Scott Ritter allegedly kicked off flight to Russia; passport seized

[FelineOverlord]

MAGAts are furious.

Kareem Rifai 🌐
@KareemRifai
JUST NOW: Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector turned convicted pedophile and Russian propagandist, has just been kicked off of a flight to Moscow and had his passport seized by police, per RT.

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Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈
@jimstewartson
Oh no, convicted pedophile and Putin fluffer Scott Ritter, who is fully endorsed by both Mike Flynn and RFK Jr., got pulled off the plane to St. Petersburg?

WEIRD. 🤣
#ArrestMikeFlynn

Julia Davis
@JuliaDavisNews
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Meanwhile, Scott Ritter might be late for his latest trip to Russia.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦
@OlgaNYC1211
Russia is up in arms that their traitorous Kremlin shill, Scott Ritter, allegedly had his passport confiscated as he was on the way to Russia.

I honestly thought he was in Russia and should go seek citizenship there or be charged with FARA violations if he stays here

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Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@NataliaAntonova
Convicted sex offender Scott Ritter, who preys on minors, had his passport seized.

He is unrepentant.

You KNOW what he’s up to in Russia when he isn’t hyping up war criminals.

Russians refuse to protect their children, so the State Department did it for them.

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[FarPoint]

1. I believe Scott Ritter was doing his job as a weapons inspector correctly...

The Bush/Cheney administration screwed his life and mind up....In my opinion. Bush/Cheney didn't like the truth to surface...Scott...he just didn't see the blinding assault coming.

[jimfields33]

3. I could care less. I don't support convicted child

pedophile. I think you must not have known that.

[FarPoint]

4. I see many aspects of an individual....

He did an honest job as an inspector....then, he was screwed over by Bush Cheney and lost himself, his boundaries etc....No, I do not support the pedophilia behavior yet ...I see positives and negatives.

[SocialDemocrat61]

10. Pedophiles are monsters

That’s the only “aspect” that matters. I don’t care how he did his job or how he was treated. I’m not so blinded by partisanship that I’m going to make excuses for a monster.

[Warpy]

17. Right, Cheney wanted everybody to think Iraq was armed to the teeth

with nasty bioweapons and Ritter was courageous enough to tell the truth. Bush was a dunce and Cheney was an evil old fuck who saw oil to grab and a stepping stone to an equally phony war against Iran and even more oil to grab.

I'd think they used the online sex sting to fuck Ritter over in 2001 if the guy hadn't been stupid enough to fall for it again in 2009.

Ritter, angry at being told that there's a reason jail bait is called jail bait, now wants to work for the enemy.

I think they did him a favor by lifting his passport, honestly. I doubt he knows enough to be useful to Putin and wouldn't be treated all that well over there, trotted out for media appearances for a few months and then seen as an untrustworthy foreign agent, at best.

Like you, I see a guy who did a job, did it well, and spoke truth to power. I also see a guy with a sexual screw loose that makes him want girls barely past puberty, or in the middle of it.* I can appreciate the first and condemn the second. I have to wonder how many girls he's hurt over the years.


*Girls who self identify online as 15-16 can be as young as 11 or 12, something both the cops and Ritter undoubtedly knew.

[maspaha]

20. Interesting perspective on human behavior...Foul Language Warning!

First a warning about my mood today. I fucking hate MAGAts and Republicans. I lost my St. Bernard yesterday and a fucking huge black Ford pick up truck with Trump stickers on it “road raged” me while I was rushing to get him to the ER vet.Truck dude was pissed because an old silver haired lady driving a 19 year old Honda Civic blew past him on a left turn he was trying to prevent me from making. Can we all just appreciate the power of a manual transmission coupled with 48 years of driving experience. That and DO NOT fuck with me when the life of my loved ones is involved.

So OK, here goes….I absolutely do NOT condone Scott Ritter’s actions, however, I think FarPoint has some interesting insight on his behavior.

