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Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist?

Posted on | November 17, 2013 | 124 Comments

Considering how often we’re told that there is no such movement, the ongoing effort to legalize sex with kids sure keeps busy:

The [British] prime minister has rejected a call from a leading expert on public health to lower the age of consent to 15.
Faculty of Public Health president Prof John Ashton said society had to accept that about a third of all boys and girls were having sex at 14 or 15.
He said the move would make it easier for 15-year-olds to get sexual health advice from the NHS.
Downing Street said the current age of 16 was in place to protect children and there were “no plans to change it”.
Official figures suggest up to a third of teenagers have sex before the age of consent.
Prof Ashton said lowering the age by a year could “draw a line in the sand” against sex at 14 or younger.
He said: “We need a debate here. It’s time the adults started talking about the situation to take these enormous pressures off children and young people from becoming sexually active too early.

Notice that this push for lowering the age of consent is coming from academia, which is where the pro-pedophile movement was observable as a distinct phenomenon more than a decade ago.

My prior awareness of this intellectual trend — a movement that is deliberately ignored by mainstream media — was why I hastened to defend Rush Limbaugh in January:

Rush Limbaugh Is Right: The Academic
Pro-Pedophile Movement Is a Real Danger

The origins and history of this movement, which can be clearly traced to Professor Alfred Kinsey’s bogus sex studies in the 1940s, which emerged as political advocacy in the 1960s and ’70s in the wake of the Sexual Revolution, has been documented by Dr. Judith Reisman and others. You can read my 2002 article about Lawrence Stanley, a pedophile lawyer who was once widely cited as an authority about the supposed non-danger of child pornography.

You should also be aware that the academic pro-pedophile movement for many years was most vocal in Europe. Theo Sandfort, a Dutch academic, was a member of the editorial board of the notorious pedophile journal Paidika. Sandfort authored the 2001 book Childhood Sexuality and co-edited the 1990 book Male Intergenerational Intimacy with fellow Paidika contributor Edward Brongersma, who was convicted for having sex with a 16-year-old boy. Theo Sandfort is now on the faculty of Columbia University, demonstrating how American academia has imported European perversion.

However, liberal journalists have actively sought to suppress public awareness of the pro-pedophile movement. Why is this? Because liberals don’t want to admit that this evil deviancy originated with their ideological comrades of the radical Left.

“Childlike innocence is an invention of the bourgeoisie of early capitalism.”
— Olaf Stüben, German pedophile activist, 1981

The media don’t want you to know the truth about this, nor will they confront the “ample evidence of the alliance between gay rights organizations and pedophile activists” in Europe, the influence of which has spilled over into the academic elite everywhere.

Only if you are aware that this movement exists would you have shared my alarm at the “Free Kate” arguments on behalf of a Florida lesbian sex offender: “Kaitlyn Hunt Is Guilty and, Yes, There Is a Movement to ‘Normalize Pedophilia’.”

That story wasn’t just about a couple of teenagers in Florida. We never would have heard of Kate Hunt if she had taken the original plea deal offered by prosecutors, as most such offenders do. But because Hunt and her family believed they could portray her as a victim of homophobia, and thought they would gain support by presenting gay activists with a photogenic victim, there arose a movement which — had it been successful — might have set a legal precedent that could undermine age-of-consent laws nationwide.

And this is what the pro-pedophile movement has always wanted: To eliminate “arbitrary” age-based limits on sexual activity.

Of course, any age limit is in some sense “arbitrary,” and no matter where the law establishes the legal age of consent, there will always be some borderline cases where criminal punishment could be seen as unfair or overly harsh. Yet if the law sets 16 as the age of consent, and an 18-year-old has sex with a 14-year-old, how can anyone argue that punishment for the offense violates the 18-year-old’s “rights” (as Kaitlyn Hunt’s defenders argued) without effectively exposing all 14-year-olds to legalized sexual exploitation?

Happy 14th Birthday! (Batteries not included.)

