XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.menwhoswallow, aus.politics
XPost: sac.general

Over the past five months, Matthew Herrick says that 1,100 men
have showed up at his home and workplace expecting to have sex
with him. Herrick is suing Grindr, the popular dating app for
gay and bisexual men, because of it.

According to the complaint, Herrick, 32, is the victim of an
elaborate revenge scheme that's playing out on Grindr's
platform. An ex-boyfriend of Herrick's, who he says he met on
Grindr, has allegedly been creating fake accounts since October
2016. The accounts have Herrick's photos and personal details,
including some falsehoods like a claim that that he's HIV
positive.

The ex allegedly invites men to Herrick's apartment and the
restaurant where he works. Sometimes as many as 16 strangers
each day will show up looking for Herrick. In some instances,
they are told not to be dissuaded if Herrick is resistant at
first, "as part of an agreed upon rape fantasy or role play."

The case raises important questions in the social media age
about impersonation, stalking and harassment.

"What are Grindr's legal responsibilities," asks Aaron Mackey, a
Frank Stanton legal fellow at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. "And what are its corporate and ethical
responsibilities to its users when it learns that its platform
is being abused in this way?"

Mackey said the answers have big implications.

As with many complaints against tech platforms, Section 230 of
the 1996 Communications Decency Act is at play in the Grindr
case. It's a unique legal protection that gives a broad layer of
immunity to online companies from being held liable for user-
generated content. Companies are supposed to act in good faith
to protect users.

In 2015, Grindr used the CDA to prevail in another case. It was
found not liable in a suit filed by a man who was arrested for a
sexual encounter with a minor he met on the app.

But in Herrick's case, attorneys Carrie Goldberg and Tor Ekeland
are relying on different laws. They're alleging product
liability, fraud and deceptive business practices, according to
an amended complaint filed on March 31.

"Much of our work is about finding the cracks and holes in
[Section] 230," said Goldberg, who is known for taking on sexual
privacy and revenge porn cases. "Companies don't deserve special
protections when their product is dangerous and [Section] 230
doesn't give them protection in such cases."

Originally filed in a New York state court in January, the case
was moved to federal court at Grindr's request in February.
According to the complaint, there have been more than 100
reports flagging the fake profiles in Grindr's app, resulting in
only generic replies from Grindr ("Thank you for your report.").

Grindr's terms of service state that impersonation accounts
aren't permitted, but it's unclear whether Grindr is capable of
cracking down on the accounts. A March email from Grindr's
counsel said the company cannot search for photographs,
according to the complaint. "Grindr claims it cannot control who
uses its product and that it lacks the basic software
capabilities used by its competitors and the social media
industry," it reads.

According to Matthew Zeiler, founder of image recognition
startup Clarifai, there are multiple ways for companies to
identify specific images on their platforms, and third party
providers can help implement these capabilities.

Processes known as image hashing or visual search can detect
near duplicate images from being posted on their platforms.

In a statement, Grindr said it's "committed to creating a safe
environment through a system of digital and human screening
tools, while also encouraging users to report suspicious and
threatening activities. While we are constantly improving upon
this process, it is important to remember that Grindr is an open
platform. Grindr cooperates with law enforcement on a regular
basis and does not condone abusive or violent behavior."

Grindr and its attorneys declined to comment further, citing the
active litigation.

Last week, Facebook (FB, Tech30) announced new measures to
combat the spread of "revenge porn" on its platform. It said it
would apply photo-matching to ensure intimate, non-consensual
images that have been reported aren't able to be re-uploaded
through Facebook's properties, including Messenger and Instagram.

The original complaint against Grindr said that hookup app
Scruff, which Herrick's ex was also allegedly using to create
fake profiles, was able to remove profiles and ban IP addresses.

CNNTech contacted the ex-boyfriend for comment. He denied
setting up fake accounts but declined to comment further.

Neville Johnson of Johnson & Johnson, LLP told CNNTech that
there needs to be a law that criminalizes impersonation and
protects victims online.

"Legislation has not kept up with the advancement of
technology," he said. "[Companies] can identify and stop this
kind of stuff -- they just don't want to take on the obligation."

Attorney David Gingras, who frequently defends companies from
lawsuits under Section 230, said these types of cases will
likely increase.

