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Posted on 02/02/2004 9:02:34 AM PST by knighthawk
Bad guys get help
Even after the mass murders of 9/11, some people still have trouble accepting the fact that evil is a formidable presence in this world. There are hundreds of thousands of children the world over who are being sold into sexual slavery, and little is being done about it, even by the U.S. government. I first encountered this story in 1991 when I traveled to Thailand and bought an 11-year-old girl for less than $200. The negotiation was captured on tape and reported on the program I was then anchoring, "Inside Edition." On the streets of Bangkok, thousands of young children are sold into prostitution. The pimps and brothel owners bribe police, and evil parents give up their offspring for a pittance.
The New York Times Sunday Magazine recently provided an update on this story and, according to its reporter, the sex slavery industry is now firmly embedded in the U.S. In many cases, children are smuggled here through Mexico, where it is easy to bribe authorities. Once the border is reached, the children are shepherded across, and vans take them to cities like Los Angeles and Chicago. Crossing the border is easy, as our federal government will not secure it.
Some of these child sex slaves are Mexicans, but some come from other poor countries. Sex traffickers funnel them into Mexico and introduce them to prostitution using threats of violence and mayhem. You can imagine the fear and pain of a child in this situation. It is unspeakable.
The rise of the Internet has spurred the child sex slave industry. Kiddie porn is big business, and pictures of horribly abused kids can now be accessed by anyone with software. When evil and technology merge, the situation becomes catastrophic.
Enter the American justice system. Shamefully, in some cases, it is doing everything it can to protect people who brutalize and enslave children:
The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the North American Man-Boy Love Association pro bono in a Massachusetts case.
Federal Judge Dennis Chin denied the FBI a warrant in the notorious Candyman Internet sting case. The feds busted a child porn Web site and secured the names of Americans who did business with it. They then asked various judges for warrants to search the homes and computers of these individuals. Chin said no because he believed one could do business with child pornographers and not commit a criminal act.
An American named Jorge Pabon Cruz distributed more than 8,000 pictures of children being raped, sexually abused. He advertised his sick site on other Web sites, one of which was named "childrape." He trafficked in the vilest images imaginable, including pictures of infants being raped. In October 2002, this monster was convicted of advertising for the receipt, exchange and distribution of child pornography and sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison. That was a mandatory sentence approved by a vote of Congress. But the presiding federal judge, Gerard Lynch, publicly objected to the sentence, saying he would have given Pabon Cruz just five years. Lynch, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, as was Chin, made a big deal of this. Talk about sympathy for the devil!
So Judges Chin and Lynch witnessed the vilest acts adults can do to children short of murder. Yet they did not fully cooperate with a system trying to harshly punish the adults involved - adults who are literally destroying the lives of defenseless children.
Add to that the incredible actions of the ACLU, which apparently believes an organization devoted solely to encouraging pedophilia and legalizing sex between children and adults is entitled to a free defense.
The logical question is: Aren't these judges and this so-called civil liberties organization enabling evil? To me the answer is obvious. Evil cannot exist without human involvement and cooperation. And there's plenty of that going around.
BUT the case against them involves an argument by the victim(s) that NAMBLA should be held accountable for the actions of (sick & twisted) individuals because they viewed NAMBLA's website or had publications from the group in their possession.
What happened to personal responsibility?
If a court rules against NAMBLA in this case, how much longer until we see the same thing happening to the NRA or Operation Rescue?
Oh, that's right. It already happened with the "Nuremberg Files" (abortion doctors/"hit list") case.......
Sex with children is illegal. This is one case where I agree with O'Reilly. I think NAMBLA should be shut down as a criminal organization.
Guns are not illegal, per se. Which makes a case against the NRA pretty far fetched.
With the ACLU giving free help to, what is by any reasonable definition an organization devoted to engaging in illegal acts, I think it's time to conclude the ACLU itself is criminal.
Avoiding taxes, smoking marijuana, lynching blacks, evading speed traps, fooling DUI breath analyzers, etc, etc are all illegal too. Yet websites & other publications exist that advocate doing just those things. Should they be shut down too?
Guns are not illegal, per se. Which makes a case against the NRA pretty far fetched.
This isn't a case about whether the product, etc is illegal or legal. This is a case about whether a book, website, magazine, etc should be held liable for the actions of an otherwise unrelated individual.
(Beside the point but --) When the Plaintiffs in this case were asked to name just one NAMBLA publication that advocated such a thing they could not. They, instead, argued that NAMBLA "created an environment" that resulted in such criminal behavior.
Can you honestly say that you don't forsee someone using the same logic against the NRA or any number of other groups or publishers?
As I said in a previous post:
a) it's already happened in the Nuremberg Files/abortion protestors case so saying that it couldn't possibly happen to the NRA, etc is wishful thinking.
b) whether the action that is being advocated is legal or illegal makes little difference. Plenty of publications, websites, etc exist that advocate illegal behavior but it doesn't mean that they aren't protected by the First Amendment.
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Indeed. Disgusting.
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