Posted on 04/25/2019 3:28:06 PM PDT by SMGFan
You sure do assume a lot about me.
While the subject gets me passionate about it, this is not any sort of theme in my life nor do I live as a victim. 99% of my life, this subject doesn’t come up.
Cracking down on pedophiles and child sex slavery is essential, and Gd will have a way for us to do so while not risking innocents being falsely convicted.
It’s a bit presumptuous of you to assume things about my life like you have, from some higher position you seem to have climbed to.
If the spy methods are not actually reliable, they should not be used, goes without saying.
But like with terrorism, we don’t have to inform the rest of the terrorists what we are privy to.
I don’t trust the government.
I believe the kicker here is that the reason the feds are able to ID these people is because the feds are running most of the CP sites to begin with, and are promoting these sites as entrapment schemes. As effective as this might be it’s totally illegal, because of course the fact that it requires promoting and distributing said content.
After what we have seen these agencies do, there’s no reason to believe anything they assert is on the up-and-up without seeing the whole of the facts.
So Q is wrong
You do NOT want to stand before God with this stuck to you.
Repent NOW!
God loves sinners and is anxiously awaiting their repentance.
God will forgive you, but you will still have to deal with those you harmed, they won't forgive so easily.
This is the unfortunate truth!
So what is the use of the new surveillance gear if it can’t be used in court? It seems to be simply peeping tom software for perv feds.
Agreed. Because it's impossible to prove a negative. Once charged, it hangs with you forever.
Seems to me that it's pretty obvious they haven't found that way or they'd be willing to give up the source code of their programs/methods.
The biggest problem they face is that to uncover these cretins, they may have to go right up to the line of what is permissible in a free society. If they go beyond that line, it can't be allowed, or any of us can become victims, because there is no way to limit those methods to only be in the case of child molesters.
“I for one am perfectly fine with the government preventing discovery on all the techniques they use to track down the scum of the earth who should be hung in the public square”
Right.... So trust them, that the evidence was not faulty. No no, you the accused don’t get to know how it works or anything. No we can’t tell you how we know, but for sure you are guilty. Would not want you to have a chance to defend yourself. Technology never fails! Just trust it!
Tell that to the passengers of the 737MAX.
As angry as it makes me at first...I find it hard not to blame them in a world where leaked classified intel will be disseminated to every hostile actor ON THE PLANET in a matter of days or less.
These systems are needed to catch people who are actually dangerous to our national security. People who would happily set off a suicide bomb in a crowded mall, or a jerryrigged nuke in New York, or hijack planes for ANOTHER kamikaze mission into the nearest skyscraper.
If they go to court and are forced to reveal actionable info on how they find the bad guys, it won’t be just a few kiddy fiddlers who use it. It’ll be the Iranians, the Norks, the Russians, and every dime-bag terrorist on the face of the Earth.
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