Straight from the NY Times article on the congressional testimony regarding internet child pornography [1]...<br><br>"<span style="font-style: italic;">U.S. Official Is Arrested</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">MIAMI, April 4 (AP) — The deputy press secretary for the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/homeland_security_department/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Homeland Security Department.">
Department of Homeland Security</a><span style="font-style: italic;">
was arrested on Tuesday and accused of using the Internet to seduce
someone he thought was a teenage girl, the authorities said.</span><p><span style="font-style: italic;">According to the sheriff's office in Polk County, Fla., where the
charges were issued, the official, Brian J. Doyle, 55, of Silver
Spring, Md., had a sexually explicit conversation with a person he
believed was a 14-year-old girl whose profile he had seen on the
Internet. In reality, the sheriff's office said, Mr. Doyle was talking
with an undercover sheriff's detective.</span>"</p>I am ROTFL. The *deputy press secretary* -- "Oh, yes Mr. J. Q. Public, we assure you that you are safe from being blown up by a bomb or infected with ebola. We are also actively implementing a variety of solutions to other hazards that terrorists are anticipated to be considering. We do however have this one, ahhh... minor problem, with preventing our staff members from wanting to fiddle with your children."
<br><br>If I didn't have better things to do I'd go online pretending to be a 12 year old and work at entraping the "zealots"(?) who are working at entrapping the people who are seducing the children. What better online role can one imagine than suckering the suckers? In case you haven't noticed it the media are playing one-upping each other broadcasting shows where they have enticed X number of people to come to an entrapment house ostensibly for the purpose of engaging in illegal acts with minors.
<br><br>Gee, before our current society made up laws about certain things it was presumably proper, perhaps even necessary for the survival of the species, for teenagers, or perhaps teenagers and adults to "get it goin on". One didn't spread across the entire globe as small bands of migrating humans (subject to random hazards which might eliminate "proper" breeding partners) and not have situations develop where behaviors deemed "improper" today were absolutely necessary.
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/washington/05porn.html?pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/washington/05porn.html?pagewanted=print</a><br>