NXIVM sex cult’s alleged illegal political contributions reportedly went to Hillary Clinton

RT

 

The NXIVM sex cult is facing allegations that it illegally bundled campaign donations to gain political favor with an unnamed US presidential election candidate and reports suggest that the politician is Hillary Clinton.

 

United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Richard Donoghue asked a federal judge to introduce evidence showing that the defendants in the sex cult case had an “illegal scheme to exceed contribution limits to a presidential primary campaign.” 

The court documents claim that witness testimony and documentary evidence will show that at least 14 NXIVM members, including five defendants, made the maximum campaign donation to a candidate, with the “understanding that they would be reimbursed by [Claire] Bronfman or Nancy Salzman,” who were involved in the cult. Salzman is the co-founder along with Keith Raniere.

The documents allege that an unnamed political operative, who has pled guilty to a New York state bribery charge about campaign contributions, suggested they bundle the contributions and present them to the candidate at a fundraising event attended by Salzman.

The US attorney claims a witness who was at the event will testify the contributions were made in the hope of getting political influence that included targeting Raniere’s enemies. He said that evidence of similar contributions to other elected officials will be introduced. Donoghue's request was made last month but has yet to receive a response.

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It's Not the Internet That's Dark. It's Humanity

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper

Everyone is horrified lately about stuff on the internet.

From degrading comments to vile posts to videos that urge self-harm, the internet is a cesspool that shows the worst of humankind. Pedophilia, hate, racism, sexism, rape, animal abuse, bullying, and murder are everywhere. But it’s not the internet that is the problem. It’s humanity.

Children are being urged to self-harm ... Maybe

There’s the ultra-creepy Momo Challenge, which is a suicide “game” aimed at young children. Some sick individually actually took videos meant for children and spliced in horrible, creepy instruction of how to kill themselves, with threats that a creature of nightmares would do it for them if they didn’t comply. Instructions like, go to the kitchen, get your mom’s sharpest knife, and stick it in your neck. Three children are suspected to have died due to this vile and twisted “game.” I can’t even wrap my head around the mind of a person who would do this. 

There’s some debate about whether this is real or whether it’s a hoax but if nothing else, it should underscore the need for parents of mall children to make sure that they are watching what their children are watching online.

Pedos are infecting YouTube

Then we have YouTube disabling comments on content that features children. They’ve suspended commenting not because people say horrible things about the children – that they’re ugly, stupid, etc, – but because of pedophiles who make repugnant comments on the videos.

YouTube said Thursday it will turn off comments on nearly all videos featuring kids — potentially affecting millions of posts on the site — after reports last week that pedophiles were leaving inappropriate comments on innocuous videos of children…
…It will take YouTube several months to disable comments on all videos featuring minors, the company said. It already started the process last week when it turned off comments from tens of millions of videos.
Advertisers including Nestle, AT&T and Fortnite-maker Epic Games pulled ads from YouTube last week after the inappropriate comments about children were unearthed by a popular YouTuber and media reports. At least one company, Nestle, was satisfied with YouTube’s response and reinstated ads late last week.
A small number of channels which have videos featuring kids will be allowed to keep comments turned on. But they must be known to YouTube and must actively monitor the comments beyond the standard monitoring tools YouTube provides.
Turning off comments on such a large number of videos seems an “extreme reaction,” said eMarketer analyst Paul Verna. But the issue involves the safety of children, so it makes sense YouTube would want to act quickly, he said. (source)

And this is the tip of the pedophilia iceberg. There are chatrooms, child porn websites, sites that want to repeal laws against the sexual abuse of children, and sick, twisted mainstream sites that try to justify the abuse of and attraction to children by adults. 

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Cop Gets Just 90 Days in Jail for Horrific Child Porn as Man Selling Weed Gets 5 YEARS

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project

(Support Free Thought) - Columbus, OH — A community is outraged this week as a former Columbus police officer of 20 years was sentenced to just 90 days in jail for possession and distribution of child porn involving small children. Meanwhile, a man in Louisiana who happened to get caught selling a plant to willing customers was sentenced to over 5 years behind bars.

Former Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Dean Worthington had been a police officer for over 20 years before being busted. During that time—as he allegedly served the public—he’d been secretly participating in and contributing to a vile child pornography ring.

According to NBC4i, in November, Worthington pleaded guilty to four counts of sex-related charges including illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance and three counts of pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor.

On Thursday, Worthington was handed down a 9-year sentence. However, due to his status as a former police officer, all but 90 days of it was suspended. His defense even had the audacity to ask for simple probation for the horrific exploitation of small children.

Worthington’s AA sponsor and his ex-wife both spoke in court in defense of the child predator, claiming that it is unlikely that he will commit these crimes again. However, as multiple studies show, child predators have a hard time stopping, even after jail.

“Between January and July of 2018, it is alleged that Worthington uploaded an image to Tumblr and downloaded multiple videos and images depicting young children engaging in sexual activity with adults,” Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said in a press release.

Tumblr tipped off police to Worthington’s actions and a search warrant was issued. During a raid on Worthington’s property, multiple devices were found — including 6 cell phones, laptops, and hard drives — all of which contained the horrifying content.

Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center executive director Cathy Harper Lee is not happy with this slap on the wrist.

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Child Sex Trafficking Fastest Growing Crime as Secret Service Agent, Teacher Arrested in Massive Sting

The Free Thought Project

 

(Support Free Thought) - Washington, D.C. – This week the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of more than 2,300 suspected child sex offenders, including a member of the U.S. Secret Service, and identified nearly 400 abused children during the three-month operation that ended in May. Of those arrested, 195 were suspected of producing child pornography or committing child sexual abuse.

“No child should ever have to endure sexual abuse,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions noted in a Justice Department press release. “And yet, in recent years, certain forms of modern technology have facilitated the spread of child pornography and created greater incentives for its production. We at the Department of Justice are determined to strike back against these repugnant crimes. “

The operation, dubbed “Broken Heart,” was conducted by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforces operating in all 50 states across and involved more than 4,500 federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies.

