I sometimes get comments or emails where someone with no morals (or perhaps no soul) demands to know why I “waste my time” complaining about adults having sex with children. No really, I get those messages. Observe my response to “Ranger Six” on this post, who informed me yesterday that rather than waste my time exposing a scam in which degenerate baby boomers pretended to be “Craft Fathers” to have sex with very young girls who wanted to be Wiccans I should be fighting the “real threat” which he claims is Scientology.

Yes, really.

For those of you unfamiliar with the “threat” of Scientology all you need to know is that morons who can’t think for themselves get scammed by the Scientologists into buying books and self-help courses which ultimately only work if your problems are so petty that you really didn’t need help to clear them up in the first place. When universal enlightenment doesn’t make some loser happy he begins crying the blues about how he was a “victim” of a scam, usually to a whole network of other losers whose sole purpose in life is to make sure the first loser never learns his lesson about getting involved with cults by inducting them into their anti-cult cult.

But he’s not really a victim, he’s a mark, just like the old lady who loses her money in Vegas or the guy who thinks he’s going home with the stripper who told him he was cute. If the threat of Scientology sounds suspiciously like the threat of Deepak Chopra or Wicca to you that’s because it is exactly the same thing.

But to some people this threat is MORE important than adult men grooming children, because those stories never end up like this:

DES MOINES, Iowa — The first person to be convicted under Iowa’s human trafficking law was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison.

Leonard Russell was found guilty of two counts of human trafficking, two counts of pandering and a count of ongoing criminal conduct during a September trial in Crawford County.

The 37-year-old was sentenced Monday in Crawford County District Court to 25 years on the ongoing criminal conduct charge, and 10 years on each of the other four charges — with all the sentences to be served concurrently. He was also fined $5,000.

Prosecutors said Russell, who has used addresses in Sioux City and Omaha, Neb., recruited and harbored two Nebraska girls last year for commercial sexual activity, including prostitution and performing at strip clubs. They said the girls, ages 15 and 16, were runaways.

Attorney General Tom Miller said in a statement that the case helped officials understand that human trafficking is a much bigger problem in Iowa than many realized.

“It can be especially perilous for young people and disadvantaged kids, and it can occur in small towns,” he said. “The underground nature of human trafficking makes it hard to fight, but the trafficking law is a valuable new tool and we will use it.”

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Prosecutors said the girls were taken to Davenport in far eastern Iowa, across the river to Rockford, Ill., and back to Denison.

The girls testified that they engaged in prostitution and performed at strip clubs including Big Earl’s Key Club in Denison. They said they had to give the money they earned to Russell and Ryan in exchange for food, shelter, transportation and clothing.

The teens testified they were ashamed with what they were doing, but they felt they had nowhere else to go. One of the teens was with Russell for eight days, the other for 10 days, officials said.

But suckers giving money to Scientologists for “e-readings” or whatever other nonsense they can come up with are the “real threat.” Why, what’s wrong with a adult man having sex with and then pimping out vulnerable young girls? Small potatoes! Let’s all go after the “real threats” to our children which I assume would include fortune tellers at psychic fairs, the guy who guesses your weight at a carnival and the diabolical genius behind Miracle Blade.

When groups like Pagans Against Child Abuse raise the alarm over Internet predation by adults on teens they do so because in the long run most of the stories end like the above, with a young girl in a bad situation with a sub-human lowlife. When Warriors for Innocence or The Ultimate Evil expose a site making it easier for men to groom children they are doing so because they see a real physical threat to children. When blogs like Absolute Zero expose online pedophiles, they are showing you why they are more dangerous than Scientology.

So please stop with the nonsense about what a threat Scientology is. Call me when you can show me Scientology facilitating adults having sex with children (not a history lesson about L. Ron Hubbard and his perversions) but don’t tell me someone feeling like they got ripped off after trying to buy their way to happiness is worse than what the two little girls above went through, or the hundreds of sexual assaults on children happening this very minute. It is beyond the pale to compare the two and only the most depraved of individuals would even try.

Via Absolute Zero check out this video from Project Safe Childhood, then tell me Scientology is the real threat. Pay particular attention to the part that starts around 3:50:

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