[extropy-chat] Your children are safe with us...

[Al Brooks]

The irony is when cops confiscate child porn they dispose of almost all of it, but a portion of the good stuff might just somehow end up at some of the cops' residences under lock and key. You know, like one tiny little photo tucked away in a safe.
  Police aren't in a general sense trustworthy. If you've ever read the book Serpico you know that corruption is not uncommon.  20% of police in a study broke certain laws even though they knew they were being watched because the crimes were minor and they thought their positions gave them a tacit sort of immunity: 'don't get too greedy and you'll come out okay'  was (is) the attitude.


  

> Since this kind of thing was not really possible
> before the internet, it is
> a new crime. Since he wasn't actually seducing a
> teenage girl but only
> thought he was doing so, it is technically a thought
> crime. We can imagine
> most *new* ways to offend will be thought crimes. 
> Orwell mighta been right
> after all.


			
---------------------------------
Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20060406/fdd6b3e3/attachment.html>