A Cesspit of Predators and Paedophiles.

Ben Fellows with wife Julia

Former child actor, Ben Fellows, now aged 37, exposes the behind the scenes culture of depravity and hedonistic excess that underlies our entertainment industry and power structure.   As he says, it's a “cesspit of predators and paedophiles”.  Young and vulnerable children--like him, when he first started out at 13-years old--are passed around and abused like sexual playthings.

Fellows claims he was offered by his agent Sylvia Young to Tom Cruise for sex, but he said Tom chose someone else. Cruise then proceeded to take this boy back  to a bedroom and have sex while he waited with his agent. That's just the tip of the iceberg. He also tells of a 13-year old Australian soap opera actress taken back to a hotel room by a producer and subsequently raped in front of everyone by Dolph Lundgren. He was advised to make a police statement to protect himself from Ken Clarke who was suing him for the penis-touching allegations because once allegations are subject of a police inquiry, the alleger cannot be sued.

“The list of extremely well-known actors, casting directors, directors, producers, writers and executives who abused me, or attempted to abuse me sexually, while I was a child actor would make the public sick.” -- Ben Fellows

From the tape of the police interview in November 2012, Ben Fellows explains (videos below) the seduction and exploitation of naive young actors, and the process of blackmail so intrinsic to keeping people quiet.
(The following quote may not be 100% accurate as I couldn't understand a few words)

“It's never, you know, go and meet that person...they want to have sex with you, it's they would be good for your career, and it's up to you what you would do. Yea? Uh, Collin Farrell basically tells the story of when he got picked by his agent, his big CIA agent I think he was, and he said basically, you know, you have two choices, the one guy who would give him a blow job and the guy who wouldn't...well, Collin Farrell's Colin Farrell, he admitted himself, that's what he did to get his agent to get into the industry. Yea? Because this is the currency.

What they do is they take you, and hope that you're damaged goods in some way. Say for example, I've got an adoption story, right? That was always used to get me to do stuff...they would always bring up my adoption story in some way. [...] Say for example, you're a shoplifter, or something like that, they can use that. Because they can stop people from going to jail They pick these kids up, especially in LA, off the beach, and show them a good time...Nicholas Cage whose related to Francis Ford Coppola...he found Johnny Depp, right? There are these key individuals...like Max Clifford who get young people for free at these events...I was 14-years old, and I was drinking champagne, snorting cocaine...I was doing...you know, that's why people don't come out, because they're embarrassed...I'm embarrassed. [...]

You get these images of people...that's how they present themselves...it's an illusion. You know, like somebody, but just know that they're a real person anytime you don't know anything they do. And, they're completely different. There's people out there that I say, 'Look, you know, these people are like monsters that look very good, and they will eat you alive.' Right? These people are charming...these people are lovely. They invite you into their lives. They will, you know, give you lots of things, buy you clothes...so, I was getting lots of clothes, really, from lots of people I met.

Fellow's email to Tap:

“Hi Tap

I hope you are well. I've just written an article about Kenneth Clarke which you may find interesting. Also I've uploaded my police statement to utube as well as the Met Police telling me why Ken Clarke won't be questioned. My utube channel is benfellows170

Ken Clarke MP Is Above The Law And Cannot Be Questioned Says Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit

Is it acceptable for anyone to sexually assault, grope, fondle, touch up, abuse, rape and murder your children?

Well, according to the Specialist Crime Directorate Child Abuse Investigation Command or the Pedophile Unit, if you are a member of parliament then it is acceptable to do just that."

Ben Fellows and the Queen

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Federal Employees Involved In Child Porn Industry Exempt From Punishment?

Half of all child porn is produced in America, and child porn and/or child trafficking is the fastest growing crime in America. Estimated to be anywhere from $3-$20 billion industry, it grows at a rate of 150% per year!

Unfortunately, our Department of Justice doesn't seem all that interested in this issue.  In fact, if you work directly for Eric Holder, and you're caught viewing child porn on the taxpayer's dime, it's all good, apparently, because Holder refuses to prosecute.

Below, Prof Lori Handrahan of American University outlines cases where U.S. military officials with top security clearance, members of the judiciary, the police, and the foreign service are being protected by the Department of Justice when they are caught using child porn and discusses the IRS Whistleblower Program.



