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Applause could be heard from outside the Special Events Center Tuesday, as Scott Ritter walked onto the stage. Ritter received a standing ovation as he began to discuss his views on the weapon inspections in Iraq and the possible war. Ritter, a former major in the U.S. Marines and a former U.N. chief weapons inspector, said it takes a gathering of more than 800 people to bring the Green Party and a former Marine together. The event, which was sponsored by the University Lecture Series, The Alliance of Concerned Students and the USF Campus Green, examined what the weapons inspectors...

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=104631&category=STATE&newsdate=2/12/2003   Bill would make Internet-luring a felony Albany-- Proposal would be added to last year's measure aimed at protecting minors By ELIZABETH BENJAMIN, Capitol bureauFirst published: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 Using the Internet to lure children for sexual encounters would be a felony punishable with up to seven years in prison under a proposal by Assembly Republicans. The Assembly minority introduced a similar law last year that would make it a felony for anyone to "lure or entice" a minor under age 17 into a car, building or other isolated place for the purpose of committing a sexual offense....

 

Local Albany New York radio stations are reporting that Schenectady County Community College will continue with plans to pay sexual pervert and anti-American Scott Ritter $4,000 to preach his left wing peacenik anti-US venom to the college kids. Is it any wonder everyone is concerned with the Left Wing indoctrination that goes on at colleges and universities. Yet, God forbid a college would invite an Ann Coulter or Justice Thomas (which they seldom do because they don't want diversity of ideas on campus) and the whole student population goes berserk. We got some serious problems in America thanks to the...

Scott Ritter said he doesn't want forgiveness. Speaking publicly for the first time about the sex charge he was arrested for in 2001, the former U.N. arms inspector and one of the leading critics of the Bush administration's plans to attack Iraq said he has been held accountable for breaking the law. And it would be a shame, he said Wednesday, that his arrest could derail his efforts to help prevent a war in the Middle East. "I think it's important to put a human face on this, to remind people that there are issues out there bigger than a...

<p>January 23, 2003 -- Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter yesterday suggested that court-sealed details of his Internet sex-sting arrest were intentionally leaked to sabotage his planned peace mission to Iraq.</p> <p>Because of "the timing" of the leak - about "something that occurred nearly two years ago" - he had to cancel his trip to Baghdad, where he planned to advise Iraqi officials on ways to avoid a conflict with the United States.</p>

Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter is finally admitting he was arrested a year and half ago by police in upstate New York, but refuses to disclose if it had anything to do with looking to meet underage girls from the Internet. Scott Ritter mug shot (courtesy WNYT-TV) Ritter made an appearance tonight on "CNN Newsnight with Aaron Brown," but was evasive on questions dealing with reports he was caught in a police sex-sting operation. "I was arrested in June 2001, charged with a Class B misdemeanor," said Ritter. "I stood before a judge and the case was dismissed. The...

Coming up on Aaron Brown on CNN within ten minutes.

Much has been chatted (see, i.e., Raimundo's latest screed, but also including thinkers on the right) about how Ritter was "set up" in an oh-so-obvious attempt to silence a Bush critic.Putting aside the problem of TIMELINES and CAUSE-EFFECT metaphysical problems with that critique, I want to address another problematic aspect -- that the critics think that punishing an "attempt" crime is overreaching, and hence it is evidence of police conspiracy. Thes critics fundamentally misunderstand the notion and retionale for criminalizing "attempted crimes' in our criminal law system. "Attempt" crimes are a morally legitimate and necessary part of the criminal law...

All right stop what you're doin' cause I'm about to ruin the image and the style that you're used to I look funny but yo I'm makin money see $400,000 for an Iraqi movie Now gather round I'm the new tool in town and the scuds laid down in the underground I'll take up all the TV time ya got on ya shelf so just let me introduce myself My name is Ritter pronounced like "litter" young ladies oh how I like to funk thee and all the legal aged chatters on AOL please allow me to bump thee I'm...

Reports from newspapers and television stations in Albany, N.Y., now indicate that outspoken former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter allegedly sought to meet underage girls twice in a three-month period in 2001. Scott Ritter mug shot (courtesy WNYT-TV) The Schenectady Daily Gazette and New York Daily News originally reported Ritter allegedly had an online sexual discussion with someone he thought was an underage girl. The "girl," however, turned out to be an undercover police investigator, according to the Daily News, whose sources spoke on condition of anonymity. WTEN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Albany, is reporting that Ritter contacted the "teen-age...

http://www.timesunion.com/aspstories/storyprint.asp?storyID=95483 Arrest wasn't first time police had eye on Ritter Former U.N. arms inspector reportedly was under inquiry when cops charged him in 2001 By MIKE GOODWIN, Staff writerFirst published: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Colonie -- The Internet sex case that led to the arrest of a former U.N. weapons inspector was not his first involvement with police on that type of crime, a person familiar with the case said Monday. Scott Ritter was under investigation for trying to set up a meeting with a girl through the Internet when town police charged him in June 2001 with using an...

TV station claims film shows ex-U.N. inspector caught in sex sting An attorney for Scott Ritter confirmed that the outspoken former U.N. weapons inspector, who says President Bush should be impeached for his Iraq policy, was arrested a year and a half ago. Norah Murphy said Ritter was arrested in the upstate New York town of Colonie in June 2001, but she would not respond to allegations that he was charged with soliciting an underage girl on the Internet. Ritter lives in the Albany, N.Y., suburb of Delmar. The Schenectady Daily Gazette and New York Daily News report Ritter allegedly...

Okay. Someone has to do this so that we can keep track. On this thread, please give links for all the stories in print, in the news, on the radio, on the TV, and on the internet about Scott Ritter and the possible arrest.

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...

World Net Daily EYE ON THE GULF Reports: Scott Ritter arrested in sex sting Ex-weapons inspector pressing impeachment has own legal trouble -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 19, 2003 7:11 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Scott Ritter, the former weapons inspector who says President Bush should be impeached for his Iraq policy, was secretly arrested and prosecuted in New York 18 months ago after being caught in an Internet sex sting, say law enforcement sources in published reports. The Schenectady Daily Gazette and New York Daily News report Ritter was arrested in June 2001 for allegedly having an online sexual discussion with...

Scott Ritter.s association with President Clinton finally exposed! http://www.wrgb.com/news/local/local_news.asp#H1 For months Americans have been confused as to how Mr. Ritter could have turned from a staunch anti-Sadamist to his biggest American supporter. The answer came out yesterday when the news was released that he is nothing more than a dirty filthy sexual predator. Predictably he has the same sexual perversions that the Democrat.s demigod Bill Clinton had. Not surprisingly filth begets filth. Just as the leftist anti-American press censored the news story on the sexual predator Clinton they are censoring the story on Ritter. The leftist must be busy working...

Asst. D.A. fired after story came to lightJan. 21 -- Cynthia Preiser, the assistant district attorney who handled Ritter's case, was dismissed last week. Lindsay Cohen reports. ALBANY, NY, Jan. 21 - The June 2001 arrest of former U.N. weapons inspector and Delmar resident Scott Ritter has made many headlines this week. Ritter faced misdemeanor charges for trying to solicit an underage girl for sexual acts. But the effects of his arrest ripple far beyond it. THOSE EFFECTS INVOLVE the firing of Assistant District Attorney Cynthia Preiser. Neither Preiser nor Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne will talk to NewsChannel...