In August 2024, the Telegram channels began to apply that the candidate for vice presidents of the United States from the Democrats announced the support of pedophilia and its decriminalization. We checked whether these publications are true.
On August 14, 2024, Russian Telegram channels wrote: "In the United States, they legalize pedophilia in case of Kamaly Harris’s victory in the elections." The authors of the posts clarified that the main initiator of this decision is her partner on the election race Tim Walz. The channels told about this "Putin in Telegram"(233,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bottle"(179 000),"Ostashko! Important"(123,000) and others. According to the TGSTAT service, similar posts in Telegram were gaining more than 1.5 million views in total only on August 14. Mentioning this news appeared in others social networksas well as in some Russian And Belarusian Media.
The authors of most posts about the possible legalization of pedophilia in the USA Reference On the American news site The PEOPLE’s VOICE and attach a screenshot of publication with the heading of “Kamala Harris promises” to decriminalize pedophilia if he wins the presidential election. ” Such article Indeed, it was published on August 13, 2024. Harris or her position on the issue under discussion is never mentioned in the text itself, we are talking exclusively about the Governor of Minnesota and the candidate for the post of vice president from the Democratic Party Tima Walce. It is alleged that last year he allegedly supported the decriminalization of pedophilia in his staff, and also signed a law calling the attraction of an adult to children legitimate sexual orientation.
In May 2023, the WALTS actually Approved law Take Pride Actwho fixed the rights of LGBTK+ in the Minnesota Law on Human Rights. However, contrary to the statements of the authors of the article, Take Pride Act does not protect pedophiles from discrimination and criminal punishment. According to the laws of the state, sexual intercourse of an adult with a minor counts A serious crime is punishable by imprisonment for up to 30 years.
The speculation arose due to the fact that initially in the text of the bill it was said: "Sexual orientation does not include physical or sexual attachment to children from an adult." But during the consideration of the document, this line was deleted, and the Governor of the Waltz signed the law without it. Critics interpreted getting rid of this phrase as a recognition of pedophilia with a variety of sexual orientation and admitted that it would protect pedophiles before the law, because in Minnesota Forbidden Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
In fact, a line about the attraction of an adult to the children was deleted, because the lawmakers considered such a refinement by irrelevant. IN comments The amendments say that sexual orientation concerns only the attraction to people of a certain gender or gender and does not affect age. Such an interpretation of this term Support And American lawyers. “I have unknown cases when the court would use the ban on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation to protect pedophiles from criminal prosecution,” - declared In the commentary of the Politifact, professor of the New York School of Law Arthur Leonard, who specializes in LGBTK+.
To exclude the possibility of incorrect interpretation of the law, a reservation about sexual attraction to minors was still Added The text of Take Pride Act, but not in the definition of sexual orientation, but in the “Exceptions” section: “Physical or sexual attachment to children from an adult does not fall under protection in accordance with this chapter”. The amendment was unanimously Accepted House of Representatives of Minnesota on April 26, 2023, Walts signed Law on May 24.
The authors of many viral publications used the terms “decriminalization” and “legalization” as synonyms, but they have fundamentally different meanings. Decriminalization - This is a transfer of criminally punishable acts into the category of administrative or disciplinary, but still illegal. For example, in 2017, domestic violence was decriminalized in Russia: citizens who first have been beaten by their loved ones since then Threats Not a prison term, but a fine of 5,000 to 30,000 rubles, administrative arrest or compulsory work. Legalization - This is the process of turning illegal into legal; Refusal of criminal and administrative prosecution. So, in the Russian Federation in 2022 legalized The so -called parallel import, that is, the import into the country of goods without the permission of the owner of the trademark. Previously, these actions were considered smuggling and were prohibited by law.
The Prochremple channels are not the first to distribute the false statements of The PEOPLE’s VOICE, which previously worked under the names of Newspunch and Your News Wire. Back in 2018, the Pointer Institute Turned on This resource is among the most active distributors of fakes and conspiracy theories on the English -speaking Internet. “Verified” has repeatedly refuted the inaccurate information published by The People’s Voice, for example, about the VEF call Allow marriages with animals and about expensive purchases The first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya.
At the same time, some details in the posts about Walts, Russian -speaking bloggers, apparently added themselves, because in the article The People’s Voice they are absent. In particular, the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels claim that Walz is a transgender who publicly supported the extensions against pedophiles. “Verified” failed to find confirmation of both of these statements in open sources.
Thus, the publications that the WALTS supports the decriminalization or legalization of pedophilia in the United States are based on the incorrect interpretation of the Minnesota law, adopted in 2023.
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Read on the topic:
- Politifact. Minnesota Bill Doges Not Create a Protected Class for Child Sex Offenders
- The Hollywood Reporter. L.A. Alt-Media Agitator (Not Breitbart) Clayshes with Google, Snopes
- DW. TIM WALZ: What is known about the candidate for vice presidents of the United States
- Is it true that the WEF ordered the governments of the world to punish citizens for reading fake news on the Internet?
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