No Surprise: Nearly 90% Of Those Convicted Of Wider Child Abuse Offences And On The Sex Offenders Register Are White Conservative Men

[Is Candace Owens A Pedophile?]

Pedophile profile: Young, white, wealthy
Four-year FBI investigation shows that vast majority of online child porn
arrests involve people in high places.
zd-defaultauthor-maria-seminerio.jpg
Written by Maria Seminerio, Contributor on Sept. 19, 1999
must read
nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-holds-up-spectrum-4-ethernet-switch.png

Nvidia unveils Ethernet for AI and Grace Hopper 'Superchip'
Read now
Associates of an Infoseek exec arrested for using chat to solicit a minor
may have been shocked and surprised, but not the FBI.

As it turns out, a corner office at a high-profile, high-tech company
isn't such an unlikely place to find an online pedophile -- not according
to records being yielded from a three-year-old Federal Bureau of
Investigation crackdown on Internet pornography.

Of the 413 people arrested as part of the agency's "Innocent Images"
investigation since 1995, "only a handful have not been upper-middle-
class, educated white men," said Special Agent Pete Gulotta who serves as
the investigation's chief spokesman. "They're almost all white males
between the ages of 25 and 45."

"We've had military officers with high clearances, pediatricians, lawyers,
school principals, and tech executives," Gulotta said of those arrested
under Innocent Images.

Pre-emptive strikes
Of those arrested, 337 have been convicted of online child pornography
trafficking or using the Internet to solicit children for sex, Gulotta
said. The investigation actually began in 1994, but was not publicly
disclosed by the agency until the following year.

The Innocent Images operation is aimed at "taking these people out before
they strike," which is why agents frequently pose as youngsters in chat
rooms, acting as bait for would-be child abusers, Gulotta said.

The Innocent Images project was sparked by the disappearance, in 1993, of
a 10-year-old boy from Brantwood, Md., Gulotta said. While the boy, George
Burdinski, was never found, the FBI obtained information linking his
disappearance to a network of online child pornography traffickers, he
said.

Gulotta objected strongly to claims that suspects are being "entrapped" by
agents posing as minors. Agents most often enter chat rooms after getting
tips that men seeking young sexual partners are frequenting the chat
rooms, though in some cases they investigate chat sites simply because
they have names that suggests pedophile activity occurs there, he said.

"We are very careful in these investigations to make sure that the subject
initiates the contact," Gulotta said. "And all these conversations are
documented. It's very clear what's happening."

Not entrapment
Tod Burke, an associate professor of criminal justice at Radford
University in Radford, Va., also defended the legality of FBI undercover
tactics, such as those used in the arrest of Infoseek exec Patrick
Naughton. In Naughton's case, an FBI agent encountered Naughton in an
Internet chat room, while the agent was posing as a 13-year-old girl,
according to an affidavit filed in the case.

"The investigators are not forcing people to commit criminal acts simply
by being present in the chat room," he said. "These individuals are
predisposed to commit these crimes." The criminal charges would be the
same if the suspect originally contacted the potential victim by letter or
by telephone, Burke added. (No laws specifically outlaw child pornography
and pedophile activity on the Internet, since they are already illegal in
the offline world.)

"This is nothing new," Burke said. "Using a computer to go undercover is
somewhat new, but for decades before that it was pen pal services" where
law enforcement officials sought pedophiles, he said.

f

[Is Candace Owens A Pedophile?]

[Candace Owens]

I flew to Bucharest, Romania, to interview Andrew Tate last week. There
have been over 3 million views of our three-hour interview. That’s
incredible, and the majority of responses have been positive, with people
saying they really needed to hear this conversation. Some people, however,
asked why I interviewed Andrew Tate, who is not a conservative nor a
Christian. So why Tate?

That has to be the most ridiculous question ever asked. I don’t limit my
interactions to only conservatives or only Christians. The job of
conservative and Christian podcasters is not to host only people who agree
with them. People who sit across from these interviewers obviously will not
be the exact same person. If they were, no one would have a podcast. I’ve
had plenty of people on my show with whom I have fundamental disagreements.
I had the founder of Black Lives Matter New York join me, and we had _many_
disagreements. The goal is — and should be — to discuss both different and
similar ideas, to foster a conversation, especially with someone as
interesting as Andrew Tate.

