Under the guise of protecting the children (what us libertarians call the "WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF TEH CHILDREN" effect), Alberto Gonzalez is seeking to get a law passed which would require ISPs to record ever customer's internet history and hold the ISPs accountable if they don't take a harder stance against child pornography.
These laws are never ever ever about child pornography. Wrapped up in the flag of saving the innocents, law enforcement officials use the laws they pass in so many other ways, railroading suspects, mining for data on people to prosecute, etc. The thing is that they'd never get this type of law passed by claiming it's an anti-terror law because enough people would cry out, so they do it this way instead so if you're against this bill, you're in favor of letting child molestors go free. Which is a pile of horseshit, but that's what people will say.
More children are hurt and killed by aspirin every year than those that are approached or hurt by molestors. Where's the global campaign against aspirin? Furthermore, the statistic 1 in 5 children are solicited is an empty one. Every time I log in on Yahoo Messenger, I am "solicited" by an IM Bot. Same with AIM. That doesn't mean it's a paedophile. But they certainly count those. I'm sure there are other inflated numbers in there, such as when the Dept. of Justice claimed a wildly huge number of children killed by gunfire every year EVEN THOUGH they were counting 18 - 19 year olds, and children killed by police in the comission of a crime.
Oh well...welcome comrades to your new police state.
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