It does sound like that's what we're dealing with some of these guys in here, doesn't it? A bunch of NAMBLA members, that used to frequent the AOL chat rooms in the mid 90's, which is fucking grotesque.
In case none of you know what I'm talking about, please read this.
"One day in late 1994, by then living in Ohio, Crimmins logged on to an AOL chat room for survivors of abuse. One of the participants told him there was child pornography on other chat rooms. The horrifying images Crimmins saw there led him to go undercover. Over a period of months, he gathered evidence on the pedophiles who were using the site to trade images of children being sexually abused.
Crimmins repeatedly alerted AOL, but he chafed at what he said were months of pro-forma responses from the company. (It was later reported that AOL was conducting its own investigation.) So he alerted the FBI. Two agents showed up at his home, and Crimmins gave them nearly two dozen floppy disks that contained images of children being sexually abused, along with the names and addresses of the senders.
When the door closed behind the agents, Crimmins broke down, finally able to release his emotions but still haunted by the images of victimization and sexual brutalization he had witnessed. “You look into that kid’s eyes, and you can just about see the humanity going out of him,’’ he said somberly.
But his efforts didn’t end there. Two months later, on July 24, 1995, Crimmins testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was considering legislation to crack down on the use of computer networks to transmit pornography. From his opening sentence, the comedian used his knack for the memorable sound bite to turn up the heat as high as he could.
“There is a major crime wave taking place on America’s computers,’’ Crimmins told lawmakers. “The proliferation of child pornography trafficking has created an anonymous pedophile superstore.’’ He blasted AOL as “unresponsive and arrogant,’’ adding bitingly: “If AOL just put a percentage of the effort it makes to spin-doctor away its culpability for these problems into solving them, inexpensive and effective solutions could be found.’’
AOL attorney William Burrington told the committee that the company had hired numerous “cybercops’’ to expel child pornographers from chat rooms. “We don’t want their business,’’ Burrington said.
A month after Crimmins gave his testimony, the FBI made more than a dozen arrests and searched 120 homes across the county, culminating a two-year investigation (called “Innocent Images’’) into the use of AOL to facilitate sex with children and to disseminate child pornography. Among those arrested were several people who had been tracked by Crimmins; the evidence he had gathered had become part of the “Innocent Images’’ investigation. By September 1997, the FBI investigation had resulted in more than 120 indictments and nearly 150 convictions.
Crimmins is heartened to think he played a role in sparing children from being attacked and exploited. “There’s kids who would have been harmed who weren’t harmed,’’ he said. “That bus never hit them. They’re just living their lives.’’
Source: Boston Globe,
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2015/01/27/new-film-tells-barry-crimmins-story-survival/qOsBhkKypUckizNsElVQ7J/story.html
Very few of us that have been hit by that bus go on to live any sort of meaningful existance. Most end up hopelessly addicted to booze, and other hard drugs, in an unsuccessful effort to try and forget everything from their past. The PTSD episodes, inability to trust, and inescapable, never ending nightmares, make it extremely hard to function productively in everyday society. There are a few of us though, strong enough to have survived, and beat the odds. You can always spot us, were the ones who going running back into the fray, trying to save someone else from ever knowing that pain.
But for real, have a smoke and do what you do when you see anything you don't like on the internet... KEEP IT MOVIN.. Or I guess you could get upset.. over everything..
where?