There is an attitude of antinomian lawlessness and moral relativism that I have called “The Intellectual Astroglide of the Elite,” which seeks to steadily erode our instinctive horror at such perversity.

Professor John Ashton, presented as Britain’s “leading expert on public health,” may not think of himself this way and, if accused of advocating pedophilia, would almost certainly deny it. At some point, however, common sense requires that we ask if the effect of policy is not also the intent of policy, no matter what the advocates of that policy may tell us to the contrary.

One need not accuse Professor John Ashton of being the clandestine agent of a secretive pedophile conspiracy in order to say that pedophiles would welcome a law lowering the age of consent to 15. And if the age of consent were lowered to 15 — common sense tells us, if we have paid attention long enough — then at some point in the future we will hear an argument for lowering the age of consent to 14.

The more “normal” the intellectuals can make this seem, the more acceptable it will become and the more we will be told that opponents of pedophilia are hysterical hateful bigots. Therefore, if opponents of this movement do not speak up now, they will eventually find they are marginalized and stigmatized as “extremists.”

People need to wake the hell up.




 

 

UPDATE: “Pedophile problem? What pedophile problem?”

A sweeping child pornography investigation has led to the rescue of 386 children around the world and the arrest of 348 people, Canadian police said Thursday. . . .
Police said 108 people were arrested in Canada and 76 in the U.S. Others were arrested in other countries.
Australian Federal Police commander Glen McEwen on Friday confirmed that 65 men had been arrested in Australia as a result of the Canadian investigation, and six Australian children had been removed from harm.
Police said the children were “rescued from child exploitation” but did not give more details.

(Via Conservative Hideout.)

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Category: Crime, Culture, Great Britain, Intellectuals, Sex

Comments

124 Responses to “Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist?”

  1. NeoWayland
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:20 pm

    “One section of the body of federal law cannot state A and another state B, in direct contravention of the legislation saying it is A.”

    It happens all the time. Do you have any idea how many Federal laws and regulations violate the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth Amendments?

    I’ll leave out the First and Second this time.

  2. Jeanette Victoria
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:26 pm

    Yes there is some serious mass harassment and claims of off line stalking going on by the very same folks who want to lower the age of consent

  3. rmnixondeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:33 pm

    That’s why I advocate the removal of the majority of federal laws, a reduction in the federal government and the return of power to the several states. Let local jurisdiction reign and federal government limited to providing defense and fostering trade and growth. Period (as Obama is famous for lying about saying).

  4. tlk244182
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:36 pm

    Almost as if it were all emanating from a single, evil mind.

  5. Jeanette Victoria
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:38 pm

    These are extremely evil people who want access to kids and will stalk harass and demonize anyone if you think adults shouldn’t be having sex with minors.

  6. Carlos_Perera
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:38 pm

    The destruction of the family and the Judeo-Christian morality that bolsters it have long been key goals of the Cultural Marxists who now hold the whip hand in many of the opinion-molding institutions of Western societies, e.g., journalism, academia, and the popular entertainment media. If you doubt that, read Gramsci’s _Prison Diaries_, the seminal work that underpins the work of later Leftist intellectual incubators, like the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, which in turn provided the ideology of the New Left . . . the folks who now control the aforementioned opinion-molding institutions.

  7. NeoWayland
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm

    That would be an improvement.

    I would add removing the 16th Amendment and adding “None Of The Above” to election ballots.

  8. asideofbacon
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:40 pm

    “People need to wake the hell up.”

    “Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend…” — via @rsmccain

    http://t.co/vflNtkMTmW

  9. Art Deco
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:43 pm

    Extended adolescence is a 20th century innovation. However, marriage in occidental societies has long been something that occurred modally in one’s early 20s. A century and a half ago, sexual expression was a feature of domestic life and something which set in a decade after one began earning a living. That kept matters in balance.

