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Period and done with, MAKE PEDOSEXUALITY LEGAL AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE CHILDREN BEING FORCIBLY RAPED ANYMORE! Hell, most of the children who are forcibly raped are raped by pedosexuals who have gone absolutely INSANE because society has put so much pressure on them to 'conform to societies wants'.
It's about time that we start putting the blame for forcible child rapes on the laws, where it belongs.
Since we made homosexuality legal and stopped allowing religious people to spout their ******** in public, we haven't seen any homosexual serial killers, period.
I've search for one since Ted Bundy, and cannot find one.
The same thing would apply to pedosexuals, allow them to be in the open with their sexual orientation and desires, allow them to ASK children for sexual encounters and allow the children to MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES, and you won't see anymore child rapes.
Hell, the only reason why forcible rapes of adult women are going up is because people are encouraging women to 'not give it up' and be severely MEAN to men who proposition them, thereby making those men start to hate them little by little.
I believe that children would be BETTER protected by acknowledging that pedosexuality is a normal sexuality, bringing it out into the open, and legalizing both it and the actions connected with it, as long as the adult asks the child for sexual encounters in front of witnesses and out in public.
We have tried this sexual prohibition ******** with homosexuality, and what did it lead to? Homosexuals being driven to insanity by society, ala Ted Bundy. Homosexuals being physically ATTACKED in public. Those are only the two most major things that were done to homosexuals, and the same things were done when we prohibited sex outside of marriage by law.
Children are MORE than able to protect themselves if we bring things out into the light of day, forbid people from attacking pedosexuals just because they are pedosexuals and proposition their children, and start realizing that sex is morality NEUTRAL... it is neither good nor bad, that is a judgement that is put on it by stupid people who are jealous of other people who are 'getting more' than they are, from a child or an adult.
I certainly hope CNet is providing IP address to the Feds, because you need to be put away.
Having said that I disagree with government regulation which infringes on personal privacy. I watch my children very carefully including what they see on the internet. I don't need or appreciate the government's intrusions.
"In the course of human events..."
Here is a US based Data Retention company:
http://www.intelligentias.com/
Looks like they knew this was coming.
And just who do you suppose will pay for all this "data retention" ? It will be you and me as we pay more for services to catch the few 'predators' out there. Meanwhile the GOVT gets a free pass to all the data they want on innocent Americans.
It's high time for a COMPLETE overhaul of CONGRESS and a DEMAND by "We the people" to bring us back under CONSTITUTIONAL principles.
The Revolution WILL BE LIVE, and it's already underway.
Beyond that, monitoring such as seems to be proposed creates a really unfriendly environment, in which one always has to worry about a search being misinterpreted or a web site visit being misconstrued. It was bad enough when communications could be intercepted by court order when there was probable cause demonstrated. With this kind of intensive monitoring, it really seems to undermine free speech by undermining my right to read what someone else has written.
see: http://kardasz.org/blog/2008/02/ongoing_survey_of_law_enforcem.html
I testified before a Congressional subcommittee in April 2006 and suggested that data retention be mandated.
see: http://kardasz.org/blog/2007/11/kardasz_testimony_april_6_2006.html
Dr. Frank Kardasz
xxx@yyy.com mail to zzz@ourserver.com result valid or something like this.
Just to keep this log on a single small server would require terabytes of storage.
If a record is required for two years, add a good $100 a month to the monthly access bill, or more. Imagine what it would be if you included content.
I think most people would agree the world has changed dramatically since the advent of the Internet Age, but society also made some radical paradigm shifts after the introduction of the Pony Express, the telegraph and the telephone -- and the government wasn't given overarching authority to snoop on those communication modes. In fact, the U.S. vehemently denounced regimes that stooped to that level during the Cold War, when the threat of thermonuclear war loomed large over everyone. What makes Americans so eager to hand over their civil liberties in the current environment? We've ALWAYS lived under one threat or another, and most of today's complacent U.S. citizens might be surprised to discover how imminent and monumental some of those threats were.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Requiring ISPs track the IP to Account data alone will cause the following things to occur:
1. An increase in the cost of internet services. (it's already overpriced)
2. It will create a data "landfill" at each ISP, that will become the new hacking target, ripe with user information. (We know ISPs have great security, right?)
3. This data landfill will be outsourced, as ISPs don't have experience with cataloging and retaining such large record sets.
4. ChoicePoint and others will bid on the job to store and parse the data. (then they will add it to the huge records they already retain about every consumer in North America on behalf of the Government)
5. Persecution of innocent people will begin.
That is simply if they get the IP/Account mappings, just imagine what will happen when they get the web sites, search criteria, chat content, and blog postings? What about these replies? Would this reply paint me as an "anti-american"?
How about the children? Those who are exploited by sex offenders over the internet? My simple take on this is Good. Let them. If those children's parents aren't doing their job, then they should be held accountable for their children's actions. And Sexual predators on the internet? Well, how many of them are there? Really? How many?
Is it worth taking the RIGHTS of Privacy away from the ENTIRE COUNTRY? (we're turning back into Britain, where everyone is ASSUMED GUILTY until proven innocent.)
We fought a war over 200 years ago to get out from under that oppression. It's time to remind your Senators, Representatives, and any other political figure who supports this move. It's simply a violation of freedoms.
(dc0de is a former military intelligence analyst, [http://i know, contradiction... whatever|http://i know, contradiction... whatever], who served his country proudly. He is appalled as to the police state it is turning into.)
http://blacklogic.com
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