![Anthony Crider is the author of this picture/Source: Wikimedia Commons/The copyright license for this picture can be found athttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Virginia_2nd_Amendment_Rally_%282020_Jan%29_-_49416341132.jpg/960px-Virginia_2nd_Amendment_Rally_%282020_Jan%29_-_49416341132.jpg?20200121011657) ## 1. Introduction In previous articles of mine here on this same writing platform, I have done nothing to hide the fact that I contend that most predator-catcher groups are **[domestic terrorists](https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/most-online-vigilantes-are-domestic-terrorists)**. The United States Federal government has denounced QAnon as a domestic terrorist organization that bases its actions mostly upon fake pedophilia. The reason that I refer to their targets as fake pedophilia is because they seldom ever go after real child molesters that prey on prepubescent children. The majority of these predator catchers' witch hunts are teenage-pregnancy-prevention campaigns that blame the problems of all pubescent and adolescent girls on older men, when reality has it that underage boys commit the majority of heinous sex crimes against girls that young. Anyhow, I researched this topic through AI and found that even though no direct evidence has been discovered that QAnon is funding the activities of predator catchers, they still may be giving them money donations. The AI read: > While independent vigilante groups predate the conspiracy theory, some are fueled by or affiliated with the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory's claims about elite, satanic cabals involved in child trafficking. However QAnon may be fueling these predator-catcher groups financially, the fact that they are doing so should be enough to alarm the American people. The fact that QAnon is a domestic terrorist organization that is giving money to predator-catcher groups to fund their activities demonstrates that these predator-catcher groups are just as much terrorist organizations as QAnon themselves. I'm from the school of thought that if something quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it is a duck. Predator catchers are domestic terrorists, period. ## 2. The Dangers Of Predator Catchers I honestly don't believe that these predator catchers really care about teenagers. They know that teenagers are more sexually active and less discriminate about the age of their sex partners nowadays than they were decades ago that it provides these predator catchers the opportunity to play on the sexual insecurities and moral panic of the American people so that they can capitalize on their quest to segregate teenage girls from adult men any way they can no matter how reckless they have to get. To give you a strong example of precisely how crazy and homicidal these predator catchers are, let's look at the fact that they get so offended whenever anyone uses the term "reverse pedophilia" to describe a situation in which a minor sexually assaults an adult. I don't like that term any more than they do, but let's take all the facts and put them on the table before any of us jump the gun. If a minor rapes an adult, we know that that minor cannot be a 7-year-old child who did it. It has to be a teenage boy. Pedophilia has nothing to do with sexual encounters between adults and teenage minors regardless of whether such encounters were willing or coercive. These predator catchers simply need to get it through their thick heads that pedophilia is the exclusive or primary attraction of adults or adolescents, 16 years of age or older, to prepubescent children five or more years their junior. A middle-aged man who can't help but to notice a genetically precocious 14- or 15-year-old girl walking down the street in a bikini is not going to turn around and kidnap, rape, sodomize, and even murder a 3-year-old toddler. Outrageously enough, predator catchers seem to believe so. These predator catchers are mostly Edgar-Maddison-Welch wackos. The dangerous elephant in the room here is that adult women always run the risk of an underage boy raping them and then falsely accusing them of "statutory rape." If a woman who falls into that tragic situation experiences an orgasm from the rape and it gets out into the open, there will be people who will believe that she is lying about being raped to escape a statutory-rape conviction. A mob may come after this woman and stone her to death. Where it really gets bad is that one of the people that stone her to death could be her own son if he is involved in a predator-catcher group. That is exactly how mentally unhinged these predator catchers are, and they are domestic terrorists. If anyone disbelieves that an adult rape victim whose assailant is below the statutory age of consent in their state jurisdiction could never be falsely accused of statutory rape, then I recommend that you read the online publication titled The Paradox of Statutory Rape by Russell L. Christopher and Kathryn Hope Christopher from beginning to end. That publication gives you detailed information about how adult women can fall prey to rape at the hands of underage boys and face unjust statutory rape charges because of it. The fact alone that these predator catchers can't even get the definition of pedophilia right should be enough of a red flag for us not to trust them and definitely not to support them. And, no, I'm not claiming that pedophilia is some kind of sexual orientation. Anyone with a decent amount of intelligence knows that pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder