^Yes names are named.
If the allegations are true, and something like this happened to your kids, I don't think you'd go to jail because you took vengeance with a gun. Rather, most likely you'd end up like the rest of the witnesses in this case -- dead, missing, in jail for perjury, reputation smeared in the press, etc. You'd be denied your justice, and made to suffer greatly for being a victim. That's the unsatisfying reality you'd most likely face.
Why not provide a link to information? This is hardly a secret on the internet.
Here's a link to a web page with the video and Washington Times piece.
Here's the Wikipedia run down.
Whatever the full story is, on an abstract anthropological level it's fascinating to ask why throughout history sex with kids, especially boys, has been a common institution among those with power. Read up on
pederasty for an overview. It makes me wonder how much simply having power gives rise to these types of sexual desires or if it's a pre-existing desire that is cultivated by the opportunities afforded by power, and through what "psychosexual" mechanism its expression occurs. For example, is it related to sexual sadism? Is the feeling of power over another stronger, and therefore more satisfying, when the victim is physically weak and powerless, as a child is? Do those who lust for power, be it political, financial, or social, find a sexual expression for that power lust in child abuse?
One of the most terrifying and, I think revealing cases of the ties between child sex abuse and power relations comes from Congo. There soldiers not only commonly rape the children in villages they wipe out but cannibalize them (as well as adults) to "take their power," or force family members to rape and cannibalize each other (presumably to confirm and practice their power over their victims for sadistic satisfaction). These soldiers don't recruit pedophiles specifically, rather they are "normal" men who come to engage in the behavior through practicing their military power over the villagers. I created a thread in Philosophy and Spirituality called
The Implications of Sexual Cannibalism where I survey various reports, criminal cases, and journal articles and suggest that cannibalism is the ultimate expression of sexual sadism. I also discuss how pedophilia might be better or at least partially understood by viewing it through the lens of sexual sadism and power relations. I didn't reach any clear conclusions and certainly don't claim my case is made conclusively (the amount of information pertaining to such disturbing but potentially very important and highly revealing subject matter is limited), but a number of extremely disturbing and far reaching conclusions about human nature are flirted with and warrant for asking these questions, is, I think, established. I'm skeptical that we even want to know the full truth.