Far be it from me to suggest that conservatives in America have given a
platform to Tate. He’s done that all on his own. And that’s fascinating.
Tens of millions of young men around the world listen to Tate every single
day. In fact, so many people listen to him that within 24 hours, we broke a
viewer record: More than one million people watched in just a 24-hour span
and the now-3 million-view number continues to climb. So, he’s a newsworthy
person, and his platform is going to exist with or without conservatives in
America speaking with him.

When I started my journey into conservatism, I had to begin _somewhere_ --
and it wasn’t with the people I listen to today. At that time, all I knew
was that something was wrong with leftist principles, that perhaps leftist
principles were holding black Americans back. That was my focus then,
before I understood the problem was much bigger. Now I have some
fundamental differences with the people I started out listening to, but the
people I listen to today would have never brought me to the conservative
side when I was first becoming curious.

Becoming a conservative was a process for me, so I understand that it is
often a process for others. I do not come from a background of
conservatism. My grandfather was a steadfast Christian, and he planted
those seeds in me, which I think is why I have bloomed into the person I am
today. But, I took quite a liberal route to conservatism — so much so, that
I speak to people about the ills of liberalism from the position of someone
who has lived that way. When I come from that perspective, I am better able
to connect with them and it’s easier for them to identify with me. The
reason I am a conservative today is definitely not because I was listening
to squeaky clean conservatives who had a podcast. Those types of shows
didn’t resonate with me — because that’s just not how that works. That is
not how spiritual maturation works. It is a process.

I think everybody vibrates at different frequencies throughout the seasons
of their life. When I was younger, I listened to hip hop music with
terrible language that had really dark themes. At that time of my life, I
could relate to it. As I mentioned in my interview with Tate, I
specifically connected with Jay-Z’s music because he came from nothing and
went on to make something of himself. It was a frequency, if you will, that
I could respond and relate to. I could think, “Ok, I can actually make
something of myself.” People who do not come from privileged backgrounds
like to have someone to look up to because it makes that process of “making
something of yourself” more attainable. That’s the truth. As I have
matured, I’ve stopped listening to that music. But that doesn’t mean I
can’t relate to the _people_ who still listen to that music. I don’t leave
them behind while saying, “Oh well, I don’t understand how you listen to
this!” Because I do very much understand how they listen to it. I
understand for a lot of people, that can sound like the only hope they have
in their life. Again, spiritual development is a process.

I have been given a platform that allows me to initiate that same process
of maturation with other people. I can sound quite puritanical when I talk
to young women, but I don’t speak to them with snobbery. I don’t look down
my nose and say, “How could you follow this person? How could you listen to
that person?” Our job should not be to judge the tens of millions of young
men who listen to Tate. First, that won’t work. And second, you can’t hate
someone out of existence. Our job is, instead, to understand _why_. The
only way to do that is to ask meaningful questions. What is it these men
are responding to? Why are people following him?

Because I acted as a journalist, asking questions I was curious about, I
was able to understand. Over the last ten or so years, we have been
existing under a rabid matriarchy where women think that we should be the
ones to define what is and is not masculine and what a man should be, and
if we shriek loud enough about it, men will tuck their tail between their
legs and yield to our every order; that will allow our society to function.
In actuality, it’s far from that. This toxic matriarchy we are existing in
is actually a bit like hell on earth right now.

Men have been told they are nothing. Men are routinely having this
narrative reinforced to them by mainstream media and culture. Women rap
about how terrible men are, make a mockery of relationships, talk about
feminism — a toxic brand of feminism — and make men feel terrible. Then
Tate came along, stood up for men, and said men _can_ work out, they _can_
start a business, they _can_ be strong. He told men they don’t need to
listen to those kinds of messages from those kinds of women. And the men
responded.

To those who think they can tell me who I can sit down with and speak to, I
laugh. I am the same woman who said I would like to sit down with Vladimir
Putin. I stand by that statement. I would still like to sit down with him
because I’m curious and I don’t accept mainstream media. It would do us all
good to remember the media gives us the narrative they want us to believe.
I would sit down with a lot of people if they were alive today, including
the horrible and the backwards. I’m a curious person, and I will remain
curious.

I’m proud of the sit down I had with Andrew Tate. And there will be more to
come.

[Candace Owens]