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Victimless Crime File: “Former Governor of Atlantis” Arrested for Soliciting Sex with 6-Year-Old
I’ve known dozens of pot smokers in my 37 years and without exception all had some crazy, paranoid belief that they usually feel stupid about supporting if they ever sober up and go a significant amount of time clean. I’ve heard everything from harmless “I think my neighbors are going through my garbage” to the life crippling “The government has a satellite that can make you think what they want, man!” and without exception those that then got sober sheepishly admitted they were just being paranoid or delusional within about a month of being clean.
This isn’t to say, as some unemployed pot smokers who like to rub out the error riddled missive in the comments section about what a fascist I am claim, that I think getting high absolves people from their personal responsibility to control their own behavior. I and anyone rational do recognize however that getting high does make it harder to both control your behavior and interpret reality. Chronic drug or alcohol use changes the way you perceive the world.
Long term drinking and drugging also affects your moral center. The dozens of pot smokers I’ve known were untrustworthy, shiftless and suffered from such an extravagant sense of self-entitlement that they could not function in society.
Which brings me to Brandt Owen DeBoard. I saw the story of Brandt over at The Dead Kids of MySpace which has a great post up that tracks all of this degenerate pervert’s online moves. Though he has a long and varied history of bizarre online behavior right now he is most famous for his most recent online shenanigan:
LONGMONT, Colo. — A Longmont man accused of using an online chat room to solicit a mother and her 6-year-old daughter for sex was arrested Thursday in an undercover operation, Longmont police said Friday.
Brandt Owen Deboard, 30, was arrested at a Longmont hotel on suspicion of felony attempted sex assault on a child.
Cmdr. Tim Lewis said Deboard arranged the hotel meeting while chatting with a Longmont mother online.
“He was on the Internet looking to hook up with mothers and children,” Lewis said. “He had explicit discussions with the mother about what he wanted to do with her 6-year-old daughter.”
The woman called police, Lewis said, who sent an undercover female detective to meet Deboard at the hotel. When he showed up Thursday afternoon, police arrested him.
“His intent was clear,” Lewis said about Deboard. “He repeated over and over the explicit sex acts he wanted to do. He took a significant step by going to the room to meet with them there.”
Lewis described the online conversation that lead to the meeting and arrest as “very spooky,” and unusually brazen.
Spooky is an apt description, though peculiar, strange and sad are also adjectives that can be used to describe DeBoard, who claims to be the reincarnated Governor of Atlantis among other things. If you read that little piece of his, which includes his “knowledge” of how the assassinations of both John and Bobby Kennedy and MLK were planed by the victims in their previous incarnations in ancient Egypt, you’ll see that in typical stoner fashion DeBoard is cobbling together a grandiose fantasy-that liberally steals from-the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Patricia Cori.
DeBoard also penned a sinister screed called Blood Covenants/Spilling of the Blood on conspiracy mongering website Godlike Productions where he claims blood letting is the only way to contact beings from the “outer realms” in yet another haze distorted interpretation of popular stoner fare, this time the delightfully mad occultist Kenneth Grant who posited something almost similar in his hard to find books Outer Gateways and Hecate’s Fountain. He ends his essay with the disturbing line “Power is in death, and in the blood, the two things people try to avoid the most.”
I make the literary connections not only to be pretentious but to show that DeBoard, like many pot heads I have known, created a fantasy world that was only possible for him to live in if he totally disconnected himself from reality with drug use. His Godlike Productions page shows that he’s also an anti-Semite with a unhealthy fixation on “Octomom” Nadya Suleman, both something I’m 100% sure many pot smokers share in. I can guarantee that at least one pot smoker reading this will read his writings and agree with them.
More disturbing is his personal blog on which his last two posts are unsavory quasi-pedophilic picture galleries featuring girls around the age of his intended victim. This picture in particular is one of the creepiest pictures of an adult with a child I’ve ever seen and you don’t need to be Sigmund Freud to be uncomfortable with his gallery of little girls with telescopes entitled Heaven on Earth.
