Andrew Tate Scandal Becomes Sixth (Not Second) Trafficking Scandal in U.S. History to Involve Pizza

 Introduction

     In late December 2022, former kickboxing champion and men’s self-help guru Andrew Tate tweeted environmental activist Greta Thunberg to brag about his car collection and how much his cars pollute.

     Thunberg’s response, and the ensuing reactions on Twitter, resulted in accusations that Tate’s bragging amounted to hitting on a young woman who just recently became an adult (she was 19 at the time and turned 20 on January 3rd), and to the arrest of Andrew Tate while in Romania, on suspicion that he, his brother, and others, kidnapped at least six women in order to force them to appear in pornographic films with Tate and others.

     Since Romanian police were able to locate Tate due to his tweeting a picture of himself alongside a pizza box from Jerry’s Pizza in Romania, this scandal is being called “the second Pizzagate scandal”.

     But that is only being said because this, and the Pizzagate child sex trafficking scandal from 2016, are the two best-publicized human trafficking scandals involving pizza.

Six Scandals

     Based on my research, I can count no fewer than six pizza-related trafficking scandals throughout American history:

     #1. 1975-1987: Pizza restaurants in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States – including New York City – were discovered to be laundering heroin, using pizza as a code word for the drug.

     Those restaurants were discovered to have been set up, as front operations, by elements of the Italian and Sicilian mafias in America. This was an international drug ring that imported heroin from Southeast Asia.

     Read more about the “Pizza Connection Trial” at the following link:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Connection_Trial

 

     #2. May 14^th, 1998: John F. Kennedy Jr. reads a poem on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, supposedly written by Monica Lewinsky at age nine, describing pizza in a sexual way. The poem seems to have been some sort of cryptic reference to the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal.

     J.F.K. Jr. died in a plane crash just over fourteen months after that interview.

     Watch the full interview at the following link:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zQO9l4n-E

     #3. June 1^st, 2011: The reporting on Donald Trump's use of a fork to eat pizza, while eating with Sarah Palin in New York City. This (probably manufactured) scandal was dubbed "Pizzagate" in various media. Outlets that covered this story included M.S.N.B.C. and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

     Stewart, a former roommate of Anthony Weiner (in college) had had Weiner on The Daily Show earlier that year. When Stewart was asked, in a television interview, whether he was surprised that Weiner had sent sexual messages to teenage girls, Stewart said he was surprised, but also resisted the urge to laugh, and said of Weiner, “He ain’t Hitler.”

     Stewart’s relationship with Weiner, and the fact that the “Trump eats pizza with a fork” Pizzagate story came out the same day as Donald Trump's interview with Piers Morgan (in which he became the first person to use the phrase "pizzagate" on television), suggest that Stewart and/or others may have conspired to create a second, fake Pizzagate scandal, which had to do with actual pizza instead of sex crimes.
     On June 1st, 2011, Donald Trump became the first person to use the word "Pizzagate" on television, via phone interview with C.N.N.’s Piers Morgan, in discussion of then late-breaking revelations about Anthony Weiner. Trump told Morgan, “I heard about Weinergate, I heard about Pizzagate”.

     In my opinion, it's even possible that Trump - a friend of Jeffrey Epstein's, along with Weiner associate Hillary Clinton - may have helped give fuel to the fire, popularizing the "Trump eats pizza with a fork" by giving interviews about why he did it, as if it were a real news story.

     The purpose of this - if it happened that way - would have been to create a new scandal with the same name, making it difficult for people to figure out what Trump meant when he used the word Pizzagate in relation to Weiner’s sex scandal. For example, people trying to do internet searches for whichever “Pizzagate” Donald Trump was talking about, would find the answers that they were looking for, to be suppressed, in proportion to the number of results that they would find, regarding the reporting about Trump eating pizza with a fork.

     Watch reporting about Donald Trump eating pizza with a fork here:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asv7EB1btok

     Watch the clip of Trump’s interview with Piers Morgan at the following link:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wAEcN9UIy8

     #4. October and November 2016: Wikileaks publishes leaked e-mails which prove James Alefantis to be an acquaintance of John Podesta; and which researchers interpret to implicate John Podesta and Comet Ping Pong owner James Alefantis as possible cannibals and pedophiles, Tony Podesta as a possible pedophile and a long-time friend of Dennis Hastert, Tamera Stanton Luzzatto and husband David J. Leiter as pedophiles, and Hillary Clinton and Marina Abramovic as Moloch or devil worshipers.

     These allegations involved claims that John Podesta and others were using code-words for child sexual abuse (and possibly also cannibalism) in their e-mails to each other.

    John Podesta had also seen some of his e-mails leaked in March 2016, seven months before the rest of the leaks began.

     The following Buzzfeed article is cited by Wikipedia as one of the top two articles which supposedly debunks the idea that the Pizzagate sex scandal implicates Hillary Clinton and pertains to Anthony Weiner.

     However, the tweet which the article suggests is dubious – sent by @DavidGoldbergNY, a Jewish lawyer who may or may not be a real person - alleges that Hillary and her husband took trips with Weiner on “their pedophile billionaire’s plane, the Lolita Express”.

     That tweet – sent on October 30^th, 2016 - was an obvious reference to Jeffrey Epstein, but neither the tweet nor the Buzzfeed article mentions Epstein by name:

     http://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/fever-swamp-election

     During this scandal, James Alefantis and Hillary Clinton were both accused, by researchers, of holding children in the basement of Comet Ping Pong, possibly in cages; for sexual and/or cannibalistic purposes.

     Many researchers have pointed to troubling posts on Alefantis’s Instagram account (@jimmycomet) involving dolls, Alefantis standing behind a young girl with her hands taped to a table, Alefantis’s numerous questionable Instagram followers and business partners, and other disturbing facts. Alefantis was also rumored to have “hooked up” with 16-year-old male employees (New York's age of consent to sex is sixteen).

