Brian Ribbon

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A major purpose of the 'war on pedophiles' is supposedly the protection of children. Perhaps the most vociferous aggressors in this regard are the USA and the UK. It is therefore not surprising that, earlier this year, tarty Trump fangirl Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla) announced she was to re-introduce a set of bills which would, among other things, "mandate the death penalty or life imprisonment for anyone found guilty of 'producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography". In this article, we will take a depressing look at MAP oppression in America set against the backdrop of wanton disregard for the well-being of children on its own shores and in the countries whose merciless destruction it actively funds and foments.

Death for downloads

Let's first consider that legal proposal by Mrs. Luna. A brief glimpse at its main sponsor would suggest that she were a complete fruitcake; perhaps her recent bill to have the orange man's face carved on Mount Rushmore doesn't help. But opening her legs to wannabe dictators isn't Luna's only hobby; her press team - or more likely immigrant hired at below minimum wage - certainly keep her keyboard warm promoting her various intended acts of lunacy. Her reintroduction of three bills "to establish harsher penalties for child predators" includes one that would mandate life imprisonment or the death penalty for possessing PIM. If this bill passed, a person who simply ordered an Azov DVD could be sentenced to life imprisonment or death. "Pedophiles deserve the death penalty or to rot in jail where they belong—no mercy, no escape", she so professionally explains. It was not too much of a shock to discover that bill co-sponsor Mary Miller is also of a certain character, quoting Hitler in inspirational messages and describing the overturning of Roe vs Wade as a "historic victory for white life", in a very revealing Freudian slip.

Are the hearts of these politicians bleeding for the victims of child abuse? Probably not. Luna has an interesting political history, being a self-professed 'avid supporter' of Barack Obama in her days as a steamy swimsuit model, back when supporting Obama was all the rage. She changed her name from the scarily foreign 'Gamberzky', which would likely have left many of her new supporters glancing sideways and clutching their pearls, just 15 days before announcing Republican candidacy. Why? Well, her social media posts about human trafficking were picked up by Turning Point USA, founded by Trump twink Charlie Kirk, which gave her a neat and tidy springboard to political stardom should she choose to take it. She had previously told the magazine Skyn, "I’m able to take on different personalities depending on what image I am going for. I think getting into character of what you are selling is super important", and she was more than willing to keep her promise in that regard. Her whole Republican image is a mirage constructed to take advantage of a leg-up from a right-wing toyboy, and her 'child protection' crusade is a key part of that. Far from being crazy, Luna is a vile, manipulative sociopath who will gladly have people killed over their photo collection for the sake of her wishy-washy political career.

Mary Miller, on the other hand, genuinely seems to hate everyone (except straight white Christians, obviously), but she's also not immune to letting her principles slide just a little. In fact, Miller has quite a penchant for 'predators', despite crusading for them to be subject to America's barbaric campaign of executory torture. Her campaign buddy, personal driver, and foot soldier Bradley Graven might want to look again at her co-sponsorship of 'death for perverts' bills, considering his conviction in 2005 for attempting to meet a 14 year old boy (or rather, a hairy old police officer cosplaying as one) for sex. It seems that Miller has a bit of a bad boy kink generally, despite her 'family values' platform, having invited Roy Moore to speak at a summer camp her family operated on two separate occasions. She is quite happy to endorse death for 'predators' when it works for political clout, but equally happy to sit next to them in the car and invite them to speak to children at her summer camp.

The 'death for child porn' bill is not about protecting children. It is a cynical political ploy by two awful sociopathic women who have made a career out of putting on a front for their own gain.

The purity crusade of the late 19th century

Let's take a look at where the anti-MAP horror began, before moving on to some pretty horrifying examples of American brutality.

The main source of information for this section is the excellent book, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920, by Mary E. Odem

The late 19th century’s purity crusade in America, responsible for raising the Age of Consent to the late teens, wasn’t about protecting young girls; it was a grotesque smokescreen for moral panic, social control, and political opportunism. Fueled by the puritanical ideals of female chastity, which were rooted in Victorian England and eagerly adopted by hysterical American reformers, this movement was primarily an experiment in exploiting the fears of the public for ulterior purposes. At a time when industrialization and urbanization were shaking up tired old power structures, reformers saw the purity of young girls as a convenient target to help restore a traditional sense of moral order that was quickly slipping away, while the burgeoning feminist movement wedged the door open with malicious lies to push for their own political power.

