[video=youtube;t7qTBkA8X_E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7qTBkA8X_E&feature=player_embedded[/video] The Pentagon’s top investigator yesterday vowed an “all-out pursuit’’ of any employees who downloaded child pornography, adding that his division would review the 1,700 potential cases that were referred to military investigators four years ago but were never screened.... Read more
The floods, the quakes, the storms, the birds, the fish, the oil fiasco, water pollution, air pollution, corruption amongst pentagon employees, corruption amongst diplomats, politicians. Yup the system of man shall fall very soon.
It's crazy how such a shocking news just slipped everyone's radar. This should be all over the fucking news. Just goes to show how goddamn biased the media can be.
Well considering our government is so screwed up that they legally consider any pornography where the age of the people involved isn't documented to be "child pornography," this isn't all that surprising. Any time you download/view porn from any non-verified media source (anything other than pay-per-view TV, official websites representing various porn actors/actresses/production companies, or buying a physical/digital copy of pornographic material), you're technically watching child pornography, thanks to a bunch of fucked up laws that were passed a few years ago. If the government ever seized my hard drive, I'd probably end up on a registered sex offender list solely because I have porn on it. Also, this thread title is ridiculously misleading:
You guys make a lot of silly assumptions. Also, considering what happened in Tucson, this shouldn't be "all over the fucking news," because what happened there, right now, is much more important and more significant than some child porn investigation. This is a big deal, yes, but let's not blow things out of proportion.
Some child porn investigation? Really? I can understand it being not big news if it were for any other organization. But for an organization like The Pentagon to be associated with such a heinous crime and it not being on the news is just plain crazy. And that's just one part of it. I won't even go into the topic of how they just decided not to investigate over a thousand cases.
I didn't say it wasn't big news. I said it's not the biggest piece of news out there. Plus, there's not really any sort of confirmation, from what I understand, of all 5200 people actually downloading the stuff. Is it heinous? Yes. But I'd say the murders of innocent people, including a 9 year old girl and a District Judge, and the near-death of a Congresswoman are much more important than some investigation that doesn't really provide anything conclusive.
The numbers here are inflated to be sensationalist. 5200 people DID NOT get child porn, they are SUSPECTED of having child porn. Look farther and it shrinks to 302, and then 70 prosecutions. While it may be true that the govt may have been looking at other things, and it is a real shameful thing that there are years of this crap getting past the radar, there is no way in hell that all those speculating suspicions are all true. They don't even say where that number comes from. But by all means crack down and find the real assholes, its just that inflated journalism ticks me off too. With something taboo and severely punished as this, my greatest worries during investigations is that they'll start prosecuting people who were actually innocent, or were on the bad side of a downloader virus, or on the bad side of someone who hates the gov't.
I bet the veins in your forehead bust every time you watch Fox News, then. Or, hell, any news channel. Or newspaper. Or internet news website. Or talk to someone on the street.
I agree. There's no way people could take in information about 2 outstandingly news-worthy topics in this short period of time. Kind of like the deaths of Michael Jackson and Billy Mays in one week. I bet people still think Billy is alive. Broadcasting more than one highly important thing in the news at once is absurd these days.