     Detractors of the theory claim that Alefantis was telling the truth when he told FOX News’s Megyn Kelly that Comet Ping Pong doesn’t have a basement, but he admitted that he used its basement to store tomatoes and other ingredients in an interview in the D.C. Metro Weekly on April 16^th, 2015.

     Alefantis told Metro Weekly, “…we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes – ten tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.”

     See proof of that here:

     http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/04/from-scratch-james-alefantis/

     #5. December 4^th, 2016: Actor Edgar Maddison Welch drives from North Carolina to the District of Columbia, and enters D.C.-based pizza restaurant Comet Ping Pong, owned by "Jimmy Comet" the nickname of James Alefantis. Alefantis was the former boyfriend of politico David Brock.

     Pizzagate researchers believe Welch shot at the restaurant's computer tower because he believed it to contain child pornography. Despite shooting nobody, Welch was later sentenced to prison by Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022.

     Read more about Welch and that shooting here:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory#Criminal_responses

     #6. December 2022: Former kickboxing champion and men’s self-help guru Andrew Tate tweets environmental activist Greta Thunberg to brag about his car collection and how much his cars pollute. Her response, and the ensuing reactions, result in accusations that Tate was attempting to “groom” Thunberg, and also to the arrest of Andrew Tate while in Romania, on suspicion that he kidnapped at least six women in order to force them to appearing in pornographic films with Tate and others.

     Romanian police were able to confirm Tate’s location because he posted a photograph of him with a pizza box from Jerry’s Pizza, a local restaurant that is only in Romania.

     Read more about the allegations against Tate, regarding his “Hustler University” sex trafficking operation, at the following link:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK1siFYwkeg

     Additionally, in the early 1990s, it became evident to "pizza runners" in Washington, D.C. that increases in local pizza orders correlate with increased activity in foreign policy or military news, such as preparations for war.

     Read more about the "Pizza Meter" at the following links:

     http://slate.com/human-interest/2016/07/the-pizza-meter-was-a-staple-of-1990s-pop-pseudoscience-we-should-revive-it.html
     home.xnet.com/~warinner/pizzacites.html#time




Conclusion, and Author’s Notes

     I do not say all of this in order to allege that there is any connection, between the Tate scandal and Pizzagate, aside from the fact that they share pizza and sex trafficking in common.

     I state these facts merely to prove that the Tate scandal is not the second pizza-related trafficking scandal in American history, and in order to help readers recognize patterns which may prove informative at a later date.

     Please watch my video, about the possible use of ice cream, as a code word for child sexual abuse, at the following link:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK1siFYwkeg

     None of this is intended to imply that all references to pizza, and/or ice cream, are references to sexual abuse. I have made it clear - in my videos and writing - which specific purposes and instances of usages of such terms, should be considered suspicious, and why.

Written, and originally posted to Facebook, on January 1^st, 2023
Edited and expanded, and published to this blog, on January 3^rd, 2023

Thirty-One Television Shows That May Be Trying to Promote Pedophilia and/or Child Abuse

     The following list of thirty television shows, consists of shows that either desensitize people to children getting hurt physically or sexually, or juxtapose sexual humor with children.

     By publishing this list, I do not mean to recommend any sort of ban on the broadcast or distribution of said shows (at least not yet).
     This list is solely intended as a way of cautioning adults about shows their children might watch, which could traumatize them, if they saw the wrong clip, or the wrong episode.





1. American Dad! (FOX)

     The show has alluded to the teenage character Steve masturbating, and once featured a Christmas episode about the child-abusing demon Krampus who assists Santa Claus.


2. America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC)

     The late 2010s era of the show, frequently broadcast videos of children getting hurt, and used them as a source of comedy and entertainment. The show arguably trains people to laugh when children get hurt.


3. Beavis and Butt-Head (MTV)

     The show regularly featured the teenage characters trying to “score” and talking about masturbating and trying to get hand jobs.


4. Big Mouth (Netflix)

     The show deals with sexual issues experienced by pubertal teenagers, and features a grotesque, hairy monster that symbolizes puberty.


5. Community (NBC)

     The show features a scene in which Alison Brie’s character sings “Santa Baby” in a baby voice to the character played by Joel McHale.


6. Dance Moms (Lifetime)

     The show features dance instructor Abby Lee Miller. On the show, Miller has been shown with her foot on a young dancer’s back, giving another dancer an unwanted kiss and making her kiss a boy when she didn’t want to, and two mothers noticing that Miller was “obsessed” with one of the dancers. Several episodes feature the mothers struggling about whether their daughters were being objectified by their costumes and the choreography.


7. Drawn Together (Comedy Central)

     The show features a superhero character named Captain Hero, who, in one episode, wishes for “a twelve-year-old girl and a donkey”. Another episode features the character “Steve from Long Island” saying that he is “into twelve-year-olds” just as he walks off screen.


8. Family Feud (ABC)

     The late 1970s and early 1980s version of the show featured host Richard Dawson, who was known to pressure contestants – wives, and even young daughters – to kiss him on the lips.

9. Family Guy (FOX)

     The show features two pedophile characters prominently; Glenn Quagmire, and Herbert the Pervert. The show makes Quagmire into a beloved character, and then reveals that he has raped underage Asian girls, named his daughter after a sex act, and wants to have sex with his own daughter when she turns 18.

     The show also features numerous references to male-on-male rape (especially prison rape) as a source of humor.

     On the other hand, the show has also depicted pedophiles negatively, in reference to two male characters (one in fashion, and the other in entertainment and looking suspiciously like possible pedophile Bryan Singer) who may have been hitting on the Stewie character. The Stewie character has evolved, over the years, from a baby who sounds like Rex Harrison and is bent on matricide and world domination, to a baby who is simply gay.

