Posted on 05/24/2007 8:43:34 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
"Stop, or else!"
That's the message from a local mom who is fed up with a self-proclaimed pedophile and his Web site that guides predators to young girls.
Jack McClellan admits he's a pedophile, whose full-time job is trolling for little girls. Once he finds them he puts that information on his site -- it's essentially a how-to guide for pedophiles.
"I'm mad, I'm mad somebody can invade our lives that way and it's okay, it's not okay!" says Sabrina, a concerned and determined Eastside mother.
Sabrina stopped Jack McClellan once, but he's back.
"The main thing -- I think they're cute, a lot cuter than women," McClellan said during a March interview.
Sabrina is determined to stop McClellan again. "I saw the site and the fear started welling up inside of me," she said.
What she saw was her own daughter's picture and personal details posted on McClellan's site. We won't use Sabrina's last name or her daughter's first name to protect the young girl's identity.
McClellan's site is a guide designed to help pedophiles find little girls from Bellingham to Tacoma. McClellan, Sabrina says, found her daughter at her school.
Even more disturbing to Sabrina -- she was with her daughter when Jack McClellan snapped the photographs. She was sitting about 50 yards away and had no idea McClellan was in the area, and no idea he was taking pictures of her daughter.
She warns parents to be vigilant everywhere and if strangers are lurking, ask questions. "I constantly am introducing myself to people I don't know, I tell them why I'm there and I ask 'why are you here?' "
She says challenge everyone, even school districts and their no-trespassing policies.
Now that McClellan's site is up again, Sabrina knows complaints aren't enough. She needs the law on her side.
State Senator Val Stevens says she was outraged when she learned McClellan's site was up and running again. She vowed in March when a Virginia Web provided pulled the plug on his site to keep him off-line.
"It's just a sicko that would want to use children in this manner," said Stevens.
The senator from the 39th District knows McClellan is not breaking any laws -- his first amendment rights allow him to do what he's doing.
So Stevens wants to change the law. She's drafting legislation for the next session. She says right now police officers are protected as Web sites can't post personal information about them.
"Why can't we do that for our children too?" asks Stevens. Her warning to McClellan: Stop or else.
"We're after you, guy, so help me!" warns Stevens.
"I think he needs to be put in his place, I think he needs to stop using children for his own selfish pleasures," says a determined Sabrina.
McClellan has not returned any calls for comment. His web site is now run by a Montreal-based web provider, and on the site McLellan says that because of "death threats" he won't make any public statements about his site.
Since McClellan is using a Canadian web provider, any Washington law could be toothless. Senator Stevens says she's aware of that and insists legislation has to start in our state - then she says she'll push for a federal law.
She's working with local child advocacy group Mother's Against Sexual Predators, who are just as determined as Sabrina.
Where is the father and other men in the community to take care of this guy?
Ask the ACLU, I’m sure they made sure he could get away with this.
And I would have to agree, if I was a father of one of those children there I would make it my solemn vow to hunt this man down and eliminate him in the most painful and lengthy means possible.
Be sure, there would be no evidence left, and I would have a few rock solid alibis, namely the other parents ;)
There used to be funny Italian men in my neighborhood who would have visited him.
Why is this pervert predator still loose?
I just went to www.zabasearch.com and typed in his name and state, and only 5 Jack McClellans came up. It wouldn’t be hard to track him down, I bet.
Turn it around. Take his picture and have posters made up saying? Have you seen this man? Put his phone number on the poster.
“I think he needs to be put in his place, I think he needs to stop using children for his own selfish pleasures,”
I think he needs to be shot.
You might want to make sure you’ve got the right guy before initiating drastic action.
That is, of course, the main moral issue with vigilantism.
You might want to make sure you’ve got the right guy before initiating drastic action.
That is, of course, the main moral issue with vigilantism.
A lynch mob wouldn't take that into consideration. I'm not advocating for lynch mobs. I'm just sayin.
Gee, do you think so? Gosh, I just think you should pop all five of them. /sarc
This guy needs to accidentally bump into a door at a police station, several times.
They’ve done it. This link takes you to the anti-jackmcclellan site. A link to his site is there, if you really want to turn your stomach and get your blood boiling.
Well that would be one way to make sure you did actually get the right guy.
Unless he’s not one of the five.
Washington State government is one of the most wackjob leftist types in the nation. State government there is run by radical leftist liberals who won’t prosecute drunk drivers or pedophiles just to name a couple of groups. After all, the 30 ft. high statue of Lenin in Fremont attests to their feelings for America. Although, Eastern
Washington is more conservative than liberal.
Falling down four or five flights of stairs would work too.
I was thinking the same thing.
The only thing dumber than a freshman Congressman is a state legislator who talks before he/she has thought.
Congressman Billybob
Heck, in Girl Scouts, we had to have written permission from the parents in order to take pictures of girls doing various activities, just in case those might later be used for news stories about the activity, or for advertising for the Girl Scouts.
