{"id":51,"date":"2015-08-06T15:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1776again.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-05-08T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:11:55","slug":"the-pedophiles-of-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/2015\/08\/06\/the-pedophiles-of-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pedophiles of Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Paul and Shirley Eberle wrote The Politics of Child Abuse, a book that accuses mothers, mental health professionals, and prosecutors of feeding children stories about sexual abuse. Since the book was published by Lyle Stuart in l986, the Eberles have been cited as experts in sexual abuse trials \u2026 What is startling about the Eberles&#8217; reputation as ground-breaking experts in the field is that their dubious credentials have not been widely challenged \u2026 Their publication, Finger, depicted scenes of bondage, S &amp; M, and sexual activities involving urination and defecation. A young girl portrayed with a wide smile on her face sits on top of a man whose penis is inside of her; a woman has oral sex with a young boy in a drawing entitled \u2018Memories of My Boyhood.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><b><i>Ms. Magazine<\/i>, December 1988<\/b><\/center><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">W<\/span>hile the size and scope of these operations have grown rapidly in recent years, America has &#8211; as it turns out &#8211; always been a nation whose laws were friendly to purveyors of child pornography. It was just over twenty years ago &#8211; in 1978 &#8211; that the very first federal statute on child pornography was passed into law. While forbidding production and sale, the statute placed no restrictions at all on the possession or trade of such materials.<\/p>\n<p>New laws enacted in 1984 forbid the trade of child pornography regardless of whether any money changed hands, though possession still remained legal. In fact, as recently as 1990, private possession of child pornography was legal in 44 of the 50 states, despite the inescapable fact that all such materials were, by necessity, illegally produced and\/or illegally acquired.<\/p>\n<p>Technology has for some time now played a key role in greatly expanding the availability of child pornography. The Polaroid camera, for example, eliminated the need for child pornographers to have access to complicit photo labs. Home video cameras did likewise for moving images. Personal computers, digital cameras, web cams, scanners, and &#8211; especially &#8211; the Internet, have vastly expanded the reach of child pornography networks.<\/p>\n<p>In the age of the Internet, child pornography is a booming business. The\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>\u00a0noted in December of 1999 that: \u201cthe number of investigations for Internet-related child pornography is soaring. The FBI launched 1,125 such inquiries this year, more than twice as many as last year.\u201d In the wake of this rising tide, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on December 17, 1999 which struck a serious blow to the prosecution of child pornography cases.<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0<i>Times\u00a0<\/i>reported, the decision stipulated that \u201cthe government cannot prohibit computer-generated sexual images that only appear to be pictures of children.\u201d A later report noted that appeals court judge Donald Molloy stated that the First Amendment bars the government from criminalizing the generation of \u201cimages of fictitious children engaged in imaginary but explicit sexual conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>On January 22, 2001, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of the case. Should the presidential appointers on the high court choose to affirm the decision of the lower court, prosecution of child pornography cases will become all but impossible in all fifty states. Until that time, prosecutors are \u201cbarred from bringing virtual-child pornography cases in California and the eight other Western states within the jurisdiction of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As critics have noted, graphics technology now available to the general public is so sophisticated that it is virtually impossible to determine if an image has been digitally altered, and if therefore any actual children were involved in the generation of the image. Justice Department lawyers argued that very point, noting that the \u201cgovernment may find it impossible in many cases to prove that a pornographic image is of a real child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any good defense attorney could, in other words, raise reasonable doubt as to the authenticity of an image. It could in fact be argued that all such computer images \u201conly appear to be pictures of children.