Just so eveyone's clear on this, the Dateline setup does not have the police doing the "luring". The internet chat part is done by another group, Perverted-Justice. They forward the chat transcripts to the police which pretty much circumvents any entrapment allegations.
Go to the perverted-justice site and read some of the transcripts...especially the ones ranked as the Top 5 most slimy. There are some pretty sick individuals out there. Maybe there's a better way...maybe not. I don't know. I'm just glad someone is doing something about it.
Hey baby, do you want to cyber? The ex used to tell me she'd get that all the time in chat (had an alias that pointed to the fact she was a female). It sounds kind of cheezy to me, but I recently read some statistic (can't remember where) that stated that almost 40% of American males would rather not be involved in relationships and would, instead, prefer porno on the internet. Now I'm guilty of the latter, but I don't understand the lure of cyber-sex at all. As I used to mention about phones, "Oh baby, how does it feel." "Like a keyboard!"As for the child-predator stings, I realize they're constitutional and they get dirtbags off the streets and in jail where they belong, but something just seems dirty about them too. Do any of the guys actually believe they're going to get with a 13 or 14 year old? I'm pretty far out the loop, but I remember back in the day when all guys were blonde haired, blue eyed, muscular and well endowed, and most chicks claimed something +/- 36x24x36 and scortching hot. Everyone lies on the internet. It reminds me of the postal inspector's entrapments they've been doing for a while. There was one guy in Nebraska whose case went to the supreme court where he lost. He got legit porno mags in the mail, and the postal inspectors office decided to start soliciting him for child porn subscriptions. Apparently many years went by and the guy never responded, but at some point (like 7 or 10 years or whatever), he finally did and got popped for that. I was pretty young when that story was going down, but it was almost like they created the market for this individual who had otherwise done nothing illegal until they baited him and preyed on him to the point he couldn't help himself.
Again, don't misread me. I think scumbags need to pay for what they do. But how much of this (if any?) is caused by the artificial market they create?
TPS
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