Oliver North: After gays allowed into military, pedophiles will follow

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Friday, February 5th, 2010 -- 2:59 pm
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Oliver North, the former Marine implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal and current Fox News host, says allowing gays to serve openly in the military will lead to same-sex marriages in the military and the admission of pedophiles to the armed forces.

In an interview with Fox's Sean Hannity Thursday, North discussed what he sees as the implications of repealing the 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

"Now, here's what's next. NAMBLA members, same-sex marriages," North said, referring to the North American Man-Boy Love Association, a group that advocates for pedophilia. "Are chaplains in the US military going to be required to perform those kinds of rituals? Do they [pedophiles and homosexuals] get government housing?"

North, who hosts Fox's War Stories, told Hannity that the effort to repeal DADT amounts to a "stunning assault on the all-volunteer military, the very best in the world. Barack Obama now intents to treat them like lab rats in a radical social experiment, and it can be very, very detrimental."

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Citing the legal statute that forbids gays from serving openly in the military, North said that repealing DADT "would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability."

But "those claims are heavily undermined by the fact that other countries allow gay men and lesbians to serve in the military, and many have said it has not created problems," reports media watchdog MediaMatters.

Writing at ThinkProgress, Igor Volsky says, "The irony of a convicted felon who lied about diverting proceeds from arms sales to a rebel group in Nicaragua supporting a policy that forces gay and lesbian servicemen to lie about their sexual orientation was lost on both Hannity and North."

Volsky also criticized Hannity and North for not mentioning that Adm. Mike Mullen has voiced his support for repealing the anti-gay law. That "would have forced North to condemn [Mullen] for treating the troops 'like lab rats in a radical social experiment.'"

The following video was broadcast on Fox News' Hannity, Feb. 4, 2010, and uploaded to the Web by ThinkProgress.

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  • @Hebrewzzi
    Next the military will let in a-holes who sell weapons to Iran. Oh wait, that already happened. #booyakasha
  • @Hebrewzzi
    Next the military will let in scandalous assholes who sell weapons to Iran! Oh wait...that already happened.
  • Mrs. O. North
    Brain damage is a terrible thing.
  • Loonie
    Certainly no hope of Ollie North joining the sane.
  • Yayas
    Pedophiles are already in the military, Mr. War Criminal. Haven't you heard of Sean Green, raping and murdering a 14 year old Iraqi girl?
  • OldAtlantic
    Obviously, we should restrict Muslims before gays.
  • HeilMary1
    Let's restrict Nazi Mold ASSlantic before restricting law-abiding American Muslims and gays.
  • Ralph
    Hasn't this fucked up story about a fucked disgraced US Marine run long enough?
  • robertsfinnegan
    EAT SHIT RAW COCKSUCKERS.

    Robert S. Finnegan
  • robertsfinnegan
    FUCK RAW CENSORS.

    Robert S. Finnegan
  • oktoss
    He's a convicted felon in part because he lied to everyone, even his employer, the US gov't and we're supposed to believe him now? I believe a pedophile serving in the military would be detected easier and quicker than a gay who kept silent about his life. Why? Pedophilia is an illness.
  • robertsfinnegan
    If the fucking censors at RAW penis are going to cut legitimate comments from registered respondents, at least have the balls to note it here and also why the comment was cut. Nothing worse than a cocksucking censor. Fucking communists.

    Robert S. Finnegan
    SoutheastAsia Independent Media
    Jakarta, Indonesia
    rsfinnegan@gmail.com
  • Vera Similitude
    The "author unknown" who claimed that "O.North was not dealing with drugs while selling arms to help the Contras" can deny it all he wants but ignatzfattis is correct.
    That was the whole Iran-Contra operation...dealing cocaine from South America to pay for the Iran war.....and they paid the Mujadeen which we later got "blow-back" from....with them shooting our troops with guns supplied by Reagan, North, Bush Sr. & Co.
  • Vera Similitude
    The "author unknown" who claimed that "O.North was not dealing with drugs while selling arms to help the Contras" can deny it all he wants but ignatzfattis is correct.
    That was the whole Iran-Contra operation...dealing cocaine from South America to pay for the Iran war.....and they paid the Mujadeen which we later got "blow-back" from....with them shooting our troops with guns supplied by Reagan, North, Bush Sr. & Co.
  • jimbo707
    Why would pedophiles join the military if the military does not enlist children?

