Posted on 01/20/2003 3:25:45 PM PST by HAL9000
Delmar Weapons Inspector in Hot Water(updated: January 20th, 5:50pm) The spotlight is back on former UN Weapons Inspector and Delmar native, Scott Ritter. But it's not over Iraq instead its over charges he talked with an underage girl on the Internet.
The Daily Gazette broke the story over the weekend. The paper says Ritter was arrested in June of 2001 after having a sexual conversation on the Internet with someone he "thought" was an underage girl. The girl turned out to be an undercover investigator.
Sources tell NEWS10 that Ritter contacted what he thought was a teenage girl on the internet for the purpose of a sexual interlude not once, but twice within a three month period back in 2001. Ritter also underwent court-ordered sex offender counseling from an Albany psychologist.
To the amoral left, there are no crimes of morality. I imagine that many crimes of this sort have been left unreported and unprosecuted.
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.
Who are you going to believe? Scotty, or your lyin' eyes?
Shouldn't someone tell Ann there is a rumor of a freeper sneaking up behind her?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I like it.
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.
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)
they sure do howlin the lock stepper
And you seemed to have missed MY point; you've tried to tell everybody on the internet that Ann Coulter is your friend.
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?
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