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Two Hundred Years For Kiddie Porn

by Susan Estrich

Lots of people who know about such things have been waiting to see what the Supreme Court would do about the case of Morton Berger. Mr. Berger was sentenced to 200 years in prison, with no possibility of probation or early release, for possessing 20 pornographic images of children.

I'm not defending kiddie porn or pornographers, thank you, Bill O'Reilly, but we're not dealing with the person who made the pornography or even sold it. We're dealing with a viewer who got caught by the use ...

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Posted by: Rogerisright
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Sun Jun 1, 2008 5:34 PM

Susan, Wanted to thank you for the fair treatment you gave this topic ...perhaps you should have gone further because this instant case may be about Mr. Berger's overly harsh treatment in Arizona but the bigger picture is that child abuse/Child Porn as become the crimen exceptum of our generation. The crimen exceptum is central to every inquisition, whether it be heresy, witchcraft, being a Jew, a Red under the bed or today one accused of child sex abuse or accessing child pornography. The crimen exceptum requires the suspension of due process and all real processes of justice. You do not need to be tried and convicted, merely accused. Today's crimen exceptum of either child sex abuse or accessing child pornography are the most potent of any ever possessed by a phase of the inquisition, which is why the current inquisition is so deadly. The crimen exceptum is already expanding into more general pornography, but here we deal with sex abuse and child pornography, the second the most powerful of the two. As the population comes under more control in the totalitarian state, as in America, the crimen exceptum of inappropriate sex may change to dissent/enemy of the state (heresy). While today's crimen exceptum of either child sex abuse or accessing child pornography is the most potent of any ever possessed by a phase of the inquisition, that the protection of children should form the basis of a moral panic is far from new. We see the censor and policeman and prosecutor here, together with the clever individuals who try to outwit them on the Internet through encryption and other sophisticated schemes. We see the hypocrisy and disingenuousness of the former and the growing interest in taboos and forbidden thrills of the latter. A good question to ask at the very beginning of an investigation into child pornography is why it is considered to be almost criminal, if not so, to question either its extent or the actual extent of any harm it might be causing to children. That such a conversation is taboo should speak volumes. Anyone affected by the issue of child pornography, especially one accused of accessing it, should be aware that the recent major police campaigns of Landslide, Ore, Amethyst and others are collapsing due to police corruption. One also needs to be aware that the police control virtually all of the child porn images available over the Internet and use them either in legal entrapment or illegal activities, so if you see an advertisement for child porn it is almost certain to be a police trap or corrupt scam. Susan there are more people in prison today because of this child porn hysteria than there have ever children actually involved in child porn. This is the ultimate crimen exceptum because no one dares to stop and say enough is enough ...Morton berger was an award winning teacher , a great father oto his own children ...a good husband ...he downloaded some pictures from a website with child porn that was owned and operated by the US Government...do we now have enough real criminals without our own government going out and appealling to some peoples human weaknesses and turning otherwise good prioductive people into the next generation of criminals?? Morton Berger never did anything to anyone ...he never sold or disseminated CP ...our Govt did shame on Mr. Berger for doing it and shame shame on our givt for using this issue to entrap 1000's of otherwise good decent people. the happenings described in Geroge orwells 1984 may not have been all present in 1984 but reread the book today and you will find that they have all come to pass today...THis isn't about saving children its about controlling everyone else ...no one with a computer and internet access is safe from this inquisition ..corrupt police, your own childrens usage, or their friends usage , trojans, mis clicking onn te wrong link all of these things could make any of us the next Morton Berger ...don't think for a second it can't ...he wasn't just unlucky ..he was set up and if anyone thinks they are immune to being the next 200 yr die in prison for what goes on inside of your imagination ...then think again

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