    The show has also featured scenes where the references to minors' sexuality are perhaps deliberately vague as to "which side the show is on". One was a television show written by Brian that became incestuous and featured James Woods. Another involved the Griffin family becoming the stars of a reality TV show, which required Meg to be replaced by a more attractive actress (in which the show made a brief homage to Lolita).

10. Golan the Insatiable (Adult Swim on Cartoon Network)

     The first episode of the show begins with a monster walking into a city hall building, in front of a parent and child, and demanding that a statue of a demon be placed in the town square. The show also features vulgar names. Essentially, it is a show about demons, packaged in the cuteness of the cartoon world.


11. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)

     The show, which focuses on Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, who competes in child beauty pageants. The show’s purpose is essentially to glorify the girl’s mother June Edith “Mama June” Shannon, who, for some reason, keeps dating pedophiles. “Mama June” Shannon has dated at least two sex offenders against juveniles; Mark McDaniel and Michael Anthony Ford.


12. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TBS)

     The show once did an episode about putting on a child beauty pageant, which included sexual themes. The show also alluded to man-on-boy and woman-on-boy rape in the “Charlie Wrote a Musical” episode.


13. MadTV (FOX)

     In the early 2000s, Michael McDonald played a recurring character named “Stuart”. Stuart is a little boy with a porcelain face who is, for some reason, six feet tall, with the appearance of a grown man. The show also did a sketch featuring Mo Collins playing Judy Garland’s Dorothy Gale in a sexed-up take on The Wizard of Oz.


14. Modern Family (ABC)

     In the show, Eric Stonestreet plays Cameron “Cam” Tucker, and Sofia Vergara plays Gloria Maria Ramirez Delgado-Pritchett. The show features jokes that involve Cam Tucker referring to children’s “beautiful bodies”, and Vergara’s character making a pun referring to a “mother’s tongue” in the ear of the teenage boy character Manny.


15. Nathan for You (Comedy Central)

     Nathan Fielder hosts this “prank show”. The show has featured him subjecting children to at least two potentially sexual situations. In one episode, Fielder appeared to meet with parents who were allowing their son to lay in a sound-proof box while surrounded by adults having an orgy. It’s unclear, however, how much of this was real and how much was scripted and made to look as it seemed. Fielder also did an episode in which, if he failed to escape from a device before a robotic arm pulled his pants down, he would be arrested as a sex offender. The episode ended with a little girl saying that she kind of wanted to see his pants get pulled off. Again, it’s unclear how much of this was simulated; Fielder could very well have prevented the robotic arm from pulling his pants up from the very start.


16. Pen15 (Netflix)

     The show features grown adults playing characters based on themselves as young teenagers. The show once featured a masturbation sequence involving a bedpost.


17. Rick & Morty (Adult Swim on Cartoon Network)

     The show has an episode in which Morty, a teenage boy, gets raped in a bathroom by an alien. The show has also suggested that Rick – or, at least, some version of Rick in an alternate dimension – desires to have sex with his own grandson and granddaughter. The show’s creator, Dan Harmon, has been criticized for making a cartoon about child rape.


18. Rocko’s Modern Life (Nickelodeon)

     The show once created an 11-minute episode in which Rocko’s dog, Spunky, falls in love with a mop (because of its appearance of having blonde hair). The dog proceeds to hump the mop at every opportunity (with a squeaking sound), and Rocko has to discipline him for it.


19. Saturday Night Live (NBC)

     Saturday Night Live has broadcast at least 54 sketches in which pedophilia and child sexual abuse are the punchlines.
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/04/saturday-night-live-has-aired-dozens-of.html


20. Seinfeld (NBC)

     The 48^th, 50^th, 51^st, and 56^th episodes of Seinfeld deal with George being attracted to a teenage girl, Jerry infantilizing his girlfriend in the bedroom, and Jerry trying to have sex with a virgin. Seinfeld began dating his wife, Shoshanna, when she was 17 and he was 38.


21. South Park (Comedy Central)

     The show displays cartoon children in inappropriate situations, ostensibly in order to criticize the exploitation of children. The show is often so nuanced, that it is difficult to tell whether the show is making light of pedophilia and teaching kids dirty words, or being genuinely wholesome. The show has featured the character Wendy (a nine-year-old girl) getting breast implants, and has shown Butters having a vibrating object inserted into his rear end as part of therapy after trauma. The show also did an episode in which Butters became a pimp, convincing girls in his class to sell kisses. In an early episode, Kenny spent hours inside his bus driver’s vagina. After Scientologist Isaac Hayes died, his character Chef was depicted as someone who ran away with a pedophilic cult.


22. SpongeBob (Nickelodeon)

     One character on this children’s show, Mr. Krabs, has a daughter named Pearl, who is of a different species. Mr. Krabs is a crab, and Pearl is a sperm whale. Pearl’s mother is another sperm whale, but is never seen. Some fans have offered a theory: Pearl calls Mr. Krabs “daddy” because he is her sugar daddy. The show also portrays SpongeBob and Patrick Star (a starfish) in sexual manners, emphasizing Patrick’s buttocks, and showing SpongeBob doing pelvic thrusts.

23. Sixteen and Pregnant (MTV)

     No show called “Sixteen and Pregnant” should exist for more than one season. After the first season, you’re not making a documentary; you’re holding auditions for older teenage boys to rape and impregnate younger teenage girls. MTV owns the children’s channel Nickelodeon.


24. Skins (MTV)

     The show portrays teenagers in an overtly sexual way, even appearing to offer sex advice, and promote losing one’s virginity while one is still a teenager in high school.


25. The Mick (FX, FXX, FOX)

     The show features Kaitlin Olsen (of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), playing an irresponsible woman named Mackenzie who must become the guardian of her niece and nephew. The show has featured jokes that juxtapose children against alcohol, drugs, and sex for laughs.


