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Did any of you happen to read about the Child Pornography bust a couple of days ago? A few things about this case really bother me. First of all, refer back to my YNOT Wire from just over a year ago, which concerns child abuse and has proved to be prophetic.BUSINESS THREADS

Did any of you happen to read about the Child Pornography bust a couple of days ago? A few things about this case really bother me. First of all, refer back to my YNOT Wire from just over a year ago, which concerns child abuse and has proved to be prophetic. My basic premise for this article was not how devastating CP is, but rather how I feel the government may be allowing CP to happen in order to create a social demand for them to step into our living rooms and monitor our adult Internet. Well this brings me back to the “Landslide” case as reported by MSNBC, and every other news media outlet.

What blows me away about this case is not the alleged amount of members, 250,000-300,000 (sure some of them may have not been looking at the CP, but they had access), it is the fact that the government has known about this for two years. The first arrest in this case was in 1999. “Thomas Reedy, 37, and his wife, Janice, 32, of Fort Worth, operating through Landslide Inc,… were arrested in September of 1999.”

So what happened to the site until two days ago? Who sat there and watched as hundreds and possibly thousands of new children were abused and raped? The owners and operators were arrested TWO YEARS ago! The government responded by saying, “Putting Landslide out of business was not enough,” he said. “Those who created the demand for this child porn … were still out there. The consumer or user is no less responsible for sexual exploitation of children than is the producer or distributor. And it has been our experience that many of the consumers are also child molesters.”

Excuse me but does this sound like some radical right wing bullshit or what? Are they not creating a frenzy here by announcing that this “child porn site has over 250,000” members, even though most of them weren’t watching the child pornography? Are they saying here that the viewers of child pornography are mostly all child molesters? There are that many child molesters in our neighborhoods? Oh my GOD! Lock the doors! Come on in government and monitor my Internet access… Just as long as these child molesting people are kept out of my neighborhood.

The government sat back for two years, watched this crap going on, and now they are starting to trace the credit cards and bust the consumer. Didn’t I say in my YNOT Wire about this that “I wouldn’t be surprised if the government themselves had a few CP sites.” Well, this was one of them. Now their next step will be to declare “war” on child pornography and start legislating their hands into our living rooms, bedrooms, and offices. Can’t you pretty much tell from the members’ database, who the members are within a short time? Especially the government, they can tell ANYTHING about us within hours, or minutes, from our credit card numbers. “Ok, here is credit card number XYZ, that belongs to Joe Shmo, he is a homeowner in Tulsa, and oh yeah, he’s a Libra too, and he took a crap this morning.”

No, they waited. They waited for two years almost. The government is quoted as talking about “In one case…a customer was in possession of child pornography videotapes”. On my local news last night they reported on the local San Diego connection with a registered sex offender who was a member. You mean to tell me they are now picking out individual worst case scenarios and bringing them to the forefront in order to create more of a frenzy?

Don’t get me wrong … please don’t. To me, there may be nothing worse than abuse and sexual exploitation of children. I hate it with a passion. But I see through John Ashcroft. I see what he is doing. I see his “vision” and “game plan” for getting his fingers wet in the adult Internet. I think he should be sent to jail for allowing this content to be distributed for an additional two years. By going this hard after the consumer, and not the provider, he is going the wrong way. He is just as responsible as ANY member for the extra abuse these kids went through.

I can understand going after the members. They should be punished. But why not go after the providers? In their war on drugs is the government not spending millions on catching the distributors and providers of illegal drugs? Are they not sending US troops into some of these problem countries to support the local military in busting these drug dealers? Why not spend millions, time, and government troops on this “war on child pornography”? I will tell you why, and I told you a year ago in my YNOT Wire. The government WANTS the adult Internet. There is no way the government will be able to publicly take a chunk of cash from illegal drugs, but they sure as hell can take a big chunk out of our revenues in the Adult Internet.

The children being raped and abused are going to be casualties of this war. Ashcroft isn’t showing me he could give a rat’s ass about these victims (otherwise he would use his resources busting the source of the problem). He wants to regulate the Internet, get the government’s hands in there, and take a big chunk of change from us all.

In the article reported by MSNBC, the reporter states, “The second phase of the operation – rounding up customers and suppliers of the child porn sold by Landslide – began almost as soon as the Reedys were arrested in September 1999, Weaver said.” OK, fine, then show me! The rest of the article talks of consumers being busted. You would think if they were “rounding up suppliers of the child porn” we would have heard about some of these major busts. NOPE, not me, not one. And there were zero busts reported in this article. There are no photos of the local sheriff, shotgun on his hip, look of death in his eyes, standing over one of these “child pornography providers.” Why is that? Why are there no reported arrests on the provider side?

Patricia Fix, a state prosecutor in Illinois, told the Chicago Tribune that authorities pretended the business was still in operation “and sent e-mail to subscribers to see who would buy illegal child pornography.” Well tell me something Patricia Fix, why did you not send the suppliers of this child pornography emails saying you need to update your website with new content? Or were you getting it already? And if you were, where did it come from and how come those bastards aren’t someone’s bitch in jail right now?

Something really stinks here people. The big picture of this bust has not come out yet. The mainstream media is feeding into the game plan of the government to get into our living rooms. They are reporting about how these child molesters are everywhere. They are creating a fear in mainstream America. The same media reporters who confuse the word “porn” with “child pornography” are reporting on this crime and confusing America. The slippery slope of this case is not going to stop at the surfer either.

If you think you will be immune to prosecution because you report all the child pornography you come across to ASCAP or other agencies, you are wrong. If you are surfing the net looking to see who has possibly stolen some of your content, and you get stuck in console hell, and some of these CP images pop up, you may very likely get busted. If you are not using safeguards or cleaning software like Evidence Eliminator, then you have child pornography stuck in your browser cache. The government can, and might, trace back from your reports to agencies such as ASCAP, and find these images. You are now BUSTED!! You think I am joking? Do you think this won’t happen to you? Well then, just talk to Mike Jones at CD Babes. This is exactly what happened and is happening to him. This is the hell he is going through. Because of a couple thumbnails he found looking for stolen content, he now has hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees trying to defend his good name.

I am not asking you to believe me, to support me, or to even agree with me. I am just asking you to look at the big picture. Look at the facts, and ask yourself a few of the questions I brought up here. What are the government’s true intentions? And if they get what they really want, which is a piece of the adult Internet, how will that affect you?

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