400,000 Internet Child Pornographers

SENATOR BIDEN KNOWS WHERE 400,000 INTERNET PREDATORS ARE!

(Acutally, it's 399,999 not counting former disgraced Florida Senator Mark Foley who won't be charged).

September 22, 2008

Sen. Biden on introducing S-1738 in 2007, said, and I quote, "Let me repeat that, we have new investigative techniques that will allow us to identify many of the people who are trafficking child pornography and we can go pick them up. A very conservative estimate is that there are more than 400,000 people who we know who are trafficking child pornography on the Internet in the U.S. right now. We can, with minimal effort, take these people down."

So why aren't they? Oh yeah, money. The Feds need more money. They seem to be able to find it instantly when it comes to bailing out banks and other special interest groups who line their pockets with dough, but apparently when it comes to saving children from being victims of child pornography there never seems to be enough.

Perhaps if they stopped focusong all their energy and resources on former offenders who have served their sentences and have gone decades without re-offending we could go get these predators who are harming children NOW. Maybe we could actually prevent some crimes along the way. All across the country states are spending billions of dollars and wasting valuable law enforcement resources verifying addresses and updating databases on children who got caught playing doctor years ago, Romeo and Juliets who got caught up in the system, and others who pose no threat whatsoever in the here and now to the public. It is so terribly saddening to know that there are, as Senator Biden says over 400,000 people involved in child pornography and that officials know who they are but simply can't get them. After pumping $40 million a year into the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and their Cyber-tipline what have we to show for it?

It goes to show where the priorities of our elected officials really lie. It isn't really on the children, they have proven that banks and big business take first priority. second priority isn't for the children either, that's given to those who somewhere in their past have committed any of a number of enumerated offenses which can get one labeled as a sex offender, from rape to prostitution, to teenagers caught in the backseat of a car and everything in between. A literal alphabet soup that can't distinguish the dangerous from the non-dangerous and treats them all alike.

Billions get wasted on this every year, even though not a single shred of evidence exists to show that the ever mounting and increasingly costly sex offender registration laws have ever  proven to have  prevented a single offense.

Instead of focusing on the saving these poor children who are being exploited on the internet we pour money down a black hole of senseless laws that lead to senseless and unintended consequences both for former offenders and society as a whole.

Senator Biden wants to pour more money down a black hole even though we don't HAVE any money. There are laws already in place to address the issues Mr. Biden attempts to re-introduce in S-1738. Additionally, we've already thrown more than enough money to arrest and rearrest all 400,000of the internet predators he mentions several times over.

It is high time to re-assess how the billions of dollars already spent and allocated are being used. Are we getting what we pay for? Obviously we aren't. Not if there are 400,000 predators out there known by Mr. Biden that are actively breaking the law and no one is doing anything to stop it.

Instead of "throwing" more money at the problem we need to demand solutions. Solutions which focus on education, prevention and those who are ACTIVELY breaking the law.

We need viable solutions that address societal problems which lead to safer communities for ALL.

For more on Senator Biden's comments and proposed bill go HERE. 

Maybe we ought to all drop Mr. Biden a line or an e-mail and ask him how he's sleeping at night knowing there are 400,000 predators loose on the streets - with their whereabouts KNOWN, actively exploiting children. Let's ask him WHY then,  the major focus has been and still is on the 600,000 who have already been caught, sentenced, treated, and released - the majority of which are law abiding citizens.