    Ollie is a political windbag of utter stupidity.
  • quincunx
    A Vietnam vet I know mentioned to me that on R&R perhaps in Thailand, he saw a young boy outside with something visibly up his rear so as to make him ready for a customer. The vet used the story to express contempt for the boy, the people and the country he was in. I saw the bright lad as a budding Marketing Major...

    Someplace I saw, but don't quote me, that the CIA was bringing underage Muslim girls to Iraq or nearby to service our servicemen.
  • CarlPagan
    Ever heard about military hazing rituals? Ever crossed the equator in the Navy? Pretty gay stuff. What the fuck does it matter?
  • michaelvalentine
    Takes one to know one there Ollie.
  • ShaJ
    Ollie, I am really amazed everyone knows what kind of ScumBag you really are and all the drugs you sold to the Crips and Bloods and all the young Children you got hooked on drugs.So you can take your homophobic views and your Nazi FEMA plans and shove them. Americans are smarter then you, you stupid POS Jarhead Felon.Shalom.
  • easterling
    Seaman First clA$$ Barney Frank
  • LizDexic
    He IS a lab rat.
  • muttnotjeff
    Now, now, Ollie...I'm sure a great many men served when you did who didn't turn into the kind of soldier you became just 'cause they slept in the same barracks; you know, the derilict kind who commit and conspire to cover up crimes in direct contradiction of their sworn duties to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
  • stev1
    Well then, It's a good thing that children don't serve in the military.
  • Ed Fup
    If we allow nutbars in the military, then Olivers would join...
  • oldvets
    NAMBLA ??? You must be kidding, no one in their right mind has ever heard of such an outfit, but then when you get moral degenerates like Hannity and North together what else would get them so excited? I wouldn’t put it past them to have made this up; they are both chronic liars and hypocrites. If I had to choose between pedophiles or right-wing talk show hosts it would be a toss up; they’re equally odious. No, wait a minute; most of the time you wouldn't have to choose between them because they're one and the same.
  • fiftysomething
    This guy helped buy weapons that were used to kill Americans. I think that's far worse than a patriot that happens to be homosexual. Another republican hero that's an American traitor.
  • Oliver North is a treasonous p.o.s. that should still be in jail for Iran-Contra of the 1980s!!!
  • AaronfromAlabama
    First of all Oliver North... pedophila is a crime....homosexuality is not! I am so tried of ignorants tying pedophilia and homosexuality together.....I read about more straight people who prey on children than I do about gays molesting kids....and I tired of hearing people yap their jaws off about " oh if there are queers in the military...we cant shower together etc....oh my God in heaven...gays and straights have been showering together in the military for a long time!
    Quit preaching hate! Lets be true adults, come together and understand each other and respect each others different beliefs.....
  • easterling
    Semen 1st class Barney Frank ??????????
  • jerwander
    I'm sure there always have been pedophiles in the military.
    There are all things in all strata of societies. Nothing new here.
  • Mary Palomar
    Dear Mr. North:
    If you wish to ensure the armed forces are free of pedophiles, you would more efficiently achieve your goal by getting all Catholic chaplains and all Republicans out of uniform and refusing the enlistment of any more. For a partial listing of prominent child molesters in the GOP, please visit http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=... (Democrats are so boring, cautious, and, dare I say?, conservative when they break the rules: they mess with consenting adult floozies, e.g., Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, and John Edwards). Pedophile priests are practically a daily news item (and the pope, like you, confuses them with gays, which means any churchly interdiction is misaimed).