  10. rmnixondeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

    All in good time, major work is needed to keep the ship of state from foundering as it is …

  11. WeKnewGod
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

    Liberal journalists suppress truth of evil Pro-Pedophile Movement
    http://t.co/Qr3QK3uExu …

  12. Professor_Why
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

    Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist? http://t.co/ZNnwC34M1r

  13. Art Deco
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:46 pm

    Keep in mind what stands behind this professor: boredom and self-aggrandizement. Merely transmitting or acceding to common wisdom does not enhance the status of the professor, who feels compelled to instruct the rest of us that things are not as we perceive them in palpable reality or in morals.

  14. NeoWayland
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:53 pm

    Not exactly…

    My family were farmers before they moved to Arizona. It was important to marry early and have kids so they could work the farm. They weren’t the exception to the rule.

  15. NeoWayland
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:55 pm

    I’m obligated to point out that the quickest and easiest way to achieve those reforms is for the “ship of state” to sink.

    Nor am I convinced that would be a bad thing.

  16. ChrisDavis2011
    November 17th, 2013 @ 5:59 pm

    My dear Purgatorian, it is truly a blessing to hear such fine words of truth and encouragement that you shared at the DeRP annual meeting.

    Your presence has been greatly missed here at TOM, and I, for one, am grateful to see your return.

    Although branded a puritanical zealot by most, and frequently threatened by the Wombat’s hammer, your words of wisdom have reminded me to redouble my efforts because if your not catching flack you are flying too high over the target.

    It does sadden me to see how people have amplified verbal harassment to the point that many believe words alone constitute true persecution.

    A quick study of those who brought social change will clearly illuminate the meaning of persecution and the real and present danger that it presents to life, liberty, and freedom.

    Your address will be spread far and wide my friend, and I am counting on you keeping a good seat for me in purgatory.

    Thanks for your inspiration on a dreary day.

  17. rmnixondeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 6:05 pm

    Thank you for the encouraging words and support Chris.

  18. rmnixondeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 6:06 pm

    I’m rather six-of-one-half-dozen-of-the-other myself in that regard …

  19. kjcopp
    November 17th, 2013 @ 6:16 pm

    “Antinomian lawlessness!” MT @rsmccain: Remember Pro-Pedophile Mov’t Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist? http://t.co/691Z587qaW cc #FreeKate

  20. concern00
    November 17th, 2013 @ 6:21 pm

    Obama?

  21. ChrisDavis2011
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:04 pm

    In nature there are no judgments’, only consequences for
    actions!

  22. RS
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:08 pm

    You do understand, the prohibition in question is directed toward adults, right? The object of our concern is children. You get that, right? Your poo-pooing of “moral” judgments demonstrates at philosophical toddler’s understanding of what morality is. Your own comment presumably lauding some sort of “everything goes” social contract is a Moral Judgment, whether you wish it to be or not. Morality (or Ethics, if you prefer) is merely a determination of how we act toward others.

  23. MattRoss
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:10 pm

    Jeanette is a viscous hater that seeks to deprive their “Constitutional Right” to jail bait. HATER!

  24. rmnixondeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:21 pm

    Include me in the h8r catagory too …

  25. Julie Pascal
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:28 pm

    “Normal” or even “natural” isn’t the same thing as “good.”

    I doubt many of those so accepting of teen sex would be even slightly accepting of teen reproduction.

  26. virgil432
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:29 pm

    RT @BamaGirlForever: Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist? http://t.co/liFSBOfpMn

  27. PensativeGuy
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:33 pm

    RT @BamaGirlForever: Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist? http://t.co/liFSBOfpMn

  28. michaelmeans49
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:38 pm

    RT @BamaGirlForever: Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist? http://t.co/liFSBOfpMn

  29. The Bearded Bastard of Babylon
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:39 pm

    There is this case of an Alabama man, Austin Smith Clem, that the liberal press (gleefully) reports won’t be doing any jail time for the repeated rape of a girl – twice when she was 14, and once when she was 18…

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/15/alabama-man-rape-jail-prison-austin-smith-clem_n_4281870.html

    http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/11/alabama-district-attorney-seeks-prison-time-rapist-sentenced-probation

  30. Bob Belvedere
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:42 pm

    Pleased to meet you.

