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Capturing the Limelight Moral Relativism and the Movies "Andrew Jarecki is a documentary filmmaker - a wealthy one too since he founded Moviefone and sold it to AOL for $400 million. In a recent NPR interview at the Sundance Film Festival, he discussed his new documentary, Capturing the Friedmans, and stated that he wanted to make a movie about his subject that potrayed them "accurately". "Bush likes to portray the people behind Sept 11 in black and white terms," he said. "People aren't like that." Evidently neither are his subjects - a multi-generational family of clowns with long histories of sadistic sex abuse." http://www.therazor.org/Winter03/modernfilm.htm
News Flash: Art Beats Commerce - Collisions Galore at Sundance 2003 by Andy Spletzer "On Thanksgiving weekend in 1987, the feds busted into the home of Arnold Friedman to confiscate his child porn collection. He and his son Jesse were later implicated in a child sex-abuse scandal centered around an afterschool computer class they taught together." http://www.thestranger.com/2003-02-06/film.html
Documentaries Carry the Day by Rex Reed "Arnold Friedman, a retired schoolteacher, former bandleader, father of three sons and respected member of the community, and his youngest son, Jesse, a high-school student, were both dragged out of their home in handcuffs and charged with more than 100 counts of sodomy and other sexual abuses. Their accusers were a group of boys who had been taking after-hours computer lessons in Mr. Friedman's basement...Arnold Friedman pleaded guilty and was sentenced as a pedophile to 10 to 30 years in prison-the maximum sentence." http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=7436
Frank Rich: Digging the truth out of 'reality 6/7/03 "Jesse, then 19, pleaded guilty to multiple acts of pedophilia carried out in the basement of their home, where they held after-school computer classes for neighborhood kids." http://www.iht.com/articles/98770.htm
four from L Moss Sharman Porn user roundup - No link between kid smut collectors, UCC man: Cop by Rob Lamberti, Toronto Sun 6/13/03 "Toronto Police say they're preparing child pornography-related charges against other collectors in the wake of the arrest of a teaching assistant at an elite boys' school. Ashley Chivers, 28, who has worked at Upper Canada College since 1995, was charged Wednesday with attempting to import child pornography, attempting to possess child pornography, possessing child pornography and making child pornography....about 45% of child porn collectors in the Toronto area also abuse children, slightly higher than the international average of between 35% and 40%." http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/TorontoSun/home.html
Nation's dark, dirty secret blighting many young lives 6/14/03 by Eugene Bingham and Catherine Masters "Child sexual abuse, the secretive crime ruining young lives, appears to be increasing. Social workers are finding five new cases a week and many of the victims are preschoolers or toddlers. The Department of Child, Youth and Family confirmed 1284 reported cases of sexual abuse last year, a 7 per cent rise on the previous year. Other departments have tracked an increase too - Ministry of Justice figures show the number of convictions against adults for child-sex offending was 1357 last year, up 100 on 2001....ACC figures show that the sensitive claims category, which mostly involves sexual abuse complaints, costs $15 million a year. More than 40,000 people have lodged claims in this category since 1994." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3507358&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
Former Waterbury Mayor Giordano sentenced to 37 years in prison for sexually abusing two girls Matt Apuzzo, AP Writer 6/13/03 Bridgeport, Conn. (AP) -- Former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano, convicted of sexually abusing two young girls inside City Hall and elsewhere in liaisons arranged by a prostitute, was sentenced Friday to 37 years in federal prison.....He was convicted in March of violating the civil rights of the girls, ages 8 and 10." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/06/13/national1140EDT0559.DTL
Troopers confirm more sex reports 6/13/03 Pa. State Police were subjects of 118 sexual-misconduct complaints in a 6-year period, not 89, as they said earlier. By Chris Gray and Mario Cattabiani "There were 118 complaints of sexual misconduct filed against Pennsylvania state troopers - not 89, as previously confirmed by state police officials - in a six-year period ending in 2001....The 118 cases, which came from citizens and from women within the department, involved a wide range of allegations, "anything from viewing pornography on the Internet to officers having a sexual encounter in a patrol vehicle," Lewis said.....In March 2001, Evanko promised the legislature a full probe into allegations that state police officials tolerated the sexual misconduct of Evans, who is now serving time at Waymart State Correctional Institution after pleading guilty to a variety of crimes committed against women and teenage girls while on duty." http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/6076405.htm www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
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