Did Scott Ritter (former UN weapons inspector) get into trouble?
I was watching, of all things, Leno tonight and he had a joke in his monologue about Scott Ritter arrested in an Internet sting operation for arranging a 16-year-old girl to meet him at a Burger King.
Was he going to buy her a burger? What the hell? What am I missing?
I was only half paying attention and that's what it sounded like. But I looked at a few sites (my connection is super slow tonight for some reason) and couldn't find it reported anywhere.
Anyone know what this is about? I've seen Ritter interviewed several times and he seems like a pretty up-and-up guy. Ex Marine officer, high-ranking/high-profile position, pops up on CNN and Fox a lot, etc.
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And I'm sure he was just going to buy her a burger.
now look what happened!
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This is kinda disturbing. Just goes to show you never can tell, I guess.
<strong>Ritter seems to have gone flaky. All kinds of discrepancies between his claims to the media and his testimonies before congress concerning his inspections.
And I'm sure he was just going to buy her a burger.
He was going to Burger King to feed her some meat.
Ritter! You naughty boy!
Essentially what happened was that he missed his former job and wanted a 14-year-old girl watch him while he carried out a little weapons inspection on himself.
He was busted and a judge let him off if he'd be good. And wouldn't you know it, 6 months later he's still got a hankerin' for supervised self-inspection.
He's a stickler for detail!
Was he set-up? Framed? Or is he truly a skank and his dirty little secret got out?
I'd never heard this. I STILL don't see it anywhere.
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guess you should think twice before crossing the CIA and WhiteHouse when you've been arrested for trying to solicit sex from a minor.
dumbass.
He seems to be getting his fair share of free passes.
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Could any of us get nabbed - in a two month period - trying to hook up with underage girls we met online and get released so easily and quietly?
This is weird.
Maybe he got his taste for the teenies in Baghdad.
Caught twice in two months in two separate internet sex stings.
And basically let off with it both times.
How many US cops are online at any one moment pretending to be horny teens?
How many real kids has he tried to meet (assuming a rate of at least 2 a month)?
How do the newspapers/police know he was planning to spank the monkey while the 'girl'/undercover cop watched?
If it is because he told the 'girl'/undercover cop that was what they were meeting for then it seems to me that 'lure' is perhaps the wrong word.
Why Burger King?
Also what is the US definition of minor? One of the 'girls'/undercover cops was claiming to be 16. I would have thought minor meant under 16.
Doesn't this count as entrapment, or do I get too much of my knowledge of the law from movies?
So many questions.
It's almost as though it never happened and I just dreamed that I heard about it on Leno.
With all the talk, hype and build-up this past year regarding this sort of thing (pedophilia, the Danielle van Dam case, various snatchings/abductions, celebrity scandals involving sex with minors, the whole Catholic church mess and other high-profile stories of "adult on child" sexual crimes), this would be a pretty major story.
This is a pretty well-known guy, in the public eye. I thought the media, in general, LIVED for this stuff?
Just odd. Something just seems out-of-whack (no pun intended) here.
<strong>I wonder if there's some political dirty-tricks going on here? He's always quite vocal in his opposition to the whole "war with Iraq" thing.
Was he set-up? Framed? Or is he truly a skank and his dirty little secret got out?
I'd never heard this. I STILL don't see it anywhere.
I wondered this, as well. Quite coincidental a time for this to pop-up. It aligns perfectly with the "public discrediting of opponents by scandal" plan. I could swear I remember seeing a very short (almost passing) blurb about it while watching the Fox news channel, and absolutely no mention of it since.
What I find really interesting is that it shows how arrest records of public individuals can be sealed. How many of our top politicians have sealed arrest records?
Lots of folks have some pretty big skeletons in their closets. Like Laura Bush killing her former boyfriend when she was a teenager. Of course, some of this stuff is public knowledge and even very high-profile, like the investigations into Cheney and Bush, yet folks turn a blind eye because either it's too complicated or force them to rethink what they support. Kiddie sex is an easy one. Americans are opposed and it is simple to condemn someone for it.
At this point, I'm never surprised by someone being linked to internet kiddie sex. Does it really discredit them? Only if you buy into the belief that someone that is gay or into S&M inherently performs worse in his or her job than some who only has sex missionary style.
<strong>At this point, I'm never surprised by someone being linked to internet kiddie sex. Does it really discredit them? Only if you buy into the belief that someone that is gay or into S&M inherently performs worse in his or her job than some who only has sex missionary style.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What does gay and S&M sex have to do with this? This guy didn't want to have sex with a teenage boy while whipping him. He wanted to jerk his tool in front of a teenage girl.
<strong>By the way, a minor in the US is anyone under 18. I can think of other examples of these stories that never went anywhere, even in the past year with political figures.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Different states have different ages. There's a whole site in the net that give you the run down on the legal age in each state and many countries. Very very creepy.
[quote]Originally posted by BuonRotto:
<strong>What about that Congresswoman who praised Bin Laden as a freedom fighter or somesuch? If it's not the hot ticket "crisis" of the moment in the media ("if it bleeds, it leads"), then it can easily be passed over.</strong><hr></blockquote>
That was Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.).
From <a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110002804"; target="_blank">Best of the web?</a>
[quote] "He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that.<hr></blockquote>
I hope she doesn't win reelection.
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This is a simple factual statement. You have to be pretty ignorant to not know that the one of the major reasons fundamentalist Islamic groups are gaining so many followers is their devotion to social programs. Egypt is probably the best example, where the hospitals run by fundamentalist islamic groups are generations better than the government run ones. These same groups have been almost the sole providers of disaster relief. Another example is Hamas. 95% of its operations are social programs, and it is the major and almost sole provider of these programs to Palestinians.
Seems like a person would have to be pretty stupid to advocate the removal of a politician for simply pointing out an obvious fact. The alternative is a representative body that has no idea what's going on outside (or even inside!) the US.
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<strong>This is a simple factual statement.</strong><hr></blockquote>
He may have done those things, but to say that "we" (meaning the U.S. I assume) haven't been doing those things is also amazingly ignorant and blind to facts. The U.S. is, by far, the most giving nation in regards to things like that. By far.
It's amazing how so many people are unable to express a very valid unpopular viewpoint without following it with ignorant and inflammatory garbage.
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This is a simple factual statement. You have to be pretty ignorant to not know that the one of the major reasons fundamentalist Islamic groups are gaining so many followers is their devotion to social programs. Egypt is probably the best example, where the hospitals run by fundamentalist islamic groups are generations better than the government run ones. These same groups have been almost the sole providers of disaster relief. Another example is Hamas. 95% of its operations are social programs, and it is the major and almost sole provider of these programs to Palestinians.
Seems like a person would have to be pretty stupid to advocate the removal of a politician for simply pointing out an obvious fact. The alternative is a representative body that has no idea what's going on outside (or even inside!) the US.
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No it's not.