Normally, the confirmation process to anoint a new Secretary of Labor isn&#8217;t especially interesting. We certainly don&#8217;t learn anything new or scandalous most of the time. But in 2017, the confirmation process of Alexander Acosta was a very notable exception. At the time, the Trump administration was vetting Acosta, and they asked him whether anything in his past might pose a problem during his confirmation hearings.
That&#8217;s when Acosta <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Trump officials about his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein criminal case, back when he was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in 2007. Acosta recounted that he had agreed to give Jeffrey Epstein the mother of all sweetheart deals. He granted immunity not only to Epstein, but also to any potential co-conspirators, known or unknown. Acosta also hid the existence of this non-prosecution agreement from Epstein&#8217;s victims, in violation of the law. As a result of the deal, the federal investigation into Epstein was shut down. Epstein ultimately pleaded guilty to a state charge of procuring a girl for prostitution under the age of 18. He was out of prison in a few months.
All of that was known to the Trump team when they interviewed Acosta. These are the kind of facts that could have killed his nomination to be Secretary of Labor. But Acosta offered an explanation for his handling of the Epstein case. He told investigators for the Trump administration that he had been directed by U.S. intelligence agencies to let Epstein off the hook. He was told that Epstein, &#8220;belonged to intelligence,&#8221; that the matter was, &#8220;above his pay grade,&#8221; and that he needed to, &#8220;leave it alone.&#8221;
When this news broke a couple years later, following Epstein&#8217;s arrest, Acosta was asked about it. He refused to say it was false and he gave maybe the most equivocal answer he possibly could have given. This will go down in history as maybe one of the worst attempts to evade an answer that has ever occurred in a press briefing in Washington. Watch:
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That&#8217;s an admission, obviously. There&#8217;s no other way to interpret what Acosta was doing there. He&#8217;s not a particularly good liar. That non-denial is confirmation that yes, Jeffrey Epstein was an intelligence asset. He was being used by the intelligence agencies, and therefore he couldn&#8217;t go to prison for amassing an army of child sex slaves.
And that&#8217;s not all the help Epstein and his associates received. On July 6 and 7 of 2019, shortly after Epstein was arrested on new sex assault charges, FBI agents <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220213053353/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/12/07/evidence-jeffrey-epsteins-safe-went-missing-fbi-raid-court-hears/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photographed</a> a variety of evidence in Epstein&#8217;s New York townhouse. They discovered binders with CDs and photographs lining the shelves. Inside a safe, which they opened with a saw, the agents found lewd photographs of children. They also discovered even more CDs that had handwritten labels on them, with the names of two individuals on some of the labels.
It&#8217;s not hard to conclude that this was probably blackmail material. According to the official story, agents simply photographed all of these items, but they didn&#8217;t take them, because they didn&#8217;t have a search warrant. Incredibly, the agents left the property to get a warrant, which somehow took four days to acquire. This by itself is ridiculous, since in a high-profile case like this, judges could obviously have approved a warrant almost immediately, while agents remained on-site. But in this case, the agents left the property, and they didn&#8217;t come back until four days later. And by that point, the materials they had photographed were all missing. 
Supposedly one of Epstein&#8217;s lawyers later brought the property to the FBI, but of course there&#8217;s no way of knowing if the CDs are the same ones that were removed from the safe. There&#8217;s no way of knowing how much evidence was tampered with.
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Given this history, there was really no conceivable way we&#8217;re ever going to learn the truth about exactly what Jeffrey Epstein did, and who his associates were. But in 2017, the independent journalist Mike Cernovich did his best to get some answers anyway. He tried to force the government&#8217;s hand. He <a href="https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1742768924213854519?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> an intervening motion in an existing defamation case concerning Epstein. This motion, which went all the way up to federal appellate court in New York, demanded that the government release information it possessed about Epstein. And the courts ultimately agreed.
But just days before documents were set to come out, coincidentally enough, Epstein — and Epstein alone — was booked on the new sex assault charges by the federal government. That arrest delayed the release of the documents, pending the prosecution. Of course that prosecution never came because Epstein  “committed suicide.” The materials in his safe began to disappear. And outside of Ghislane Maxwell, Epstein&#8217;s associates evaded scrutiny. The legal documents containing the names of many Epstein associates, as well as transcripts of key witness depositions, remained redacted.
Last night, after many years of delays, we finally got a partially unredacted look at <a href="https://controligarchsbook.com/2024/01/03/epstein-docs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">some of the documents</a> that Cernovich has been seeking for the better part of a decade. More documents are expected to be un-redacted in the coming days. This is just the first batch. But most of the materials we&#8217;re now allowed to see, as you&#8217;ve probably guessed, are not particularly shocking. We all knew, for example, that Bill Clinton had flown on Epstein&#8217;s private jet, and had been photographed with some of Epstein&#8217;s victims.
What&#8217;s new is unredacted testimony from Johanna Sjoberg, one of Epstein&#8217;s victims. She was asked, &#8220;Did Jeffrey ever talk to you about Bill Clinton?&#8221; In response, Sjoberg testified that, &#8220;He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.&#8221;
It&#8217;s not clear whether that testimony refers to underage girls, nor is it particularly new information. Neither is the fact that, according to one witness, Michael Jackson once <a href="https://x.com/CensoredMen/status/1742711855296942296?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visited</a> Epstein at his home in Palm Beach. To be sure, there are more alarming accusations in these documents, although for the most part, they aren&#8217;t new. There&#8217;s the testimony from Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre that she was directed by Ghislaine Maxwell to have sex with Prince Andrew, for example, as well as hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin.
There are also renewed claims in these documents that Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz had sex with one of Epstein&#8217;s underage victims. Again, we&#8217;ve heard this before. Going down the list, the billionaire executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, Thomas Pritzker, is also <a href="https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1742711108597911581?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged</a> in these documents to have had sex with one of Epstein&#8217;s victims. Pritzker, incidentally, is related to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, as well as the Harvard board member Penny Pritzker, who played a key role in promoting Claudine Gay to the Harvard presidency. Just in case you thought this week somehow couldn&#8217;t get any worse for Harvard.
There are some mildly interesting tidbits, all the same. For example, the magician David Copperfield&#8217;s name appears in these documents, and according to Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg, Copperfield appeared to be aware that Epstein was recruiting underage girls. But there&#8217;s no evidence Copperfield himself engaged in any illegal activity. There&#8217;s also the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12924539/Jeffery-Epstein-documents-Ghislaine-Maxwell-deny-Stephen-Hawking-participated-underage-orgy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news</a> that Epstein wrote an email explicitly denying that Stephen Hawking had ever participated in an orgy at his island, which is a strange email to write. Regardless, this isn&#8217;t exactly groundbreaking stuff, nor does it provide much clarity.
And there are still many more questions than answers. If you go through the nearly-600-pages of documents that were released last night, you&#8217;ll still find a lot of very conspicuous redactions. On page 497, for example, you&#8217;ll find this question that was posed to Virginia Giuffre: &#8220;Ghislaine Maxwell told you to go give a massage to [Redacted], correct?&#8221; The name of the person is hidden.
By the same token, on page 502, you&#8217;ll find this question to Giuffre: &#8220;Other than Glenn Dubin, [Redacted], Prince Andrew, Jean Luc Brunel, Bill Richardson, another prince, the large hotel chain owner and [the late MIT professor] Marvin Minsky, is there anyone else Ghislaine Maxwell directed you to go have sex with?&#8221; 
Once again, there&#8217;s a name missing from the list in that question, and for some reason we&#8217;re still not allowed to know who that is. There could be good reasons for concealing the name. Maybe it&#8217;s an underage victim of Epstein&#8217;s. On the other hand, maybe it&#8217;s someone with a lot of power who&#8217;s still under the control of the intelligence agencies. We really have no idea. Whatever the case, there are a lot more redactions like this. You can download the documents and see for yourself. What this means is that, several years after Epstein&#8217;s death, we&#8217;re still left to fill in the blanks of court documents that were supposed to be made public before Epstein died. We&#8217;re not entitled to know anything more than we already knew and we&#8217;re definitely not allowed to know what exactly was on those blackmail CDs that disappeared from Epstein&#8217;s safe.
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Most of what appears in the documents released yesterday leaves plenty of plausible deniability for those named. None of it amounts to actual proof of wrongdoing. It all raises more questions than it answers. But there is very good reason to believe that there exists out there somewhere — or did exist, at one point — actual physical direct proof that a bunch of powerful people raped children on Epstein’s island, or on one of his other properties. But that proof is not being released, and nobody has ever been arrested.
It’s a funny thing, isn’t it? Epstein was an international pimp and pedophile, but apparently he had no clients. That’s what we’re supposed to believe anyway. But we can’t believe that, because it’s nonsense. Which means that the truth — the real truth, the full truth — is still being kept secret from us.
Those are secrets, as Alexander Acosta said, that are above our pay grade. And they will remain above our pay grade — at least, until the people Epstein was blackmailing step out of line. Then we might see the names on those CDs. Then we might learn the identity of all the people named in those binders in his New York townhouse. Otherwise, the feds will continue to stonewall Cernovich and everyone else who&#8217;s been seeking the truth. That&#8217;s because, more than four years after Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s death, he still belongs to intelligence.
The CIA has a term called “limited hangout.” This is a tactic where some small portion of the truth is made public while the most important details — the stuff that really matters — is kept hidden. Intelligence agencies do this in hopes that the stuff they release will satisfy everyone’s curiosity and they’ll stop asking questions. These Epstein files appear to be exactly that. This is a limited hangout. A diversion meant to satisfy you without actually telling you what you need to know. They want you to stop asking questions. Don’t fall for it.

