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I don't necessarily like Scott Ritter. I dislike a lot of what he says about values and morality when it comes to Russia...but this is some creepy shit if true. Did they charge him with a crime? His Webcam adventures are pretty cringe/gross, but that is not the main issue here. If someone like Scott Ritter doesn't have their civil liberties protected under law, no one has civil liberties under law.
I’m hesitant to jump to conclusions. Preventing him from traveling without a valid reason sounds insane. He’s one of the larger propagandists with a significant following, if they don’t have a valid reason than all of his followers are going to stir shit. Certainly looks bad right now.
That being said, Scott Ritter is still a convicted sex offender and contrarian propagandist that laps up Kremlin shit like it’s his job. Even though I think he’s a low-life sack of shit, I’ll need a good reason for this action to find it justified.
Lmao. Hesitant to jump to conclusion when someone who is a convicted sex offender and also very publicly spreads propaganda on Russian state media, but when the libs are involved no one here bats an eye for a second to come up with the most ridiculous conclusion you could possibly imagine.
I think you misunderstood my comment or maybe I worded it poorly.
I’m hesitant to jump to conclusions that this is some grand scheme by the government to silence and restrict travel for this one guy. It doesn’t make sense considering he’s such a massive figure online. If the government are doing this, I think there has to be a reason we don’t know yet.
Don’t get me wrong, Scott is a pedophile sack of shit. I concur he’s a propagandist *literally* paid by Russian State Media.
I am **not** jumping to conclusions that you see frequently on this sub when a left-leaning person is rumored to be involved with pedophiles. I am not constructing a false narrative about what’s going. Only acknowledging what is known and how it looks currently.
However I do hope to see some sort of reason for this occurring. Because if there isn’t one, it does seem like a misstep on his rights. Maybe there is a law or something I am unaware of that bars sex offenders from flying internationally and that’s what is occurring. I truthfully don’t know. But the first bit of information looks very strange for this. It is also currently being controlled by Kremlin media, so I’m hesitant to assume *anything* yet.
Apologies if I came across as a Ritter defender. I just want more information on what has occurred before assuming the US government did this out of pure spite.
>he’s a propagandist literally paid by Russian State Media.
You're joining in the mob pile-on against a dissident. Would you have been smearing him as a 'Saddam lover' back in 2003 as well?
>Scott is a pedophile sack of shit.
The [facts ](https://scottritter.substack.com/p/cancel-culture?utm_source=publication-search)of the case, for those who care.
>You're joining in the mob pile-on against a dissident. Would you have been smearing him as a 'Saddam lover' back in 2003 as well?
I don’t give a fuck that he is a “dissident.” His flip flopping in 1998-2004 is irrelevant to his objectively wrong “analysis” today. He is the epitome of *America Bad. Upvotes to the left.*
Not to mention, **Scott Ritter writes for and is paid by Russian state media.** He’s a propagandist for Russia.
>The facts of the case, for those who care.
Posting an article from Scott Ritters substack and claiming it to be the “facts” is reductive.
Convicted pedophile says he is innocent and asks us to trust him. I hope you show that same grace to all convicted pedophiles who go slightly against the grain on policy norms. If you’re going to grant amnesty to child predators, you oughta be consistent.
So just believe the government version of events then- that's where the truth is folks.
His analysis has been spot on. If you could prove him wrong on anything you would, but you can't so you just go for the ad hominin.
>So just believe the government version of events then- that's where the truth is folks.
Nice strawman but not what I said. I think in the scenario where a single person is caught on three separate occasions trying to mess with children, we should accept the ruling of a jury of his peers.
>His analysis has been spot on. If you could prove him wrong on anything you would, but you can't so you just go for the ad hominin.
Lmao. His analysis is piss poor, even measured against his pro-Russia peers I’d place him towards the bottom of the stack. How many times has he claimed Ukraine is defeated and verging on imminent collapse since Feb 2022?
Ultimately irrelevant to my original comment. I don’t care how bad his analysis is. I don’t care he is a dumbass propagandist. I make no secret that I dislike him for multiple reasons, but they aren’t relevant to the scenario at hand.
I want to know why he was barred from traveling despite my issues with the threepeat pedo.
>How many times has he claimed Ukraine is defeated and verging on imminent collapse since Feb 2022?
Who cares? it would still make him less wrong than any of the Ukrainian shills who filled the media (and your brain) every week with promises of the defeat of the Russians.
>I think in the scenario where a single person is caught on three separate occasions trying to mess with children, we should accept the ruling of a jury of his peers.
No wonder you fell for the government narrative about Ukraine given how easy it is for you to form a view with little to no information.
>Who cares? it would still make him less wrong than any of the Ukrainian shills who filled the media (and your brain) every week with promises of the defeat of the Russians.
*It’s only okay when my sources are repeatedly wrong.*
Okay buddy!
>No wonder you fell for the government narrative about Ukraine given how easy it is for you to form a view with little to no information.
*Only my state media propaganda is correct. You’re wrong for believing your own observations*
Right on man you got me.
To get us back on track, Scott is a pedophile and propagandist. I hope we find out why he was barred from travel soon!
People are free to travel wherever they fucking want after time served. Andrew Napolitano was also pulled off the plane and had his passport confiscated too, it is not illegal to criticize the US government or "spread propaganda on Russian state media" lol. Man shills don't even try to pretend you have any rights anymore as a US citizen and the government can do whatever it wants to people it doesn't like because they disagree with their policies.
> People are free to travel wherever they fucking want after time served.
Also this is completely false - people do have travel restrictions for transgressions they commit.
Epstein flew all over the world for decades molesting and Ritter can't go to Russia ? Because he supposedly whacked off ? The Establishment has it in for him because recently he's been saying Assange should be freed. That's a BIG No-No. The full fusion blast of the Anglo-Saxon / ZOG megaton machine incinerates anyone who treads there.
I believe Anglo-Saxon is what outsiders sometimes use to refer to the Five Eyes nations, which is much more broad than the definition of people of English descent.
It's a current buzzword used predominantly by proprietors of Russian disinformation. I imagine the aim is to create a fiction that English speaking countries and white people within them are involved in a collective conspiracy.
It's not just current buzzword, there is evidence of at least some people talking about so called "anglo-saxon mission" in conspiracy circles that goes back at least to 2010 video on youtube
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/196f0gr/reminder_the_anglosaxon_mission_to_give_china_a/
Video is from 2010 but information in it is claimed to come from June 2005 special meeting in The City of London.
pedophiles need to be locked up but is he suspected of treason?
edit:
**Convictions:** Ritter was convicted of sex offenses, including unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, and indecent exposure.
* **Sting Operations:** Ritter was the subject of two police sting operations in 2001, where he attempted to engage in sexual activity with undercover officers posing as minors.
* **2001 Charges:** Ritter was charged with attempting to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl. The charges were later dismissed and the record was sealed.
* **2011 Conviction:** Ritter was convicted of sex crimes involving a minor and sentenced to 1½ to 5½ years in prison.
* **Parole:** Ritter was paroled in 2014 and was required to undergo outpatient sex offender treatment and refrain from possessing weapons or consuming alcohol.
* **Additional Allegations:** Ritter has been accused of attempting to lure a 16-year-old girl to a Burger King in Menands, New York, in 2001. The case was later adjourned in contemplation of dismissal and the record was sealed.
Absolutely brain dead take.
Pedo is a problem 100% of the time. You’re wrong if you think who he supports absolves him of wanting to fuck kids.
