PirateNews and Child Porn
POSTED BY: Hero
UPDATED: Thursday, December 7, 2006 16:42
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Originally posted by SignyM:
The context was to get people to DO SOMETHING about child exploitation. I don't buy in to PN's conspiracy theories, but I also know that kids are sold and abused every day in the USA because this world is full of people attracted to powerlessness. I know one mom whose daughter was kidnapped, and she can't get the county prosecutors to do jack about it. People like to stick their heads in the sand.
Please provide a link to your referenced kidnapped daughter story. In this day and age of Amber alerts and nation wide media coverage, there has to be more to this story than people 'sticking their heads in the sand'.
Posting to stir stuff up.
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"Call the FCC."
Oh, NOT the FBI ? Doesn't that seem like a double standard to you?
For soneone who likes to portray himself as savvy, you sure act awful stoopid.
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It's a personal matter, complicated by the fact that the daughter is a 14-year old bipolar oppositional girl who has alleged abused against the mom. Despite CPS' support for the mom, the mom can't get the detectives to do anything to track the daughter down. No links available.
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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Isn't it also interesting that the same pictures have been posted in other threads here before and nobody felt compelled to call the G-men? Am I the only one who noticed that? This wasn't an isolated incident. But, now and suddenly, we have to bring in the feds...
As to whether or not those pictures qualify as child porn, I guess the feds will have to decide. Maybe one is lurking now and will be nice enough to sign up and let us know (assuming he/she isn't busy taking names for future reservations at Gitmo). But, come on folks, does this really pass the smell test? Like Justice Stewart, I may not be able to define it, but I know it when I see it and that ain't porn.
That being said, if Hero's version of events is correct, he probably didn't have much of a choice in reporting it. If he was on city time and failed to report potentially criminal acts involving a minor, wouldn't he be just as guilty as the Republican leadership in not reporting Foley's potential crimes? Funny, how one Republican doing the right thing shows how the House leadership did the wrong thing...
And one last thought, Hero is, apparently, a prosecutor. His career is built on putting men in cages. Is it reasonable to expect him to react a different way? These guys routinely deal with the dregs of society and that has to have an effect on his view of his fellow man. Again, isn't it reasonable for him to assume the worst?
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Quote:These pictures would be from a case that's about 15 years old by now. If this was a recent picture, I sure as hell would want him to report it! But the "context" of the picture, as I understand it, is it was posted by the mom because it shows her son who was abducted many many year ago and she was trying to revive interest in his case.
...and failed to report potentially criminal acts involving a minor
Quote:What I found is that Hero assumes the worst about SOME people (liberals, progressives, mentally retarded, women) and assumes the best about OTHERS (Marines, conservatives etc). He doesn't know the meaning of the phrase "even-handed".
Hero is, apparently, a prosecutor. His career is built on putting men in cages. Is it reasonable to expect him to react a different way? These guys routinely deal with the dregs of society and that has to have an effect on his view of his fellow man. Again, isn't it reasonable for him to assume the worst?
BTW Hero, I noticed you got awfully quiet when I brought up the DOJ. You don't like the shoe being on the other foot, do you? Not to worry- altho my point was true, my contacts with the DOJ are in the distant past. You can breathe easy now. But like any bully, you back down as soon as confronted.
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So anyway, in general, this is what I find interesting.
Alleged republican pedophilia is in the news.
In less than a week Zero blows PN into the FBI on a possible 'pedophilia' technicality. Not for earlier postings that are borderline hate speech. Not for postings that may or may not call for violence against the government. But for an out of context photo trying to get action on an unsolved real-life case.
How are we to read this?
For one, opportunism. Look Boss! Look what I did! Pant pant pant slobber lick.
For another, egoism. See everyone here ! I'M important ! Look what I know! Look what I can do to any one of you ! If you can't LIKE me then you will FEAR me !
Cowardice. What else was I to do ?? Whine, cringe. I had no options !
sigh ...
Do you wonder why I call him Zero?
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I think you pegged it.
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The sad part is, I don't like, approve, or have an interest in PNs postings. That's why I scroll scroll, scroll my mouse; gently down the screen ...
It doesn't take a genius to figure out both parties can be wrong.
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Originally posted by rue:
"Call the FCC."
Oh, NOT the FBI ? Doesn't that seem like a double standard to you?
For soneone who likes to portray himself as savvy, you sure act awful stoopid.
If your talking about television, call the FCC. Its not a matter of standards double or otherwise...the FCC handles broadcast television. If someone gets unreported income from their child porn business, then the IRS will be involved. Once it moves beyond the scope of the FCC (or IRS), then the FBI would get involved, but that call is after the one to the FCC.
H
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Originally posted by FellowTraveler:
Isn't it also interesting that the same pictures have been posted in other threads here before and nobody felt compelled to call the G-men? Am I the only one who noticed that? This wasn't an isolated incident. But, now and suddenly, we have to bring in the feds...
If that's true, why didn't you say something? If you look at the original thread, you'll notice that I express dismay that people were not already speaking out against it. Its dismay I still feel. As for me, I saw, I reported, I made my fuss, I did my part. If someone else wants to drop the ball, thats their business. But I don't want to be the one that lets this kind of thing pass by. Thats not something I could live with.
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assuming he/she isn't busy taking names for future reservations at Gitmo
We don't send these kind of folk to Gitmo (with its good food and sunny climate). They go to County at best or state prison at worst and, lets just say justice gets served.
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wouldn't he be just as guilty as the Republican leadership in not reporting Foley's potential crimes? Funny, how one Republican doing the right thing shows how the House leadership did the wrong thing...
I've found, despite the bluster I myself am often guilty of, that doing the right thing and doing the wrong thing tend to be non-partisan choices. Democrats are good people, some commit crimes, some make bad choices. Republicans are also good people, some commit crimes, some make bad choices. That said, I don't think I've ever convicted a Republican of theft or a Democrat of failing to file City income tax...but since I don't ask party affiliation before trial, I can't be sure.
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His career is built on putting men in cages. Is it reasonable to expect him to react a different way? These guys routinely deal with the dregs of society and that has to have an effect on his view of his fellow man. Again, isn't it reasonable for him to assume the worst?
Those are nice cages ours is freshly painted by some nice volunteers in orange suits. I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, that is to say I doubt everyone who comes in. But I always give people as fair a shake as I can. Except the liberal long haired hippy types and anybody who has a 'John Kerry' bumper sticker...
H
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