Jeffrey Epstein Appears In Manhattan Federal Court On Sex Trafficking Charges

The Epstein Files Are Released But The Cover Up Continues

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The federal court documents containing the names of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theyd-have-to-cancel-the-election-mark-epstein-claims-brother-jeffrey-had-dirt-on-both-2016-candidates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">people who were associated</a> with the late convicted pedophile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accountability-is-coming-epstein-associates-to-be-named-after-judge-orders-documents-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a> were set to be unsealed on Wednesday in New York, with a few key exceptions.
According to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/03/jeffrey-epstein-court-document-names-unsealed-wednesday-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published that same day by CNBC, Judge Loretta Preska ordered the unsealing in December, but granted a 30-day extension to at least two individuals named in the filing — some who were underage at the time that Epstein abused them and one of whom is a woman who has thus far only been identified as Doe 107.
Doe 107, according to the network, has claimed that she would be at &#8220;risk of physical harm in her home country&#8221; if her identity were to ever be revealed — and the judge has not yet finished reviewing her claim.
The documents in question were filed by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein&#8217;s victims, pursuant to her lawsuit against the disgraced financier&#8217;s convicted accomplice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfriend-ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-to-prison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghislaine Maxwell</a> — whose sentence included two decades behind bars and a $750,000 fine — and are expected to name some 150 who were linked in some way to Epstein.
CNBC also noted that some of the people expected to be named as the documents are unsealed are already known to be Epstein&#8217;s associates — and that not everyone named in the documents has been accused of committing any crime or having knowledge of crimes committed by Epstein and others. The list is expected to include alleged perpetrators, alleged co-conspirators, and even potential victims.
Around 50 of Epstein&#8217;s associates&#8217; names have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/names-jeffrey-epsteins-associates-set-be-released-2024-01-03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already been revealed</a> and include a number of powerful people in both money and politics. Among the most well-known are former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — both of whom have denied participation in and knowledge of Epstein&#8217;s sex crimes.
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Britain&#8217;s Prince Andrew — who has been stripped of the majority of his royal titles and privileges — is also a known associate and, though he also denied wrongdoing, previously settled a civil lawsuit filed by Giuffre.