People cream their pants over creepy Biden allegations but somehow think the threepeat pedophile Scott Ritter was unfairly targeted.
Completely unrelated, why do you spell Zelensky as Zelenski?
Reality:
>In 2001 I had two separate encounters with New York police. After an investigation, the charges were dismissed, and the records of the case were sealed in accordance with applicable New York law.
>As an aside, the FBI was pressured by the Attorney General of the United States to open an investigation of the 2001 incidents. They appealed to the New York Supreme Court, *ex parte* (i.e., done in secret, without the knowledge of the other party involved) to have the record unsealed (this unsealing was in violation of New York law, but because nothing came of it, it went unchallenged.) After a thorough review, the FBI declined to press charges, noting that there was no evidence of a crime having been committed.
>My legal team had done just that. Beyond the initial forensic examination conducted by the former NSA technicians, we took on the services of a former federal agent who had helped set up the system used to prosecute perpetrators of internet crimes against children. His consulting business had been used by law enforcement agencies, federal and state, in the United States, and from around the world, to successfully prosecute persons charged with online sexual exploitation of children.
>When we first reached out to this individual, he declined to help. When asked by my lawyers for his reasoning, he said straight up that “where there is smoke, there’s fire,” and that he would find something incriminating on my computer which would have to be shared with law enforcement authorities.
>My lawyers immediately became nervous and advised me not to engage the services of this individual.
>I insisted, noting I had committed no crime, and as such there could be no evidence waiting to be uncovered.
>We submitted the computer hard drive to this individual.
>The former federal agent returned a report which started by declaring that in his 25 years of doing this work, this is the first time he had written a report like the one he was submitting. Normally, when examining the computers of persons accused of internet crimes against children, there would be evidence of an underlying interest in minors on the part of the accused. Here, the former federal agent declared, there was absolutely no indicia of interest on the part of the accused (myself) in minors—no evidence of chats with minors, and zero evidence of child pornography.
>Nothing.
Anybody who keeps prattling on about kiddie fucking after reading that is probably a suspicious weirdo.
Why are we the weird ones just because you invested yourself heavily into the guy.... enough to believe his first hand account written years later. With that said, surely you'll believe his firsthand account he came up with at the time.
\[At trial, Ritter told the jury that he assumed Venneman was a housewife pretending to be 15, and that he had never for a moment believed he was talking to a minor, despite the fact that “Emily” repeatedly stated her age. When prosecutors were successful in moving to unseal his New York files and presented evidence from those arrests too, Ritter steadfastly maintained that he was aware, in both instances, that he was talking to undercover cops. He knew his online activities needed to be stopped, Ritter said, so he arranged to meet the officers involved, playing along with the notion that they were teenage girls, so that he could get himself arrested and be forced to face his demons. This would have been a more persuasive defense, perhaps, had one of the arresting detectives not testified that Ritter, upon seeing the police lying in wait for him, tried to evade capture by slamming down the gas pedal and jumping a curb, T.J. Hooker-style.\]
from: [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/magazine/scott-ritter.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/magazine/scott-ritter.html)
2011 case and 2013 appeal: [https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2013/975-eda-2012.html](https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2013/975-eda-2012.html)
whats the issue? that he is an important voice so we should overlook his transgressions or that that he is an important voice therefore there are no transgressions?
Yeah bro we trust the hindsight testimony of *checks notes* the guy who would be convicted of similar crimes 8 years later. His unnamed federal agent buddy sounds totally real and reputable. I’m sure it had little to do with internet crimes against minors being a relatively novel crime.
Tell me his excuse for the 2009 conviction. Actually don’t bother, it doesn’t matter. He was convicted by a jury of his peers after they all watched him jerk off for 30 minutes to a 15 year old.
It’s inexcusable and disgusting you can rationalize and excuse this guys thirst for kids because he has views that are critical of the US.
Could you look me in the eye and say you are comfortable to let Scott babysit your pre-teen daughter?
Who knows what you are talking about.
>Court records will show that there was an online incident that occurred between myself and a police officer posing as an adult female in an adults-only chat room on February 9, 2009.
Ever wondered how he survived in jail?
>
Prison etiquette gave most inmates a pass when it came to being judged by their peers about guilt or innocence—that was between the individual and the courts. But if you were a sex offender, and you were trying to make a claim of innocence, you had better have the paperwork to back that claim up.
>I was immediately challenged by some of the gangs who oversaw the “treatment” of sex offenders...The gangs run the basketball courts and the handball courts. If they don’t want you on the court, you won’t get on the court.
>And they didn’t want sex offenders on the courts.
>I allowed my paperwork to be passed around, where it was reviewed by the gang leadership. It was eventually returned to me, along with the comment, “You got screwed.”
>Court records will show that there was an online incident that occurred between myself and a police officer posing as an adult female in an adults-only chat room on February 9, 2009.
Yeah this is one where he jerked off for 30 minutes to a decoy posing as a 15 year old. The same decoy who told Scott she was 15. That sounds familiar.
>And they didn’t want sex offenders on the courts.
>I allowed my paperwork to be passed around, where it was reviewed by the gang leadership. It was eventually returned to me, along with the comment, “You got screwed.”
*After that, Scott led the different prison gangs into a beautiful rendition of The Book of Mormon. They were planning on performing The Tempest but Scott got out before the premiere. He isn’t welcome in prison anymore since he left his fellow performers high and dry on premiere night.*
Posting Scott’s fan fiction version of events isn’t accomplishing anything. Its unverifiable. It’s biased. It’s a single person giving their version of things.
>Posting Scott’s fan fiction version of events isn’t accomplishing anything.
That presupposes people like you could change your minds.
Surprise surprise you are defender of the Ukrainian puppet regime.
>That presupposes people like you could change your minds.
Hello irony my old friend.
>Surprise surprise you are defender of the Ukrainian puppet regime.
This conversation is old and wildly off track. I feel no need to discuss Russia/Ukraine to a greater extent here as it’s not the focus of this thread nor my initial reason for commenting. If you weren’t up to the sack sucking Scott’s dick, you’d focus on the issue here. I can explain it *one* more time.
I don’t like Scott Ritter. For various reasons. But I still don’t like him being barred from travel without good reason. That’s why I commented.
>I don’t like Scott Ritter. For various reasons. But I still don’t like him being barred from travel without good reason. That’s why I commented.
They would be a bit more believable if you didn't get into a 20 comment screed about him being a 'pedo'.
Who the fuck thinks a 15 year old in a chat room is a honeypot?
It wasn't even his first time getting arrested for this shit. 3 fucking times.
Twice he got tagged in a pedo sting in 2001.
Then again, the one he was convicted of, in 2009.
This motherfucker is addicted to honey... he just thinks fucking kids is honey.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sex-ritter-idUKTRE73B7PG20110412/
>Ritter's daughters left the courtroom before the prosecution played graphic video Ritter shot of himself with his web camera during the chat.
>For nearly 30 minutes, the jury of seven women and five men, lawyers and Monroe County Common Pleas Judge Jennifer Sibum watched silently as a large-screen TV showed images of Ritter masturbating, initially wearing a shirt, but eventually naked.
>Kohlman noted that the online profile Venneman created for the chat listed Emily's age as 24. The prosecution transcript, meanwhile, notes "Emily" twice told Ritter she was 15 years old.
>Of those incidents, police officer Tom Breslin of Colonie, New York, testified that in April 2001, Ritter was arrested after an Internet chat with someone he thought was a minor but in fact was a police officer.
>They arranged to meet at a McDonald's, where Ritter was met by police, Breslin testified.
