martybegan
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To create child porn a crime has to be committed. Most of the other porn types, while weird are creepy, are usually legal, with the exception of actual snuff films and some beastiality things.
Now you have crossed over from defending constitutional principles, into defending possessing this illegal shit....
Whatever they do, they will probably get the warrants right this time.
What illegal shit? You keep blurring the legal with the illegal. The only thing that has been found illegal here are the FBI. And when will you START defending constitutional principles?
But absolutely, CREATING child porn is a crime. THAT is what ought to be sought out and persecuted. Unless you know something I don't, this guy was only about looking at porn, and wasn't making the pictures with actual children, nor was he, I assume, buying it from a producer of it, either of which contributes to the harming of kids. THAT is what we ought to be concerned with.
Possessing it is a crime as well, and isn't something challenged by most people.
Then this guy didn't posses any, or it isn't a crime, because this guy is not charged, arrested nor convicted. But what IS a crime is what the FBI did with Best Buy and how the FBI botched the case that apparently could have easily put a child porn viewer behind bars, where no crimes are ever committed at all.
He had stuff in his possession that was tossed out due to a bad warrant. It only means legally the material does not exist. In reality he possessed illegal materials.
But they only got even THAT far by breaking the law in the first place! Again, if they want people THAT bad, they should focus on the people MAKING the stuff. They don't even have time to investigate numerous warnings of a crazy kid turned shooter in Florida, they haven't the resources to worry about every little creep that likes just looking at kids. We have a legal system so backed up with low level crap that it takes months and years now to process a case. If we just focused on and stopped the makers and distributors of porn, there'd be a lot less need to worry about viewers.
The warrant got rejected because the judge was not given the entire story of how they found the initial picture in the first place.
And going after creators, distributors, or possessors of this filth is not an "or" situation, one can go after all of them equally, and since most of these people share what they have, it's usually not too hard to prove distribution.
Possession of something that was illegally made, in this case, is still illegal.