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Of course, Ritter wasn't expecting a WOMAN cop. He was expecting a young thing to satisfy his selfish desires. I think what he planned on doing WITH A YOUNG GIRL was scummy. He deserved more than what he got. Thank goodness, he got caught! One thing is for sure, he won't be trolling the net looking for underage nookie anytime soon.

I guess if a child pervert trolled the net looking for 10 and 16-year-old boys (using toys, money, etc as bait) and then set up a rendevouz with one who turned out to be a cop from a sting--you'd defend him, too! This actually happened here in N. Calfornia. The police also found that the guy was going to torture the poor kid--it was detailed on his computer!The pervert's scumbag lawyer got him off, claiming it was just a "harmless fantasy." Playacting. Yeah, right.

I'm not saying that Ritter was going to pysically harm the girl he thought was waiting for him at Burger King. Who knows? Either way, a married, forty-year-old man has no business with a sixteen-year-old girl. I'm just glad that he got caught in this sting before he found a real, willing victim to use. The "play acting online fantasy" stopped when Ritter turned off his computer, got into a car and headed to Burger King with more than just a whopper and fries on his mind...

In the Abscam case congressmen took bribes from an FBI asset who was posing as a wealthy Arab, in exchange for some political deal.

Are you saying they were innocent just because they believed the money was from an arab when in fact it came from an impersonator?

That Ritter was trolling was clear intent. He intended to do the deed so long as he was convinced there was a 16 year old girl involved.

That many societies consider 16 to be an age of consent, is as immaterial as an Americasn who goes cannibal claiming innocence because in some societies, cannibalism is perfectly acceptable.

The fact is, in his state, 16 is not the age of consent. That's the law, without regard to what Kofi Annan or some bronze-age tribesman in Asia may think.

That said, in comparison to the other things Ritter has engaged in, such as taking money in exchange for suppporting the Iraqi regime, this is very small potatoes and people will in their zeal end up turning him into another "semi-martyr" of the left , just as the focus on Clinton's sexual misdeeds made people forget entirely that he was a traitor, a perjuror, and had abused his office. Hillary and Carville loved it when they were able to turn it into an "it's all about sex" issue- it distracted from the true gravity of his high crimes.

There was NO underage girl! It was an act. Ritter could in all legality divorce his wife and marry the woman cop who was at Burger King that night (or whatever time of day it was).

So, hypothetically speaking, if a man wanted his wife dead and attempted to hire a contract killer to do the deed, if said contract killer was really an undercover agent, there's no crime, right?

Basically, what you're saying is that intent counts for nothing in your book. Fortunately, your book counts for nothing in a court of law.