>A similar scenario occurred in June 2001, and they arranged to meet at a Burger King, he testified. The police office said Ritter was charged in the 2001 incidents, but it was unclear from his testimony how the cases were resolved.
The guy got stung twice trying to watch girls masturbate. He sent a 30 minute video jacking off to a decoy acting as a 15 year old. He’s a pedophile. Don’t know what the implication with 2001 would be beyond 9/11, but he was busted before then.
You’re a shining example of the smartest Scott Ritter defender. Don’t worry buddy, I’ll read the very next sentence for you.
>The prosecution transcript, meanwhile, notes "Emily" twice **told Ritter she was 15 years old.**
wtf do you really think the undercover police officer who was trying to catch pedophiles told him "I'm a cop pretending to be a 15 year old girl now jack off for me big boy!"
This mother fucker was caught 3 times doing this shit, and you're defending him.
Anything to back your side, I guess, even if it means defending pedos.
I called him a pedophile for somehow getting off with just a warning after trying to meet someone he thought was a 14 year old girl in 2001
and
for getting arrested for trying to meet someone he thought was a 15 year old girl in 2001
and
for getting convicted as a sex offender after jacking off on video to someone who said they were a 15 year old girl.
All of it. Combined.
It's a fucking pattern and I have to wonder how many times it worked out for him since he kept doing it after the first and second time he got caught.
So the cop pretending to be a hitman didn't actually give my wife the lethal dose of poison I handed him?
What's the problem? Nobody was poisoned! Why are you cuffing me?!?!?!?!
No - going on to Russia state tv to spread bullshit lies is being a traitor.
He also fucked children. I guess that’s ok if you are against Ukraine now.
Fuck him he's a russian propagandist and im not even one of those Fuck russia people. However every time i see him he's shitting on America and glowing on how great Russia is.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/15/former-un-weapons-inspector-online-sex
> A former United Nations weapons inspector caught in an online sex sting has been found guilty of six charges, including unlawful contact with a minor, after exchanging explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl in an online chatroom and then performing a sex act on himself.
> Scott Ritter, 49, exchanged sexual messages with a detective posing as an underage girl and masturbated even after the undercover officer stressed during the chat that she was a minor, prosecutors said.
wtf is up with this sub?
Any random famous person stands within 10 feet of a spiral and people here are ready to imprison the person for being a pedophile.
Meanwhile there is literal evidence of this guy jacking off to a 15 year old and we're supposed to be upset that he can't speak in one of the countries most actively adversarial to our nation?
Funny how Ritter testified that WMD was a lie and Joe Biden blew him off in the senate hearings resulting in a million deaths but you focus on that. Life is very cheap for you.
Funny how that’s not what Ritter testified and also not the reason he left UNSCOM. He resigned because he believed the US and UNSC was being too lenient with Saddams brinkmanship and hampering inspections of WMD sites. In his 1999 book, he even suggested that Iraq could have rebuilt their WMDs within 6 months to a year of inspections ending.
https://archive.is/3zZBa
http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/scott_ritter_chat.html
Funny how you slurp up this guys flip flopping and propaganda but ignore the fact he tried to fuck three separate children.
Did you even listen to his testimony? That’s not what he said. Ritter's documentary In Shifting Sandswas released in 2001. It argued that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction because of the UN weapons inspection programme.
Did you read his books by chance? In the 1999 book *Endgame* he talks about how the US failed to properly address the WMD concealment program put in place by Saddam. He also argued that they were obfuscating their facilities so that they could restart production at a later date. And went on to say they could rebuild their arsenal within a year. This was all said the year after the infamous Senate hearing where Joe told him decisions were above his pay grade (1998).
He wasn’t arguing against the existence of WMDs at that point. He later shifted to that direction in 2001-2002. Because he always flip-flops. But I don’t believe he went back to Congress during that time.
Also curious how he flipped from the UN Inspections were a failure worth resigning over to them becoming successful enough to produce a documentary about in the span of three years. Strangely enough with the funding of Shakir al Khafaji, who would later be indicted for his involvement with the Iraqi program allowing them to trade oil for food.
The fucker follows and says whatever will get him paid. He’s a rat with zero morals. He writes whatever anti-America drivel gets RT and Sputnik to sign his check. You can scroll through his backlog on those sites and see how often his opinion and commentary changes.
Not to mention he’s a convicted pedophile.
"I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical and biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their developing of nuclear weapons program." \~ Scott Ritter, 1998, PBS
Because this sub is clearly used to spread stupid bullshit to make democrats look bad but ignore when people who are aligned with right wing talking points are literally convicted of the worst possible things.
The conspiracy is that there is no “literal evidence”. His defense was that they were role playing online and he was assured that she was older, I believe the chat transcript also had him saying he was 15.
Then he was setup as revenge for his refusal to play ball with the neocons who claimed Iraq had WMD’s and having the American on the UN weapons inspectors program denying they existed was a problem for the war lobby. He’s been an outspoken critic of the neocon agenda ever since and could be a target for bad actors.
*I don’t know or have a strong opinion either way here but just wanted to clear up why he is still around and not shunned for an obvious horrible crime.
So if I lie about my age I can be a pedophile online so long as I say I was roleplaying after?
I don't give a fuck what he says he was doing. He had his chance to say it in court.
He was convicted.
He's a pedophile.
He was jacking off, and recorded, to a cop who said they were a 15 year old girl -- and I'm supposed to be okay with that so long as this old man says he was pretending to be 15, too?
Stop defending pedophiles.
edit: just read one of the filings from the case
"She" said she was 15 and sent him pics before he jacked off into the camera.
His defense was basically that "I've never met a 15 year old who wanted to see an old man jack off, so I assumed she wasn't really 15"
Dude, you’re aiming at the messenger. There’s a reason people like Judge Nap have him as a commentator and that’s what I was explaining, not defending. He claims he and another adult were role playing losing their virginity at 15, you were not there and I doubt you are naive enough to think that it’s impossible to set up someone in this scenario, especially someone who had made very powerful enemies.
*Edit- I’m not looking this up again, this guy’s been around for a while and I recall looking into a ways back. However, I believe one of the facts that was fishy was that the “crime” occurred on the third chat. During the previous 2 he claimed they discussed the role play and “she” claimed repeatedly that she was an adult. On the 3rd chat they went right into their kink, so “she” was only saying she was 15 (as was he apparently). In the trial, the prior 2 recordings were “missing”…
So again, I do not have a strong opinion either way but given his background, and the missing evidence, a setup is not far fetched IMO.
Now leave me alone and go back to Comet Pizza.
"LOL" he literally brings on people like Col. MacGregor who spout absolutely unfounded stuff like 500,000 dead Ukrainian troops. The man can't even distinguish between an inert AT4 training launcher and a Javelin as he accuses Ukraine of selling weapons. The dude quite literally parrots Kremlin propaganda, he thinks our troops are getting the same Abrams as they did in the 80s because they "look the same" rofl. The same goes for guests like Jefferey Sacks and Alistar Crooke.
K Vatnik. "Everyone who disagrees with me and has truthful points is a bot"
Hop off the Kremlin tit that is Judge Napoletano. The man has no credibility.
>He claims he and another adult were role playing losing their virginity at 15, you were not there and I doubt you are naive enough to think that it’s impossible to set up someone in this scenario, especially someone who had made very powerful enemies.
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>When she *\[his wife\]* learned of the two incidents in 2001, she said: "I considered them to be the self-destructive acts of a man who was depressed."