Operation Broken Heart, which is funded through the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, has been an annual law enforcement operation since its inception in 2014. It has resulted in the arrests of thousands of suspected child sex predators.

“It is estimated that at least 100,000 children—girls and boys—are bought and sold for sex in the U.S. every year, with as many as 300,000 children in danger of being trafficked each year. Some of these children are forcefully abducted, others are runaways, and still others are sold into the system by relatives and acquaintances,” according to the Rutherford Institute. 

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The FBI ran a child porn site to catch predators, and now the accused are crying foul

Kevin Krause
The Dallas Morning News

When Daryl Glenn Pawlak logged into a large child pornography website and downloaded images using his work computer, he was charged with receipt and possession of child pornography.

The operator of the website that was exploiting children, however, was not arrested.

That's because it was the FBI. And federal prosecutors are defending the agency's decision to secretly hijack and peddle child porn for two weeks as part of a sting operation. During that time, tens of thousands of images of child pornography were uploaded to the site. "Not only was the government the largest distributor of child pornography ... it was also the largest exploiter of children," Pawlak's attorney said in a court filing. "This conduct is the essence of outrageousness, and a serious need for deterrence exists."

The case has ignited debate among legal scholars and defense attorneys about internet privacy and the FBI's decision to keep such a website up and running while more children were harmed.

Dozens of defense attorneys have filed motions to suppress evidence from the controversial child pornography sting, called Operation Pacifier. In some cases, federal judges have granted those motions. But most attempts to get charges thrown out have failed, legal experts say, even though some judges have ruled that the government violated the law and acted inappropriately.

Joining legal challenges nationwide, Pawlak's attorneys are trying to get the charges dismissed, arguing that the government went too far by using a single warrant in Virginia to hack the computers of people all over the country, including his client.

The American Civil Liberties Union compared it to Operation Fast and Furious, a failed sting operation run by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives beginning in 2009 that resulted in 2,000 firearms winding up in the hands of criminals.

In that case, ATF allowed people to illegally buy the guns to traffic to Mexico in the hopes of tracking them to Mexican drug cartel leaders. But that didn't happen, and instead the agency lost track of the guns, including two that were found at the scene of the 2010 murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

The FBI declined to comment about Operation Pacifier. The U.S. attorney's office in Dallas said in court filings that it acted within the law and that dismissing the case would give people like Pawlak a "free pass" for trolling the web for photos and videos of children being sexually abused.

"The FBI's process here should be encouraged, not deterred," a prosecutor in Dallas said in a court filing.

Defense attorneys say the matter will eventually be resolved in the appellate courts, if not the U.S. Supreme Court.

Historically, the government has taken down such websites immediately.

Douglas Anderson, chair of the University of North Texas' philosophy and religion department, said the government was conducting a cost-benefit analysis, weighing damage to children against catching people who download child porn.

He said he was surprised children were used in such a calculation.

"It's a moral conundrum for anyone who takes the view that we are committed to protecting them in all ways," Anderson said. "They're weighing it against these kids' lives."

World opinion says we have a basic duty to protect children, Anderson said.

"You'd have to have something pretty overwhelming to offset damaging more people," he said. "It would have to be awfully extreme to allow even one child to be harmed."  

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Just trust them? ‘Unbelievable’ amount of child porn on US military, intelligence computers

Privacy SOS

 

If you’ve got nothing to hide, why worry about warrantless mass surveillance? One reason among many: The people who have access to your private communications may not have your—or your child’s—best interest at heart.

NextGov reports that officials at a recent Intelligence and National Security Alliance symposium in Chantilly, Virginia discussed the widespread storage of child pornography on NSA and other military computer systems. Daniel Payne, director of the Pentagon’s Defense Security Service, reportedly said that “the amount of child porn [he sees on government devices] is just unbelievable.” An NSA official agreed, saying “what people do is amazing.”

It’s often difficult for us to pinpoint direct, personal harms from warrantless dragnet spying. Sure, policies like those established after 9/11 may threaten democratic, open society, freedom of speech, and due process. But for many of us, drawing a direct line between the erosion of democratic norms and our day-to-day lives can be challenging, if not impossible. It’s not hard, on the other hand, to imagine a government employee using his access to warrantless surveillance data to fish for bath-time photos of our naked children.

Don’t forget: The surveillance systems Snowden exposed may seem too big to comprehend, but the individual people behind them are just as real (and flawed) as you or me. According to these officials and older reports, sexual abuse of children is rampant in the military and intelligence worlds. That’s yet one more reason why we shouldn’t ever give government institutions and the people who run them nearly limitless power to exercise in the dark.

Report: UN Staff Transported 380 Pounds of Weed, Watched and Shared Child Porn

Vice

The report, carried out by the UN Secretariat, covers the period between July 2014 and June of this year. It does not name the staff involved, their nationalities, or where the offenses took place.

Perhaps most alarmingly, four UN employees were dismissed for receiving, storing, and disseminating pornographic images of minors on their official computers and over UN networks. It was unclear if their home countries had filed any charges against the four unnamed individuals. A fifth staff member who stored adult pornographic material on a UN computer was demoted and blocked from being promoted for a period of two years.

Elsewhere in the report, a staffer was referenced as being fired for using “an official vehicle of the Organization to transport approximately 173 kilograms of marijuana.” Another employee inexplicably tried to bring a chainsaw on a UN passenger flight. Yet another UN security official was caught pilfering $2,200 from a passenger while screening their luggage.

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Former Downing Street adviser charged over child abuse images

Comment: Considering this Conservative party advisor's "glittering career" and involvement in "Government policy on filtering online child abuse images," he is either yet another garden variety paedophile or was blackmailed/set up to prevent further disclosures.  
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The Independent 

A former Downing Street adviser has been charged with making and possessing indecent images of children. 

Patrick Rock, who was involved in Government policy on filtering online child abuse images, resigned shortly before his arrest in February.

