Safe School Czar Praised NAMBLA "Support Group for Intergenerational Relationships"

SAFE SCHOOL ZCAR OBAMA APPOINTEE LAUDED NAMBLA FIGURE
By: Mark Tapscott
WASHINGTON EXAMINER.COM
Editorial Page Editor
Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-appointee-lauded-NAMBLA-figure-63115112.html 10/5/2009 9:22 AM

Date 10/01/09 12:40 PM EDT

Kevin Jennings, President Obama's Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education, is in hot water this week for having failed to report that a 15-year-old sophomore student in his school had told him of having sex with an older man.

But failure to report what appeared to be a case of statuatory rape of a child may be the least of Jennings' worries. Lori Roman of Regular Folks United points to statements by Jennings a decade or more ago when he praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men.

Roman provides damning details and links here. She also notes that Jennings wrote the forward "to a book called Queering Elementary Education. And another fellow you may have heard of wrote one of the endorsements on the book jacket—Bill Ayers." Ayers, of course, is the Weather Underground bomber from the 1960s who is just an "acquaintance" of Obama.

Every presidential administration ends up with scandals inspired by controversial appointees, but typically those tend to revolve around financial improprieties, conflicts of interest, or some other form of white-collar misconduct. For Obama, the scandals seem to be develping in a pattern of disclosures revolving around radical left ideology that raises questions about their fitness for any job in government. And that in turn raises the inevitable question: Is nobody minding the White House personnel store?

UPDATE: Who was Harry Hay?

Folks at Media Matters are agitated by the above post and others pointing out Jennings' praise of Harry Hay and the latter's link to NAMBLA. Hay was not an employee or official of NAMBLA, but was during his later years, according to his entry on Wikipedia, a frequent defender of the group, including this 1983 statement: "[I]f the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what thirteen-, fourteen-, and fifteen-year-old kids need more than anything else in the world."
MM has a point - Jennings praise of Hay was not specifically in the context of the latter's support of NAMBLA. Readers will decide for themselves whether it is appropriate for an individual who publicly praised an advocate of pedophilia to be appointed Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education for Safe and Drug-Free Schools.

Q: Who is NAMBLA?
"Support Group for Intergenerational Relationships"

A: Wiki note: The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a New York City and San Francisco-based unincorporated organization in the United States that advocates the liberalization of laws against sexual relations between adult and minor males - resolving to "end the oppression of men and boys who have freely chosen mutually consenting relationships". Since 1995, public criticism and law enforcement infiltration have heavily impaired the organization. NAMBLA describes itself as a "support group for intergenerational relationships," and uses the slogan "sexual freedom for all." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:02 AM.

Q: What Are They Doing?

A: Founded national gay pride marches: "NAMBLA walks with me" a 1986 gay pride march in Los Angeles.

A; Their Last Public Meeting: passed a resolution saying: "(1) The North American Man/Boy Love Association calls for the abolition of age-of-consent and all other laws which prevent men and boys from freely enjoying their bodies. (2) We call for the release of all men and boys imprisoned by such laws." This policy was still in NAMBLA's "official position papers" in 1996.

A: organized the first gay march on Washington in 1979. In addition to forming several working committees, the conference was responsible for drafting the basic organizing principles of the march ("the five demands" Flyer for March on Washington [see p. 23]). Originally, the Gay Youth Caucus had won approval for its proposal demanding "Full Rights for Gay Youth, including revision of the age of consent laws."

A: In 1980 a group called the "Lesbian Caucus – Lesbian & Gay Pride March Committee" distributed a hand-out urging women to split from the annual New York City Gay Pride March because the organizing committee had supposedly been dominated by NAMBLA and its supporters.

