Re: U.S. Homeland Security Official Arrested in Online Sex Sting

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 4/5/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> > I understand it's a crime if you thought a girl was over 18, and she's
> > actually under 18, because what counts is what is true, not what you
> > thought was true.
> >
> > But wouldn't that also mean that the reverse is true, if the person he was
> > actually seducing was a 45 year old fed?
> >
> > Colour me confused.
>
> Neither law is a GOOD law.
>
> In your scenario the law has to do with a physical act which may or
> may not produce a victim, depending on the age of the would-be victim.
>
> In the story, the law has to do with a THOUGHT, which obviously does
> NOT have a victim at all. Is the guy a sick puppy? Yep, but that's not
> a crime either.
>
> What's really sick, though, is that if they caught this guy actually
> raping/molesting the girl he'd just get a couple of years in jail. I'd
> save us all a lot of money and simply spend 50 cents on a .45 and be
> done with it.
 
My understanding was that there never was a girl. It was all a sting, and 
I doubt if they use real girls in their sting operations.

You just condemned a man to death for flirting with a 45 year old FBI 
operative.

When my girls were 14, they found out about IRC and suchlike. Initially, I 
used to lurk in the same channel or chatroom they were in, so I could 
check up on them. But they didn't do anything much, and now I don't bother 
checking on them any more. Well, they'd probably be quite annoyed with me 
if I did, they're mid-twenties now.

Shouldn't someone do something about all the rape, underage sex and incest 
in the Bible?

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