Scott Ritter was literally born and raised in the military where nasty, shady shit happens all the time. Killing is always wrong…except when powerful people want to take, to steal, to loot everything of value from those less powerful, less fortunate (looking at you Bush family with your corrupt CIA connections and your oil (Operation Iraqi Freedom) interests), then sure, go kill every body. The military protects women and children…except when military leadership looks the other way or blames the victims when they’re assaulted. Do you know the rate of sexual assault among women enrolled in the military academies by their fellow “soldiers” (that’s why I forbid military recruiters to interact with my daughter in high school; she graduated at 17 and was just what they wanted, an accomplished athlete and academic with NO money for college; I was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer, when she was 10 years old, before the ACA passed when our health insurance deductible was $12,000 per year…it was a pissy decision to make, spend HER college fund and live or I die). What about domestic violence in the military? And that shit’s just the tip of the hypocrisy iceberg.

BTW, can someone please fucking explain to me why Wernher von Braun was treated as royalty in the US rather than executed as a war criminal? On second thought, don’t try explaining. I don’t even want to understand. And I’m an engineer; I fucking love math & physics. For me, the blood on von Braun’s hands washes away his academic contributions. Yeah, yeah, life is shades of gray, I know. I accept it’s there, I just don’t want to look at it.

The hypocrisy and the abuse of power that defines a military led by corrupt humans chews up and spits out the very soul of those soldiers who literally trust that leadership their lives. Once that soldier’s trust is betrayed what happens? I doubt Ritter could even judge moral right from wrong after his time “serving” his country.

Please, make no mistake, Ritter’s abuse of children is disgusting and vile and SHOULD be punished. BUT, and a big fat BUT, why weren’t Ritter’s peers and his “employer” not providing any psychological/psychiatric support to him? Yeah, I know, he didn’t ask. But, (yeah, another but) I think many of us have seen the difficulties of transitioning from the military’s structured life where most decisions are made for you, to the unstructured life of civilians (pardon the fuck out of me for wanting to decide when, how and with whom I’d like to start a family but, ya know, we can trust a woman flying a fighter jet armed with missiles but we can’t let her make her own family planning decisions) and that’s without a fucking war (oh, I’m sorry Congress never declared war). Damn, look at people coming out of prison; don’t most of them go back? But mental health services cost money and the Republicans can’t spend money on…Oscar Mike Foxtrot Gulf (translate…Oh My Fucking God) helping PEOPLE!?!

These soldiers, these heroes that the Republicans LOVE when they’re all clean and shiny in their uniforms but are embarrassed by and turn their backs on when those same soldiers come back dirty, filthy and broken from the war the Republicans fucking started.

I intellectually understand why the US has and needs a military and I’m grateful there are folks that do that job. BUT, my conscience and my heart will not allow me to participate. I got a damn MS in engineering to defer my student loans because I would not in good conscience work for the blood thirsty defense contractors (thanks Ronald Reagan) recruiting me, offering me a job, sight unseen, with only a posting about me on the job board in the engineering admin office, a chick (check that box and keep the ca$h flowing) with a BSME, a commercial pilot rating and A&P license. Thankfully, I ended up getting on with a startup cargo airline before spending more years starving to pay off student loans working at the commuters. But not everyone is as stubborn as me.

Maybe Ritter followed in the “family business” because the military crushes the creative thinking skills of some folks to see a different career path. Or maybe the military turned Ritter into a creepy bastard and then disposed of him when he was no longer useful to them.

I don’t mean this to be a military bashing response. I truly respect and admire folks serving and who have served. And I have spent a great deal of time among former military (I worked with pilots and mechanics) as well as active military (I almost married a sweet submariner who disappeared under the water for months at a time). They are among the best people in the world. I mean it to be a Republican bashing response to the damage, perhaps caused to Scott Ritter, by the Republicans!