    Hope you guess my name…

  31. Bob Belvedere
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:44 pm

    Thank you for all you do, Jeanette.

  32. JoAnnEileen
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:48 pm

    RT @LADowd: Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist? http://t.co/iCmM4Q8Woy by @rsmccain

  33. shootingfurfun
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:51 pm

    RT @LADowd: Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist? http://t.co/iCmM4Q8Woy by @rsmccain

  34. Quartermaster
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:57 pm

    From consequences come morals. Morals are based on the desire to avoid bad consequences.

  35. rmnixondeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 7:57 pm

    Nope: http://youtu.be/lvHycIZ3aQY

  36. Quartermaster
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

    Beat me to it. I don’t have any sympathy for Ol’ Scratch, mind you, but I don’t want even him to go to the lake of fire, even if he does richly deserve it. OTOH, it is totally self inflicted, and he knows it.

  37. rmnixondeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:06 pm

    As it is with all of us sinners … actions (even inaction when action is called for) have consequences …

  38. Quartermaster
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:07 pm

    As detestable as the Klan was, trash like that was not tolerated when they were strong. My wife’s great grandfather was a member and they regularly dealt with things the authorities refused to deal with. As an example, a man nearly beat his wife to death and the Sheriff shrugged it off. The local Klan went to the miscreant’s house and brought him to the Courthouse Square and trussed him up to a hastily erected post and then proceeded to take a stock whip to his back. After the biblical 39 less one, they cut him down and told him that he had better never do anything so unmanly again or they would finish the job on him. The family lore says he was something of an angel from then on. Such things used to be typical.

    There isn’t enough moral fiber in the country to put such a group together for any reason these days.

  39. Quartermaster
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:11 pm

    “Thus sayeth The Lord” is not something to ignore simply because you don’t like moral judgments. Disliking moral judgments demonstrates something akin to self hate. If moral judgments are insufficient for you to avoid something, then you aren’t looking at the possible consequences of your actions.

    One problem we have is socializing the consequences of bad behavior. That’s why we are getting so much of it.

  40. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:20 pm

    “These are extremely evil people who want access to kids and will stalk harass and demonize…” — Jeanette Victoria http://t.co/iOml8bGX4d

  41. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:20 pm

    “The destruction of the family and the Judeo-Christian morality that bolsters it have long been key…” — Carlos_Perera http://t.co/2XGoIG8IEO

  42. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm

    “Almost as if it were all emanating from a single, evil mind.” — tlk244182 http://t.co/FhWy8d84in

  43. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm

    “Nope: http://t.co/v6ruNIslGP” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/nXrfj8MSl8

  44. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm

    “”Thus sayeth The Lord” is not something to ignore simply because you don’t like moral judgments…” — Quartermaster http://t.co/1ngkuk02m0

  45. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm

    “That’s why I advocate the removal of the majority of federal laws, a reduction in the federal…” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/m2sn8WLRHF

  46. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:22 pm

    “Just a lack of true moral compass and a real understanding of what love actually is. I spoke…” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/4r1CHeKdgR

  47. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:22 pm

    “My dear Purgatorian, it is truly a blessing to hear such fine words of truth and encouragement…” — ChrisDavis2011 http://t.co/1wEjAehA0L

  48. RMNixonDeceased
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:22 pm

    “Heh. It’s not a moral compass, it’s a temperature gauge, seeking the hottest fires of Hell …” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/TVslNnWNWs

  49. andywold
    November 17th, 2013 @ 8:27 pm

    RT @LADowd: Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist? http://t.co/iCmM4Q8Woy by @rsmccain

  50. Shawny
    November 17th, 2013 @ 9:34 pm

    And let’s get the hell out of the perpetual “national emergency” status which sets aside our Constitutional rights and has allowed the executive branch extraordinary powers for so long that they now freaking think they own them. Screw the “Continuity of Government” B.S. Let’s see some plan for the continuity of the folks who hired them.