\u201d Computer images are not in fact photos, but are digital computer files that display as a facsimile of the original photo. A sound legal argument could be made that all digitally transferred and displayed child pornography is therefore legal, as it doesn&#8217;t represent &#8216;real children.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>That should come as great news to the international child pornography networks, given that the United States is their number-one market. According to investigative author Gordon Thomas, the majority of child pornography produced worldwide is targeted at the U.S., where by the early 1990s it was already a $3 billion a year business, and growing.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas claims that &#8211; according to law enforcement figures &#8211; over 22 million copies of child pornography videos were sold or rented in the U.S. in 1991. He also writes that much of that pornographic material is produced here, where it is \u201cpart of the largest segment of movie making in the United States.\u201d Jan Hollingsworth concurs with that figure, describing child pornography as: \u201cA three-billion-dollar &#8211; per year &#8211; U.S. industry that grossed twice that worldwide. It [is] bigger than Disney. Much bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Disney, Thomas notes that child porn videos are frequently trafficked internationally by deceptively packaging them as Disney videos. Strangely enough, the first man to benefit from the circuit court decision was Patrick J. Naughton. You may remember him as the executive with the Walt Disney Co. who ran one of the company&#8217;s kid-friendly web sites. Naughton was arrested and later tried on child pornography charges.<\/p>\n<p>He was convicted on December 16, just one day before the decision was handed down in the case before the circuit court. Within hours of the appeals court ruling, Naughton was released by federal prosecutors on $100,000 bail. Despite the fact that he was, as the<i>\u00a0Times<\/i>\u00a0acknowledged, convicted of \u201cpossessing pictures of actual children,\u201d the decision was made to release him \u201cuntil the impact of the court&#8217;s ruling can be sorted out,\u201d illustrating the significant undermining of existing law that the court ruling portends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/0d827djdjldofr71dhfqu2xcah.hop.clickbank.net\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-804\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.1776again.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CBPI4_Banner_781x76.gif?resize=781%2C76\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closely associated with child pornography is, of course, child abuse. It should go without saying that all kids used in child pornography are abused children, their abuse recorded on film and tape for the depraved enjoyment of other child abusers. Also closely associated with child pornography is the always controversial issue of &#8216;missing children.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There is considerable debate as to whether there is a problem in this country with missing children. Some claim that 200,000 or more children disappear without a trace every year. Others steadfastly maintain that numbers such as those are grossly inflated, and that abduction of children by strangers with bad intent is actually quite rare.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that nobody really knows for sure, since the FBI &#8211; America&#8217;s compiler of crime statistics &#8211; doesn&#8217;t bother to keep track. As Ted Gunderson, former FBI station chief for Los Angeles, has stated: \u201cThe FBI has an accurate count on the number of automobiles stolen every year. It knows the number of homicides, rapes and robberies, but the FBI has no idea of the number of children that disappear every year. They simply do not ask for the statistics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many believe that the numbers aren&#8217;t compiled because the FBI doesn&#8217;t want to know \u2013 or more accurately, the FBI doesn&#8217;t want the American people to know. What is known though is that reports of child abuse have skyrocketed. Between 1963 and 1988, reported cases of child abuse rose from 150,000 to 2,000,000 per year, a 1300% increase in just a quarter-century.