VAWA and Variants on the "Honey Trap"
Honey trap
Probably one of the oldest tricks in gathering intelligence against an enemy or in espionage is the use of a "honey trap." In popular fiction a "honey trap" usually implies a woman entrapping businessmen, military men, and officials in sexual liaisons to retrieve intelligence. But in a broader sense a "honey trap" is slang for use of men or women in sexual situations to intimidate or snare others.
Often, particularly in wartime, it is as useful to simply prevent the target of the "honey trap" from accomplishing their mission as it is to garner intelligence from them. That can be done in a variety of ways, one of which is to compromise their security clearance by covert acts, or otherwise force them out of their position.
Target areas
In today's technological world espionage targets aren't diplomats or the spies of Ian Fleming's 007. They are engineers, technicians, logistics experts, special operations military men, photoimagery specialists, programmers, database administrators, cryptographers, and those who control and monitor satellites, among others. These critical individuals are concentrated in a few areas. For the present example of how "honey traps" can be used today I will use Colorado Springs as the target area. One, because I live here, and two because such obvious targets as:
NORAD - Cheyenne Mountain is about 5 miles from Bear Creek.
U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) - Charged with defense of continental U.S.
Space Command - For all the U.S. Armed Forces
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NIMA) - All GPS birds are flown from here.
10th Special Forces Group
...and many other similar agencies and military forces are located here.
While I use Colorado Springs in the following scenario, the ideas were brought to me by airmen, soldiers, sailors, Marines, and engineers from such locations as Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Roanoke, Virginia; San Diego, California; Fallon/Hawthorne, Nevada; Seattle, Washington; Reston, Virginia and other installations near Washington, D.C., among others.
How a "honey trap" might work
It is basic to espionage to use an enemy's weaknesses against them whenever possible. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the Lautenberg Amendment 18 USC ยง922(g)(8 and 9) are two such current weaknesses in the United States. These federal laws are amplified by state and municipal laws against domestic violence and abuse.
Under federal laws and regulations any man with a restraining order against him, or who has been convicted of domestic violence cannot
"ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce."
Quite a handicap for a military man, police agencies, and many civilian employees with high security clearances.
Further, under DoD and similar agency regulations, the man cannot hold a security clearance with a DV conviction. State laws are typically even more stringent about what the man can handle, e.g., any hazardous material. And commonly the man loses any professional licenses, passport, and drivers license either directly or indirectly as a result of such charges.
Obviously, any military man, federal agent, or engineer charged with domestic violence or abuse is going to be taken out of their position. Since the numbers of men in most of these positions are very limited, and training a replacement is both time consuming and expensive, it is greatly to an enemy's advantage to encourage domestic violence charges against them.
Locating a "target" isn't much of a problem. One might start at Frankie's Bar outside Peterson Air Force Base. Casual conversation picks up a name, digital cameras are ubiquitous, most any Internet search or private investigator can be used to get details such as address or phone number. Integration of his photo with some suitable pornography using Photoshop or a similar program is easily done. Follow that with a letter to his wife or girlfriend with the doctored photos and some details, and a suggestion she might want to get a restraining order or charge him with DV to get the house, the car, the kids, the bank account, etc.
If he is deployed and the wife is playing around, another variant of the "honey trap" might be used and the agent gets a little on the side. Maybe send him some revealing pictures of his wife or girlfriend to add fuel to the fire. Using a "honey trap" against deployed military men also has a multiplying factor as it destroys the morale of troops serving with the victim.
Restraining orders are issued ex parte (without the other party present) and no proof is required, perjury is never prosecuted, and hearsay is admissible as evidence. So it doesn't matter if he is being shot at in Iraq, the order will still be issued and in force. And if he is charged with DV the restraining order is mandatory and a conviction carries lifetime penalties.
Throw in a messy divorce and custody battle with allegations of child and sexual abuse and the poor guy is in court for years but certainly not carrying a gun, holding a security clearance, or his job.
Other variants of a "honey trap" using DV and abuse charges no doubt come to mind but the final objective is the same. Get a restraining order or DV conviction against a man in a critical national security position and he is out of the game.
Because illegal immigrants are everywhere now, the risk for an enemy agent of being caught in such operations is virtually zero.
Restraining orders and DV charges are so common that the method will work even with a shotgun approach, as shown below.
Domestic violence and abuse charges in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs is home to a feminist organization known as TESSA. TESSA's budget is about $1.6 million dollars per year, primarily funded by VAWA and state funds. They have about 50 paid staff and volunteers. In public statements they continue to insist that 95% of all domestic violence is against women and that when women use violence it is only in self defense, and they only help women.
Flyers published by TESSA claim they obtain 2,500 restraining orders a year against men. Estimates are that half of these orders are against military men from the many military bases surrounding Colorado Springs.
According to Colorado state court data the 4th Judicial District (includes Colorado Springs) prosecutes about 3,500 domestic violence cases a year, more than 2 1/2 times the number of DV cases in the comparable 1st Judicial District (Golden and Lakewood), which does not have any military bases or comparable targets. Again, estimates are that one half of the DV charges in Colorado Springs are against military men. The EJF has also heard from a large number of local military men, engineers, and programmers caught up in false accusations of domestic violence or abuse.
The 4th Judicial District also uses a "Fast Track" system to process men accused of domestic violence in which due process is ignored and the men are not allowed to consult a defense attorney before being pressured and cajoled to enter a guilty plea. The conviction rate under Fast Track is reportedly around 60%.
