... While Defending Them. In 1982, convicted child molester David Thorstad, who is a self-professed Marxist-Leninist and spokesman for NAMBLA, defended some members of his group that had been arrested for pedophilia as he spoke at a press conference. These members had been convicted of kidnapping small boys and taking them to a Massachusetts cottage for molestation. Thorstad claimed that the young boys were not being molested - they were being "liberated!" He also said "I think that pederasty should be given the stamp of approval. I think it's true that boy-lovers [pederasts] are much better for children than the parents are ..." Thorstad shows us what the future holds if we relax our vigilance for just an instant; "Man-boy love relationships are a happy feature of the rebellion of youth, and of its irrepressible search for self-discovery ... Most of us, given the opportunity and the assurance of safety, would no doubt choose to share our sexuality with someone under the age of consent." |