-- On 14 Dec 2001, at 19:50, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Declan McCullagh has been producing a one-sided series about a child pornographer's supposedly unjust indictment, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49132,00.html. Of course everything the pornographer says is taken as gospel, while the police are filthy liars. In fact they have gone so far as to plant child porn onto the computer in order to gain a conviction, in McCullagh's twisted narrative. Missing from this tidy story is the cost-benefit analysis from the part of the evil policeman. He has supposedly committed a felony that could lead to decades in prison, just to avoid the difficulty of handing the computer back with an apology, which happens all the time in police work.
Forgery of evidence, and planting of evidence, is routine. Punishment for such offences is almost unknown, even when trials flagrantly show such events. Nor have computers ever been returned with an apology, though on sometimes they have been returned. Cops, unlike mafiosi, never apologize. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG nKkjEJa5GfUc7pTTp51ElVtCdZhb4gZz8Oe2yOOz 4oaN5pQyENZ6t9LEXd0VJRwdSnEGFxK8OHohRpvzh