The 63-year-old has had a glittering career as a Conservative Party adviser spanning 30 years and in the 1970s was credited with coining the slogan “cows moo, dogs bark, Labour puts up taxes”.

On Friday, he was charged with three offences of making indecent images of children and one offence of possession of 59 indecent images of children.

The four charges cover alleged offences committed between 31 July and 31 August 2013.
The pictures have been classed as level C by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), defined as “indecent images depicting erotic posing with no sexual activity".

Mr Rock, a special adviser on policy, was arrested at his home in the early hours of 13 February and had resigned the day before.

The matter did not come to light until almost a month later, when a national newspaper’s enquiries forced Downing Street to release a statement confirming the rumours.

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Downing Street accused of cover-up over senior aide Patrick Rock's arrest on child abuse images allegations

The Independent

David Cameron has been accused of a cover-up after one of his most senior aides was arrested on suspicion of possessing child abuse images. 

Patrick Rock, who had been working on a Downing Street policy committee for internet pornography filters, was reportedly told he was under investigation for possessing the images a number of hours before his arrest on 13 February.

He then quietly resigned, and the matter only came to light when officials at Number 10 were questioned about it directly on Monday.

According to a Labour MP the delay has the appearance of a “cover-up” - and the fact that Mr Rock was given advance warning of the allegations was a Government “interfer[ence] with the justice system”.

A spokesperson for the Prime Minister has confirmed Downing Street was first made aware of the alleged offence regarding child abuse imagery on the evening of 12 February.

But speaking in the West Midlands yesterday, Mr Cameron defended the position his office had taken.

“I don't think it would be right to pre-emptively brief out a criminal investigation and that's why we did not do that,” he said.

“But as soon as questions were asked, as questions would inevitably be asked, we have given very full and straightforward answers, which is absolutely the right way to answer this.

“I've been clear right along and I was told about this issue pretty much as soon as it was discovered and I have been very clear we must handle this in an absolutely correct way and I am satisfied that is what No 10 Downing Street has done.”

Backbencher John Mann MP said said it was “mysterious” that the situation had not emerged earlier.

“There has been a bodged attempt at media manipulation which is wholly unacceptable from 10 Downing Street,” he said. “Of course they should have revealed it proactively.”

And he told the Telegraph: “It gives the impression of a clumsy attempt at a cover-up. If Mr Rock was told [of the allegations] before his arrest it an issue, it would interfere with the justice system.”

Mr Rock was arrested at his London home in the early hours of the morning of 13 February.  The matter was immediately referred to the National Crime Agency and he resigned his position as deputy head of the policy unit.

Mr Rock has been an influential figure behind the scenes in the Conservative Party for decades, has made three unsuccessful bids to become an MP, and is reported to have been in line for a peerage.

It emerged this week that he had also been accused of harassing a Downing Street colleague in the past.

Additional reporting by PA

A Posthumous Twist in the Story of a Disgraced Senate Aide

The Atlantic

Jesse Ryan Loskarn was an aide to a U.S. senator until last month, when he was arrested for buying child pornography. Disgraced, he committed suicide last week. Politico has a summary of the details that were known at the time of his death. "According to a federal complaint, he made 'several purchases' from November 2010 to March 2011 from a Toronto-based movie production company," it reports. "Court documents said 'the majority of these films featured young nude boys."

But it turns out there's more to the story. His apparent suicide note has been posted online by his family. Its audience should be as wide as the one exposed to his crime. Here's an excerpt:

I’ve hurt every single human being I’ve ever known and the details of my shame are preserved on the internet for all time. There is no escape. My family has been wounded beyond description. My former boss and colleagues had their trust broken and their names dragged through the mud for no reason other than association. Friends’ question whether they ever really knew me.

Everyone wants to know why.

... The first time I saw child pornography was during a search for music on a peer-to-peer network. I wasn’t seeking it but I didn’t turn away when I saw it. Until that moment, the only place I’d seen these sorts of images was in my mind. I found myself drawn to videos that matched my own childhood abuse. It’s painful and humiliating to admit to myself, let alone the whole world, but I pictured myself as a child in the image or video. The more an image mirrored some element of my memories and took me back, the more I felt a connection. 
This is my deepest, darkest secret. As a child I didn’t understand what had happened at the time of the abuse. I did know that I must not tell anyone, ever. Later the memories took on new and more troubling meaning when I became a teenager. They started to appear more often and made me feel increasingly apart from everyone else. In my mind I instigated and enjoyed the abuse—even as a five and nine year old—no matter the age difference.  Discussing what had happened would have meant shame and blame. I always worried someone might look at me and know, so I paid close attention to others for any sign they might have figured it out. No one ever did. By my late teens I reached a sort of mental equilibrium on the matter.  I couldn’t stop the images from appearing altogether, but I generally controlled when they appeared. As an adult I thought I was a tougher man because of the experience; that I was mentally stronger and less emotional than most. I told myself that I was superior to other people because I had dealt with this thing on my own.

There's more.

 

Loskarn concluded, "to the children in the images: I should have known better. I perpetuated your abuse and that will be a burden on my soul for the rest of my life."

 

The ban on child pornography is one of the few prohibitionist policies that I support. Child pornography ought to be illegal. Possessing it ought to be stigmatized as well. But what this letter brings home is the importance of eliminating stigmas against having been abused as a child, and far more controversially, against the unrequited desire to buy child porn. Our charge is to create a society where people with that impulse seek professional help before giving in to it. That would do far more to protect children than mercilessly vilifying the unrequited impulse. Today, someone who announced, "I have this compulsion to watch child pornography and I'm afraid I'll act on it without help!" would be labeled a pervert and shunned. But seeking help would actually be brave and honorable. 

 

Were I confronted with someone seeking help of that sort, I'd probably feel creeped out. I hope I'd also be kind, helpful, and mindful of just how lucky I am: that is to say, mindful that it isn't elevated moral status or choice of any kind that has caused me to only have sexual feelings for people of roughly my own age. It's just luck. So many of us enjoy that particular kind of luck that it's easy to stigmatize those who don't. We'd do better to vilify acts rather than compulsions, so that more people with compulsions seek help and fewer children are victimized.

