Hawley Leads Bill to Protect Children, Toughen Sentences for Child Porn Offenders
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the PROTECT Act of 2022, which protects children from sexual exploitation by enhancing the penalties for possessing child pornography and by preventing judges from sentencing offenders below federal guidelines. The bill is co-sponsored by Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). Representative Ken Buck (CO-4) is introducing companion legislation in the House of Representatives.
Figures Senator Voldemort would back that…Even when he was our governor, he didn’t care what his constituents thought. We vote medical marijuana in and he basically says “you didn’t know what you were voting for, so we’re going to keep it from happening.” I can’t wait until he and the current administration in Tallahassee are sent packing (and not to Washington.)
Well that didn’t take long. Good thing I’m not into child porn. But the real problem is what’s the next hot topic issues that they will legislate into oblivion in sake of grandstanding.
The only way to protect children from sexual exploitation is for the FBI to delete all the child porn websites they own, and stop entrapping people into downloading it.
Thanks to Brandon for sending this in?
Because of course he is.
Well, we knew this was coming.
Now as a registered person my opinion probably differs from some on these subjects. I think long sentences are fair on cases where there is clearly a victim(s), production, or exploitation. There are a lot of gray areas with the CP subject as it is possible for it to get there with a virus I guess? I’m not super techie, so I’m assuming. But longer sentences, successful treatment inside the facility would allow either extra time off or good time. Unsuccessfully completing would probably require some sort of monitoring for a year to complete it on the street. But no public registry at all. My thought behind it is, you are doing time regardless. If you legit did wrong, do your time. If you didn’t fight it until your last breath. But I would rather do more time inside and be free outside, than to basically have a never ending probation on the registry. Plus, people get the good feels because being tough on crime stuff.
*** sigh***….here we go again, the politically correct vigilantes striking again. They want to police everyone but they don’t police themselves.
More candidates for Phase 3 of the Media Blitz!
Capt
You might want to start finger stretches because at this rate all politicians will be a part of Operation Truth Media Blitz. I’m sure you are up to the challenge and God Bless you.
I already have 25 on the Phase 3 Media Blitz list and before I’m ready for Phase 3 I’m sure it will grow. I already have 40 that I am educating in my Phase 2 mailings.
This probably won’t effect most of us. My Crime was almost 32 years ago and been off probation for almost 20 years now. I think our focus is on taking down the registry or at least the retro active application of such.
Heck even if we didn’t have to be on it for life, many of us have given the registry 1/2 of our life already. I have been on the registry now for 25 years. Not so much as a speeding ticket but I am a danger to who again?
Most of the data states re-arrests happen with 3-10 years of being out than why the lifetime punishment being on a registry. Truth doesn’t fit the agenda so they make it up. Only registry I should be on is for voting.
More relevant,
This was a knee jerk reaction to the Supreme Court Nomination hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s.
He is proposing this law before the April 4th vote on her nomination.
She was criticized in the hearings because when the registry began she wrote papers questioning whether it was punitive or not. She appeared to lean in the direction that they are what they are…;punitive.
Cruz even said that her papers would disrupt the (lie, sic) status quo and weaken sex offender registration laws.
This article explains some of it.
Quote “News media fact-checkers said Senator Hawley was being misleading. Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who writes for National Review, called Mr. Hawley’s claims “meritless to the point of demagoguery.””
had to look it up, and it fits:
defintion. dem·a·gog·uer·y /ˈdeməˌɡäɡ(ə)rē/ noun
Political activity or practices that seek support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.
“the demagoguery of political opportunists”
Judge Jackson is not pro sex offender, she is pro fairness.
Left this link out:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/opinion/jackson-supreme-court-pornography.html
The law will likely actually increase exploitation of children! Penalties are so strict that now women look at framing their husband for CP as the “go to” way to way to initiate their divorce.
A spouse who does so, risks conviction for child pornography.
It’s not that easy to commit a crime and then frame someone else for it.
This is being done by spouses who want sole custody of their kids. I was in federal prison with two guys who were subjected this abuse. It was very easy for the wives to do it bc they sought out the CP on a shared home computer. Who do you think the cops/feds will believe during the interview? The man?! Ha! No fn way will they ever believe “my wife mustve done this bc she wants the kids.”
