WTF?? Homeland Defense now attacking Child Pornography??

[ElementaryPenguin]

Doesn't quite sound like the role this agency was supposed to play, does it? What's next? Cracking down on pot-smoking, political dissidents? Some fucking defense. Not that I'm defending the monster scum connected with child pornography, but...

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/07/10/MN254808.DTL

[Jacobin]

1. They found 12 whores in New Orleans, too

Only took them a year. I'm very impressed. These sleuths are something else.

I sleep better at night now.

:eyes:

[MaineDem]

2. I heard Ridge talking about this

I asked my husband when this became a Homeland Security issue? Is the FBI under that dept now? Seems to me this should be a Justice issue.

[southernfried]

3. yes its FBI and FBI is now H.S.A.

.

[lazarus]

4. okay, this is frightening

From the article, a quote from John Walsh:

"This sends a loud message to pedophiles who know no borders, especially illegal aliens that come here, that molest our children, serve time in our prisons and then are released, that you cannot stay in the United States."

Is this a big issue I hadn't heard about?

And this paragraph sent chills down my spine as well:

Tom Ridge, head of the department, said various federal law enforcement agencies had stepped up their cooperation since the Sept. 11 attacks and, in some cases, had been merged to better combat terrorism. That process, he said, has given law enforcement authorities "a vast set of resources" to apply to other threats, including criminals who prey on children.

[ElementaryPenguin]

8. Some scary shit, indeed!!

Aliens = evil = terrorists = national security threat = non-Christians = pedophiles!!! WTF?? Substitute aliens with the word Democrats.

[patdem]

5. New Enemy Combantants....

I hate pornography....not sex-even videos of sex is not pornography...now there are animilist crap...and other garbage out there that is pornography...or child sex...yes, absolutely criminal....however ..there is a difference......

This is criminal act not a terrorist act....there is something very wrong with this!!!!

[aquart]

6. I was stunned when I heard that yesterday. Stunned.

So our borders are completely secure now?

Who knew how much the Bush boys envied the KGB? And now they have their own.

What pisses me off most is that they are using kiddie porn for their first raid on citizens' rights because who would ever object to saving innocent children?

[rfranklin]

7. POLITICAL PLOY-- nothing creates more right wing tumescence...

than the topic of child pornography. Of course, research reveals that 99% of child molesters are Republicans.

[htuttle]

9. This is a common tactic

I remember when the Communications Decency Act and the Clipper Chip were getting pushed in the 90's. Proponents of both initiatives used the same argument: That these things were needed to protect us from pedophiles and drug dealers.

Of course, anyone who was against these laws was then by definition on the side of pedophiles and drug dealers.

[tkulesa]

10. That database is of images...

So the worlds largest collection of child pornography images will be held by the dept of homeland security, and they are going to keep it in an indexible, searchable form.

That's sick.

It sounds more like they have a group of very organized perverts working at DHS.