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Dem. lawmaker, co-sponsor of child porn laws, resigns; state office, home raided for child porn
Bizpac Review ^ | March 23, 2014 | by Joe Saunders

Posted on 03/24/2014 8:00:07 PM PDT by Lazamataz

e day after a Democrat Illinois lawmaker cruised to victory in his party’s primary Tuesday, he gave up his seat in the wake of a child pornography raid.

State Rep. Keith Farnham stepped down from representing Elgin, a city about 35 miles northwest of Chicago, days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided his home and his state office in Springfield.

Items that were seized included the laptop computer Farnham used on the House floor, The Associated Press reported.

The search warrant sought material that “in any format and medium concerning minors visually depicted while engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” AP reported.

No charges have been filed.

Farnham, 66, has been in office since 2009. In those five years, he has co-sponsored two laws cracking down child pornography: one targeting producers of child porn; the other stiffening penalties for its possession.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicagotribune; childporn; childpornography; cnn; demagogicparty; democrat; elgin; illinois; keithfarnham; memebuilding; msnbc; npr; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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Not surprised.

And the author is correct: This will go unmentioned in the national press, or more accurately, the national Propaganda Corps.

1 posted on 03/24/2014 8:00:07 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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“This will go unmentioned in the national press, or more accurately, the national Propaganda Corps.”

Especially the Democrat part.


2 posted on 03/24/2014 8:02:57 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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I’m sure he will claim he was just doing “research”.


3 posted on 03/24/2014 8:05:23 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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But,but,but, he was only doing research so as to craft a better law, yeah that’s the ticket!


4 posted on 03/24/2014 8:05:38 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Lazamataz

Shall we wait for the Chicago Tribune, MSNBC, CNN, NPR...to report this? It is remarkable it even appeared in this publication.


5 posted on 03/24/2014 8:05:46 PM PDT by Fungi
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Why did he resign? i thought this was a resume enhancer. Empowering to womyn and all that. Is it a tough election year or something?


6 posted on 03/24/2014 8:06:46 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Lazamataz

Ford F-150.

2 heavy tow chains secured to rear undercarriage.

Miles of hard pavement and off road desert rock and cacti.

I sense a plan coming.


7 posted on 03/24/2014 8:08:20 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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Someone at ICE who ordered this raid will find themselves out of a job by Friday.


8 posted on 03/24/2014 8:08:58 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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I’m sure he will claim he was just doing “research”

trying to find that inner child...spit

9 posted on 03/24/2014 8:11:15 PM PDT by bigheadfred
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Shades of Pete Townsend.


10 posted on 03/24/2014 8:13:29 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and is not afraid of the unlawful.)
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why the eff did Immigration raid him? What the hell business is it of theirs?


11 posted on 03/24/2014 8:14:43 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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The left excuses anything at all for their guys


12 posted on 03/24/2014 8:19:53 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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That’s a fair question. This sort of thing is the purview of the FBI and the Postal Services.


13 posted on 03/24/2014 8:21:54 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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Feds [Homeland Security] Interrogate Man Wearing Google Glass in Movie Theater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3114024/posts


14 posted on 03/24/2014 8:24:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Wouldn't be surprised one bit if the guy wasn't framed up by his fellow demoncrats. They don't want anyone much less one of their own to be a champion against kiddie porn. A guy like that would be a thorn in the side of gay child exploiters. My bull$hit radar is going off.
15 posted on 03/24/2014 8:25:17 PM PDT by Vote 4 Nixon (EAT...FISH...SLEEP...REDUX)
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This will go unmentioned in the national press, or more accurately, the national Propaganda Corps

Oh, you are so right!
How many people even know that one of John Kerry's Swiftboat crewmen that he dragged all over the country during the 2004 election was convicted and sentenced to prison for child-porn-I only found out because it was mentioned here!

16 posted on 03/24/2014 8:25:43 PM PDT by Larry381 (It don't matter what you say.....I'm offended!)
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why the eff did Immigration raid him?

One thing for sure. When the FEDS go after a DEM, it means he's one of the good guys. An American who doesn't want to sell out to the Socialist coup of our government. I'm surprised they haven't just killed him.

As to why ICE is being used to go after him, I don't have an answer yet. My guess is they were trying to get him on other charges, but those fell through when they couldn't manufacture enough proof.

17 posted on 03/24/2014 8:28:31 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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why the eff did Immigration raid him? What the hell business is it of theirs?

Elgin has a huge illegal population, I wonder if they thought he was making the porn.

18 posted on 03/24/2014 8:29:43 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
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Quite a surprise actually. I mean how could it make to public.


19 posted on 03/24/2014 8:38:34 PM PDT by wetphoenix
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Makes one wonder if, as this is ‘Chicago-way’ country, who he might have pissed off...


20 posted on 03/24/2014 8:39:28 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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