Utah Tea Party activist Greg Peterson accused of multiple rapes

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Utah Tea Party activist Greg Peterson accused of multiple rapes

Life sentence possible » In two cases, Gregory N. Peterson is suspected of taking victims to a cabin in Heber.

By nate carlisle
| The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published 3 hours ago • Updated 1 minute ago

A Republican activist is accused of raping four women — two of whom say they were taken to the cabin where the man hosted major political events.

Gregory Nathan Peterson, 37, of Orem, was charged Wednesday 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City with 23 felony counts, including rape and kidnapping, and two misdemeanors. He was booked into the Salt Lake County jail and remained there Thursday in lieu of $750,000 bail.

Charging documents allege sexual assaults against four women in Salt Lake County beginning March 26, 2011. In the first case, the documents allege, Peterson met a woman at a church function and she agreed to go to a movie with him.

But instead of going to a theater, the papers allege, Peterson told the woman he had a gun and took her to his cabin in Heber. The documents allege he sexually assaulted the woman while she said no and hit her when she did not do as he wished. Peterson drove the woman back to her vehicle the next morning.


Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54519160-78/peterson-woman-allege-court.html.csp

[Odin2005]

1. And yet they yell at us to "quit raping people".

[Bertha Venation]

12. Odin

What's this about "quit raping people"? What's that from? Never heard of it.

[LeftyMom]

16. No explanation will suffice, you absolutely must watch the video.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/02/web-talking-about-andrew-breitbarts-occupy-DC-freakout/48598/

[UpInArms]

18. they say that if you can't say something nice about the departed,

one should say nothing at all.

I shall stay silent.

[rexcat]

54. I will say something...

Breitbart was a class act...

There are some people that are/were so vile that even death should not be an excuss not to highlight their failures as human beings.

[nolabear]

2. Yeah, don't take away our guns. We need them.

[SoapBox]

3. If he's white, straight, Christian and a Thug, Bully and Bagger Party member...

they will defend him at all cost.

Sickos.

p.s....OH Ya! Click the story link...there is a pic of the perv.

[UpInArms]

19. standing right next to..... wait for it.....

Mittens!

[Johnny2X2X]

40. Yup

There are several pictures of him with Mittens at at least 4 different locations. Download them before they scrub them from the internet. These guys were friends.

[UpInArms]

47. you're right - here's another one

Greg Peterson and Mitt Romney

thanks!

[Warpy]

43. Not so sure about that.

I've been searching high and low and I can't find much of a web presence other than the charges. Either this guy spent all his time praying and did all his fundraising in the temple or he's been keeping a super low profile for many years.

That tells me he's got a whole lot more to hide.

[Matariki]

4. That's sickening

[BamBamBane]

5. Sigh - Republican Family Values again.

And again and again and again.

[The Wizard]

6. Any speculation as to the first words he hears from

his cellmate?

[Blue Owl]

7. Maybe Toshbag 2.0 could make a few timely jokes

[cosmicone]

8. Why wasn't he arrested after the first or the second rape?

Did the victims not come forward until now or does Utah not act unless a repig commits at least 4 crimes?

[tru]

29. the victims

may have hesitated to come forward, thinking it would be their word against a "fine family man." Or the police didn't take them seriously, until the victims started stacking up.

Free associating, this reminds me of serial rapes in San Jose, CA when I lived in the area. Multiple victims were basically ignored; the police only got worked up and caught the guy after a nun was raped. Cause women who aren't nuns are sluts who deserve it, I guess.

[dimbear]

45. In at least one case, he first found out his victim was an illegal immigrant, then raped her.

That's why she wouldn't have come forward. That may be his usual MO. Diversity in the GOP explained.

[orwell]

9. I guess he could use the excuse...

..."It was God's Will."

Oh I forgot, that one is already taken...

[docgee]

10. There is a pic of him with Romney there too. nt

[Judi Lynn]

15. Yes, absolutely. Looked through the rest on page 3, saw several.

It'd be great finding them all, then making a montage for rMoney's campaign advertising.

[Jessy169]

11. Such a clean cut, Christian man

Aren't they all.... No, not all, just most.

This article examines associations between self-reported religious affiliations and official offense histories among 111 incarcerated adult male sexual offenders. Four categories of religiosity were devised according to self-reported continuities and discontinuities in life-course religious affiliations: atheists, dropouts, converts, and stayers. ANCOVAs indicated that stayers (those who maintained religious involvement from childhood to adulthood) had more sexual offense convictions, more victims, and younger victims, than other groups.

http://sax.sagepub.com/content/18/3/279.abstract

[bluedigger]

13. Insanity defense.

There's really no other explanation.

[Judi Lynn]

14. Found interesting photos on the 3rd page of the article.

You may enjoy seeing this Republican rapist with Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Jim DeMint, etc.

Hope he hasn't been getting kickbacks for using his property for political purposes, as well.

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[Blue_Tires]

20. Is he really that much of a fuckwad that he has to say he speaks

"American English" and "British" on his FB page? (unless he meant Gaelic or Welsh or something)

[kooljerk666]

22. Studied at BYU hahahahahahahahahahahaHA

good luck teabaggers. (sarc.)

