When I was reading the comments section to a YouTube video by Steven Robert Whitsett, I stumbled across two posts that were quite interesting. Therein YouTuber mrcleanisin posted:
33:43 "who are passing these things around. And I don't agree with the group that is trying to lower the age of consent down to 12. 33:49 I think it's fine where it's at, at 14."
Here are a couple of options for your YouTube comment, revised to more strongly emphasize the potential universal application of CSAM laws, especially for U.S. citizens abroad.
Option 1 (Emphasizing Extraterritoriality)
"Just a clarification: In the U.S., the age of consent for sexual activity and the legal age for being depicted in pornography (CSAM) are not the same. Federal law defines CSAM as anyone under 18 in sexually explicit material. Importantly, U.S. CSAM laws can often apply universally, even to American citizens in other countries. So, an American citizen in Germany, for example, could still face U.S. charges for a CSAM violation, regardless of local German laws."
Option 2 (More Direct Warning)
"It's vital to note: In America, the age of consent for actual sex is distinct from the age for pornography (CSAM), which is set at under 18 by U.S. federal law. Furthermore, these U.S. CSAM laws often have extraterritorial reach, meaning they can apply to American citizens even when they are in other countries. Therefore, an American citizen engaging in CSAM activity in a country like Germany could still be prosecuted under U.S. law."
Below his comment this same YouTuber embedded the video below.
An Elected Official Confronts Serious Pornography-Related Charges
In response to YouTuber mrcleanisin's post above, therein a YouTuber by the user name of Eric-h2h8g replied:
I am appalled by the idea of extraterritoriality. THE EXTREME ARROGANCE, to think you literally run the world to have worldwide jurisdiction.
I have to agree with YouTuber Eric-h2h8g. The United States should not have to be the police of the world.
If you're a loyal follower of my PEAKD channel, you'll notice that I have brought up the topic of American extraterritorial sex laws and the likes in previous articles of mine here on this same writing platform as well in other parts of the Hive blockchain. Well, I'm devoting this entire article to that same topic to get a load of gripes off my chest that I have about these same laws.
By the way, if you're interested in knowing where to find the video that contains the comments section where both above-described YouTubers posted, here is the video below. It's not directly related to my article here, but it is still a very interesting video.
Steven Robert Whitsett Calls A Former Porn Star Out On Her Pedophile-Panic Propaganda
Now, I don't want any self-proclaimed child advocates or the likes giving me a lecture in my comments section about how teenagers in middle school and high school cannot consent. If you're from that school of thought, then I insist that you read the online publication titled The Paradox of Statutory Rape by Russell L. Christopher and Kathryn Hope Christopher from beginning to end. After doing so, you will stop seeing this issue with tunnel vision.
Another post in the comments section of the video above that caught my eye was from a YouTuber by the user name of matthewg6562. Therein he posted:
Here in the good ole USA people are totally crazy from the me2 movement!!! There is zero accountability for ANYONE under 18 when it comes to nudity or sex!!! If a 16-year-old sexts a 20-year-old nude images than Americans believe that girl's life is ruined and that 20-year-old groomed her into doing something she had no idea the consequence of!!!! That to me is sickening!!! Even the term pedophile has been bastardized into any sex or sexual interest in anyone under 18!!! I firmly believe that the kids in the USA have been taught that they can be as promiscuous as they want and when caught just play victim! When I was 12, I knew if I wanted an adult to touch me! I knew about the dangers of talking and posting nude images! ALL OF US CAN BE "groomed" AT ANY AGE! It's called being used, and yes, it's a terrible thing but it isn't IMHO the most heinous crime to have ever been committed as Americans think!!! I understand having laws to protect children and even young adults/teens, but I'll NEVER understand getting out the pitchforks when a 30-year-old has sex with a 15-year-old and acting like the 15-year-old is some complete innocent, but had that 15-year-old robbed that 30-year-old then they should have known better, and should be charged as an adult!!!! It's backward, it's closed minded, and its ONLY about revenge!!! That's what I see when I hear this woman rant, she believes these punishments aren't harsh enough, these people should have 10-fold the punishment!
YouTuber matthewg6562? What it is, is that the American criminal justice system wants to have its cake and eat it too. Brittini De La Mora is fanning the flames of this same miscarriage of justice.
In any event, the American extraterritorial sex laws pertaining to minors are draining the United States financially. Meanwhile, the poverty and homelessness in our nation continue to get worse and worse every year.
