Just a despicable story. Think I saw something about it when this perv was charged, but he's been booted. Seems he had a work iPad that also contained horrific images. That was the tipping point.
http://truthfeednews.com/dem-politician-forced-to-resign-after-infant-porn-found-on-his-computer/
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ahr was arrested and charged on Oct. 11 with several felony counts. According to investigators, Ahr sent and received hundreds of child porn images since 2014 — some depicting infants and toddlers as well as “sadomasochistic abuse and abuse involving children and animals,” the Inquirer reported.
On Monday, Ahr also handed over a work iPad, which authorities said they had no idea he had possessed after they raided his home.
After retrieving the iPad and analyzing it, authorities said they found additional illegal images on the device. Investigators said Ahr tried to delete the pictures from the device.
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huhWHAThuh ago
Make no mistake about it. This is also a part of what they are trying to normalize. If i had told you 20 years ago that the Supreme Court of the United States would rule that men marrying men is a guaranteed provision in the U.S. Constitution, you would have said that i belong in a mental hospital. This is next in line. Read the writings of the great occultists of the 20th Century. Love, compassion, empathy, and all the other redeeming characteristics of Humanity are silly wastes of time and energy. They are to be replaced by strict Luciferian utility. If you want to do it, and you can get away with it, do it. It is being implemented degree by degree daily. Think i belong in a mental hospital for thinking this could ever happen? Look back 20 years. And anyway if you have love, compassion, or empathy, you belong in the mental hospital with me. You admittedly have what is a firmly established mental disorder. We both suffer from codependency. Geeze i get sicker by the minute. 20 years ago i was only homophobic. Go figure.
fusir ago
It's funny how it's Christ who says to show mercy to those who commit a sexual sin. What about love, compassion, empathy and other redeeming characteristics when he hasn't actually raped someone.
It's Christ who pointed out that the worst in us would use religious ideas as an excuse to harm others, and that that isn't his doctrine.
huhWHAThuh ago
Christ is indeed merciful and forgiving, but you miss the most important point. He always ends with the warning: "go and sin no more."
fusir ago
I'm not suggesting people should sin. I'm only suggesting we should stop grandstanding on how tough we want to punish other people. It's ironic when people virtue signal their own morality doing that, in an expression of "christian" values when it's clear what Christ's teachings are in regard not to the sinner but to the prospective enforcer. I agree with you in his teaching to the sinner but the enforcer needs to learn that is not vindication to himself.
Remember that Babylon and Asyria destroyed Isreal for its wickedness but that Isiah talks as much about the punishments for them for having done so as much as it rebukes Isreal. Should you attempt to destroy the sinner in a form a righteous judgement you also will be destroyed. The sinner will be destroyed but don't set yourself up as Babylon.
huhWHAThuh ago
Who is suggesting to "destroy" anybody? Are laws against pedophilia an attempt to "destroy" the pedophile, or is it to protect children and maintain standards of societal behavior? We all see articles sympathetic to pedophilia starting to appear in mainstream newspapers and magazines. It is clearly the same approach that led to what was an unthinkable ruling by the Supreme Court recently about constitutional guarantees of same sex marriage. Before his recent death Justice Scalia noted that it was a decision with no underlying basis in any law of any nation, in any philosophy or religious system, or any societal norm or teaching. It was a decision not taken out of even thin air. It came from a total vacuum of supporting basis. I condemn no one, and I seek not to destroy anyone. The question is what norms and values do we support or reject as a society, and what behaviors do we teach our children are acceptable and unacceptable. I am a libertarian. I care not what any consenting adults practice as long as they harm no other person. But that extends to everyone. You have absolute right to your opinions, values, and beliefs. But everyone else has the same rights that you have.
fusir ago
The issue is that the child pornography viewer statistically has no cross over with the performance of contact crimes. The basis of punishing someone who has viewed cp is reflexive of disgust rather than a protective imperative. In fact it is at odds with the protective imperative because it implements the same policy as copyright just with different intent and facilitates the coordination of supply and demand which would not happen without artificial conditions. Media markets require artificial conditions to operate. The variable cost of a duplicate of a file is zero so the supply curve is hugged against the x axis and no demand (price x quantity) can be generated under normal market conditions. Demand being generated is necessary to convert 1st order demand into 2nd order demand via an NPV of expected inflows.