    Mr. North, does your brain ever think through your comments before your mouth blurts them?
  • David
    What about those who commit crimes against humanity and then take the fall for their corrupt president Mr. North? Do they get to serve too? Do you have an answer or are you too busy selling weapons to Iran to sponsor genocidal dictatorships in South America still?
  • billbobaggins
    Ummmm....last I checked, there are straight pedophiles out there as well. So, does that mean there might ALREADY be pedophiles in the Army?
  • easterling
    Rear Admiral Larry Craig ?????????
  • Rexozone
    And this from a traitor who really knew how to bend over and blow, by blow.
    Cocaine and Iran armaments do not a patriot make.
    That this guy is still roaming free as Xi is truly unpatriotic and dangerous.
    He sees everyone as a terrorist in his foxhole.
  • mmeflutterbye
    Oliver, you're a real phony! Not only that, you protest too much. I'll bet there are a lot of pedophiles in the military. We just don't know who they are. To compare homosexuality to pedophilia is outrageous .. and really stupid and uninformed. But then you have to cater to your regular audience who have to be stupid and uninformed to listen to your drivel regularly.
  • TaterSalad
    Who can tax you? Who can ? The Government can!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0


    Ray Stevens and Obamacare:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo





    Breaking News! Just in:

    The United States Constitution has just been found in a dumpster behind the White House:

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  • davidrvelasquez
    Why should anyone listen to this corrupt fascist piece of shit?
    He violated not only federal law but international laws & agreements.
    He has no valid opinions worth hearing ...especially were morals and ethics are concened.
  • nedclark
    Baby-faced though Ollie may (used to) be, I hate to tell him - he's got nothing to worry about with `pedophiles in fox-holes'. I can't tell whether these guys are obsessed with male-gaity because they're afraid their being lusted ... or worried that they not?

    Two thoughts:

    (1) Better pedophiles isolated- and surrounded by adults, than walking civilian streets, and
    (2) Why do simpletons- and Repugnicans [but I repeat myself] always conflate `gay' with `pedophile'? As opposed to the `normal' perverts to prey on children of the OPPOSITE sex?
  • daltonII
    Countries the DO NOT allow gays in the military:

    * Cuba
    * China
    * Egypt
    * Greece[1]
    * Iran
    * Jamaica
    * North Korea
    * Pakistan
    * Russia
    * Saudi Arabia
    * Serbia
    * Singapore
    * South Korea[2]
    * Syria
    * Turkey[3]
    * Venezuela
    * Yemen
    * United States – Don't ask, don't tell
  • daltonII
    Countries that allow homosexuals to serve in the military

    * Argentina
    * Australia
    * Austria
    * Belgium
    * Bermuda
    * Brazil
    * Canada
    * Czech Republic
    * Denmark
    * Estonia
    * Finland
    * France
    * Germany
    * Ireland
    * Israel
    * Italy
    * Lithuania
    * Luxembourg
    * The Netherlands
    * New Zealand
    * Norway
    * Peru
    * Philippines
    * Romania
    * Slovenia
    * South Africa
    * Spain
    * Sweden
    * Switzerland
    * United Kingdom
    * Uruguay
  • Carl
    The last thing we need is to take advice from a felon who can't tell right from wrong, lied under oath and betrayed is oath of office as an officer in the United States Marines. He is a disgrace. Let's take moral advice and clarity from our family, friends and community, ...not a knuckle-head who is ethically challenged and failed.
  • smcc511
    Ollie, Gays have been in the millitary for hundreds of years now. You have been serving with them during your whole career. This should be of no surprise to anyone. Wake up and smell the coffee...
  • SynGas
    Tatersalad: what are your facts? I'm too lazy to look them up right now. I'll look later... what was the whole Ollie North thing about? He had nothing to do with Nicaragua or Iran? How is he such a hero aside from wearing Batons on his uniform? Is he perhaps a repressed homosexual afraid of being outed to his mommy? Facts please... F.A.C.T.S.
  • wial
    If traitor-felons like Ollie North and G Gordon Liddy and Elliot Abrams are allowed to be pundits, bungling burglars like James O'Keefe will be too.
  • TaterSalad
    We have “only” ourselves to blame for this mess:

    This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone has it all figured out. It’s sad that most of the people of the US don’t.

    “The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.

    The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.

    The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

    Author Unknown
  • ShaJ
    And I think he wrote the FEMA take over plans for the USA which turned into the Patriot Act. My Guess is he would like to round up the Gays and send them to Death Camps like Hitler did.
  • ShaJ
    North, a Drug Smuggler and Felon is the perfect man to listen to, in such important military matters.
  • Wayne in Wyoming
    North you're a traitor and a terrorist to the country you were supposed to protect. You should be in jail for screwing us all.
  • Seen Too Much GOP Scum
    It is undisputed that Oliver North illegally sold missiles to Iran.