1. The Harmful Impact Of Extraterritorial Sex Laws On Americans
The national debt here in the United States is over 36 trillion dollars, and it continues to get higher every day; yet, our Federal criminal justice system has no problem dumping an exorbitant amount of American tax dollars into apprehending and convicting Americans who travel overseas for purposes of sex tourism. These Federal court cases are not cheap.
Would you believe that currently our Congress is trying to cut back on Medicaid? Yet they have money to dump into enforcing these extraterritorial sex laws. It's simply outrageous.
Witnesses have to be flown in from foreign lands and put in hotel rooms at the American taxpayers' expense. These individuals have to be issued temporary visas while they are here in the United States for the purpose of testifying as witnesses for the prosecution.
These Third World nations have their own laws to deal with these American sex tourists. However, self-righteous do-gooders feel that the U.S. authorities have to be dumping millions and millions of tax dollars into these endless missions to free the world of all of its "dirty old men," so to speak.
Meanwhile, there are thousands and thousands of kids living in homeless families whose parents run the unfair risk of losing them to social services agencies. Those social services agencies dump those children into foster care, which is the biggest playground in our nation for child abuse and child sexploitation.
These American kids are starving every day as long as they and their families remain on the streets of our nation. Instead of our Federal government dumping endless amounts of money into saving youngsters in foreign countries, they should be spending that money on helping the needy kids in our nation.
Below is a video that aired on Sidebar with Jesse Weber on the Law&Crime Network on YouTube. In that video, Mr. Weber reports that a middle-aged pharmacist traveled to Colombia with the specific intention of having sexual intercourse with minors.
Jesse Weber Presents A Sensationalistic Story About Sex Tourism Abroad
Okay. I get it. Not all of Stefan Andrea Correa's "victims" were teenage girls. Some of them were only 10 years old, and in that respect, I can understand people accusing him of being a pedophile. Then again, there was nothing in the video above about a psychiatrist diagnosing Mr. Correa with pedophilia.
I'm not here to depict Mr. Correa as a poster child for good behavior. He is far from it. However, I am here to debunk any conspiracy theories that pedophiles have established dominion over the entire planet. Moreover, the above video was not specifically about pedophilia. It was about human trafficking instead, although the word "pedophile" appears in its thumbnail as clickbait.
Before the 1990s, whatever the statutory age of consent was in any particular foreign nation was the law that applied to everyone who lived there or went there, including Americans. Of course, most nations had lower statutory ages of consent than the United States did and still do.
As I explained in a previous article of mine here on this writing platform, certain self-righteous do-gooders want to have control over what adult Americans did whenever they went abroad and happened to cross paths with a 14- or 15-year-old girl at a social event.
In the 1990s, along came former Congressman Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (“former Congressman Joe Kennedy”) with his bright idea to export the statutory-age-of-consent laws from our nation to all over the world for any American citizen traveling or living abroad. Eventually, he got this bill signed into law on a Federal level.
In an interview with the media before the bill was ratified, Joe Kennedy gave a chastising speech about how wrong he felt it was for adult Americans to go traveling to foreign countries with low statutory ages of consent to have sex with teenagers who would otherwise be jailbait in our nation, as a way of circumventing the American statutory-rape laws.
Nevertheless, after Joe Kennedy's brother, the late Michael Lemoyne Kennedy, was accused of having an illicit affair with a 14-year-old babysitter, Joe Kennedy was all ready to move mountains to keep his brother from ever seeing the inside of a state correctional facility. What a hypocrite he turned out to be. Then again, Joe Kennedy is not the first and only politician in our nation ever to live by double standards.
Self-righteous people are the most deplorable individuals ever to enter politics. Joe Kennedy fits that same mold accurately.
Now, don't get me wrong. I agree that what Tyler Schwab of Libertas International is doing is a noble cause. I also am on board with the mindset that anything that PornHub is attached to is definitely shady. However, if I were rich, I would not be giving money to his organization to help educate young girls who fall into these so-called sex rings in Colombia but rather I'd be spending my money on setting up homeless shelters and soup kitchens for needy families here in the United States.
I can understand a Hispanic American contributing money to Libertas International as long as that organization spends the money to help young girls in their specific nation of origin. However, if an American doesn't have any ethnic ties to those countries, it would be more sensible for them to make donations to organizations that would help needy and homeless youngsters here in the United States.
