Most of people who publicly "care for children" are hidden pedophiles or control freaks, in my humble opinion. igor Mike Duvos wrote:
Damaged Justice <frogfarm@yakko.cs.wmich.edu> writes:
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) encourages the owners of Web sites to add a link that will bring up the picture of a different missing child every ten minutes. According to Ruben Rodriguez, Supervisor of the Exploited Child Unit, the Center is getting 70 to 80 requests a day for information to create the link. Some sites, however, have taken the initiative themselves, including pornographic Web sites.
One popular porn site proclaims on its home page that, "This Site Cares About Our Young Children! Please Take A Few Seconds To Look At The Pictures Of The Missing Children!! Every Ten Minutes When You Reload A Different Child's Picture Appears! If We Can Save Just ONE! Then Wouldn't That Be Worth It?" That particular site, said Rodriguez, will get a cease and desist letter from the Center's chief legal counsel.
The thing to realize here is that NCMEC is an agency which receives almost 100% of its funding from government agencies, one of which is the Juvenile Justice division of the US DOJ.
It has about as much to do with childrens' rights as aardvarks have to do with starship design. It exists primarily so that news organizations can point and say "Childrens' Advocates Praised the President's Decision" every time childrens' civil liberties are further reduced, or some laughable new definition of child porn is criminalized.
In addition, it helps to conduct the war against imagined pedophiles, both at home and abroad, and enforces the property rights of parents against any minor under the age of 18 who dares to leave their bed and board. These two agendas may be easily combined, since if one is not with ones parents, one is obviously in the clutches of an exaltation of pedophiles grooming one for a life of sexual depravity.
While reasonable people would see little problem in popular adult web sites also posting missing childrens' pictures, NCMEC toes the child sex hysteric party line, and accepts links only from ideologically pure "Save the Children" organizations, like CPAC, which engage in content-based harrassment of perfectly legal material, and which subscribe to the doctrine of "Voodoo Molestation" when otherwise ordinary photographs are viewed.
If you're a missing or exploited child, seek the services of a good childrens' legal advocate, not NCMEC, unless of course you wish to have your picture on numerous grocery items, be returned to your parents in handcuffs, and be used to promote someone elses political agenda, the only "services" NCMEC has ever managed to provide to children in need.
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- Igor.