VAWA funding makes it a certainty that an organization that functions like TESSA exists near any large concentration of military forces or other installations critical to national security.
Conclusion
The use of domestic violence and abuse charges and restraining orders in Colorado Springs are so pervasive, and the numbers so far beyond comparable population centers that it seems inconceivable that at least some of these charges are not used as "honey traps."
Whether any of the staff or facilities of such organizations as TESSA are knowingly or unknowingly cooperating in operating "honey traps" is unknown. Clearly, however, such groups are acting either wittingly or unwittingly as a Fifth Column to the benefit of enemies of the United States in time of war.
Charles E. Corry, Ph.D.
Notes about the author
Dr. Corry is an internationally-known earth scientist and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
Following active duty with Marine Corps infantry (2nd Bat., 1st Marines) in the late 1950's he did preflight testing and failure analysis on Atlas and Centaur missiles, including all the Project Mercury birds. In 1965 he went to work at Scripps Inst. of Oceanography doing terrestrial heat flow studies in the North Pacific and early attempts to measure continental drift/sea floor spreading. He was also given leave from Scripps to work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. on the Deep Sea Drilling Project (later JOIDES). In 1969 he returned to school, obtaining a doctorate in geophysics in 1976 from Texas A&M. Following that he became manager of geophysical research for a Fortune 500 company. From 1985-1990 he was an associate professor of geophysics at the Univ. of Missouri-Rolla.
In 1990 he returned to Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. as coordinator of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), far and away the largest oceanographic program ever undertaken with 30+ countries participating.
He has published widely in tectonophysics, solid state physics, electrochemistry, igneous intrusions, and geology, as well as numerous articles on domestic violence.
Since 1999 his main research interests have centered on domestic violence, particularly against men. In 2001 he helped found the Equal Justice Foundation and remains a director and president to the present.
On a personal note he has been shipwrecked and marooned on an unexplored desert island and ridden horseback over 1,000 miles through Utah, Arizona, and the length of Colorado, among other adventures.
Dr. Corry currently serves on the IEEE Voting Equipment Standards committee and on the research committee of the Colorado DV offender management board.
He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and similar publications.
5 Comments:
I haven't read anything this true in a long time. People really need to get on board with the fact that there are a whole lot of people in this world, men and women, who lie and do not deserve to have these protections that are offered now.
I'm pleased to see I'm not the only one to see that there are many national security type issues with enforcing regulations that effectively short-circuits the due process system and automatically assumes that men are guilty before proven innocent.
This kind of "reasoning" is faulty, and does a great disservice to our men in uniform, and the many men who are trusted to maintain our society. Let it continue, and the costs will be so high that no man with a lick of common sense will enter these fields, or risk themselves in any way, and our society will collapse. Read 1984 if you have any questions about how that works, or Brave New World.
Having our society collapse is the main goal of the terrorists, and even many of our own that are liberals, communists, socio-fascists, etc. I am not heartless or cold about the fact that women suffer, but they are not the only ones that suffer, and enacting laws which punish one-sidedly and put our country at risk with methods such as these is clearly foolish and illogical. I'm sorry, but the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and collapsing our society which has accomplished so much because a few people cannot control themselves, or we are not smart enough to exercise containment in how we do things is inexcusable.
We can play this honey trap game ourselves. Why not target the bastards and the bitches who impose this tyranny on us? For instance why not send doctored pictures of a divorce lawyer or family court judge in a compromising position (with a partner of the same gender for better impact) to his spouse with the suggestion of running to the courthouse to ruin his life? A big part of the problem is that these guys do not think it will happen to them or if it does, they can use their connections to blunt the impact.
While it is true that they often succeed at blunting the impact of the divorce and domestic violence laws against themselves, we do not see them being hauled into court to face their own precedents often enough.
Same basic idea as eminent domaining Justice Souter's house in Weare, NH.
There is a most stupid and very obnoxious bandwagon-patriot over at http://www.standyourground.com.
This article should serve him notice of just how much of a buffoon he comes across by his continual assertions that his country comes first in national emmergency.
Yes not the terrorist but your own country disdains you, your honour or your personal dignity and standing in the community.
Any clever man would sooner spit in the face of the commander in chief than bear arms under his command in a country that authorises a VAWA.
In the first place VAWA works at cross purposes to the national interest in the face of terror or any other threat. Secondly those leaders who propose it are under no threat of its sanctions, being the cowardly type who sit in offices whilst real men face the enemy at home and abroad.
No bastard, arm the feminists with Guns in addition to their VAWA and get them to face the terrorists.
Goerge bush you are a fool to let a VAWA debate continue.
I think they could add to VAWA that mother's shall be legally permitted to "abort" little boys up to the age of five years old and here is what would happen: The "mainstream" media would never mention it, preferring to speculate about America's latest missing white female instead. Senators like Biden, Specter, and Hatch would still champion the law, and the rest of the Senate would not object for fear of being portrayed as anti-women.
Feminism is essentially Communism brought about by gender warfare instead of class warfare. But how far it will continue to wreak havoc on society before our beloved politicians have the guts to oppose it? The destruction of families and massive taxation and government programs to put a bandage on the exponential growth of social pathologies obviously are not enough. It is an excellent question to ask whether or not national security compromises will cause elected officials to oppose VAWA and its underpinnings. Based on the threat to national security from illegal aliens, my guess is that political correctness will win out over national security once again.
This has to be the most sexist article I have ever read... Thanks you for showing me that I am right. Most men are just this way.
very Very sad...
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