He was one of the few outspoken voices of truth about the illegal war. He also let his carnal desires get the best of him. One does not negate the other.

Edit- i see now, the banker got off easy...

That's my point

I respect Ritter for his Iraq War efforts, and indeed, defend his comments on that to this day. But he did wrong, and he did have some perversions. I can't say if he was set up or not, I don't know, but regardless he had his choices and chose wrongly.

Robert Fisk, Hans Blix, and suicided David Kelly were among others who were part of it. I think David Kelly was the only one of them all to be disappeared for his actions. But I cannot rule out a Ritter honeypot / sting operation. 16 is legal in many states.

Ritter had three arrests. The first led to no charges. The second led to misdemeanor charges and the charges were dropped after six months probation. The third time he was offered a plea bargain but turned it down.

for anti-Iraq-Attack voices, because one issue does not obliterate the rest. What if MANSON or Robert DURST chimed in with some political position we agreed with? Wingnut fatcats run high dollar charities and I say *that* will not save them.

Nobody is absolved for creepy or criminal behavior because of an acceptable label or acceptable policy position. We've had some Democratic partisans who do whatever creepy/criminal thing and I say the Democratic label ends there. They are not representative of the label at that point, they are simply reduced to their creepy/criminal activity. At the minimum, it will always be a distraction when they are speaking for the acceptable policy because the creepiness will always be brought up.

As for the other dude, more news items say that he was let off easy to protect Royal/Parasite Randy Andy who (allegedly) toesucked a minor furnished by that dude and that a senior Shrub official requested for the prosecutor to let him off easy for the sake of the Parasite. How come his (ex-)wife caught big heat for getting toesucked herself, while tongues didn't wag about him?!1

charges are true are certifiable MONsters, and need to suffer Guantanamo-like imprisonment for the rest of their lives

Epstein probably has LOTS of pics/vids of the 1% at his underage gatherings. That's why he got off easy on his plea bargain. he's now a registered sex offender FWIW

Rumor has it that Ken Starr was involved

saw this thing on MSNBC>>Chris Hayes:

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alan-dershowitz-responds-to-accusations-380858435930

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-bizarre-case-of-jeffrey-epstein-380857411769

some articles about this indescribably filthy creep Epstein

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/06/i-tried-to-warn-you-about-sleazy-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-in-2002.html#

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/05/the-prince-and-the-sex-offender-prince-andrew-and-jeffrey-epsteins-mysterious-relationship/

check the comments on the latter

if you care to wallow, check this Daily Mail story, with the obvious Brit angle:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2897836/How-Prince-Andrew-s-sex-abuser-friend-Jeffrey-Epstein-kept-list-nicknamed-Holy-Grail-great-good-Bill-Clinton-Tony-Blair-Mick-Jagger-Donald-Trump.html

this goes into some detail about Epstein's interesting little black book, in which Clinton's name/email/phone #s appear.....something like 21 email adds and 9 phone numbers, possibly the reverse

a large percentage of the 172 (as of now) comments at the WAPO site are agressively anti Clinton (including the effect on Hillary's campaign), with the tiresome spewage about the leftwing rag ignoring Clinton's role in getting Epstein a sweet plea deal, even though that happened in 08

makes for interesting reading...up to the nausea point