Posted on 02/24/2007 6:21:55 AM PST by 3AngelaD
Federal authorities yesterday charged the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, who serves as a leader of youth sports organizations in the state, with receiving and possessing child pornography.
Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, of Arlington, was named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria and was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Arlington County police...
Mr. Rust-Tierney, a former public defender in the District, was identified in court documents as having coached various youth sport teams in and around Arlington County...
ICE officials had no comment on the case. One agent said in a sworn affidavit yesterday that Mr. Rust-Tierney has subscribed to various child-pornography Web sites over the past several years.
The affidavit states that Mr. Rust-Tierney also admitted to an agent yesterday that he had downloaded videos and photos, which were found in a search of his home, from child-porn sites...
Speaking for the ACLU, Mr. Rust-Tierney was a leading proponent in the late 1990s for unrestricted access to the Internet, arguing before the Loudoun County Library Board that people would "continue to behave responsibly and appropriately while in the library" and that "maximum, unrestricted access to the valuable resources of the Internet" should be allowed...
Mr. Rust-Tierney also argued that parents should have the primary responsibility for setting rules for their children regarding Internet access, and that "older minors should have access to resources appropriate for their age group, even if such materials may be considered by some parents to be unsuitable for younger minors..."
Mr. Rust-Tierney's wife, Diann Rust-Tierney, is executive director of the D.C.-based National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
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What a pathetic pair. Like the Rosenbergs.
ICE was involved because the original investigation was international and now they are looking for customers.
I heard (Fox News,I think) last nite that the reason ICE was involved was because the child porn came from outside this country
Well, at I hope at least he managed to get rid of some of those awful religious symbols and to take some American flags down (too big, an eyesore, don't you know) before the end of his tenure.
What a complete hypocrite. When did the ACLU become the All Communist Liberties Union? A while back, it seems.
ping
See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790186/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790185/posts
(background/spin)
IMO, RELATED!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1790341/posts
Judge orders 'gay' agenda taught to Christian children
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1052017/posts
Accused Terrorist Wrote School Guidelines with ACLU
Excerpt:
Additionally, Clinton went beyond the ACLU copyright guidelines and added:
"Students generally do not have a Federal right to be excused from lessons that may be inconsistent with their religious beliefs or practices."
Look at how the WP covered the story and where the paper buried it.
Look at the judges ruling in my first link at post 9:
Wolf essentially adopted the reasoning in a brief submitted by a number of homosexual-advocacy groups, who said "the rights of religious freedom and parental control over the upbringing of children … would undermine teaching and learning…"
I also heard this wasn't just "child porn". It was the violent, brutal rape of young girls. It was said that only snuff films are worse.
Sickening. He should be executed.
Link to picture of his wife.
http://www.wooster.edu/magazine/winter2002/deathpenalty.html
Already posted.
Above the fold.
On the front page of the New York Slimes.
[grin]
Gee, what a surprise that an ex-ACLU-prez is a immoral whackjob.
How did U.S. District Jdge Leonie M. Brinkema eventually rule in the case where Charles Rust-Tierney argued that the libraries must provide access to porn?
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