{"id":1842635,"date":"2023-02-10T16:04:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842635"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:04:43","slug":"pedophile-pulls-out-of-libertarian-anti-war-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pedophile-pulls-out-of-libertarian-anti-war-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedophile Pulls Out of Libertarian \u2018Anti-War\u2019 Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpedophile-pulls-out-of-libertarian-anti-war-rally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Following outrage at his criminal record, Scott Ritter, aconvicted pedophile has been forced to withdraw from an anti-war rally sponsored by the Libertarian Party.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter, an ex-United Nations weapons inspector.https:\/\/www.scottritterextra.com\/p\/the-best-speech-i-never-gave?utm_source=direct&#038;r=1ldiwr&#038;utm_campaign=post&#038;utm_medium=web&#8221;>announced<\/a> That &#8220;for personal reasons&#8221; He will not be speaking at the &#8220;Rage Against the War Machine&#8221; February 19, 2019, at the Lincoln Memorial The Libertarian Party and People\u2019s Party, a left-wing group, are holding the event to protest U.S. support for Ukraine. They are also calling for &#8220;slash&#8221; The Pentagon budget &#8220;abolish&#8221; The CIA.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter\u2019s withdrawal caps a tumultuous behind-the-scenes debate over whether he should appear at the rally. After a heated debate over whether Ritter should appear at the rally, leaders of Libertarian Party asked Ritter to resign. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/how-disagreement-over-a-pedophile-upended-a-libertarian-anti-war-rally\/\">Report<\/a> His criminal history. Ritter was arrested twice in 2001 for arranging meetings with undercover cops posing as a girl aged 14 and girl age 15. After he masturbated in front of an undercover officer posing as a girl aged 15, Ritter was sentenced in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>After outcry from his fellow speakers, Ritter was reinstated at the event. Andrew Napolitano, a former Fox News analyst, rallied to Ritter\u2019s defense. Tara Reade, a former Joe Biden aide, also rallied to Ritter&#8217;s defense. She has made unconfirmed allegations of sexual assault against the president.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarians asked Ritter to quit earlier in the week. They cited his status as a sex offender and his comments about Ukraine being akin. &#8220;rabid dog&#8221; Russia had to end this.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter has released the text of the speech he intended to deliver at the rally. In it, Ritter strikes a decidedly pro-Russia tone and recites from Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; The speech was given by the civil rights leader at the Lincoln Memorial almost 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I too have a dream,&#8221; Ritter said this in his prepared remarks. &#8220;That by overcoming the hate generated by systemic Russophobia we can work with our fellow human beings in Russia to create communities of compassion that, when united, make a world filled with nuclear weapons undesirable, and policies built on the principles of mutually beneficial arms control second nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Brana, the head of the People\u2019s Party, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nick_brana\/status\/1623955608469733376\"><\/a> It was &#8220;a shame&#8221; Ritter pulled out from the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scott Ritter is a hero who has done more to stop war and save lives than almost anyone on Earth,&#8221; Brana, who served as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted pedophile Scott Ritter has pulled out of a Libertarian Party-sponsored anti-war rally later this month following outcry over his criminal history.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe post Pedophile Pulls Out of Libertarian \u2018Anti-War\u2019 Rally appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1842638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[18193,17021,8979,6757,4433],"class_list":["post-1842635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-anti-war","tag-libertarian","tag-pedophile","tag-pulls","tag-rally"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}