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Saddam's silent collaborators Last week, I learned there was a children's prison in Baghdad where they locked up the kids of parents deemed disloyal to the regime. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. As more and more information emerges about Saddam Hussein's Iraq, we're learning how awful it really was. Still, I was stunned. What kind of regime locks up and tortures children? In its scale and sadism, the regime's brutality went way beyond the cruelty of your average police state. It lasted for 20 years. Saddam's rule of terror ought to have sparked international outrage years ago. But...

Not in Your Name For the better part of the last six months, Cornell University has been besieged with students, faculty, and townies marching around campus, wearing black armbands, and chanting “Not in Our Name.” (Not in Our Name is a reference to a radical antiwar organization affiliated with Communist organizer Leslie Cagan.) These folks have been screaming at the top of their lungs about how America’s war against Saddam Hussein is “not in their name.” Let’s review. A few weeks back, former U.N. weapons inspector and child sex offender Scott Ritter came to campus and informed Cornell students that...

Ritter Off the Deep End Expert on children, not weapons Former UN Inspector Scott Ritter came to Cornell to speak yesterday regarding the failed diplomacy and, as he dubs it, the failed war in Iraq. His message was based in waging peace, not war, and as a former marine, he claimed he was no peacenik. Having spoken eloquently and convincingly, this writer wishes that the audience had taken a step back and thought about what Ritter was talking about. His first point was that an effects-based strategy (based on psychological warfare like shock and awe) involved a completely brand new...

Lisbon - The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter said. "The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here Tuesday evening. "We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat of the United States in this war is inevitable," he said. "Every time we confront Iraqi...

Former UN weapons inspector says US does not have military means to take over Baghdad, defeat inevitable. LISBON - The United States does not have the military means to take over Baghdad and will lose the war against Iraq, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said. "The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs, defeated. It is a war we can not win," he told private radio TSF in an interview broadcast here Tuesday evening. "We do not have the military means to take over Baghdad and for this reason I believe the defeat...

<p>Scott Ritter was a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. He took part in 52 inspection missions, 14 of them as chief. The former military intelligence officer has recently attracted attention for arguing against the need for war against Iraq.</p>

I keep company and friends with people on both sides of the political spectrum. I got an e-mail sent to me about Scott Ritter and his gang of UN lovers who will be making a trek to NYC and the UN area this coming weekend for a rally called "Not In Our Name" which is the same group that has most of the Hollywood Lib's with them. Once I find out more info on this I will try to pass it on. But this would be a most excellent Freep if you all can get there.

Local Assemblymen Call for Measure Against Cyber Sex Predators Assemblymen James Conte and Andrew Raia (R,C - East Northport) recently announced their support for a tough new measure designed to protect children from sex predators who use online chat rooms or prowl the streets in an attempt to lure young children into having sex. "We need to crack down on criminals who prey upon women and children," Conte said. "More so, we must provide the tools law enforcement needs to keep dangerous criminals off the streets. Crimes now reflect the technology that has become commonplace in our society, and...

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....

Ritter says Bush administration yet to prove Iraq a danger The Associated Press Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter said he doesn't believe the Bush administration has proven that Iraq is a threat to the United States and that there should be better evidence against Saddam Hussein before the nation is invaded. Ritter, a weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, said Tuesday that Hussein could have rebuilt his biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs in four years that weapons inspectors have been absent. But he said Americans should prove their patriotism by demanding the lives of U.S. soldiers...

A former U.S. navy officer and UN chief arms inspector in Iraq yesterday lashed out at the United States, accusing it of acting against international law by seeking to use military force to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussain and control the oil-rich country. Scott Ritter, who served as the top arms inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, said more than 95 per cent of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have been destroyed while 100 per cent of its factories producing such weapons have been neutralised and shut down. In a lecture entitled "The coming war in Iraq: how did...

DUBAI, Feb 10 (IPS) - A U.S.-led attack on Iraq without the approval of the United Nations would spell doom for the world body and be another ominous sign of unilateralism in international affairs, say analysts in the region. Already, the United States has come under fire in many Middle Eastern countries for eyeing not really the weapons of mass destruction Iraq is suspected of having - but the ouster of Saddam Hussein. If and when it pushes through, such a war could become a case study to implement U.S. unilateralism not just in the Middle East, but in other...

Scandalized Ritter focuses on N. Korea 'Won't be satisfied until Tokyo is reduced to a slab of radioactive waste' Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who has made headlines recently for purportedly trying to lure teen-age girls from the Internet, is now sounding the alarm of a possible nuclear holocaust in the Far East. Scott Ritter mug shot (courtesy WNYT-TV) While visiting Tokyo this week, the New York resident gave a speech warning that the current crisis in North Korea could mushroom into a doomsday cloud in a very short period of time. "The president has put B-52s on alert...

I knew the media were up to something with their wall-to-wall coverage of the Columbia space shuttle explosion. The full story is: Shuttle disintegrated during re-entry; all astronauts killed, including some very remarkable people; very sad; NASA picking up the debris to figure out what happened. It was a plane crash story, only a lot more expensive. So why was the shuttle explosion being covered like the 9-11 terrorist attack? A quick review of the Treason Times laid bare the objective. Monday's New York Times proclaimed: "As Iraq War Looms, a New Sense of Vulnerability." American hubris blunted again! The...

Ritter dismisses Powell TOKYO — Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Thursday dismissed U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's allegation before the U.N. Security Council that Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction as "unsubstantiated" and based only on "circumstantial evidence." "There's nothing here that's conclusive proof that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction," Ritter, a former U.S. Marine and outspoken critic of Washington's policy on Iraq who participated in U.N. weapons inspections there from 1991 to 1998, told Kyodo News in an interview. "Everything in here is circumstantial, everything in here mirrors the kind of allegations the U.S....