26. The Ren & Stimpy Show (Nickelodeon)

     John Kricfalusi, the lead animator of the show, dated a 16-year-old girl who was an assistant animator, when he was in his 30s. The show itself features rubber nipples, grotesque oversexualized human characters, and infantilization of both main characters. Confusion as to whether the dog and cat characters should be dressed or not, and the normalization of bizarre behaviors through lovable anthropomorphized animal characters, are also frequent sources of humor for this “cringey” cartoon show.


27. The Sally Jesse Raphael Show / Sally (NBC)

     Raphael brought teenage girls, who were “dating” grown men in their 30s, onto her show, only to downplay the criminal aspect of what their “boyfriends” (rapists) were doing. Raphael treated the girls as if they were “out of control” rather than the playthings of grown male child molesters.



28. The Simpsons (FOX)

     The show has featured ten-year-old troublemaker character Bart mooning people, references to Ralph Wiggum and other students witnessing Principal Skinner and Edna Krabappel having sex in a janitor's closet, and "Treehouse of Horror" episodes referring to adults eating children.

     The show also did an episode starring the speaking voice (but not the singing voice) of Michael Jackson, appearing as a mental patient named Leon Kompowski, who thinks he is Michael Jackson. The show removed the Michael Jackson episode from syndication after Jackson's death. Jackson was accused of sexual impropriety by as many as 13 different people, at least five of whom verifiably met Jackson and had their photographs taken with him.

29. This is Not Happening (Comedy Central)

     This show, hosted by comedian Roy Wood Jr. (of Daily Show fame), once included an opening sequence that showed children inside of a strip club, playing with money, while surrounded by partially clothes dancing adult women.


30. Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! (Adult Swim on Cartoon Network)

     In 2010, the show did a sketch called “Original Child Clown Outlet”, featuring Will Ferrell. In this sketch, Ferrell is shown beating children who are crying (it is simulated), makes references to sperm donation, and says “Don’t touch the clowns; let the clowns touch you.”


31. Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC)

     The show features very young child beauty pageant contestants. In a similar manner to Dance Moms, the costumes and choreography push the envelope from dance practice into objectification and exploitation. One episode featured a five-year-old girl dancing inside of a cage.

 

Compiled between 2020 and October 2021

Written on October 6^th, 2021

Originally Published on October 6^th, 2021 as
"Thirty Television Shows That May Be Trying
to Promote Pedophilia and/or Child Abuse"

Edited and Expanded on October 8th, 2021

Boycott Pedophile Musicians: Thirty Artists Who Preyed on Children (or Tried to, or Were Accused, etc)

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Five Reasons Why I Don't Feel Comfortable Introducing Myself Using Gender Pronouns

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Reason #1: I Am an Individual, Not a Gender Identity
3. Reason #2: I Don't Care What People Call Me
4. Reason #3: Focusing on Gender Pronouns Sexualizes People and Triggers Me
5. Reason #4: I Do Not Care About Being Misgendered
6. Reason #5: I Do Not Want to Be Referred To
7. Conclusion

 

 

 

Content

 

 

 

1. Introduction

      A pronoun is a word or phrase used to refer to someone or something. Gender pronouns (or gender-based pronouns) are used to refer to a person by their gender, as shorthand, in place of their name.

     Over the last several years, it has become more and more common - especially in socially liberal or left-leaning circles - to provide one's gender-based pronouns, while introducing oneself to a new group of people.

     I have encountered this phenomenon twice so far in my life; once in a union meeting, and again for a meeting of environmentalists.

     I have written this article in order to explain why I do not feel comfortable introducing myself using gender pronouns.

2. Reason #1: I Am an Individual, Not a Gender Identity

     For one, my gender identity is not an integral part of my identity. I do not primarily identify as a man, a woman, male, nor female, nor anything else "in between" nor "other". What I primarily identify as, is an individual.

     If someone wishes to refer to me, then I would hope that they would refer to me as "Joe" (my first name), or as "Joseph", "Joey", or "Joe Kopsick" (or my full name "Joseph William Kopsick").

     Notice that I said "hope". I hope that people refer to me by my chosen name. If someone wants to call me "Steve", "Billy", "Josephine", "Princess", or "X AE A-12", that is their choice. Attempting to refer to me by that name would be completely unproductive, and would only confuse people about to whom they're referring. But it would not offend or insult me.

3. Reason #2: I Don't Care What People Call Me

     There is no point in getting "offended" or "insulted" when someone refers to you by the wrong name. If they're doing it on purpose, then I would understand feeling offended. But even if a person is trying to offend or insult you, nobody can actually make you feel one way or another. Your feelings are under your control.

     If you suspect that someone is trying to hurt your feelings by calling you by the incorrect name, then you have every right to confront the person about that. As long as you remember that feeling insulted, or saying "I'm offended", doesn't give you any extra rights.

     All you can do is inform people of the name, or pronouns, with which you would like to be referred, and hope that they respond in-kind. You cannot make someone refer to you by any name, because they are in control of their mouths and voice boxes; not you.

 

     I have no preferences regarding what I would like people to call me. As I explained, if they don't call me "Joe", then I may suspect that they are talking about somebody else. But I am not about to start ordering people to call me by any particular name, nor by any particular set of pronouns.

     That's because I am not a grammar Nazi, nor a control freak. I do not care what people call me.

4. Reason #3: Focusing on Gender Pronouns Sexualizes People and Triggers Me

     Another reason why I don't care whether people call me by he/him pronouns, she/her pronouns, or anything else, is because I consider the use of gender-based pronouns to be sexualizing.

     If I were introducing myself with as much attention to gender as the rest of the group would wish, then I would be allowing them to refer to me with a reference to my sex or gender, instead of with a reference to my individuality (the easiest way to do so being to use my first name).

     As I explained, I primarily consider myself to be an individual human being, rather than as a member of the male biological sex, or the masculine gender, or the female biological sex, or the feminine gender, or anything else.

