I’m working on a book review of Mark Fuhrman’s book The Murder Business (honest!) but I keep getting distracted. More recently I allowed myself to get side tracked by a flurry of emails (and later a comment) by various perverts and their groupies who are engaged in a virtual new media blitzkrieg designed to spread what is essentially pro-rape propaganda on the Internet where such ideas can fester unchallenged.

First I got an email from Robin Vanderwall, a former Republican and now Libertarian (more on that in a minute) sex offender whose North Carolina registry is here. He also has a profile on MyFelon.com, a site (if you can believe this) where criminals post profiles for perusal by the skanky guttersluts who think dating child rapists is a good idea. All for mutual support of course. His several emails to me are too long to post so I will make them available to any reader who requests them. To summarize, he had three main points:

1) I didn’t have the “intellectual honesty” to allow child rapists to tell their side of the story. It’s not fair, he whined, that no one is talking about how hard being busted for attempting to sexually exploit a child has been on him. In addition, at least half of the people on registries are “innocent” kids who were caught up in a Romeo and Juliet situation.

2) Everyone has done something that would land them on a sex offender registry. So he’s being unfairly persecuted by the rest of us who all attempt to lure 13-year-olds over the Internet to be sure! I mean, who among us doesn’t want to have sex with a child? This was his most asinine point.

3) Republicans all suck, because we didn’t stand by him when he was caught. Luckily, the Libertarian Party was there to embrace him with open arms.

While that last bit probably won’t surprise anyone who has ever dealt with a lot of Libertarians, the first two points will shock decent people if they are unfamiliar with people like this. And by “people like this” I mean a man who was imprisoned for six years when he contacted detectives posing as 13-year-olds and tried to set up meetings with them for sex. From The Virginia-Pilot:

In the summer of 2002, Robin W. Vanderwall appeared to have a bright professional future in the worlds of politics and law.

He was a law student at Regent University and had secured an internship with Commonwealth’s Attorney Harvey L. Bryant III.

Vanderwall also had been a political strategist with several successful campaigns. In 1999, he ran Del. Robert F. McDonnell’s successful campaign against former Sheriff Frank Drew.

On Thursday, Vanderwall’s professional future came to an end.

After a three-day nonjury trial, Circuit Judge A. Joseph Canada Jr. convicted Vanderwall, 35, of five counts of soliciting sex with children via the Internet and one count of attempted indecent liberties with children.

Vanderwall faces up to 55 years in prison when he is sentenced June 21.

Canada said the case highlighted the Internet’s power for good and evil. “Maybe this will send a message to weirdos out there using the Internet in an inappropriate way,” he said.

[…]

According to trial testimony, Vanderwall used a computer in his apartment on Jake Sears Circle, off Centerville Turnpike, to enter chat rooms. There, he identified himself as “Saliare” and cruised the Internet for underage children, both boys and girls.

Virginia Beach police have a special unit dedicated to catching Internet criminals. Officers posed as 13-year-old children in the chat rooms that Vanderwall cruised in the fall and winter of 2002-03.

One officer pretended to be a 13-year-old girl named “Lil’SaraXOXOX.” Another was a 13-year-old boy named “KennyJ13.”

Another was a 13-year-old girl named “SweetSammie4U2.”

From November 2002 through January 2003, all three “teens” had contact with “Saliare,” who identified himself as a 5-foot-8-inch, 155-pound, 19-year-old white male, with short hair, hazel eyes, and a goatee.

Except for the age, it was a perfect description of Vanderwall.

The conversations started innocently but turned toward sex at “Saliare’s” prompting. He encouraged the teens to meet him at malls and other locations. He offered to introduce them to “real” sex and bragged about his genitals.

He gave them his telephone number.

In one exchange, “Saliare” said he wanted to be the teen’s first partner in both real sex and telephone sex.

But who among us hasn’t done something similar? Who dares cast the first stone at this prince among men? I did, of course, with some help from my cyber compadre Stitches77 from Absolute Zero United who has an uncanny ability to gather intelligence and Dodiafae from Pagans Against Child Abuse, the latter of whom astutely pointed out other crime bloggers and news sites were getting comments with similar minimizing, pro-rape talking points. Not unusual.

So Vanderwall, who can also be found at his blog, lurking on YouTube, and posting pro-pedophilia comments using his blogger account, didn’t like his chances of converting me so he tagged in his partner “Tonia Maloney” who runs a site called Love is Not a Crime which is dedicated to trying to make people see how “unfair” it is that her son ended up on a registry. Here’s the first part of her email, but again our exchange is too long to post in its entirety so I will make the entire exchange available to anyone who requests it:

Tonia Maloney wrote:
Hi received an email from someone named Robin who advised me that a Mr. Taylor was unaware of some information regarding sex offender laws. I was told that you were not aware of any Romeo and Juliet cases regarding sex offenders and I’d like an opportunity to clarify that.