that can make someone a danger to small children. However, these predator catchers have no right to be screaming "pedophile alert" every time they see a 14-year-old girl walking down the street, holding hands with a boyfriend who looks slightly older than high-school age. These predator catchers are promoting fake pedophilia instead of combating real pedophilia. They're attempting to trap our society within their make-believe world of age-appropriate perfection and wholesome purity while they victimize people they truly know nothing about. Fake pedophilia is gradually becoming a worldwide pandemic. What is so interesting about this mindset of predator catchers is that there seem to be more cases of domestic violence and incest in households in which the parents are high-school sweethearts that married right after graduation than there are in households in which the parents are part of an age-gap marriage. I guess that the Puritanical Establishment isn't so high and holy after all. ## 3. Evidence Of Domestic Terrorism On The Part Of Predator Catchers And The Likes I stumbled across this one page on the Wikipedia titled "**[Anti-pedophile activism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pedophile_activism)**." It contains a wealth of information regarding how predator catchers have unleashed chaos and unrest throughout the world in spite of their so-called well-meaning intentions. The concern I had about this same page was how dangerously it used the **[misnomer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia#Misuse_of_medical_terminology)** "Anti-pedophile" to include any adult who has expressed a non-Platonic interest in teenagers. Pedophile-Panic Derangement Syndrome is becoming a pandemic throughout the world thanks to these predator catchers. These predator catchers are taking the law into their own hands and seldom ever getting punished for it. Nonetheless, this same page contains a number of incidents that prove that most predator catchers are domestic terrorists no matter how much they attempt to justify their activities. Such activities have escalated to violence against innocent individuals. I can rightfully say that **[Chris Hansen](https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/chris-hansen-created-a-monster)** has done no favors for the American people despite that his followers want him to run for president. What is so ironic is that Mr. Hansen once admitted on his television series "To Catch A Predator" that his television program had nothing to do with pedophilia inasmuch as his decoys posed as minors no younger than 13 years of age. I'm equally as anti-pedophile as any one of these predator catchers are. However, I don't buy into all the pedophile-panic propaganda that they deliver to the public for the purpose of promoting fake pedophilia. These individuals clearly have what can be best described as Pedophile-Panic Derangement Syndrome. They've become so mesmerized by their own stupidity that they're incapable of thinking outside their own bubble. When you read the above-described page from the Wikipedia website, it becomes no secret that rogue mental-health professionals have been cashing in on the moral panic that these social-justice warriors have been creating for a long time now. Norman Michael Achin talks about it in his video below. Norman Michael Achin Points Out How All Online Conversations Between Adults And Minors Aren't Automatically Groominghttps://youtu.be/Xb8r0fWobvA?si=FwF_6R3LXaezsm2w The three scholars in the mental-health profession who put together the above-described research study were Helen C. Whittle, Catherine E. Hamilton-Giachritsis, and Anthony R. Beech. The problem that I'm having with them is that they imply that older men are to blame for all teenage girls' problems. Mr. Achin doesn't seem very impressed with them either. According to the above-described page in the Wikipedia, a professor Philip Jenkins described "the concept of "the pedophile" as an elastic social construction that has been represented in varied ways in different times, according to commonly accepted professional wisdom and ideas circulated by the media and popular culture." It appears that he uses highly educated verbiage to describe fake pedophilia. Anyhow, the above-described page reads: > In September 1999, a mentally disabled Vietnamese refugee was beaten by a group of four vigilantes, who mistook him for a pedophile on the registry, after he was seen playing with neighborhood children. That tidbit of information comes to me as no surprise. Domestic terrorists like the ones that beat this poor man up have violence for breakfast. Further on therein, it reads: > University of Winnipeg cultural criminologist Steven Kohm stated in 2019 that anti-pedophile vigilante groups have sought to restore the more emotional, punitive and participatory nature that the American criminal justice system had 100 years prior. He stated that their sense of mistrust in authority is analogous to that of conspiratorial campaigns such as QAnon and Pizzagate, among others. Kohm described those groups as having "a mob-justice vigilante mentality". The fact alone that they call themselves "anti-pedophile" vigilante groups demonstrates that they are domestic terrorists. If they can't even get the definition of pedophilia right, they're not going to have much of a conception of the difference between right and wrong. They're vicious savages at best. Further on in the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, it reads: > . . . On YouTube, internet