In addition to the 5,200 Pentagon employees with child porn on their work computers--1,700 of which have never been investigated--here are a few examples of federal employees, or government contractors arrested for engaging in child pornography:


Homeland Security Official arrested for Child Porn

Federal employee arrested at Seattle office, accused of looking at child porn on work computer

Former Employee of Government Contractor KBR Sentenced in Oklahoma for Child Pornography Offense

Another KBR [government contractor] employee Richard Dill arrested for child porn

Federal DOE Employee Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

Former DynCorp [government contractor] Employee Gets 20 Years for Child Porn

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Man Sentenced to Death For Killing Two Men Who Raped Him As a Child.

Pennsylvania is preparing to execute Terrance Williams for killing two men who used their positions as a church leader and booster to get access to young boys, and who brutally raped Williams as a child. 

According to witnesses, Terrance Williams was allegedly sexually abused for years by these men as well as other older individuals throughout his life. His mother had abused him frequently and his father was absent from the home. His first experience with sexual assault was when he was just six years old, and the abuse continued steadily for the next 12 years of his life.

According to The Nation, "It was not until this past winter that another witness would come forward, a former pastor named Charles Pointdexter, who knew Norwood for thirty years. He admitted having known that he had sexually abused teen boys.

“Amos seemed to have lots of close relationships with young men…” he stated in an affidavit signed February 9, 2012, saying that he began to suspect that they were “inappropriate” in nature. A few years before Amos’s death, one of the parishioners, the mother of a 15-year-old boy, told him that he had “touched her son’s genitals” during a car ride and that “Amos had inappropriately touched a number of boys at the church.” Pointdexter kept the knowledge to himself.

Because Williams was embarrassed and ashamed by the abuse, he says he did not present his experiences as evidence for trial. His lawyer also failed to conduct a thorough investigation of Williams’ motivations for killing the men, and ignored obvious signs of sexual abuse.

Many notable people have come forward to state that they would like his sentence to be reduced to life without parole. Among those objecting to his sentencing include the wife of one victim, five jurors from the trial, judges, child advocates, former prosecutors, faith leaders, mental health professionals, and law professors.

Jurors from the trial now say they would not have voted for execution had they known about his experiences with sexual abuse as a child.

A widow of one victim said that she has forgiven Williams and does not want any more deaths to come of the incident. She expressed hope that Governor Tom Corbett, the Board of Pardons, and District Attorney Williams will reduce his sentence to life without parole.

Courts have agreed that Williams’ lawyer failed to give him a fair trial, but they also have stated that evidence of sexual abuse would not have made a difference in the sentencing.

Jurors, however, have signed sworn affidavits saying they would not have voted for death if they had known about his past.

Several jurors have also said that they voted for him to be executed because they believed that, if they had not, Williams would be eligible for release on parole.

However, a life sentence in Pennsylvania means the convicted will never be eligible for parole. Pennsylvania is the only state in the U.S. that does not require judges to explain to the jury that a life sentence means there is no possibility of parole.

No explanation of life sentencing was given at Williams’ trial.

Terry Williams’ death warrant for October 3 was signed by Gov. Corbett last week. Corbett is a Catholic Republican.

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The Rich and Powerful At the Core of Pedophile Entrapment Networks.

We've all heard the "rumor" that Jerry Sandusky and the Second Mile were pimping out young boys to wealthy donors. Whether it's true, or not, the fact remains that the biggest dirty "little" secret in the world is that pedophile networks are an integral part of our current power structure. The dirty "little" secret is that some very rich, powerful, and often trusted individuals or groups of individuals run these networks. The dirty "little" secret is that children are as much a commodity as narcotic drugs and firearms/weapons. In fact, they're much more valuable as, unlike weapons and drugs, children continue to earn income, day after day, year after year. These three commodities alone are estimated to produce $1 trillion per year, if not more.

Regarding the Sandusky case, via a July 19 interview with Greg Bucceroni, currently employed as a school police officer in the Philadelphia, Pa. school district while also volunteering with the District Attorney’s office, Bucceroni told a reporter,

“In 1979 and 1980—when I was 13 and 14 years old—a well-connected pedophile named Edward Savitz took me on trips from Philadelphia to TSM fundraisers. I knew the minute I got there it was a breeding ground because of Savitz’s involvement. While [Jerry] Sandusky interacted with wealthy donors, the other men were sizing-up kids. I felt like a cheap whore because I was in these naked pictures that Savitz was passing around.”