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Names Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Associates To Be Unsealed — With Few Exceptions

Names Of Jeffrey Epstein's Associates To Be Unsealed — With Few Exceptions

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A viral photo of a man identifying as a woman nursing a baby prompted swimmer-turned-activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines">Riley Gaines</a> to declare that such behavior was “normalizing pedophilia.”
The photo was posted by Mika Minio-Paluello, a former adviser to Great Britain’s Labour Party, who said he &#8220;only breastfed my child for a few weeks&#8221; before stopping due to cancer treatments. Gaines, a former All-American at University of Kentucky who has become outspoken about radical gender theory and protecting women and girls in sports, called it &#8220;sick.&#8221;
“For the longest time I refrained from posting on TikTok,” Gaines wrote. “But after what I saw today on Twitter, I will be blasting my opinions and my views on all of my social media platforms because this is sick and I think a true testament of where, as Americans, we are today.”
Gaines posted other photos of Minio-Paluello that show him using nipple clamps to satisfy a twisted sexual fetish.
“In the following photos you will see the same man who was breastfeeding the child actively using nipple clamps to fulfill his sexual fetish,&#8221; wrote Gaines, citing an Instagram caption in which he wondered how hard the viewer could tug on the clamps.
“So I guess what I’m wondering is, how can any sane human being see this man posing with this child, obviously sucking on his nipple, now seeing what he engages in privately, and not see this baby as an erotic prop for this man with a sick fetish?” Gaines asked.
“It is sexual abuse of a child, bottom line and all of this to say that in America we are normalizing pedophilia,” she charged. “Let me repeat that: we are normalizing pedophilia. We are normalizing this behavior in the guise of human rights but sexual abuse is not a human right for anyone. I hate to even be spreading this message but I think people need to see it.
“It’s up to us to stand up against evil which is exactly what this is,” she declared. “This is a battle of moral versus evil. The smirk on this man’s face says it all.”
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Riley Gaines is calling out normalizing pedophilia. Well done <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a> 
And the GUY is an advisor to the UK government!!! Imagine that. <a href="https://t.co/bndC2l0UF7">pic.twitter.com/bndC2l0UF7</a>
&mdash; Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1676823140180144129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A 35-year-old Washington woman allegedly told authorities she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identifies</a> as a 15-year-old boy after she was arrested for harboring runaway teens and accused of providing them with drugs and alcohol and sexting them.
Amanda Dorrough was charged with unlawful harboring of minors earlier this month after police said they discovered Dorrough planned to flee Seattle with a group of teenagers, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/grown-woman-who-identifies-as-15-year-old-boy-faces-wild-claims-of-drugs-sexting-with-teen-runaways-police">reported</a>. The adult woman was arrested on May 4 after the vice principal at Port Angeles High School, northwest of Seattle, reportedly contacted police after two students revealed their plan to run away with Dorrough, who went by the nickname “Taz” with the group of teens.
Dorrough, who the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12124585/Woman-35-arrested-harboring-runaway-children.html">reports</a> is a mother of three children, allegedly told Clallam County Jail staff that she identifies as a 15-year-old boy.
“She feels like teenagers ‘understand’ her better&#8221; and that &#8220;she ‘identifies’ better with teenage kids,” the report said.
Police found Dorrough in a gully with a boy amid a heap of blankets, &#8220;two empty condom packets, one unopened condom, a bra, and an empty cigarette packet with a lighter,&#8221; according to the police report. At least 10 different incident reports received by police allegedly involved Borrough and her relationship with minors.
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Woman who allegedly told cops she identifies as 15-year-old boy arrested for sexting runaway teens <a href="https://t.co/HOlmGRSuOO">https://t.co/HOlmGRSuOO</a> <a href="https://t.co/kB3iACiOdy">pic.twitter.com/kB3iACiOdy</a>
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Neighbors reportedly called the police after witnessing minors enter and leave Dorrough’s apartment regularly. One neighbor also said the adult woman was seen topless in the hallway with a boy who appeared to be around 13 years old, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/grown-woman-who-identifies-as-15-year-old-boy-faces-wild-claims-of-drugs-sexting-with-teen-runaways-police">according</a> to the report. Police also said that Dorrough was kicked out of a Boys and Girls Club over “perceived ‘predatory’ behavior.&#8221;
When police arrived at the woman’s apartment on May 2, two days before her arrest, they spotted three teenagers running through the parking lot away from Dorrough’s apartment. One officer reportedly heard movement inside Dorrough’s apartment, but police were unable to talk to anyone inside.
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The police report — which was first <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/3889164/rantz-pedophile-ish-adult-woman-identifies-15-year-old-boy-per-police-report/">reported</a> by radio host Jason Rantz — alleges that the adult woman got naked in front of minors, touched one inappropriately, and gave them marijuana. One of Dorrough’s alleged victims reportedly told authorities that the 35-year-old woman was “pedophile-ish.” When one of the minors told Dorrough he wasn’t interested in her, she <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12124585/Woman-35-arrested-harboring-runaway-children.html">allegedly</a> got upset and said she would kill herself.
Dorrough was not charged with any sexual offenses and was released on bond on May 14, just 10 days after her arrest.

