Court ordered Scott Ritter to attend counseling for sex offenders

WTEN.com (Albany, NY) ^ | January 20, 2002

[Howlin]

Damn, I don't agree with one word they said about Doug!

[Howlin]

Poor choice of words on my part! Thanks for the correction.

[TLBSHOW]

You don't know nothing and you choose to be blind in this matter!

[TLBSHOW]

Since this is true, how can it be a smear...


Ain't that the truth!

[auboy]

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

My question is how many other famous names have gotten secret deals?

To the amoral left, there are no crimes of morality. I imagine that many crimes of this sort have been left unreported and unprosecuted.

[piasa]

Ritter may not have been as brilliant as eveyone thought. If he had been bought earlier, Russia could feed him info on Iraq to make him look like a superhero to the right, in the hopes of him working his way into the CIA.

But then he failed the lie detector test, or got caught on a still uknown previous sex charge, and coupled with his already questionable wife, was seen as a security risk, a liability, and so lost his clearance. He did lose his clearance (at one point UNSCOM was getting info that Ritter had no access to) and after that his usefulness was pretty much over for the US, and considerably downgraded for the Russians or Iraqis or whoever were his handlers. without a future in the intelligence community, he had nothing to offer anyone. That left him with pro-hussein Iraqi-American financiers and left wing wackos to lean on for speaker's fees after that.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Special Report quoted Scotty as denying it. What to believe: Scotty's denial, or that mugshot running on another thread? methinks the mugshot wins.

Who are you going to believe? Scotty, or your lyin' eyes?

[piasa]

a freeper who is known to be close to Ann Coulter

Shouldn't someone tell Ann there is a rumor of a freeper sneaking up behind her?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"I did not have sex with that internet slut......what's her name. I never told anyone to lie. Not once. Now, I have to get back to work for the Iraqi government...er, for the American people."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I like it.

[bvw]

Actually, I did catch it happening with my then 14-year old daughter, some dweeb hitting on her via IM. I was running the SpectreSoft package (which is the best of the few I've tried in terms of convenience of use). I had her pull any personal information off her profile and to only to accept messages from people she already personally knew.

I told the guy off.

It is upsetting, and even dangerous. That however doesn't necessarily mean it should be criminal. It's no good, bad, rotten, creepy, and sleazy but to criminalize being chatted up, or even setting up and going to a rendevous -- that's too much criminalizaing of thought to my lights.

In a real crime there's dozens of moments where the thought passes in a first-timer's mind. "I shouldn't be doing this." The closer to actual point of the crime (up to a some point where momentum takes over) the stronger that internal voice gets. And not just internal -- fate can throw monkeywrenches in too, thankfully.

But "virtual" crime doesn't permit that to occur. "Pre-crime".

Okay, I'll drop this in the minor misdemeanor category, even a "summary offence" -- like a parking ticket. But no felony. The internet is still new, novel. The social etiquettes and practical moralities needed in its use, as well as the traps and other dangers in it are in discovery. One might allow some temporary over-reaction in policing on that account. But Liberty is Liberty, and has to be held dearly.

[Howlin]

I'm sure she knows. Hell, the whole internet knows.

[John Lenin]

The tagline has got to go .

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

From that D place: Freeper Doug from Upland learned from Will Rivers Pitt's posting on DU that he was going to be on newsnight with Aaron Brown Friday. Doug started emailing and phoning the CNN producer, feeding all kinds of stuff about Pitt, totally discrediting him. Brown phoned Pitt twice, and chewed him up over it. Pitt, of course, didn't know that Doug was talking to CNN.

Thanks for the post, woofie.

Doug, you really are becoming a pain in the neck. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. :O)

[Howlin]

Thanks. I meant to take it off!

[TLBSHOW]

I'm sure she knows. Hell, the whole internet knows.

they sure do howlin the lock stepper

here

[Howlin]

I'll call Redleg Duke over here so he can explain that post to you, since it went over your head.

And you seemed to have missed MY point; you've tried to tell everybody on the internet that Ann Coulter is your friend.

[Fred Mertz]

He never said any such thing that I ever read. He's an Ann Coulter fan, that's for sure.

[doug from upland]

I can't take credit for it. CNN had a right to see his paper trail. The decision was theirs.

If there was something important to say about the finding of the warheads, perhaps it should have been said by someone with experience in ordnance who has no political agenda and is not on all the Bush-hating sites.

"We come for you, George. You wanted it so badly that you took it, and now you must face us. We are legion. There shall be a reckoning, George. Woe unto you because of it. As God is my witness, there shall be a reckoning."

"Short of Nixon's crew, no more criminal and murderous a mob has ever occupied the White House than those who came in under the Reagan/Bush flag."

"In the most delicious irony of this campaign, Republican standard-bearer George W. Bush has imitated, with as much accuracy as his pea-brain can muster,..."

John Ashcroft: American Fascist
by William Rivers Pitt, 12.07.01

Look, I have said even worse things about Clinton. He deserves all of it. I don't expect, however, to be able to convince CNN to put me on the air as if I am a non-partisan expert without an agenda. I want the Clintons in prison.

Did I smear him? No. How could I do that using his own words?

[TLBSHOW]

You are nothing but a liar and a trasher and blinded