tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1567167030681815940..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: "Thousands of pedophiles escaping justice"Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-11979572902282833722017-05-14T13:32:52.714-05:002017-05-14T13:32:52.714-05:00Yes, hopefully turning otherwise harmless, innocen...Yes, hopefully turning otherwise harmless, innocent kids into criminals for the crime of being foolish, young, and (regrettably) sexually active will "teach them" to abide by your view of morality. /sarcasm<br /> I happen to share your view of morality, in this context at least, but I find your answer here repulsive. Kids making stupid, consensual decisions that I disagree with is a thing that happens regularly. Nonetheless I have never stooped so low as to wish that they would be jailed and marked with the same brush (via the famous "sex offender registry" that lists drunken public urinators alongside child rapists) as a child rapist...just because they made a decision that contradicted my moral code. I never imagined that a person existed who condoned classifying stupid teens engaged in consensual activity as child rapists...because it "taught them" not to violate their moral code. By all means, impale child rapists on a short stake. I'll help! But when you decide that it's acceptable to tar innocents (kids!) with that same brush because their (consensual, though unwise in my opinion) actions make you feel uncomfortable? You have gone off the reservation, as far as I'm concerned. "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." Yes, and the prize is usually public humiliation, or loss of the phone, or both. Not imprisonment, and/or being classified as a child rapist for the rest of their lives. If you can't see the difference...God help you.<br /><br />There's practicality, there's callousness, and then there's "Hopefully [being known as child rapists for the rest of their lives, anywhere they move, any job they try to get, any time they try to join an organization, or get married, or adopt a kid, etc...] teaches them not to make and send [private, personal pictures, that it would be perfectly legal to take and send if they were a few years older]. Of anyone. ..."<br /><br />Wow.<br /><br />Mr. Grant, please forgive me if this is too bold, or too impolite for this forum. I don't mean to be disrespectful to you, sir, in any way whatsoever. Injustice (and excusing, or approving of that injustice, as Feather Blade's comment indicates he/she does) just really pushes my buttons. Bibliotheca Servarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643412827583261562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-56273797961997073372017-05-05T16:59:32.091-05:002017-05-05T16:59:32.091-05:00@divemedic: Hopefully it teaches them to not make ...@divemedic: Hopefully it teaches them to not make and send pornographic images. Of anyone.<br /><br />That one, I'm afraid, falls under "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."<br /><br />Feather Bladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16295997298154977506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-77975949492590155372017-05-05T10:45:55.236-05:002017-05-05T10:45:55.236-05:00Sometimes a crime cries out for a punishment that ...Sometimes a crime cries out for a punishment that fits; in this case, impalement on a short, barbed stake.Tom Kratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13342132821284754125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-337273560703301602017-05-04T15:41:31.534-05:002017-05-04T15:41:31.534-05:00How many of those 50,0000 are teens who are lookin...How many of those 50,0000 are teens who are looking at (and making) videos of each other and themselves? There was a case last year (in one of the Carolinas, IIRC) where two underage teens (a boy and a girl) were arrested for child pornography when the girl filmed herself and sent it to the boy. <br />She was charged with producing and distributing child porn, and he was charged with receiving and possessing child porn. <br />How does making two children into felons and ruining their lives protecting them from anything?Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-60637006279023301282017-05-04T12:14:32.601-05:002017-05-04T12:14:32.601-05:00I'm inclined to give the policeman the benefit...I'm inclined to give the policeman the benefit of the doubt on his numbers. Britain has a rather odd (unofficial) attitude toward paedophilia, and given other recent criminal cases (the sexual assault ring that operated because no official was willing to risk being called "Islamophobic,") a relatively high number wouldn't surprise me. The child marriages among parts of the Islamic population of Britain, for example, would fall under paedophilia. <br /><br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-41039953598237338182017-05-04T11:10:00.882-05:002017-05-04T11:10:00.882-05:00Good point, the number is probably exaggerated for...Good point, the number is probably exaggerated for effect - unfortunately, many people in this day and age are willing to use whatever means they think will achieve their goal.Jonathan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476185257203343474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-85540771959528084602017-05-04T10:26:28.160-05:002017-05-04T10:26:28.160-05:0050,000? That's a number that defies belief. Th...50,000? That's a number that defies belief. That's (roughly) 1 person in 1,000. I rather suspect he's including those who innocently download such images as part of other porn.Quentinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-70396184530130137012017-05-04T09:05:31.002-05:002017-05-04T09:05:31.002-05:00I have some knowledge of a case near me 2 years ag...I have some knowledge of a case near me 2 years ago that involved multiple perpetrators online - 1 was identified through local resources, but Google refused to identify the other and the county didn't have the resources to push the issue.<br />If they knew they would face real punishment for their crimes, would they find other outlets for their passions, or would they do it anyway? I suspect that many of them would not change - and in the words of old Westerns, they 'need killin'. <br /><br />On a side note, his bringing encryption into is entangling a separate issue - high quality encryption is (relatively) easy to code; a law requiring all encryption to be breakable by the government would be impossible to enforce completely and would only punish those who comply by making their personal information available to hackers. There are other ways to track communications and bring criminals to justice that don't require compromising everybody's security. Jonathan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476185257203343474noreply@blogger.com