"There is currently a war between online speech providers and
people who are unhappy with that speech. It just seems like it
is getting busier. People do the worst things online and it
sucks -- but that's not the issue. The issue is who to blame for
it."

A lot of cases never make it to court, according to one source
who told CNNTech that companies end up striking deals to take
down posts, in order to avoid drawn-out legal fees.

Goldberg doesn't plan to back down; she's already planning her
next move: pushing Google and Apple to remove Grindr from their
app store.

"If a court won't hold Grindr responsible for having a dangerous
product ... we'd need to examine the liability of the 'sellers'
that are making available a dangerous product," she told
CNNTech. "This lawsuit puts them on notice that a dangerous
product, one purportedly not controllable by its manufacturer,
is being downloaded from their marketplaces."

Goldberg likened it to a car battery exploding in a person's
face.

"If the manufacturer and seller both know the battery could
explode, there's a duty to inform users of the risk," she said.

"Not to mention a duty to evaluate whether the product is so
dangerous it should be removed from the market altogether."

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/technology/grindr- lawsuit/index.html?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
 

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
XPost: us.poli tics

My Usenet adventures as a neglectyed nym thief, by Mad Ned Latham:

Over the past five months,...

...Septic Yank trolls are dumping irrelevant off topic brain dead crap
into aus.politics.

NYC is not in OZ. Fucking low IQ retards, learn geography!

--
spicing up your life

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

XPost: alt.atheism, sac.politics, alt.politics.democrats
XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

Over the past five months, Matthew Herrick says that 1,100 men
have showed up at his home and workplace expecting to have sex
with him. Herrick is suing Grindr, the popular dating app for
gay and bisexual men, because of it.

According to the complaint, Herrick, 32, is the victim of an
elaborate revenge scheme that's playing out on Grindr's
platform. An ex-boyfriend of Herrick's, who he says he met on
Grindr, has allegedly been creating fake accounts since October
2016. The accounts have Herrick's photos and personal details,
including some falsehoods like a claim that that he's HIV
positive.

The ex allegedly invites men to Herrick's apartment and the
restaurant where he works. Sometimes as many as 16 strangers
each day will show up looking for Herrick. In some instances,
they are told not to be dissuaded if Herrick is resistant at
first, "as part of an agreed upon rape fantasy or role play."

The case raises important questions in the social media age
about impersonation, stalking and harassment.

"What are Grindr's legal responsibilities," asks Aaron Mackey, a
Frank Stanton legal fellow at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. "And what are its corporate and ethical
responsibilities to its users when it learns that its platform
is being abused in this way?"

Mackey said the answers have big implications.

As with many complaints against tech platforms, Section 230 of
the 1996 Communications Decency Act is at play in the Grindr
case. It's a unique legal protection that gives a broad layer of
immunity to online companies from being held liable for user-
generated content. Companies are supposed to act in good faith
to protect users.

In 2015, Grindr used the CDA to prevail in another case. It was
found not liable in a suit filed by a man who was arrested for a
sexual encounter with a minor he met on the app.

But in Herrick's case, attorneys Carrie Goldberg and Tor Ekeland
are relying on different laws. They're alleging product
liability, fraud and deceptive business practices, according to
an amended complaint filed on March 31.

"Much of our work is about finding the cracks and holes in
[Section] 230," said Goldberg, who is known for taking on sexual
privacy and revenge porn cases. "Companies don't deserve special
protections when their product is dangerous and [Section] 230
doesn't give them protection in such cases."

Originally filed in a New York state court in January, the case
was moved to federal court at Grindr's request in February.
According to the complaint, there have been more than 100
reports flagging the fake profiles in Grindr's app, resulting in
only generic replies from Grindr ("Thank you for your report.").

Grindr's terms of service state that impersonation accounts
aren't permitted, but it's unclear whether Grindr is capable of
cracking down on the accounts. A March email from Grindr's
counsel said the company cannot search for photographs,
according to the complaint. "Grindr claims it cannot control who
uses its product and that it lacks the basic software
capabilities used by its competitors and the social media
industry," it reads.

According to Matthew Zeiler, founder of image recognition
startup Clarifai, there are multiple ways for companies to
identify specific images on their platforms, and third party
providers can help implement these capabilities.