That is all now. Please be gentle in your responses. I am grieving the unexpected loss of my 6 1/2 year old St. Bernard (and if you know them, you know why they’re called Saints) to previously undiagnosed hemangiosarcoma. Fuck every cancer. I’m gonna go wash my mouth and fingers out with soap now.

[MissB]

21. I'm so very sorry for your loss

I just wanted to say that. It’s incredibly hard to say goodbye so suddenly.

[maspaha]

32. Thank you MissB

Your kindness and understanding is so appreciated and just the words my heart needs to hear.

When I read FarPoint’s take on Scott Ritter it brought my experience with MAGAt truck full circle. MAGAt man was busy trying to impose his will for “rules of the road”, or just “dick swinging” as I call it, with zero care or understanding of the emergency in my backseat.

And I’ll bet, said MAGAt man dick swinger adores dogs, has at least one he’s extremely attached to and would do anything for. I’ll even venture to guess that had I not entered his radius of dick swinging, he would have helped load my 160 pound dog into my car and maybe even driven himself. But in our manufactured state of political divisiveness he now feels entitled to swing his dick at me without regard to context or consequence.

Now I’m gonna go wash out my filthy mouth & fingers again. I’ll need them clean and fresh for more swearing later.

[NanaCat]

23. Oh please

BushCo didn't turn him into a pedophile. He was one long before that.

[John Shaft]

25. Hurting a child invalidates EVERYTHING the man did his ENTIRE life

Pedophilia should be a capital offense.

One should NEVER show any sign of sympathy for a pedo.

They aren't human beings.

[orange jar]

2. Human trash.

Unsurprising that the Russian state likes him.

[UTUSN]

6. He was lionized right here back in the day.

[NanaCat]

24. That was before people learned he was a pedophile

Really.

[malaise]

7. Smelvis' VP

Nominee?
Asking for a friend

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

8. So What Is The Truth

David Kelly was murdered. I do not know the truth about Ritter. It seemed he really was a ped. He wasn’t framed right?

[Owens]

9. Where was he kicked off the flight and arrested?

[ShazzieB]

13. Available info is skimpy right now.

This is the only thing I've been able to find so far: https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274394369/us-seizes-scott-ritters-passport

I imagine it'll start popping up on more mainstream news sites before long.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. It doesn't say where, just that the US seized is passport

https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/us-seizes-scott-ritter-s-passport/

[womanofthehills]

19. He wasn't arrested - just kicked off flight

& passport taken.

He was going to St Petersburg Economic International Forum.

“ "I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said 'orders of the State Department'. They had no further information for me," Ritter told RT. "They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport."

https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/274394369/us-seizes-scott-ritters-passport

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_International_Economic_Forum

[sop]

27. In one of the many tweets in the OP (in a screenshot of an article) it states Ritter was in a NY airport...I think.

(Rant) Why do we have to wade through a bunch of repetetive tweets to find out where this incident took place?

[DoBW]

11. who got him & where ?

was he actually on a plane ?

[ShazzieB]

12. About to get on a poane, i think.

This is the only thing I've been able to find so far: https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274394369/us-seizes-scott-ritters-passport

I imagine it'll start popping up on more mainstream news sites before long.

[lame54]

14. Which St. Petersburg

[LeftInTX]

16. He's livestreaming on twitter right now. So he's not in jail or anything.

Sounds like he only got his passport revoked.

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[FSogol]

18. Do Michael Flynn next!

[brooklynite]

22. No legitimate news media is reporting this.

[gab13by13]

26. Define legitimate,

e.g. I don't consider "The Hill" legitimate.

[Bucky]

29. They have a slight right libertarian bias, but they report factually

You've Heard the phrase "This is not your grandfather's Republican party"? Well, The Hill is your grandfather's Republican party.

[Bucky]

28. Ritter's life has taken a dark turn.

Getting kicked off a plane should be the least of his worries

[GreenWave]

30. Was the plane in flight?

[liberalla]

31. Interesting! Was he taking something of value to Russia? That he shouldn't have or share?