    Why does anyone who cares about the United States dignify the perverse rants of this acknowledged traitor?
  • kimberly
    ask the kids who grew up on base, the pedophiles have always been there, most are hetero.
  • linderella2929
    If child molestation is actually your concern, how come we don't see Bradley tanks knocking down Catholic churches?
    ~ Bill Hicks, 1993, referencing the Waco siege
  • christoofar
    Hey Ollie, I can see your point, but if you just part your hair differently, it won't show as much. Just sayin'..
  • benway
    FU, Ollie.
  • terry
    Hello Oliver, where are your brains? Pedophiles already serve in the military. They just keep it a secret. Repealing the don't ask, don't tell policy will not address the issue of pedophilia simply because there is no mention of pedophilia in the policy. Once again, you open your mouth and out spews ignorance. Further, how is it you know so much about the North American Man-Boy Love Association? Makes us wonder...........
  • Whatacountry09
    WHAT A MORON... A Pedophile IS CRIMINAL... HOW DO THESE PEOPLE THINK??? THEIR IGNORANCE IS TRULY ASTOUNDING!!!!!!! It seems they lack that gene or cells that allow one to LOGICALLY THINK.

    Just as IGNORANT as the "pro-lifers" that are so against "baby killing", but KILLING THE BABY THAT IS NOW AN ADULT IS OKAY!!!!!! THEIR LOGIC IS CONTRADICTORY AND THEIR NARROW CLOSED MINDS ARE NOT ONLY A HUGE DISPLAY OF THEIR IGNORANCE, BUT THESE PEOPLE ARE SCARY TOO!!!!
  • jeainnj
    The perjuror has spoken...
  • Liz
    First of all most pedophiles are more likely to be strait men who are married with children and most victims are abused by men they know fathers,brothers or uncles. So I am sure pedophiles are already serving in the military. As for gay people Argentina,Australia,Austria,Belgium,
    Bermuda,Brazil,Canada,Czech Republic,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,France,Germany,Ireland
    Israel,Italy,Lithuania,Luxembourg,The Netherlands,New Zealand, Norway, Peru,Philippines,
    Romania,Slovenia,South Africa,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,United kingdom,Uruguay all ALLOW
    GAY PEOPLE TO SERVE.
  • jmpotratz
    Just goes to show you that North is beyond stupid. Time for him to go back to selling American weapons to Iran.
  • N/A
    So Ollie North pulls out the old "homosexual=pedophile" stereotype eh? That's roughly 1,000 times more offensive and ridiculous than any other stereotype I've ever heard. Hey Ollie, I'm heterosexual, but I have no inclination whatsoever to go after young girls.
  • Liz45
    N/A - I agree with you. I'm sure you have no inclination to force yourself on any female or child, of either sex. I'm heartened to read of so many people who see through this bastard for who and what he is. Pedophiles are only interested in having sex with children. They justify their behaviour by insinuating that children are sexual beings etc. sickening stuff! Men who happen to be gay are no more likely to abuse kids as good 'straight' men like you are. Most adults love kids and are repulsed by any type of violence committed against them. North has already shown american citizens and those like me from other countries what sort of a mongrel he is. He's convicted himself - again!
  • shag11
    I wonder what he thinks about all the women who've been raped by their fellow enlistees. He's probably vote like the Rebulicans did against Franken's amendment, attempting to deal with this issue.
  • Spike
    OK Oliver North, you son of a bitch.
    You said, gays followed by, pedophiles will follow.
    Where is the data, to back up your bullshit claim.
    Where did you get that data?
    You suck, and you are a homophobe and plain and simple,
    is that "gay' can't do our country justice.
    Please, call me or email me: 310.200.5005 spikedezign@verizon.net
    You r a god damn coward, call me a we will discuss this like 2 men, well, you think you r a real man?
    But, you r actually a fucking coward.
    Call me- and we will discuss out topic.
  • Liz45
    Spike! He's not worth the effort mate. He won't call you. Bullies like him are always cowards. I wonder how many people whose death he's responsible for? Hundreds? Thousands? If there is a god and a day of reckoning, I'd like to be there when he's called to give an account of his behaviour? Along with Bush/Cheney/Blair/Howard(australia-my country)and others like Rumsfeld, Rice etc.
  • 5by5
    The man's a traitor to the country who gave arms to the crazy Iranians, and sold drugs to kids in the United States.