What I find concerning about Mr. Schwab is that he overly dramatizes what Mr. Correa did in that he states that Mr. Correa had written some kind of document that indicated that he wanted to go down to Colombia to bang "kitties" between 10 and 20 years old. I wholeheartedly agree that nobody should be having sex at 10 years old, but I find it ridiculous to view 18-, 19- and 20-year-old women as children.
Even though Mr. Schwab only uttered the word "pedophile" once in his narrative in a narrowly restrictive manner in terms of its definition, I'm not convinced that he doesn't buy into most of the pedophile-panic propaganda that self-proclaimed child advocates spread all over the United States and the world.
Mr. Weber brings up the fact that the statutory age of consent in Colombia is only 14 years old. So what? That's what it is in Germany, Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Portugal; and they're First World nations.
If the U.S. authorities had not gotten involved in Mr. Correa's indictment, he still would have had to face serious criminal charges in Colombia from their local authorities. I also don't believe what Mr. Schwab claims about someone like Mr. Correa only spending two years in a Colombian jail in that event, because usually foreign nations give harsher prison sentences to Americans than the United States does whenever a sex crime or any serious crime is involved.
If the U.S. authorities had stayed out of the criminal matter involving Mr. Correa, the Colombian authorities would have turned that man's life into a remake of the movie Midnight Express on steroids. They would not have given him a slap on the wrist.
Exporting American statutory-rape laws only overburdens American taxpayers with the expenses of flying alleged victims and their family members to our nation to testify in Federal court hearings. These people have to be put up in hotel rooms on the American taxpayers' dime. After the trial ends, there's no guarantee that these people won't do a disappearing act so that they can remain in the United States illegally.
Exporting our American statutory-rape laws creates more problems than they're worth. Enough people are starving here in the United States. We don't need to get involved in other nation's problems. This whole crap about teenage child molestation victims is a conspiracy theory at best.
Now, ladies and gentlemen? Don't think that whenever I see a documentary or any kind of story on television or on the Internet about another 11-year-old girl getting pregnant in one of the favelas ("ghettos") of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, I don't have at least some suspicion that these girls may be carrying the babies of some 71-year-old American sex tourist. Don't think that such a story doesn't interest me or get me concerned.
Nonetheless, I feel that we should worry more about families with children who are homeless and in need of food and shelter here in the United States than about other nations' kids. We're the richest nation in the world. We should be helping our own poor people instead of doling it all out to youngsters in other nations.
I don't even like our Federal government doling our tax dollars out to Israel. I don't care how close of an ally they are to the United States. Americans should come first.
I can understand Jewish Americans contributing money to help the Israelis, because they have a stake in the future of that nation. However, Islamic Americans pay taxes here in the United States, and I'm sure they don't want the Federal government sending their tax dollars Israel's way in that they may not endorse that nation's foreign policies.
2. Underage Perpetrators Of International And Domestic Sex Crimes Involving Minors
Whenever underage boys get into trouble with the law for their participation in human trafficking involving girls close to them in age or the same age as them and they are accused of being child predators, I cannot stop laughing over how ironic it is. Unfortunately, those types of underage boys who feel the wrath of the law are usually not in the United States.
There was an incident overseas so many years ago in which a number of boys as young as 15 years old got arrested for downloading pornographic contraband that showed girls close to them in age difference being raped. Of course, if anyone were to accuse these boys of being child molesters, American child advocates would be the first to accuse that person of being politically incorrect.
I cannot understand where this school of thought comes from that deems underage boys of being incapable of doing any wrong against pubescent and adolescent girls here in the United States. Meanwhile, well-meaning people, who are usually dangerous, want Americans to dump millions and millions of dollars into saving all the young girls overseas from the clutches of their troubled past and fund their living and education expenses while the United States has over a half million homeless people.
If a 21-year-old college student travels to France and attends a social gathering, he may party, drink, and have a good time. Then as the party winds down, he may take a girl back to his hotel room whom he met at the party, have sex with her, and not find out that she's only 15 years old until afterwards.
According to French law, that young man will still have not committed any crime inasmuch as 15 years old is the statutory age of consent in France. However, if the U.S. authorities somehow get wind of it, there may be Federal officers waiting for him with handcuffs as he walks from his airplane into an American airport.
It's very offensive how our nation has exported its statutory-rape laws abroad. At the same time, underage boys here in the United States are committing violent and brutal rapes against girls their own age and even younger and never getting arrested for it. You only have to look no further than the example of a middle-school boy who forcibly raped the late Aubreigh Wyatt when she was only 12 years old.
