Poor little child pornographer

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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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. 

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         James A. Donald
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