Cameron's internet filter goes far beyond porn - and that was always the plan

New Statesman 

Through secretive negotiations with ISPs, the coalition has divided the internet into 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' categories and cut people off from huge swathes of it at the stroke of a key.

David Cameron visits the offices of Netmums at CP House

in Watford on February 14, 2012. Photograph: Getty Images. 

 

There is no porn filter, and blocking Childline is not an accident

The idea of an internet porn filter has always been a political fiction, a conveniently inaccurate sound bite used to conjure images of hardcore fisting and anal rape in the feverishly overactive imaginations of middle Britain. What activists actually called for - and ISPs were forced to provide - is an 'objectionable content' filter, and there is a vast, damp and aching chasm between the two.

The language of the mythical 'porn filter' is so insidious, so pervasive, that even those of us opposed to it have been sucked into its slippery embrace. And so even when it turns out that O2 are blocking the Childline and Refuge websites, or that BT are blocking gay and lesbian content, we tend to regard them as collateral damage – accidental victims of a well-meaning (if misguided) attempt to protect out children from the evils of cock.

But this was never the case. As Wired reported back in July, Cameron’s ambitions extended far beyond porn. Working through secretive negotiations with ISPs, the coalition has put in place a set of filters and restrictions as ambitious as anything this side of China, dividing the internet into 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable' categories, and cutting people off from huge swathes of it at the stroke of a key.

"As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites" and "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking". But the list doesn't stop there. It even extends to blocking "web forums" and "esoteric material", whatever that is. "Web blocking circumvention tools" is also included, of course."

And the restrictions go further still. Over the weekend, people were appalled to discover that BT filters supported homophobia, with a category blocking, "sites where the main purpose is to provide information on subjects such as respect for a partner, abortion, gay and lesbian lifestyle, contraceptive, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy."

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The Politics of Entrapment Part IV

“Politics have no relation to morals.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

Let Them Eat Porn

The existence of Child Pornography is without question. The extent to which it can be used as a tool for creeping fascism is less well understood.

The notorious Attorney General Ed Meese back in the late 70s early 80s may have been the first to be given the mission to heighten and stimulate an increase in the existence of child porn in society. One scenario for this was to create a climate of law breakers, to foster fear and retribution and to further lead America into a state of already terminal decline. Commensurate with Kinseyian and Freudian programming, this was ensuring that society became even more decadent than it really was. In effect, could it be that the US government became the mainstay of child pornography itself? It filled a role of both purveyor and habitual user which could be continuing to this day, much the same as narcotics and arms. Sting operations were initiated to turn around the possible fall in child pornography crime, where the would-be purchasers were actively solicited and eventually prosecuted under the new laws. Writer Jim Peron:

First, the age limit was raised from 16 to 18 placing the United States outside the Western mainstream. An entire class of publications, which previously had been legal, were now illegal. Publications which were purchased legally in the United States became illegal overnight without the bulk of owners being aware of the change.

Second, Congress dropped the requirement that something be "obscene" before being classified as child pornography. Now the law was so broadly written that family snapshots of a nude child playing in the bath, could be prosecuted—and were!

Third, it was no longer necessary to produce or distribute the newly banned material. Mere possession was now illegal.1

Peron goes on to describe how the government created dozens of phoney companies and began soliciting people to purchase the material. Government agencies would send brochures under a fake company name to the individual they targeted and in most cases, proceed to relentlessly pester the individual until a sale was made. The police would place adverts in adult publications pretending, for example, to be a woman with a young daughter. This “woman” would then solicit correspondence from men until the men finally decided to buy the material. Prosecutions soared and the moral majority were exulted. However, the problem was, as Attorney Lawrence Stanley pointed out:

“…the line between law enforcement and inducing law-breaking has become highly blurred, as undercover "friends" encourage the forbidden fantasies of their targets and sell or send them child pornography after a great deal of prodding. In some cases, the forbidden fantasies are those of the investigating agent.” 2

Government sting operations included setting up shop as bonified pornography outlets which were actively peddling child porn and other hardcore images sourced from the belief that the US was under attack from a veritable legion of pimps and paedophiles. According to Peron, John O’Mally a customs agent created a company called Produit Outaouais which offered photos and videos:

 The government officials would reproduce photos of young children and mail them to individuals they targeted. Newsweek reported: ‘Together with similar stings run by the US Postal Service over the past few years, federal agents have become major traffickers in kiddie porn.’ In this one sting operation alone two individuals who were entrapped by O’Malley committed suicide; one a 25-year-old student and the other an attorney.4

We have already established the harassment of citizens where artists, parents and ordinary family members taking nude pictures of their children under entirely natural and loving circumstances was turned into something sordid and degrading in the minds of the prosecutors. This also resulted in untold trauma for all those targeted. Under the guise of “protection” these laws give further credence to the looming shadow of a very real police state in the United States, also manifesting in the UK. 

 
However, the author of the above, has been less than candid about his background in commenting on such matters. Jim Peron was caught out it seems, in March 2005 when The Society For The Promotion of Community Standards Inc. triumphantly outed Peron’s agenda in publishing the article. According to the society which upholds censorship issues, Peron an Auckland, New Zealand, book seller sold a journal called Unbound (Vol. 1 No. 4) at his Free Forum Books in San Francisco in 1985. The Society, seeking a classification, further stated that the journal was: “readily available to the public in Mr Peron’s bookshop along with the ‘pro-paedophile journal’ NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association).”5 The previous owner of the bookshop, Eric Garris, apparently confronted Peron about his “pro-paedophilia” material recounting that “Mr Peron confirmed that Free Forum Books published it.” Detailed within the journal were the objections against a police raid subsequently carried out on Peron’s bookshop where copies of Unbound and other pro-paedophilia publications were seized “in the course of an on-going investigation into David Simons (a part-time employee of Mr Peron’s, who was later arrested, convicted and jailed for 16 years for committing sex-offences against children).”6

 
Peron rather unconvincingly denies anything untoward though admitting he wrote an article “Abused: One Boy’s Story” which he said was used without his permission, defending his piece in lieu of the fact that there was no explicit sexual content while denying that he was referring to paedophiles when using the term “boy-lover”. He also further denied involvement with the Journal claiming that: “Unbound was published by another person who rented a back office from his former book store.” # In the Society’s view and many others, Peron was in fact the editor-in-Chief of Unbound and was trying to wriggle out of the spotlight.

