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I was a member of an online support group for parents of disabled children. Someone with a Yahoo or Hotmail email (I forget which, but it was free at the time) joined and immediately started asking us for information on how to put his cerebral-palsy afflicted daughter out of her "misery." Well, that started a serious riot in the one online group I've ever seen that hardly ever had a flamewar. Many of the members of the group have profoundly disabled children, and it was a hotbutton for everyone--that makes sense, since so many of them started out being given the option to let a seriously disabled baby die, and they chose life. "Quality of life" is something people like this work for and value, but will not kill for.

Of course the admin banned the guy after very few posts. The upset he caused lasted quite awhile.

Some of us who believed he was serious, not just a troll, began trying to contact law enforcement. The FBI would have been interested if the threat involved money or child pornography, but simple murder? no. (They were very rude about it!) That's a matter for local law enforcement. Yes, but what locality?! Several of us tried for a couple of weeks to find some way to find out where he lived, but we could interest no national law enforcement in the matter, and nobody would issue a subpoena to the email service.

Had he been taking naked pictures of the 5 year old he would have been hunted down, his home searched, and probably arrested and tried. Or if he'd kidnapped her, the FBI would have been interested, or if he was selling drugs or bootleg cigarettes....

Since he was looking for a way to kill her, nobody cared.

Not long after this happened, a 5 year old with cerebral palsy was burned to death in a fire her father started, and he said he did it to put her out of her misery. I don't remember where that was, but I've always wondered if that was the man who was looking for a way to kill his daughter. The facts seemed to match.

Oh, and don't bother reminding an FBI agent that they get their paycheck from your taxes. They still don't have to answer to us and they know it.

Not long after this happened, a 5 year old with cerebral palsy was burned to death in a fire her father started, and he said he did it to put her out of her misery. I don't remember where that was,

Was that the case in AZ ???

As for the 9/11 Operators .. Years ago in Philly there was outrage when Eddie Polec was beaten to death by a mob of kids

Alot of folks were calling 9/11 and the operators there wouldn't send out the police

The FBI is more interested in its political image than in justice. A good political image means a good flow of money from the government. In the old days of J. Edgar Hoover that was more or less OK, because bringing justice was what people wanted. Now, however, it seems to have made them very politically correct. So they will dedicate hundreds of agents to finding an abortion bomber, but they will not lift a finger to protect a child from, er, assisted suicide by her parent. Even under Bush, they are still probably dedicating more energy to finding abortion protestors or "fundamentalist Christian militias" than they are to finding Muslim terrorists.

Apparently, in some states, police can't (or won't) get involved in a situation until violence has already occurred. Just before Christmas in Roanoke, VA, a young woman, a hair dresser, was threatened by her boyfriend. Someone, maybe a friend, called the police and they were told they could do nothing because he hadn't done anything. When he showed up at her work and waited outside, everyone inside was frightened. Finally realizing she would get no help from the police, she left, probably to protect the people inside. Within 2 hours, she was dead. A friend of my mother's was one of the patrons in the salon. So very sad. That woman's life could have been saved.