Processes known as image hashing or visual search can detect
near duplicate images from being posted on their platforms.

In a statement, Grindr said it's "committed to creating a safe
environment through a system of digital and human screening
tools, while also encouraging users to report suspicious and
threatening activities. While we are constantly improving upon
this process, it is important to remember that Grindr is an open
platform. Grindr cooperates with law enforcement on a regular
basis and does not condone abusive or violent behavior."

Grindr and its attorneys declined to comment further, citing the
active litigation.

Last week, Facebook (FB, Tech30) announced new measures to
combat the spread of "revenge porn" on its platform. It said it
would apply photo-matching to ensure intimate, non-consensual
images that have been reported aren't able to be re-uploaded
through Facebook's properties, including Messenger and Instagram.

The original complaint against Grindr said that hookup app
Scruff, which Herrick's ex was also allegedly using to create
fake profiles, was able to remove profiles and ban IP addresses.

CNNTech contacted the ex-boyfriend for comment. He denied
setting up fake accounts but declined to comment further.

Neville Johnson of Johnson & Johnson, LLP told CNNTech that
there needs to be a law that criminalizes impersonation and
protects victims online.

"Legislation has not kept up with the advancement of
technology," he said. "[Companies] can identify and stop this
kind of stuff -- they just don't want to take on the obligation."

Attorney David Gingras, who frequently defends companies from
lawsuits under Section 230, said these types of cases will
likely increase.

"There is currently a war between online speech providers and
people who are unhappy with that speech. It just seems like it
is getting busier. People do the worst things online and it
sucks -- but that's not the issue. The issue is who to blame for
it."

A lot of cases never make it to court, according to one source
who told CNNTech that companies end up striking deals to take
down posts, in order to avoid drawn-out legal fees.

Goldberg doesn't plan to back down; she's already planning her
next move: pushing Google and Apple to remove Grindr from their
app store.

"If a court won't hold Grindr responsible for having a dangerous
product ... we'd need to examine the liability of the 'sellers'
that are making available a dangerous product," she told
CNNTech. "This lawsuit puts them on notice that a dangerous
product, one purportedly not controllable by its manufacturer,
is being downloaded from their marketplaces."

Goldberg likened it to a car battery exploding in a person's
face.

"If the manufacturer and seller both know the battery could
explode, there's a duty to inform users of the risk," she said.

"Not to mention a duty to evaluate whether the product is so
dangerous it should be removed from the market altogether."

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/14/technology/grindr- lawsuit/index.html?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
 

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

XPost: alt.atheism, sac.politics, alt.politics.democrats
XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

Heterophobia wrote

Over the past five months, Matthew Herrick says that 1,100
men have showed up at his home and workplace expecting to
have sex with him. Herrick is suing Grindr, the popular
dating app for gay and bisexual men, because of it.

Agreed. Rightist Christian Turd Stabbers are everywhere, and
even pretending to be married. Why did these rightists choose
to be homosexuals and why do they refuse to take the cure and
pray the gay away? If all the homos were imprisoned and
executed as the Bible dictates, nobody would be left to support
Trump! It's no surprise that when Sessions was asked
yesterday, he said "no comment".



Most right wing religious fanatics in the USA have also chosen
to be homosexuals but try to conceal it by paying women to be
their wives.

Dirty rightist faggots don't have the right to keep and bear
arms because
they are criminals. Why is it that the majority
of them are unemployed,
not because of Obama but because
they're addicted to kiddie porn and can't
get enough?

Republican anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley admitted to
having sex with a mule

Republican supporter Pastor Ted Haggard, president of the
30-million member National Association of Evangelicals,
denounced gays and illegal drugs but was later exposed as a gay
Crystal Meth user

Republican Senator Larry Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in
the men's restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport

Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from
Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him
flirting with a 16-year old boy.

Republican aide Alan David Berlin was arrested on charges that
he wanted to engage in sex acts with a 15-year-old boy while
dressed in a panda costume.

Republican news producer Aaron Bruns was arrested on charges of
possessing child pornography.

Republican activist and former presidential campaign chairman
Jeffrey Claude Bartleson was arrested on charges of sexually
molesting a 5-year old boy.

Republican activist and former chairman of the Christian County
Republicans Royce Fessenden pleaded guilty to two counts of
first-degree child molestation and one count of second-degree
statutory sodomy.

