(06-05-2024 07:01 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote: Putin is using Ritter… a guy, a convicted child predator in the US with no other means of making a living. He marches him out to Chechen troops as a representative of the US people to justify their fighting in Ukraine & also use him as a US voice on Russian state TV. The US government should leave him with his Russian handlers.
https://www.newsweek.com/scott-ritter-ch...ch-1858652
I agree the State Department should leave him alone.
Having his own opinions doesn’t mean his constitutional rights end.
He can pal around with whoever he wants and his constitutional rights still don’t end, as long as is a citizen of this country.
Who thinks if he had agreed to sign off on falsified reports pushed in front of him saying that said he saw WMD that he would be having any of these issues?
The entire team he served with in the UN had distinguished military careers in various countries. No issues at all.
What are the chances that all of them have suddenly had a continuous stream of legal issues after that. All of them.
No issues before. Lots of issues after.
All of them. What a coincidence. They all turned bad at exactly the same time and became something they never were before.
The “victims” in every single case has been an employee of one government or another. Every single one, including Ritter. No victims except people who work for the government that then prosecuted them.
Pretty big coincidence in my book. But you have probably looked into it more than me before spouting off, right?
I expect that in European countries that have weak personal freedoms, but I expect better here.