Q: Are They as Harmless as They Claim?
A: In December 1977, police raided a house in the Boston suburb of Revere. Twenty-four men were arrested and indicted on over 100 felony counts of the statutory rape of boys aged eight to fifteen. Suffolk County District Attorney Garrett Byrne found that the men used drugs and video games to lure the boys into a house, where they photographed them as they engaged in sexual activity.
A: The men were members of a "sex ring", and said that the arrest was only "the tip of the iceberg." The arrests sparked intense media coverage, and local newspapers published the photographs and personal information of the accused men. The men were members of a "sex ring", and said that the arrest was only "the tip of the iceberg."
A: According to Roy Radow, a NAMBLA principal and one of the many NAMBLA members being sued by the parents of Jeffrey Curley in Curley v. NAMBLA (for allegedly encouraging the rape and murder of their son), NAMBLA has opposed corporal punishment, rape, and kidnapping, and has declared that sexual exploitation is grounds for expulsion from the group.

A: A "sex ring" of underage boys brought intense media scrutiny in Boston in the closing weeks of 1977, and police raided the Toronto-area gay newspaper The Body Politic for publishing an article by Gerald Hannon titled "Men Loving Boys Loving Men" did the subject of adult-minor sex garner enough attention to prompt the formation of a group like NAMBLA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:02 AM.

Q: What Was this Big Problem for NAMBLA?

A: The arrests sparked intense media coverage, and local newspapers published the photographs and personal information of the accused men. NAMBLA members have been charged with and convicted of sexual offenses against children.

A: Larry Frisoli an opposing attorney charged NAMBLA is a "training ground" for adults who wish to seduce children, in which men exchange strategies on how to find and groom child sex partners.’’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:02 AM.

A: Curley v. NAMBLA was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in 2000, by Barbara and Robert Curley against the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). Their 10-year-old son, Jeffrey Curley, was the victim of a 1997 murder by two men, Salvatore Sicari and Charles Jaynes. The men took Jeffrey to the Boston Public Library and accessed NAMBLA's website. At least one of the men, Jaynes, later attempted to sexually assault Curley. When the boy fought back, Jaynes gagged him with a gasoline-soaked rag and eventually killed him. Jaynes then sexually assaulted his corpse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curley_v._NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:14 AM.

Q: Who is Defending NAMBLA?

A: In April 2005, the wrongful death cases was still being considered by a Massachusetts federal court, with the American Civil Liberties Union assisting the defendants on the grounds that the suit violated their First Amendment rights to free speech.

A: The American Civil Liberties Union stepped in to defend NAMBLA as a free speech matter and won a dismissal based on the fact that NAMBLA is organized as an unincorporated association, not a corporation. [John Reinstein, the director of the ACLU Massachusetts.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA 10/5/2009 9:02 AM.

Q: What are Unintended Consequences for the United States Federal Government to Hire anyone Who Defends in any way the amazing existence of a group like NAMBLA?

A: High School Student Elizabeth Smart: I Was Raped Daily SALT LAKE CITY – Taking the stand for the first time since she was snatched from her girlhood bedroom seven years ago, Elizabeth Smart testified Thursday that her captor raped her three or four times a day, kept her tied up with a cable around her leg, and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape. http://www.thefoxnation.com/elizabeth-smart/2009/10/01/elizabeth-smart-i-was-raped-daily 10/5/2009 9:20 AM.

A: Read the case language for yourself at: http://www.thecpac.com/Curleys-v-NAMBLA.html 10/5/2009 10:12 AM. The Curley family’s research developed 19 counts against Obama’s friends at NAMBLA.

A: Legal delays are preventing this family from getting their day in court. We know the ACLU developed tactics now being used by rich mob type clients. One problem are in the way some of the individuals being sued have homeowners insurance they are tapping to pay attorneys. As an aside don’t insurers have waiver clauses that prevent paying for felons legal fees. If I remember from contract law 101 no contract is legal if it includes illegal activities.

Author's Google doc:

Obama Junta Safe School Zsar NAMBLA Defender, Jerry Stokes 2009-10-05
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUjE9taMWseFZGh0Z3piYjdfMzJjZHF6eHpoYg&hl=en