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35-Year-Old Woman Accused Of Sexting And Giving Drugs To Teens, Allegedly Told Authorities She Identifies As 15-Year-Old Boy

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new package of crime bills into law on Monday, all of which are designed to keep criminals out of the streets.
The <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2023/05/01/governor-ron-desantis-signs-third-consecutive-anti-crime-pro-public-safety-legislative-package/">three bills</a> target bail reforms being pushed by leftist prosecutors, increases penalties on fentanyl traffickers, and makes those who commit certain crimes against children eligible for the death penalty.
“Florida is a law-and-order state with a 50-year record low crime rate and double-digit year-over-year decreases in murder, burglary, and overall crime,” DeSantis said in a statement. “For three consecutive legislative sessions we have enacted tough-on-crime policies, and this year we are continuing to implement measures to protect our communities and keep Florida safe, with a particular emphasis on keeping criminals in jail and throwing the book at pedophiles.”
House Bill 1627 addresses “bail reforms” through a variety of actions, including requiring the Florida Supreme Court to develop a uniform statewide bond schedule by the end of the year.
The bill prohibits judges from setting a lower bond amount than the uniform state bond, prohibits a defendant from being released prior to their first appearance in court if they have been arrested for a violent or heinous crime, and adds a series of crimes to the state&#8217;s list of &#8220;dangerous crimes.&#8221;
House Bill 1359 increases criminal penalties on those who traffic &#8220;rainbow fentanyl&#8221; by making those who traffic such substances eligible for a life sentence and imposing a minimum 25 year sentence and a $1 million penalty and making it a first-degree felony to possess, sell, or manufacture fentanyl and other controlled substances that resemble candy.
DeSantis also signed House Bill 1297 into law which imposes the death penalty on pedophiles who &#8220;commit sexual battery against children under the age of 12,&#8221; the governor&#8217;s office said.
The governor said that he is prepared to take the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court &#8220;to overrule judicial precedents which have unjustly shielded child rapists from the death penalty and denied victims and their loved ones the opportunity to pursue ultimate justice against these most heinous criminals.&#8221;
Last month, DeSantis <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/politics/death-penalty-ron-desantis-florida-parkland-shooting/index.html">signed</a> a bill into law that drops the requirement for a death sentence to be handed out to a convicted criminal from a unanimous vote for jurors to only 8 out of 12 jurors.
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&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1653111212886958081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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DeSantis Signs New ‘Law-And-Order’ Bills That Allows The Death Penalty For Pedophiles

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/minnesota" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota</a> lawmakers explicitly excluded <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pedophilia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pedophiles</a> from the state’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/civil-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">human rights</a> statutes after one of their colleagues suggested loosening language that exempted adults attracted to children from enjoying legal protections under the law.
Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke, a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the first self-identified <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> in the Minnesota Legislature, introduced an <a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/legislatordetail/27553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amendment</a> in his Take Pride Act that would have altered the <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF1655&amp;version=0&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">definition</a> of “sexual orientation” in the Minnesota Human Rights Act such that a provision clarifying that the term “does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult” would have been omitted. The move, in other words, would have allowed adults who claim attraction to children as part of their “sexual orientation” to be protected from discrimination under the law.
After the proposed amendment made national headlines, however, the Minnesota House unanimously <a href="https://www.house.mn.gov/cco/journals/2023-24/J0426057.htm#7103" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> on Wednesday to amend the Minnesota Human Rights Act in order to explicitly clarify that “the physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult is not a protected class” under the law. Minnesota State Rep. Harry Niska, a member of the Republican Party who introduced the clarification, <a href="https://twitter.com/HarryNiska/status/1651397025995399171" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the unanimous vote was a “glimmer of common sense.”
Finke, a biological male who claims to be a woman, later <a href="https://twitter.com/leighfinke/status/1651388081595904007" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a> on social media that the original amendment would have changed “nothing about sexual orientation” and was misrepresented by the media. “Folks could have listened, but they didn’t want to,” the lawmaker added. “They instead used the opportunity to amplify the hatred of trans people. There was never a controversy, but it didn’t matter. The lie exploded into a whirlwind of hate intended to hurt me.”
Minnesota Family Council CEO John Helmberger told The Daily Wire that the organization appreciated the unanimous vote and expressed hope that both parties would work to protect children from exploitation. “We’re also extremely grateful that this amendment was adopted unanimously; that’s a great expression of the desire of legislators in both parties to protect children from exploitation,” he remarked. “However, we wish it hadn’t come to this point; we wish that the authors of this bill would have realized the potentially extremely dangerous direction this legislation would lead, and corrected it before it got to the House floor.”
Helmberger added that some lawmakers had told their constituents that the Minnesota Family Council was “misleading” the public on the dangers from the loophole for pedophiles offered by the initial amendment. “Yesterday’s unanimous vote shows that our concerns were grounded in fact, and Minnesota legislators realized that,” he continued. “We hope this is the start of a new bipartisan drive to protect Minnesota’s kids from exploitation.”
Democrats won control of the Minnesota State Senate last year, enabling lawmakers to <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF23&amp;version=latest&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pass</a> a ban on so-called conversion therapy, defined as any measure “intended to change an individual&#8217;s sexual orientation or gender identity” or “reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender.” Lawmakers also <a href="https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=SF165&amp;version=latest&amp;session=ls93&amp;session_year=2023&amp;session_number=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> a measure requiring Minnesota to protect individuals who violate “a law of another state” to procure an abortion.
Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz <a href="https://twitter.com/GovTimWalz/status/1651608166780616704" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> both bills on Thursday, as well as legislation which will “protect access to gender-affirming health care.” Finke <a href="https://twitter.com/leighfinke/status/1651623913208651791" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the enactment of the three bills marked “an amazing, celebratory day in the movement for a more just future.”

