Everyone who knows this great man knows he is innocent. You don't know a thing about him. You are a disgusting person to suggest he is guilty when he is only charged and is pleading Not Guilty. He is a very famous public person known as the LION OF THE LEFT. The Bush regime has scapegoated him and will ruin this man for doing research. Typical of a fascist to want to hang an innocent man.

During his 23 years working in radio in San Francisco, Bernie Ward has built a reputation as an unapologetic progressive, an enemy of exploitative and insensitive authority and a champion of charities and non-profits for the homeless.



Now the United States government wants to label him as a child pornographer and send him to prison for years – all because he was doing internet research for a book on hypocrisy in the right wing’s “Family Values” America.



The government does not seriously dispute Bernie’s explanation of how and why he pulled a small number of images of child pornography from various online sources and transmitted an image by email to another adult as part of his investigation.



However, the government does not care about intent or mitigating circumstances or even about what kind of man Bernie Ward really is. All that matters to the government is that they believe that he violated the letter of the law in his investigation.


The government has been looking into Bernie’s conduct for three years. It began with the seizure of every computer in his family’s home and continued with efforts to prove that Bernie was involved in child pornography. But nothing more than the original images has been discovered, for the simple reason that there was nothing else.



The government waited three years to indict Bernie. If they seriously believed that they had a child predator on their hands, is there any doubt that they would have taken decisive steps to remove him from society immediately? Of course, not, because the government undoubtedly realizes that Bernie Ward is not in fact a child predator or pornographer, but a serious investigative reporter.


Unfortunately, the mere accusation of such a serious crime is enough to ruin a person’s professional and social standing and destroy his life forever. It is for this reason that Bernie Ward and his family have chosen to fight the government’s plan to brand him as a child predator, send him to prison and consign him to spend the rest of his life carrying the stigma of these charges.

He was researching a book. That is what he did. You want to kill people for researching books? You are worse than Hitler. For Bernie, it is a credible reason because he is a public figure who has dedicated his life to public issues such as exposing child pornographers and priest child molesters. Again, you are worse than Hitler, and it is you who should be jailed and tortured.

He is a straight married man with children. Most liberals are not gay. You are worse than Hitler.

DNFTT.

Yes, regarding Mr. Ward his lawyer learned that in the current hysterical fascist political environment flamed by Nazis like SoloNav who sees a child molester under every bed, there was no way his morally justifiable argument of doing research for a book was going to fly. So he had no choice but to plead guilty to get a lighter punishment. As far as previous charges that did not go to trial or conviction, completely irrelevant. Good day, and keep fighting, Bernie Ward!

TQ:

You're not looking real good when you defend this type of creature.

Did you read the police report posted in Wkikpedia? That's an eduation in itself.

He was doing research. Fascists can not understand the creative mind of a genius like Bernie Ward. Anyone of his millions of bay area talk radio fans know he is a good and moral man who would never hurt a child and his probable jail sentence is a martyrdom. He did technically violate the law but he had a reason, yes, he made a huge misjudgment that has ruined his life, but this man again has never harmed any child. In fact, he has spend decades defending the rights of children against predatory Catholic priests. Shame on you right wing fascists for lynching a good man.

I have to admit after learning more about the case, there is a chance that Bernie Ward is not the person I thought he was. I don't really know, nor do you know. I don't think his conviction says anything about it. Only God knows. Whatever has happened to him now, and no matter what he did or didn't do and whether the intentions were honorable or not, be assured that Bernie Ward is still loved by hundreds of thousands of his fans, and of course his friends and family, and be assured that Bernie Ward did indeed do many goodly Godly deeds in his life. Poor old Bernie Ward. What a fall from grace.

Whatever has happened to him now, and no matter what he did or didn't do and whether the intentions were honorable or not, be assured that Bernie Ward is still loved by hundreds of thousands of his fans, and of course his friends and family, and be assured that Bernie Ward did indeed do many goodly Godly deeds in his life. Poor old Bernie Ward. What a fall from grace.