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There was the blood evidence as well as fingerprints and fibers. The bug evidence is part art, part science and is not as solid as the DNA. As to Westerfield's character, the fact that he had the child porn shows that he is not a normal person. And he had an incredible amount of other porn also!

As to those defending Westerfield, IMHO at least a few of them share his fantasy life. Many posting here are not conservatives, but groups with their own agenda. I recall on one threat about strippers ("exotic dangers"), a number of posters went ballistic defending this "profession." Another time an honorable Vietnam Vet was attacked and ridiculed because he was concerned about the drug problem.

I worry just a little about your comment. I wouldn't say the people here defending him can relate to the crime. I would say a small minority may have one little problem: you can search this thread and find a few posts asking what's wrong with pornography on your computer etc. etc., doing everything they can to minimize the child-pornography aspect of it. That I do find troubling.

Christ's sword divides. The libertarians and the conservative Christians here aren't going to see eye-to-eye on pornography. But I would hope on the subject of child pornography, FR would be a place where that's not minimized or excused. I doubt that means that people here who say Westerfield's innocent on that charge too consume it. But I worry that they're part of the problem in the sense of not understanding the depravity and seriousness of this crime. I can't even understand the instinct to try to minimize what was on his computer. I don't get it. It makes me think, as I've said too often, some of these people don't live on Planet Earth.