 
It becomes a little more disturbing when we know that Peron’s source was previously mentioned Attorney Lawrence Stanley who specialized in defending those accused of child pornography was arrested in Brazil and charged with child exploitation. Infiltrating the law was not his only speciality. Stanley had “built an international business photographing Brazilian girls and selling their photos through the Internet.” One of these sites “featured photos of girls ages 8 to 14 in what police Officer Rui Gomes described to the Associated Press as ‘sensual poses.’ Police said Stanley paid the girls $20 to $40 for each photo session. An official of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for information on Stanley's case.” 7

It is the greatest irony - yet so typical of an emerging Pathocracy - to allow those questioning tactics and statistics regarding child porn to be those that benefit from a greater relaxation of the laws. It amounts to the same ruse when white supremacists cry foul against the discrepancies of Zionist deceptions thereby cancelling out any veracity of the original authorship and research. 

 
More disturbingly, we might also say that we are now faced with the possibility that governments themselves, after seeking to stem a seemingly gargantuan tide of child porn became its greatest purveyors and sellers due to factional objectives, the most important perhaps being the protection of an Elite who do indeed prey on children and young adults as a way of life; systemized and institutionalized by political expediency and blackmail. It then becomes yet another example of the Hegelian dialectic, a problem-reaction-solution scenario: a classic case of reverse psychology. Shout loud enough and hard enough with inflated figures and dubious data and the core subject matter becomes discredited. We can surmise from other prominent factors such as the “War on Terror,” that the purpose may be to contribute to the initiation of increasing controls where even censors try to ban material in which no real child is used as a model, but to also create the ultimate justification for the death of internet freedoms. The threat of child pornography and those affiliated with "terrorist groups” become the package by which greater freedoms are lost for the “greater good.”

 
Taking this hypothesis further, we might conjecture that if those factions within governments are in control not only of narcotics, arms, human trafficking, but also the pornography industry - albeit in most cases indirectly - we can see black-mail would play an increasingly decisive role in forcing certain people into taking top positions within the Elite machinery such as NBC, NASA, Harvard, the military, the FBI, and FEMA. Perhaps there are many such commercial porn sites directly serving this purpose as recruiters for a new generation of emotionally and mentally damaged men.

The Pathocracy needs positions to be filled in key positions to facilitate a greater ease of ponerogenic qualities that is then disseminated into the everyday lives of the populace enhancing their suggestibility towards specific pre-designed objectives. Those that “fit” in the core network of psychopathic and characteropathic groupings can then be relied upon to carry out their naturally allotted tasks. Disinformation artists in radio, television and the internet may have been given immunity from prosecution by federal authorities in return for defending the government. Sexual politics cannot be separated from the standard political pantomime we see flickering on our T.V. screens 24 hours a day.

 

Notes

1 “The Claptrap Over Child Porn” by Jim Peron, The Laissez Faire Electronic Times: Part 2: The US Government Enters the Child Porn Business’,vol. 2, no. 19, May 12, 1987/2003.
2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

4 Classify "Pro-Paedophilia Journal" "Unbound" Thursday, 31 March 2005, Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. New Zealand.

5 Ibid.

6Ibid.

7 Lawyer arrested in Brazil charged with child exploitation’ By Robert Stacy McCain The Washington Times, July 24, 2002.

 

The Politics of Entrapment Part III

Eros and Entrapment

We may by willing to assign the possibility that much of the child porn on the net may well be controlled by the police in order to act as entrapment operations preceeded by invasive trawling .  So, if you are one of those inclined to view pornography – whatever the moral arguments – and find yourself face to face with an advertisement for child porn, the odds are higher that it may be a police entrapment set up. This dynamic of pre-emption and even pre-crime describes a yet again a mindset that is seeping through all corridors of corporate, government and military forms of power at great expense to the public.  

 
The labelling of child porn and the moral panic it has produced, will serve as one of many templates to deception that is so common amongst those who appear to be “protecting” us. The definitions of child pornography set down by America and the UK are so broad and vague that it has caused enormous confusion as to what exactly constitutes an obscene image. It is true to say now that the fear and moral panic induced has reached the sad proportions that mothers and fathers, cannot take photos of their naked child without the fear of reprisals. Art, like innocence, has been debased by those who claim to champion its protection. By lumping sexual abuse and child porn into a category that includes artistic renditions of naked children through photography is to demean the very nature of the natural and sacred; it is to grossly tip the balance in favour of prurience and body-hatred bias; to make sharp distinctions between a free society as oppose to an absolutist one. As photographer Eolake Stobblehouse on this subject mentioned: “If images of beautiful nude children are as much pornographic as those of children being raped, then while the beautiful are criminalized the pornographic are made less criminal.” Is this the real protocol at work here? If all those seeking an earnest appraisal of the subject of child porn and to clearly distinguish between what constitutes a crime and what may be erotic art, or nude photography and are being persecuted for applying such objectivity then we need to be seriously concerned. When civil rights groups and law enforcement agencies become the sole mediators as to what they categorize and label as child porn, then it is a dark day indeed for freedom. 

 
There is a huge difference between child pornography that depicts the rape and abuse of a child and the celebration of childhood which may or may not include children (gasp) without clothes. There will also always be those who position themselves in the grey area that encourages extreme laws such as pre-teen sites 1 that are ostensibly a pictorial diary that neither includes nudity or anything remotely close to child porn. However, it could be said that these sites  pander to paedophiles and those with paedophilic tendencies. Yet knowing that this is unsavoury, it is not illegal or criminal. In a world that is teetering on totalitarianism in all domains, it is an important distinction. 