Campaigners painted a horrifying picture of young girls as helpless victims of predatory middle-aged men, trapped in a world that would inevitably lead them to disease, exploitation, and social ruin. The truth was far less dramatic and much more mundane; the majority of relationships that adolescent girls engaged in were with peers. But the hysterical narrative peddled by reformers, amplified by sensationalist pamphlets and novels, ignored this reality entirely, building an image of sheer sexual terror where none truly existed. These novels and pamphlets, which told lurid tales of older men luring girls into moral and physical destruction, helped form the foundation of new laws which were swiftly passed to 'protect' these supposedly fragile, virtuous little girls.

The public obsession with the chastity of white girls was palpable, but the reality for African American girls was far crueler, as their abuse was not only ignored but also actively dismissed. Prominent reformers, who would have liked to present themselves as saviors of virtue, conveniently overlooked the widespread sexual violence perpetrated by white men against black girls. In their eyes, this abuse was an unfortunate byproduct of lower status, and they focused instead on protecting their beautiful lily white girls as the paragon of 'virtue'. Black girls were labeled sexually “advanced” or “promiscuous,” and the belief that they would actively seek to exploit the newly proposed higher Age of Consent laws to “trap” white men en masse was pushed by the same white reformers whose hearts were apparently bleeding for the beautiful white girls. When black activists attempted to challenge these stereotypes, their voices were ignored or vilified, revealing how the movement was not driven by genuine concern for women or children, but in part by deeply entrenched prejudices that ought to have been destroyed along with every copy of the bible they came from.

Beneath the surface of the supposed concern for vulnerable girls was a calculated effort to gain power, influence, and recognition within a rapidly shifting social and political landscape. Feminist reformers of the time skillfully harnessed the Age of Consent issue as a tool for advancing their own political agendas and status. They were very successful, with their movement eventually leading to successes including women's suffrage, and arguably even 'positive discrimination' in favor of women in many western countries today. Unfortunately, the sheer nonsense they spread at the time has persisted, with nobody questioning why these Victorian-era ideas are taken so seriously in the present day.

This lack of questioning is perhaps down to how modern politicians, self-interested charities, and psychological industry leaders in particular have learned so well from the past, expertly exploiting the same fears that fueled the purity crusade. In the present day, the specter of predation and moral panic over youthful sexuality is continually manipulated to justify extreme laws and policies, fund-raising campaigns, and an ever-expanding industry of treatment programs and “prevention” initiatives*. The public’s anxieties over children and youth, amplified by sensationalized media, provide fertile ground for these cynical opportunists to give themselves a leg up while crushing young people and MAPs in the process. The true nature of MAP-minor relationships remains lost in a sea of moral panic and exploitation, created and sustained by the very institutions that pretend to be saving young people. And thanks to America's status as 'world leader' in almost every regard, its hysteria has spread like a cancer across the entire world.

• The author does not oppose psychological research, and encourages readers to cautiously work with those who apparently have more benevolent motivations.

The slaughter of brown children in Iraq

The American war on children isn't simply a matter of policies that restrict youth autonomy. It gets much, much worse.

The Iraq War, launched by the United States in 2003, is often criticized for its flimsy justifications - freedom, democracy, and the mythical weapons of mass destruction - but the brutal reality of its impact on Iraq’s children is regularly ignored by the American public. It wasn’t just the staggering death toll, horrifying as it was, that marked this conflict; it was also the brutal and systematic devastation of the lives of those who survived to then live in a decimated wasteland, eventually abandoned by the supposed white knights. Iraqi children were murdered and left to rot in a vicious campaign perpetrated by a despicably racist insurgency in pursuit of a cynical geopolitical power grab coupled with bitter, insatiable greed.