When asked how certain he was in regard to these claims, Bucceroni replied, “I’m sure of it. Savitz talked about taking kids from Philly to TSM and introducing them to men—soliciting them to ‘his friends.’ They exchanged and swapped kids like baseball cards. It was a feeding frenzy. I felt like a prostitute or a go-go dancer at a bachelor party. I felt dirty, used and cheap.”

When it came to TSM’s founder, Bucceroni didn’t overplay what happened. “Savitz introduced me to Sandusky on two separate occasions, but he didn’t come across like a pedophile. The other guys at these functions, though, were different. I could tell from their body language what they had in mind. When I met him, Jerry was a like a movie star. Everyone called him ‘Coach.’ After Savitz hand-delivered my enrollment forms to him, Jerry grabbed me by the shoulder—not in a sexual way—and said, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll take care of you.’ Savitz told me that Jerry would take kids to football games.”

Sexually abused victims who testified at the Sandusky trial in Bellefonte, Pa. confirmed this point.

Now, why no mention of this in the Freeh Report?

Globalized pedophile networks function not only to line the already lined pockets of the immensely wealthy, but to ensure the immensely wealthy and powerful stay immensely wealthy and powerful. That is, to blackmail others - politicians, celebrities, corporate executives, etc. - into submission. This, of course is nothing new; however, is gradually being exposed by certain non-affiliated groups of people.

The Institute for the Study of Globalization and Covert Politics (ISGP) is one of those groups. They started a project that ran from 2004 to 2010. It was a successful attempt to analyze the various elites of the western world, and to see how they interact with both each other and national governments.

They came to the conclusion that the "people who have been accused of running the Cold War through means of drug trafficking, arms trade, false flag terrorist attacks and coups, coincidentally also seem to be at the core of pedophile entrapment networks."

They also found "a clear pattern in international accusations of a cover up in child abuse networks when looking at the liberal establishment." Establishments such as Bilderberg. From Henry Kissinger to David Rockefeller, there have been accusations. None other than "Bilderberg chairman Etienne Davignon, the European pillar of the Bilderberg group and a good friend of Kissinger, was named as a child abuser."

Some of this stuff sounds like something out of the darkest of Grimm's fairytales. Hunts on children that take place on castle grounds. Maurice Lippens, who regularly goes to Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission meetings is among those accused of having participated in hunts on children, in this case at Chateau de Chimay.

There is a ritual abuse cult of 300 upper class Dutchmen that was briefly mentioned in the almost impossible to get book, The X-Dossiers. Here is a you-tube video exposing all of the people connected to the child abuse network:



All of these child abuse scandals - Haut de la Garenne, Dutrox, Hollie Greig, Franklin Scandal, Presidio, and of course, Penn State University and the Milton Hershey School - involve protected pedophilia by the powerful.

To be sure, you will never ever hear any of this reported by the mainstream media. However, the efforts the ruling class is going to make sure this ugly truth remains hidden speaks for itself. And you wonder why people like Senator Jay Rockefeller is pushing for more powers to clamp down on the Internet, by imposing Internet V2, a system very much like on demand/cable, where people would only be able to view/read/listen to what was approved.

Links: 

The Pedophocracy


Jersey's 'secrecy culture' led to my suspension, says former police chief

Havoscope a website dedicated to information on the global illicit, features links to news stories on illegal activities for all regions of the world.

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The Louis Freeh Whitewash on Sandusky.

In November, 2011, I posted about cover-up specialist, Louis Free and his close connection to MBNA, and Penn State. It appears his "investigation" is complete. However, what Louis Freeh's 267-page report on the "facts and circumstances of the actions of The PSU surrounding the child abuse committed by former employee, Gerald Sandusky," doesn't say, speaks louder than what it does say, and that is: Sandusky is not the only pedophile involved in this scandal.  Not even close.