<\/p>\n<p>Child abuse may in fact be the most prevalent &#8211; and possibly the most significant &#8211; crime in American society, given that it provides the breeding ground for so much of the more visible crime plaguing Western culture. As Thomas reports: \u201cover 90 percent of the teenage prison population are now victims of child abuse,\u201d and that population is growing rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of\u00a0<i>this<\/i>\u00a0rising tide, the\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Times\u00a0<\/i>reported in March 2001 that: \u201cPresident [a clearly inappropriate use of the word] Bush&#8217;s budget will trim a program aimed at preventing child abuse and cut some child care spending \u2026 A child abuse prevention program will see an 18% cut.\u201d That money will apparently be much better spent on handing out tax breaks for the wealthy and building missile defense shields \u2026 but here I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Author and e-zine editor Robert Sterling has written of what he refers to as \u201ca pattern of trivialization of child molestation evidence\u201d that seems to characterize high-profile media stories. He points out, for instance, that in the highly publicized Woody Allen and Mia Farrow child custody case, all the attention was focused on Allen\u2019s illicit romance with Soon-yi Previn.<\/p>\n<p>Almost entirely ignored in the media coverage was the fact that Allen was also charged with molesting his own seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan. While the press dismissed those allegations as unfounded and unworthy of reporting, Sterling notes that \u201cConnecticut state authorities, based on the testimony of Dylan and others, have stated that they do believe Woody did molest her, but decided not to prosecute anyway,\u201d allegedly to spare the child any further trauma.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sterling also takes note of the \u201ccase of the Menendez brothers, who, after admitting to murdering their parents, painfully revealed that they were ruthlessly abused and molested by them over the years.\u201d Their claims were never fully investigated and the boys were \u201cviciously demonized for trying to escape the murder charges and accused of making up their abuse,\u201d though there was in fact clear evidence of that abuse, according to a private investigator who worked on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Also noted is the kid-gloves treatment afforded Michael Jackson when he was charged with molestation: \u201ceven though the accusations against him are widely believed to be true, [they] are merely passed off with a laugh among other smirking monologue jokes on Jay Leno.\u201d And of course, though unmentioned by Sterling, sister LaToya was ridiculed by the media when she came forward with stories about the sexual abuse suffered by the Jackson kids at the hands of their father.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling references other cases as well, including the over-hyped au-pair trial in which evidence of prior abuse of the child by his parents was consistently ignored, and the Susan Smith case, in which the media refused to consider whether her own severe childhood abuse could have been a factor in the murder of her children, despite the fact that her father admitted to the chronic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with the fact that the press have consistently downplayed the occurrence of child molestation is the equally disturbing fact that that very same media have actively promoted the sexualization of children \u2013 a trend that has been greatly accelerated in recent years, and which serves to legitimize pedophilia.<\/p>\n<p>Taking note of the proliferation of young teen &#8211; and even pre-teen &#8211; sex symbols, Tom Junod wrote in\u00a0<i>Esquire<\/i>\u00a0that: \u201cthe entire culture is besotted with the erotic promise of teenage girls \u2026 The lure of jailbait now supplies the erotic energy to a popular culture desperate for what\u2019s new, what\u2019s young, what\u2019s alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Junod article is, by the way, a profile of Greg Dark, one half of the former \u2018Dark Brothers\u2019 \u2013 notorious purveyors of dark-themed, occult-tinged porno films. Dark is rather noteworthy for openly peddling child pornography, in that many of his films featured a very young Traci Lords, who began working with the Dark Brothers at the age of thirteen.<\/p>\n<p>But Dark has put those days long behind him. He is now working comfortably in the mainstream. And he is no longer marketing teen sexuality. No, now he is creating music videos \u2026 for Britney Spears, Mandy Moore and the pre-pubescent Leslie Carter (sister of Aaron Carter and Back Street Boy Nick Carter). That is, according to Dark, a completely different line of work.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting facts about Dark emerge in the Esquire profile. It is revealed, for instance, that he was raised by a satanist father. Dark\u2019s father \u201cused to read to Gregory from the works of Aleister Crowley, the noted satanist, when Gregory was very young.