Dude gets charged for talking about an illegal act. This is just plain wrong. Th

Idk, I'm having a hard time feeling any sympathy for this fuck nut. Now I understand the argument that anyone who posts about lewd/illegal acts could be targeted in the saem way, but his shit was really out there.

Talking about committing a crime is not the same thing as performing the crime. Having said that, some things you just don't joke about.

This fcuking loser talks about how to obtain child porns and how to avoid getting caught...no jokes about that.

Well, all the talk certainly signals something is going on. If someone wanders around saying "I got a bomb! I got a bomb!" they are going to attract attention too. I can't think of anything other than yelling Allahu Akbar that would attract authority and public attention any faster.

It was this child shit that fucked up myspace.com - I don't think it is a mystery after word of child sex offenders were found on myspace that many people moved en-mass to facebook. Facebook, I am sure, learned from that myspace mistake and I am sure helps out all they can on the subject.

But allow me to rant a little outside this subject area...

I do think, that all those people who weakened the constitution on the 2nd amendment regarding gun ownership, the fourth amendment on searches in airports and drugs, and the 10th amendment by making nearly everything involving federal money or regulation, are going to regret the upcoming years with regard to weakening of the 1st amendment. Already there were attempts to withhold the journalist title and protection from bloggers. We all know about destroying the 1st amendment regarding strip clubs.

What a fucking looser. i hope the Feds rip him a new one. Becuase he deserves it

I'm thinking about jerking off in public

Leave it to Gator to bring levity to all posts. But seriously, this guy needs to be put away for a long time.

That particular topic is outside any constitutional protection. Just the same way as everybody knows not to "joke" about carrying shit in the security line at the airport. That joke will let you spend a lot of time with a lot of TSA and federal LE. Any fool now knows that. In this case, this guy sounds like a true pervert who is trying to use the "joke" defense. It will get him nowhere, as it should.

It is the child Porn stuff that got him.

I'm not aware of any TUSCL posters getting arrested for talking about Stripper Sex.

When we talk about fucking a stripper we better make damn sure she is 18 years and one day

If he is being charged with receipt and possession of child porno, he is not being charged for simply talking about it. The talking about it is what brought him attention, and LE makes a much higher priority of nailing potential pedophiles than nailing prostitution between adults.

Talk doesn't get you arrested, it gets you investigated. How are they gonna prove anyone here fucked a stripper, presuming the FBI or other LE has the interest in it?

In the end if this guy has kiddie porn in his possession then I applaud the FBI. If he doesn't, he'll probably skate the charges and just go back to being a douchebag.

My initial impression was that he was only guilty of talk but this updayted article clears that up.

A Southfield man is facing child pornography charges after the FBI discovered lewd comments about kids and sex on his Facebook page and discussions on how to download child porn from the Internet.

But, it's not just the Facebook postings that got Thaddeus McMichael, 21, into trouble, court records show.

The FBI also found between 300 and 350 images and videos of child pornography in McMichael’s electronic media sources, which were seized during a search of his home, records show.

McMichael, who was arrested on Wednesday, is free on bond, with conditions that he wear a tether and not use the Internet while charges are pending.

It's my understanding that many of the laws aimed at curbing molestation of children do actually criminalize the speech itself, not just the act. I am not familiar with the specifics, but I can imagine that particular behaviors that are generally verbal, and therefore generally protected by the First Amendment, might SEEM to be impossible to criminalize, it's possible that there are work-arounds which enable the government to arrest specifically for the mere verbal act. I can see that a case could be made, where the state claims some kind of conspiracy (the internet always involves at least two people), or some kind of importation across state lines, and definitely some kind of plan to perpetrate the molestation itself (given what might be known about the incorrigibility of the psyches of people who have child-molestation proclivities). The verbal act might be the first step to an impending "inevitable" actual real-world act of molestation, for example -- or, the state could claim as much.

So, although the preclusion against talking about child-molestation might piss us off if we're fans of Free Speech and the First Amendment, I think it probably isn't as far off of the norm as we might like to think. It's one of those things that's even bigger than the Amendment. For me, this is an interesting legal problem. And since I don't really have any desire to molest children, or to talk about doing it, I'm not really concerned about my personal liberties being curtailed. But I am a bit concerned about the curtailment of Free Speech whenever it happens, simply on principle, and on the notion that the curtailment might extend to some other of my liberties. Will they start making it illegal for me to write on the internet about strip clubs? Or about whether or not I approve of the President's new bailout plan for Chrysler? That's not the same thing as talk about molesting children ... or is it ...

The post by sc, contains one very specific point, child porn was contained on his computer! VERY different then just talking about it.

Think of this, almost everyone here has talked about performing illegal acts. How would you like the police visiting your home?

....which then begs the question---

Would the powers that be at TUSCL give us up like Facebook did?

motorhead: When faced with a court order, you bet your ass he would. Unless he had some defensible reason to assume the warrant was invalid.

Expanding on Book Guy's notes, with some of the conversation, it sounds like conspiracy - how to hide it, how to obtain it, etc. I don't know if his poor friends and family were merely "putting up with it" or actively in the talk.

Anyhow, I am glad I am not on his friends list!

"I am glad I am not on his friends list!"

GOOD reason not to use Facebook!