In essence, keeping with austrian principles we need to avoid being positivists who believe that the intent of the policy effects the outcome. In the case of copyright the person who did not patronize the market is punished. This is the initial effect, the one we caused. The secondary effect is that a commercial market can operate. This secondary effect is the knock-on effect we are looking for. In cp prosections the person who did not pay for media is punished. The secondary effect that we are looking for is that child pornography as a practice ceases. The tertiary effect is commercial markets can operate and production costs and risks can be offset.
CV/CR > FV/FR. Because risk and all other elements of that formula are on distributions there is always some number of people on the frontier of that inequality such that any shift in FR will lead to a number of people for whom the inequality because true, meaning the contribute to a demand curve. The formula for copyright is CV/P > FV/FR, where P is price. This is the value conversion efficiency formula and is the same one the dictates investment selection and really all selection in business (most common being ROI or Profit/Investment, converting one set of scarce resources for another). CV/(P+CR) > FV/FR, solving for P is P < CVFR/FV - CR. Admitting another price formula P < CV - CR, meaning we can know the contribution to the demand curve is P = CVmin(1,FR/FV) - CR. It is important to note that these are all distributions and not variables. The second FR gains an above zero value market demand is allowed to operate as it is a multiple of our only positive term. The CR component is very ineffective because subtracting a distribution from a distribution makes very little progress. It is essentially the same as creating a market then implementing a prohibition on it. We can't keep drugs out of prisons while all people have cameras on them at all times and all goods moved in and out are under tight control and nothing goes through the pod's airlock style doors without searches. An attempt at prohibiting commercial child pornography is impossible when it implies having control over people across the world in remote regions and controlling the control of encrypted data. The only way to prevent commercial child pornography is to not allow it's development in the first place as was the case before these laws took off after the kylie freedman case. We reacted to an anecdote and got back statistics and this problem is growing because people do not see that their intent does not have an impact on the effect of a law.
This is what I think Christ means by resist not evil. Because the people who are most zealous to resist evil often think emotively rather than consequentially and they often make things worse, as often is the case in the drug war or the war on poverty. The media wouldn't even exist to be exchanged if we hadden't made these mistakes. The recent case of the guy who ran the most notorious ring so far was able to get reduced sentence due to mitigating factors of having both autism and schizophrenia. He apparently could not feel any sense of empathy in any case and had no attraction to children was acting purely on market factors. The guy essentially conducted the production of child snuff films in the Philippians from America. FR is going up currently because of increase sentencing and increased enforcement on p2p to the point that the current trend is to put all content (even prior pirated content) behind paywall. This means that while in the past 1/1000 would be a participant in a commercial coordination of supply and demand and that was enough to motivate the worst commercial action seen in history, the participation rate is going to be closer to 25% now that low hanging fruit has been unwisely plucked by law enforcement. The NPV of 25% participation rate is going to be huge. Every dishonest creep is going to be chasing that money, when prior there was none.
In minimum wage policy the original advocates were eugenicists (early progressive movement) and felt that minimum wage would price out the least competent and make them even poorer and keep them from developing enough to marry and form families. Today others argue to use minimum wage to lift the poor out of poverty. The same policy cannot serve two outcomes based on our intent for it. If you wanted to be a really evil person and say we want to implement copyright so we get maximum child porn production you would do the same things that are being done today.
huhWHAThuh ago
I'm still not afraid to repeat the wise admonition: "go and sin no more." But it's ok if you are.