vigilantes such as SkeeterJean have posted their operations, which are styled after To Catch a Predator. On Kick, Vitaly Zdorovetskiy and other streamers have also livestreamed their operations in real time. In one of Zdorovetskiy's operations, he lured a person who had traveled with intent to meet a minor into an apartment, where Zdorovetskiy decided not to call the police and instead cut the man's hair and eyebrows in a way that, he stated, made him look like a clown. He told the man that he would let him go if he ate his pubic hair, and ultimately let him go. If I were to lure a 15-year-old deadbeat father somewhere and tell him that I wouldn't let him go unless he ate his pubic hair, self-proclaimed child advocates and social-justice warriors would be accusing me of being politically incorrect, among other things. What stands out so conspicuously is that many deadbeat teenage fathers are far worse people than the suspects that these online vigilantes catch. Further on in the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, it reads: > Multiple short clips of vigilante stings have been posted on Instagram and YouTube, many of which feature content creators of the websites physically assaulting their targets. Those clips often get taken down due to policies regarding violent conduct. Of course, because these predator catchers are domestic terrorists. They live for the physical violence they inflict upon people they don't even know. The press and the media throughout the Anglosphere have fanned the flames of the domestic terrorist activities that vigilantes inflict upon communities. Further on in the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, it reads: > In July 2000, prominent British tabloid News of the World, owned by press magnate Rupert Murdoch, began running a campaign titled "Name and Shame", in which the newspaper published the identities and addresses of several men convicted of child sex crimes. Within two weeks of its launch, several lynch-mob and firebomb attacks had taken place in eleven communities in England and Scotland. Most attacks targeted people wrongfully identified as child sex offenders, including some who had similar names or looked similar to suspects depicted in the newspaper. These vigilantes and predator catchers try to depict themselves as heroes looking to serve the greater good, but they cannot hide the fact that most of them are semi-illiterates insofar as their inability to get the definition of pedophilia right can be deadly. Further on in the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, it reads: > During the campaign, a riot involving 150 people broke out in Plymouth, in which people carried signs with News of the World headlines, attacked the police and destroyed property. **In one instance during the campaign, a 42-year-old pediatrician from Gwent had her home attacked by vigilantes who mistook her professional title for the word "paedophile".** In Berkshire, a group of 15 vigilantes chased and beat a 29-year-old man. [citations omitted] If these idiots that profess themselves to be child advocates can't even tell the difference between the word "pedophile" and the word "pediatrician," we certainly don't want them patrolling our streets and stirring up trouble for people they don't even know. The violence described above shows predator catchers during their pre-online vigilante era. Further on in the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, it reads: > People targeted by vigilante groups have been subjected to physical violence and harassment, and some have died by suicide after being accused of sexual crimes. Family members of those targeted by vigilante groups have been documented to experience social ostracism, humiliation and psychological trauma. Anti-pedophile vigilante groups have been widely condemned by police, they have also been described as undermining police investigations due to improper handling of evidence. . . Therein it further reads: > Some British vigilante groups have used evidence against their targets for purposes of blackmailing, leading people accused of sex crimes to ATMs in order to extort their money. Chief constable Simon Bailey stated in 2020 that those groups have "led to people being blackmailed, people being subject of grievous bodily harm, the wrong people being accused, people committing suicide as a result of interventions, family lives being completely destroyed, in the name of what? Facebook likes." These activities on the part of predator catchers are clearly domestic terrorism. What else can you rightfully call it? Like QAnon, predator catchers promote hatred and bigotry. Further on in the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, it reads: > In 2012, Russian neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich launched the Occupy Pedophilia project, in which neo-Nazi vigilantes would pose as young boys on the internet in order to lure adult men, who would then be made to indicate their identity and address in front of cameras. In some instances, vigilantes would write "F--- LGBT" or draw the rainbow flag on the foreheads of their targets, who would sometimes also be shouted at, slapped, have their heads shaved or be forced to drink urine, among other forms of torture. Occupy pedophilia often conflated homosexuality with pedophilia. Many of these predator-catcher groups conflate fake pedophilia with real pedophilia. That on its own poses a danger to society. If I were ever to force Levi Johnston to drink urine for raping Bristol Palin when she was only 