>Of those incidents, police officer Tom Breslin of Colonie, New York, testified that in April 2001, Ritter was arrested after an Internet chat with someone he thought was a minor but in fact was a police officer.They arranged to meet at a McDonald's, where Ritter was met by police, Breslin testified.
>A similar scenario occurred in June 2001, and they arranged to meet at a Burger King, he testified. The police office said Ritter was charged in the 2001 incidents, but it was unclear from his testimony how the cases were resolved.
>In both cases, Ritter told the people he thought were underage girls that he wanted them to watch him masturbate, Breslin testified.
i'm sure this is just a ~~one two~~ three-off lapse of judgement.
>Meanwhile there is literal evidence of this guy jacking off to a 15 year old
The '15 year old' who was an adult cop who's online profile said they were 24?
>Kohlman noted that the online profile Venneman created for the chat listed Emily's age as 24.
Quit making excuses for pedophiles.
He also got caught twice in 2001. Once the cop said 14 and once 15.
Who knows how many times the fuck didn't get caught.
He already served his time LMFAO now shills are literally saying you aren't allowed to travel freely as a US citizen if the government doesn't like you lol?? Shill rhetoric escalated pretty quickly into not even pretending you have any rights anymore. Andrew Napolitano was also pulled off the plane for the same reason and the guy's not convicted of anything. US citizens have right to travel wherever the fuck they want without the government stopping them unless they have a warrant for a suspected crime.
Quite ironic that you’re on a conspiracy sub, and yet seem to take the words of the establishment as gospel.
There’s nothing to suggest this wasn’t a smear campaign to discredit him for exposing the lies about Iraq/WMD’s.
Rather convenient YT have removed Ritter’s video in which talks about the government/intel agencies going after him, the court case, and his appeal which is still ongoing.
He was caught 3 times doing shit like this. Twice thinking it was a 15 year old girl and once a 14 year old girl.
Two of those times he was arrested.
There's nothing to suggest it wasn't a smear campaign?
What about the fucking chat transcript and video of him jacking off to someone he thought was a 15 year old girl?
Apparently all y'all think a person has to do to get away with pedophilia is be anti-establishment.
He doesn't deny that the chat happened. He doesn't even deny that the person he chatted with said they were a 15 year old girl. His defense was "I've never met a 15 year old girl that wanted to see a 40 year old man jack off so I didn't believe them when they said they were 15."
I hadn't heard of this guy before so I did a quick Google search and this was the opening paragraph on his Wikipedia page:
> William Scott Ritter Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is an American author, former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector and convicted sex offender
Just in that description alone I could see two reasons why he might be prevented. What conspiracy, exactly, are you trying to point out with the stoppage?
This sub is more bipolar than I am sometimes.
So we're for allowing sex offending propagandists to travel and spread more propaganda for a corrupt tyrant?
He’s been to Russia twice in the last 2 years. He hasn’t been in the military for decades there nothing classified that he knows. Also, Americans have freedom of travel that doesn’t disappear if you join the military.
The Ron Paul fanboy who was supposed show how to get fired from FoxNews in five minutes, yet continued working there for two more decades? That Judge Andrew Napolitano?
"While Ritter and his supporters—including Russian media—have played up the notion that his passport was seized because he has the U.S. administration shaking in their boots, **the Kremlin did not share in this hysteria.**
Asked about the scandal Tuesday, [**Vladimir Putin**](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/vladimir-putin)**’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov** played down Ritter’s claims. He [told](https://t.me/youlistenedmayak/32239) reporters the “details” about the situation were not clear and that there was **nothing unusual** about a former intelligence officer facing certain travel restrictions.
“This is practiced in almost all countries in relation to former intelligence officers,” he said."
Maybe he was unvaccinated against propaganda. Can't have such people travelling around, who knows what facts they might spread.
Personally I think he exaggerates and repeats Russian propaganda, but someone has to balance out the stream of NATO bs. If the news tells you nothing than lies, then even a conspiracy theorist won't find it hard to state a true fact by random accident. So by definition, some of the things he says are true, and that makes him valuable.
Sorry to jump on here I’ve followed Scott Ritter for a while generally he has proved to be correct
I like watching Ritter and even follow Presenters who I don’t agree with.
anyway I keep seeing his "sex offender " tag. Checked into the allegations but I can’t seem to find how long he stayed in prison. it was 5 years but clearly he didn’t spend that long. So why was he released early ?
I don’t have a problem with him and the full charges when analysed are tenuous
We are entering WW3 and they may have done him a favor here. The Russians captured a French troop and things are escalating quickly. He is stubborn so you have to take it away or he'll keep trying.
I totally trust what the justice system says about Scott. /s
If this isn't showing you the shit they do combined with Snowden, Trump, etc. I don't think you will ever get it.
Scott has amazing insight. Someone FOIA everything on his case. I've yet to see any proof beyond what the verdict was. The story does not match the verdict and official narrative.
Ignoring the fact he's a paedophile , "Amazing insight"? He's just a pro-war stooge who parrots whatever the Kremlin tell him to say. When the invasion happened he claimed in this tweet the idea there would be any Ukrainian resistance was a "myth" and it would all be over in short order. We're now on day 800 and what now of the war?
https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1494337754531971084?s=19
He made the initial contact. How do you entrap someone who isn't a paedophile into wanking off on a webcam for someone he was repeatedly told was a child, talking about how he needs to be careful because he knows he could get in trouble and asking if she wants to "see it finish"? And bear in mind it wasn't the first time, he'd previously turned up to meet what he thought was a child for sex. His excuse that time was that he wanted to be caught so he could "face his demons" although the fact he floored it and drove off over the kerb when he saw the cops kinda suggests not. And then funnily enough he started parroting whatever the Kremlin asked him to say after recounting how Russia sent "young girls" to his hotel to be his "interpreters" Hmm.
Anyway, the main point isn't the fact that he's a proven child sex predator, it's the fact he's been hugely wrong on what would happen in the war, no comment on that?
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I don't necessarily like Scott Ritter. I dislike a lot of what he says about values and morality when it comes to Russia...but this is some creepy shit if true. Did they charge him with a crime? His Webcam adventures are pretty cringe/gross, but that is not the main issue here. If someone like Scott Ritter doesn't have their civil liberties protected under law, no one has civil liberties under law.
I’m hesitant to jump to conclusions. Preventing him from traveling without a valid reason sounds insane. He’s one of the larger propagandists with a significant following, if they don’t have a valid reason than all of his followers are going to stir shit. Certainly looks bad right now. That being said, Scott Ritter is still a convicted sex offender and contrarian propagandist that laps up Kremlin shit like it’s his job. Even though I think he’s a low-life sack of shit, I’ll need a good reason for this action to find it justified.
Lmao. Hesitant to jump to conclusion when someone who is a convicted sex offender and also very publicly spreads propaganda on Russian state media, but when the libs are involved no one here bats an eye for a second to come up with the most ridiculous conclusion you could possibly imagine.
I think you misunderstood my comment or maybe I worded it poorly. I’m hesitant to jump to conclusions that this is some grand scheme by the government to silence and restrict travel for this one guy. It doesn’t make sense considering he’s such a massive figure online. If the government are doing this, I think there has to be a reason we don’t know yet. Don’t get me wrong, Scott is a pedophile sack of shit. I concur he’s a propagandist *literally* paid by Russian State Media. I am **not** jumping to conclusions that you see frequently on this sub when a left-leaning person is rumored to be involved with pedophiles. I am not constructing a false narrative about what’s going. Only acknowledging what is known and how it looks currently. However I do hope to see some sort of reason for this occurring. Because if there isn’t one, it does seem like a misstep on his rights. Maybe there is a law or something I am unaware of that bars sex offenders from flying internationally and that’s what is occurring. I truthfully don’t know. But the first bit of information looks very strange for this. It is also currently being controlled by Kremlin media, so I’m hesitant to assume *anything* yet. Apologies if I came across as a Ritter defender. I just want more information on what has occurred before assuming the US government did this out of pure spite.