Leigh Finke

Minnesota Trans Lawmaker Wanted To Remove Anti-Pedophile Clause From Human Rights Statute, Cries Victim As Colleagues Move To Protect Children

Minnesota Trans Lawmaker Wanted To Remove Anti-Pedophile Clause From Human Rights Statute

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Social Issues

Editor&#8217;s Note: Subsequent to publication of this story, the UN clarified that by &#8220;sexual conduct involving&#8221; those below the age of consent it meant to include only incidents in which both parties fit the criteria. It was not immediately clear if the UN intended to correct its imprecise wording.
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A United Nations-backed <a href="https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf">report</a> published last month suggests global leaders normalize pedophilia by allowing children to legally decide on engaging in sexual activities with adults.
Wrapped inside a human-rights-based analysis on the impact of criminal laws proscribing sexual and reproductive health rights, consensual sexual activity, and gender ideology the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ), UNAIDS and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published the report — which calls for offenses related to &#8220;sex, drug use, HIV, sexual and reproductive health, homelessness and poverty&#8221; to be decriminalized.
&#8220;Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,&#8221; the Geneva-based ICJ wrote.
Authors of the report further advise lawyers, judges, and law enforcement to consider &#8220;the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.&#8221;
&#8220;Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.&#8221;
The report took over five years to develop and based its findings on feedback and reviews from jurists, academics, legal practitioners, human rights defenders, and various civil society organizations. Such results primarily focused on the impact of criminal laws proscribing sexual and reproductive health and rights, consensual sexual activity, gender identity, gender expression, HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission, drug use, and the possession of drugs for personal use, according to the report.
According to the <a href="https://decriminalise.unaids.org/">UNAIDS</a>, 20 countries criminalize or otherwise prosecute transgender people, 67 countries still criminalize same-sex sexual activity (with 10 imposing the death penalty for it), 115 countries criminalize drug use, more than 130 criminalize HIV exposure, non-disclosure, and transmission, and over 150 countries criminalize some aspects of prostitution.
&#8220;Criminal law is among the harshest of tools at the disposal of the State to exert control over individuals &#8230; as such, it ought to be a measure of last resort however, globally, there has been a growing trend towards overcriminalization,&#8221; Ian Seiderman, Law and Policy Director at ICJ, said in a <a href="https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2023/march/20230308_new-legal-principles-decriminalization">news release</a>. &#8220;We must acknowledge that these laws not only violate human rights, but the fundamental principles of criminal law themselves.&#8221;
Retired Judge Edwin Cameron of the Constitutional Court of South Africa argues criminal law deems some groups protected and others condemned and ostracized.
&#8220;In this way, the criminal law performs an expressive function — and it has dramatic consequences on people&#8217;s lives,&#8221; Edwin wrote. &#8220;It sometimes entails a harshly discriminatory impact on groups identified with the disapproved or stigmatized conduct.&#8221;
The report also argues killing unborn children in elective abortions is a human right, calling for decriminalizing the procedure and removing punishment for pregnant mothers who consume drugs or alcohol during pregnancy.
&#8220;Abortion must be taken entirely out of the purview of the criminal law, including for having, aiding, assisting with or providing an abortion …&#8221; the report states.
Officials published the report on March 8 in recognition of International Women&#8217;s Day, alleging a connection between women&#8217;s rights and the age of sexual consent.
Women&#8217;s rights activist Michelle Uriarau of Melbourne, Australia, tweeted that publishing the report on International Women&#8217;s Day succeeded in &#8220;gaslighting women everywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;This hideous UN report … seeks to decriminalize sex — even between children and minors. Evil,&#8221; Uriarau <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/un-backed-legal-recommendations-normalize-sex-minors-critics-say">said</a>.

United Nations

UN-Backed Report Suggests Normalizing Pedophilia, Decriminalizing All Sexual Activity

