This is how bizarre and cruel justice in American can get.
Mom strangled daughter to 'save' her from pedophiles
Crazy, though she undoubted is, clearly the zeitgeist of our times which identifies pedophiles as one of the gravest threats facing mankind has infiltrated the troubled mind of this mother and influenced her terrible decision to sacrifice her daughter.
Mental instability is coming to be seen as existing on a continuum, with the very slight craziness of most people at one end and the incoherently raving on the other.
Pedophile hysteria, much like religion, has infiltrated the minds of the population and can be seen to be making nearly everyone at least a little bit 'unhinged'.
After deciding fate of feral hogs, Louisiana Senate approves bill to ban sex offenders from Facebook, other sites
Arguably less popular than feral hogs in the Bayou State, sex offenders face ten years in prison (when combined with subsequent civil detention, that means a lifetime) if they choose to fully engage with society through the use of, now de-riguer, communications technologies.
Mass punishment of the sort exercised by Louisiana''s benighted Legislature and its populist Governor is the order of the day, from America's impoverished swamplands to its "liberal" bastions of sophistication.
The permanent incapacitation of sex offenders, as an amorphous class, is a form of indiscriminate punishment that would be instantly compared to the Jews of Nazi Germany were it to be imposed upon any another group of citizens.
Fear Tactics Used To Bring States Into Adam Walsh Act Compliance
"Virginia, Maryland and the District are struggling to comply with a five-year-old federal mandate to create a national sex offender registry and critics say their failure could cause them to attract violent sex criminals to the region."
Because the threat of losing 10% of their federal funding has not been sufficient incentive to compel the vast majority of states to enact the draconian A.W.A., its proponents are now using the specter of hordes of dangerous sex offenders relocating to their (already inhospitable) states to avoid the even-more horrendous A.W.A. states in order to advance their nightmarish laws.
Ratcheting up hysteria and fear is all these people know how to do. Tragically, they have been quite successful so far.
Fear Tactics Used To Bring States Into Adam Walsh Act Compliance
"Virginia, Maryland and the District are struggling to comply with a five-year-old federal mandate to create a national sex offender registry and critics say their failure could cause them to attract violent sex criminals to the region."
Because the threat of losing 10% of their federal funding isn't enough to compel the vast majority of states to enact the draconian A.W.A., its proponents are now using the specter of hordes of dangerous sex offenders relocating to their (already inhospitable) states to avoid the even-more horrendous A.W.A. states.
Ratcheting up hysteria and fear is all these people know how to do. Tragically, they have been quite successful so far.
‘No age of consent law’: Gay Irish Presidential candidate digs in deeper
Editor: David Norris clearly establishes here his courage while relinquishing any possibility of becoming Ireland's next President.
Predictable are the comments pouring in as a reaction to his statements. What is obvious from reading through some of these is that much of the public wants him to be punished, criminally if possible, for voicing his heartfelt, if socially radioactive, opinions.
David Norris has failed the moral litmus test of our times, engineered as it was, by the unlikely cabal of religious fascists in league with angry female supremacists some thirty years ago but which has long since become mainstream. His renunciation of all that is pure and divine in the eyes of the mob which we euphemistically refer to as "society" will cost him dearly. He is courageous, indeed!
DUBLIN, June 9, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexualist Irish presidential hopeful David Norris is fighting to maintain his candidacy amidst even more revelations that he supports “classical pedophilia” and opposes any law specifying an age of consent for sex.
Hiding In Plain Sight
"Sadly, the Internet is the predator's venue of choice today. We need to update our strategies and our laws to stop these offenders who are a mere click away from our children". -Rep. Anthony Weiner
Pornography sentence unconstitutionally cruel, judge rules
Consider that child pornography was actually LEGAL at one time. Later, it became illegal to PRODUCE. And then it became illegal to DISTRIBUTE. And then it became illegal to SHOW to someone else. And then it became illegal to POSSESS if produced AFTER a certain date. And then all possession became illegal. And then the penalties became stiffer. Then stiffer, still. And stiffer again and again.
Consider also that child pornography now includes DRAWINGS and CARTOONS which at no time involved the use of actual children, something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
And these laws can DESTROY the rest of your LIFE, even if there are no victims.
This is the essence of incremental social engineering.
Registered Sex Offenders Lower Neighboring Home Values By 9%, On Average
Ed: Now that's an unintended consequence! The voters overwhelmingly demanded the Registration and they got it. Now let them reap what they have sown!
