------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> <FONT COLOR="#000099">Small business owners... Tell us what you think! </FONT><A HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/vO1FAB/txzCAA/ySSFAA/zgSolB/TM";><B>Click Here!</B></A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com http://www.konformist.com/2001/pedophocracy1.htm The New York Times reported in March of 1997 that there is "growing public indignation in France and elsewhere about the recurrent reports of kidnapping, rape or incest involving the very young." The same Times report noted that: "police across France have detained more than 250 people and confiscated some 5,000 videocassettes" in conjunction with an investigation into a massive child pornography ring. Those detained by police were described as "mainly married professionals." A dozen of them would soon turn up dead, allegedly suicide victims. Three years later, the BBC filed a very brief report noting that a verdict was due "in the trial of more than sixty people accused of possessing child pornography. One of the judges hearing the case said examining the video evidence made him feel physically sick." In a familiar refrain, it was reported that: "the French courts have been accused of attacking the easy targets -- porn consumers -- rather than producers and distributors. And one children's rights group has alleged that senior public figures were among those investigated -- but their cases were dropped before coming to court." In 1998, another large-scale international ring was discovered operating out of the Netherlands and Berlin, Germany. The New York Times reported that investigators called the case "nauseating," in that "images of abuse of even babies and infants were peddled via the Internet and other media." Police discovered "voluminous records of what appear to be clients and suppliers from countries including Israel, Ukraine, Britain, Russia and the United States." The ring was first uncovered when a key member was found dead in Italy. According to The Irish Times, he was murdered by another member of the ring. His apartment in the Dutch town of Zandvoort was found to contain "thousands of digital images stored on computer disks," as well as "hundreds of addresses of suspected suppliers and clients," according to the New York Times. The images shocked even veteran sex-crimes investigators, one of whom stated that the seized evidence "left [him] speechless � It looks like the perpetrators are not dealing with human beings but with objects." In September 1998, another ring was raided � what the BBC described as "a larger and more sinister paedophile network called Wonderland." The network was so named in honor of Lewis Carroll's revered children's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll was widely known to have a predilection for underage girls and boys, and is now something of a patron saint of pedophiles around the globe. A concerted effort has been made over the decades to cover up Carroll's pedophilic tendencies, though the truth is evident even in the heavily whitewashed profiles of him that can be found in modern encyclopedias. Microsoft's Encarta notes that: "Always a friend of children, particularly little girls, Carroll wrote thousands of letters to them," and also that he "gained an additional measure of fame as an amateur photographer. Most of his camera portraits were of children in various costumes and poses, including nude studies." The Encyclopaedia Britannica reports that Carroll's photographic `hobby' was abandoned in 1880, while dismissing suggestions that "this sudden decision was reached because of an impurity of motive for his nude studies." Britannica also notes that Carroll - who was raised in an environment where there were "few friends outside the family," and who was ordained a deacon in the Church of England on the winter solstice of 1861 (an occult holiday) - generally lost interest in his child `friends' when they reached the age of twelve. Wonderland is also the name of the quarterly publication of the Lewis Carroll Collector's Guild, which bills itself as a "voluntary association of persons who believe nudist materials are a constitutionally protected expression and whose collective interests include pre-teen nudes." As Gordon Thomas has noted: "In Wonderland the `delights' of `transgenerational sex' pepper the pages." Such is the legacy of the men whose literary works are peddled to our children � but here I digress. The San Jose Mercury News reported that: "Police in � 22 states and 13 foreign countries conducted coordinated raids � aimed at breaking up an Internet child-pornography ring � The ring involves as many as 200 people around the world, who exchanged over the Internet thousands of sexually explicit images of children as young as 18 months." The Independent later reported that the ring "shared pictures of children being abused -- in some cases live via web-cam broadcasts over the internet." The raids included homes in "Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal and Sweden," according to the New York Times, which added that: "Several dozen people were arrested, but officials said they expected more than 100 to be charged." The Independent later reported that 107 suspects were ultimately arrested. The Mercury News implied that this may be only the tip of the iceberg: "The ring actually extends into 47 countries." The case was described by a British official as "stomach-churning." The Times reported that "Wonderland Club members are believed to have posed their own children for pictures � In other cases � parents may have taken money to let their children be used." The Guardian reported that over 1,250 children were featured in the photos and videos, "many of whom suffered appalling injuries and were seen sobbing uncontrollably as they were being sexually violated." The Independent added that the victimized children were "mostly under [the age of] 10." A BBC report held that the combined raids resulted in the seizure of more than "750,000 computer images of children." A Detective Superintendent with the British National Crime Squad called these images "disgusting and the behavior that has been carried out is absolutely appalling." Though ignored by the American press, "Wonderland originated in the United States." Among the scores of U.S. homes raided, one yielded a "database of more than 100,000 sexual photographs of naked boys and girls." Interestingly enough, the Times also noted that another raid, "in Missouri, turned up a cache of weapons as well as child pornography in a heavily fortified trailer," illustrating once again - as did the Dutroux case - the close ties between organized pedophilia and other terrorist assaults against society. As with the earlier raids in Europe, a rash of `suicides' soon followed. By October 24, the Mercury News was reporting that no fewer than four of the thirty-four American suspects had killed themselves. These included a retired Air Force pilot, a microbiologist at the University of Connecticut, and a computer consultant in Colorado. In the UK, the Wonderland raids - dubbed Operation