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76 Americans busted in massive global child porn ring

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A sweeping child pornography investigation has led to the rescue of 386 young children around the world and the arrest of 348 people, among them nearly 80 American nationals.

Canadian police described the Project Spade operation as one of the largest child porn busts they've ever seen.

‘It is alleged that officers seized hundreds of thousands of videos detailing horrific sexual acts against very young children, some of the worst that they have ever viewed,’ Toronto Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins said.

I have no idea why the death penalty should not apply to scum like this. After all, they have murdered the futures of hundreds of children.

Article is here.
 
This is where public stonings should be reinstituted.

There is truly a special place in hell.
 
I have no idea why the death penalty should not apply to scum like this.


Because too many people are too weak to put to death scum like this. Of course that is the only punishment they should get, instant death.
 
Because too many people are too weak to put to death scum like this. Of course that is the only punishment they should get, instant death.

Instant? No. They should suffer a little first.
 
The problem with making the death penalty applicable to crimes where the victims are not killed is that it almost guarantees the victims will be killed.
 
The problem with making the death penalty applicable to crimes where the victims are not killed is that it almost guarantees the victims will be killed.

Really? Hmmm, interesting.
 
I have no idea why the death penalty should not apply to scum like this. After all, they have murdered the futures of hundreds of children.

Article is here.

Many jurisdictions involved, such as Canada, don't have the death penalty, but I appreciate your sentiment here and don't disagree.

Don't forget, however, that some of the 386 children were sold into this sexual slavery by their parents in countries like Romania, according to the reports. You also saw recently the young girl who was sold by her Roma parents to another Roma couple - God knows how much of that goes on and how those children are used/abused. If the police can trace back to the birth parents of some of these children and it's discovered that they were sold, I sure hope those parents also receive the harshest of punishments.

Finally, I do believe in the great resiliency of young children if given the chance to prosper and if their psychological needs and social adjustments are given significant help - I sure hope they get that help and are allowed to develop and prosper even after such a terrible beginning to their lives.
 
Really? Hmmm, interesting.

ever read or watch the movie about what was called the Onion FIelds? a mope wrongly assumed that kidnapping would result in the death penalty ("The baby Lindberg law") and shot a cop for that reason
 
The problem with making the death penalty applicable to crimes where the victims are not killed is that it almost guarantees the victims will be killed.

I think I rarely disagree with you, but on this one I do. The penalty for a crime has nothing to do with it. If someone is a child abuser or child rapist, just knowing they might get caught and put to death doesn't turn them into a murderer.
 
I have no idea why the death penalty should not apply to scum like this. After all, they have murdered the futures of hundreds of children.

Article is here.

Only if they were the ones directly involved. But in the end, the answer to your question is that to kill those guys in our imperfect system necessarily means killing some innocents too. And innocent life isn't worth your revenge murders.
 
Instant? No. They should suffer a little first.

Old Mafia trick - shoot them in non-lethal areas, like their joints, with a .22 short round and watch them slowly and painfully bleed out.
 
Only if they were the ones directly involved. But in the end, the answer to your question is that to kill those guys in our imperfect system necessarily means killing some innocents too. And innocent life isn't worth your revenge murders.

End users of child porn are NOT innocent. THEY are the ones who created that market in the first place.
 
Despicable human beings all of them.. Stoning would be an easy way out if I could get my hands on them. This is why I don't let my kids out of my sight, or play in the front without me or the wife being there. You can't tell a sicko from a normal person no matter how hard you try. I'll play it safe until my kids learn first to be situationally aware at all times, and are big enough to defend themselves. My 13 year old son (oldest) is big enough to defend himself but he is not situationally aware, and as such he's not allowed to roam the neighborhood free. If he wants to hang with his friends they hang here, period. They don't like it, tough, I'm not your best friend, I'm your Dad, and it's my job to get you into adulthood safely.

Tim-
 
End users of child porn are NOT innocent. THEY are the ones who created that market in the first place.

That's like saying some dude who smokes weed is responsible for the murders by a drug cartel. Nonsensical. They didn't make the choice nor take the actions. You cannot hold a man accountable for the actions of others.
 
That's like saying some dude who smokes weed is responsible for the murders by a drug cartel. Nonsensical. They didn't make the choice nor take the actions. You cannot hold a man accountable for the actions of others.

You're damn skippy, I can. There would be absolutely NO child porn if these creeps didn't order it. I say bury 'em.
 
You're damn skippy, I can. There would be absolutely NO child porn if these creeps didn't order it. I say bury 'em.

Arm parents.
 
That's like saying some dude who smokes weed is responsible for the murders by a drug cartel. Nonsensical. They didn't make the choice nor take the actions. You cannot hold a man accountable for the actions of others.

A little logic, as to why you cannot compare someone who views child porn to someone who smokes weed.

1) Assume that a man is sitting at home, smoking weed, and watching child porn.

2) Smoking weed, by itself, does not harm others. Others are not murdered, maimed, or caused psychological damage because of the weed itself. Yes, the cartels do kill people, but that is the cartels, not the product itself. If I wanted to grow weed myself, I would grow it, then smoke it. Nobody is hurt.

3) The harm in child porn is in the porn itself. If I wanted to make child porn to watch later, I would have to abuse a child to do it. By the very act of ordering child porn, I have automatically caused harm to a child, no matter if there is other crime surrounding it or not.

4) There is no comparison here. The violent crime that occurs incidentally in both weed and child porn are the red herrings in your argument. When you look to the actual product, one is harmless, the other harms kids. If one orders a product that automatically harms kids, then he is just as guilty as the producer of that product.

What's not to understand here?
 
Police said 108 people were arrested in Canada, 76 in the U.S and 164 in countries from Spain to South Africa and Australia. Forty school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, and more than 30 people who volunteered with kids were among those taken into custody.
The list of suspects also includes nine clergymen, six police officers and three foster parents.

People making the images included a youth baseball coach in Washington state who made more than 500 films and a school employee in Georgia who put a camera in a student washroom to videotape images of students' genitals, U.S. Postal Inspection Service inspector Gerald O'Farrell said.

Grotesque.
 
The problem with making the death penalty applicable to crimes where the victims are not killed is that it almost guarantees the victims will be killed.

No in these cases. There needs not be a victim that testifies in child porn cases. Killing the vic serves no purpose.
 
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