Posted on 03/21/2007 12:04:08 PM PDT by markchild
PROTECT says state is safe haven for child sexual predators
WASHINGTON, March 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Maryland has become a legal safe haven for child pornography traffickers, the National Association to Protect Children (PROTECT) said today, and the state's political leaders are fighting to keep it that way.
PROTECT launched a national grassroots campaign on Wednesday to demand that Maryland strengthen its laws against child pornography. Maryland is one of just five states remaining in the U.S. with misdemeanor penalties for child pornography possession, and PROTECT says that hurts children everywhere.
"This is not just a Maryland issue," said PROTECT spokesperson Alison Arngrim today. "When a sexual predator in Maryland goes online to get child pornography, a child somewhere will be raped to supply those movies and images. In the Internet age, children around the world are paying the price for Maryland's tolerance of child pornography."
PROTECT says a major part of the problem in Maryland is Delegate Joseph Vallario (D-Suitland), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. In recent days, Vallario's committee considered bills sponsored by 29 House members to toughen child pornography penalties. But the only legislation that survived, says PROTECT, was a weak and watered-down bill (House Bill 285) that keeps possession of child pornography a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine.
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I sent an email to MD, doubt it will do any good, but at least it's something.
mark
The Maryland legislature is too busy raising taxes and instituting a socialist state to worry about the rape and torture of children being exploited on the internet. They are, however, moving briskly on the ban smoking front. Nice priorities.
. Liberal gay rights activists are pushing for more access to our children, laws restricting it will never see the light of day if they can help it.
What are the other 4 states?
This is what libs like the kind who run Maryland really stand for: promoting the exploitation of children for tehir political advantage.
Whatever it takes.
Typical liberals.
I wonder what our friend MD4Bush has to say about this, now that his employer is in the state house.
He must have an ACLU lawyer friend in VA.
In all indoor locations, meaning that you won't even be able to smoke in your own house.
This is just so much more important than protecting our kids.
If you're a Commie or some other kind of totalitarian.
This is what libs like the kind who run Maryland really stand for: promoting the exploitation of children for their political advantage.
Whatever it takes.
Typical liberals.
I wonder what our friend MD4Bush has to say about this, now that his employer is in the state house.
Later pingout.
The people of MD elect mostly liberal Democrats so what do they expect.
Maryland - never been there, don't want to go there, and will never live there...too many Democrats.
Of all the crummy political and societal cesspools in Maryland, Suitland is near the top. What is Delegate Joseph Vallario (D-Suitland) trying to hide? What's his personal stake in protecting child pr0n0gr@phy? What did Vallario know, and when did he know it? He needs to be held accountable; the questions simply won't go away.
I predict that at some time in the future you will see people arrested for taking pictures of their kids in the tub or one of those cute bare butt pictures that we all have hanging on a wall somewhere. And don't tell me that it won't happen because the system will weed them out, it won't. It will prosecute them. Just look at what a mad-dog prosecutor can do by taking a look at the Scooter Libby trial. There's a 16 and 17 year old boy and girl in Florida who were prosecuted and convicted for taking pictures of themselves, not anyone else, themselves. The Florida Appellate court upheld the conviction. As the Chinese say, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
It's disgusting that it's only a misdemeanor, especially if people have actual DVDs, videos, and internet films of children engaged in sexual acts. The pictures exploit the kids as well, especially if they have to pose in provactive nude poses or are of the children performing sexual acts. I don't know what sort of person enjoys looking at innocent children being taken advantage of in such a way, but I think it should be more than a misdemeanor, as it apparently is more in the other 45 states. Most importantly, the people who produce these films and photos should really be gone after and tossed in prison as they are creeps.
What is with this Joseph Vallario guy? Maybe his computer needs to be checked.
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We had a virus that started giving up porn links (not windows) and immediately took care of it.
Anyway, that being said, computer can be iffy, sort of, but possession of ANYTHING else, like videos, DVD's etc. is a whole different story. That you have to make an effort to go out and buy. No *Ooops, it was an accident* there. OTOH, you can clean up your computer. The chances of someone just happening to look at your computer before you have a chance to clean it up are infinitesimal. A computer loaded with the stuff indicates someone who is using it.
Anyone who opens attachments they aren't absolutely positive about is stupid anyway. Any e-mail I get that I don't recognize gets junked so that anything else from the same source automatically gets the same treatment.
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