UN-Backed Report Suggests Normalizing Pedophilia

LGTBQ

World

More than six hundred children suffered sexual abuse by at least 150 Baltimore-area clergy members and other Archdiocese personnel, according to a Maryland Attorney General’s <a href="https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/news%20documents/OAG_redacted_Report_on_Child_Sexual_Abuse.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published in the middle of Holy Week, detailing over 80 years of covering up the scandals.
The Maryland Office of the Attorney General launched a Grand Jury investigation into the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 2018, listing a total of 156 clergy members, deacons, seminaries, teachers, and other employees of the Archdiocese as abusers in “hundreds of thousands” of documents dating back to the 1940s — although officials said the number of victims is likely far higher than outlined in the nearly 500-page report.
Such documents reveal with “disturbing clarity” that the Archdiocese, the first diocese established in the United States, allegedly protected accused clergy members from scandal and negative publicity rather than vulnerable children in their communities. In some cases, church leaders would allegedly offer those accused a chance to retire with financial support.
“Time and again, members of the Church’s hierarchy resolutely refused to acknowledge allegations of child sexual abuse for as long as possible,” the report reads. “When denial became impossible, Church leadership would remove abusers from the parish or school, sometimes with promises that they would have no further contact with children.”
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, who took office in January, <a class="color-link" title="https://fb.watch/jJy7AW9GQ8/" href="https://fb.watch/jJy7AW9GQ8/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://fb.watch/jJy7AW9GQ8/" aria-label="said">said</a> during a press conference Wednesday the investigation shows the “incontrovertible history uncovered by this investigation is one of pervasive, pernicious and persistent abuse by priests and other archdiocese personnel,” adding most of the alleged abusers listed in the report would not face prosecution as they have passed away.
“It’s also a history of repeated coverup of that abuse by the Catholic Church hierarchy,” Brown said.
The document primarily focuses on alleged sex abuse within the Boston diocese’s systematic cover-up before 2002, following <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/special-reports/2002/01/06/church-allowed-abuse-priest-for-years/cSHfGkTIrAT25qKGvBuDNM/story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Boston Globe</a> exposing large numbers of reports across the country of individual abusive priests who got away with molesting children, bringing national attention to the scale and pervasiveness of the crisis. The revelations encouraged hundreds of victims to come forward with allegations of abuse, resulting in nearly 250 criminal cases and numerous lawsuits.
Victims of the alleged abusers told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-archdiocese-sex-abuse-report-7d5d3af098da59a1c9313a246566638c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a> the report was a “long-overdue public reckoning with shameful accusations the church has been facing for decades.”
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Jean Hargadon Wehner said her priest, Father Joseph Maskell, abused her in Baltimore during her teenage years in the early 1990s.
Wehner said she initially reported the repeated sexual abuse by Maskell, who also served as her Catholic high school’s counselor and chaplain, to church officials.
“I expected them to do the right thing in 1992,” she told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “I’m still angry.”
Maskell, according to the report, sexually abused at least 39 victims, which he denied before his death in 2001, evading criminal charges.
Kurt Rupprecht, another victim of abuse, told reporters he and others were present to “speak the truth and never stop.”
“We deal with this every day,” Rupprecht said. “It is our life sentence.”
Maryland lawmakers passed a bill ending a statute of limitations on abuse-related civil lawsuits on Wednesday, which now heads to Governor Wes Moore, who has said he supports it, AP reported.
Baltimore archdiocese officials said the church had paid more than $13.2 million for care and compensation for 301 abuse victims since the 1980s, including $6.8 million toward 105 voluntary settlements, according to AP.
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori apologized to the victims in a <a href="https://www.archbalt.org/a-message-from-archbishop-william-e-lori-on-the-maryland-attorney-generals-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, saying the report “details a reprehensible time in the history of this Archdiocese, a time that will not be covered up, ignored or forgotten.”
“It is difficult for most to imagine that such evil acts could have actually occurred,” Lori said. “For victim-survivors everywhere, they know the hard truth: These evil acts did occur.”
Pennsylvania’s then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro <a class="color-link" title="https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/attorney-general-shapiro-details-findings-of-2-year-grand-jury-investigation-into-child-sex-abuse-by-catholic-priests-in-six-pennsylvania-dioceses/" href="https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/attorney-general-shapiro-details-findings-of-2-year-grand-jury-investigation-into-child-sex-abuse-by-catholic-priests-in-six-pennsylvania-dioceses/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/attorney-general-shapiro-details-findings-of-2-year-grand-jury-investigation-into-child-sex-abuse-by-catholic-priests-in-six-pennsylvania-dioceses/" aria-label="announced">revealed</a> in a 2018 investigation that over 300 Catholic priests sexually abused more than 1,000 children.
The report comes nearly two months after an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tip-of-the-iceberg-portuguese-catholic-church-accused-of-sexually-abusing-more-than-4800-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">independent panel</a> studying child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal found that members of the church — mainly priests — sexually abused more than 4,800 children over the past 70 years.
The Independent Committee for the Study of Child Abuse in the Catholic Church released its final 500-page report Monday to the Associated Press, which Portuguese bishops set up just over a year ago to look into the alleged historical abuse in the church from 1950 to the present day.
So far, 512 alleged victims have made accusations.
Pedro Strecht, a child psychiatrist who led the commission, told Reuters that at least 4,815 children were abused, adding those accusations are “the tip of the iceberg.”
Editor&#8217;s note: This article&#8217;s headline has been updated to reflect that the Archdiocese of Baltimore is the oldest Catholic archdiocese in the U.S., not the oldest church.

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Oldest Roman Catholic Archdiocese In U.S. Accused Of Covering Up Over 600 Child Sex Abuse Reports: Officials

Oldest Roman Catholic Church In U.S. Accused Of Covering Up Over 600 Child Sex Abuse Reports: Officials

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Child Sex Abuse

Religion

Thousands of convicted pedophiles in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> served less than a year in prison after committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, according to an investigative <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
The Daily Mail analyzed a statewide database of sex offenders that showed more than 7,000 child molesters were released within months after federal authorities sentenced them to prison.
Former Los Angeles sex crimes prosecutor Samuel Dordulian told Daily Mail that the statistics &#8220;shocked&#8221; him, adding the reality is &#8220;frightening for society.&#8221;
&#8220;Statistics clearly show that pedophiles don&#8217;t get reformed,&#8221; Dordulian said. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to come out, and they&#8217;re going to commit again. Letting these people out early, we&#8217;re allowing for a lot more victimization — and that&#8217;s terrifying.&#8221;
California law requires sex offenders to register their address and update their location upon moving with the Department of Justice. Those names and other personal details are then placed in a public database under Megan&#8217;s Law, which the Clinton administration passed in 1996 after a pedophile murdered 7-year-old Megan Kanka.
According to the report, 54,986 sex offenders were listed on the website in July 2019, of which 76% committed offenses involving children.
The average pedophile served two years and ten months in prison.
One of the examples outlined in the Daily Mail report said an offender in the database named Carlos Alexander Nahue, 48, of Reseda, California, lives one block from Royal Montessori School daycare and three blocks from Reseda Elementary School after allegedly being convicted of &#8220;continuous sexual abuse of a child&#8221; in 2015.
Authorities charged Nahue in October 2014. He pled no contest to the crime in January 2015, which resulted in a judge sentencing him to only two days in an L.A. county jail and five years of probation.
According to the database, some pedophiles committed misdemeanors, such as indecent exposure or attempting to send lewd pictures to children, and convicts received less jail time. However, the most common offenses were &#8220;lewd or lascivious acts&#8221; against children under 14 years old, and 7,152 pedophiles who committed this crime served less than a year.
Dordulian said the statistics were &#8220;&#8216;surprisingly very low.&#8221;
&#8220;In my days [in the L.A. DA&#8217;s office], we made every effort to get as long of a prison sentence as we could because we knew that the minute they&#8217;re going to come out, they&#8217;re more likely to re-offend and another child&#8217;s gonna get harmed,” he told Daily Mail.
Dordulian said as a lawyer who represents victims of sexual abuse, California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s policies shorten prison sentences to reduce the population locked up.
&#8220;That has been the push for the last at least five years: letting people out of prison much earlier than what their sentences were for,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But these types of individuals, they&#8217;re not amenable to rehabilitation, and studies have shown that. They&#8217;re gonna harm another child — It&#8217;s a very, very scary trend.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the state&#8217;s attorney general told Daily Mail that &#8220;public safety is a top priority for the California Department of Justice,&#8221; adding that the issue generally falls on the responsibility of local district attorneys, courts, and state lawmakers.
&#8220;Our office actively works with law enforcement across the state to protect our state&#8217;s children and families, whether that&#8217;s through conducting sting operations targeting sexual predators, issuing guidance to reduce harm to sexually exploited youth, or launching Human Trafficking and Sexual Predator Apprehension Teams,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, a child abuse prosecutor in the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office, said the situation was &#8220;a disgrace&#8221; to Daily Mail, adding the problem is only getting worse under his boss George Gascón, who supported Proposition 57, which allows early parole for nonviolent felons.
&#8220;Thousands of child victims are being denied justice, and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less,&#8221; Hatami said.
Hatami said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stopped notifying the child victims and their families of such early releases.
&#8220;It&#8217;s shameful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Furthermore, most of these sex offenders who are released early have not been rehabilitated whatsoever. This will clearly endanger our future generation of children and our entire community — it&#8217;s a disgrace that the state of California is not prioritizing the safety and well-being of our children.&#8221;