The big unanswered question here is the extraordinary length of time it took - over a decade - for government agencies/institutions to do anything to stop Sandusky. If anything, they blatantly encouraged him. . Aside from Freeh failing to investigate why, then, Attorney General Tom Corbett, did not want to pursue Sandusky pedophile case, and the missing Second Mile files from 2000-2003, three York County PA judges - Renn, Linebaugh, and Musti Cook - concealed complaints of courthouse pedophile ring involving Wantz and Attorney Larry Heim, and the longstanding allegations that Corbett Administration security provider Russell Wantz, Jr. has ongoing close ties to a prostitution and pedophile ring centered in and around the York County courthouse.

Sex offender Wantz, of York County, was arrested in a Craigslist sting in December 2007, by Swatara Township police. In 2009, Wantz was granted an ARD by Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico. At the time Marsico refused to investigate Wantz further.

Wantz is the owner of the Schaad Detective Agency of York. Schaad holds multi-million dollar security contracts with the administration of Gov. Tom Corbett. Schaad guards sensitive state complexes such as the PennDot headquarters in Harrisburg.

Moreover, what about the suspicious disappearance of Ray Gricar, Dist. Attorney of Centre County? Or, the apparent "suicide" of assistant U.S. attorney, Jonathan Luna,  Both were working on sex crimes that traced to high visibility politicians.  Luna was stabbed 32 times, with defensive stab wounds on his hands? I don't know about you, but I can't imagine it's easy to stab yourself 32 times, yet the FBI maintains that his death was due to a suicide.  In both cases, the FBI seems to be either covering something up, or severely incompetent. 

From the 2005 article, Dead DAs Don't Lie: Ray Gricar, Drugs and Pedophilia, Bill Keisling points out the similarities between the two cases:

At the time of their disappearances, both prosecutors were involved in high-stakes heroin cases.
* The drug suppliers in both cases were from the New York city area.
* Both men disappeared on car rides, while they were alone.
* Both men vanished without their cell phones. Luna's cell phone was found on his desk, while Gricar's was in his car. This seems to indicate misplaced trust, or perhaps a sudden interruption that called them away from their routine or expected activites.
* Gricar's laptop, police say, is missing. Luna's laptop was found on his desk at work. At the time of Luna's death, Lancaster County, PA, coroner Barry Walp suggested that some of the 36 stab wounds inflicted on Luna's body appeared to have perhaps been intended to make him talk. "You would think they were perhaps after information from the guy when you see something like this," Coroner Walp told a local paper in December 2003. Gricar's disappearance follows on the heels of a widely distributed DVD titled, "Stop Snitching," in which retaliation is promised for those cooperating with drug prosecutions.
* Both Luna and Gricar seem to have set out, for reasons unknown, perhaps to predetermined, out-of-the-way destinations, as if on a rendezvous with someone they trusted. Phone records apparently offer no clues. Or, both men may have been waylaid by a stalker or stalkers; Luna, driving home, and Gricar, while shopping for antiques.
* The press coverage of both disappearances also bear striking similarities. Unreliable or illogical sightings may offer false clues.
* Both men were subjected to unlikely suicide theories in the press.
Suicide theories floated in Gricar case, and other cases

And then there is the neglect of the media to mention the parallels between Penn State and the Hershey School pedophile scandal, not to mention, the self-enrichment at the top to indefensible policy and resource-use decisions:

* Years of inaction by the authorities.

* Governor Tom Corbett (then Attorney General) sitting on his hands.

* A child predator remaining at large after local police and MHS administrators inexplicably closed an ongoing investigation.

* Tolerance of unacceptable leadership conduct.

From the Phila Inquirer on the Hershey School perpetrator:

"Although he was not arrested until 2008, Koons was brought to the attention of the school and the Derry Township police in the late 1990s when the mother of a former student said in an affidavit that her son had been molested in the 1980s. A police and school investigation was launched in 1998 but abandoned without explanation in April 1999. Koons was eventually nabbed by the police in Middletown Borough."

The bottom line is that powerful, wealthy, and politically connected people - the protected class - build systems to shield them from the consequences of their actions, no matter how heinous those actions are.

Victim Claims Sandusky Sex Scandal Connected to Philadelphia Pedophile Network

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Pedophilia on Facebook Increasing?