If you don't already know about the late Aubreigh Wyatt's ordeal, watch the video below to get the full story about it. There were classmates of hers who even tormented her and made fun of her because of the rape afterwards.
Middle-School Students Turned The Late Aubreigh Wyatt's Life Into A Deadly Nightmare
To this very day, the underage boy who brutally raped the late Aubreigh Wyatt has not been arrested. The local authorities there investigated the matter, but they did nothing about it. There was a series of court hearings up in Ohio concerning a man who bedded his 13-year-old stepdaughter that have been getting more attention than the late Ms. Wyatt's ordeal has.
If that same 13-year-old stepdaughter even suffered at all from her Lolita-style liaison with her stepfather, which I'm skeptical about it, there is no way anyone can convince me that she suffered as much as the late Ms. Wyatt did before the late Ms. Wyatt committed suicide. Of course, that's another article for another time.
3. Cultural Differences Between The United States And Third World Nations
I'm not here to stereotype any nation of people or promote any sort of xenophobia. At the same time, I must stress that facts are facts, and certain cultures do have their fair share of quirks as opposed to the American culture and vice versa.
I have traveled to Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Costa Rica throughout my life, but I have never intermingled with the sex-trade industry while I have spent time in those three nations. I had better and more constructive things to do than go looking for trouble.
Nevertheless, there can be no denying that girls are brought up much differently in Third World countries here in the Western Hemisphere than they are in the United States and Canada. They don't grow up in the same kinds of neighborhoods that American girls and Canadian girls do.
I have watched documentaries about rich, old men traveling to places like Costa Rica and Guatemala and falling prey to blackmail and extortion from underage prostitutes who lure them into their ploys. Allow me to give you an example of it.
In Costa Rica, the statutory age of consent is 15 years old as in France. However, the statutory age of consent for legal prostitution there is 18 years old. For American tourists, it would be 18 years old in any event under the U.S. extraterritorial sex laws. Of course, not everyone who travels abroad is aware of it.
A 17-year-old prostitute could be casing a bar or a nightclub and see what appears to be a wealthy 84-year-old American man looking for a good time. She'll walk over to him where he's sitting at the bar, sit next to him, smile at him, and tell him that he looks like Brad Pitt or some other sexy male movie star.
So, what is the old man going to do? Usually rich, old men have egos the size of Jupiter. He'll probably think that this girl is into him. He won't bother to ask her her age. By the time that he actually knows that she's a minor and that he has broken the law, it will be too late and the dirty deed will have already been committed.
So, now the old man has a choice between submitting to the young girl's blackmail or being locked up in a Costa Rican jail. If he's a stingy, rich, old man, he'll be stupid enough to attempt to brush the underage prostitute off and then find himself in so much hot water that he'll be desperate enough to phone his ex-wife back in the United States to ask her to wire him bail money.
If he submits to the underage prostitute's blackmail or extortion, he will be forking out loads and loads of money to that young girl and possibly her pimp. It happens all the time. The problem is that the press and the media never tell you the full story about how these meet-ups overseas occur and what takes place behind the scenes.
The press and the media want you to believe that these underage hookers are all sweet, innocent, little girls whom rich, old men like to exploit and abuse. However, there are multiple sides to this issue.
I have gotten wind of stories about Colombian mothers sending their 14-year-old daughters to public places to lure American tourists into bed with them so that they can scream "statutory rape" afterwards and get a free flight to the United States to participate in the criminal trials against these men and enter into our nation legally. Once they're inside the United States, they can plot their own disappearance after these trials are adjudicated.
For that reason, these extraterritorial sex laws provide legitimate ways for illegal immigrants to enter into the United States and then overstay their welcome once their temporary visas run out. It could explain why the United States has an immigration problem. It's not all happening at the Mexico-United States border as most Americans believe.
Our Federal authorities are allowing for these foreignors to get into our nation legally to participate in these extraterritorial sex trials and then violate our immigration laws after their temporary visas expire. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure that much out. It all contributes to the unemployment and homelessness of American citizens. For those reasons, these extraterritorial sex laws need to be abolished altogether.
4. The Societal Impact Of Women's Nefarious Rejection Of Men In The United States
If Tomi Lahren reads this article here of mine, she'll probably have a mouthful to say about it. However, I couldn't care less what she has to say about it or anything. She's not the brightest bulb in the bunch.