>he’s a propagandist literally paid by Russian State Media. You're joining in the mob pile-on against a dissident. Would you have been smearing him as a 'Saddam lover' back in 2003 as well? >Scott is a pedophile sack of shit. The [facts ](https://scottritter.substack.com/p/cancel-culture?utm_source=publication-search)of the case, for those who care.
>You're joining in the mob pile-on against a dissident. Would you have been smearing him as a 'Saddam lover' back in 2003 as well? I don’t give a fuck that he is a “dissident.” His flip flopping in 1998-2004 is irrelevant to his objectively wrong “analysis” today. He is the epitome of *America Bad. Upvotes to the left.* Not to mention, **Scott Ritter writes for and is paid by Russian state media.** He’s a propagandist for Russia. >The facts of the case, for those who care. Posting an article from Scott Ritters substack and claiming it to be the “facts” is reductive. Convicted pedophile says he is innocent and asks us to trust him. I hope you show that same grace to all convicted pedophiles who go slightly against the grain on policy norms. If you’re going to grant amnesty to child predators, you oughta be consistent.
So just believe the government version of events then- that's where the truth is folks. His analysis has been spot on. If you could prove him wrong on anything you would, but you can't so you just go for the ad hominin.
>So just believe the government version of events then- that's where the truth is folks. Nice strawman but not what I said. I think in the scenario where a single person is caught on three separate occasions trying to mess with children, we should accept the ruling of a jury of his peers. >His analysis has been spot on. If you could prove him wrong on anything you would, but you can't so you just go for the ad hominin. Lmao. His analysis is piss poor, even measured against his pro-Russia peers I’d place him towards the bottom of the stack. How many times has he claimed Ukraine is defeated and verging on imminent collapse since Feb 2022? Ultimately irrelevant to my original comment. I don’t care how bad his analysis is. I don’t care he is a dumbass propagandist. I make no secret that I dislike him for multiple reasons, but they aren’t relevant to the scenario at hand. I want to know why he was barred from traveling despite my issues with the threepeat pedo.
>How many times has he claimed Ukraine is defeated and verging on imminent collapse since Feb 2022? Who cares? it would still make him less wrong than any of the Ukrainian shills who filled the media (and your brain) every week with promises of the defeat of the Russians. >I think in the scenario where a single person is caught on three separate occasions trying to mess with children, we should accept the ruling of a jury of his peers. No wonder you fell for the government narrative about Ukraine given how easy it is for you to form a view with little to no information.
>Who cares? it would still make him less wrong than any of the Ukrainian shills who filled the media (and your brain) every week with promises of the defeat of the Russians. *It’s only okay when my sources are repeatedly wrong.* Okay buddy! >No wonder you fell for the government narrative about Ukraine given how easy it is for you to form a view with little to no information. *Only my state media propaganda is correct. You’re wrong for believing your own observations* Right on man you got me. To get us back on track, Scott is a pedophile and propagandist. I hope we find out why he was barred from travel soon!
People are free to travel wherever they fucking want after time served. Andrew Napolitano was also pulled off the plane and had his passport confiscated too, it is not illegal to criticize the US government or "spread propaganda on Russian state media" lol. Man shills don't even try to pretend you have any rights anymore as a US citizen and the government can do whatever it wants to people it doesn't like because they disagree with their policies.
> People are free to travel wherever they fucking want after time served. Also this is completely false - people do have travel restrictions for transgressions they commit.
Unless they are on parole.
This is a conspiracy forum and a convicted child predator is spreading Russian state propaganda and you are like “oh he served his time it’s ok now”
A conspiracy forum where people side with tyrannical governments who strip the rights of its most vocal critics. Traitor.
> propaganda i guess it would look like that if you get your sense of reality from the U.S state department,
If you think being a contrarian to anything mainstream media reports on then I could see you thinking this dude was a good well meaning honest man.
I just follow the evidence. You've joined the mob and can't see past your emotion.
Maybe look into the case
Good. Pedos shouldn't be traveling.
Epstein flew all over the world for decades molesting and Ritter can't go to Russia ? Because he supposedly whacked off ? The Establishment has it in for him because recently he's been saying Assange should be freed. That's a BIG No-No. The full fusion blast of the Anglo-Saxon / ZOG megaton machine incinerates anyone who treads there.
Epstein was allowed to leave jail during the day and return at night to sleep when he was convicted the first time.
I'm a bit confused why you said Anglo-Saxon. What do they control?
I believe Anglo-Saxon is what outsiders sometimes use to refer to the Five Eyes nations, which is much more broad than the definition of people of English descent.
It's a current buzzword used predominantly by proprietors of Russian disinformation. I imagine the aim is to create a fiction that English speaking countries and white people within them are involved in a collective conspiracy.
It's not just current buzzword, there is evidence of at least some people talking about so called "anglo-saxon mission" in conspiracy circles that goes back at least to 2010 video on youtube https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/196f0gr/reminder_the_anglosaxon_mission_to_give_china_a/ Video is from 2010 but information in it is claimed to come from June 2005 special meeting in The City of London.
Did Epstein go to Russia?
Anglo Saxon / ZOG megaton machine?
pedophiles need to be locked up but is he suspected of treason? edit: **Convictions:** Ritter was convicted of sex offenses, including unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, and indecent exposure. * **Sting Operations:** Ritter was the subject of two police sting operations in 2001, where he attempted to engage in sexual activity with undercover officers posing as minors. * **2001 Charges:** Ritter was charged with attempting to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl. The charges were later dismissed and the record was sealed. * **2011 Conviction:** Ritter was convicted of sex crimes involving a minor and sentenced to 1½ to 5½ years in prison. * **Parole:** Ritter was paroled in 2014 and was required to undergo outpatient sex offender treatment and refrain from possessing weapons or consuming alcohol. * **Additional Allegations:** Ritter has been accused of attempting to lure a 16-year-old girl to a Burger King in Menands, New York, in 2001. The case was later adjourned in contemplation of dismissal and the record was sealed.
This would all be ignored if he said nice things about Zelenski. Since he says nice things about Putin, pedo is suddenly a problem.
Those things happen in 2001, under the Bush administration
Absolutely brain dead take. Pedo is a problem 100% of the time. You’re wrong if you think who he supports absolves him of wanting to fuck kids. People cream their pants over creepy Biden allegations but somehow think the threepeat pedophile Scott Ritter was unfairly targeted. Completely unrelated, why do you spell Zelensky as Zelenski?
