Boy Scout Director charged with having child pornography

[Mutley]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7326932/

DALLAS, Texas - The national director of programs for the Boy Scouts of America has been charged with receiving and distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's office here told NBC News on Tuesday.

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Douglas S. Smith Jr. was charged with one felony count of having photos that show "minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct."

Sources in the U.S. Attorney's office told NBC that Smith was expected to plead guilty.

The images were of young boys and the investigation started in Germany, the sources added.

[Ms Chicklet]

1. And the Scouts are so afraid of atheists and gays (nt)

[Mutley]

2. heh.. gee i wonder why... nt

[slor]

3. Looked on FUNDRACE2004...

he may be a rethug, though this is probably not a surprise.

[deutsey]

6. Check out his response to Adult Eagle Scout who supported ACLU

http://www.bsalegal.org/brucecol-181.htm

Dear Editor:

Bruce Collins is mistaken when he calls Boy Scouts a "fundamentally different" organization from the one he joined 40 years ago. <"An Eagle Scout Takes Issue With Group's Politics" July, p. 7>. Boy Scouts is the same organization with the same values and goals. What is fundamentally different, however, is our times.

Some intolerant elements in our society want to force scouting to abandon its values and to become fundamentally different. They want scouting to forego its constitutional rights, affirmed in 2000 by the Supreme Court in BSA v. Dale, and adopt fundamentally different values from the ones that helped shape the character of Mr. Collins and 106 million other young men over the past 94 years.

It bothers Mr. Collins that scouting is defending itself, even though he acknowledged that it has been "dragged into" the "culture war." He says the tone of our legal-issues web site, bsalegal.org, is defensive. The site does seek to defend our values and to inform the public about the three-decade-long legal assault on scouting. That we need a legal-issues web site is testament to the fact that our constitutional rights are under attack.

Clearly, Mr. Collins longs for a time when the Boy Scout organization could give its undivided attention to the "good stuff" of Scouting: "camping and life skills ..." So do we. Mr. Collins would do well to communicate his displeasure to those directing their discriminatory assault against his beloved Boy Scouts -- the ACLU.

Douglas S. Smith Jr.
National Director of Program
Boy Scouts of America

[curlyred]

4. tee-hee

I am sure the Freepers will say he was set up.........in my opinion, this is just another instance of luscious conservative hypocrisy.

[liberal43110]

5. Why is this a surprise?

[blm]

7. Anyone check his political leanings? So far, most psychopaths turn out to

be Republicans.

[deutsey]

8. I've found a "Douglas S. Smith" at Vets4Bush.com

and I have found a "Douglas S. Smith" at a retired military site, but "Smith" is a common name, so I can't vouch that these two are the Boy Scout guy.

[yellowcanine]

9. Hmm Boy Scouts anti gay; Catholic Church anti gay; Both harboring

pedophiles. Coincidence? I think not.

[yellowcanine]

10. Freeper thinks pedophilia and gayness are connected.

To: demlosers
No doubt they're all over the hypocrisy. However, in any organization of humans there will be some criminality. This absolutely shows how the Scouts are right in prohibiting homosexual leaders. As it stands, this creep will go to jail and the Scouts will be embarrassed. However, no boys have been molested, as they were in the RC Church, and there's no indication of a scandal going down to the troop level. Also, the Scouts aren't going to be broken by law suits, as they inevitably would be if they allowed homosexual leaders.

24 posted on 03/29/2005 12:15:18 PM PST by libstripper
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