I haven't taken the time to look into the Ritter allegations/charges myself, but it reminds me strongly of the allegations of sexual assault against Julian Assange which turned out to be complete fabrications.

In general I'm very cautious of emotionally-laden allegations when it comes to anti-imperialist voices or proposals made to serve the empire such as breaking encryption to "prevent terrorism" or "protect the children."

For what I can tell you; this tactic is an extremely common one not even only used against political opponents or "targets of interest" in that category but even local police precincts can leverage these claims against you. The problem is that it's hard to prove so it often gets dismissed, but it's enough to get someone in a station to "talk" for 24 hours with no food or water and have irreparable social damage if it is made public. It's not always sexual shit either; they'll make up that you were talking to a "suspected criminal online" and just use it as carte blanche to comb through your shit.

In high-school I had a "friend" (more so a dealer) that slung all sorts of goodies, mostly hash and weed though. They hit him with "talking to a suspected criminal" and brought him into the station for like two days straight. Told me exactly as I said above, no food or water and constant vague threats of "what we found on your computer". Me and a couple others were brought in for questioning and asked about him. Case ended up getting dismissed but he lost a shitload of friends. Guy ended up starting an arbor business after that.

Just in case anyone brings up his weird history of child sexual offenses, he was never prosecuted for harming actual children. Both prosecuted offenses were supposedly sting operations (aka entrapment) by FBI and police, which makes them super suspicious. For example, the first one in 2001 was conveniently timed to interfere with his anti-Iraq War advocacy.

Have you got any links to look into, or is this just rumors?

Just in case anyone brings up his weird history of child sexual offenses, he was never prosecuted for harming actual children. Both prosecuted offenses were supposedly sting operations (aka entrapment) by FBI and police

X-Files correct yet again about methods the deep state uses to silence opponents when they have nothing else.

Also see he's been marked by the zionist lobby so that makes even more sense as they are ruthless in character destroying anyone who endangers US-outpost-colony operation "Israhell".

Also I'd literally never heard of this accusation before. Seems it was meant to silence him and then once the moment passed they went away with it. With these latest moves and the Russia derangement of this administration and in particular these agencies who after all were key in pushing Trump being an agent of Russia for Hillary it wouldn't be surprising.

I was thinking when I read the breaking news about the raid that I hope he had all his stuff heavily encrypted (I had no idea about these allegations but even more so now because if it's all encrypted they can't claim to have found bad stuff there). Though I suppose if they're determine they could pull out a thumb drive they 'found' at his house and claim it's his. After all cops do that all the time with drop-guns.

Hope he gets a good lawyer and gets his stuff back soon but sadly this is probably just the beginning of intimidation and even if he beats these charges (who can say how long that might take, they'll try and drag it out as long as possible for maximum emotional toll, distress, and costs) they're likely going to continue harassing him in other ways, following him, coming to his door trying to ask questions. All the usual stuff.