http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:34:55 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/17/124155.php#comment-69729 Is this advertising? Spam? What? 69729@blogcritics.org Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:34:55 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/17/124155.php#comment-69718 OK rtdemarco, It's pretty clear this is an important cause for you, based on your multiple posts. So I am not going to question your motivations, as child pornography/molestation is a serious, unclean, evil problem. It's a problem that has been around for quite a long time. School teachers, soccer coaches, basketball coaches, priests, Boy Scout leaders - one can find them under any rock one chooses to look. Hell, I remember a soccer coach I had in elementary school who seemed to like "teaching" little boys - if you know what I mean. To this day, I remember fathers chasing his ass into the woods with baseball bats. He got away, cowering somehwere in the bushes until nightfall. He then undoubtedly left town and later resurfaced somewhere in Oklahoma as - you guessed it - a fucking soccer coach. I have a few questions - if "Politicians, media and law enforcement" officials are not responding to this supposed brand spanking new tidal wave of growing child pornography, why should we consider it the new plague of the modern age? Just because Philip Jenkins decided to go all James Bond/Pete Townsend on us, why does this mean this is a growing problem? I still contend children are far more likely to be victims of molestation from someone on the street and someone they know long before an Internet stalker talks them into a clandestine meeting at the local soda shop. If anything, parents have more control over what their children view/see on the Internet than they would when kids are at school/movie theaters/field trips....... I get the feeling you are trying to say that because of the Internet, child pornography is growing in popularity. It still gives me the creeps that you and a police officer would be staring at a photograph of child pornography at a local convention/meeting/pep rally intended to raise awareness about this issue. Frankly, policemen are not really educated enough to be discussing this vile issue with parents prone to fits of paranoia and fear. There's no better way to start a witch hunt than to get a bunch of angry parents in a room with a policeman at the podium. What's today's topic? Satanic cults? Witches? Hippies? Snuff films? The banning of Halloween? Subliminal messages in Disney films? The evils of <I>Harry Potter</i>? Homosexual Teletubbies? The first step towards stopping your own child from being a victim of molestation is communication. The second step is to remain alert. Keep an eye on those soccer coaches and school teachers. They're out there, and they're much closer than your Internet..... 69718@blogcritics.org Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:51:14 EDT