What "Treatment" Looks Like for Kids Accused Of Sexual Abuse
There is an extremely creepy "therapy" program in Phoenix, Arizona for kids accused of child sexual abuse. The same discredited voodoo pseudo-science that is widely reviled by legitimate mental health professionals as it is used on adults is being used on kids, many of whom are as young as ten. These "treatments" include:
- being forced to inhale ammonia fumes as "aversion therapy" while viewing "deviant" pornography
- having the circumferences of their penises measured to see what arouses them sexually and to ensure that they don't have "inappropriate" responses.
- group degradation sessions in which the "therapists" attempt to destroy the child's sense of self so that it might be later recreated in the image their tormentors would prefer them to have.
If this doesn't outrage you, I can't imagine what could.
*Note: Dear Reader, after looking at this story again I realized that the date of the original story in the Arizona Republic was dated July 1992. I have no idea if the conditions under which child offenders are being treated in Phoenix Arizona are now better or worse than they were in 1992. I suspect that the authorities have become more sophisticated in covering their asses but remain just as indifferent to the emotional well-being of kids.
Alabama Legislators Further Endear Themselves to Ignorant Constituents
Alabama Senate passes bill to require: weekly registration for homeless sex offenders, sex offenders convicted of having sex with siblings to move out of the house AND charging sex offenders a $250 registration fee whenever they register.Much like the Chinese government who charge the family of executed criminals for the cost of the bullet required to blow-out their brains, Alabama joins other states who insist that the cost of sex offender registration must be borne by the sex offender him- (and occasionally her-) self. In this case, Alabama will charge R.S.O.'s $250 for the privilege of being degraded citizens with starkly fewer rights than anyone else, including, say, those guilty of homicide or attempted murder.Presumably, the homeless R.S.O. would be hit especially hard in the pocketbook if they are having to register once a week. Let me guess: the State will run a tab continuously on that person which will likely lead to an eventual conviction for failure to pay. Hah! Another neat trick to get sex offenders back into prison which is what all of these bills are really about.This seems to be Constitutionally problematic given that sex offender registration is ostensibly in aid of protecting the public and not a form of punishment. But somehow, I don't think that our current Supreme Court would see it that way.As for forcing siblings out of the same home where one is the "victim" and the other the "perpetrator", I guess it should be quite obvious that they are talking about kids living in a family home. In other words, the family will be forced to split apart.Now that's family-friendly, isn't it?
Alabama Legislators Further Endear Themselves to Ignorant Constituents
Alabama Senate passes bill to require: weekly registration for homeless sex offenders, sex offenders convicted of having sex with siblings to move out of the house AND charging sex offenders a $250 registration fee whenever they register.Much like the Chinese government who charge the family of executed criminals for the cost of the bullet required to blow-out their brains, Alabama joins other states who insist that the cost of sex offender registration must be borne by the sex offender him (and occasionally her-) self. In this case, Alabama will charge R.S.O.'s $250 for the privilege of being degraded citizens with starkly fewer rights than anyone else, including those guilty of homicide or attempted murder.Presumably, the homeless R.S.O. would be hit especially hard in the pocketbook if they are having to register once a week. Let me guess: the State will run a tab continuously on that person which will likely lead to an eventual conviction for failure to pay. Hah! Another neat trick to get sex offenders back into prison which is what all of these bills are really about.This seems to be Constitutionally problematic given that sex offender registration is ostensibly in aid of protecting the public and not a form of punishment. But somehow, I don't think that our current Supreme Court would see it that way.As for forcing siblings out of the same home where one is the "victim" and the other the "perpetrator", I guess it should be quite obvious that they are talking about kids living in a family home. In other words, the family will be forced to split apart.Now that's family-friendly, isn't it?
David Norris campaign for President of Ireland derailed by past comments regarding pederasty in ancient Greece
Anyone deviating from the socially-enforced blanket condemnation of sex between adults and adolescents is immediately and forever punished.
Even David Norris's closest supporters condemn as "naive" his thoughtfully considered defense of man/boy relations in ancient Greece which he made at a dinner party more than a decade ago.
Now, more than ever, all politicians are subject to standard "moral litmus tests" that allow for no deviation in thinking from sacrosanct social opinions, regardless of the erudition which inform their views.
David Norris had hoped to be the President of the Republic of Ireland and, apparently, was considered a serious contender. Whatever qualities he may possess as a possible leader of that country have now shrink into insignificance given his private, but socially forbidden, opinions.