 
What we have now is yet another form of self-righteous dogma against imagery that does not conform to evangelical, absolutist principles. The criminalization of artistic/dramatic representation and objective intellectual examination and speculation – even thoughts, if they are written down or recorded – are now seen as grounds for prosecution with the sex offender register beckoning. This is dangerously close to the concept of George Orwell’s “thought-crime” from his novel: 1984 concerning life under an overtly totalitarian government. Orwell's descriptions was not merely about the spectre of state communism but the perceptions of the elite with which he worked. 

 
Once again, that is not to say that child pornography may not be on the rise. This was true enough during the raids from the UK Operation Cathedral where torture and degradation was visited on many children and infants. The devil is always in the details not least who benefits from such moral panics. 

 
Irish author and journalist Brian Rothery casts further doubt on the figures bandied about by some police and child advocates. A graph was created from a range of internet research sources which were then used to display the relationships between sites known to contain child porn and all sites on the Internet. The result were highly revealing:

“…5 million total sites, 3.5 million public sites and 8,700 CP sites. The 1.5 million difference between public and total is made up of private sites, mainly corporate where one requires a password (not CP sites requiring passwords). The difference in number between the CP and other sites is so great that on a normal graph page, the CP does not register. It is one fifth of one percent - 0.02 percent.

But now let us examine that figure more closely. First the 8,700 contains many duplications, as images are copied. Let us assume that 20 percent of them share images in differing mixes. This reduces the number of CP sites to 7,000. Many of the CP sites move. xyz.com hosted in Brazil one day can appear as abc.kg hosted in, say, Russia the next, and be counted as two within the analysis period. Say 10percent move, reducing the number to 6,300.

There are more sites with child nudity and child erotica, which may be judged by the analysts as CP, than there are real CP sites. A good guess would be most of them. Let's say 4,000, leaving 2,300. Now for simulated and artificially created images, such as Japanese Hentai, where no real children are photographed, and which many defenders of free expression say should not be criminalized, but, that argument aside, do not involve porn with real children. A conservative guess would be around 6,000, maybe more. This leaves between one or two and 300 CP sites. Let's take the upper figure. We do not know what jurisdiction in the world would not arrest the hosters and makers of these 300 sites but what we do know is that some of our brave censors have worked hard to find the few that have existed. If there are 300, they make up 0.0007 percent of the total number of web sites on the Internet.2 [bold mine]

What could be the other motives for capitalising on the promotion of fake child porn websites? Could there be blackmailing possibilities involved? 

 
Returning to the UK/US Landslide case under Operation Ore which spawned many other child pornography “crackdowns” the subscriber database and all of the other main Landslide FBI/prosecution files show an interesting precedent never revealed to the defence. Researchers at inquisition21.com have discovered that “..credit cards, however obtained, whether from attempts to access adult sites over Landslide, generated by a program or simply stolen, were ‘jumped’ to so-called ‘child porn’ sites.” The rogue webmasters in question “…used the transaction to charge (defraud) the owner and, because of the extreme names of the sites charged to, embarrass the owner into not complaining about the $30 or so robbed in each transaction.” They compromised the credit card owners by:

‘…incriminating their computers with illegal images. Whilst people believed they were signing up to legitimate adult sites, in reality they were signing up to illegal sites. Forensically, the user’s computer would appear totally incriminating - the signup and the images. This was almost a perfect crime, and this has happened in at least one high profile case.’ […] This meant that people entering the payment system at Landslide were switched from adult to child pornography sites. Sadly, sometimes people were arrested simply because of the site names, no matter that the site did not actually exist.3 [bold mine]

The researchers known as the Inquisiton 21 Group saw the programming codes on the rogue sites that allowed the victims to be jumped to illegal sites. They mention that “Both the UK and Irish police should have seen this.” They are consequently involved in pursuing a class action court case in order to have the police explains themselves as to why they chose to ignore such obvious evidence that would have prevented many innocent persons going to jail. 
 
What is more disturbing is the data base of credit card subscribers which was handed over to overseas police by US authorities, notably the FBI, they removed the names of prominent members of government and institutional officials leaving only minor local level politicians and media and celebrity names. These were never raided in the US. The authorities have stated no fraud was in existence which therefore leaves the possibility of those protected was done so for the purposes of compromise or blackmail. The very rogue webmaster scams mentioned fit a little too closely to the practice of entrapment. Could it be that it is merely US law enforcement agencies doing what they historically do best and creating crime for the purposes of blackmail and political leverage? According to the researchers at inquisition21 this is not in the realm of conspiracy, simply a of historical fact. As they mention: “It should not be [a surprise] when we already know that virtually all of the child pornography on the Internet today is published by the US police for entrapment purposes.”4

 
America is leading the way in cases of Child porn. The legitimacy of certain sting operations remain in question. Is child porn another label for which the “Old Boys Network” can justify more jobs while actually creating predators and encouraging them to commit certain crimes? This would serve to bury the real child pornography which does exist, though possibly in less quantities than we were led to believe:

In 1990 at a Southern California police seminar, the LAPD’s Toby Tyler proudly announced that law enforcement agencies were now the sole reproducers and distributors of child pornography. And author James Kincaid said in 2000: ‘Several speakers at an L.A. police seminar I attended a few years back laughingly admitted that the largest collection of child porn in the country is in the hands of cops, who edit and publish it in sting operations. There is at most, they say, a small cottage industry among civilians in which pictures (most of them vintage) are traded.’ And even the UK’s self-styled ‘Internet Abuse’ Guru, John Carr, said ‘I have only seen child pornography twice in my life and then it was at conferences and I was shown it by the police.’” […] There may well be a consensus on the principle of child porn, but there is little consensus on what constitutes child porn.