Truth Seeker, cases of framing someone else by downloading CP, is a pretty easy case to win provided that’s what actually happened. Open access to a shared computer, opens grounds for suspicious activity by anyone, and if the husband wasn’t actually in use of the computer at the time of download, than it’s even better. I have won a Federal case related to being in possession of CP, and it’s because it wasn’t intentional and the jury knew it.
GL…
THANK YOU…PRO-FAIRNESS! IS THE APPROPRIATE VERBIAGE!
…She Was Appointed to the Appellate Side of The Law…Which Is The Most Difficult and Most ‘Slice It and Dice It’ Kind of Aptitude to Comprehend Numerical Codified Statutory Law and How it is Applied…
Therefore, It Takes a Very Prudent and Intellectual Person To Undertake Such Legal Tasks!
…Not Many Have Been Willing to ‘DO IT’
‘SHE GETS IT’
-going to print T-Shirts in Her Honor!
With severe weather expected in the area I hope Senators Hawley, Cruz, Lee, Scott, Graham, Blackburn, and others get the message they aren’t the most powerful after the man upstairs, that belongs to Mother Nature. Hopefully none of them land on my front door I’ll let them defend themselves, after all I don’t do well with hypocrites.
Just saw a segment on the news about a new reality show on Discovery Plus that has a young mom posing as a child to ensnare men in the traps of online (dare I say it?) human trafficking. She claims to alert LE as a private citizen doing this. But she also admitted on Water’s World (Fox News Host Jesse Waters) that she actually uses real minor to have explicit chats with grown men. Anyone else see a problem here?
If she admitted publicly to enticing minors into engaging in sex chat, then she needs a lawyer. Do we have a clip of her admitting this?
The clip was from Water’s World on Fox. You can get a clip from them, if you want. Or you can watch her reality show on Discovery Plus, if you want. It’s all there. Not like she’s hiding what she’s doing.
Jacob…I will Contact someone at the aforementioned…lots are former colleagues as they are working a huge story for us with Other Cable News Networks in Unison….I will Find OUT WHY!
The vast majority of producers and recievers of child porn are children sexting each other. Oops.
I hope the children of these blowhards get caught under their daddy’s own laws. These men deserve to have their families viciously and mercilessly taken from them by the machine they feed and grow to attack others. May their lives and souls be laid low and broken.
Citation needed for ‘the vast majority of producers and receivers of child porn are children.’
Interesting read for anyone interested
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/ketanji-brown-jackson-pedophila-josh-hawley/
As Prosecutor, Hawley Sentenced Violent Sex Abuser To Probation — Not Prison
Josh Israel, The National Memo
March 25, 2022
…”While Hawley has never served as a judge, he does have experience prosecuting sex crime cases as Missouri’s attorney general from 2017 to 2019. Although that office has only a small prosecutorial role in the state’s criminal justice system, Hawley’s brief tenure was marred by criticism of his handling of sexual abuse claims by victims.
In January 2021, the Kansas City Star published a guest column by Pam Hamilton, a former Hawley appointee who questioned his handling of human trafficking cases. “I was on Josh Hawley’s human trafficking task force,” the headline of Hamilton’s story read. “He sought TV cameras, not justice.”
One prosecution Hawley did handle as attorney general was a 2018 sexual abuse and domestic assault case against former Knox County Sheriff Robert Becker. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s probable cause statement, Becker was charged with violent sexual encounters against his former partner, who alleged he “choked” her with a shirt in one instance.
Instead of bringing the case to trial, Hawley agreed to a plea deal in which Becker served no jail time and instead received two years of probation and resigned his office.
“There is no place for law enforcement officers who abuse their power,” Hawley said at the time. “As a result of today’s plea, Mr. Becker can no longer serve in any law enforcement capacity. The Knox County community is safer as a result of today’s action.”
Hawley stepped down as Missouri’s top law enforcement official in January 2019 after he was elected to the U.S. Senate. His successor, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, eventually filed probation violations in court against Becker. In November 2020 a judge ruled that Becker had failed to complete the mandatory sexual offender counseling required under the plea bargain and sentenced him to 20 days of “shock incarceration” — jail time intended to “shock” an offender into avoiding future crimes.
A spokesperson for Hawley did not immediately respond to an inquiry for this story.”
Hm. Think ol’ HEE-HAW-ley is merely trying to make up for past failures?