\u201d His father\u2019s collection of \u2018black magick\u2019 books is one of Dark\u2019s most cherished possessions.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Also revealed is that Dark is a master manipulator, as he candidly admits to his interviewer: \u201cAnd the thing is, I like manipulating people. I\u2019m comfortable manipulating people. I\u2019m good at it.\u201d Junod adds that, during Dark\u2019s porno days, he \u201casked people to do things \u2026 curious things \u2026 and they did them.\u201d Such is the nature of the man crafting the images of America\u2019s teen sex symbols and marketing them to millions of pre-teen fans &#8230; but here again I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Also closely associated with child pornography is the issue of child prostitution, which &#8211; make no mistake about it &#8211; is a booming business.\u00a0<i>A&amp;E\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0\u201cInvestigative Reports\u201d has noted that law enforcement figures indicate that there are currently some 600,000 child prostitutes working in the United States and Canada and that $5 billion a year is generated worldwide by pimp organizations specializing in the exploitation of children.<\/p>\n<p><i>A&amp;E\u00a0<\/i>also reported that, throughout North America, there is a \u201cgrowing use of children in the sex trade,\u201d and that young boys make up 51% of that trade. The FBI has, of course, turned a blind eye; for the last quarter-century, \u201cfederal prosecutions of major pimp operations have been virtually nonexistent.\u201d As Dr. Lois Lee has noted: \u201cIt\u2019s not a high priority with the FBI to go after kids that are being transported across state lines. It\u2019s really a disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lee is the founder of \u201cChildren of the Night,\u201d an organization devoted to helping repair the shattered lives of child sex trade victims. Her facility, said to be the only one of its kind in the world, has seen 10,000 kids pass through its doors. Fully ninety percent of them have suffered a lifetime of abuse \u2013 first at home, and later on the streets and alleys of America\u2019s big cities. Most of them suffered their first abuse before the age of three.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these victims are runaways recruited from small towns across the country, then brought to prime child prostitution markets such as Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Once there, they have an average life span of just seven years; many of them never reach adulthood. For as long as they survive though, they reap enormous financial rewards for their pimps. The younger the child, the more popular they are with the \u2018Johns,\u2019 and therefore the more profitable for their exploiters.<\/p>\n<p>All of this would tend to indicate that America is in something of a state of denial about the proliferation of child molestation, child prostitution, and child pornography rings, which constitute a vast underground in this country. But does this pedophilic underground extend into the halls of power? Is America&#8217;s political, corporate and military elite hiding a particularly dirty little secret from the American people? A secret that, if exposed, could shatter America&#8217;s cherished political and economic institutions and bring the house of cards crashing down?<\/p>\n<p>Consider the case of Craig Spence, a behind-the-scenes Republican powerbroker in Washington. In June of 1989, the\u00a0<i>Washington Times<\/i>\u00a0published a story that sent shock waves across Capitol Hill. It seems that Spence had been operating a call-boy ring that supplied young boys, some of them\u00a0<i>very young<\/i>\u00a0boys, to the Washington elite of both political parties.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was rumored that a list of influential clients ran to some 200 names, and some of them were publicly identified. On the list were such names as former CIA director William Casey, former prosecutor and current cable \u2018news\u2019 talking-head Joseph diGenova, nominally liberal Congressman Barney Frank, political activist\/propagandist Phyllis Schlafly, and former Attorney General John Mitchell \u2013 who once co-hosted a party with Spence.