FUROR ERUPTS OVER U.N. 'PERVY' PROBER (RITTER)

New York Post ^ | 1/22/03 | MARSHA KRANES, ADAM MILLER and FREDRIC U. DICKER

[kattracks]

January 22, 2003 -- Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter shouldn't have gotten a free pass after he was arrested for soliciting an underage girl in a police Internet sting, says the district attorney whose office muffed the case by dropping the charge.

[aristeides]

he's married to a Russian woman he met in Moscow in ~1990

I wonder how old wife Marina was in 1990.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I wonder how old wife Marina was in 1990.

Wasn't Marina the name of Oswald's Russian wife?

Must...not...wrap...tinfoil...so...tight...

[aristeides]

Informative article, but it still doesn't name the "town court judge." Would that be an elective position?

Note that Peiser comes from Queens, and is the daughter of a law school professor.

[savedbygrace]

He dismisses as "a form of harassment" what he says is an ongoing FBI probe of his wife based on allegations that she was a KGB spy.

This is an important sentence. Is the FBI investigation still ongoing today?

[Catspaw]

Informative article, but it still doesn't name the "town court judge." Would that be an elective position?

Easiest way for you to find out is for you to call the township or county, get a list of town court judges and call each one and ask if they handled the Ritter case. The one that says "no comment" is your guy.

[Dark Knight]

But one of the elements of the crime is the age of the victim. There was no under age victim. IE no victim, no crime. Solicitation has a victim, and a substantial step to committing the crime has to happen. If a person goes trolling the streets for a hooker, there is always the substantial step of setting a price for an activity, and the presence of a vendor. Every person knows that the next step is the sex. Likewise with hiring a hitman. Scotty "the perve" went to a meeting with a young person in mind, but the young person, the object of his crime did not exist. He could never commit the crime nor take any substantial steps to because the victim does not exist.

If you wanted to do real police work, you could seize his hard drive, and get his correspondence, find some real victims and make a case based on real victims. The invention of victims is one of the bizarre areas of law enforcement that seem to be in vogue because it is easy, and in these cases the accusation is so inflamatory that it suffices as punishment.

DK

[TankerKC]

You know, I've gotten into more trouble over a parking ticket that turned out to be a mistake. I was nearly denied a TS security clearance because of a ticket issued to my truck in LA while it was locked in storage in San Diego. How do people get away with this kind of sick crap?

[Dark Knight]

No, personally I think with some legitimate police work you could find some real victims and prosecute him based on real criminal activity. What's the average for abusers when they get caught, dozens of victims? All that information is just waiting to be found, but no one in law enforcement looked. Or they could have had a legitimate underage person at the meeting place. Sounds like they did not at either one. NO ONE would have questioned it at all then.

DK

[Catspaw]

Aw, poor Scotty...got himself caught trolling for teens and it's just too too bad and too too sad.

Sniffle.

[Quilla]

If you wanted to do real police work, you could seize his hard drive, and get his correspondence, find some real victims and make a case based on real victims.

I agree, but obviously the assistant district attorney in this situation required no real police work. As the mother of 15 and 16 year olds, I certainly prefer the police posing as children method to catch these creeps. I shudder to think of a poor child hoodwinked into meeting a pervert like Ritter.

[Catspaw]

On a daily basis, you can read stories about one of these trolls showing up for a meeting with a real teen. And sometimes those teens end up dead.

[George W. Bush]

The left loves their pervs. Apparently, they can relate.

No, they just need supporters that they can despise and defend and enslave and rob, all at the same time.

It's called the Democrat party.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

No! Fifty lashes. THEN the short rope.

[Mo1]

Hey Todd, was it ever explain why Ritter's case wasn't brought to the attention of the DA ?

If Ritter was caught at least twice, my guess would be Ritter has a long history doing this stuff

[Ole Okie]

TankerKC (That handle left of the steering column? It's a "turn signal".)

An observation on your tag line: on my car, it's on the right side of the steering column. ;-)

You hit a nerve with me. I have assumed that a lot (perhaps most) drivers have had lobotomies that separate their 'turn signal actuating fingers' from their brains.

While I may pity them, if I were king, people who can't signal turns and lane changes would have licenses lifted for a year.

[Fred Mertz]

Hey Todd, was it ever explain why Ritter's case wasn't brought to the attention of the DA ?

An Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal is often the result of the police having a weak case or the violation is considered minor enough not to pursue i.e. wacking one's own peepee.

Plus, I figure the cop and ADA didn't even know Ritter from Shinola, so I don't suspect any cover up. The only cover I see, is the DA firing the ADA to cover his hiney.

[Mo1]

The only cover I see, is the DA firing the ADA to cover his hiney.

That is possible .. but I don't by that the ADA didn't know who he was

[general_re]

Free to be spied on; free to be set-up and smeared if we defy the powers-that-be; "free" to be entrapped by cyber-cops who randomly chose the single most convincing opponent of the War Party to snare in a web of deception.

Careful where you spin that "web of deception", Justine - it's cutting off the blood flowing to your brain...

[TankerKC]

While I may pity them, if I were king, people who can't signal turns and lane changes would have licenses lifted for a year.

Amen. The only time folks here in Alabama use their signal is to confuse other traffic. You know, signal right then turn left. Or, left signal on for 6 miles, then turn right. My absolute favorites are the only that tune on their signal as they start the turn. Argh!

[Lancey Howard]

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