It's interesting how Facebook has no problem censoring certain types of comments, articles, pictures and messages.  It's interesting how easily Facebook bans people for adding too many friends or chatting too much,  yet somehow, stopping thousands of child predators to interact and trade photos is beyond their capability. In fact, the social networking giant, ordered a mother to take down pictures of her 7-year old son, competing at a local Special Olympics event just because he has Down Syndrome .  

"When she next logged on, she received messages from Facebook's monitoring team, saying that pictures violated its user agreement.

To keep your account active, please remove any photos that contain hate speech, support for violent organizations, or threats to harm others,' the message read.

Ms Cornwell's account was disabled for three days until she took down the photos.

'Every photo was of my son at the Special Olympics Event,' she said.

Nevertheless, pedophiles on Facebook, if anything, are on the increase.  In August of 2010, a Vancouver B.C. high school teacher was amongst eleven people arrested on child pornography charges linked to an alleged international child porn ring that was operating on popular social networking site Facebook.

Currently, Chelsea Schilling is doing a four part series on the dark side of Facebook. Part one deals with pedophilia.

"During the investigation, entire Facebook predator communities were easily spotted. Child pornographers use groups as meet-up points to find others with similar interests. Many of the offenders would list similar interests on their profile pages, including terms such as “Thirteen,” “Lolita,” “Justin Bieber,” “incest” and “PTHC (preteen hard-core pornography).” Their activities might include “Receiving nude pics,” and they subscribe to explicit Facebook fan pages posted in plain sight.

Send a flood of 1st-class mailed postcards to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, members of Facebook’s board and top-level management and staff telling them you want this criminal activity to stop.

In most cases, child-pornography traders and pedophiles have two kinds of friends: 1) sexual deviants who have similar interests and 2) unsuspecting children they’ve found and “friended” on Facebook. Many predators will establish a virtual relationship with a child, convince him or her to send provocative photos and even persuade the child to meet with them in person.

Now, Facebook does have a place where you can report these pages; however, from what people have told me, and reports I've read, Facebook ignores those reports.

Meanwhile, a very wealthy Mark Zuckerberg kicks off Facebook IPO  road show.

Links:

Sign petition to stop child porn on Facebook

Stop Child Porn on Facebook

“The Berlin Turnpike: A True Story of Human Trafficking in America”

“Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have completely changed the game. Enormously popular – and growing every day – these free sites offer very powerful tools for men who are buying sex, pimps who are selling it, and pedophiles trading child pornography. In a brilliantly devious marketing ploy, pimps have used these sites in such a way that men no longer need to look for girls on the street corner or the Internet. Using social networking, the girls will come to them."

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The Subliminal Influence of Disney: A Bastion of Family and Social Values?

Disney, as an entertainment institution, began in the 1920s spanning a time period close to a century. That's a long time when you consider that the Disney films have been a mainstay in the social, moral, intellectual, and even spiritual influences subliminally transmitted to billions of people.  Yes, the picture to your left is an example of that transmission of moral purity .

Few Amer­i­can icons have come to be asso­ci­ated with whole­some, vir­tu­ous images as Walt Dis­ney.The Disney empire spans across the universe...in classic cartoons, television shows, books, toys, baby apparel, music, video games, art, decor, etc. We have the Disney Channel, Walt Disney Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Touchstone Television, Hollywood Records, Hyperion Books, Hyperion Books for Children, Disney Press, Capital Cities/ABC, Pixar Animation, and television stations like A&E, Lifetime, History Channel, and ESPN...Disneyland, Walt Disney World, EPCOT Center, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Resort Paris, California Adventure, Downtown Disney, Tokyo Disney Sea, and Disney Cruise ships.

So, is Disney really the bastion of family and social values?

note window in background

Early Disney (Personally, I think this film goes a little too far in its commentary, and even in its examples; however, there is no question that Disney ain't what it portrays itself to be):









The rest of the installments can be found here.

And the not so subliminal:



Links:

6 Classic Disney Animated Wartime Propaganda Cartoons [Stuff to Watch]

Disney Pedophiles

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Big Brother Legislation Under the Guise of Protecting Children: .

If you haven't noticed there is a significant effort to not only severely restrict the internet, but to spy and collect our personal information while doing so. This time, it's under the guise of protecting children from Internet pornography: H.R.1981 - Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 A bill which Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) has fast-tracked.

