[WL-law]

And you are being absurd, comparing apples to oranges. Child porn just doesn't jump on your computer, and all the porn sites on pop ups are not child porn. You may not like it, but they are not illegal, just as driving an SUV is not illegal.

(Ahem! -- here's a secret -- I am already a [great] trial lawyer!)

But seriously -- let's try an experiment. I'll bet I can construct an innocent way that such images might appear. Let's say you're writing a paper on Nabokov's Lolita and you want to searcn the web for references. Try typing Lolita (and Nabokov)on Google and see what jumps up. Maybe you're shocked and you click on one of the references that has just poped up and you're not really sure what it means. Or maybe you're even amused and titillated, thinking, this can't be real. Then you click (and that's the criminal act - not an assault, a robbery, no criminal intention, just a ---!CLICK!) and your computer is BARRAGED with images, solicitions, etc, and the pictures are ALREADY THERE!!

Guess what -- you've already committed a crime, and most of the Freepers here responding are HAPPY WITH THAT OUTCOME! Unbelievable, in my opinion. And even if you immediately erase the file, its still on your hard drive and you still POSSESS it. And so you can't 'de-criminalize' yourself. Gee that's SWELL!

And it gets worse -- in those pop-up storms that you CANNOT shut down, one of the sites will slip some code into your system files and take over your homepage, and now every time you try to get on the internet, POW --Russian child porn! Did you know that one of Microsoft's recently released patches was an unsuccessful attempt to correct that system vulnerability, and that there is no real way to cure your system once it occurs except by a complete reload of the operating system?

Yes, this is all true -- I have clients in the industry and can verify ALL of this.

So there you have it -- and hence my defense of Townshend in the face of universal condemnation. I don't know if he is innocent, but I SURE don't know if he is guilty, although most here have reached that conclusion.

[jwalsh07]

So there you have it -- and hence my defense of Townshend in the face of universal condemnation. I don't know if he is innocent, but I SURE don't know if he is guilty, although most here have reached that conclusion.

He's guilty of purchasing kiddie porn. The only question remaining is his motive for doing so.

Is he a crusader or a stinking pedophile?

[Jesse]

Yeah, whatever. Go have a highball and pat yourself on the back some more, and troll for some more pond scum so as to screw some productive person out of a lot of money.


BTW, if you respond and say that you are an ethical trial lawyer and pay the fees of the people you sue when you lose, I will have a lot of respect for you and reconsider my opinion. But I don't think that is the case, now.

BTW, let me know if you need a new rock to sleep under...

[Torie]

Suppose you type in your credit card number, like Townsend did 4 times? How relevant are your listed hypotheticals then? Your defenses are more micro, and doomed to failure in this case. I suggest that while maybe not relevant to an individual defense, more macro issues need to be addressed when it comes to public policy on this matter.

[js1138]

The barrage of popups you "can't control" can be deleted from your machine. Just delete temporary internet files. If you have reason to believe the unrequested images are illegal, you can notify your ISP and ask them to investigate. I certainly would. I occasionally get spams with pornographic images, but so far none that suggest any of them involve images of children. If anything like that does appear, I'll be on the phone to my internet provider.

[DoctorMichael]

Bump this.