I agree, and Has anyone though about this? These alleged pedophiles were arrested for thought crime. The pedophiles were never chatting with a child nor were they actually going to meet an underage child. They simply thought that the adult on the other end of the line was underage, and that thought is enough to make them a felon. Plus what is the point in going out and trying to intice someone to commit a crime? Im not defending these people, Im just saying I think the wasy they have been going after them is a little screwed up.
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I agree, and Has anyone though about this? These alleged pedophiles were arrested for thought crime. The pedophiles were never chatting with a child nor were they actually going to meet an underage child. They simply thought that the adult on the other end of the line was underage, and that thought is enough to make them a felon. Plus what is the point in going out and trying to intice someone to commit a crime? Im not defending these people, Im just saying I think the wasy they have been going after them is a little screwed up.
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Well the law does punish attempts (sometimes). If you think you are attempting to blow up a building and your supplier substitutes fake explosives for real ones it still counts. Same thing if you think you are ordering one of your hit men to kill someone and you don't know he's a wired FBI officer. These guys went beyond merely chatting on the internet to taking the affirmative action of attempting to visit what they thought was a minor. What's really funny is the ones that get caught a second time. Or they ones that put "Are you from Dateline" in their chats and still show up. Someday some underage boy who was posing as a 40 y/o man will show up on Chris Hansen's set. But I bet that would just get edited out.
Back to the subject of TV shows glorifying policy brutality, that's why I stopped watching shows like "cops". (And I don't watch "To catch a predator anymore either. While attempts can be prosecuted, that show smacks of entrapment). On one episode of COPS they showed a police dog brutally tearing into a suspect. One of the cops actually said they were "Letting the dog have some fun". They went on to say that when the had at first come around the corner the suspect, a large white male, had the dog up in the air and was choking it. So the police brutalized this man for a basic act of self defense and then charged him with assaulting a police dog.
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I concur. I think some sort of Keith Olbermann drinking game would be great. Maybe shot every time one of his pathetic sycophant guests agree with him, or perhaps when he gets worked out about something.
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Why is this in bearing arms?
I sometimes watch MSNBC to see how they keep their loyal viewers in a trance with totally useless news stories.
That to catch a predator seems staged to me. I'd laugh so hard if Chris Hansen would be caught for some kind of child porn. It's absurd to arrest someone when there was no victim or crime committed. I guess they could get them for trespassing when they enter the "sting house"
I sometimes watch MSNBC to see how they keep their loyal viewers in a trance with totally useless news stories.
That to catch a predator seems staged to me. I'd laugh so hard if Chris Hansen would be caught for some kind of child porn. It's absurd to arrest someone when there was no victim or crime committed. I guess they could get them for trespassing when they enter the "sting house"
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