16 years old, I wouldn't have received any trophy or award for it. Then again, all of these social-justice warriors seem to think that he is some kind of stud who gets a get-out-jail-free card merely because he was also 16 years old back when he coerced Ms. Palin into having sex with him that she didn't want or to which she did not consent. Further therein it reads: > Canada-based criminologist Wade Deisman, who has studied anti-pedophile vigilante groups in Canada, stated that many of such groups are formed by sexual abuse survivors. He further said that these groups, which he described as resembling "gangs", have been fed by a "bubble of hysteria". "It's like we are back in the middle ages and people are coming with torches", he stated. Right, Mr. Diesman. Because they're domestic terrorists! Luckily, some of them have been getting it back. Further therein it reads: > In 2023, several members of a vigilante group in Quebec were arrested under charges related to false imprisonment, harassment and distribution of child pornography. According to police, the group's activities included transmitting pornographic material of children in order to lure their targets over social media. It always feels good when these thugs get a taste of their own bitter medicine. I wonder if the pornographic material this one vigilante group was using was of prepubescent children or of teenagers. Either way, they all deserved to be caught on the wrong side of the law. They probably didn't get treated as good in jail and/or prison as they thought they would. Oh, well, karma is a bummer. Further therein it reads: > During the German Nazi regime, the already existing discourse regarding pedophilia was re-shaped by Nazi narratives about the government's fight against crime, homosexuals and Jews. During that time, political campaigners often presented pedophilia as a specifically Jewish or gay phenomenon. The German newspaper Der Stürmer was often used to fuel accusations of sexual assault of children by Jews, and in some cases implicitly called for violence against the alleged perpetrators. The narrative of protecting children, specifically "Aryan" children, from sexual assault was further instrumentalized against queers, people with disabilities and people labeled as "antisocial". What gets me so angry about this information is that the German Nazi Party had very high regards for the late Dr. Hans Asperger. Well, the late Dr. Asperger showed **[telltale signs](https://discover.hubpages.com/health/was-the-late-dr-hans-asperger-a-pedophile)** of being a pedophile himself. Further on in the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, there is a section about The Netherlands that reads: > [A] vigilante pseudonymously known as Eren G. accused a man of attempting to meet a teenager and forced him to do ten push-ups as punishment. The same vigilante had previously been convicted of coercion, trespassing, libel, and assault after he broke into the house of one of his targets in 2021. This incident is bewildering, because The Netherlands has always had the reputation of being tolerant toward non-Platonic relationships between adults and teenagers. At one time not so long ago, this nation even granted 12-to-15-year-old minors veto power in statutory-rape cases in which they could legally refuse to prosecute their older adult lovers. Have societal norms changed that much in The Netherlands in such short of a time? Dads Against Predators is definitely a domestic terrorist organization. In the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, it reads: > Dads Against Predators have been trespassed from several retail chains as a result of their disruptive, boisterous and frequently violent confrontations. Dads Against Predators has also been accused of playing a role in at least three suicide deaths carried out by alleged predators who were confronted by D.A.P shortly before their deaths. Predator catchers have not always avoided serious consequences for their domestic terrorist activities. In the above-described page of the Wikipedia website, it reads: > A Michigan man from Pontiac named Robert Wayne Lee, 40, known under the alias 'Boopac Shakur' online, was shot and killed inside of a restaurant in Oakland County during a confrontation which started as the result of an online predator 'sting' operation. Allegedly, when Lee confronted two teenagers [17 and 18 years old] inside the restaurant, one of the men produced a knife and the other pulled a handgun after Lee struck one of the men. After the confrontation became physical, Lee was shot several times by the younger man and was transported to the hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries. Lee left behind two daughters and a son, who he claimed inspired him to participate in his vigilante activities. Lee was well-known online for his aggressive vigilantism, frequently physically assaulting alleged predators, vandalizing their property or slashing tires on their vehicles so they could not leave the area. Funds were raised via GoFundMe to pay for his funeral costs. The two teenagers involved in the fatal fight and shooting were later tracked down and arrested. Am I going to be shedding any tears for Robert Wayne Lee? Of course, I won't. He was a terrible man, and he got exactly what was coming to him. He has ruined many people's lives needlessly. He probably thought that all the teenagers of the world idolized him, and ironically he ended up dying at the hands of two angry teenage boys. Call me callous and cruel if you must, but none of these predator