[Antoninus]

"People feel terrible, and everyone is wondering what could they have done differently," Shelkrot said.

Hello! How about NO PORN IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES!

[HELLRAISER II]

Liang said "If it were China, bang! He'd be dead and he wouldn't do it again." It's not often that I agree with anything done in China, but in this case America would be better off with this philosophy on Child Rapists. I say castrate him and put in Jail with BIG BUBBA and let him live the life that he's put this child through. What a piece of $hit!

[ConservativeMan55]

""If it were China - bang! We would kill him. Then he wouldn't do it again," Liang said."

Just rub it in our faces why don't you! Its sad that Communist China has better enforcement of their laws than we do.

[Deliberator]

A library employee who asked that her name not be used for fear of repercussions said McCutcheon was often disruptive in the library, yelling and using foul language when librarians told him he had used his 30-minute allotted time on the public computers. He looked mostly at pornography, she said, and officials banned him from the library only after he exposed himself to a 16-year-old library assistant.

If not for porn, this man would doubtless have been a minister or Fortune 500 CEO.

[Antoninus]

"porn is harmless" bump.

[xJones]

"He said he needed help," Knox said. "He said he threw his life away."

HIS life? He stuffed a 8 year-old life behind a toilet after violently assulting her, and he needs help? The child is in critical condition.

He was worried about his monstrous sin after he'd spent all that time in a public library reading porn sites getting worked up for it.

That beast needed being committed and a real exorcism.

[r9etb]

Surprise, surprise, surprise.....!

No, pornography probably did not cause this guy to be a sexual predator. The use of pornography, like the attack itself, was just an expression of an underlying issue.

But pornography probably did get him into a state where "a little relief" sounded like just the thing for him. And, as somebody pointed out yesterday, the fact that the guy is homeless is already a good indication that he does not have good control over his impulses.

Can't wait for our libertinians to show up in defense of pornography....

[Lancey Howard]

He looked mostly at pornography, she said, and officials banned him from the library only after he exposed himself to a 16-year-old library assistant.

Surprise, surprise.
As long as you can keep from "exposing" yourself to children, the librarians love people to come into their free libraries and help themselves to the internet pornography.

[adam_az]

You know, this is all George Bush's fault.... ;)

[Paul_B]

Yes, that would fall among the "reasonable" things that we can do, and one of the first and easiest ones at that. Problem is, the Left is so damnably UNreasonable about sound limitations on civil liberties.

[Tamzee]

Attacks on children and staff at libraries specifically connected to unfiltered Internet access there have been happening on a regular basis for years...

The ALA ordered members to STOP KEEPING RECORDS because those records were being used to support arguments in favor of filtering taxpayer funded Internet access.

The ALA and ACLU have been fighting ferociously to make communities pay for and provide 100% unrestricted, taxpayer sponsored Internet access to every site possibly available no matter how illegal the material is that is being accessed. The current policies of "tapping" a patron on the shoulder if someone complains about seeing porn on the computer is ineffective and has been leading to other patrons and children viewing porn by accident, forced to by perverts deliberately leaving it on the monitor or by their leaving pictures at the printer, and there have been numerous incidents of pedophiles exposing themselves to kids.


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This is excellent research compiled by a previous librarian who has been fighting this issue since the mid-90's.


http://latimes.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/02-361/02-361.mer.ja3.html

Dangerous Access, 2000 Edition:
Uncovering Internet Pornography in America's Libraries
By David Burt
(c) 2000 by the Family Research Council

[af_vet_1981]

"My heart was just ripped out," said Richard Knox, who ministers to the homeless with Fellowship Tabernacle Community Church in North Philadelphia. "I knew right off the bat it was him." With Knox by his side, McCutcheon, 23, surrendered to Philadelphia police Sunday and was charged with attempted rape and attempted murder in the attack at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Independence Branch. Yesterday, bail commissioner Patrick Stack set McCutcheon's bail at $1 million.

One good thing you can say about this pastor is he did not hear the confession and keep it hidden.

Hello! How about NO PORN IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES!

I concur. Either that or no public libraries.

[demnomo]

I'm suprised the man was even reprimanded for viewing porn in a public library. Here in Sonoma County, CA, (a Democratic bastion) we have a real problem with this sort of behavior. The library system is run by a bunch of flaming liberals who cry "censorship" and "free-speech" whenever a group of people get together to try and put a stop to public displays of porn on the terminals.

A few years ago, I actually saw a man masturbating once at my local library in front of a computer screen. After that sleazy incident, I stopped bringing my son to the public library. If we have to, my son and I go to a local college library where public viewing of porn on the computers is forbidden because some feminist prof was offended and made a big stink. (Go figure. I guess she never saw the glorious Larry Flynt "biography" film.)

I'm sorry, but I don't count publicly displaying porn (which invaribly leads to a person getting aroused and acting on it) as "free speech." I believe porn is degrading to men and women because it cheapens their worth as husbands, sons, daughters, wives, and mothers.

Amazingly, there are plenty of FReepers who actually defend pornography as healthy. I have no problems with women in bathing suits, etc. But I am disgusted by the "Girls Gone Wild" mentality and the porn industry that exploits human beings as pieces of meat to be viewed, used and discarded by other human beings.

[TSgt]

This guy needs to be freed from jail today.

And then hunted...

[Nebullis]

Knox prayed with McCutcheon in his cell before leaving him Sunday. But Knox also said he had problems sleeping because of fears about his own daughters, ages 8 and 14. (emph. mine)

I think he means guilt.

[judgeandjury]

"My heart is broken for the young lady. She will be scarred for the rest of her life," Knox said. "And he's a young man who threw his life away. He's a perfect example of what a hopeless life can do to a young man. Where there is no light, there's darkness."

Actually this is a perfect example of what perverted thoughts can do to a young man.

[Destructor]

"If it were China - bang! We would kill him. Then he wouldn't do it again," Liang said."

Welcome to America where criminals have Rights, and victims are humiliated and forgotten.

[FITZ]

The library was providing porn to a known pedophile. And allowing children into the library --- that seems almost criminal.

[kegler4]

"Hello! How about NO PORN IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES!"

Yes, I'm sure that would have turned him into a model citizen (sarcasm intended).

[Tribune7]

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[Tribune7]

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