(January 21, 2016 at 9:57 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:The problem I have with the arguments against the FBI are that most the posts on here that argue against the FBI are loaded with emotionally provocative language like this. The FBI ran a porn website, they stroked the lurid desires or paedophiles.(January 21, 2016 at 8:43 pm)paulpablo Wrote: If a drug officer did sell cocaine and it resulted in an overdose I'd imagine it would be the responsibility of whichever organization allows a police officer to sell drugs. It's my understanding that it's usually the undercover police who are buying the drugs and not selling it, and when they are selling it then it's fake drugs or they don't allow the person to leave and take the drugs.
Then why, in this case, are they allowed to purvey real child porn? It is the analog of selling real drugs, insofar as 1) it is disseminating the moment of abuse of a minor, and 2) stoking the lurid desires of the pedophile.
That was the point of my post.
What they did is took over a child porn website and left it running rather than shutting it down in order to make some arrests. The act of them doing so is ethically questionable to a degree but if you use your common sense it is probably justifiable.
A law is just something that is made up for the safety of people to prevent them doing certain actions and so on, and there's lots of laws against actions that the police are allowe to violate all the time, the police can break the speed limit, imprison someone, if you stop the police doing what they're doing its obstructing the law if they stop you and you don't comply it's obstructing the law.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
