his other Wee Willie Winky is oddly silent:
Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-11 12:50 PM
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Sex-sting trial beings for ex-UN weapons inspector
Source: Associated Press
A detective posing as an underage girl in an online chat room told a former U.N. weapons inspector he was exchanging sexually graphic messages with a 15-year-old, according to testimony Tuesday in the second online sex-sting case involving the former Marine captain.
Barrett Township police Detective Ryan Venneman testified that Iraq war critic Scott Ritter initiated a sexually explicit conversation with him in a Yahoo chat room in February 2009.
Venneman told the court that Ritter gave him his cellphone number and began masturbating on a video chat. Ritter briefly ended the chat after the detective said he was 15, but soon restarted the video chat and masturbated to completion, the detective testified.
In his opening statement, defense attorney Gary Coleman told the jury that Ritter is a "decorated military hero" who didn't believe he was chatting with an underage girl.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/12/2795006/sex-sting-...
harmonicon (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-11 04:10 PM
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5. Thought crimes are adorable...
no... wait... they're creepy. I don't think jerking off for some detective's sadistic pleasure should be a crime.
Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-11 04:52 PM
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8. Oh, I see. This proves his statements about the great lie being told about Iraq are not credible....
Brilliant, as usual, rightwingers.
If you can impugn the man, you automatically prove right-wing P.O.S.s are right to lie this country into destroying human beings in the most barbaric, heartless, amoral, unconscionable, disprespectful way possible, completely leveling their country, tearing up their water, food, electricity, shelter, hospitals, homes, making their world unliveable after you've slaughtered as many of them as you can.
Yeah, it's really worth it if you can somehow get the goods on the guy who blew the whistle on you earlier.
In right-wing thinking, you win the "moral" war. Oh, yeah. That's rich. Congratulations.
While you're thumbing your flabby chests over it, let us replay all your dirty little claims about "turning Iraq into a sheet of glass", and "letting God sort them out".
Wingers get so courageous whiling away their lives hoping for more destruction of the human beings around them.
Remind me again why you think the Catholic church, Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard or Jim Bakker lacks credibility on moral issues.
karynnj (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-13-11 04:05 PM
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23. Of course it doesn't - it is entirely possible that he was both honest on Iraq and
solicits children. People aren't angels or devils. People are more complex.
I have just as much trouble will people saying he is innocent and framed - because he told the truth on Iraq in 2002. (ignoring that he said almost the opposite late 1990s after Clinton asked the inspectors to leave before he bombed Iraq.)
This needs to go to trial and if he is guilty of soliciting kids, he is a pervert - even if he is a pervert, who tried to prevent a war.
Ritter himself claims he's being framed; that's his entire defense.
It shows he lies for self-serving purposes.
Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-11 07:27 PM
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10. 7 years in prison for a chat?
Wow.
99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-11 07:27 PM
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11. A "chat" with a fictitious non-existing person at that. ~nt
Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-11 07:27 PM
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12. Yeah, and in reality, it WAS an adult he was chatting with....
So where was the crime? Is it a crime to have intent?
Yes, you ****ing pedo-apologist.
And he also arranged dates. He was going to meet "his date" at Burger King. No kids meal for her though, she's a big girl now.
hack89 (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-11 07:51 PM
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16. If he was convinced it was a 15 year old girl watching him perform
graphic sex acts on the internet, then yes it is a crime.
DisgustipatedinCA (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-11 09:47 PM
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18. but why is this a crime?
There's no victim, just two consenting adults: one liar, and one apparent idiot who thinks he's talking to an underage girl. But since he's not, where's the crime? I'm not asking on Ritter's behalf--this seems to happen in stings all over the place, and I struggle to understand why this is a prosecutable offense.
Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-13-11 12:30 PM
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20. He should demand to have his accuser in court
And vigorously cross-examine him as to why he was pretending to be a little girl online, and explore the clues he must have given that would cause someone to think that he was merely masquerading as a horny little girl.
And since there was no horny little girl involved, only adults, there is no wronged party.
Or are we going to ban the Catholic Schoolgirl outfits that sell at porn stores, the porn with women of precisely 18 years of age who perform sex acts with their pubic areas shaved so as to tittilate by posing as minors? Are we going to prosecute the husbands whose wives pose as little schoolgirls in the bedroom?
somebody stab this ****er in the face with a chainsaw
Who cares if Ritter has or will get a real child and rape her, so long as the anti-Bush narrative endures. Pedos for
piece peace!
I'm not posting anymore, I need this computer too much.
Your ****ing link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4810971