The Child exploitation industry has now fused with the police directed “NGOs.” On Monday 24 July 2006, the new UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, (CEOP) was launched. Director Jim Gamble believes the way forward is to create fake paedophile websites over which ‘undercover’ officers will pose as children on Internet chat rooms. This reflects more of the FBI’s already active in chat-room entrapment operations in both the Americas and Asia.  Creating paedophiles where there are none is as effective as searching for and blackmailing those that are, especially when they reside in the lower rungs of the Establishment. It is also a close cousin to the present Neo-Conservative penchant for pre-emptive attack. But this time the crimes are being created and encouraged. 
 
It is hard not to come to the conclusion that from the blanket restrictions on child porn will simply lead to a further encroachment of the police state where the US/UK Establishment creates a virtual CoIntelpro operation using the child exploitation industry as yet another tool for control.

Notes 

1 ‘Dead officer absolved in porn probe’ By David Leppard, Sunday, 2 October, 2005, 2 ‘Dismay as international paedophile probe fails’ by Marcello Mega, August 2003 The Scotsman
3 ‘Legal child porn’ under fire MSNBC By Mike Brunker March 28 2002—   “The photos of 12-year-old “Amber” cavorting in a swimsuit and various skimpy outfits wouldn’t have raised so much as an eyebrow if they had been posted on a family home page. But on lilamber.com — one of a growing number of “preteen model” sites operating in the legal gray area between innocent imagery and child pornography — they have drawn the attention of the Justice Department and prompted a congressman to declare war on the “reckless endangerment” of such kids by their parents and Web site operators.”

4 ‘The crime exceptum’ inquisition21.com.

The Politics of Entrapment Part II

 

0ne of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. - Thomas Brackett Reed

Landslide

Armed with a search warrant and an $800,000 grant, the Landslide Inc. a credit clearance intermediary based in Fort Worth, Texas was raided by the FBI, USPIS officers, US customs, Microsoft, Dallas Police, and other contractors. It was closed in April 1999. Operation Avalanche was the result which oversaw investigations and arrests in the US of only 100 individuals whose credit card details were found on the Landslide database. International operations such as Snowball, Amethyst, Auxin followed and the Grand Daddy of them all: Operation Ore in the UK. As a result of the Landslide/Avalanche operations a list of over 7,000 credit card holders and their transactions were culled from the Landslide database and given to the UK police.

The Landslide investigations were initially focused around a website that had graphic thumbnails and banners advertising child pornography. Proprietor Thomas Reedy’s home was raided in September and the office in December of the same year. Assets and bank accounts for frozen while the servers which had been left to run during this time yielded further credit card details from subscribers which then produced a huge database of suspects. Although Reedy and his wife were offered a 20 year sentence in return for cooperation in trapping webmasters he chose to mount a defence, believing he was not responsible for the content on third party websites. This led to his indictment in May of 2000 and a life sentence for his troubles in August 2001. His conviction included 89 counts of conspiracy, possession and distribution of illegal images of minors while his wife Janice Reedy received 14 years due to her relatively minor role in the affair. 

 
The severity of Thomas Reedy’s sentence has since been questioned by many more than his attorney: “the Reedys are victims ... to lose 10 years of a person’s life in prison is a helluva lot for a crime that doesn't involve death...” stemming from the fact that Reedy was not a webmaster nor had they created the sexual images. It was also true that the credit card verification for sites did not involve child pornography further suggesting their sentence was unduly severe. Yet according to Robert Adams, a US Postal Service inspector, who began investigating the couple in May the couple had “helped three foreign webmasters provide ‘hundreds of thousands of images’ as well as movies depicting children in violent sex acts…”1 which extended to children of only four years of age. Adams made no bones about the fact after his investigations this was, in his opinion “a global operation” 2 involving webmasters from Indonesia to Russia, where he saw the Reedy’s business as actively providing the means for webmasters to share files and download photos.

 
The joint US/UK entrapment scheme called “Operation Avalanche” followed with a breathless media fanfare and alleged help from the FBI to streamline the subsequent arrests that were made in August 2001 just as Reedy began his life sentence. From 35,000 US Landslide subscribers email invitations were sent to all with the offer to purchase child pornography by post. “Members of the Internet Crimes against Children (ICAC) Task Forces and US Postal Inspectors have conducted 144 searches in 37 states with 100 arrests to date for trafficking child pornography through the mail and via the Internet…”3

 
The huge scale of Operation Ore was primarily due to a list of 7,200 names supplied to British police forces by the FBI, and ICAC, Task Forces. The inference given to the media was that this was a clear cut case of paedophilia in society where rings were being rounded up and highly professional under cover operations were in action intended to spring the networks of paedophilia in our midst. 

 
According to the respected investigative journalist and researcher of Operation Ore cases Duncan Campbell, the evidence was “exaggerated” and “used unacceptably.” Actually, this is being a little kind. American police testimony was wholly discredited and forensic methods deemed questionable at best. Critical evidence provided by US investigators which initially formed the foundation of Ore itself, were proven to be false. Ministers were not informed of this salient fact and indeed it was buried while convictions continued and while costs sky-rocketed. Interpol received sworn statements submitted to UK courts in 2002 that Dallas detective Steven Nelson and US postal inspector Michael Mead had explained that all those who visited Landslide were always presented with a front page screen button which offered a “click Here (for) Child Porn” and thus all those who accessed Landslide and paid with their credit card were assumed to be paedophiles:

British police and computer investigators had finally examined American files, they found that the “child porn” button was not on the front page of Landslide at all, but was an advertisement for another site appearing elsewhere: thus the crucial “child porn” button was a myth.   Landslide certainly gave access to thousands of adult sex sites. But accessing such material, which is now freely broadcast and sold in high street grocers’, is not a crime. The real front page of Landslide was an innocuous image of a mountain, carrying no links to child porn. There was “no way” a visitor to Landslide could link from there to child porn sites, according to Sam Type, a British forensic computer consultant who was asked by the National Crime Squad (NCS) to rebuild the Landslide website. She dismissed the idea that Landslide had created a service devoted to child porn. She described it as different merely in that it was a “pay-per-view” service. 4

Jim Bates, a computer expert with forensic knowledge served as a witness for the prosecution and the defence in more than 100 child porn cases stated: “I am convinced that a massive fraud has been perpetrated at Landslide and an unknown number of subscriptions are fake...”5 US investigators believed that those who accessed Landslide - by the mere act of paying - were paedophiles. Worse still, from the thousands of pay-to-view access channels provided by Landslide’s two services, US investigators had copied the contents of 12 sites out of a possible 400 accessible through one of the Landslide services called Keyz. Although these sites did contain child pornography and around 25 percent or more, about 180 Keyz sites were either standard pornography or unknown. With the Landslide closure over three years before, evidence of incriminating images in many cases were absent, only address and card details remained:

Here, the American evidence that having paid to get into Landslide meant having paid to access child porn has become crucial. Many of the accused argue that their card details could have been stolen and used without their knowledge, or admit that they used Landslide, but for adult material.

