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ªºªandca®ole wrote in alt.support.boy-lovers on Wednesday 27 February
2008 22:30 in Message-ID:
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Post by ªºªandca®oleRead the post entitled "Plaque Frank R. McCoy" pedo frank had
this coming for a long time. Do some research on "Pedo U"
frank was in the "Family Counseling Office Pedo University Usenet
campus"
So what? You don't think there were cops in there, reading every post?
(Just like there are here....)
Obviously, the authorities didn't seem to think it meant anything
in 1998, or they would have arrested him _then_ ....
Post by ªºªandca®oleHe deserves to go down and I don't give a rats ass how they do it.
That says far more about you than it does about him.
Post by ªºªandca®oleI *strongly* suspect there's more to this case than we
know at the moment. Hold your judgement, at least for now.
Yeah, right. You forget, I was there at the time. I saw Frank participate
in the group, first-hand. He did nothing illegal under U.S. law, that I
observed. Given that the authorities were monitoring the group, I guess
they didn't see anything either. So much for your suspicions.
/I/ strongly suspect that politics is what's at issue here--somebody's
trying to use Frank's case as a springboard into politics, I'd wager.
I'll bet that it'll be just as unsuccessful as Dennis 'Wacko' Vacco's
"Pedo U" publicity stunt in trying to get himself re-elected. It was most
interesting that of the one or two dozen ISPs that carried the group in
New York State, the /only/ ones to get their servers seized were in
_precisely_ those Districts where Vacco needed the most votes to get
re-elected.
- From a contemporary story published on CNet:
http://www.news.com/2100-1023-217342.html
[...]
Both the attorney general's office and its critics called
Tuesday's confiscation unprecedented. EPIC's Sobel said his
organization had never heard of a similar seizure of a news
server, a move that Wurzel called "groundbreaking."
The ISPs' best defense may be to claim that they didn't know
that copies of the images existed on their servers, a position
taken by BuffNet today. BuffNet denied it had been warned of
the pornography, the email inquiry from the undercover agent
notwithstanding.
"The agent stated that he had found this picture through the
newsgroup and implied that he did so through a BuffNet account,"
BuffNet attorney Steve Fox acknowledged. "He did not say that the
| image was still available on the newsgroup, and I, as an attorney,
| looked at the pictures in there and did not see anything illegal."
Note the statement above, by the lawyer for Buffnet--he examined the
images in the group and didn't find anything illegal.
[...]
BuffNet posted a statement in response to the seizure. Both in the
statement and in comments to News.com, BuffNet suggested that the
attorney general's actions were politically motivated.
"The attorney general has a legitimate concern about child
pornography on the Internet," BuffNet vice president and co-owner
Mike Hassett acknowledged. "But his ultimate motivation is the
election we're having on Tuesday. He won last election with upstate
New York votes, and for this raid he chose ISPs in upstate areas
to make his point."
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