The only kind I got - fast
Jul. 24th, 2007 07:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgRemember Perverted Justice? (Weren't they one of the groups leveraging LJ back during the strikeout?)
They're being sued. Eh. Over their involvement in a NBC reality TV show. Eh. They were filming a show called "Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator" - where they were luring people to locations posing as underage kids in chat rooms. And when someone didn't show - they tracked him back to his home....and the guy offed himself.
Eh.
Then you find out just how much "help" Perverted Justice and NBC really were....
Conradt Jr. became a target in a program in which NBC and the activist group Perverted Justice set up shop for four days last November in a two-story home in Murphy, Texas. Perverted Justice staff posed as boys and girls online and arranged to meet men there.
Two dozen men were arrested, but the district attorney refused to prosecute any of them, saying many of the cases were tainted by the involvement of amateurs and that he lacked jurisdiction in most cases because neither the suspects nor decoys were in the county during the online chats. The city manager was fired for approving the arrangement without telling the mayor or the city council.
I seriously doubt the correct authority, which is likely the FBI, would want anything to do with a plan that could not produce a prosecuteable case.
Good TV. Bah, I say. You got bupkis - except for people who sell soap.
The kids lose, we lose as a culture - and someone makes a mint. Business as usual, in today's America.
Sickening.
They're being sued. Eh. Over their involvement in a NBC reality TV show. Eh. They were filming a show called "Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator" - where they were luring people to locations posing as underage kids in chat rooms. And when someone didn't show - they tracked him back to his home....and the guy offed himself.
Eh.
Then you find out just how much "help" Perverted Justice and NBC really were....
Conradt Jr. became a target in a program in which NBC and the activist group Perverted Justice set up shop for four days last November in a two-story home in Murphy, Texas. Perverted Justice staff posed as boys and girls online and arranged to meet men there.
Two dozen men were arrested, but the district attorney refused to prosecute any of them, saying many of the cases were tainted by the involvement of amateurs and that he lacked jurisdiction in most cases because neither the suspects nor decoys were in the county during the online chats. The city manager was fired for approving the arrangement without telling the mayor or the city council.
I seriously doubt the correct authority, which is likely the FBI, would want anything to do with a plan that could not produce a prosecuteable case.
Good TV. Bah, I say. You got bupkis - except for people who sell soap.
The kids lose, we lose as a culture - and someone makes a mint. Business as usual, in today's America.
Sickening.
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one more thing...
Date: 2007-07-25 04:58 am (UTC)Hardly seems worth it. Especially after 24 cases got tossed in Dallas alone this month.