Thousands Of Pedophiles Serve Less Than One Year In California Prisons: Report

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George Gascon

Do you ever get the sense that the Left is trying to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-cannot-ignore-the-slippery-slope-of-minor-attracted-behavior" target="_blank" rel="noopener">normalize pedophilia</a>?
Well, of course, you do. It&#8217;s hard not to have that impression. Liberals have gone off the rails over the past decade. Fashion brands are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-bowl-mvp-cooper-kupp-unloads-on-balenciaga-over-child-photo-shoot-scandal?utm_campaign=news&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=dwtwitter&amp;cid=news&amp;mid=t&amp;xid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">releasing bondage-bound teddy bear advertisements</a> that sexualize children. Using progressive logic, if children can consent to change their gender, they can consent to a whole lot more.
It is all an entirely perverse and disordered slippery slope.
Now, we have The Washington Post writing a rave review for a play that casts pedophiles in a sympathetic light, suggesting their punishments are often too harsh.
In a column titled, &#8220;‘Downstate’ is a play about pedophiles. It’s also brilliant,&#8221; theater critic Peter Marks <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/23/downstate-bruce-norris-pedophiles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> the play for being &#8220;tough stuff, questioning how society treats those convicted of heinous acts.&#8221;
As described by Marks, Bruce Norris — the playwright behind the production — paints these child molesters in a positive light.
&#8220;He’s loaded the dice to some degree in &#8216;Downstate,&#8217; as the predators who’ve completed their prison terms are depicted not as monsters but rather as complicated, troubled souls,&#8221; Marks claims.
The play also makes a victim of one of the main characters  — a now-grown man who was molested by his instructor during a piano practice — out to be the bad guy in the story.
So why does Marks find this garbage to be so enlightening and worthy of praise?
Well, as Marks explains it&#8217;s not for everybody — especially those staunchly against pedophilia and who believe in true justice.
&#8220;Some theatergoers no doubt will resent that Norris chose to illuminate this delicate subject in a nuanced way that doesn’t jibe with their own undiluted revulsion,&#8221; Marks explains. &#8220;If you suspect you are one of these people, &#8216;Downstate&#8217; is not for you.&#8221;
Yet if you have an open mind to the topic, or whatever, then maybe this is your cup of tea.
&#8220;For many others, it will be a stunning demonstration of the power of narrative art to tackle a taboo, to compel us to look at a controversial topic from novel perspectives,&#8221; Marks said.
There is nothing to discuss — except whether or not pedophiles deserve tougher sentences such as the death penalty.
Yet that&#8217;s just it. Many on the Left want to make that viewpoint old-fashioned. There are movements to change the name of the pedophile to a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minor-attracted-person-inside-the-growing-effort-to-destigmatize-pedophilia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minor-attracted person</a>&#8221; and make it societally acceptable. This play is part of that slippery slope.
As heavyweight boxer and author Ed Latimore explained, &#8220;The fact that the play got made is already a problem.&#8221;
&#8220;Calling it &#8216;brilliant&#8217; is disgusting,&#8221; Latimore tweeted. &#8220;The part where you wanna burn it all down is when the @washingtonpos described the character of the victim as &#8216;the most disagreeable character&#8217; who is played &#8216;irritatingly well.'&#8221;
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The fact that the play got made is already a problem.
Calling it &quot;brilliant&quot; is disgusting.
The part where you wanna burn it all down is when the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> described the character of the victim as &quot;the most disagreeable character&quot; who is played &quot;irritatingly well.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Mfj47VCHs4">https://t.co/Mfj47VCHs4</a>
&mdash; Ed Latimore (@EdLatimore) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdLatimore/status/1597023103522988032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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All of this is an attempt to destigmatize pedophilia.  Norris&#8217; play wants the viewer to believe that we need to change our views on the subject.
You would only give out lighter sentences to these creeps if what you think they did is acceptable or at the very least not as bad of a crime as it&#8217;s treated now. Of course, it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s heinously evil, but some want to convince you otherwise.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Slippery Slope: Washington Post Gives Rave Review For Play About Pedophiles, Treating Them Kinder

