ACLU ex-president charged in child-porn case
 

O'Reilly mentioned this on the Factor last night, I cannot believe I missed it a month ago. ACLU President caught with child porn. I hope they feed this scumbag to the inmates.

TS

ACLU ex-president charged in child-porn case
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
February 24, 2007
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20070...4642-1644r.htm


Federal authorities yesterday charged the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, who serves as a leader of youth sports organizations in the state, with receiving and possessing child pornography.
Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, of Arlington, was named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alexandria and was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Arlington County police.
His arrest was announced by Arlington police after an initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz. The arrest, according to court documents, came after ICE agents and Arlington police -- armed with federal warrants -- searched Mr. Rust-Tierney's home.
Mr. Rust-Tierney, a former public defender in the District, was identified in court documents as having coached various youth sport teams in and around Arlington County. He is being detained pending a preliminary hearing on Wednesday.
A call to his home went unanswered yesterday.
ICE officials had no comment on the case. One agent said in a sworn affidavit yesterday that Mr. Rust-Tierney has subscribed to various child-pornography Web sites over the past several years.
The affidavit states that Mr. Rust-Tierney also admitted to an agent yesterday that he had downloaded videos and photos, which were found in a search of his home, from child-porn sites.
ICE officials noted that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales last year created Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse. Led by the U.S. attorneys' offices nationwide, the program marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims.
Speaking for the ACLU, Mr. Rust-Tierney was a leading proponent in the late 1990s for unrestricted access to the Internet, arguing before the Loudoun County Library Board that people would "continue to behave responsibly and appropriately while in the library" and that "maximum, unrestricted access to the valuable resources of the Internet" should be allowed.

Hmmm, I wonder why he was such a staunch supporter of unrestricted publicly funded access to the internet? It's baffling why such a moral, conservative and responsible individual would not want to put satety nets on information access by kids. Boy, am I glad he was coaching and mentoring those kids on the sports teams too, he's a wonderful influence.
I think I need to support the ACLU.

<complete sarcasm intended>

An Anglo man with a hyphenated name?

I predict that he will never do a day in jail.

TR

The sad thing here is that the mainstream media will ignore this as the ACLU is their high church. Now if it was a conservative who was arrested.....

.....he'd be Crucified.

Remember all of the cries of self-righteous indignation over the gay Republican from Florida who was caught exchanging emails with pages (never mind the Dem who was actually buggering one of his pages on an overseas trip, and has since been reelected by the people of Mass repeatedly)?

Where is the concern now?

TR

Very similar thoughts when I read a story on Drudge early tody about a girl who got in trouble for wearing an "anti-gay" t-shirt. It said "Be happy - not gay."

Keep in mind student had a "gay support" day the day prior....and that was acceptable.

WTF?!

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/3...-gay22.article

What is up with that ?
 

Freedom of speech is null and void, unless of course your exercising the right to be sympathetic to gay's, muslims, the war, and any other anti American statements.

What a croc of bullshit. School adminstrators and staff are too scared to injure someones feelings that the sympathetic play is only for those are strongly socially away from the norm or acceptable behavior. We've not seen the last of this kind of dribble.

Hummmmm.....

I wonder if the ACLU will back HER, for expressing HER views ????

I just picked this up off of the Jawa report.

http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2007...or-child-porn/

Apparently, this is a non-story to the elite media.

There was a lot about this when it first happened. I was wondering why no one put anything about it on here back then.

I found the AP link:

http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=7042612&nav=23ii

This second paragraph is disturbing:

"The prison term imposed on Charles Rust-Tierney, of Arlington, is one year less than the minimum sentence suggested under federal sentencing guidelines. But it's more than the 5-year term requested by defense attorneys."

:mad: