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I guess you were hoping that the 9/11 attacks meant a get-out-of-jail-free card for all other kinds of perps. Sorry, we still have to uphold the law elsewhere; its part of our attempt to keep our society from collapsing into anarchy, which was one of the goals the terrorists had hoped to accomplish.

BTW, 'entrapment' is a legal term that has been abused as much as 'terrorist' is going to be abused. An example of entrapment would be if an undercover agent got to know you and say, sold you a used PC. That night, agents break down your door and find thousands of kiddie-porn pix on that same PC. If people are voluntarily going to this site to download and exchange files, its not entrapment.

I guess you were hoping that the 9/11 attacks meant a get-out-of-jail-free card for all other kinds of perps.

No, and I think it's clear my opinion of this filth from other posts. However, especially now, we have limited federal resources, limited numbers of law enforcement officers and they have a pretty full plate. As destructive as kiddie porn is, it is far more vital to track down the terrorists before we worry about the kiddie porn, especially people just "using" it, not the producers. If this was a ring of actual kiddie porn producers, I'd say go for it. As it sounds now, it sounds like misallocated resources.

Have whatever reaction you want - call me names, make implications. I'm a pragmatist, and so are most cops and feds. You're the only cop in a one cop town, and there's a guy on one side of the street smoking a joint, and one commiting rape on the other, you're going to bust the rapist and ignore the potsmoker - for now anyway.

Others on this thread seem to be waiting with baited breath for some kind of crackdown on all "porn" - I assume everything from Playboy to Debbie Does Dallas falls under that. If Ashcroft (who I voted for twice for Governor and Senator in Missouri and supported as AG) goes after the California porn industry (as that Frontline seemed to suggest) me and a whole lot of other former supporters are going to bail on him. Incredible that it's even being discussed while the nation is at war and possibly rotten with foreign agents. My guess is that it's not being discussed anymore.

While not porn "user", it's protected by the first amendment and the stuff that violates local standards of decency is to be prosecuted on the local level. The Feds have no business getting involved in that issue.

Interesting that no one commented on the way they're going after the medicinal pot smokers in CA. I guess some things are too repellent even for this crowd to support.