May 26, 2012
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Despite a new law designed to tackle grooming of young people by suspected paedophiles on internet websites, police are unable to act against those hosting chat forums, contact sites and advice pages.
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Gotto love a political system where the corporations have a bigger say in things.
Heres another website that i called and reported to the police myself, and perhaps if enough of us do the same they will actually move to do something about it: anontalkDOTcom
Go there for a second and see the topics, absolutely disgusting, but DO NOT post there, because if the cops do decide to do something about it, you dont want your post there now do ya?
There is no excuse for this.
If the police can target downloaders, then they should be arrested for not jailing paedophiles.
What is wrong with Jonas ? does he have kids ? Does he care about protecting kids from sexual abuse. Unless there is a big change in attitude by police in Sweden then it is not safe to keep your children in Sweden .. Isn't that what Sweden is about safety and womens ans childens rights when did it change to freedom of expression at all costs.
Poking some poor kid with a penis and ruining his/her entire life should be weighed in with freedom of expression properly, because the way i see it the scales wont even be close.
in fact I would even support a law that say the police can search anyones computer *at will* looking for child porn, but anything else they might find is inadmissible (to take away the excuse of simply searching computers and finding something to pin on the individual).
Child porn is a disease that not only spoils the mind of the person who is into it but ruins others lives before they have even started.. and should be taken far more seriously than it is.
Either that, or convicted child porn consumers and peddlers should be released every Friday in a square bound and gagged, while the parents + extended family of the
victims are given baseball bats..... and everyone else looks away for 7 minutes.
Thats my 2 cents anyway.
And for the Police, what a lame work they have, retrograde excuses never the less!!!
Furthermore, I am an American and have never visited a third world country for a sex holiday nor have I ever met anyone who has. I have traveled to Sweden several times and the only person I had sex with was my wife...
I beg to differ.
I believe paedophilia is curable. Execution would cure it perfectly.
I am afraid, that this isn't an american culture import. Just ask average american about all those things and you will see, that most of them are far more conservative that europeans. We don't get a right picture of americans, because of pop style Tv shows, movies and etc.
I dont' think that ir would be possible to find child pornography in american libraries like you can do so in swedish libraries.
On the other side, everyone parent should browse through some popular internet chat sites and they would find, that 90% of all those 12-15 year old children (especialy girls) exposes in all possible ways. you don't need to be a member of secret pedophile site if you want to get hundreds of almost naked children photos. Just spend a few minutes in facebook. So who is guilty then?