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Child porn is at the heart of our new sexual absolutism. Its laws have criminalized both artistic representation and objective intellectual examination and speculation.
Operation Ore on the verge of collapse
There were four BBC broadcasts involving two brave members of the UK-based Operation Ore discussion group Madbadorsad between February 25 and March 1 2005. Matt and Lisa were the two who placed themselves in the firing line, the first an Operation Ore police target the second the wife of a target. Their hope was to reveal some of the deceits and injustices that Operation Ore was founded on, and some truths concerning the US web site that led to the UK operation, the 32 UK men who have committed suicide because of it, and the thousands of lives it has ruined.
They were up against slick BBC programming, expert interviewers and biased witnesses, not to mention the on/off switch operated on telephone callers. They were somewhat amateurish and scared. But they managed to get some of the truth out and the truth cannot be stopped. Operation Ore has cost between £50 and £200 million and has been a disaster which will surely ruin the reputations of every politician and policeperson associated with it. It has ushered in a police state into Great Britain along the lines of that ushered in by the Landslide project in the US which spawned it. The suicides resulted mainly from UK police handing over the names of suspects to the media.
One correspondent to the Madbadorsad discussion group described Operation Ore as follows:
Are you a paedophile - Yes or No? No other answers are acceptable.
If you looked at certain images of children you are guilty.
If you didn't delete them you are guilty.
If you did delete them you are guilty of trying to hide your crime.
If you said you did not look, you are in denial.
If you do not tell the truth you are a typical, devious paedophile.
The 7,200 names on the Landslide list from which Operation Ore was spawned contained both legal adult and child porn subscribers. This is clear both from statements made by the US authorities, from very reliable UK sources and from of a good number of Ore suspects.
Of 300 doubtful sites on Landslide, known as Keyz, only 18 contained what police interpret as child porn. The police falsely offered as evidence the evidence that each Keyz subscriber had to pass through a link saying 'click here for Child porn', which was untrue. This fabrication even used a US provided, doctored screenshot which gave the impression that this was the only option available on that screen.
History may describe Operation Ore as marking the darkest hours of Great Britain’s 21st century Inquisition.
UK police and child rights groups walk tightrope
In early march 2004, UK police chiefs, the children’s charity NCH and the UK Internet Safety Centre, began walking a tight rope. First they announced that ‘arrests for online child pornography offences have skyrocketed in the last two years’. This was based on government figures that revealed that the number of people cautioned or charged with child pornography offences in 2003 was 2,234, more than quadruple the 549 people charged in 2001. The police chiefs and NCH used this increase to call on the government to fund a new national law enforcement unit to focus specifically on internet pornography offences.
The tight rope was already there as studies worldwide reveal a dramatic decrease in the availability of child pornography to the extent that only by criminalizing former non-child pornography images by reducing the age of the legally underaged to below 18 have ‘huge new numbers of offences’ been made possible. The first sign of new tightening and lengthening in the tight rope is that much of the work carried out by the paedophile online investigation team at the National Crime Squad (NCS) on Operation Ore, together with local police child protection units, is starting to unravel as a few people wrongfully accused have been brave enough to talk on BBC.
But the tight rope lengthened as the police reluctantly admitted that a new form of child pornography was being detected, very similar to their own police scam or honey pot. Criminals are dumping ‘child porn’, mainly nude or erotic images of under 18s or Hentai drawings on the hard drives of individuals and then sending extortion emails threatening to inform the police for sums as small as £50. The innocent receivers of the threats are rightfully afraid to inform the police.
A spokeswoman for the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) said that in the first instance, anyone getting one of these threats should report it to their ISP and then to local police. This is not good advice as the police are sure to seize the computer and, if the person is reasonably respectable or well-known, leak it to the media. The police and the child rights organizations have created this horrific travesty, but anyway why should anyone trust the police when they operate their own stings?
That the tightrope is heading for a large crevasse for the police is underscored by the recent rash of blackmailings against UK bookmakers such as Blue Square who were threatened with mass emailings under their name with child porn contents. The threat was from a 'Bohan Krascevic' with a Yahoo Sweden suffix, saying, "You have time until 5 Pm your local time. I will now start an attack for 1 hour. This will be 1/20 of the power I can do. Answer me and I will give you my e-gold account number which must be funded ASAP, 7000 EURO. Waiting for answer."
The NHTCU was thrown by this turn of events. Had the emails gone out they would have simply seized Blue Square’s machines, but they could not ignore an obvious blackmail attempt. A spokeswoman for the NHTCU said: "We are investigating it. It is not a threat we have seen before." Which is laughable.
Then suddenly, the NHTCU announced ‘that it had helped’ to smash a Russian gang involved in online extortion and money-laundering. But they would not say which Web sites the Russians were suspected of targeting, only ‘that the joint operation with the Russian police had some way to run’. The police spokeswoman said, "It's a case of shaking the tree and seeing what happens," she said.
That tree is being shaken all right. But it holds one end of the tightrope that the police and child rights groups are walking.
Child pornography
Background reading
Mitsubishi abandons employee
Henry goes to prison
Dangers from your hard drive
Operations Ore and Amethyst are discredited
The Athlone story - State of malice
Irish judge in child porn allegations
Who did it? When child porn appears.
Operation Ore on the verge of collapse
Alabama man’s four year wait in Limbo
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