Posting #125 – Why is our Government Baiting its Citizens?

By:  RSOL of Virginia
Date:  08/14/2009

Dear Virginia Media,

A recent Virginia article got us thinking, Porn Gets Prof Probation http://www2.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/local/article/porn_gets_prof_probation/43903/

A former Mary Baldwin College psychology professor will spend three years on probation for a one-time Internet search for “nude young girls” that kept him on the Web for a total of 45 minutes. He entered an Alford plea to avoid a possible sentence of 140 years in prison.

The former professor did not purchase, create, distribute or download anything that he saw in his 45 minutes on the internet but he faced 140 years in prison, how is this possible?

Murders, Drug Dealers, Drug Users, Armed Robbers and DUI’s won’t result in a 50 year sentence let alone 140 years so why would this?

Is our Government looking for the owners of these sites? Has our Government shut these sites down? No, they have not. So if visiting these sites whether by accident, for curiosity or intentionally is against the law resulting in conviction, imprisonment and life long stigma as a violent Sex Offender why wouldn’t our Government eliminate these sites?

We believe it’s because these sites are bait for more convictions, more prisoners, more probationers and parolees and every time our state, our government can publicize another “pervert” has been captured and punished it keeps the hysteria and fear alive in the parents and citizens of our country.

If that’s not the reason then why wouldn’t the authorities just shut all these illegal, immoral and disgusting sites down?

RSOL of Virginia

1st Response to Posting #125

Date: 08/14/09

RSOL of Virginia,

I just had to reply, you are so right!  The terrible thing is just like your subject line said "baiting" - many of these websites are the so called law enforcement stings - they are        just like the devil - they catch these curious seekers, and then make their lives hell on earth (of course not to mention ripping families apart - and think they've done something good for society!)

Stings should be against the law because they're using it to wrongfully catch people - it's like they don't have anything better to do! Then they get all self-righteous about it. I'm going to share this thought on my support website. Thanks for the "food for thought."

M.

 

2ndResponse to Posting #125

Date: 08/14/09

RSOL of Virginia,

I believe it goes further than this. 

I believe a significant portion of the spam that I get with sexual content where the subject line mentions 'teens' and 'young people' comes from law enforcement.  They have my email address.  I believe they are baiting me and seeing if I will look at the emails and website links soliciting some type of contact for underage sex.  

When these egg-heads build up all this false hysteria, then profit from it, they benefit      from spooking the public into allowing an 'anything goes' atmosphere under the false pretense of protecting the public. 

D.