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Media

Lower-level <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> parliamentarians unanimously passed a law Thursday that would ban the distribution of materials promoting homosexuality, pedophilia, and gender reassignment.
More than 300 representatives of the State Duma, including the chairman, authored the new law, which imposes heavy fines of up to 10 million rubles ($165,000) for violating the ban by promoting such propaganda using online channels, media, or in public. Foreign citizens and stateless persons who violate the law would also face expulsion from the Russian Federation.
Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin <a href="http://duma.gov.ru/news/55838/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the law would help protect the motherland&#8217;s traditions and values for her children and the future of Russia from the &#8220;darkness spread by the United States and European states.&#8221;
Volodin called the U.S. the &#8220;center of this sodom in the world&#8221; in response to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who had allegedly proposed Russian representatives withdraw the draft law.
&#8220;There is no need to impose alien values ​​on us,” Volodin said. &#8220;You destroyed yours — we&#8217;ll see how it all ends. But it&#8217;s definitely sad because this is sodom — there&#8217;s no other way to say it.&#8221;
&#8220;Let them live there, but don&#8217;t bother us,&#8221; Volodin added.
Russian lawmakers have already banned propaganda promoting homosexuality among minors nearly a decade ago and passed amendments to its constitution outlawing same-sex marriage in 2020.
Alexander Khinstein, one of the bill&#8217;s authors, referred to LGBT ideology as “hybrid warfare.”
&#8220;LGBT today is an element of hybrid warfare, and in this hybrid warfare,” Khinstein said, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-parliament-passes-law-banning-lgbt-propaganda-among-adults-2022-11-24/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>. &#8220;We must protect our values, our society, and our children.&#8221;
Political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann said in an interview from Cologne, Germany, that the law would prohibit anything showing LGBT relations as &#8220;socially acceptable&#8221; or &#8220;equal to so-called traditional family relations or sexual relations.&#8221;
&#8220;People — authors, publishers, just people — will think twice before even mentioning anything related to LGBT,&#8221; Schulmann said, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-parliament-passes-law-banning-lgbt-propaganda-among-adults-2022-11-24/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>.
Kseniya Mikhailova, a member of the LGBT support group Vykhod (&#8220;Coming Out&#8221;), told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-parliament-passes-law-banning-lgbt-propaganda-among-adults-2022-11-24/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> that the new law could make same-sex kissing in public illegal, but would not put adults-only gay bars or clubs out of business.
Dilya Gafurova, the head of LGBTQ rights group Sfera, told <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221124-russian-lawmakers-approve-bill-banning-lgbtq-propaganda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Agence France-Presse</a> that it was “disturbing that the state is saying LGBT+ people are a Western invention,&#8221; adding “there is nothing wrong with us and nothing that needs to be hushed up.&#8221;
The law still needs approval from the upper house of parliament and President Vladimir Putin before taking effect.

Russian flag on the Parliament building in Moscow against cloudy blue sky. State Duma and Statue of St. George the victorious

Russia Advances Law Banning LGBT, Pedophilia Propaganda

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Cenk Uygur&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM64v82pKM4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest unhinged rant</a> saw the Young Turks host attack Catholic priests, accuse the right-wing of cheering on pedophilia, and make a bizarre supposition about why Tim Pool wears a wool cap.
The volatile leftist&#8217;s diatribe on his internet show was triggered by Saturday night&#8217;s mass shooting in a Colorado Springs gay bar, which he erroneously said Pool and other conservatives applauded. Several liberals have claimed conservative opposition to pedophilia, radical gender theory, and grooming children through drag shows is putting LGBT lives at risk.
“The right-wing loves pedophiles,” Uygur said. &#8220;There’s no end to the depravity of right-wing media.”
A particular observation by Pool in response to the shooting, which left five dead, seemed to set off Uygur. Initial speculation swirled that the suspect, whose lawyers have just revealed identifies as &#8220;non-binary,&#8221; launched his attack in Club Q because it was set to host a drag show for children the next day.
“We shouldn’t tolerate pedophiles grooming kids. Club Q had a grooming event,” Pool said, before suggesting the challenge facing decent people is “how to prevent the violence and stop the grooming.”
Uygur took the comment to mean that Pool was somehow justifying violence.
“He’s a monstrous right-winger,” Uygur shouted. “He’s a terrible, terrible person. [He thinks] &#8216;all gay people are pedophiles and groomers and we should all attack them and do all these horrible things so we can goad our lunatic audience.’ And yes, Tim Pool, Matt Walsh, Tucker Carlson, you all have lunatics in your audience and you weaponize them and you know it.&#8221;
“I’m sick of these right-wingers,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Look at it. They’re almost celebrating it! I mean, he nearly brought pom-poms to the shooting!”
Rage against pedophilia, Uygur said, should instead be directed at the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.
“What do we know about the giant cases of pedophilia in this country?&#8221; he asked his audience. &#8220;Number one is Catholic priests, one of the most conservative professions in America.
“And the right-wing’s like, ‘Yes! I love how they molest the little kids like that! Go get ‘em, Boy Scouts! Go get ‘em, priests!’” he charged.
“They love the Boy Scouts. A nest of vipers and pedophiles and groomers, okay? And the right-wing’s like, ‘Yes! The Boy Scouts! I love how they molest the little kids like that! Go get ‘em Boy Scouts! Go get ‘em priests!’ Tell me I’m wrong. You guys love the Boy Scouts and priests. You never criticize them.”
Uygur brought the pedophilia fulmination back to his initial target, Pool, with a strange explanation for why the YouTube and podcast star often sports a ski cap.
“The reason Tim Pool wears a beanie is because he’s trying to contain the pedophilia that’s in his head,&#8221; Uygur said. &#8220;That’s why he’s always talking about it. He’s seeing it everywhere. Why? Because he’s projecting.”
However bizarre Uygur&#8217;s attack on Pool, priests, and the Boy Scouts may seem, he will have to work harder to top his most unhinged rant.
“If I were the benevolent dictator of the world, I would legalize bestiality where you are giving — you’re pleasuring the animal,&#8221; Uygur said in 2013. &#8220;You see what I’m saying?”
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Politicon 2017 – Day 2

Cenk Uygur Rants: ‘Tim Pool Wears A Beanie … To Contain The Pedophilia That’s In His Head’

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