Below is a video about how men are no longer approaching women for dates here in the United States, because women are usually acting hateful with them whenever they do so. This trend is apparently feeding the human-trafficking industry.
Amala Ekpunobi Explains The Decadence Of The American Dating Scene Because Of Women's Deplorable Attitudes
American men who confront this constant, unnecessary, nefarious type of rejection are developing emotional voids, and this problem is what is drawing them to sex tourism in Third World countries. Most women who get involved in sex tourism in these nations are minors. These men want to get even with society for their social marginalization. Therefore, it can be no mystery why this industry is thriving.
It has nothing to do with pedophilia. Sorry, Tyler Schwab, but you're simply not seeing the elephant in the room here.
5. The National Security Threat From Aggressive Incarceration And Homelessness Of Sex Offenders
In no way do I condone human trafficking anywhere in the world. At the same time, I feel that we, Americans, need to let these foreign nations deal with crimes committed on their turf instead of imposing extraterritorial sex laws to lock these sex tourists up in our prisons that are already overly crowded throughout the United States.
People will crack jokes on social media about how Bubba and his homeys will take care of these sex tourists once they arrive to prison here in the United States. Of course, then we have this thing called the "chomo hypocrisy." That is, Bubba and his homeys have likely done worse things to minors than the convicted sex tourists they rape and beat up.
Nevertheless, we all must keep in mind that someday convicted sex offenders are going to become the majority of general prison populations if our criminal justice system continues on the same trajectory; and once that happens, they're going to start murdering their inmates in retaliation for all the abuse they have suffered behind bars. American prisons are not always going to be torture chambers for individuals convicted of sexual offenses involving minors as they are now.
It doesn't end there. Many of these convicted sex offenders end up in poverty or even homeless once they are released back into their communities because of the sex-offender-registry laws.
The biggest mistake that our Federal government ever made was giving George Soros U.S. citizenship. This mega-billionaire wants to destroy the United States. If he wanted to do it immediately, all he would have to do would be to arm homeless sex offenders with deadly weapons and send them all over the United States to unleash lethal chaos everywhere.
By the time the National Guard would be able to respond to such violent and fatal unrest, the death toll would already be at a Biblical level. There would be prison riots everywhere in the nation. There are not enough young people enlisting in our armed forces to ensure that such a massive insurrection could be stopped. It would be the end of life as we know it here in the United States.
We do not live in an indestructible nation. All these self-proclaimed child advocates and the likes would be the ones getting shoved into wood chippers instead of sex offenders. It would be like all of us entering through the gateways of the devil's kingdom. (Well, I don't believe in the existence of Satan, but you know what I mean.)
Our nation also runs the risk of becoming another Fascist totalitarian police state. Norman Michael Achin talks about it in his video below.
Norman Michael Achin Describes How Our Faulty Laws Compound The Fascism That Is Already Here
In his above-described interview with Jesse Weber, Tyler Schwab was praising psychotherapists. It is no secret that shrinks are on board with all of this mass hysteria over underage sex.
It's interesting how these child advocates are always so quiet whenever a sex scandal surfaces in the news about a psychiatrist sexually molesting a small child under the age of eleven. These child advocates are so dead set on believing that these shrinks are infallible and are out to serve the greater good that it's ridiculous.
6. Final Thoughts
I'm not here to justify the actions of sex tourists who victimize minors overseas. I merely want to identify the root causes of what fuels the sex-tourism industry abroad.
I would think that the noticeable decline in the birthrate here in the United States would serve as a red flag that adult men are seeking sexual fulfillment in places other than traditional settings involving a couple in love. Those places are not necessarily good ones.
I don't want the United States to become another 1990s Bosnia. American extraterritorial sex laws will take us in that direction insofar as the quality of life here in the United States will take a dramatic decline.
I'm not trying to scare anyone, but we have to be realistic with the state that our nation is in currently. With a debt of over 36 trillion dollars, our Federal government cannot afford to be enforcing extraterritorial sex laws without causing serious problems for our own people. These laws need to go.
The victims industry has already become overgrown here in the United States. As a whole, we cannot continue to go in the same direction that we have been going. Even domestic operations of this nature are threatening national security here in the United States.
It's time that we all did a reality check on our society and make some serious changes to put a stop to this downward spiral in which we are caught. It could be a matter of the United States continuing to exist or collapsing altogether.
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