     I am not primarily a member of any group; I identify as myself.

     Even though (as far as I know) I have XY sex chromosomes, that fact does not dictate my identity as much as some people might assume it does. If socially tolerant people are correct - and gender is fluid, and biological sex does not dictate who you're attracted to, nor whom you love, nor whether you are more masculine or feminine - then telling you that I identify as male should not tell you jack shit about who I am as a person.

     In my opinion, treating my sex or gender as an integral part of who I am, is just submission to the false assumption (ironically shared by socially "tolerant" people) that telling you my gender identity will tell you everything (or anything) that you need to know about me. It does not.

     I could allow you to refer to me by "he/him" pronouns, but that would be denying that I have a feminine side. I could allow you to refer to me by "she/her" pronouns - as a way of recognizing my feminine side - but that would only be a distraction from the fact that I have XY sex chromosomes and the external genital appearances characteristic of a biological male (i.e., a penis and testicles).

     I was molested as a child.

     When I tried to grow my hair long in high school, I was treated as if I were a girl; as if having long hair alone, made me a girl or a woman. I knew then that that was not so, and I still know it today.

     When I introduce myself to a new group of people, I want them to know what my first name is. That is the way that we all grew up introducing ourselves, and there is no need for that to change. I do not say this out of lack of tolerance for transgender individuals; I say it because there is no need to overload people with information about me aside from my name.

     Also, I do not want people to be thinking about my dick and balls just because I am meeting them for the first time.

     Parents in the Millennial generation (my generation) have spoken up recently about the fact that babies are routinely dressed in gender-specific ways; blue for boys, and pink for girls. It used to be the other way around, actually; blood-red used to stand for males (many of whom became soldiers) while sky-blue stood for the peaceful nurturing nature associated with females.

     Several years ago, a "gender-reveal party" caused a wildfire that burned down twenty-two thousand acres of California wilderness. Millennial parents were quick to point out that that wildfire was an indication that people's obsession with their children's genders has gotten out of hand.
     You can read about that fire at the following link:
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado_Fire

     People do not need to be thinking about your child's genitals when you inform them that you have given birth to a baby. Similarly, people do not need to know that I have a penis and testicles in order to know that I like to be called Joe.

     Do you need to know that I have a dick, or XY sex chromosomes - or know that I have no plans to take hormones or get surgery - in order to call me by my preferred name of Joe? No, you don't.

     Groups that ask people to introduce themselves with their name and gender pronouns, should think about the fact that many people have sexual trauma in their past.

     Having to decide whether I am more masculine or feminine, in front of a group of strangers, is triggering for me; it traumatizes me and causes me to think about the complicated past I have in terms of trying to figure out what my gender identity is or is not.

     When I am told "Please introduce yourself and tell us your pronouns", I am no longer looking forward to the meeting; now I am anxiously worrying about how to deal with referencing my sexual or gender identity. I am worrying about how to avoid being objectified sexually, or sexualized, when all I should be doing is waiting to tell people what my name is.

     After I introduce myself, people should be thinking about the fact that my name is Joe. They should not be thinking about whether I have a penis, whether I am attracted to men, nor whether I am taking hormones or seeking gender confirmation surgery.

     The person who molested me as a child, was obsessed with my appearance and sexuality and my sex. I grew up fixated on my appearance, and having to worry about whether I seemed masculine-looking enough, while retaining my right to have a nurturing and feminine side.

     I don't need to go through the rest of my life worrying that complete strangers are going to treat me the same way as my child molester.

     My name is Joe. Some biological women are named Joe (or Jo) too. The fact that my name is Joe, has absolutely nothing to do with my external genital appearance, nor with whether I am more masculine or feminine.

     Stop sexualizing me. And stop sexualizing your infants.

5. Reason #4: I Do Not Care About Being Misgendered

     If you feel it necessary to use pronouns when referring to me, then I would not be offended, hurt, insulted, nor shocked, if you guessed. Not even if you guessed incorrectly. I would be confused, but not offended.
     I do not care about being misgendered (that is, identified as a member of "the wrong gender"). I would rather be misgendered, than order people to use - or not to use - certain words, when referring to me.



6. Reason #5: I Do Not Want to Be Referred To

     When I introduce myself to a group, I assume that - if someone wishes to speak to me - they will address me directly, calling me by my name.

     I do not assume that they will chiefly reference me by referring to me in the third person while speaking to other people in the group.

     If you need to mention me to someone else in the group, then my first name "Joe" will suffice perfectly, in place of whatever pronouns you may wish that I had indicated that I prefer.

 

     As I explained, I do not wish to "force" nor "make" people call me by any particular name(s) or gender pronoun(s), and I cannot force anybody to say anything because I don't control their mouth.

     But what I suggest, is that, if someone wishes to refer to me, to another person in the group, then there is no reason whatsoever why they need to refer to me as "him" or "he".

     Instead of "him" or "her", say "Joe". Instead of "he" or "she", say "Joe".

     Now, it may feel awkward to you to say "Joe" every five seconds instead of using "he" as shorthand, but imagine how awkward I might feel having my gender referred to every few seconds, or (even worse) being prompted to focus on my gender as if it were an integral (or the second-most important) part of my identity.

     There is no reason why you can't say to someone, "How do you think Joe feels about that" instead of "How do you think he feels about that". There is no reason why you can't say, "Let's invite Joe to the event later this week" instead of "Let's invite him to the event later this week."

     If you think that all of this is a bit too much for me to tell you about myself, then imagine how I must feel when you ask me to talk about my sexual or gender identity the very same moment that I meet you for the first time!

 

     In fact, if your question is "How do you think Joe feels about that", then why don't you ask me how I feel about it, instead of asking someone else!?

     If we referred to each other by their names when speaking to each other - and never gossiped about each other behind one another's backs - then there would be almost zero need for third-person pronouns (let alone gender pronouns).

