Posted on 06/02/2007 2:35:21 AM PDT by aclusux.com
A former president of the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union pleaded guilty Friday to federal child pornography charges.
51-year-old Charles Rust-Tierney entered his plea to one count of receipt of child pornography in US District Court in Alexandria. He had been indicted last month on one count each of receipt and possession of child pornography.
Prosecutors say from March 2005 until October 2006, Rust-Tierney bought at least five subscriptions to child pornography Web sites and downloaded other illegal materials offered at additional cost.
Rust-Tierney, who also coached Little League baseball in Arlington, has been in jail since his arrest in February.
The charge carries a mandatory minimum of five years in prison.
Prosecutors said they would not seek more than eight years and one month, which is in line with sentencing guidelines.
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Wow. shocked.
They need to send him down here to the Baltimore prison system for a few days.
Up here, where ever...
No, I have no interest or desire to even be near such materials, I am merely asking from a Freedom lovers, point of view. I think people deserve jail for what they do, not simply what they think.
Yes, it is funny that Mr. ACLU is off to the Big House.
Yeah, shocked he’s not threatening to sue the Feds are violating his civil rights...
Imagine how this would be covered if the organization in question were the NRA instead.
The issue is whether this attorney had used his aclu position to advocate adult sexual use of children or of pornography in any way.
No surprise, given what that communist front organization believes.
ruth buzzy ginsburg will be horrified when she wakes up from a nap on the SCOTUS bench!!!
I think these were ‘real children’.
yeah that is about it.
Anyways, I hope the scumbag suffers while he's in the joint. His wife is a big wheel for the ACLU as well. You have to wonder what she knows about this scumbag's need for child porn.
Downloading child porn and viewing it is an action, and if done intentionally, it violates the law. He would no more be arrested for what he thinks than you or I are for the terrible thoughts we sometimes have. I often have had revenge fantasies about people that have done me wrong. That is not a crime against society (it is against God). But I would be arrested if I bought a gun and filed off the serial number in preperation for the revenge. As far as it being a victimless crime, he is the demand side of the business, and the children in the pornography are the victims.
Very creepy.
Yeah, in this case, they are. I was responding to a question about written description of child abuse. In thos case, since no image of ‘real children’ involved, IIRC, they are protected by the 1st.
Problem is, I’m picturing somebody like Janet Reno or Mike Nifong simply seizing somebody’s computer and loading evil pictures onto it and resetting the dates on them and trying to figure out how anybody would defend themselves from that in a courtroom, and I’m not coming up with anything.
Just Mr. Kervorkian, he probably figured that the laws did not apply to a flaming liberal. Maybe like Mr. Kervorkian, he will get out and decide that behaving civil is better than jail.
Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, admitted that he accessed more than 850 pornographic images of children as young as 4, including a six-minute video depicting the sexual torture of children set to a song by the band Nine Inch Nails. Authorities said Rust-Tierney used a computer in his 10-year-old son’s bedroom to view the files...
“So these were actual children under the age of 12 engaged in sexual activity?” Judge T.S. Ellis asked.
“I’m agreeing to that, yes, your honor,” Rust-Tierney said.
“Well, is it true or not?” Ellis asked.
“Yes, it is,” Rust-Tierney replied.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060101882.html
” Rust-Tierney’s former wife, Diann...”
I'm probably like most people and have never seen the material we are talking about, and I hope I never do.
People who use real children in their materials are evil and need to be put down.
When the material is just fabricated, no one is harmed.
I do not have all the answers, but I have to wonder what is the lesser of two evils. Those who look at fake dirty pictures, or a government that jails people for viewing unauthorized pictures. It may well be a slippery slope what the government allows.
Prosecutors said yesterday that they had identified at least 30 child pornography victims shown in the images and videos Rust-Tierney downloaded and that the images were created in places ranging from England and Texas to Scranton, Pa. Rust-Tierney used his credit card to purchase the images from child pornography Web sites on at least five occasions, spending about $420.
At one point, court documents said, Rust-Tierney e-mailed the operators of a Web site requesting free access to a child pornography video normally sold separately for $100. The Web site operators e-mailed back with a link to the video.
Rust-Tierney’s plea agreement with prosecutors said the images he downloaded showed “sadistic or masochistic conduct.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060101882.html
U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa C. Buchanan, who declined to release Rust-Tierney at the hearing in March, had described the material on the computer as “the most perverted and nauseating and sickening type of child pornography” she has seen in 10 years on the bench.
This is the Virgina state chief. There are 49 other chiefs that are more than likely co-conspirators.
haha
He is ACLU trash.
Betting that some woman somewhere sues to get her name away from his hyphen.
Please do not think I am defending this guy. I am more concerned about our liberties in general.
Still waiting for the ny slimes...
What this guy apparently repeated paid for...little girls ( pre-teen ? ) crying that they did not want to be raped, then getting repeated raped by adults for money on the video , etc. is beyond words.
He is lucky to not get life in prison.
This is not about his civil liberities but about the child victims.
IMO.
It's harder to fake than you might think; I was recently involved in court case involving allegations of falsified data, and there was evidence that was available. That said, an out of control government will always have more power than an individual when the full force of the state is brought against them. Two seperate issues: 1) Should Child Porn be prosecuted? 2) Should government falsify evidence to convict people.
The falsifying of evidence can be done to show any crime, so what law is shown to be violated doesn't really matter. See the entire history of Stalin . . .
Exactly!
I'm not so concerned about his civil liberties, rather than our civil liberties. This guy is a steaming pile of dung. I just get nervous when the government jails people in general, not specifically in this case, for looking at dirty pictures. I see the need to get rid of freaks like this guy, and I can also see the need to keep the government in check, and I can also see the need to protect young folks from harm. I suppose it is all about the proper boundaries for a free society.
I'm a little confused.
Are you saying the violent child pornography images that former ACLU President (VA chapter) Charles Rust-Tierney viewed were pure fantasy?
Or are you asking a peripheral question unrelated to the particulars this case?
I guess I'm confused because you keep bringing up the "fantasy" question.
ACLU founder and longtime executive director Roger Baldwin’s infamous quote
“I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
Yes, I am asking in general.
This story is right under the one about DiFi resigning her defense contract procurement committee post for conflict of interest.
Oh, wait...
Betting that some woman somewhere sues to get her name away from his hyphen.
That struck me as being funny too. Rush always said, "Never trust a woman with a hyphenated name." I guess that applies to men too now.
We are on a very slippery slope when simply looking at illegal activity will get you serious jail time.
As far as we know, this guy didn't touch a kid, molest a kid, take a picture of a kid. He did nothing illegal except look at and pay for vile, disgusting, sick material
Bear in mind, this POS ACLU scumbag needs help if he gets his jollies by watching adults sexual abusing a 4 year old.
He needs to be institutionalized
In other countries possessing a Bible will get you jail time, I'm not making a moral equivalence between an Islamic tyrannical regimen and a sick pervert, but there is a law of unintended consequences
Should you be arrested for downloading a picture of a gun with no serial number? Should I be arrested for viewing and downloading your revenge fantasy about getting a gun and filing off the serial number?
if he had been allowed to become a Boy Scout leader he wouldn't have had to keep all of that violent kiddie porn on his computer
< / sarcasm>
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Is anyone surprised this jerk was associated with the ACLU?
I'm glad you said you aren't interested in seeing the fantasy child porn.
People (not you) who actually download "fantasy" child porn and say no one is harmed by what they do, seem "out of touch with reality," in more ways than one.
They (not you) also seem sanctimonius, and blindly optimistic to me.
They (not you) seem very much like liberals.
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