My son was 19 years old and had consensual sex with his 16 year old girlfriend. He is now a registered sex offender. They were together for nearly 3 years when the relationship finally ended this past April. He got out of prison yesterday for violating his probation by seeing her again – luckily, this relationship is over and he can start to “try” to get his life back. He was with this girl for many months prior to his arrest. Her father approved of my son, at first, and even took him on family camping trips, had my son work with him and even had the conversation with my son to “use condoms with [his] daughter.” It was clear they were having sex, everyone knew it. It wasn’t until the father got mad at his daughter and told her to break up with my son (which she clearly didn’t do) that he was arrested.

Oh that sounds horrible! Except it’s not true. She admitted in our subsequent exchanges that her son was convicted of rape with force. I guess in this case “love” is indeed a crime. Tonia claims the prosecutors made her poor innocent son plead to forcible rape to avoid being charged with statutory rape which of course makes perfect sense. What lawyer worth his salt wouldn’t cut a deal for his client to plead up to a greater crime?

At the same time, Wiccan High Priestess and pedophile, I’m sorry former pedophile, Jessica Massey suddenly decided to comment on this months old post in which I point out that pedophiles come in all shapes and sizes, including attractive 19-year-old coeds. From her comment:

But let me clarify; these stalkers have nothing from me after the age of 17 because that is when I ceased to be active in the “BoyLove” movement. In fact, the above posts were all from between the ages of 14 and 17, when I was still very much a child myself. For those of you who care about the truth behind these stories and aren’t just in it for the thrill of moral superiority, here’s what I have to say. I was lured into this movement at a young age. I felt a strong desire to be protected and cared for by someone older and stronger, but out of confusion or a desire to ignore my own vulnerability, I’m not really sure which, I transferred those desires into an attraction to minors I don’t think I really possessed. I saw these communities as a safe outlet, even though they really probably weren’t. As I matured, I slowly came to realize what I truly wanted, and began to distance myself from these people. I needed to leave them to outgrow the neediness that brought me to them in the first place. I still feel a certain attachment to them. They were my friends when I was still a confused, stupid, pompous teenager who didn’t have anyone else. Did they deceive me? Are many of them horrid child rapists? Maybe they are, I don’t know, and I probably shouldn’t associate with them at all, but being judged here, I am much slower to pass judgment on anyone else. Thank you.

Oh, it’s so unfair! How can I judge a 19-year-old who was active on pedophile forums at 17? Easily, it turns out, because despite her claims her YouTube channel still contains a trailer for her “fictional work” called Boys of the Gallery which in fact feature pictures of boys that are traded by pedophiles to this day. Were she sincere about distancing from these people it’d be reflected in her distancing from their spank material.

But the gods were truly at work to have Massey decide to contact me today to claim she’s being judged unfairly while Vanderwall and Maloney, who assured me they are not connected even though they link to the same sites and attend the same summits, emailed me to tell me how I’m judging people unfairly. I mean, what else could it possibly be but divine intervention?

Astute readers will see a pattern here. These activists go from site to site spreading their talking points, no different from any political movement really. But in this case the movement wants to lower the age of consent and make society treat its most depraved and evil members as “victims” of our bigotry. The real victims, the people they exploit and abuse, are to be ignored as we embrace these new “orientations” in the name of tolerance.

I point this out not because it will affect Red Alerts in the long run. It was simply my day for them to engage me. But I want readers to realize that in the comments of every news story about rape or molestation you may run into this same strategy. There will be people claiming you are being “unfair” to offenders and they will have sob stories to tug at your heartstrings. Those stories are lies and your disgust at degeneracy and desire to protect children is unfair. Do not let these people guilt you into ceding the moral high ground you have when you support tough restrictions on sexual predators.

Vanderwall ended our discussion with this paragraph which readers should see because it exposes what these “sex offender advocacy” groups like Reform Sex Offender Laws (the common thread between many of these scum) are really up to:

You’re a funny guy, Rob.  Goodness, you’d think I’d murdered someone in your family or something.  Give it a rest man.  You’re only demonstrating how damaging the public exposure of another’s bad acts happens to be.  Plant that seed.  Go ahead.  But, you will inevitably be destroyed by the seed that you plant.  You can’t spew hate and destruction without inviting it upon yourself.  This is what I learned as a Republican.  God forgive them all.  They certainly need it.  I’m quite content as a Libertarian now (who have a more sensible approach to age-of-consent laws, as well as internet entrapment).  The day will come, in your lifetime, when we will look back upon the “internet predator” era as a total failure of ethical, responsible law enforcement tactics.  You just sit back and watch….and remember me, Rob, when that day arrives.

You may publish whatever you wish about me. Nobody I care to impress reads your blog.  Besides, what additional harm can possibly come from it?  It might actually harm you.  You are familir with blowback, yes?  There comes a point in time when most Americans believe you ought to leave a guy alone.  And, when you don’t, you become the bad guy.  So, roll the dice.  Let’s see what happens.  Heck, even Judge Canada might think enough is enough. You don’t kick a man in the face forever.  However, there is a distinction between defamation and harassment.  Be careful not to cross the line.  I have no plans to sue anyone…..but one’s criminal intent is an entirely different matter.  Deliberately setting out to destroy a person’s name is murder by other means.

Sounds like a threat. It’s almost as if these groups are fronts for a vicious harassment campaign by perverts to shut down voices of reason and decency.