<\/p>\n<p>Also connected to the case were prominent figures in the media; on the guest lists for Spence&#8217;s \u2018parties\u2019 were names such as Ted Koppel and Eric Severeid \u2013 who had both been close friends of Spence\u2019s for more than two decades. Koppel had first met Spence when he was serving as the ABC bureau chief in Hong Kong and Spence was purportedly working as a correspondent in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Spence&#8217;s mansion was found to be overflowing with surveillance equipment, including hidden cameras and microphones and an abundance of two-way mirrors. It was alleged that the ring was part of a CIA sexual blackmail operation, gathering compromising evidence on Washington politicos and foreign dignitaries. In August, following his arrest on weapon and drug charges, Spence gave an interview to the\u00a0<i>Times<\/i>\u00a0in which he openly claimed to work for the CIA and with high-ranking members of the Reagan and Bush administrations.<\/p>\n<p>His claims were scoffed at and he was largely portrayed as a self-important blowhard. There are indications though that Spence was involved in covert operations as far back as Vietnam, working under journalistic cover. An associate of his from that time told the\u00a0<i>Washington Post<\/i>: \u201cSpence pulled disappearing acts in Vietnam &#8212; sometimes for weeks at a time \u2026 Then he\u2019d turn up, refusing to say where he\u2019d been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, Spence was known to take his show on the road, giving some of his boys regular late-night tours of the White House. These tours were reportedly arranged by Donald Gregg, the national security adviser to then-Vice President George Bush. Though Gregg adamantly denied the accusation, there were undeniable connections between the two men, including the fact that Spence had once sponsored a dinner for Gregg.<\/p>\n<p>The story quickly dropped off the media radar screen, and Washington and the press proceeded to pretend as though it had never been aired at all. According to a<i>Washington Times<\/i>\u00a0reporter, the paper trail was quickly covered-up \u2013 some 20,000 documents pertaining to the case were sealed by court order. By the time Spence turned up dead in a Boston hotel room less than five months after the story first broke, he was all but forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s\u00a0<i>Independent<\/i>\u00a0reported that: \u201cBoston police said he was found lying on his bed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in evening clothes, with no obvious signs of injury. The police refused to comment on the cause of death.\u201d The Post had earlier reported that Spence had told a friend: \u201cI may be disappearing soon. It will be sudden. It may appear to be a suicide, but it won\u2019t be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the country, a political operative named Larry King &#8211; hailed as \u201cthe fastest rising black star in the Republican Party\u201d &#8211; was embroiled in another high-level pedophile ring. King, whose operation was based in Omaha, Nebraska, had connections to Craig Spence as well as to Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Oliver North, and various other major players in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The story first began to emerge with the collapse of the Franklin Community Credit Union run by King, one of many such entities that went belly-up in the 1980s savings and loan scandals. A special senate &#8216;Franklin Committee&#8217; was formed to look into allegations of financial improprieties, but soon found itself instead investigating claims of child prostitution, child pornography and ritual homicide. Committee members soon found themselves receiving anonymous threats.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation led to the doorsteps of some of the most powerful men in the state of Nebraska \u2013 including newspaper publisher Harold Andersen (a lunch partner of George Bush), local columnist Peter Citron, a judge, the mayor of Omaha, the city&#8217;s Games and Parks Commissioner, a prominent attorney, the former police chief of Omaha, businessman Alan Baer, and multi-billionaire Warren Buffet (for whose son King sponsored a political fund-raiser).<\/p>\n<p>Also identified as a perpetrator by some of the victim\/witnesses was George Bush himself. The scandal was completely ignored by the national U.S. media, and appears to have been covered by the local press for the sole purpose of discrediting the witnesses and denouncing the investigation as yet another \u2018witch hunt.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The case did attract some attention from the European press though.\u00a0<i>Pronto<\/i>, the largest circulation weekly in Spain, reported that the scandal \u201cappears to directly implicate politicos of the state of Nebraska and Washington, D.C. who are very close to the White House and George Bush.\u201d The report also noted that \u201cthere is reason to believe that the CIA is directly implicated,\u201d and that the \u201cFBI refuses to help in the investigation and has sabotaged any efforts\u201d by others to do so.