[montag813]

You want to let paedophiles off the hook even if they are subscribed? How would you like your head served back to you - raw or cooked?

My discomfort here has little to do with the subject at hand (which is repulsive), but with overzealous DA's and prosecutors, like this one, who complain about how inconvenient the Constitution is when they are trying to subvert individual rights, whether for speech, guns, assembly or otherwise. I don't trust these people who are often only looking for a headline case to boost their profile when they run for Governor (as they always do).

[MadIvan]

This is a subscriber list that they are working from. There is a whole list of paedophiles who gave out their name, address and credit card details. What the DA is complaining about is that this isn't enough - he has to actually catch them in the act online. It should be enough, however, to have signed on for something like this.

And damn your discomfort. Willingly signing up for this should be enough for any reasonable person. These are paedophiles we are discussing - the lowest form of scum there is. They have no more right to breathe God's clean air than a mass murderer.

Ivan

[Restorer]

Just curious.

How is catching subscribers actually online specifically required by the Constitution? Sounds more like a quirk of the law to me. If so, hopefully the law will be changed.

[LBGA]

Try dealing with a child who was molested, and then whine about personal liberties. It has taken me a lifetime to reconstruct a healthy self-image of a child who was abused.

This is one area where I think the government should have total access, to protect innocent children from the evil intentions of sick adults.

[writmeister]

These cases were actually prosecuted by the federal United States Attorney and not the state Criminal District Attorney for Tarrant County (Fort Worth).

Montag813, you were close on political ambition. Ms. Moore used this prosecution in her campaign for the local criminal district attorney. Fortunately, she was swamped under in the GOP landslide here in Tarrant County.

As a point of political trivia, Ms. Moore's husband was the publisher of Jim Wright's infamous "Reflections of a Public Man" -- whose phony royalties forced Wright out of office.