Now I’m not saying smoking pot “causes” people to rape children as some will accuse me of, but people who may harbor such evil in themselves are not who you want lowering their inhibitions with a blunt a day. I will argue that although many people will say he is simply crazy, Brendt DeBoard is a product of the drug culture, he is what chronic users of any substance become. After a month or two of being sober DeBoard will not believe the things he claims, and may even be sincerely contrite about trying to arrange the rape of a child (though I doubt that) and that should teach people who like to get high a valuable lesson in moderation.
But it won’t and therein lies the real problem with drug use.
Victimless Crime File: Pill Popping Wiccan Party Girl Edition
When I first converted to Wicca back in the mid-1980s I can admit, while looking back through the refined hindsight of adulthood, that Wicca at that time was attractive to many people my age because of its essentially libertine morality. Or I should say that because Wicca had only the vaguest moral instruction (…and it Harm None Do as Ye Will) a person in his early teens at the peak of the glam-rocking 80s could easily find a religion compatible with the lifestyle he imagined he could lead.
The most obvious example of how Wicca was perceived (rightly so it turns out) as a creed amenable to drug fueled debauchery was the Wiccan Sex Kitten, a kind of Wiccan which was ubiquitous in the 80s and pushed to the very fringes of Wicca by the joyless scolds of the “Women Studies” Wicca movement led by people like Starhawk. Women like this (often themselves damaged and lonely) were attracted to both the commercialized sexuality of Wicca and the promise of intimacy that the comes from a religion that organizes itself into small circles or covens of no more than 13. In these surrogate families the free with their bodies and usually stoned or drunk women found more acceptance and support than the outer world (the so-called cowans) ever gave them and more importantly they found non-judgmental validation of the ever escalating addictions and self-destructive behaviors they displayed.
What they never received was help for their underlying problems, encouragement to be anything other than a drug and sex partner.
As an adult this seems an obvious recipe for a failed and miserable life. At the time frankly no one thought much of it, but the adults involved in Wicca certainly saw, as I see now, where these women would end up. The drug using Wiccan party girl is no more immune to the ravages of addiction and psychic turmoil than her non-Wiccan counterpart, something I learned by seeing Wiccans’ downward spiral firsthand. As most people grow out of Wicca, at least the Wiccan sub-culture that encourages such behavior, these women (and men often enough) dwell in perpetual puberty, never maturing beyond the point in their lives when they believe that anything that feels good momentarily is good for you.
Which is why I wasn’t surprised to see that Brandy Albright, a 27-year-old Oxycodone user who I suspect is an addict, was a Wiccan. While Albright was babysitting her friend’s two year old one Saturday afternoon, police found the toddler wondering dangerously close to a canal where alligators where observed. The toddler was clothed only in a feces-encrusted tee-shirt. Police canvassed the area and found the child’s house, where Brandy was snoring loudly while asleep on the toilet. Her pants were down indicating that she simply fell asleep while using the toilet, a behavior anyone familiar with people who use heroin or opium derived drugs will have witnessed many times. Here’s a .pdf of the arrest report.
Brandy Albright took enough Oxycodone to put herself in a drug induced stupor. All while watching her friend’s baby. As an aside, this story would have been no different had she smoked pot or drank whiskey, but I get many commenters and emailers who claim that certain drugs are better for you than other drugs, and all the assorted nonsense that addicts and people who won’t grow up and stop getting high tell you in an effort to convince you that they are somehow different than all the other drug users you’ve met.
And I’ve met dozens of Brandy Albrights. Some were literally hooked on pills, some were chronic pot smokers and some were alcoholics. What they all had in common was that there were people in their life cheering on her self-destruction for their own selfish reasons. In this case the almost victim wasn’t just Brandy, but a two-year-old who the mother foolishly entrusted to her Wiccan party girl friend.
Legalization advocates always claim decriminalizing drug use would end crime, but never admit that the only crime it would end was possession of drugs. Brandy Albright still would have endangered this child. At some point when she runs out of money and the drugs have made it so she can’t make enough money stripping to support her habit she’ll prostitute herself. And eventually she’ll die. I’ve seen this show before and unless she gets help that is a guaranteed future. Only the most heartless individual would consider this victimless.
And the first step to her recovery is avoiding the people, places and things that help her use. I say the modern Wiccan subculture is one of those things, and the people that tell her there’s nothing wrong with “partying” at 27 is another.