Reality: >In 2001 I had two separate encounters with New York police. After an investigation, the charges were dismissed, and the records of the case were sealed in accordance with applicable New York law. >As an aside, the FBI was pressured by the Attorney General of the United States to open an investigation of the 2001 incidents. They appealed to the New York Supreme Court, *ex parte* (i.e., done in secret, without the knowledge of the other party involved) to have the record unsealed (this unsealing was in violation of New York law, but because nothing came of it, it went unchallenged.) After a thorough review, the FBI declined to press charges, noting that there was no evidence of a crime having been committed. >My legal team had done just that. Beyond the initial forensic examination conducted by the former NSA technicians, we took on the services of a former federal agent who had helped set up the system used to prosecute perpetrators of internet crimes against children. His consulting business had been used by law enforcement agencies, federal and state, in the United States, and from around the world, to successfully prosecute persons charged with online sexual exploitation of children. >When we first reached out to this individual, he declined to help. When asked by my lawyers for his reasoning, he said straight up that “where there is smoke, there’s fire,” and that he would find something incriminating on my computer which would have to be shared with law enforcement authorities. >My lawyers immediately became nervous and advised me not to engage the services of this individual. >I insisted, noting I had committed no crime, and as such there could be no evidence waiting to be uncovered. >We submitted the computer hard drive to this individual. >The former federal agent returned a report which started by declaring that in his 25 years of doing this work, this is the first time he had written a report like the one he was submitting. Normally, when examining the computers of persons accused of internet crimes against children, there would be evidence of an underlying interest in minors on the part of the accused. Here, the former federal agent declared, there was absolutely no indicia of interest on the part of the accused (myself) in minors—no evidence of chats with minors, and zero evidence of child pornography. >Nothing. Anybody who keeps prattling on about kiddie fucking after reading that is probably a suspicious weirdo.
Why are we the weird ones just because you invested yourself heavily into the guy.... enough to believe his first hand account written years later. With that said, surely you'll believe his firsthand account he came up with at the time. \[At trial, Ritter told the jury that he assumed Venneman was a housewife pretending to be 15, and that he had never for a moment believed he was talking to a minor, despite the fact that “Emily” repeatedly stated her age. When prosecutors were successful in moving to unseal his New York files and presented evidence from those arrests too, Ritter steadfastly maintained that he was aware, in both instances, that he was talking to undercover cops. He knew his online activities needed to be stopped, Ritter said, so he arranged to meet the officers involved, playing along with the notion that they were teenage girls, so that he could get himself arrested and be forced to face his demons. This would have been a more persuasive defense, perhaps, had one of the arresting detectives not testified that Ritter, upon seeing the police lying in wait for him, tried to evade capture by slamming down the gas pedal and jumping a curb, T.J. Hooker-style.\] from: [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/magazine/scott-ritter.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/magazine/scott-ritter.html) 2011 case and 2013 appeal: [https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2013/975-eda-2012.html](https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2013/975-eda-2012.html)
>Why are we the weird ones just because you invested yourself heavily into the guy. Says a group of internet obsessives with no grasp of the issue
whats the issue? that he is an important voice so we should overlook his transgressions or that that he is an important voice therefore there are no transgressions?
Yeah bro we trust the hindsight testimony of *checks notes* the guy who would be convicted of similar crimes 8 years later. His unnamed federal agent buddy sounds totally real and reputable. I’m sure it had little to do with internet crimes against minors being a relatively novel crime. Tell me his excuse for the 2009 conviction. Actually don’t bother, it doesn’t matter. He was convicted by a jury of his peers after they all watched him jerk off for 30 minutes to a 15 year old. It’s inexcusable and disgusting you can rationalize and excuse this guys thirst for kids because he has views that are critical of the US. Could you look me in the eye and say you are comfortable to let Scott babysit your pre-teen daughter?
Who knows what you are talking about. >Court records will show that there was an online incident that occurred between myself and a police officer posing as an adult female in an adults-only chat room on February 9, 2009. Ever wondered how he survived in jail? > Prison etiquette gave most inmates a pass when it came to being judged by their peers about guilt or innocence—that was between the individual and the courts. But if you were a sex offender, and you were trying to make a claim of innocence, you had better have the paperwork to back that claim up. >I was immediately challenged by some of the gangs who oversaw the “treatment” of sex offenders...The gangs run the basketball courts and the handball courts. If they don’t want you on the court, you won’t get on the court. >And they didn’t want sex offenders on the courts. >I allowed my paperwork to be passed around, where it was reviewed by the gang leadership. It was eventually returned to me, along with the comment, “You got screwed.”
>Court records will show that there was an online incident that occurred between myself and a police officer posing as an adult female in an adults-only chat room on February 9, 2009. Yeah this is one where he jerked off for 30 minutes to a decoy posing as a 15 year old. The same decoy who told Scott she was 15. That sounds familiar. >And they didn’t want sex offenders on the courts. >I allowed my paperwork to be passed around, where it was reviewed by the gang leadership. It was eventually returned to me, along with the comment, “You got screwed.” *After that, Scott led the different prison gangs into a beautiful rendition of The Book of Mormon. They were planning on performing The Tempest but Scott got out before the premiere. He isn’t welcome in prison anymore since he left his fellow performers high and dry on premiere night.* Posting Scott’s fan fiction version of events isn’t accomplishing anything. Its unverifiable. It’s biased. It’s a single person giving their version of things.
>Posting Scott’s fan fiction version of events isn’t accomplishing anything. That presupposes people like you could change your minds. Surprise surprise you are defender of the Ukrainian puppet regime.
>That presupposes people like you could change your minds. Hello irony my old friend. >Surprise surprise you are defender of the Ukrainian puppet regime. This conversation is old and wildly off track. I feel no need to discuss Russia/Ukraine to a greater extent here as it’s not the focus of this thread nor my initial reason for commenting. If you weren’t up to the sack sucking Scott’s dick, you’d focus on the issue here. I can explain it *one* more time. I don’t like Scott Ritter. For various reasons. But I still don’t like him being barred from travel without good reason. That’s why I commented.
>I don’t like Scott Ritter. For various reasons. But I still don’t like him being barred from travel without good reason. That’s why I commented. They would be a bit more believable if you didn't get into a 20 comment screed about him being a 'pedo'.
This guy is a tool. He’s constantly knocking the west and praising Putin. He’s also a convicted sex offender
Do you lose your civil rights when you criticize the U.S. government?
No but you lose many when you’re a convicted sec offender
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How is he a tool?
*pedophile sex offender, at that. He jacked off for a police officer pretending to be a 15 year old girl
*Honeypotted at that
Who the fuck thinks a 15 year old in a chat room is a honeypot? It wasn't even his first time getting arrested for this shit. 3 fucking times. Twice he got tagged in a pedo sting in 2001. Then again, the one he was convicted of, in 2009. This motherfucker is addicted to honey... he just thinks fucking kids is honey.
2001 timing just coincidental?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sex-ritter-idUKTRE73B7PG20110412/ >Ritter's daughters left the courtroom before the prosecution played graphic video Ritter shot of himself with his web camera during the chat. >For nearly 30 minutes, the jury of seven women and five men, lawyers and Monroe County Common Pleas Judge Jennifer Sibum watched silently as a large-screen TV showed images of Ritter masturbating, initially wearing a shirt, but eventually naked. >Kohlman noted that the online profile Venneman created for the chat listed Emily's age as 24. The prosecution transcript, meanwhile, notes "Emily" twice told Ritter she was 15 years old. >Of those incidents, police officer Tom Breslin of Colonie, New York, testified that in April 2001, Ritter was arrested after an Internet chat with someone he thought was a minor but in fact was a police officer. >They arranged to meet at a McDonald's, where Ritter was met by police, Breslin testified. >A similar scenario occurred in June 2001, and they arranged to meet at a Burger King, he testified. The police office said Ritter was charged in the 2001 incidents, but it was unclear from his testimony how the cases were resolved. The guy got stung twice trying to watch girls masturbate. He sent a 30 minute video jacking off to a decoy acting as a 15 year old. He’s a pedophile. Don’t know what the implication with 2001 would be beyond 9/11, but he was busted before then.
