Re: Bizarre Story of the Day: 'Wrong IP Address' Leads to Sha q Attack on I nnocent Family

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 10/24/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> > The seriously disturbing thing about this whole thing is the
> > sheer ridiculous, and dangerous, publicity nature of it.
>
> Like the raid on the Branch Davidians?
>
>
> > This whole thing sticks. Especially since it was a wrongful
> > intrusion on a backwoods family...
>
> I'm always perplexed by people's continued support of these types of
> raids. I KNOW people who have been raided for drugs, based purely on
> an anonymous call! I HATE people who harm children, and believe fully
> that those who create or trade in child pornography should be hunted
> down and shot. However, again, individual rights must be protected
> first and this story is just one of millions that shows why.
>
> For that matter, it's another scenario about what's wrong with DUI and
> NARC checks....

Huh?

The story that I read, says that it was a mistake. The police had an IP 
address, but that doesn't give them a physical address. So they contacted 
the ISP, who looked it up, and gave them the *wrong* physical address, and 
the police did the raid based on that.

An unfortunate mistake (on the part of the ISP), but not something that is 
the fault of the police. 

So then they got the right address from the ISP, did the raid to the right 
place, and caught a child pornogrphy distributor.

So your wish that this type of person should be hunted down and shot, came 
true, except that they haven't been shot, because they're entitled to a 
fair trial first (and that's the protection of the individual rights).

You could argue that the ISP should not have made the mistake, but people 
do make mistakes, and you can't legislate that they mustn't.

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