Federal agents arrested Charles Rust-Tierney, the former president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU, Friday in Arlington for allegedly possessing child pornography.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC News, Rust-Tierney allegedly used his e-mail address and credit card to subscribe to and access a child pornography website.
The complaint states that federal investigations into child pornography websites revealed that "Charles Rust-Tierney has subscribed to multiple child pornography website over a period of years."
As recently as last October, the complaint alleges, "Rust-Tierney purchased access to a group of hardcore commercial child pornography websites."
The news pundits of the Right are up in arms that the Media hasn’t been all over this story like it was about Ted Haggard or Mark Foley. Their point is that we rolled all over Ted Haggard and Mark Foley for championing a moral high road while living in a moral wasteland. Now, when an A.C.L.U. official who was championing free access to the Internet in libraries is arrested for being involved with hard core child pornography, the story doesn’t have legs and hasn’t made it to the front page.
I can think up arguments to make with Bill O’Reilly, like "this guy wasn’t a hypocrite" like Ted of Mark, but I don’t want to. They’re right. This man, Charles Rust-Tierney, was championing the cause of a free Internet for personal and unsavory reasons. That’s very wrong, and I hope the A.C.L.U. really investigates him thoroughly. And as for the Right’s complaints, they are right [as in correct]. You read it right here on a liberal blog.
I just read that you said you want this ACLU man investigated. This is what makes you and other liberals different from the conservatives. We want people who are doing bad things investigated no matter what their political leanings. Republican conservatives only want to attack the other side. If Bush was doing a good job for all Americans, we would not be so incensed. Tha is what I call patriotism. We are all Americans and I’m so sick of so called Patriots trying to separate us. We love our country no less.