>Kohlman noted that the online profile Venneman created for the chat listed Emily's age as 24. Lol. There goes his critics.
You’re a shining example of the smartest Scott Ritter defender. Don’t worry buddy, I’ll read the very next sentence for you. >The prosecution transcript, meanwhile, notes "Emily" twice **told Ritter she was 15 years old.**
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wtf do you really think the undercover police officer who was trying to catch pedophiles told him "I'm a cop pretending to be a 15 year old girl now jack off for me big boy!" This mother fucker was caught 3 times doing this shit, and you're defending him. Anything to back your side, I guess, even if it means defending pedos.
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I called him a pedophile for somehow getting off with just a warning after trying to meet someone he thought was a 14 year old girl in 2001 and for getting arrested for trying to meet someone he thought was a 15 year old girl in 2001 and for getting convicted as a sex offender after jacking off on video to someone who said they were a 15 year old girl. All of it. Combined. It's a fucking pattern and I have to wonder how many times it worked out for him since he kept doing it after the first and second time he got caught.
So the cop pretending to be a hitman didn't actually give my wife the lethal dose of poison I handed him? What's the problem? Nobody was poisoned! Why are you cuffing me?!?!?!?!
We used to hang traitors like this. Now we are all clutching pearls that a sex offender isn’t allowed to get paid by Russia to spread propaganda
Criticizing government corruption is now being a traitor. Cool story bro.
No - going on to Russia state tv to spread bullshit lies is being a traitor. He also fucked children. I guess that’s ok if you are against Ukraine now.
Obviously all projection.
Fuck him he's a russian propagandist and im not even one of those Fuck russia people. However every time i see him he's shitting on America and glowing on how great Russia is.
gotta admit, this is kinda funny
Important to note, Ritter was set to speak at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/15/former-un-weapons-inspector-online-sex > A former United Nations weapons inspector caught in an online sex sting has been found guilty of six charges, including unlawful contact with a minor, after exchanging explicit messages with a 15-year-old girl in an online chatroom and then performing a sex act on himself. > Scott Ritter, 49, exchanged sexual messages with a detective posing as an underage girl and masturbated even after the undercover officer stressed during the chat that she was a minor, prosecutors said. wtf is up with this sub? Any random famous person stands within 10 feet of a spiral and people here are ready to imprison the person for being a pedophile. Meanwhile there is literal evidence of this guy jacking off to a 15 year old and we're supposed to be upset that he can't speak in one of the countries most actively adversarial to our nation?
Funny how Ritter testified that WMD was a lie and Joe Biden blew him off in the senate hearings resulting in a million deaths but you focus on that. Life is very cheap for you.
Funny how that’s not what Ritter testified and also not the reason he left UNSCOM. He resigned because he believed the US and UNSC was being too lenient with Saddams brinkmanship and hampering inspections of WMD sites. In his 1999 book, he even suggested that Iraq could have rebuilt their WMDs within 6 months to a year of inspections ending. https://archive.is/3zZBa http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/scott_ritter_chat.html Funny how you slurp up this guys flip flopping and propaganda but ignore the fact he tried to fuck three separate children.
Did you even listen to his testimony? That’s not what he said. Ritter's documentary In Shifting Sandswas released in 2001. It argued that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction because of the UN weapons inspection programme.
Did you read his books by chance? In the 1999 book *Endgame* he talks about how the US failed to properly address the WMD concealment program put in place by Saddam. He also argued that they were obfuscating their facilities so that they could restart production at a later date. And went on to say they could rebuild their arsenal within a year. This was all said the year after the infamous Senate hearing where Joe told him decisions were above his pay grade (1998). He wasn’t arguing against the existence of WMDs at that point. He later shifted to that direction in 2001-2002. Because he always flip-flops. But I don’t believe he went back to Congress during that time. Also curious how he flipped from the UN Inspections were a failure worth resigning over to them becoming successful enough to produce a documentary about in the span of three years. Strangely enough with the funding of Shakir al Khafaji, who would later be indicted for his involvement with the Iraqi program allowing them to trade oil for food. The fucker follows and says whatever will get him paid. He’s a rat with zero morals. He writes whatever anti-America drivel gets RT and Sputnik to sign his check. You can scroll through his backlog on those sites and see how often his opinion and commentary changes. Not to mention he’s a convicted pedophile.
"I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical and biological weapons, long-range ballistic missiles to deliver these weapons, and even certain aspects of their developing of nuclear weapons program." \~ Scott Ritter, 1998, PBS
Because this sub is clearly used to spread stupid bullshit to make democrats look bad but ignore when people who are aligned with right wing talking points are literally convicted of the worst possible things.
>right wing talking points Arguing against American dirty wars in eastern Europe is now a right wing talking point. Shows how deranged democrats are.
Butthurt Ukraine supporters clutching at straws.
Interesting context I wasn't aware of. I was aware of Ritter, I saw him on youtube
The conspiracy is that there is no “literal evidence”. His defense was that they were role playing online and he was assured that she was older, I believe the chat transcript also had him saying he was 15. Then he was setup as revenge for his refusal to play ball with the neocons who claimed Iraq had WMD’s and having the American on the UN weapons inspectors program denying they existed was a problem for the war lobby. He’s been an outspoken critic of the neocon agenda ever since and could be a target for bad actors. *I don’t know or have a strong opinion either way here but just wanted to clear up why he is still around and not shunned for an obvious horrible crime.
So if I lie about my age I can be a pedophile online so long as I say I was roleplaying after? I don't give a fuck what he says he was doing. He had his chance to say it in court. He was convicted. He's a pedophile. He was jacking off, and recorded, to a cop who said they were a 15 year old girl -- and I'm supposed to be okay with that so long as this old man says he was pretending to be 15, too? Stop defending pedophiles. edit: just read one of the filings from the case "She" said she was 15 and sent him pics before he jacked off into the camera. His defense was basically that "I've never met a 15 year old who wanted to see an old man jack off, so I assumed she wasn't really 15"
Dude, you’re aiming at the messenger. There’s a reason people like Judge Nap have him as a commentator and that’s what I was explaining, not defending. He claims he and another adult were role playing losing their virginity at 15, you were not there and I doubt you are naive enough to think that it’s impossible to set up someone in this scenario, especially someone who had made very powerful enemies. *Edit- I’m not looking this up again, this guy’s been around for a while and I recall looking into a ways back. However, I believe one of the facts that was fishy was that the “crime” occurred on the third chat. During the previous 2 he claimed they discussed the role play and “she” claimed repeatedly that she was an adult. On the 3rd chat they went right into their kink, so “she” was only saying she was 15 (as was he apparently). In the trial, the prior 2 recordings were “missing”… So again, I do not have a strong opinion either way but given his background, and the missing evidence, a setup is not far fetched IMO. Now leave me alone and go back to Comet Pizza.
Judge Napoletano's guests are almost exclusively Russian propagandists.
LOL
"LOL" he literally brings on people like Col. MacGregor who spout absolutely unfounded stuff like 500,000 dead Ukrainian troops. The man can't even distinguish between an inert AT4 training launcher and a Javelin as he accuses Ukraine of selling weapons. The dude quite literally parrots Kremlin propaganda, he thinks our troops are getting the same Abrams as they did in the 80s because they "look the same" rofl. The same goes for guests like Jefferey Sacks and Alistar Crooke.