Thing is, I figure local law enforcement would look the other way if something happened to this guy.
Heh, GMTA. I posted my question before seeing your comments. Seems that this is a direct violation of privacy.
S. S. S.
There is never a “lone gunman” around when you need one.
That is, of course, the main moral issue with vigilantism.
From what I have...ahh...heard (back in the day), that is how it is done. When normally non-violent men feel compelled to apply extrajudicial justice, it is an excruciating deliberation. They are fully aware that no system will protect them and that one day they will stand naked before their maker and have to justify their actions. No jury will deliberate harder or face the moral questions more squarely than moral men who have chosed an avenue of questionable morality out of necessity.
“I just went to www.zabasearch.com and typed in his name and state, and only 5 Jack McClellans came up. It wouldn’t be hard to track him down, I bet.”
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!! The chances of getting the wrong man are very, VERY high in this case - in all likelihood, he has already done the same searches on himself that you have done, and he is making sure to cover his tracks. You’ll end up targeting someone innocent if you aren’t VERY careful!
The best way to hit this ******* is in the pocketbook. Put the word out that all web traffic to his seedy site is being tracked and investigated... then try to get someone in law enforcement to do just that...
maybe we could use his web site as a trap for law enforcement to purge our neighborhoods of this vermin.
First ammendment is not ABSOLUTE, yelling FIRE in a crowded building when there is none.. Willfully Inciting a Riot etc. I’d have to believe this guys web site clearly is covered by conspiracy laws.. he’s conspiring with unnamed coconspirators to commit felony acts.
DA, get to work.
I don’t get it either....
I hope you will be content with knowing that you have enlightened someone today. In fact, the next time I am faced with any dilemma, I will stop and ask myself the most obvious question I can possibly think of in your honor (re: Toaster doesn't work. Is it plugged in?)
He gets away with photographing children without their knowledge or consent; and posting their pictures on websites while TV and newspapers must get a consent form signed by the parent or legal guardian before taking pictures of any child and posting them. Yet he considers it illegal if someone does the same thing to him. Here is a comment from his own website...
“Members of the media and other uninvited people on my property may be photographed and charged with trespassing. Members of the media and other people who follow me or my relatives may be photographed and charged under Washington’s felony stalking law.”
Can you believe it? According to this, it is illegal for anyone to follow or take pictures of this psychopath; while it is perfectly legal and protected for him to do the same thing to one/many of our children and then to post the pics for other pedophiles to view.
Laws need to be changed in every state to address and correct this hypocracy and protect our children!
McClellan says his purpose is to promote association, friendship and legal, consensual hugging and cuddling between men and pre-pubescent girls. He admitted to FOX News that his "age of attraction" is between 3 and 11 years old.
"I guess the main thing is I just think they're cute, a lot cuter than women. I admit there is kind of an erotic arousal there," McClellan said.
McClellan wants to bring pedophiles out of the closet and give them a way to get some relief, by going out and being around little girls. He suggests a number of places, such as plays at elementary schools, parks, swimming pools and libraries.
"I really think a lot of this pedophilia hysteria is overblown. I think there are a lot of people like me. They have the attraction but they're not going to do anything physical because of the laws. It just makes me happy to attend these events."
But he said while it's OK to look, it's not OK to touch, given the many state laws in place to protect children against that.
"I know it sounds kind of crazy, but there's kind of a code of ethics that these pedophiles have developed and what it is ... the contact has to be completely consensual, no coercion, if you're going to do it," McClellan said.
What’s needed is a hacker who can mess up his website ..... permanently.
Exactly!...It’s unbelievable to me. His rights as a pervert have more weight than a childs right to be protected from him?
Hm...
One would argue there is no expectation of privacy out in the public (malls, shopping areas, public park, etc). While his behavior and beliefs are abhorrent, one can walk into a mall and take pictures of anyone you wish.
Now, posting them online (or putting them in a magazine, newspaper, etc) should be protected, because you are essentially advertising the pictures then.
Just my .02 worth.
/note - yes, I’d be happy to see him have an accident if he threatened my children.
Right you are, C.B. Misappropriating and exploiting a person's image is a civil tort - there's no reason the legislature can't act in this area too.
In saner, less PC times, people like this sicko were lokced away and never heard from again.
I would be shaking with anger if I was her mom!
....”Washington state needs to get its head out of its posterior and get to work”....It won’t happen anytime soon. the same idiots in government who allow this, stole the last election for governor from Dino Rossi(the republican) by recounting the votes in King County until that liberal HAG Gregoire won.
Yep. The ACLU is currently defending NAMBLA in a similiar case right now, up in Boston I believe.
Whats amusing is I once had a debate with a clown that claimed it was the website owner being defended by the ACLU, on first amendment grounds. Couldn’t help but think of that poster ‘I damn sure wouldn’t let YOU around my kids’ if I had any.
There is no cure for pedophilia, which is why this guy can’t stop doing this. Its a complusion.
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