayaker

Gidday Brother!

Thanks for your very timely exhortation and reminder — and you’re quite right. It isn’t worth arguing with people like that.

Weather here in Auckland is warm and sunny as we are in mid-summer.

God Bless
*DieHard*


92 posted on 01/24/2010 1:00:04 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

It’s actually part of volunteer training and rules - official BSA ones.


93 posted on 01/24/2010 1:25:59 AM PST by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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To: WVKayaker; DieHard the Hunter

Haha, excellent exhortations from the biggest hypocrite on FR, and who asked you for your opinion anyway, trying to sound all holier than thou, you may claim to be a conservative, but as long as you continue to sin, then pls don’t go around spouting how Christian you are dressing your post up in Bible quotes, people who don’t know any better like this New Zealand lost soul would agree with you, not me I can see right through your type, always did, always will. And I wouldn’t project my sins onto others as you seem to always be willing to do. Now go and “sin no more” if you can.


94 posted on 01/24/2010 1:46:49 AM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: whatisthetruth

> Haha, excellent exhortations from the biggest hypocrite on FR, and who asked you for your opinion anyw(snip)

What a boring, turgid, tiresome fellow you are. Nobody cares what you think, and the only person who wants to hear what you have to say is you.

Be ye fruitful and multiply.


95 posted on 01/24/2010 2:29:08 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
Nobody cares what you think

Oh really? Did you take a New Zealander poll before coming to your conclusions? My posts pertain to the subject at hand which was Ritter's pedophilia which you want to defend for whatever reason and subsequent suicide that sent him to hell because of it and his overall mental illness that he obviously suffered from and then the fact that we all are subject to mental and physical illnesses in this life due to Sin and our rejection of God.

Just because YOU lack the wherewithal to hold any reasonable discussion in the realm of the Spiritual does not preclude the fact that others might, so please stay in your own language and culture and limitations and don't assume to speak for conservative Christian America.

96 posted on 01/24/2010 3:10:11 AM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: whatisthetruth

> El hecho de que usted carece de medios para sostener cualquier debate razonable en el reino de lo espiritual no excluye el hecho de que otros podrían...(snip)

Yo no hablo español, amigo...


97 posted on 01/24/2010 4:11:28 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

So you can speak Spanish, I’m so not impressed, when you learn to speak the language of the soul, get back with me.


98 posted on 01/24/2010 5:15:08 AM PST by whatisthetruth
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To: whatisthetruth

> Así que usted puede hablar español, no estoy tan impresionado, cuando uno aprende(snip)

Te dije que no hablan español. Volver a México, donde usted pertenece.


99 posted on 01/24/2010 6:29:40 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

I would tell you to go to where you belong, but that kind of language is not allowed on this forum.


100 posted on 01/24/2010 6:39:12 AM PST by whatisthetruth
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