To express any hesitancy in joining the still-raging paedo witchhunt is a certain path towards career-death. As if we needed reminding...
http://www.independent.ie/
Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011
As always, fear and hysteria are the primary tools used to strip citizens of essential liberties and privacy.
Our lawmaker's arguments are persuasive to those ignorant of essential facts and unable to rationally assess risk and danger in its absence. Tragically, this appears to be most everyone in our country today.
The media, having long since thrown off their traditional responsibility of providing their public with hard information gained through principled investigation independent of government manipulation, are simply unavailable to question the veracity of politically-sourced allegations and fabricated statistics. Indeed, the media now serve mainly as conduits of propaganda, both government and organizational, for its distribution to a similarly unquestioning public.
Both the media and politicians discovered long ago that the way to get the public's attention was to discuss the sex lives of others and that the way to enrage them was to explosively combine the topic of sex with the topic of children.
And the results are all around us: more government, less freedom, more misinformation, more fear and a wildly unbalanced, unhappy and distrustful society.
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,228708/printable.html
6 Year Old Boy Charged With Sexual Assault In Madison Wisconsin
Who on Earth believes that this is a healthy and appropriate response to two small children, literally, playing "doctor"? Well, apart from the Taliban, apparently the prosecutor, Madison Wisconsin District Attorney, Lisa Riniker, does.
Several questions immediately spring to mind:
Is Grant County so flush with taxpayer money that the police and district attorney have uncovered and prosecuted all other, more serious, crimes in their community and are now free to pursue six-year-olds?
Also, let's assume for the moment that Lisa Riniker is sincere in her stated aim of getting the six-year-old boy the "help" he needs (although from past knowledge of prosecutors, sincerity is not one of their stronger traits). What will that "help"consist of? And "what" will he be "helped" with? His sexual curiosity?
Will that "help" actually end up hurting him?
How will this intervention of "help" affect his future emotional well-being?
There were two children involved in playing doctor, both a little girl and a little boy. How was it that the boy was singled-out for prosecution?
It should be manifestly clear that the anti-sex crusade begun decades ago has mutated and expanded to claim ever more victims, including the very children it professes to be "saving".
"Inappropriate" behavior has now become "criminalized" behavior with need of "qualified" taxpayer-funded "intervention" and categorization, if not outright imprisonment and permanently degraded citizenship.
Some of us said, more than a quarter of a century ago, that this was the path along which we were being taken by a bizarre and hateful alliance of right-wing, religious fundamentalists and bitter, power-hungry, female supremacists who had, as their common interest, the hatred of human sexuality.
And, sure enough, it is now easy to see the progression that this movement has taken, with a gradual erosion of rights extending to ever-greater numbers of victims.
One final question: where will this end?
the story: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_c13c6a62-72b8-11e0-8659-001cc4c03286.html
Oak Park police charge boy who allegedly made sex-ranking list
This sort of First Amendment protected speech, juvenile-obnoxious though it may be, would have warranted nothing more than a parental or school principal reprimand in times past.
Now, it's the sort of behavior that is treated as a criminal offense and will, no doubt, eventually require registration as a sex offender.
The "Zero Tolerance" society now deems a schoolboy's creation and dissemination of a list ranking schoolgirl's attractiveness (or other attributes unspecified in the news piece) as a criminal act warranting criminal sanction. Why are we not surprised that the net the hysterics have cast is growing so wide as to ensnare even the kids themselves? Could it be that they are running out of victims, err.. "victimizers"?
the story:
http://www.suntimes.com/5294285-417/oak-park-police-charge-boy-who-allegedly-made-sex-ranking-list.html
DOJ: FBI digital counterintelligence weakened by focus on child porn
Cyber attacks are at an all time high but FBI spends twice as much effort fighting child porn, according to a scathing criticism by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Despite a dramatic increase in cyber attacks on U.S. public and private infrastructure and networks, and evidence that hostile foreign governments are behind many of these attacks, the F.B.I. has done little to counter these threats, preferring instead to expend twice as many resources in the investigation of online child pornography.
This criticism is being leveled by the Department of Justice itself, which accuses the FBI of incompetence and lack of commitment in countering demonstrated cyber threats while expending excessive resources on child porn.
Specific intelligence pointing to Chinese military attacks on State Department computers has resulted in a massive grab of classified material by China. U.S. corporations are also actively targeted by China and other countries seeking to acquire competitive market intelligence.
Russian and other governments are known to have active programs for penetrating U.S. computer networks with the aim of gaining strategic military and economic advantage over the U.S.
