@hawkeye10,
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That is one view, others are that all sex is rape, rape is the absence of yes, rape is the absence of of an enthusiastic yes, rape is the absence of a string of yeses all though the night, rape is..........
Pity you're too impaired to read and understand the sexual assault laws of the state of Washington, where you live, no matter how many times they have been posted for you. They define both consent and rape. "No!" is rape.
Of course, if you had to refer to the actual, real, state laws that define sexual assaults, or child pornography, you wouldn't be able to go on and on with your distorted versions of what the laws say, nor would you be able to mount your soapbox to rail about all manner of things not actually contained in those laws.
It's because of people like you we need such laws, and the definitions they contain. It is not up to
you to decide on your own meanings for "consent" or "rape" or "child pornography" when we are discussing criminal behavior--the law defines the crime.
And, in the case of the child pornography laws, the criminal evidence of possession violations is objective and observable and available in a courtroom. That's why most child pornography defendants wind up pleading guilty--they would lose at trial.
Quote:of the 1,209 child porn cases completed by the Justice Department in 2006, 95% led to convictions and 92% resulted in guilty pleas.
You started this thread hoping you could launch another anti-government rant about the state ruining the life of another innocent man who was unjustly arrested for allegedly viewing child pornography on his laptop during a flight.
Quote:Trust me, this is going to be yet another case of a man being ruined because he had pics of his kids on his computer that the state does not approve of, or near that. In this case it was a video however.
A very successful guy is going to be watching real child porn on the airplane??!! Highly. Highly. Unlikely.
As it turned out, it was not at all unlikely. And, instead, you made a fool of yourself by jumping the gun and pouncing on this news story too soon.
Pedophiles include all types, including "very successful guys", and one of them, Prof. Grant Smith, was indeed reckless enough to view his child pornography in a public place where his actions could be observed. And it was "real child pornography" as the law, and not you, defines it. And eventually, Grant Smith will likely enter a guilty plea too, and he can kiss his university teaching job good-bye. Grant Smith ruined his own life. He knowingly violated the child pornography laws by possessing that material.
But what of the children depicted in those sexually explicit images that Grant Smith exploitively viewed for his own sexual arousal? Do you care whether those children's lives were ruined by the way they were abused to produce those images? Do you care about the profound violation of their privacy that took place each time a pedophile, like Grant Smith, gazed at their images? Or the exploitation and privacy violation that continued with the other pedophiles who Grant Smith shared those images with? Children as young as 5, some of whom were pictured in sexually explicit acts with adults, just so those pedophiles could masturbate and jerk off while viewing them. Do you rant about what is done to those children by people like Grant Smith? Those images were created for people like him.
On this topic, your only "mission" seems to be to want to make the world a little safer for pedophiles. You demean the passenger on the plane who observed what Smith was doing and alerted law enforcement by referring to him as a "snitch". You trivialize the nature of the child pornography by trying to characterize it as nothing more than pictures of "naked kids". And you really don't think possession of child pornography should be a crime.
As I said, you want to make the world a little safer for pedophiles--you're their freedom fighter. And you are deluded enough to view this as a noble mission.