However, this bill does not protect children from anything at all - because criminals use encryption and other devious methods to avert authorities, whereas ordinary citizens do not - rather, this bill would require Internet service providers to capture credit card data, bank statements, IP information and search history from every user and keep it on hand for 18 months. Moreover, the government would not need a warrant to look at all your data. And once all of this personal information about innocent Americans is collected, it would be available to law enforcement for any purpose.

So, once again,  in this ever expanding Orwellian house of mirrors, the innocent are targeted, while the truly guilty go free.

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Attorney General Tom Corbett Did Not Want to Pursue Sandusky Pedophile Case

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett made it clear to his staff that he did not want to pursue the pedophile case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky.

“Tom didn’t want to do it,” one Corbett associate explains.

A separate investigation involving AG office narcotics Agent Anthony Sassano in November 2010 finally broke the "Corbett-imposed logjam" in the Sandusky case.

On his PACE computer database system, he discovered that the former football coach was also supposedly under investigation for a pedophile complaint by Corbett’s heretofore-inactive state trooper, and prosecutor.

Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira referred the Sandusky pedophile investigation to Attorney General Tom Corbett in March 2009. DA Maderia cited a personal conflict of interest between himself and Sandusky.

AG Corbett told key members of his staff that he did not want to actively pursue the Sandusky case.

"Tom didn't want to do it," one Corbett associate explains.

The case, per standard procedure, was assigned to a state trooper, and a prosecutor. Nevertheless, without Corbett's approval, and without the active shepherding of the AG, the investigation went nowhere.

At the time the pedophile case was first received by the AG's office in 2009, particulars of the case were, by routine procedure, entered into the Office of Attorney General's PACE computer system database. PACE is an acronym for Police Automated Computer Entry.

The PACE system is a computerized indexing and intelligence system. It allows law enforcement personnel to discover if a potential target is under investigation by other law enforcement officers or agencies.

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United Nations Pedophilia Scandals: Where Was the Media?

Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall reading, hearing, and/or watching about wave after wave of child abuse reports from all over the globe regarding the United Nation's huge problem with pedophilia.

In 2001, the United Nations International Police Task Force fired a whistle-blower after she told her superiors about a massive pedophile-prostitution ring being run out of the U.N. Peacekeeping Mission in Bosnia.  Finally,  in 2002, news trickled out on the sex abuse and rape against West African refugee children by U.N. "peacekeepers" and aid workers.

In 2005, it was U.N. "peacekeepers" sexually abusing and raping children and women in the Congo. U.N. Peacekeepers in Rape Scandal

And in 2008, Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in several war-ravaged and food-poor countries

So, why didn't the United Nations' massive pedophilia scandal receive the media attention that was given to the Catholic Church pedophile scandal?  Could it have something to do with U.S. government contractor DynCorp, who has so many connections to the sex-slave world.

In 1999 in Bosnia, a U.S. policewoman who worked for DynCorp was fired after telling of an alleged sex-slave ring operating on one of the bases there. The U.S. policewoman, Kathryn Bolkovac, settled a lawsuit. Her story recently wasfeaturedin the film “The Whistleblower.”

Bolkovac’s case followed a similar episode in which another employee, Ben Johnston, blew the whistle on DynCorp employees and supervisors for allegedly engaging in sex with 12- to 15-year-old children and selling them to each other as slaves.

After all, the United Nations subsidized DynCorp pedophilia continues. Dyncorp stock is currently owned by 108 funds/institutions, including Allstate Insurance Co., Bank of America, Bank Of New York Mellon Corp,, Bear Stearns, Blackrock Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System, Credit Suisse …

No one to turn to: The under reporting of child sexual exploitation and abuse by aides and peacekeepers.

"In order for a refugee to make a report, they would have to go through the same persons who themselves are perpetrators of sexual exploitation. Most staff appear to connive to hide the actions of other staff."

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Joe Paterno: It Takes A Village.

When in doubt, follow the money trails.  As it turns out, former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno had close business ties to Second Mile, the $27 million charity founded by alleged child molester and former Nittany Lions assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. The Daly reports that Paterno and longtime Second Mile board chairman Robert Poole(runs Poole Anderson Construction, one of the biggest independent contractors employed by Penn State) secured financing to build a $125 million luxury retirement community in 2002.

