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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Oh, Rob, please do protect our children from the evil paper cuts of Scientology handouts! If we don’t stand up against paper cuts and Uncle Fred’s dumbfuckery of falling for every bridge-for-sale in Brooklyn, who will???
Goodness me! Uncle Fred’s financial statement is much more deserving of our protection than 5 year old little Annie screaming and pleading with her 30 year old rapist to stop. Saving Tom Cruise from L. Ron Hubbard’s cult borne out of an out of control joke is a helluva lot more rewarding than keeping 14 year old Tammy/Timmy from being abducted by 48 year old “urboytoy19”.
I think it’s pretty clear where someone’s head, and intention, is at when they insult child abuse awareness and prevention volunteers and declare their efforts are wasted on child rape victims when they could be better spent saving rich Uncle Fred from willfully signing away his paycheck to a false guru of self-help.
The violations by Scientology aren’t as simple as a “con job”. Scientology engages in Human Trafficking, though of the “labor” kind, not the “sex” kind. Just in the Sea Org alone, they “employ” thousand of people (estimate 5,000) to whom they pay up to $50 per week for working 14-16 hour days, seven days a week, year in and year out, with little possibility of a vacation or a day off. For this approx 50 cents per hour work (they call these people “volunteers”) they get no medical insurance or care, no social security credits, no retirement plan, cut off from their families, their families within the Sea Org are broken apart, and when they can no longer work they are dumped on the street to fend for themselves.
Scientology also recruits people from foreign countries to work for what seems to them a high rate of pay ($50/week). Their passports are confiscated and they are worked in manual labor jobs with threats of deportation if they complain to anyone.
Human trafficking is a sad and evil crime, whether it is for “cheap labor” or for sexual abuses.
I’m sorry but 8 days + 10 days for two girls don’t hold a candle to thousands of overworked US citizens and foreign nationals conned into, then imprisoned in substandard slave conditions for years and years.
A) Show me proof that isn’t some anti-cult cult site and B) are you saying eight days of being forced to have sex with multiple strangers is no big deal? What if it was your daughters?
If you could prove this there would be news articles, but you’re making this up. You’re no different then the people who believe the world is run by the Illuminati, and in fact all the same charges you’ve made about Scientology are re-treads of the anti-Mason/Catholic literature of the 1800s. If you read books instead of websites for your information you’d know that.
And I’m not sure what sort of depraved individual would claim these two girls suffering, the multiple rapes they endured by “johns” who no doubt knew they didn’t want to have sex with them, and that they were too young, “doesn’t hold a candle to” some supposed marks who got conned into volunteering for Scientology but if you aren’t a child raping pervert you should rethink the scale you use to determine suffering. By the Gods really? You think this doesn’t hold a candle to illegals working at a car wash?
You know I don’t have a retirement plan and sometimes when a some of the sites I work on make less than $50 a week. My plight is worse than those girls by your logic. You’re disgusting.
They come out of the woodwork when their vile lifestyle is threatened don’t they, Rob? These people are so transparent and their sampled knowledge just goes to show the unreliability of online degrees.
Yes, Rob, you too can get your Masters in Sociology, the Global Market, Child Psychology, and Cult Impact Research in just 30 days! All you need is 100 hours of hands on training by browsing YouTube videos of the Masons and the Illuminati, 200 hours on websites dedicated to half-assed research into conspiracies – including but not limited to who shot JFK, 9/11, UFO’s, planet Nibiru, and the DaVinci code – and 420 hours on pedophile and pro-pedophilia sites!
“…8 days + 10 days for two girls don’t hold a candle to thousands of overworked US citizens…”
What a sick piece of shit you are “Presley” (geez, what happened to the creativity?). Wonder if you’d be singing that same pro-pedo tune if you spent 8 days as the “girlfriend” of Inmate 23848373 – otherwise known as Piledriver The Pedophile Punisher. And yes, saying 8 days of raping a child isn’t as bad as working overtime handing out religious leaflets IS the same propaganda found on pedophile sites, so you can’t deny or hide it.
I’m quite sure cubicle loathing George over there, who has been working 90 hour work weeks for 15 years and never seeing overtime pay, would never compare his “ordeal” to the continued 8-10 days-long rape and gang rape of a little girl. Then again, not all Americans think like pedophiles.
Oh my Gods, what is wrong with you people???
Why, WHY would anyone try to convince those who’s chosen cause is child protection that they should invest their efforts anywhere else? What reason could there possibly be for someone to tell *anyone* who has chosen to invest their time and efforts into protecting children from RAPE, that their time would be better spent protecting ADULTS (who should *know better*, BTW) from being scammed??? What kind of a person would even suggest such a thing?
I’ve been putting in HOURS of my time, voluntarily, for absolutely no pay to protect children. By Presley’s standards, I’m being mistreated. I’d like to put something straight here… the only mistreatment I feel I receive is by those who tell me that my time is wasted on protecting children and those who blatantly post abusive remarks and threats to my person for the work I do. But I would never EVER perceive any of the “abuse” I have endured to even hold a candle to what even one of those two girls went through for even one weak… one DAY, even.
I am absolutely disgusted by this attitude that people seem to have that our time, which is OURS to choose how to spend, is wasted on child protection. You know what? You take care of your chosen causes and I’ll take care of mine. Just stay the hell out of my way and keep your disgusting opinions to yourself.
It is truly enlightening to watch someone like yourself play god!!
The “someone like yourself” sounds vaguely racist, but let’s move on.
I don’t think playing god means what you think it means. Hit the books before commenting next time dummy.
“So please stop with the nonsense about what a threat Scientology is.”
Uh huh. You ARE aware that the Church of Scientology has committed outright acts of espionage against the U.S. government in the form of wiretapping and invading the IRS, right? And that they’ve gone so far as to unendingly harass, frame and even attempt to murder people who have left the cult and had the temerity to expose what goes on inside (“Operation Snow White”).
Instead of comparing apples to oranges or trying to get some dumb phrase you coined into circulation (“anti-cult cult”), you should actually take the time to read about Scientology, because their bullshit is most assuredly not relegated to simply to scamming the ignorant.
I was ignoring you but since you need my attention so badly…
Are you retarded? You’re claiming I should read Internet conspiracy theories, accept them as fact and thus believe a scam no different then Wicca of Liberal Christianity is more of a threat to people THAN SEXUAL SLAVERY OF CHILDREN.
Are you fucking kidding me? Or are you a pedophile who thinks RAPING CHILDREN is less important than morons buying L. Ron Hubbard books from other morons who all then give their money to some head douchebag.
How is Scientology different than Oprah Winfrey or Deepak Chopra?
Since you know so much you do realize the anti-Scientology people are not only the same people who were involved in the thoroughly debunked Satanic Ritual Abuse craze that ruined so many innocent lives, but most continue to spread that nonsense. But I guess you think there is a world wide Satanic cult that sacrifices hundreds of thousands of babies year … but leaves no forensic evidence.
Apples to oranges? You’re claiming that pointing out there are CHILD SEX SLAVES in America right now who need help which is a little more important than a run of the mill New Age cult is “apples to oranges” and I should waste my time on the second while the first is going on now?
This isn’t just stupid, it’s evil. Operation Snow White? Let me give you a hint about credibility. Wikipedia is not a valid source. Did you know Wikipedia itself was “infiltrated” by pedophiles who changed entries on criminal cases and psychology pages to make favorable the entries to child rapists? Do you think that’s more important than what hippies did 40 years ago? No, because you think RAPING CHILDREN is less important than suckers being suckers.