Given these demonstrated threats against the well-being and prosperity of the U.S. and its citizens, it is shocking (although not surprising) that far greater resources are instead allocated to the investigation of child pornography (much of it produced by kids themselves) and to the entrapment of those still foolish enough to fall prey to badge-wearing adults masquerading as minors.
This bizarre mis-allocation of limited tax payer dollars is the result of decades of media, government and busybody-fueled hysteria to all things having to do with kids and sex.
We are finally beginning to realize the terrible consequences which inevitably result from dangerously misguided policies brought about by a distorted perception of reality.
These consequences have become ever more apparent in the dramatic erosion of our liberty as well as in our security and prosperity.
Ironic it is that the shrill voices which proclaim as their greatest priority the protection of children are themselves the enemies of their future. And let us hope that the eventual recognition of this glaring truth will come soon.
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DOJ: FBI digital counterintelligence weakened by focus on child porn
Cyberattacks are at an all time high; FBI spends twice as much effort fighting porn
By Kevin Fogarty
April 29, 2011, 11:35 AM — Despite its growing digital surveillance capabilities and increasing responsibility for investigating and countering cyber attacks on the U.S., the FBI's core cyber security division turns out to be basically incompetent, according to a critical report from the Dept. of Justice. [PDF] http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a1122r.pdf
Part of the reason is that the 14 agencies that share some responsibility for online counter-espionage don't share information well. Another contributor is the lack of effective pressure from top managers to get agents trained in national-security intrusion topics and tactics.
Most of the reason is that the FBI spends twice as much effort investigating child porn as it does attempts by foreign governments to attack U.S. facilities or steal information that would damage U.S. national security, the report found.
To put that in perspective, the number of foreign attacks on the U.S. increased 40 percent between 2007 and 2008, according to the report, whose data are pretty old for such a sensitive topic.
An April study from McAfee showed 80 percent of utilities in 14 countries had been attacked during the previous year, an increase of almost 50 percent compared to the year before. Attacks ranged from distributed denial of services to intrusions to remove data to intrusions that attempted to take control of the utility's internal IT systems.
And that's just among civilian-run utility companies.
State Dept. documents released through WikiLeaks this month showed that years-long cyberattacks launched by the Chinese military had netted "terabytes" of sensitive data ranging from names and passwords that would give access to State Department computers, to the design of major weapons systems.
The "Byzantine Hades" attacks – and others coming from Russia and other unfriendly powers – represent a new state of cyberwar the U.S. is not yet prepared to fight.
The attacks have been so successful "we have given up on the idea we can keep our networks pristine," according to Stewart Baker, a former senior cyber-security official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and National Security Agency.
The focus has shifted instead to more sophisticated efforts to detect and counter intrusions as they're made.
Unfortunately, those are exactly the kinds of skills the FBI cyber squads lack and the kind of crime they don't have the time or resources to investigate.
Of 36 agents with cybersecurity responsibilities the DOJ tested – from 10 of the agency's 56 field offices, each of which has at least one "cyber squad" – only 23 told investigators they had the training to investigate national security intrusions.
The other 13 "lacked the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusion cases." Five said they were completely unqualified to investigate national security intrusions effectively, the report said.
In 2007 the FBI created a separate career path for digital security investigators called the Cyber Career Path, which includes a four-stage training plan covering 12 core courses and a set of elective courses agents can use to develop a specialty.
The agency's habit of moving agents to new offices or new assignments every two or three years to expand their skills or experience makes completing that training difficult, the report concluded. So does a generally inconsistent focus on both online counter-espionage and giving agents either the training or time to build experience in investigating it.
Top FBI managers are much more comfortable with agents trained to track down domestic hackers and breaking down doors than they are investigating or countering serious online attacks from overseas.
The report – some information in which was blacked out to avoid releasing sensitive or top secret information to which the public should not have access – included the total number of agents who had completed all 12 courses as of June, 2010.
The number was the only part of the paragraph explaining the program that was redacted.
Online espionage isn't the FBI cyber squads' only responsibility, however. In 2009, 19 percent of the cyber agents worked on national security intrusion investigations, while 31 percent worked on non-spy-related digital crimes and 41 percent investigated online child porn.
That's not to say child porn and domestic, non-national-security related cybercrime should not be investigated.
When you're losing terabytes of sensitive data to foreign governments who can walk freely through your most secure computer systems, however, maybe it's time to reconsider your priorities.
Maybe shift a few agents away from the wankers and point them toward the enemy?
http://www.itworld.com/security/160701/doj-fbi-cyber-security-largely-incompetent-obsessed-child-porn
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