The longest-serving state senator in North Dakota history has been indicted on federal charges related to child pornography.

Ray Holmberg, a Republican who resigned last spring, was charged in an indictment unsealed Monday with travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity and receipt of child pornography after investigators showed he traded scores of text messages with a convicted sex offender, reported KFGO-TV.

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    1 year ago

    probably, just consider these lists are stupid

    edit: i misspoke. these lists are stupid, but i don’t think they are wrong. i hate these lists because what they portend scares me.

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      I think they’re important to make it obvious the kind of people we have in power - for both parties

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        1 year ago

        I’ve seen similar things said numerous times, but is there anything that indicates that the “people we have in power” are any more or less likely to commit sex crimes against children?

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          The rate compared to the general population may or may not be similar. What’s important, though, is how a system of protection has been built around them. To reference a related problem, the number of Catholic priests who abused children is ultimately a small group, but the Church itself hid the facts and fostered an environment where they could keep abusing children. The whole Church is therefore accountable. Same with political systems.

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            What I hear is that there is a large group of people in the government protecting pedophiles. Do we have any evidence of this?

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              Yes. Every time you hear a Republican screaming about drag queens grooming children, they are deflecting the focus off of themselves.