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Scott
Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector who quit in
1998 and now says the U.S. is intent on manufacturing
phony "evidence" of arms violations as a pretext
for war, is the victim of what may be the sleaziest
set-up job in recent history, a smearing so foul that
it makes the Clinton crowd look like a bunch of amateurs.
The
news that he may have been arrested, in June 2001,
as the result of an internet sex sting, in which an
undercover cop posing as a sixteen-year-old girl lured
him into "sex chat" over the internet, came
to light in a very strange way. A local newspaper, the
Daily Gazette, of Schenectady, New York, was
first to pick up the dirt, which apparently came
to light when an assistant district attorney was
fired
for settling the case and not informing the D.A.
According to the Gazette:
"Police
and prosecutors have declined to discuss the case, which
involved at least one class B misdemeanor, because it
was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal and ordered
sealed by a Colonie Town Court justice. The Daily
Gazette's request for access to the arrest report
was denied by the Colonie town attorney's office, which
ruled disclosure was barred under the state Freedom
of Information Law."
So
the police just happened to conduct a "sex
sting" operation against the one man who had
exposed the lies of our war-mad rulers from the inside.
On the eve of war, as hundreds of thousands protest
in the streets, this staunch Republican and solid family
man who has become one of the War Party's most formidable
enemies is suddenly "exposed" as a child molester.
Since
the court records have been sealed, and the case was
merely "adjourned in contemplation of dismissal,"
the authorities will say nothing, at least in public.
The entrapment was apparently so transparent, so obviously
the clumsiest sort of Cointelpro-style
operation badly bungled by our newly-empowered political
police, that the charges were dropped to the legal equivalent
of a traffic ticket. Could it be that the records were
sealed not to protect Ritter, but to protect whomever
tried to set him up?
Anybody who doesn't believe that Ritter
was specifically targeted on account of his political
activities needs to seek help: that sort of naivete
can be terminal, and the patient probably shouldn't
be trusted to cross the street unattended.
In
the post-9/11 era of the "Patriot" Act and
the Office
of Total Information Awareness, what is happening
to Ritter is meant as a warning to anyone who dares
oppose this government. Former UN inspectors, it seems,
are a special target. Remember that
other inspector, Jack McGeorge, also an American,
who was "outed" as being a member of a sado-masochistic
"advocacy" organization? Just as our war birds
were wailing in bitter disappointment that the inspections
process would delay or maybe even derail the much anticipated
bloodbath, suddenly one of the inspectors is "exposed"
as a sadomasochist. The point was not to somehow prove
that this made him unfit for the job, but simply to
degrade him, to make the experience so painful that
he would immediately withdraw – which is precisely what
happened.
There's
nothing at all fishy about a "sealed" court
record leaked to reporters, complete with an alleged
"mug shot" of Ritter broadcast on television
and republished
by MSNBC. It's all a coincidence that this comes
out just as the war crisis reaches its climax –
or anti-climax – and the administration is desperate
to come up with a half-way convincing rationale for
war. What are you – a conspiracy theorist? Everybody
knows the U.S. government is inherently and constitutionally
incapable of pulling off such a dirty rotten lowdown
trick. After all, isn't that why they hate us – because
we're so wonderfully "free"? Free to be spied
on; free to be set-up and smeared if we defy the powers-that-be;
"free" to be entrapped by cyber-cops who randomly
chose the single most convincing opponent of the War
Party to snare in a web of deception.
The
reaction to this is really a sight to behold. The same
"conservative" movement that reveled and rolled
around in the muck of the Clinton years like a pig in
a deluxe pen, luxuriating in the filth that bubbled
up like a perpetual hot bath, is all abuzz. With all
the defiant
malignity of Lucianne Goldberg and her son, what's-his-name,
rolling the latest Clintonian dirtball around on their
tongues as if it were the last bon bon in the box, they
are drooling over this one. (Look at bottom-feeder
Jonah Goldberg lap
it up.)
It's sickening, really, to even contemplate
what is going on here, but we should look at this ugliness
full in the face. Because in forcing ourselves to see
it, we can see the War Party – the gang of lying, thieving,
conniving thugs with delusions of grandeur who dominate
this administration – in its essence.
Look
on the face of evil, and, if you don't turn to stone,
remember it well. Because this is what we're up against,
in America: an evil that is almost demonic in its pure
malevolence, a dark destructive spirit that feeds on
pain and is animated by the will to crush its enemies
underfoot. This is the face of an enemy that must
be defeated.
–
Justin Raimondo
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