<\/p>\n<p>A documentary film crew from the UK\u2019s\u00a0<i>Yorkshire Television<\/i>, working in conjunction with the\u00a0<i>Discovery Channel<\/i>, worked for months investigating the case. The result of their efforts was a film entitled \u201cConspiracy of Silence\u201d which concluded that the child victims\/witnesses were telling the truth. The documentary was scheduled to air on the\u00a0<i>Discovery Channel<\/i>\u00a0on May 3, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Just days before its scheduled airing, the film was pulled without explanation and all copies were ordered destroyed. At least one production copy of the video survived the purge, however, and has been known to circulate among those derisively labeled as \u2018conspiracy theorists.\u2019 For everyone else, the conspiracy of silence continues.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Omaha operation, described in the film as a \u201clarge ring of rich and powerful pedophiles,\u201d appears to have been in business for several years \u2013 with the knowledge of, and for the perverse pleasure of, a variety of city, state and federal authorities. Jerry Lowe, the first investigator assigned to the case by the Franklin Committee, reported back that: \u201cThe allegations regarding the exploitation of children are indeed disturbing. What appears to be documented cases of child abuse and sexual abuse dating back several years with no enforcement action being taken by the appropriate agencies is on its face, mind-boggling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that many of the child victims had been recruited from one of America\u2019s most revered charitable organizations \u2013 Boy\u2019s Town, to whom King had maintained close ties since 1979. Senator Loran Schmit has said: \u201cBoy\u2019s Town came up frequently during the investigation, but we found it difficult to get information about Boy\u2019s Town,\u201d as did the film crew from\u00a0<i>Yorkshire Television<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state senator and Franklin Committee member John DeCamp, in his book\u00a0<i>The Franklin Cover-Up<\/i>, presents a compelling body of evidence to document the charges made by the child victims and various others associated with the operation. Equally disturbing is the evidence of the massive cover-up that was perpetrated by the FBI, local police, the grand jury assigned to the case, and of course the ever-compliant media.<\/p>\n<p>The cover-up involved, according to DeCamp, the untimely deaths of at least fifteen key players in the scandal \u2013 including Franklin Committee investigator Gary Caradori, whose private plane was blown out of the sky on July 11, 1990 with Caradori and his eight-year-old son on board. Caradori had been threatened frequently, as had the witnesses from whom he was gathering information. His vehicle had also been repeatedly tampered with.<\/p>\n<p>His brother claimed that Gary had told him that he had recently come into the possession of a key piece of evidence &#8211; specifically a book of addresses and phone numbers &#8211; which \u201cif they knew he had it, they\u2019d kill him.\u201d The wreckage of his plane was, as a reporter on the scene noted, \u201cstrewn over a \u00be to 1 mile stretch.\u201d A National Transportation Safety Board investigator acknowledged that: \u201cthe fact that the wreckage is scattered over a large area certainly demonstrates that it did break up in flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Family members claimed that there were items missing from the plane\u2019s wreckage, most significantly Caradori\u2019s briefcase. Within twenty-four hours of the crash, all of his records had been impounded by the FBI. Nevertheless, the NTSB ruled that the crash had been accidental, with no evidence of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>The Franklin Committee &#8211; led by Senator Schmit, who suspected sabotage &#8211; ordered a private investigation into the cause of the crash. Strangely enough, the man selected to conduct that inquiry was William Colby, a fifty year veteran of intelligence operations whose career began in the OSS during World War II. Colby\u2019s hiring was urged by his prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Senator DeCamp.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, Colby had served as the CIA station chief in Italy during the notorious Operation Gladio days. In the 1960s, he ran the equally notorious Phoenix assassination, torture and terror program in Vietnam that claimed from 20,000 to 40,000 lives. The program was steeped in mind control operations, including the conducting of terminal experiments on VC prisoners-of-war.