@hawkeye10,
Quote:the US government makes all new law for sex crimes, law that is nether consistent with the rest of law nor with the Constitution.
Untrue, and that article you posted about the man destroying his hard drive disputes that statement. All of the decisions in that case were made on the basis of existing law--and existing law that had nothing to do with "sex law".
Again, you seem not to understand the material you post.
Meanwhile, I haven't heard you offer a single, well thought out legal strategy for addressing child pornography crimes, including the crime of possession.
Most people do not regard the possession of child pornography as innocuous activity. The images in child pornography are records of crimes commited against children.
Quote:According to the Mayo Clinic of the U.S.A., studies and case reports indicate that 30% to 80% of individuals who viewed child pornography and 76% of individuals who were arrested for Internet child pornography had molested a child, however they note that it is difficult to know how many people progress from computerized child pornography to physical acts against children and how many would have progressed to physical acts without the computer being involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography
Quote:By the mid-1980's, the trafficking of child pornography within the United States had been almost completely eradicated through a series of successful campaigns waged by law enforcement. Child pornographers had become lonely and hunted individuals. Producing child abuse images was both difficult and expensive, and reproducing images was equally difficult and expensive. Purchasing and trading such images was extremely risky. Anonymous distribution and receipt was not possible and it was difficult for pedophiles to find and interact with each other. Unfortunately, technology has changed the situation.
Producing child abuse images has now become easy and inexpensive. The Internet allows images and digitized movies to be reproduced and disseminated to tens of thousands of individuals at the click of a button. The distribution and receipt of such images can be done almost anonymously. As a result, child pornography is readily available through virtually every Internet technology (web sites, email, instant messaging/ICQ, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), newsgroups/bulletin boards, and peer-to-peer). The technological ease, lack of expense, and anonymity in obtaining and distributing child pornography has resulted in an explosion in the availability, accessibility, and volume of child pornography.
CEOS works with the 93 United States Attorney offices around the country and investigative agencies to vigorously combat this growing problem. By maintaining a coordinated, national-level law enforcement focus, including coordinating nationwide and international investigations and prosecutions, CEOS works to deter the production, distribution and possession of child pornography by aggressively investigating and prosecuting of these crimes. Additionally, CEOS works with law enforcement to identify victims used to produce child pornography with the goal of rescuing the victims and preventing continued abuse of these children.
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/ceos/childporn.html
The passenger on the plane who reported Smith to law enforcement should be commended for his efforts. He saw a crime in progress and he took action.
Smith is just another deviate.
And this thread was just another excuse for Hawkeye to do his usual anti-government rant, and bemoan the fate of those convicted of sex related offenses. Another of his pity parties for sex offenders.
Same old, same old.