     The American-Israeli philosopher Dr. Martin Buber explained, in his book I and Thou, referring to someone as "it" or "he" has a very different character from calling that person "you". Dr. Buber (not "he", but Dr. Buber) explains that referring to someone in the third person, separates that person from oneself (I). When you engage directly with a person, and speak directly to them, you remove that separation, and enter into a real, direct relationship with that person.

     Buber even went so far as to assert that this implies that there is no such thing as "they" (a plural form of the third-person pronouns "it", "he", and "she"). Referring to a group of people as "they" not only separates them from yourself and the person to whom you are speaking, it "others" them. Here, I use "other" as a verb, meaning that calling people "they" implies that they are so different from you and the person to whom you are speaking, that it is almost as if they are not worthy of being spoken to directly.

     I would prefer that people not gossip about me behind my back. I would prefer that people refer to me as "Joe". But just because I might prefer that, that does not mean that it gives me any right to do anything about it.

     Stop talking about me, and start talking to me.

 


7. Conclusion

     I care more about other people's freedom to use whichever words they please, than I am worried about being misgendered. I care more about helping people not to feel excluded or "othered" than I do about labeling them.

     This is why my preferred pronouns are "Shut the fuck up", "Joe-self" and "Go-fuck-your-self".

Written on September 8th, 2021

Published on September 8th, 2021

Don't Make Assumptions About What True Sexual Abuse Claims Should Sound Like

     The fact that a sexual abuse accuser did not come forward about sexual abuse earlier, is not proof that the abuse didn’t happen. They may have waited, due to confusion about what happened, or due to a feeling of duty to protect the person from consequences, and/or fear of outing the person for the sake of the accuser's own safety.

     The fact that an accuser seems inconsistent about their claims, is not proof that they are inconsistent. Don’t make assumptions about what true claims of sexual abuse or rape "should" sound like or look like; instead, ask the accuser clarifying questions.

     The fact that an accuser is not always around the accused person, is not proof that the abuse couldn’t have happened because the accuser was never around the accused person. That’s not the same thing.

     The fact that an accuser continues to associate with their abuser, is not proof that the accuser isn’t afraid of that person. They may be associating with the abuser out of feelings of duty, guilt, shame, bribery, manipulation, or brainwashing, or all of the above.

     The fact that an accuser can’t remember all the details of the abuse, is not proof that it didn’t happen. Traumatic incidents - especially those that happen very quickly - are easy to partially (or completely) forget.

     But at the same time, the fact that an accuser can remember all the details of the abuse, is also not necessarily proof that they’re making it up. The fact that many victims don’t fully remember the abuse, does not mean that no accusers will have full memories of what happened to them. That's not the same thing.

     Not everything is the way it seems, the instant that we look at it. The difference between "never" and "rarely" - and the difference between "doesn't" and "doesn't necessarily" - should not be underestimated.
     Please keep these facts in mind when evaluating the veracity of claims that sexual molestation and rape have occurred.

Written on June 18th, 2021

after studying the claims against Michael Jackson

Published on June 18th, 2021

Chicago and North Suburbs Plagued with Sex Trafficking, Parental Alienation, Child Rape, and Psychiatric Drugging of Molestation Victims

[Note: The full title of this article is

Chicago and North Suburbs Plagued with
Sex Trafficking, Parental Alienation, Child Rape, and Psychiatric Drugging of Molestation Victims:
Fifty-Nine People and Places Which Are Threats to Children's Safety

1. Brad W. Andersen, Lake Bluff realtor. His sons’ female friend - who was also the daughter of one of his own friends - performed as a camgirl for him when she was in her early twenties.

2. Ronald Bell, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. 

3. Raymond Allen Boldt, Mundelein attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Defended a statutory rapist; a priest named Jeffrey B. Hannah. Hired by Kash Jackson's ex-wife to extort him for child support money and pay egregious amounts to G.A.L. Sally Lichter in order to speak to them over the phone.

4. Janelle Christensen, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

5. Sam Cunningham, former Mayor of Waukegan. Defended Joe Biden's groping and molesting of children as "part of the job" of being president, in public, while speaking to a protester in downtown Waukegan in 2021.

6. Sheriff Mark Curran, former Sheriff of Lake County, Illinois. Assists in parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

7. Sean Curran, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

8. David del Re, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. One of his victims included a Lake County father named Sam Gorg.

9. Jonathan Dick, Lake Forest confectioner (owner of Sweet’s). Molested, raped, and provided alcohol (and possibly also access to pornography) so the son of his sister; his ten-year-old nephew. The mother of the victim is formerly of Lake Forest, who wrote the book Straying Towards Truth. Jonathan Dick is the husband of Susan Dick, who helped Mr. Dick cover-up his crimes, and blame and gaslight the victim. May or may not be using the alias “Jonathan D. Jonathan”; this might have been a typographical error. Jonathan Dick is almost definitely Jonathan Dick, Jr., the son of Jonathan H. Dick, a man who is probably around age 70, who won squash tournaments at his golf club Onwentsia, and has been a member there since the 1970s, and is currently a member of that club's Board of Senators in good standing. Jonathan Dick, Jr. might be using his father's power and influence - and his own personal wealth, from his ice cream shop as well as his real estate sale and/or development - to purchase attorneys who are willing to defend him for child rape charges. Unclear whether he has any other victims in addition to his nephew; the mother of that victim is worried that Mr. Dick has a lawyer on retainer to defend him for those purposes.

10. Susan Dick, Lake Forest confectioner (owner of Sweet’s). Molested and/or raped the daughters of the mother, formerly of Lake Forest, who wrote the book Straying Towards Truth. Wife of Jonathan Dick, and possibly served as accessory to his crimes after the fact.