America’s disregard for the suffering of Iraq’s children is essentially the result of a racist and imperialist mindset, deeply entrenched in the belief that brown lives are worth less and are more expendable. From the atrocities of Fallujah to the nightly raids on families, American forces operated according to the belief that the lives of civilians, including children, held no inherent value. Happy and playful children, full of joy and cherished by their families, were brutally blown to pieces by a vile regime propped up by an apathetic public. To their families those slaughtered children were everything, but to the American war machine, the children of Iraq were simply 'in the way', like any other obstacle to America's cynical goals.

While not specifically targeting children, one of the most blatantly improper episodes in this campaign of destruction occurred during the battle for Fallujah in 2004, where the American insurgents unleashed white phosphorus - chemical weaponry designed to tear through human flesh - on the city. These weapons didn't just affect combatants - not that America had any right to be fighting a war in Iraq anyway - they indiscriminately melted the bodies of anyone in the way. Many of the dead were civilians, not surprising when the monstrous attackers chose a hospital as their first target. The chemicals left behind, which the American military unsurprisingly lied about at first, have caused a spate of deformities in children born since their use. Yet, in the true spirit of American exceptionalism, those responsible never really acknowledged their horrific crimes, and few of them were ever held accountable.

What's more, the children of Iraq are still considered bit pieces in the historical narrative of this war crime, at least to the western world. Thousands of children have been killed or maimed since the end of the war proper, and unexploded ordinance remains a serious problem Much like the purity reformers of the 19th century didn't care when the kids were black, so too do most prominent white Americans (and their allies) not care when the children being burnt alive are brown. To America, most children are utterly irrelevant unless they can be exploited by the powerful for personal gain.

Of course, Iraq is only one example in America's storied history of brutal war crimes.

Guns as toys, schools as shooting ranges

America’s refusal to take meaningful action on school shootings is similarly predicated by a cynical focus on power and control, with no concern for the lives of children even on its own shores. In an odd twist of relative equality, this lack of caring surprisingly even extends to children who are 'the right color'. The overwhelming response to these tragedies - empty thoughts and prayers - reveals a coldness that goes far beyond a mere inability to do anything about the problem.

The shooting at Robb Elementary School depicts this callousness quite accurately. While American police are typically quite gung ho about spraying black men with bullets at traffic stops, their trigger happiness does not apparently apply to dealing with shooters gunning down small children in schools. According to Wikipedia's account of the Robb Elementary massacre:

[A] survivor recounted that Ramos said, "You're all gonna die," after entering the classroom. He then opened fire on the rest of the students and another teacher in the room. According to a surviving student, Ramos played "sad music" during the massacre. After he killed his first set of victims, he scooped up their blood and wrote "LOL" on the chalkboard.

Most of the shooting occurred inside the building within the first few minutes; Ramos was inside the classroom for over an hour while armed police remained outside the classroom and building. Multiple students played dead while the shooting took place, including one student, 11-year-old Miah Cerrillo, who smeared herself with the blood of one of her dead classmates to give credence to the subterfuge. According to a student who hid in the adjoining classroom, Ramos came in and slightly crouched down saying, "It's time to die," before opening fire. Afterward, a responding officer called out, "Yell if you need help!" A girl in the adjoining classroom said, "Help." Ramos heard the girl, entered the classroom, and shot her. A student said that the officer then barged into the classroom, and Ramos fired at the officer, causing more officers to return fire.

One would expect the police of a country that crusaded for the safety of children to respond aggressively to such a horrendous attack, but the reality gives lie to America's grand distortion. Again from Wikipedia's detailed article:

According to [teacher] Reyes, he heard law enforcement approach his classroom from what sounded like the hallway three times, but they did not enter; during one of these occasions, he heard a student from the adjoining classroom 112 saying, "Officer, we're in here. We're in here." As law enforcement had already left, Reyes said Ramos "walked over there, and he shot again."

The police hung around for an hour, too afraid to confront the shooter in case they were themselves injured. Instead, they allowed the children, many of whom were unsurprisingly disadvantaged descendants of immigrants, to be subjected to the pain of faking death among a sea of their own classmates' blood. Children, after all, are not the most important pieces in this system; they are mere pawns, expendable when the powers that be need them to be. When lawmakers, many of whom are directly supported by the gun lobby, refuse to take action, it's because children’s deaths, and their traumas, are acceptable so long as America's bitter 18th century 'morals' are being upheld.

