Convicted sex offender Scott Ritter trended on Twitter in the 24 hour cycle. Why was that? Because a number of very gross people were recommending him. And the pushback was intense -- and it was from all sides.
America does not embrace pedophiles.
It was cute to watch idiotic supporters of Pig Ritter. Take this idiot.
Dr Lilliana Corredor quotes a claim that the charges were dismissed after he completed six months of probation. First off, dumb moron, six months of probation is telling you the charges were real. But she really flaunts her stupidity then asking, "Where do the trolls get their info that he was impmrisoned from 2011 - 2014?"
From the public record, Dr Dumb Moron, from the public record. Ritter was arrested multiple times, you stupid idiot.
From CRAPAPEDIA:
Arrests and conviction for sex offences
Ritter was the subject in two law enforcement sting operations in 2001.[34] He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.[35][36] He was charged with a misdemeanor
crime of "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child". The charge
was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months
of pre-trial probation.[36][6]
After this information was made public in early 2003, Ritter said that
the timing of the leak was politically motivated in order to silence his
opposition to the Bush administration's push toward war with Iraq.[35][36][37]
Ritter was arrested again in November 2009[38]
over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat
site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the
officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.[2] Ritter said in his own testimony during the trial that he believed the other party was an adult acting out her fantasy.[5] The chat room had an 'age 18 and above' policy, which Ritter stated to the undercover officer.[2]
The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing
and was released on a $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included "unlawful
contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility,
corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of
crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation".[39] Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011.[2][40]
In October 2011, he received a sentence of 1½ to 5½ years in prison.[41] He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.[4][5][6]
Is that clear enough for you dumb bitch promoting Scott Ritter? I'm sorry that you live in a bubble and believe you're getting the truth.
You clearly aren't, you're clearly an uninformed idiot who spent 24 hours on Twitter flaunting your ignorance and defending a predator.
Some other idiots feel the need to quote Predator Ritter himself:
Let me make it crystal clear for Tabach and all the other keyboard warriors who engage in this particular form of name calling: I was never accused, charged, arrested, tried, convicted or sentenced for any crime involving pedophilia.
Tabach’s giggling, and that of his two Lithuanian hosts, while he spoke the words in question spoke volumes about the character of the man and the program.
I committed no crime. I pled innocent because I am innocent. The trial was a gross miscarriage of justice. I have appealed my conviction and continue to do so to this day. And I have explained this during several interviews, most recently on September 16, 2022.
Pedophile? You can be called that. I'm calling you that. Some will argue that a pedophile is someone who preys on children of the single-digit age. Others will apply the term to those who prey on the underage of consent.
It's splitting hairs. You're a pedo and you lie all the time.
You did commit a crime and you were convicted of it in a court of law. This is The Times-Union from October 26, 2011:
Testifying Wednesday at a pre-sentencing hearing was prosecution witness Paula Brust of the Pennsylvania Sex Offenders Assessment Board who said Ritter met the criteria as a sexually violent predator. She referred to the Colonie cases, and defense attorney W. Gary Kohlman of Washington, D.C., made a standing objection to any reference to those earlier incidents, Rakaczewski said.
The defense called Richard Hamill, a clinical psychologist from Albany, who testified that Ritter was receiving sex offender treatment, the prosecutor said.
So Richard Hamill was treating Ritter for his being a sex offender -- and Ritter's own defense felt that would help him, they brought the therapist into court to explain that Ritter was already in treatment -- in sex offender treatment.
That's the public record, Dr. Dumb Bitch. And it's the public record because Scott Ritter's attorney made it the public record.
Paula Brust? Prosecution witness. Richard Hamill? Put on the stand by Ritter's own attorneys.
He was convicted.
Some idiots want to say "thought crimes." Oh, did you just watch THE MINORITY REPORT?
This isn't pre-crimes. Nor is it thought crimes. This is Scott Ritter beating off online and broadcasting it with a webcam.
There's no defense for him and he can lie all he wants but he was convicted. He was sent to prison. And he is now a registered sex offender.
The idiots elevating him tend to want you to know that he was right about Iraq.
Really? That's so interesting to those of us who were speaking out before the war. But let's note this ;
Mr Denis Halliday, an Irishman with over 30 years UN experience, will step down as UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq this month. According to European press reports Mr Halliday was increasingly frustrated at the effect of the sanctions on the Iraqi people and was highly critical of the sanction program. In contrast, American arms inspector Mr Scott Ritter, who had been working for UNSCOM, the UN agency with responsibility for the decommissioning of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, resigned in August because he felt that the UN and the international community were being far too accommodating to the Iraqi government.
Those of us against the war gladly applauded Denis Halliday. We weren't impressed with Ritter. We weren't impressed because he was a War Hawk. We weren't impressed because we called out Mad Maddy Albright for her claims that the life destroying sanctions "were worth it" -- "it" being the deaths of at least a half-million Iraqi children. And we weren't impressed with Ritter who also felt that these sanctions -- responsible for the deaths of so many Iraqi children -- worked.
I'm sorry that Dr Dumb Bitch and people like her are so damn stupid. I'm sorry that they think can get away with rewriting history and pretending that Scott Ritter was consistent in his remarks or that he was a dove of peace.
He was garbage then and he's garbage now. The only difference is that now he's also a registered sex offender.
Millions around the world rallied against the upcoming Iraq War -- and most of us had never heard of Scott Ritter -- it was a kinder time.
Quit promoting him as some voice of truth. He was not. That is a complete rewrite of history.
There were voices of truth and there were people who were trashed for speaking out.
How typical that revisionary liars would erase all the women to glorify a man who did nothing. How typical.
Of course, like John Kerry, Ritter was for the war before he was against it:
Drawing additional international attention to the situation in Iraq was the public resignation of William S. "Scott" Ritter, Jr., previously chief of UNSCOM's investigations into Iraq's proscribed weapons concealment activities, on August 26. In an angry letter to Richard Butler, executive chairman of UNSCOM, Ritter denounced the Security Council's refusal to enforce its resolutions against Iraq and condemned Secretary-General Kofi Annan for allowing his "grand office" to be used "as a sounding board for Iraqi grievances, real or imagined."
[. . .]
(The FBI is reportedly investigating charges that Ritter improperly exchanged intelligence with other nations while at UNSCOM, a claim Ritter denies.)
Following his resignation, Ritter publicly warned that Iraq could reconstruct its chemical, biological and ballistic missile programs in six months or less and charged that Iraq already possesses three complete nuclear devices that lack only their fissile material cores. Ritter also claimed that Baghdad has used the UN-supervised oil-for-food program to smuggle proscribed and dual-use materials.
As we have noted repeatedly over the years at this site, the 2003-US-led invasion is only the latest phase of the ongoing Iraq War. And we defended Beto O'Rourke when he made the same points and 'fact checker' Glenn Kessler (holding water for Joe Biden's campaign) attacked Beto for saying that. Beto was right.
Long before the invasion, the Judy Millers and Scott Ritters were laying the ground work.
So if his criminal history isn't enough to scare you off Scott Ritter, how about letting the reality of how he helped lay the groundwork for the 2003 invasion over many, many years -- how about letting that stop you from applauding the registered sex offender.
Or maybe just show a little damn respect to the Iraqi families who lost at least a half-million children because of sanctions?
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