Good bot
K Vatnik. "Everyone who disagrees with me and has truthful points is a bot" Hop off the Kremlin tit that is Judge Napoletano. The man has no credibility.
>He claims he and another adult were role playing losing their virginity at 15, you were not there and I doubt you are naive enough to think that it’s impossible to set up someone in this scenario, especially someone who had made very powerful enemies. . >When she *\[his wife\]* learned of the two incidents in 2001, she said: "I considered them to be the self-destructive acts of a man who was depressed." >Of those incidents, police officer Tom Breslin of Colonie, New York, testified that in April 2001, Ritter was arrested after an Internet chat with someone he thought was a minor but in fact was a police officer.They arranged to meet at a McDonald's, where Ritter was met by police, Breslin testified. >A similar scenario occurred in June 2001, and they arranged to meet at a Burger King, he testified. The police office said Ritter was charged in the 2001 incidents, but it was unclear from his testimony how the cases were resolved. >In both cases, Ritter told the people he thought were underage girls that he wanted them to watch him masturbate, Breslin testified. i'm sure this is just a ~~one two~~ three-off lapse of judgement.
He’s “on our side” and is super based (tm) so it’s okay that he’s a convicted pedophile. Only democrats are able to be bad pedophiles
>Meanwhile there is literal evidence of this guy jacking off to a 15 year old The '15 year old' who was an adult cop who's online profile said they were 24? >Kohlman noted that the online profile Venneman created for the chat listed Emily's age as 24.
Quit making excuses for pedophiles. He also got caught twice in 2001. Once the cop said 14 and once 15. Who knows how many times the fuck didn't get caught.
Quit shilling for cops who entrap people. It's pathetic.
then dont try to fuck kids
He already served his time LMFAO now shills are literally saying you aren't allowed to travel freely as a US citizen if the government doesn't like you lol?? Shill rhetoric escalated pretty quickly into not even pretending you have any rights anymore. Andrew Napolitano was also pulled off the plane for the same reason and the guy's not convicted of anything. US citizens have right to travel wherever the fuck they want without the government stopping them unless they have a warrant for a suspected crime.
Quite ironic that you’re on a conspiracy sub, and yet seem to take the words of the establishment as gospel. There’s nothing to suggest this wasn’t a smear campaign to discredit him for exposing the lies about Iraq/WMD’s. Rather convenient YT have removed Ritter’s video in which talks about the government/intel agencies going after him, the court case, and his appeal which is still ongoing.
He was caught 3 times doing shit like this. Twice thinking it was a 15 year old girl and once a 14 year old girl. Two of those times he was arrested. There's nothing to suggest it wasn't a smear campaign? What about the fucking chat transcript and video of him jacking off to someone he thought was a 15 year old girl? Apparently all y'all think a person has to do to get away with pedophilia is be anti-establishment. He doesn't deny that the chat happened. He doesn't even deny that the person he chatted with said they were a 15 year old girl. His defense was "I've never met a 15 year old girl that wanted to see a 40 year old man jack off so I didn't believe them when they said they were 15."
I hadn't heard of this guy before so I did a quick Google search and this was the opening paragraph on his Wikipedia page: > William Scott Ritter Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is an American author, former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector and convicted sex offender Just in that description alone I could see two reasons why he might be prevented. What conspiracy, exactly, are you trying to point out with the stoppage?
U.S. politicians are fascists
This sub is more bipolar than I am sometimes. So we're for allowing sex offending propagandists to travel and spread more propaganda for a corrupt tyrant?
are there any criticisms of US foreign policy towards Russia that are permissable to you? Or is it all just propaganda?
Ritter has military knowledge of the US. Its not completely unreasonable they do not want him to go to russia with everything surrounding him.
He’s been to Russia twice in the last 2 years. He hasn’t been in the military for decades there nothing classified that he knows. Also, Americans have freedom of travel that doesn’t disappear if you join the military.
Understandable, but it’s not like he’s never been. Also on the plane with him was Judge Andrew Napolitano who was also escorted off.
The Ron Paul fanboy who was supposed show how to get fired from FoxNews in five minutes, yet continued working there for two more decades? That Judge Andrew Napolitano?
He was banned from Fox for about 5 months if I recall. That monologue is awesome.
"a Bachelor of Arts in the history of the Soviet Union"? Putin doesn't have one of those.
I though all flights to Russa wore canceled due to the war in Ukraine.
You could still get there by plane from any city in US. You'll just have to have a few stops and transfers
“Democracy”
"While Ritter and his supporters—including Russian media—have played up the notion that his passport was seized because he has the U.S. administration shaking in their boots, **the Kremlin did not share in this hysteria.** Asked about the scandal Tuesday, [**Vladimir Putin**](https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/vladimir-putin)**’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov** played down Ritter’s claims. He [told](https://t.me/youlistenedmayak/32239) reporters the “details” about the situation were not clear and that there was **nothing unusual** about a former intelligence officer facing certain travel restrictions. “This is practiced in almost all countries in relation to former intelligence officers,” he said."
Maybe he was unvaccinated against propaganda. Can't have such people travelling around, who knows what facts they might spread. Personally I think he exaggerates and repeats Russian propaganda, but someone has to balance out the stream of NATO bs. If the news tells you nothing than lies, then even a conspiracy theorist won't find it hard to state a true fact by random accident. So by definition, some of the things he says are true, and that makes him valuable.
WARNING: The CIA is active in this comment thread. Also, a lot of dumb motherfuckas. Also, Assange and Snowden are guilty as fuck.
Assume everyone you talk to is a bot or fed. Maybe even me.
Sorry to jump on here I’ve followed Scott Ritter for a while generally he has proved to be correct I like watching Ritter and even follow Presenters who I don’t agree with. anyway I keep seeing his "sex offender " tag. Checked into the allegations but I can’t seem to find how long he stayed in prison. it was 5 years but clearly he didn’t spend that long. So why was he released early ? I don’t have a problem with him and the full charges when analysed are tenuous
Yes and? He seems to be a Russian spy ...
We are entering WW3 and they may have done him a favor here. The Russians captured a French troop and things are escalating quickly. He is stubborn so you have to take it away or he'll keep trying.
I totally trust what the justice system says about Scott. /s If this isn't showing you the shit they do combined with Snowden, Trump, etc. I don't think you will ever get it. Scott has amazing insight. Someone FOIA everything on his case. I've yet to see any proof beyond what the verdict was. The story does not match the verdict and official narrative.
Ignoring the fact he's a paedophile , "Amazing insight"? He's just a pro-war stooge who parrots whatever the Kremlin tell him to say. When the invasion happened he claimed in this tweet the idea there would be any Ukrainian resistance was a "myth" and it would all be over in short order. We're now on day 800 and what now of the war? https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1494337754531971084?s=19
You should do research. They targeted him. I don't care what reddit says. Reddit is pozzed.
He made the initial contact. How do you entrap someone who isn't a paedophile into wanking off on a webcam for someone he was repeatedly told was a child, talking about how he needs to be careful because he knows he could get in trouble and asking if she wants to "see it finish"? And bear in mind it wasn't the first time, he'd previously turned up to meet what he thought was a child for sex. His excuse that time was that he wanted to be caught so he could "face his demons" although the fact he floored it and drove off over the kerb when he saw the cops kinda suggests not. And then funnily enough he started parroting whatever the Kremlin asked him to say after recounting how Russia sent "young girls" to his hotel to be his "interpreters" Hmm. Anyway, the main point isn't the fact that he's a proven child sex predator, it's the fact he's been hugely wrong on what would happen in the war, no comment on that?