While all this is going on, politicians and others who control the narrative choose to distract from the issue of mass murder by inciting silly debates over religion and sex in schools, as if learning about a corrupt and hateful version of Jesus matters more than protecting children from a traumatic death. School shootings are framed as inevitable tragedies, subordinate in importance to a constitutional right that applied to a bygone era when guns were very different to those of today. Guns are still said to be necessary to prevent tyranny, yet the very political forces claiming to defend this ideal, championed by the NRA and its unwavering support for the Trump administration, have facilitated the birth of the most tyrannical regime the US has seen in decades. The same gun lobby that parades itself as a protector of liberty has enabled the rise of authoritarianism, no matter how red the classroom walls end up painted in the process.

Yet again, to powerful Americans, children are expendable casualties in a broader game of control and power. The weaker, the better.

A friend of a genocidal monster

The Israeli genocide of Palestine, underpinned by the steadfast support of the United States, is a dreadful reality that has been covered up by politicians on both extremes of the traditional political spectrum. The horrifying violence is a testament not just to Israel’s awful brutality, but to America’s full-on support and complicity. Utterly enraging stories and images of booby-trapped cans left behind by Israeli forces in Gaza, published by media around the world, are only one example of the calculated cruelty inflicted on innocent civilians by a genocidal monster propped up by the US. The children they target are victims of the United States, whose support provides the financial and diplomatic cover for such atrocities.

The US, with its endless military aid to Israel, has sustained a regime that genocides Palestinian youth as part of its wider campaign of extreme violence. Israeli airstrikes on schools, the destruction of neighborhoods, and the brutal killings of children in their homes or on their way to school have been a constant fixture of the most recent invasion. These are not just inevitable mistakes of war, but an intentional and consistent barrage of assaults on civilians in the name of 'defeating terrorists', a lie learned from none other than America itself.

One such 'operation', the Al-Tabaeen school massacre, killed at least 80 people and injured 47 more. The Wikipedia article describes that as the fifth attack on a school in a single week, and provides viscerally shocking images of the remains of the atrocity's many victims, highlighting how these are not just 'numbers' but real people murdered by America's sick and evil friend.

There is a grotesque sadism to the genocide perpetrated by America's allies in Israel, from laughing at the destruction of schools to the entrapment of paramedics and execution of toddlers. Israel has truly learned well from its master. Amidst this horror, Democrats as well as Republicans continue to speak out in favor of Israel and fund their campaign of terror. Ultimately, the support of Israel is an imperialist project in which the lives and futures of Palestinian children are systematically destroyed. The Palestinian children who are murdered, maimed, or psychologically tortured in the name of Israeli ‘security’ should be seen for what they are; fresh blood smothered on the hands of America's evil elite, the same ones who would cynically and misleadingly scream for greater 'protection' of the whiter children within their own borders.

Yet again, the welfare of children is absolutely meaningless to the sheer evil of the US. 'Think of the children' matters only when it can be exploited for selfish gain.

Abducting kids from school

The new Trump administration’s raids on schools to apprehend undocumented child migrants are another diabolical display of political posturing. These raids tear families apart with callous disregard for the lives of children, treating them as pathetic little bargaining chips in a typically toxic American game of grotesque political machismo. The children, abducted from their classrooms and thrust into a nightmare of fear and uncertainty, are a deliberate and easy target of the most recent rendition of a relentlessly cold and racist mindset that drives American public policy. The focus is not on protecting anyone at all, but on the furthering of a vicious political agenda founded on fear and hate, per the country's usual vile playbook.

The welfare of children locked up is barely a concern for those in charge, and this is very much not a new thing. The conditions that detained children are subjected to are arguably worse than prison, and this has been the case since the Obama administration. In 2019, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching video in which children and teens read out the testimonies of young migrants in America's dreadful 'facilities'. They described sleeping on concrete floors, toddlers having nobody to care for them but older and unrelated children, a lack of food and being too afraid to ask for more, no water or soap to wash hands after using the bathroom, and no bathroom privacy, among numerous other complaints.

