Reflections, Reflections

A good article on the latest NAMBLA attempt to abuse boys that was busted. This is what happens when people say, "I don't want to know what other people do in their private lives."

Law enforcement officials and mental health professionals say that while NAMBLA's membership numbers are small, the group has a dangerous ripple effect through the Internet by sanctioning the behavior of those who would abuse children.

"A lot of people who commit sexual crimes against children won't believe it is wrong," said Gregg Michel, a San Diego psychologist who interviews sex offenders for Superior Court sentencings. "An organization like this basically says it is not."

See what I am saying:

"Friends, relatives and co-workers of the men expressed shock at the arrests, but the FBI said in court papers that most of the men told the undercover agent they had been sexually involved with children in the past, including boys they met through the Internet and others abroad."

And did you notice the "sexually involved" - there's a whitewashed term for abuse of a child.

On its Web site, NAMBLA says it opposes abuse and coercion of young people and does not advocate illegal activity.

It also says children should have the right to have sex with older men and that such relationships are "benevolent." The 26-year-old organization wants to overturn statutory rape laws and free molesters from prison, and encourages members to send Christmas cards to jailed molesters.

In California, it is illegal for an adult to have sex with someone younger than 18, but many other states set the age of sexual consent at 16.

So what happens when an organization practices exactly the opposite of what it preaches and everyone by now already knows that?

"It is, in fact, a trade school for pedophiles," said Patrick Gillen, lawyer with the Thomas More Law Center, a Christian legal advocacy group that has sued the organization's leadership and made that argument in court.

Cathy McLennan, an Escondido counselor who interviews children as part of molestation investigations, said NAMBLA's argument that sexual relationships are not harmful to children parrots what many child abusers tell themselves.

"That's how they're rationalizing a despicable form of behavior in their own mind," she said.

Which is exactly what pro-homos do regarding homosexuality. They want to rationalize there are no problems in homosexuality. Pedophiles tell us there are no problems in pedophilia, ephebophiles tell us there are no problems in ephebophilia, homosexuals tell us there are no problems in homosexuality. And homosexual pedo/ephebophiles tell us there are no problems at all with anything. It's all a "there are no problems anywhere" party. Meanwhile, vulnerable children get abused.

Child molesters join organizations such as NAMBLA to meet others like themselves and gain confirmation they are not alone, said Jones, the San Diego police sergeant.

"They don't see that they're doing anything wrong," he said. "These are intelligent, well-educated, high-functioning people, but they've got this desire to involve themselves with children."

And who is defending the homo child abusers? Well, the ACLU, of course!

In his suit in Boston federal court, Gillen says NAMBLA's activities led to the murder of a 10-year-old boy. The killer, Gillen claims, was emboldened by NAMBLA members who told him he could entice the boy by stealing his bicycle and offering him a better one.

The boy resisted, and the killer smothered him with a gas-soaked cloth, violated his corpse and dumped it in a river.

The killer and an accomplice have been sentenced to prison. Gillen is suing NAMBLA's leadership on behalf of the boy's parents.

The American Civil Liberties Union has come to the defense of the group's leaders and publications.

"There is nothing in them which is unlawful, which is outside the bounds of what is normally protected by the First Amendment," ACLU lawyer John Reinstein said in an interview.

As distasteful as most people find the group's views, those opinions are protected by the Constitution, he said.

"If the standard by which First Amendment protection is judged is whether enough people agree with it, we would be deprived of speech which is either controversial or opposed to the majority view," he said.

Gillen said the ACLU has blocked efforts to get information about the group. "We haven't been able to get a firm fix on how many members, who they are, where they are," he said.

The lawsuit is pending, and the ACLU has asked a judge to toss it out of court.

About 10 years ago, NAMBLA counted about 1,100 members, said Fairfax County, Va., detective Tom Polhemus, who went undercover and joined the organization's governing board.

Polhemus said the group had a San Diego chapter at the time. Jones, the San Diego police sergeant, said he doesn't know if one still exists.

A former member of the organization's leadership said in court papers filed in Boston that in the mid-1990s, the group discouraged establishing local chapters to avoid police infiltration.

Obviously, the question here is not just how popular the speech is, but how harmful and criminal. Not being a lawyer, I can't comment on all the intricate problems with speech that incites people to commit crimes, but on its face, you don't need to be a lawyer to see that any group that defends NAMBLA is aiding and abetting in NAMBLA's criminal activities. The ACLU has become profoundly corrupt in its values and consequent actions.

The annual meetings, Polhemus said, were hush-hush affairs. Attendees were told to go to the host city, and the venue was not disclosed until the last minute.

"They don't want press and they don't want the cops showing up," he said.

Now why wouldn't they want the cops showing up?

And if the government, who spends billions of dollars on Iraq wanted to stamp out these garbage of homo pedophiles, they couldn't have done it already?

see related blog entry on this NAMBLA bust.

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Also, by coincidence, did you notice the parallel in the statement by the nudism restaurant owner:

"[nudists] are no different to you or I."

Same thing that pro-homos say about homosexuality. Same dynamics that pedophiles engage when they connect or meet: give each other validity for whatever they feel or do to normalize it and legitimize it.

The power of normalization.

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
(possibly by Aristotle)
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