<\/p>\n<p>Colby next served as the director of the CIA under President Richard Nixon, before being replaced in that post by President Gerald Ford with George Bush. Considering his past history, Colby was certainly an odd choice to lead an inquiry aimed at ascertaining the truth. Colby\u2019s finding, according to the\u00a0<i>Omaha World Herald<\/i>, was that: \u201calthough the crash had some strange aspects, there was no specific evidence of sabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As appalling as the trail of dead witnesses was the fact that the child\u00a0<i>victims<\/i>, rather than the perpetrators, were thrown in prison. One of them, a young female victim named Alisha Owen, achieved the rather dubious honor of spending more time in solitary confinement than any woman in the history of the Nebraska penal system. She was sentenced to 9-25 years in prison for allegedly committing perjury, ten years longer than the sentence received by King for looting his financial institution of $40 million.<\/p>\n<p>As DeCamp explained to the \u201cConspiracy of Silence\u201d film crew: \u201cFor some reason, they had to send a signal to every kid who is a potential witness.\u201d Senator Schmit, who told the filmmakers that his career had been destroyed and that he had faced financial problems, believed that a clear signal was being sent to Nebraska politicians as well \u2013 a signal to not pursue the investigation any further.<\/p>\n<p>A clearly disillusioned Schmit had this to say: \u201cI used to be a firm believer that the system would work and that people who did things wrong would be punished. And we discovered victims who claimed to have been abused, and who the grand jury\u00a0<i>acknowledged<\/i>\u00a0had been abused, but they did not try to find out who had abused these individuals. Instead, they convicted Alisha Owen of perjury \u2013 indefensible from my point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It would be a full decade before any of the victims received even a semblance of justice, and that would ultimately come not from a criminal court, but from a civil court. In early 1999, a judgment was entered against defendant Larry King in favor of plaintiff Paul Bonacci \u2013 one of the most seriously abused of the child victims, whose abuse at the hands of King began when he was just six years old and which included his forced collaboration in the production of child snuff films. The memorandum of the district court&#8217;s decision, issued on February 22, 1999, reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween December 1980 and 1988, the complaint alleges, the defendant King continually subjected the plaintiff to repeated sexual assaults, false imprisonments, infliction of extreme emotional distress, organized and directed satanic rituals, forced the plaintiff to &#8216;scavenge&#8217; for children to be a part of the defendant King&#8217;s sexual abuse and pornography ring, forced the plaintiff to engage in numerous sexual contacts with the defendant King and others and participate in deviate sexual games and masochistic orgies with other minor children. The defendant King&#8217;s default has made those allegations true as to him &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe now uncontradicted evidence is that the plaintiff has suffered much. He has suffered burns, broken fingers, beatings of the head and face and other indignities by the wrongful actions of the defendant King. In addition to the misery of going through the experiences just related over a period of eight years, the plaintiff has suffered the lingering results to the present time. He is a victim of multiple personality disorder, involving as many as fourteen distinct personalities aside from his primary personality. He has given up a desired military career and received threats on his life. He suffers from sleeplessness, has bad dreams, has difficulty in holding a job, is fearful that others are following him, fears getting killed, has depressing flashbacks, and is verbally violent on occasion, all in connection with the multiple personality disorder and caused by the wrongful activities of the defendant King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his years of unspeakable abuse, physical and emotional suffering, and the complete shattering of his life, Bonacci was awarded one million dollars. While a bittersweet victory at best, it was considerably more than most other victims of such abuse have gotten. The trial was significant for another reason as well; it revealed a glimpse of the connections between the King case and various other multi-victim abuse cases around the country.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Ad #1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n   style=\"display:block\"\n   data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3208159289573785\"\n   data-ad-slot=\"3395474993\"\n   data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><u>REFERENCES:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. Asseo, Laurie \u201cJustices Will Review Ban on Virtual Kiddie Porn,\u201d\u00a0<i>Associated Press<\/i>, January 22, 2001<\/li>\n<li>2. Bowart, Walter\u00a0<i>Operation Mind Control<\/i>, Dell Publishing, 1978<\/li>\n<li>3.