11. Michael Feld, Northbrook psychiatrist. Had an affair with a client. Prescribed neurotranquilizing / sedative atypical antipsychotic medications to Joseph W. Kopsick when he attempted to come forward with child molestation allegations against his attorney father Richard S. Kopsick in 2015. Came recommended (to Richard Kopsick) by psychiatrist and youth counselor Sol Rappaport, who works with children in his practice.

12. George Filenko, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

13. Marc Fisher, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

14. Scott Boen Gibson, Waukegan / Lake Forest attorney. Former partner of child molester Richard S. Kopsick. Gibson pinched Joe Kopsick’s behind, and other children’s behinds, at his pool parties when Kopsick was a child, while yelling “There’s a butt-biter in the pool!”. Former heroin user. Recovering alcoholic.

15. Melodie Gliniewicz, Fox Lake. Widow of Fox Lake police officer Joseph Gliniewicz. Defrauded a children’s charity with her now deceased husband.

16. Kenneth Hasty, Waukegan basketball recruiter. Molested teenage boys, was put on probation, and tried to seduce a 19-year-old boy. His attorney Richard S. Kopsick recommended more probation in 1993 - saying that Hasty had "reformed" his behavior - but Hasty was jailed. Two years later, Richard S. Kopsick molested and raped his first born son, Joseph W. Kopsick.

17. Eric Hill, Zion police officer. Shot 17-year-old Justus Howell to death, in the back, while Howell was fleeing.

18. Laura Horner, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. 

19. Adam Hyde, Lincolnshire police officer. In 2009, interrogated then 22-year-old Melissa Calusinski and coerced her into falsely confessing to murdering 1-year-old Benjamin Kingan.

20. Sheriff John Idleburg, current Sheriff of Lake County, Illinois. Assists in parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

21. Howard Kallem, attorney. Wrote a sham 47-page investigation about the sorry, half-hearted attempt, by Lake Forest High School and its attorneys, to investigate why L.F.H.S. and its employees dropped the ball in regard to David Miller's 47-year-long, off-and-on molestation (and possibly statutory rape) of teenage boys at his school. Kallem created this report (one-eighth of which was redacted) in conjunction with attorney Rebecca Leitman Veidlinger.

22. Richard S. Kopsick, Waukegan / Lake Bluff personal injury attorney. Defended child molester Kenneth Hasty in 1993. Molested and raped his oldest son Joey in 1995 and 1996, multiple times. Former friend of attorney Scott Gibson, who pinched Joe Kopsick’s behind and the behinds of other children at his pool parties. Active in the Lake County Democratic Party and the Lake Bluff District 65 school board during the 1990s. President of the Lake County Bar Association for the year of 2004. Defends people charged with statutory rape. Associate of Joseph McKeown, who used to work in his office, along with McKeown's father Dennis (now retired).

23. Sally A. Lichter, Libertyville-based G.A.L. (Guardian Ad Litem) at Sally Family Law. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Charges parents tens of thousands of dollars to speak to their children. Victims include the father Kash Jackson (born Benjamin Adam Winderweedle).

24. Steve Lunardi, Waukegan-based attorney. Effectively committed defamation against Joseph W. Kopsick in fall 2023; by claiming, to his face - in public - that Richard Kopsick did not molest or rape the younger Mr. Kopsick.. Lunardi was arrested in the late 1980s for possession of crack cocaine.

25. Lisa Malkov, Lake Bluff police officer. Refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with molesting his son (despite multiple written statements, precise estimation of dates on which the abuse occurred, explanations as to why physical evidence is not available, and a prosecutor’s admission that it sounds to him like Joe Kopsick’s mother and brother believe him about the abuse).

26. Matt deMartini, Antioch attorney. In 2011, prosecuted Melissa Calusinski alongside his associate attorney Steven J. “Steve” Scheller. Framed Calusinski by failing to produce sufficiently light X-ray evidence showing that the baby who died in Calusinski’s care had previously existing head injuries.

27. Steve McCollum, Waukegan-based attorney. Former (and possibly still current) friend of child-raping attorney Richard Kopsick and child-groping attorney Scott Gibson. McCollum defended Diane M. Ross (a teacher and mother) for sending and/or receiving child pornography in 2000.

28. Joseph "Joe" McKeown, Waukegan-based Guardian Ad Litem (taking custody of children for legal purposes). Once used an image of "Herbert the Pervert" (a pedophile character from Family Guy as his Facebook profile picture. Making light of sex crimes against children in this way, is arguably something that a person whose job it is to hold legal custody of children, should not do, as it is insensitive, and reflects a lack of seriousness regarding such crimes.

29. Justice Robert McLaren, Illinois justice. Prevented lawsuit against David Miller from going forward, on grounds that statute of limitations had expired. That statute was replaced by a new law in 2020, which allows victims to pursue charges against their abusers past the age of 38 if they can prove they were intimidated, and until the age of 38 if they cannot.

30. David “Dave” Miller, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest theater director. Exchanged sexually charged text messages with boys around the age of 17 years old, and kissed students. May have also had sexual relationships with teenage boys. Reportedly, information about this was suppressed between 2009 and 2020 because Miller’s victims wanted to retain their privacy.

31. Judge Christopher Morozin, Waukegan-based judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

32. Michael Nerheim, Waukegan former State's Attorney of Lake County. Republican. Defeated by Democrat Eric Rinehart in November 2020. Nerheim's office refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with child molestation. Nerheim urged support of police after the shooting death of 17-year-old Justus Howell, who was shot by police in the back while fleeing.

33. Victor o’Block, Waukegan prosecutor at the Specialized Victims Unit of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office. Refused to charge Richard S. Kopsick with multiple counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse or assault against his son Joe Kopsick, despite the existence of medical evidence of injury (on Mr. Kopsick's lower left ribs), and while admitting that it seemed to o'Block that Joe Kopsick's mother and brother believed his claims about his father attacking him with sexual intent.