But legalization advocates and others will claim this is an anomaly. It isn’t, drug users are what they are and none can be trusted to watch a child. Drug use isn’t victimless, and to say otherwise is a dishonest glossing over of what is at the core of anyone’s desire to get high.
h/t Dreamin’ Demon
Victimless Crime File: William H. Jones Tries to Kill Infant When Girlfriend Won’t Give Him Weed Money
There are some aspects of the drug culture that will remain unchanged whether marijuana is legal or not. I advocate for neither side of that argument but I am always struck by how dishonest legalization proponents are when they claim legalization will magically make drug related crime disappear. It will stop drug dealing related crime but people who get high are people who get high, and many act like this:
 A 3-month-old boy who was thrown to the floor inside a Brockton home last Thursday has been listed in stable condition, authorities said.
William H. Jones, 29, of Brockton, is being held without bail in connection with the attack. He is accused of grabbing the infant from the child’s mother and throwing the baby to the floor in a drunken rage.
Jones will appear in Brockton District Court for a dangerousness hearing on Friday, said Assistant District Attorney Bridget Norton Middleton, spokeswoman for Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz.
She said that Jones has been charged with:
Aggravated assault and battery on a child with injury, in connection with the attack on the baby. Assault and battery on a child, due to accusations that he choked the infant’s 11-year-old sister when she tried to intervene. Assault and battery on an adult, referring to the child’s mother.
The infant was listed in stable condition at a Boston hospital as of late Friday, and a more recent update on the condition was not available, the assistant district attorney said.
No information was available about whether the 11-year-old girl had been hospitalized, she said.
The attacks occurred inside a home at 419 Montello St. after the mother refused to give the suspect $10 to buy marijuana, the assistant district attorney said.
Rather than long winded defenses of pot and attacks on me, perhaps a legalization advocate can explain to me how pot being legal would have changed this outcome. Also, since some people seem to care so much I included a story where the person was also a drinker: ladies, if your old man drinks more than two beers a day (which is two more than I drink) something like this is likely in your future.
But more importantly, alcohol is legal and there are still alcohol related crimes and deaths. Is it possible that just because something is legal it isn’t good for you?
Victimless Crime Files: Why Do Adults Want Kids to Get High?
The answer would seem obvious to everyone but teenagers and the pot smokers who think the world is just full of nice decent folks who happen to like to get high. The truth is that only two kinds of adults involved with drugs, ones with addiction problems/psychological issues and the ones who use drugs to take advantage of others.
For the last 30 years Louis Levine fell into the second category:
For 30 years, police say a teacher has been filming child pornography at his Belle Meade home.
Murfreesboro teacher Louis Levine is behind bars facing federal pornography charges.
Investigators believe there are dozens of alleged victims still to be found.
For three decades, authorities say a home in Belle Meade Highlands has hidden a terrible secret.
Neighbor Sandra Griffith says, “We saw a lot of cars coming and going.”
An alleged crime, neighbor Sandra Griffith says she never noticed until
two years ago.Griffith says, “They were always young teenagers.”
When she started worrying about all the minors visiting Murfreesboro teacher Louis Levine and his teenage son.
Griffith says, “Because sometimes it was during school hours not a lot but always after school always into the evening…all day all night so of course you assume the worst.”
Griffith never though the worst would be the story of teenage sex and drugs and pornography found on a federal affidavit.
It includes statements from alleged victims of all ages, accusing Levine of
allowing teenagers to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana here and engage in sexual intercourse in the building
behind the home called “Little House” and in another room inside the home called the “Isolation Chamber” that held a waterbed with a wooden box over it.U.S. Attorney Ed Yarbrough says, “The allegation in the complaint is that he would provide drugs sometimes candy sometimes alcohol…Also creating an environment where minors felt they could go and participate in illicit conduct without being caught.”
Authorities believe someone was watching though.
According to the avidavit police found an elaborate recording setup and more than 400 tapes and DVD’s.
Evidence they say Levine has been recording underage sexual acts sometimes without participants knowing for three decades.
Levine got kids high(and drunk) because it was the easiest way to fullfill his deviant sexual desires. Dreamin’ Demon has a more detailed description of just how deviant Levine was.
The real question for all you “cool’ parents that don’t mind your kids getting high ishow many Louis Levines are stalking them even now?