The NCS detective who found the real, innocuous Landslide front page in the American police files acted quickly to make it available to police forces and prosecutors. But nobody seems to have paid attention to the contradiction this created in the Operation Ore evidence. Nor did they apparently notice that there were now two, utterly different “Landslide front pages” presented in Operation Ore prosecutions — one totally incriminating, the other (and accurate) page quite innocuous.6

In Duncan Campbell’s Sunday Times article in June of 2005, it was evident that the sworn statements provided in British courts by two American detectives who initiated Operation Ore were now plainly false. Steve Nelson and US postal inspector Michael Mead, had claimed that everyone who went to Landslide accessed the page through a front-page screen button saying “Click Here: Child Porn”. However, it is now clear that rather than being on the front page of the website it was on an advertisement for a different site several levels into the Landslide website. 

 
There were also many police in the UK who expressed disquiet at the way Operation Ore was conducted. Some became so disillusioned that they resigned from their jobs. One of them was Merseyside police officer Peter Johnston, who described his lack of faith in a letter to The Sunday Times: “I began to doubt the validity of the evidence surrounding the circumstances of the initial investigation in America…I found it difficult to rationalise how offenders had been identified solely on a credit card number.”7 All of which means that it is very likely that many cases will be overturned or sent to the Court of Appeal. However, this comes too late for the 33 men who committed suicide and the lives of individuals and their families shattered. Once again, we must question whether this was through social shame attached the stigma of being on the sex offenders register or, were there “loose ends” needing to be severed?

 
One of many victims who had been under the Ore investigation since December 2004 was that of Commodore David White, 50, commander of British forces in Gibraltar. Despite a lack of evidence against him, he was instructed to give up his position in January of 2005 after news of the investigations began to spread. Twenty-four hours later he was found dead at the bottom of his pool after taking a dose of sleeping tablets washed down with whisky. There was said to be insufficient evidence as to whether the Commodore’s death was accidental or suicide, though the latter appears more than probable. A statement from his brother, showed that his mental state had collapsed after his dismissal and that he was in a “catatonic state of shock.” 8 The inquest into the circumstances surrounding his death have since confirmed that investigations: “…yielded no evidence that he downloaded child pornography, and a letter was written by ministry of defence police to naval command on January 5 this year indicating that there were ‘no substantive criminal offences’ to warrant pressing charges.” 9

 
The Scottish arm of the Operation was completed in August 2003 after investigating 350 people north of the Border, about 200 of who were in Strathclyde and 70 in Lothian and Borders. After millions of pounds of expenditure no arrests were made due to a failure “to gather the necessary evidence” though “grave doubts” about suspects remained.9 Despite the disastrously flawed evidence from the US, it was the UK contingent of police, lawyers and frothing media who transformed the possibility of a genuine investigation of child pornography into a verifiable witch-hunt by using emotive catch lines and the reliance of sensation in favour of facts.

 
 The very nature of paedophile images already predisposes the media and juries to convict based on the instinct to make it disappear. Therefore, most defence solicitors suggested pleading guilty if any images were found on computers regardless of whether they were guilty or not. Reconciling this with the persistent evidence of high level paedophilia and other deviant activities is not easy. What are we to make of this growing trend where sting operations and the preparations leading up to such potential prosecutions inexorably becomes the crime itself? In the US it is an advanced state of criminal “pre-emption”:

“…In 1990 at a Southern California police seminar, the LAPD’s Toby Tyler proudly announced that law enforcement agencies were now the sole reproducers and distributors of child pornography. And author James Kincaid said in 2000: “Several speakers at an L.A. police seminar I attended a few years back laughingly admitted that the largest collection of child porn in the country is in the hands of cops, who edit and publish it in sting operations. There is at most, they say, a small cottage industry among civilians in which pictures (most of them vintage) are traded.” And even the UK’s self-styled ‘Internet Abuse’ Guru, John Carr, said “I have only seen child pornography twice in my life and then it was at conferences and I was shown it by the police.”

  

Notes

1 ‘Couple in child porn trial planned to flee to Mexico, witness testifies Defense counters that pair has No criminal history, passports’ – dallasmorningnews.com/ By Debra Dennis Fort Worth Bureau of The Dallas Morning News,  April 19, 2000.
2 Ibid.
3 ‘Attorney General Ashcroft Announces the Successful Conclusion of Operation Avalanche’ Press Release, US Depart. Of Justice August 8 2001, www.usdoj.gov.
4 ‘A flaw in the child porn witch-hunt’ By Duncan Campbell, The Sunday Times, June 26, 2005
5 ‘Operation Ore Exposed’ by Jim Bates,  computerinvestigations.com  

6 ‘A flaw in the child porn witch-hunt’ By Duncan Campbell, The Sunday Times, June 26, 2005.
7  Child porn suspects set to be cleared in evidence ‘shambles’ by David Leppard The Sunday Times July 03, 2005.
8 ‘'Military chief killed himself over child porn allegations’ by Caroline Gammell, The Scotsman Fri 30 Sep 2005.
9 ‘Dead officer absolved in porn probe’ By David Leppard, Sunday, 2 October, 2005,
10 ‘Dismay as international paedophile probe fails’ by Marcello Mega, August 2003 The Scotsman