34. Kathleen o’Hara, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest former teacher and principal. Mayor of Lake Bluff since 2007. Screamed at students (including Joe Kopsick) while disciplining them, during her tenure at Lake Bluff Middle School (possibly contributing to an environment in which children would be unlikely to report abuse). Possibly failed to sufficiently bring Diane M. Ross’s child pornography arrest to the community’s attention.

35. Sol R. Rappaport, Libertyville psychiatrist and youth counselor. Recommended Dr. Michael Feld (who had an affair with a client) to Richard S. Kopsick, to treat his son Joe Kopsick, after he began recovering memories of abuse in 2015, and attempted to come forward about his father molesting him in 1995 and 1996.

36. David del Re, Waukegan attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Works with psychiatrist and youth counselor Sol R. Rappaport.

37. Diane M. Ross, Lake Bluff / Lake Forest English professor at Lake Forest College. Mother of students who were in Lake Bluff schools in the year 2000, when Ross was arrested for sending and/or requesting child pornography over the internet via a web forum, using the screen name "SnowyViolet". Employed Steve McCollum (friend of child rapist and attorney Richard Kopsick, and child groping attorney Scott Gibson) as her attorney in that case.

38. Judge Al Salvi, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

39. Joseph V. Salvi, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children. Prevented lawsuit against David Miller from going forward, on grounds that statute of limitations had expired. That statute was replaced by a new law in 2020, which allows victims to pursue charges against their abusers past the age of 38 if they can prove they were intimidated, and until the age of 38 if they cannot.

40. Steven. J. “Steve” Scheller, Waukegan attorney at Scheller & Burke, L.L.C.. Prosecutor, and former defense attorney. In 2011, prosecuted Melissa Calusinski alongside his associate attorney Matt deMartini. Framed Calusinski by failing to produce sufficiently light and legible X-ray evidence showing that the baby who died in Calusinski’s care had previously existing head injuries. Friend of attorney Richard S. Kopsick, who defended a child molester and molested his own son.

41. Gary Schlesinger, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

42. Justice Mary Schostok, Illinois justice. Prevented lawsuit against David Miller from going forward, on grounds that statute of limitations had expired. That statute was replaced by a new law in 2020, which allows victims to pursue charges against their abusers past the age of 38 if they can prove they were intimidated, and until the age of 38 if they cannot.

43. Nicole Slobe, Waukegan-based attorney. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

44. Rebecca Leitman Veidlinger, Waukegan-based attorney. Wrote a sham 47-page investigation about the sorry, half-hearted attempt, by Lake Forest High School and its attorneys, to investigate why L.F.H.S. and its employees dropped the ball in regard to David Miller's 47-year-long, off-and-on molestation (and possibly statutory rape) of teenage boys at his school. Veidlinger created this report (one-eighth of which was redacted) in conjunction with attorney Howard Kallem.

45. Donna-Jo Vorderstrasse, Waukegan judge. Commits parental alienation, a/k/a legal kidnapping from parents not proven unfit to care for children.

46. "Popz", the adult male proprietor of a hookah bar and music venue called Swing State, which used to exist in Waukegan. Solicited topless photos from at least one underage teenage girl. May have also sexually abused and/or pimped-out at least three underage girls; likely some time in the early 2000s.

47. An adult male in either Lake Bluff or Lake Forest, name unknown, who molested a boy in the 1990s and/or 2000s who attended school in Lake Bluff with Joe Kopsick.

48. A Lake Bluff father, name unknown, who molested and/or raped his daughter, who attended school in Lake Forest with Joe Kopsick.

49. One or more sailors at Great Lakes Naval Base who committed statutory rape against a girl or girls as young as 12 or 13 years old, some time between the years 1999 and 2002. One of these girls was also victimized by the proprietor of a Waukegan hookah bar.

50. The adult male who molested, or attempted to molest, young boys in the men’s showers of the Lake Bluff park district’s public pool in the 1990s. Name unknown.

51. The Office of Child Support Enforcement, of Illinois. Assists in legal child kidnapping (a/k/a parental alienation, through the family courts system; demanding ransom from parents, for Guardians Ad Litem, in exchange for seeing their children and/or talking to them over the phone).

52. The proprietors of, and dance instructors at, Model Act Studios, based in Schaumburg and Lemont. Accused of taking parents money for photographs of children, without offering adequate dance instruction to kids; may be a scam to defraud parents for money and/or obtain photos and/or videos of children for illicit purposes. Works with International Modeling and Talent Association (I.M.T.A.) to put on child fashion shows featuring young girls in immodest two-piece swimsuits. May be working with (I.M.T.A.) to find attractive children who can be lured into the entertainment industry.

53. J.B. Pritzker and family (including former Jeffrey Epstein associate Tom Pritzker, J.B.’s cousin). Governor of Illinois, Democrat. The Pritzker family owns the Hyatt Regency “Chicago” (actually in Schaumburg) and the neighboring Hyatt Place in Schaumburg. Sex trafficking has occurred at the Hyatt Regency, and has likely occurred at Hyatt Place as well.

54. The Village of Schaumburg, which owns the Renaissance Convention Center and Hotel in Schaumburg. The Renaissance Convention Center has hosted conventions of Tremaine dance studios, which teaches young girls (and some boys) sexually charged dance routines.

55. The owner(s) of Private Events by Sam and Harry’s in Schaumburg. Located next to the Renaissance Convention Center. Reputed area where sex trafficking has likely occurred (possibly in connection to sex trafficking occurring at the Renaissance).

56. The City of Chicago, which owns o’Hare International Airport in northwestern Chicago (a known human trafficking and sex trafficking site) and Midway Airport in south Chicago (another possible human trafficking site).

     [note: Some names have been removed temporarily, in order to help protect the author. More information will be added to this page at a later date.]

Written and published on May 25th, 2021

Updated, Edited, and Expanded on November 15th and 18th, 2023.