    Should have locked him up for his Iran-Contra crimes back in the day. Then we wouldn't have to listen to his batcrap crazy rantings now.

    This is why accountability is important.
  • Matthew
    Well, there's always U.S. vs Stebbins, where Staff Sergeant John Stebbins was convicted of incestuously raping and sodomizing his six-year-old daughter. That happened 10 years ago, under DADT policy. I guess to Ollie, it's all fine and dandy as long as its heterosexual incest rape, vs. that naughty hypothetical child rape that exists only in his fanciful vision of the future (where it just so happens conservative values like his are marginalized -- but I'm sure that has nothing to do with why he's pretending he cares about child rape in the military while refusing to acknowledge it's already happening under DADT).
  • Wesley
    since there are no kids in the Armed Services I doubt youll see any Pedophiles join- and most of them are Republicans serving in CONgress, anyway
  • mtgradwell
    Of course pedophiles are going to rush to get into the military. There are so many children in there, just waiting to be exploited. Oh, wait. There aren't. But then this makes no sense. Why would Olly talk about pedophiles in a way that seems to equate them with homosexuals? I don't get it.
  • Ken
    Pedophiles might already be serving - straight ones. What's his fucking point? He's probably one. These types tend to be major-league hypocrites with a closet full of skeletons.
  • chrislib
    Wonder why Ollie, the convicted felon, doesn't care about criminals, gangbangers, theofascist crusaders, "oath-keeping" seditionists, skinheads and actual, sure 'nuff nazis in uniform? If I know about them, so does he. If I care that they're there, why doesn't he? Is it because sociopaths have each others' backs?
  • cliffhammond
    And just imagine, here is Ollie North going on about the law and asserting that Obama is bad and evil for breaking the law. Heh. Oh what a short memory supports his self-righteousness.
  • Common sense
    To Iorn: I've been reading your comments lately and they all have that same lack of intelligence. People like you just complain for the sake of complaining. I like your "medicine is for dummies" comment. People have been taking meds for thousands of years. You may not take meds right now but you will eventually. Come back to reality...it really isn't that bad.
  • cliffhammond
    Oliver North is still being used as an expert on talk shows? This guy is a traitor who helped the Contras traffic cocaine. This guy helped to execute the October Surprise against Carter. This guy was in the middle of the Iran-Contra Affair. And, not least of all, he was at the center of support and logistics for the CIA's illegal wars in Latin American under Reagan and Bush.

    Besides all that, the hypocrisy revealed here comes from the fact that G.H.W. Bush has committed homosexual pedophilia on at least two documented occasions in Washington D.C., both of which were associated with the Franklin Scandal in Nebraska, a scandal that also involved BoysTown. Like his central role in the Iran-Contra affair as the titular head of the national security state, Poppy Bush's involvement in Washington sex parties was unsuccessfully covered-up except in the compliant mainstream media.

    North has no business making comments about what is appropriate for the military. He is a war criminal.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    Oh Christ... I gotta stop doin whatever I'm doing and get ready for war, gfd...
  • jsmrite
    G Gordon Liddy is such a quack.

    That wasn't a typo.
  • sarasunshine
    What will always interest me is how these people will go down in history as basically worthless to society, and they do not give a damn. The Ollie Norths live for the now and the money they are able to rake in - not for just causes or the betterment of society. What a waste of fame and the abiltiy that goes with it to improve the world.
  • Bigpenguin
    Hey, Ollie - last time I checked you were a criminal.
  • scytherius
    Only if they are Catholics Ollie . . . only if they are Catholics.

    North should have been tried and executed as a traitor.
  • What ?
    These traitorously drug trafficker, arms schmuggler, terrorist accomplice and supporter,
    talks only bullshit, when he's not pathological lying....hes just a piece of shit
  • Atilla
    I'm really worried about what the worlds biggest drug dealer, Benedict Arnold North, has to say about how anything in this country is run. Why in the world is this traitor running free? I feel like I need a shower every time I here his name.
  • Atilla
    hear his name. I have to go shower now.
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