I'm a little confused with this one, the headline says he got 30 months for "attempting to possess child pornography" and yet the article says they found child porn on his computer-- so what is it? was he attempting to have cp or did he have cp?

This is why I hate the newspaper.

And, is attempting to possess now a crime too, and how in the hell do you prove that??"

I'm wondering is this one of those new police-entrapment techniques where they post a link somewhere and the link describes the material as being child porn and illegal and then when somebody clicks on it, there IP is tracked and then there computers are seized usually the next day, even though they never were linked to any real kiddie porn. 

So now you can get arrested for talking to pretend children, that really are not children and what? Now you can be arrested for pretend kiddie porn.

Ug, meanwhile, the real predators are escaping police attention because they're spending all their resources trying to arrest pretend-criminals.

I'm as much for catching the bad guys as any one else is but come on, the police are spending probably billions of dollars trying to "get rid of the demand" of the material when they could spend 1/10th of their resources and concentrate trying
to catch the people MAKING the material.

It just seems ridiculous to me. In my opinion, if people put LINKS up on the Internet, people are going to click on them. That's what links are for. They're not catching Bad guys here, and there waisting tax payer money and resources that could be better spent trying to go after the people making the material.

But, then, again, this kind of the same mentality they had about the drug war, and we can see how successful they were in combating that?

Has the supply of drugs ever gone down as they promised?

lol,

Don't think I'm upset, I just think this is stupidity, and no wonder law enforcement
seems so dang incompetent to solve the problem. What school did these think-tankers graduate from? Harvard?

It's like, if I know there's a drug dealer living on my block, the thought may occur to me that hey, I could buy drugs from that guy if I wanted. Duh!!! So what do the police do, they run around and try to bust everyone who buys drugs from the guy with the stupid theory that their cutting down on the demand and as they do the suppliers will just go away or vanish or something.

Yea, we've all seen that happen haven't we?  Is it just me? I don't think you have to be a rocket-scientist to figure out that if you get rid of the guy selling drugs in the neighborhood, people won't have anywhere in the neighborhood to buy any dang drugs! They'll have to go somewhere else.

So they make all these busts in the neighborhood, making their arrest records look great, they're really doing something about the drug problem; they've arrested 50 people buying drugs from that guy around the neighborhood.

Meanwhile, the drug dealer remains there selling drugs for years and years and the police do nothing.

Oh, but why WOULD they arrest the drug dealer If they did that, they wouldn't be able to make all those arrests of the buyers!

I've seen this same thing go down on Santa Monica Blvd. People ask, how in the hell can their be minors prostituting themselves out in the open, and the police don't stop it.

It's because THE POLICE get more arrests if they let the kids sell themselves and leave them alone, and as long as they don't arrest too many buyers so that the activity moves somewhere else,  the police can keep making busts there for years and years and the whole time there's kids selling themselves and the police never stop it. Gee I wonder why?

Ug, It's just so friggin funny. Don't get me wrong. The post was great. I'm not upset. It's just that these guys are just geniuses aren't they? So far there strategy seems to be working doesn't it?

Love,
Darron 

 

-- Edited by The Phantom on Friday 16th of October 2009 06:45:55 PM