Cathedral - resulted in the indictments of eight suspects. One of the eight turned up dead four months later � another alleged suicide. The other seven were given ridiculously light sentences in February of 2001 for their complicity in inflicting unfathomable abuse on countless children. Sentences ranged from 12 to 30 months. Just a few weeks before the sentences were handed down, the Guardian was reporting that: "Police today arrested 13 suspected paedophiles in the largest ever UK operation against child pornography." Once again a massive amount of appalling evidence was seized, with most of the material featuring "scenes of children being raped and sexually abused." The Independent reported in February of 2001 that: "Detectives working on the [Wonderland] case discovered that many of the paedophiles were also members of other child pornography groups." One of the groups most closely tied to Wonderland was a ring known as the Orchid Club, which had been exposed by a 1996 investigation in San Jose, California. That investigation had led to the indictment of sixteen men on charges of conspiring to produce and exchange child pornography. Members of the club were identified in at least nine states and three foreign countries. By the time of the Wonderland raids, the Mercury News was able to report that the purported ringleader of the Orchid Club and "twelve others either have pleaded guilty or have been convicted in connection with that case." Their crimes included recruiting "young relatives and friends of their own children to be molested and photographed." The club was also, like Wonderland, involved in "real-time exploitation of children" on the internet. Club members were able to send in requests and have them acted-out on live feeds. The club also held a pedophile `summit,' at which members "traded stories about pre- teen girls they had molested and photographed in sexually explicit poses." The summit was held, appropriately enough, on April 20 � the birth date of Adolf Hitler and a major satanic holiday. In late March of 2001, yet another interlinked global network was exposed. The Independent reported that: "US authorities announced the arrest of four American citizens for involvement in an international child-porn ring called Blue Orchid." The Los Angeles Times added further details the next day, reporting that "the United States and Russia have shut down a Moscow-based international pornography ring that used the Internet to sell videotapes of children engaged in sexual acts." These tapes were said to sell for "between $200 and $300." An Associated Press release held that: "Police seized some 600 videotapes, 200 digital video disks and many boxes of photographs." Video duplication equipment and sales and shipping records were also seized, leading to "criminal inquiries in 24 nations� Many of the tapes were bought by people in the United States; others went to Germany, Britain, France, Denmark, China, Kuwait, Mexico and scores of other countries." The Times reported that nine people had been arrested and fifteen search warrants issued. The AP report noted that four of those arrested were in Russia, where two suspects had, alas, "committed suicide." The ring was also said by the Times to offer what were cryptically referred to as "custom-made videos" for the hefty price of $5,000 each. The contents of these videos were not revealed. What was revealed though was that "the prevalence of child pornography has increased dramatically with the growth of the Internet. There are approximately 100,000 web sites worldwide associated with child pornography." This point was reinforced the very next day when the UK press reported police raids on yet another pedophile ring. The Guardian reported that: "More than 30 people, including a � man working for a national youth organization, were arrested yesterday in dawn raids on the homes of suspected paedophiles." Once again being sold and traded were images "which showed children being abused." A report on the case in the Independent quoted a law enforcement spokesman as revealing "that those arrested included members of `some interesting professions,'" though demurring from revealing what those professions might be. The official also said that they had "a disturbing scenario of one or two juveniles who have been caught in this way. One of them appears to be a 13-year-old boy." The police did acknowledge that the arrested boy was "also a potential victim and would be treated in that light," which seems rather obvious. Nevertheless, a follow-up to the story that the Independent ran in May reported that the boy had become "one of the youngest people to be listed on the sex offenders' register." The very next month, the Guardian carried a report on Eric Franklin Rosser � accused child pornographer, one of the FBI's ten most wanted criminals and a former keyboardist for John Cougar Mellencamp's band. According to the report: "Investigators believe Rosser's material is among pornography circulated by a British paedophile ring � More than 1,800 members are thought to belong to a club called Teenboys. Its website features boys aged around 12 � Teenboys is considered bigger than the notorious Wonderland Club." Meanwhile, a pedophile ring in Australia with high-level government connections was handled in a slightly different way. As The Irish Times reported on July 17, 1998: "Police suspect a series of gruesome gay hate killings in the Sydney region could be the work of a serial killer whose victims might be linked through a notorious paedophile ring. The latest mutilation murder was that of Australia's longest serving mayor, Frank Arkell, aged 68, who was bludgeoned to death in his flat and who had previously faced 29 child sex charges. "In the past few months two other men, one a convicted child sex offender, were attacked in their homes in similar circumstances and also suffered horrific injuries. Arkell, the former Lord Mayor of Wollongong, 50 miles south of Sydney, was a key witness in a royal commission into police corruption which uncovered a network of paedophiles." Those serial killers sure come in handy sometimes. Russ Kick: "There are a lot of people -- mainly feminists and Christian conservatives (those odd bedfellows) -- who still believe that there is a multi-billion dollar child pornography 'industry' that spans the globe. Please explain how we know that this is a myth and why it refuses to die." Philip Jenkins: "In the late 1970s, there were claims about child porn being a billion dollar industry, and estimates just swelled over the years. In reality, the last real child porn entrepreneur was jailed in the early 1980s, and she (it was a woman, incidentally) never made more than a million or two." Excerpted from the appropriately titled book You Are Being Lied To REFERENCES: 1. Bates, Stephen "Cover-Up Claims Revive Sex Scandal," Guardian UK, April 21, 1999 2. Bates, Stephen "Police Admit Dutroux Video Bungle," Guardian UK, June 17, 1999 3. Bailey, Brandon "Net-Porn Ring Traded Stories at `Pedo Party'," San Jose Mercury News, July 18, 1996 4. 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