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"Possession" as crime is a crock

I'm somewhat surprised that the person who received the email and who reported the guy wasn't charged with possession, too! ("But I deleted it!" Do you know what it takes to actually delete the data within an email or surfed web page these days???)

Between botnets, viruses, unsecured networks (not just WIFI), bad passwords, people with bad taste enough to seek out child porn, pedophiles, and child abusers and rapists (there is a very important different between all of those), there's probably child porn on millions of U.S. PCs. The law simply isn't fit to deal with "possession" as a crime any more than having possession of downloaded copyrighted material necessarily justifies charging you with a crime. Case in point: have you viewed copyrighted YouTube videos? Do you have any MP3's you didn't aquire from an official source? Then you're a criminal, too! Did you know you could be a criminal just for having a stranger in the background of a picture you take at a park in some places??? Parents have already been accused of being a "sexual predator" for having taken bath pictures of their unclothed babies!!! Dang - my mom is a sexual predator! She's got me naked up on the wall in her house right now!!!

*sigh*

Sooner or later we're going to have to, as a society, realize that "possession" is not the problem. Taking a picture is not the problem. We need to spend our resources targeting the people that actually violate another's rights and those that support them by buying it.

Posted by: stormculture   Posted on: 04/18/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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