Republican parole board officer and former legislator George C.
(Chris) Ortloff pleaded guilty to attempting to lure 11- and
12-year-old girls to have sex with him.

Republican legislative aide Robert R. Groezinger was arrested
for possessing child pornography.

Republican legislator Robert A. McKee pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography.

Republican legislator Scott Muschany was charged with molesting
a 14-year old girl.

Republican chief of staff Eric Feltner pleaded guilty to
showing pornography to a 13-year old girl.

Republican presidential campaign official Matthew Joseph
Elliott was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.

Republican Party Chairman Donald Fleischman was charged with
two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to
the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing
himself to a child.

Republican prosecutor John David Roy Atchison was arrested for
soliciting sex from a 5-year old girl, then killed himself
three weeks later. At the time of his arrest, Atchison was an
"assistant U.S. attorney" appointed by President Bush's
attorney general.

Republican city councilman John Bryan killed himself after
police began investigating allegations that he had molested
three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12
and 15.

Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls
under the age of 16.

Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found
guilty of fondling underage girls.

Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for
having sex with a 14-year old boy.

Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered
to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8
and 13.

Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for
soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.

Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days
in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a
six-year period.

Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with
molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days
later.

Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative
Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex
from a 13-year old girl on the internet.

Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres
confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to
charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has
repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling
a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having
sex with a 5-year old boy.

Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the
daughter of an associate in the petition business.

Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to
fondling a 14-year-old girl.

Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins
pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted
child molester.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence
in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old
girls.

Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child
pornography over the internet.

Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of
soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8
years in prison.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to
10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of
9 and 17.

Republican Committeeman John R. Curtin was convicted of
molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to
18 months in prison.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a
convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran
church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a
sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded
guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and
offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to
three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year
old girl.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom
Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a
child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended
during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police
after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having
an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was
sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old
girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television
commercial.

Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex
parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties
at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of
having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in
jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of
child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for
sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of
sex crimes involving children.

Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded
guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested
again five years later on the same charge.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor
working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly
Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step
daughter.

Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession
of child pornography on his home computer.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was
charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at
a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for
distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"),
was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of
unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of
delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with
molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child
pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having
sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy
after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to
traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to
a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to
exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was
sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old
girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six
counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal
prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to
two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a
14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts
of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven
felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under
the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found
guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to
molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal
sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his
two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was
convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded
guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no
contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in
prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession
of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to
30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state
representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child
pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate
Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of
soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a
"good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of
repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to
12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for
Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went
swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his
daughter.

Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed
reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two
underage girls.

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation"
Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was
sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican president of the New York City Housing Development
Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child
pornography on his computer.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard
A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl.
Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several
grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past
decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large
number of young women.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

XPost: alt.atheism, sac.politics, alt.politics.democrats
XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

Heterophobia wrote

Over the past five months, Matthew Herrick says that 1,100
men have showed up at his home and workplace expecting to
have sex with him. Herrick is suing Grindr, the popular
dating app for gay and bisexual men, because of it.

Agreed. Rightist Christian Turd Stabbers are everywhere, and
even pretending to be married. Why did these rightists choose
to be homosexuals and why do they refuse to take the cure and
pray the gay away? If all the homos were imprisoned and
executed as the Bible dictates, nobody would be left to support
Trump! It's no surprise that when Sessions was asked
yesterday, he said "no comment".



Most right wing religious fanatics in the USA have also chosen
to be homosexuals but try to conceal it by paying women to be
their wives.

Dirty rightist faggots don't have the right to keep and bear
arms because
they are criminals. Why is it that the majority
of them are unemployed,
not because of Obama but because
they're addicted to kiddie porn and can't
get enough?

Republican anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley admitted to
having sex with a mule

Republican supporter Pastor Ted Haggard, president of the
30-million member National Association of Evangelicals,
denounced gays and illegal drugs but was later exposed as a gay
Crystal Meth user

Republican Senator Larry Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in
the men's restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport

Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from
Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him
flirting with a 16-year old boy.

Republican aide Alan David Berlin was arrested on charges that
he wanted to engage in sex acts with a 15-year-old boy while
dressed in a panda costume.