[dimbear]

46. Studied at BYU, was on their equivalent of a Dean's list, claims to have served a mission

in Venezuela, particularly enjoys raping Mormon women.

The boy ain't right.

[sabrina 1]

25. Democrats simply have to find a way to use that video with him spewing the Right Wing talking

talks so familiar now. For a rapist to say that your are not a good leader, sounds like an endorsement for Obama to me. And since he's uttering the talking points they all use, there must be a way to show how he represents the Republican Party as far as policies go.

'Would you trust this man to tell you the truth about anything'?

[Judi Lynn]

30. That would be epic. The new face of the Republican Party.

Maybe with Marco Rubio in the same photo. He's defintely trustworthy, too. <shudder>

[sabrina 1]

33. Yes and it seems he was quite prominent with access to top Republicans

Not to mention how he delivers the talking points which they all use. Tying those talking points coming from the rest of them, to HIM, would be awesome. But it would take a clever person to work on that, which I'm sure we can find!

Also need to screen cap his FB page before it gets scrubbed. As I said in another comment, we learned from O'Keefe that once they are exposed, they do a lot of scrubbing and we were not prepared for that with O'Keefe who scrubbed all his racist comments before anyone screen-capped them.

[AllyCat]

37. Already can't get his page to come up. Glad you caught this.

[bushisanidiot]

51. This is GOLD.

and it needs to be shared FAR AND WIDE.

[bigdarryl]

17. Why the fuck isn't this in the national news

[kooljerk666]

21. I just called dscc, dccc & dnc with this info.............

all calls answered by women who were shocked. 1 of them was looking it up as we spoke & was printing it for the boss b4 we hung up.

This is gonna make some nasty ads against the GOPhers.

[Judi Lynn]

24. Jeez! Thanks for going the distance to contact them.

You caught them asleep at the wheel!

What kind of person harvests church congregations for victims, anyway? That's so underhanded: they never see them coming, er, they never expect a monster to disguise himself as one of the "faithful".

[lunatica]

23. I bet all those Republicans in the photos with him are having a tizzy

[sabrina 1]

26. Someone should be taking screen shots of photos of him with prominent Republicans before

they get scrubbed, as was the case with O'Keefe who scrubbed all of his websites once his antics re ACORN began to be exposed as racist. No one had screen shots, but a few of his comments survived in copy and pastes.

[gopiscrap]

49. I agree!

[montanacowboy]

27. CABIN?????????? CABIN?

that place is twice as big as my house!

this scum will spend the rest of his life in federal prison -

he says he is a CLOSE friend of the Romneys

[Judi Lynn]

31. Big "cabin", for sure. Maybe he won't be able to stay there for a while, if there's any justice! n/t

[Tippy]

28. wonder is this Peterson is related to the Peterson from Il

Who is accused of murdering his wife. He is under suspecion in the death of his first wife too...

[AllyCat]

36. Peterson is a pretty popular last name. I wouldn't draw much from it.

[4th law of robotics]

32. Pretty horrible accusations

I will wait until the trial though before condemning him.

[tk2kewl]

34. is this guy related to Pete Peterson of Blackstone?

[AllyCat]

35. But were they "honest rapes"?

These people think they are above the law and many I think are sick in the head. This man is exhibit A.

[shanti]

53. above the law

exactly, just like Rmoney, his bud. i hope that dude gets nailed to the wall, but sadly, i think he'll walk.

[woo me with science]

55. +1

I had forgotten that one. Thank you.

[Common Sense Party]

38. I actually met this slimeball. I was on a panel with him about six years ago.

I couldn't stand him then. Just had this arrogant, pushy, look-at-me creepy vibe.

[Judi Lynn]

44. This event might just elevate him in Republican eyes. Remember John Vitter!

When he returned to the Senate right after his story broke, they gave him a hearty round of Republican applause.

It's hard to envy your close brush with this clown! Just be glad he didn't find it necessary to get "personal" with you, G.O.P.-style.

[markpkessinger]

39. Does this mean we now get to say that . . .

"Mitt Romney pals around with rapists?"

Just sayin'.

[Johnny2X2X]

41. Explosive story

This is an utterly explosive story, this guy was a major player in the Utah GOP and he and Mitt were pals. If the media has any guts, this should be leading the broadcasts tonight.

[frylock]

42. hope he gets his balls torn off in prison..

fucking asshole.

[gopiscrap]

48. Why is this news

typical republican..remember Ted Bundy? He converted to being a Mormon and was being groomed by the Washington State republican aprty to run for office..many in the gop had him pegged to run for governor one day!

[grateful581]

50. WOW

This guy was a big Utah GOP fundraiser. Love all the pics of millionaire Mitt and Peterson.
Court papers here:
http://www.xtagged.co/files/cases/121906616/121906616-details.pdf

[valerief]

52. "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"

He's a teabagger. What's there to be surprised about? He's angry and nutso.

[grateful581]

56. this guy is a founding member of rocky mountain conservatives.

They had a few GOP get together's at his rape Cabin. Orrin Hatch, Jason Chaffetz, Mike Lee and Mia Love attended. This really makes the teabaggers look bad.

https://www.facebook.com/rockymountainconservatives?ref=ts