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Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector and an outspoken critic of war in Iraq, yesterday claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign after it emerged that he had been arrested in an internet sex sting in June 2001. Details of the arrest emerged in a local New York state newspaper last week. Reports said Mr Ritter, 44, had been charged with attempted child endangerment after arranging, in an online chatroom, to meet what he thought was a 16-year-old girlat a Burger King restaurant. The girl turned out to be an undercover policewoman. The case was later dismissed....

WAS RITTER SET UP?

Should a local radio talk show which broadcasts in the Albany area where the pervert Ritter lives, organize a silent protest when he goes to speak at Schenectady County Community College? Kinda like an anti-anti-war protest. E-MAIL the program director and ask him to organize this protest: Email: pvandenburgh@albanyradio.netwww.wrow.com Now, how about some suggestions for signs!

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...

Ex-U.N. Inspector Questions News Timing ALBANY, N.Y. - Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, a harsh critic of the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq, suggested that recent news reports of his arrest in an Internet sex sting last year were part of an attempt to silence him. He said the publicity forced him to cancel a trip to Baghdad, where he said he would have offered an alternative to military action. "The timing does stink. I was supposed to be on an airplane yesterday to Baghdad," he said. "Let's not forget, we're on the verge of a major...

Heads up! Coming up on the Rush Limbaugh Show the Scott Ritter Cnn Interview with Brown. Where Ritter is finished off by CNN, as a side note Cnn has been playing parts of it all day I am told. LOL http://www.kfi640.com/jacor-common/streaming_disclaimer.html

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...

Consider the following 9 powerful quotes from another article by another author entitled "Saddam's Trap" which details Saddam Hussein's illegal weapons of mass destruction programs. Put in proper perspective, "Saddam's Trap" shows that we should not be at all surprised that the Iraqis are not cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors. Nor should we be surprised that the Iraqis are in possession of chemical-capable warheads in violation of U.N. resolutions or that an Iraqi scientist was found to have documentation related to nuclear weapons at his home, again in violation of U.N. resolutions. Now, on to the 9 important quotes: 1....

Ritter Cancels Iraq Trip To Baby-Sit Scott Ritter, who reportedly baby-sat the children of presidential candidates Tuesday night while they were at the abortion celebration dinner - Woody Allen was on standby - has cancelled a trip to Baghdad. He was going to go to Baghdad, folks, but has cancelled the trip in the midst of controversy over what the media terms a "minor sex charge." It sounds like he's benefiting from the Kennedy-Clinton protection plan already. Ritter had planned to fly to Iraq to offer advice to the Iraqi government on ways to avoid a conflict with the U.S.,...

<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.

ALBANY, N.Y., Jan. 22 - Until now, former U.N. weapon's inspector Scott Ritter has declined to speak about allegations he was arrested in an Internet sex sting 19 months ago. However, NewsChannel 13 reached Ritter by phone Wednesday and for the first time he discussed the arrest and the sealed court documents. ...snip... "The case was dismissed. Therefore it never happened," Ritter said Wednesday. "I stood in a court of law, before a judge and an assistant district attorney, and they dismissed it," he added. But the court of public opinion has a different view. The story of Ritter's arrest...

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...

<p>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.</p>

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...

Ritter speaks out against Bush administration A Delmar resident and former U.N. weapons inspector is speaking out against the Bush administration. Scott Ritter was in San Diego Tuesday, discussing his new book "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Crisis" despite reports that Ritter was arrested by Colonie police two years ago for allegedly logging onto a sex chat room being run as a police sting. Ritter called on President Bush to look for a peaceful resolution with Iraq. He said almost all of Iraq's weapons were accounted for and destroyed four years ago. Ritter served as Chief Inspector in Iraq for most...

<p>ALBANY, N.Y. — A former U.N. weapons inspector was arrested in 2001 during an Internet sex sting operation and was under investigation for a similar incident months before his arrest, according to published reports.</p> <p>The arrest of Scott Ritter, 41, who served as a weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98, was first reported by The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on Saturday.</p>

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...

This Could Explain Scott Ritter January 20, 2003 Over the weekend, I saw a story about former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter being arrested on some kind of Class B misdemeanor sex charges. If I were Ritter, I’d just say, “Hey, I was just doing research here.” It’s the Pete Townshend defense. I'm surprised that this bothers anybody. These reality TV shows showcase and celebrate deviant behavior every day. Ditto daytime TV. Sunday’s Washington Post ran a story about all the “hooking up” in high schools and colleges. There's no love involved or relationship sought, people just seeking making...