Republican news producer Aaron Bruns was arrested on charges of
possessing child pornography.

Republican activist and former presidential campaign chairman
Jeffrey Claude Bartleson was arrested on charges of sexually
molesting a 5-year old boy.

Republican activist and former chairman of the Christian County
Republicans Royce Fessenden pleaded guilty to two counts of
first-degree child molestation and one count of second-degree
statutory sodomy.

Republican parole board officer and former legislator George C.
(Chris) Ortloff pleaded guilty to attempting to lure 11- and
12-year-old girls to have sex with him.

Republican legislative aide Robert R. Groezinger was arrested
for possessing child pornography.

Republican legislator Robert A. McKee pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography.

Republican legislator Scott Muschany was charged with molesting
a 14-year old girl.

Republican chief of staff Eric Feltner pleaded guilty to
showing pornography to a 13-year old girl.

Republican presidential campaign official Matthew Joseph
Elliott was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.

Republican Party Chairman Donald Fleischman was charged with
two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to
the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing
himself to a child.

Republican prosecutor John David Roy Atchison was arrested for
soliciting sex from a 5-year old girl, then killed himself
three weeks later. At the time of his arrest, Atchison was an
"assistant U.S. attorney" appointed by President Bush's
attorney general.

Republican city councilman John Bryan killed himself after
police began investigating allegations that he had molested
three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12
and 15.

Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls
under the age of 16.

Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found
guilty of fondling underage girls.

Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for
having sex with a 14-year old boy.

Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered
to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8
and 13.

Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for
soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.

Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days
in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a
six-year period.

Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with
molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days
later.

Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative
Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex
from a 13-year old girl on the internet.

Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres
confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to
charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has
repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling
a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having
sex with a 5-year old boy.

Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the
daughter of an associate in the petition business.

Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to
fondling a 14-year-old girl.

Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins
pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted
child molester.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence
in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old
girls.

Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child
pornography over the internet.

Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of
soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8
years in prison.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to
10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of
9 and 17.

Republican Committeeman John R. Curtin was convicted of
molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to
18 months in prison.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a
convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran
church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a
sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded
guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and
offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to
three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year
old girl.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom
Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a
child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended
during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police
after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having
an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was
sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old
girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television
commercial.

Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex
parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties
at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of
having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in
jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of
child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for
sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of
sex crimes involving children.

Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded
guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested
again five years later on the same charge.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor
working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly
Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step
daughter.

Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession
of child pornography on his home computer.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was
charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at
a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for
distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"),
was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of
unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of
delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with
molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child
pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having
sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy
after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to
traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to
a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to
exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was
sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old
girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six
counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal
prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to
two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a
14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts
of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven
felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under
the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found
guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to
molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal
sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his
two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was
convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded
guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no
contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in
prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession
of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to
30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state
representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child
pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate
Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of
soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a
"good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of
repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to
12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for
Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went
swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his
daughter.

Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed
reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two
underage girls.

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation"
Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was
sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican president of the New York City Housing Development
Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child
pornography on his computer.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard
A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl.
Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several
grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past
decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large
number of young women.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

XPost: alt.atheism, sac.politics, alt.politics.democrats
XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

Heterophobia wrote

Over the past five months, Matthew Herrick says that 1,100
men have showed up at his home and workplace expecting to
have sex with him. Herrick is suing Grindr, the popular
dating app for gay and bisexual men, because of it.

Agreed. Rightist Christian Turd Stabbers are everywhere, and
even pretending to be married. Why did these rightists choose
to be homosexuals and why do they refuse to take the cure and
pray the gay away? If all the homos were imprisoned and
executed as the Bible dictates, nobody would be left to support
Trump! It's no surprise that when Sessions was asked
yesterday, he said "no comment".



Most right wing religious fanatics in the USA have also chosen
to be homosexuals but try to conceal it by paying women to be
their wives.

Dirty rightist faggots don't have the right to keep and bear
arms because
they are criminals. Why is it that the majority
of them are unemployed,
not because of Obama but because
they're addicted to kiddie porn and can't
get enough?

