[Right Wing Professor]

So running a workshop on sadomasochistic sex techniques for young teens is fine, but making public what goes on in that workshop should be severely punished?

Fine, they broke the law. But what open society tries to impose draconian consequences on people who were making public what should be public - words uttered of public employees to children of the Commonwealth?

[yendu bwam]

Fine, they broke the law. But what open society tries to impose draconian consequences on people who were making public what should be public - words uttered of public employees to children of the Commonwealth?

RWP is right. The people who exposed these sick child abuse atrocities are heroes.

[Antoninus]

So running a workshop on sadomasochistic sex techniques for young teens is fine, but making public what goes on in that workshop should be severely punished? Fine, they broke the law. But what open society tries to impose draconian consequences on people who were making public what should be public - words uttered of public employees to children of the Commonwealth?

Excellent observations. This is a classic example of enforcing the letter of the law to the detriment of the spirit of the law.