catchers have ever shed any tears for people they've driven to suicide. As long as they get what they want, what do they care about anyone other than themselves? I suppose that Mr. Lee likely got an honorable burial from his fellow predator catchers. It was likely mostly they who contributed money to his GoFundMe account to pay for his funeral costs. I won't be putting flowers on his grave. He was a violent domestic terrorist, and he met the fate that most of these predator catchers deserve to experience. ![Leo2014 is the author of this picture/Source: Pixabay](https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2020/02/05/10/12/gloves-4820712_1280.jpg) ## 4. Final Thoughts If I could step into a time machine, I'd travel back to 1885 to stick a bullet between the eyes of Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing for ever having conceptualized pedophilia in the first place. That shyster psychiatrist clearly had dollar signs in his eyes back when he even came up with the idea of creating a psychiatric disorder that would needlessly marginalize individuals who have never harmed children. Dr. von Krafft-Ebing may have verbally expressed intentions to narrow the definition of pedophilia down to adults who are exclusively or primarily attracted to prepubescent children. The magic age number for when he set the cutoff point for it back in 1886 was 14. It has drifted back and forth between 11 years old and 13 years old since then. In any event, he opened Pandora's Box for other problems to follow, and he had to have known that it was going to play out that way. If it hadn't been for Dr. von Krafft-Ebing, domestic terrorist organizations like QAnon and all of these predator-catcher groups would probably never have existed. I've noticed that some of these predator catchers are former military officers. All for the worse. Timothy McVeigh served in the military, and he was ultimately executed for blowing up a Federal building. Therefore, so much for the military molding someone into a better person. One of the former prime ministers of Syria was a doctor and yet he was a maniac who couldn't have cared less about human life. Did making him a doctor make him a better person? Of course, it didn't. So, why should we trust these rogue psychiatrists who go into cahoots with predator catchers? Predator catchers like to bring them more business so that they can screw over their catches more than they already have after they parade them in front of cameras on YouTube and elsewhere on the Internet. Some of you will ask me, "But what about the teenage girls?" What teenage girls? Predator catchers do not use real minors in their online sex-sting operations. Moreover, there are so many flaws in our nation's statutory-rape laws that it's not even funny. Nevertheless, in American criminal law, consent is still taken into consideration in sex cases involving adults and adolescent minors below the statutory age of consent, so all hope is not lost. Norman Michael Achin explains this practice in his video below. Norman Michael Achin Explains "Consent" Of "Victim" In Sex Case Sentencinghttps://youtu.be/1lZRReheiCE?si=7PSAyUiqNYum56am Let's stop blaming all the problems of teenage girls on older men. It makes no sense to me that adult men are going to prison for trying to hook up with teenage minors that don't even exist on these online sex-sting operations, when the late Aubreigh Wyatt's rapist continues to walk the streets a free person after a police investigation was conducted on the matter. She was only 12 years old when he raped her. That punk who raped the late Aubreigh Wyatt shouldn't have gotten a get-out-of-jail-free card merely because he was the same age as her when he attacked her. He brought her that much closer to committing suicide. Of course, these predator catchers aren't going to confront him. They're too much cowards to rise to that occasion. Although I don't believe Zach Sweers (owner of the "Anxiety War" channel on YouTube) to be a domestic terrorist, I might develop some serious respect for him if he were to travel down to Ocean Springs, Mississippi to confront the punk that raped the late Aubreigh Wyatt. Then he might see for a fact that every rapist who preys on pubescent and adolescent girls is not an older man but can more easily be a boy the same age as them. In fact, he may even come to realize that underage boys commit the most sex crimes against girls that young. Of course, Mr. Sweers is not going to do anything like that. It wouldn't get him as much ratings for his videos as filming an older man attempting to meet with a 13-year-old girl for sex would. He probably doesn't even believe that non-Platonic relationships between adult men and teenage girls can be non-exploitative and benign. Then again, what does he or any of these predator catchers know about life? They're vultures. What we all really need to be concerned about the most is the fact that police departments are currently enlisting the help of predator catchers with their online sex-sting operations. In other words, domestic terrorism is finding inventive ways to infiltrate our criminal justice system. This same occurrence cannot be at all good for the American people. Freedoms are going to continue to disappear little by little until it's too late for any of us to do anything about it. Let's not allow it to go that far. I am not pro-pedophile under any given standard. However, I do not condone vigilantes promoting fake pedophilia either to harm innocent individuals. **This article is copyright-protected.**

WWG1WGA