Posted on 08/03/2015 7:22:22 AM PDT by don-o
Widely quoted “outlaw biker authority” James F. Quinn has been charged with nine felony counts of possession of child pornography.
Quinn is a former professor of criminology at the University of North Texas in Denton and the author of numerous works about bikers including: “Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs: Aspects of the One-Percenter Culture for Emergency Department Personnel to Consider;” “The Tools, Tactics, and Mentality of Outlaw Biker Wars;” “Leathers and Rolexes: The Symbolism and Values of the Motorcycle Club;” “The Nature of Criminality Within One-Percent Motorcycle Clubs; “Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws, and Pagans: The Evolution of Organized Crime Among the Big Four 1% Motorcycle Clubs;” “Sex and Hedonism Amongst One-Percenter Bikers;” “The Organization of 1% Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs;” “One Percenter Women: An Evolving Typology;” and “Motorcycle Gangs.”
Quinn was frequently and widely quoted in regional and national publications including The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal in the days following the Twin Peaks Massacre in Waco on May 17. Quinn gave interviews and his opinions were quoted from May 18 until May 24 when he contributed to a story in USA Today. He gave an extended interview to Texas Public Radio on May 20. Bill Whitaker, the opinion editor for the Waco Tribune-Herald, quoted Quinn on May 31 in an editorial titled “Complicated biker culture blurs lines on good guys, bad guys, outlaws and wannabes.”
During all of this period of his recent celebrity, Quinn knew he had been caught red-handed with child pornography. Two pedophilic videos and seven pedophilic photographs were discovered on one of Quinn’s computers on May 13. He was arrested and booked into the Denton County jail on May 29. He resigned his tenured position at North Texas on June 4.
He was indicted by a grand jury on July 24. He is currently free on $10,000 bail. He faces two to ten years in prison and a maximum $10,000 fine if he is convicted. He is scheduled to be arraigned August 20.
Ah, the Pete Townshend Defense, very good!
Yeah, that’s what I was goin’ for.
CC
Same here!
I am withholding judgment on this one. First, because Waco “law” are known outlaws themselves. Second, anyone can have child porn on their computer. Anyone. How? Easy. Anyone could post a single child porn image on an FR thread and anyone clicking to read that thread now has that image on their computer.
In case people don’t know, everything you see on a web page must first be loaded onto your computer to be displayed; every piece of text, all images, all videos, etc. Those ‘Temporary Internet Files’ stay on your computer usually for a long time, unless you change the settings for them.
I’ve googled for benign images like ‘Christmas present for wife” and gotten some pretty risky results. You can’t hardly search for anything without some risky image coming through. You can set your google results not to but even then some images sneak through. Those images are on your computer. Again, everything you see in a web page is first downloaded to your computer to be displayed.
I had a rather famous neighbor recently go through this issue with a local DA trying to nail him for child pornography simply because he and the DA had a tiff. If you have ever googled and gotten a risky image it is on your computer, too.
>>> Looking for source other than Aging Rebel on the story, I did find something called “Google Scholar” <<<
Interesting and peripherally related, but not directly relevant to the multiple civil rights abuses in Waco.
The Pete Townsend defense
“In case people don’t know, everything you see on a web page must first be loaded onto your computer to be displayed; every piece of text, all images, all videos, etc. Those ‘Temporary Internet Files’ stay on your computer usually for a long time, unless you change the settings for them.”
All text, all images, all videos, are NOT kept on your computer.
“If you have ever googled and gotten a risky image it is on your computer, too.”
Only if you downloaded it.
I may be mistaken but none are stored on my computer.
Go learn HTTP and get back to us on that.
Obammy’s gubmint can plant it on your computer
That and I've never understood how a man could get and keep an erection in order to commit rape?!? My 'thingy' would be screaming, "AW HELL NAW!!!"
Since I am a girl and don’t have a thingy, thanks for telling me.
You and I are what they call “ old school”. Lots of things we don’t get now!
Indeed!
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