Republican anti-abortion activist Neal Horsley admitted to
having sex with a mule

Republican supporter Pastor Ted Haggard, president of the
30-million member National Association of Evangelicals,
denounced gays and illegal drugs but was later exposed as a gay
Crystal Meth user

Republican Senator Larry Craig was arrested for lewd conduct in
the men's restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International
Airport

Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from
Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him
flirting with a 16-year old boy.

Republican aide Alan David Berlin was arrested on charges that
he wanted to engage in sex acts with a 15-year-old boy while
dressed in a panda costume.

Republican news producer Aaron Bruns was arrested on charges of
possessing child pornography.

Republican activist and former presidential campaign chairman
Jeffrey Claude Bartleson was arrested on charges of sexually
molesting a 5-year old boy.

Republican activist and former chairman of the Christian County
Republicans Royce Fessenden pleaded guilty to two counts of
first-degree child molestation and one count of second-degree
statutory sodomy.

Republican parole board officer and former legislator George C.
(Chris) Ortloff pleaded guilty to attempting to lure 11- and
12-year-old girls to have sex with him.

Republican legislative aide Robert R. Groezinger was arrested
for possessing child pornography.

Republican legislator Robert A. McKee pleaded guilty to
possessing child pornography.

Republican legislator Scott Muschany was charged with molesting
a 14-year old girl.

Republican chief of staff Eric Feltner pleaded guilty to
showing pornography to a 13-year old girl.

Republican presidential campaign official Matthew Joseph
Elliott was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.

Republican Party Chairman Donald Fleischman was charged with
two counts of child enticement, two counts of contributing to
the delinquency of a child and a single charge of exposing
himself to a child.

Republican prosecutor John David Roy Atchison was arrested for
soliciting sex from a 5-year old girl, then killed himself
three weeks later. At the time of his arrest, Atchison was an
"assistant U.S. attorney" appointed by President Bush's
attorney general.

Republican city councilman John Bryan killed himself after
police began investigating allegations that he had molested
three girls, including two of his adopted daughters, ages 12
and 15.

Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls
under the age of 16.

Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found
guilty of fondling underage girls.

Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for
having sex with a 14-year old boy.

Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered
to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8
and 13.

Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for
soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.

Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days
in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a
six-year period.

Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with
molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days
later.

Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative
Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex
from a 13-year old girl on the internet.

Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres
confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to
charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has
repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.

Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling
a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having
sex with a 5-year old boy.

Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the
daughter of an associate in the petition business.

Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to
fondling a 14-year-old girl.

Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins
pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.

Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted
child molester.

Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence
in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old
girls.

Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child
pornography over the internet.

Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of
soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.

Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to
molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8
years in prison.

Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to
10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of
9 and 17.

Republican Committeeman John R. Curtin was convicted of
molesting an underage teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to
18 months in prison.

Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a
convicted child rapist in Florida.

Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran
church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a
sexual act on an 11-year old girl he murdered.

Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded
guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and
offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to
three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year
old girl.

Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom
Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a
child.

Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended
during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police
after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.

Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having
an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was
sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old
girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television
commercial.

Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex
parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties
at the White House during the 1980s.

Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of
having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in
jail.

Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of
child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for
sexual photos.

Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of
sex crimes involving children.

Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded
guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested
again five years later on the same charge.

Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor
working as a congressional page.

Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly
Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step
daughter.

Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession
of child pornography on his home computer.

Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was
charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at
a gay bar.

Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for
distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"),
was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of
unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of
delivering the drug LSD.

Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with
molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child
pornography.

Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having
sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy
after the allegations were reported in the media.

Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to
traditional values, was sentenced prison after offering $20 to
a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to
exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was
sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old
girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six
counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal
prison.

Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to
two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a
14-year old girl.

Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts
of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven
felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under
the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found
guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.

Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to
molesting a male child.

Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal
sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his
two daughters.

Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was
convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded
guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no
contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in
prison.

Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession
of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to
30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state
representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child
pornography was found in his possession.

Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate
Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of
soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a
"good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of
repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to
12 years in prison.

Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for
Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went
swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his
daughter.

Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed
reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two
underage girls.

Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation"
Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was
sentenced to six years in prison.

Republican president of the New York City Housing Development
Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child
pornography on his computer.

Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard
A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl.
Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several
grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past
decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large
number of young women.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)