A recent report by The Guardian reveals that America is yet again playing its nasty little game of oppression marketed as protection, having immigration raids masquerading as 'welfare checks' to get to immigrant children and their parents. These raids echo a constant, brutal evisceration of youth rights suffered by the weak throughout America's short but horrible history. They mirror the Age of Consent campaigns, where children’s alleged suffering became a convenient justification for the cynical consolidation of political power, with no regard for their actual well-being. Like elements of that campaign, this is yet another attack on children who aren't quite white enough, perpetrated by wealthy whites against those with no power to stand up for themselves. And beyond the obvious racism behind these abductions, this latest act of abuse represents another clear disregard for those deemed other and expendable - whatever may be fashionably expandable according to current whims and moral winds - by the crushing weight of America's cold and self-centered elite.

Should you wish to raise your blood temperature from a simmer to a boil, take a look at a mockup video of what real children experienced in America's courtrooms, many during the Obama administration, following transcripts from real court proceedings. It shows how toddlers were dragged to court without parental or legal representation and then coldly removed from the country. Terrified children were expected to represent themselves before being callously thrown out, by the same hypocritical abomination that claims children are unable to make decisions for themselves, for their own protection, until the age of 18.

Back to MAPs, and the lie of the American 'left'

The rise of the extreme right in recent years cannot be divorced from the left's extreme 'wokism', which has boosted the appeal of the right by alienating and demonizing straight, white men; particularly young men. The left, in its ostensibly well-meaning yet obviously questionable attempts to address social justice, has fed into a dangerous narrative that frames 'normal men' as the root of all societal ills, effectively pushing them away. By labeling such men as they do, whether accurately or otherwise, the left has not only alienated an entire demographic but has also created fertile breeding ground for the radical right to blossom. The more these young men are made to feel hated and irrelevant, the more they gravitate toward ideologies that will embrace them. The Trump administration, while truly awful, is as much a product of woke as it is of puritanical white Christians.

From a MAP perspective, the left-aligned psychology industry, which has since the 1980s held significant sway over popular discourse regarding sexual behavior and victimhood, has overall been more damaging than anything coming from 'the right' in recent times. The industry's rise to prominence, with its strident advocacy for overreaching definitions of CSA, has done little to protect young people and their lovers but much to demean and punish them, stripping away their freedoms in the process. The overreaching zeal for protection has, ironically, rendered children less capable of navigating their own desires and boundaries, reinforcing a culture that treats young people as incapable of consent and in need of constant intervention.

Furthermore, left-wing sites and voices have gone so far as to demonize and shut out even non-offending MAPs, treating anyone who dares to identify as being attracted to children as utterly worthless and irredeemable. By silencing MAP voices and stifling attempts at building community, the left has robbed MAPs of the very basic right to activism, rendering them unable to defend themselves against extreme attacks from across the entire political spectrum. More alarmingly for the general public, this de facto policy of mass censorship forces MAPs into hiding even when peer support and attempts at deradicalization may be much needed. For a movement that claims to be about embracing and supporting all, the left has revealed itself to be a complete and utter fraud through its demonization of MAPs and wholesale denial of youth rights.

In conclusion...

The US continues to hail itself the supreme protector of children, all the while funding acts of child genocide, using chemical weapons on civilians, maintaining state-sponsored abductions of children from their families, and allowing schoolkids to be slaughtered in their classrooms. It is very much a destroyer of children, not a protector, and it has no right to tell anyone else how to best keep young people safe. It has nonetheless succeeded in poisoning the world with its grotesquely distorted approaches to all manner of social issues, including but not limited to child protection, through a mix of economic and political leverage and soft power. And its system is not broken, either internally or externally, as so many claim. The system is a sinister evil working exactly as it was intended, supported by morally bankrupt leaders and followers who are in the business of brutality for their own personal gain. Now that the second Trump administration has screamed the true horror of America and its leadership out loud, instead of simply hiding behind a pretty little facade like the leaders that came before them, it's about time the world tells America to fuck off and take its cynical cultural imperialism with it.

In a first for Mu, some parts of this article were written with the assistance of generative AI, trained on our primary editor's thoughts and writing. Much is human-written, and all AI-written passages have been carefully reviewed and edited. Thoughts? Discuss in our dedicated forum thread.