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">*\u00a0<\/span>DeCamp, John W.\u00a0<i>The Franklin Cover-Up<\/i>, AWT, Inc., 1992<\/li>\n<li>4. Hollingsworth, Jan\u00a0<i>Unspeakable Acts<\/i>, Congdon &amp; Weed, 1986<\/li>\n<li>5. Junod, Tom \u201cThe Devil in Greg Dark,\u201d\u00a0<i>Esquire<\/i>, February 2001<\/li>\n<li>6. Laurina, Maria \u201cPaul and Shirley Eberle: A Strange Pair of Experts,\u201d\u00a0<i>Ms. Magazine<\/i>, December 1988<\/li>\n<li>7. Li, David K. \u201cNaughton Free in Time for Christmas,\u201d\u00a0<i>New York Post<\/i>, December 23, 1999<\/li>\n<li>8. Li, David K. \u201cTurn Him Loose! Judge Voids Naughton\u2019s Porno Conviction,\u201d\u00a0<i>New York Post<\/i>, January 22, 2000<\/li>\n<li>9. Lichfield, John \u201cWhite House \u2018Great Gatsby\u2019 Lands in a New York Jail Cell,\u201d\u00a0<i>The Independent<\/i>\u00a0(UK), August 10, 1989<\/li>\n<li>10. Lichfield, John \u201cWhite House Midnight Rambler Found Dead,\u201d\u00a0<i>The Independent<\/i>\u00a0(UK), November 13, 1989<\/li>\n<li>11. Mintz, John, Martha Sherill and Elsa Walsh \u201cThe Shadow World of Craig Spence,\u201d\u00a0<i>Washington Post<\/i>, July 18, 1989<\/li>\n<li>12. Savage, David \u201cJustices to Tackle \u2018Virtual\u2019 Child Porn,\u201d\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>, January 23, 2001<\/li>\n<li>13. Sterling, Robert \u201cDaddy\u2019s Little Princess,\u201d\u00a0<i>The Konformist<\/i>, www.konformist.com<\/li>\n<li>14.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">**\u00a0<\/span>Tarpley, Webster G. and Anton Chaitkin\u00a0<i>George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography<\/i>, www.tarpley.net\/bushb.htm<\/li>\n<li>15. Thomas, Gordon\u00a0<i>Journey Into Madness<\/i>, Bantam, 1989<\/li>\n<li>16. Thomas, Gordon\u00a0<i>Enslaved<\/i>, Pharos Books, 1991<\/li>\n<li>17. Valentine, Douglas\u00a0<i>The Phoenix Program<\/i>, William Morrow, 1990<\/li>\n<li>18. Weinstein, Henry and Greg Miller \u201c&#8217;Virtual&#8217; Child Porn Is Legal, Court Says,\u201d\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>, December 18, 1999<\/li>\n<li>19. \u201cObituary of Craig Spence,\u201d\u00a0<i>Daily Telegraph<\/i>, November 14, 1989<\/li>\n<li>20. \u201cColby Played Role in Probe of Franklin,\u201d\u00a0<i>Omaha World Herald<\/i>, April 30, 1996<\/li>\n<li>21. \u201cBush Budget Seeks Child Program Cuts,\u201d\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>, March 24, 2001<\/li>\n<li>22. \u201cThe Child Sex Trade,\u201d\u00a0<i>A&amp;E Investigative Reports<\/i><\/li>\n<li>23. \u201cConspiracy of Silence,\u201d\u00a0<i>Yorkshire Television and the Discovery Channel<\/i><\/li>\n<li>24.\u00a0<i>Paul A. Bonacci v. Lawrence E. King (4:CV91-3037)<\/i>, United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, Memorandum of Decision, February 22, 1999<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Paul and Shirley Eberle wrote The Politics of Child Abuse, a book that accuses mothers, mental health professionals, and prosecutors of feeding children stories about sexual abuse. Since the book was published by Lyle Stuart in l986, the Eberles have been cited as experts in sexual abuse trials \u2026 What is startling about the Eberles&#8217; reputation as ground-breaking experts in the field is that their dubious credentials have not been widely challenged \u2026 Their publication, Finger, depicted scenes of bondage, S &amp; M, and sexual activities involving urination and defecation.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/2015\/08\/06\/the-pedophiles-of-washington-dc\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,247,6],"tags":[26,66,75,61,63,62,73,60,71,857,70,74,43,72,68,65,38,67,69,64,76],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-executive-branch","category-legislative-pedophile","category-pedophile","tag-alisha-owen","tag-barney-frank","tag-boys-town","tag-child-molestation","tag-child-pornography","tag-child-prostitution","tag-cia","tag-craig-spence","tag-donald-gregg","tag-donald-molloy","tag-eric-severeid","tag-fbi","tag-gary-caradori","tag-george-bush","tag-john-mitchell","tag-joseph-digenova","tag-larry-king","tag-phyllis-schlafly","tag-ted-koppel","tag-william-casey","tag-william-colby","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.1776again.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-03-at-1.28.54-PM.png?fit=762%2C429&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1776again.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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