Paterno was also partnered with that team of investors in developing a golf resort and nearby restaurant and inn. Paterno also partnered with other current and former Second Mile board members on a bottled water company, a coaching website and a chain of convenience stores.

Pinnacle Development, one-half of the developer team that built The Village at Penn State, included Paterno, Poole, William Schreyer—a Penn State trustee whose daughter is a longtime board member of The Second Mile—and local developer Philip Sieg.

Each partner stood to make an estimated $590,000 in fees and 15 percent annual interest on an $125,000 initial investment if the project was successful enough to get funding for a second phase.

It wasn't. The Village's nonprofit owner filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. The filing indicated that Pinnacle was never repaid its initial investment, and that $18.8 million was owed to residents who moved out and demanded refunds on their entrance fees.

JoePa pimping the Village at Penn State



And if that's not enough, another thread can be added into this tangled web of lies and deceit. Amos Goodall, of Goodall  Yurchakm, the former law firm of District judge Leslie Dutchcot, who initially failed to recuse herself from the Sandusky case, despite her ties to Second Mile, represented Ray Gricar's sister, to declare Gricar dead. On top of that, Goodall's son, Christian committed suicide


Is it any wonder that in 2007, then-President Graham Spanier vigorously fought a proposed expansion to the Open Records Law for Penn State and the other state-related schools, citing concerns about privacy to donors, compensation packages for staff and issues of intellectual property rights, among other reasons?

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Sportianity: One Nation Under ESPN.

Over 30-years ago, in a 1976 Sports Illustrated article, Frank Deford coined the term "Sportianity"—"a triumphal evangelism blended with competitive zeal that has been crafted by and for those whose love of athletics often makes it difficult for them to view sports objectively."

Fast forward to present day, with the infusion of commercialism into athletics complete, the obsession with sports in our culture can only be defined in religious terms.

Sure, "sportsmanship" is given plenty of lip-service; however, in reality, it's almost non-existent, today. Healthy competition has degenerated into cut-throat competition and the concept of teamwork into self-elevating opportunities for players and coaches, alike...all the way down to the grade-school level, if not preschool! Whether actively participating as coaches, or shouting from the sidelines as parents, adults who live vicariously through their children has become as American as "apple pie". Little hard to counteract a self-absorbed society when the parents are leading the way, don't you think?

Moreover, when sports are always organized by adults, rather than the spontaneous organization of children, it kills the joy and sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that most kids experience as a result.   Winning to please the adults is very often the unspoken "rule of law".

With the advent of "organized" sports for toddlers, and the competition, pressure and misbehavior of parents that accompanies, it should come as no surprise that the crimes and indiscretions of players and coaches in higher education is increasing with astonishing frequency. It just doesn't get any worse than the current Penn State/Syracuse scandal. Or does it?

It absolutely does. The mind-numbing glorification of sports at the expense of everything else is downright evil. As I've said before, Penn State is only the tip of a very dark and ugly iceberg. Child sex trafficking and sporting events go hand-in-hand.   Take Super Bowl Sunday.  It conjures up images of touchdowns, tailgates, and tradition. Nevertheless, there  there is a very dark side that gets very little exposure.  Believe it or not, in the spirit of Penn State,  it's a child sex trafficker's playground, according to Brad Dennis, the director of the KlaasKids Foundation. Which makes sense when you really think about it. But that's the whole problem, no one thinks about it.

Don't get me wrong.  I really enjoy sports. The problem is not sports, it's the sports-industrial-complex that has infiltrated every aspect of our lives creating a false religion that makes us forget what's important.

Links:

Stop Child Trafficking Now

Sandusky Attorney Claims at Least One Victim Will Come to His Defense,

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Boys For Sale: The Widespread Use and Abuse of Male Children for Sexual Purposes

In lieu of the Penn State scandal, which very well might just be scraping the surface of something much deeper, this shocking documentary reveals the disgusting practice that goes on amongst some of the most respected people at the top levels of the U.S. corporate and governmental structures. As Dr. Tom Philpott said, the "slaughter of innocence."

Boys for Sale: Part 1



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Part 4



Part 5

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