Dude gets charged for talking about an illegal act. This is just plain wrong. Th
shadowcat
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A Southfield man is facing charges after posting numerous lewd remarks about child pornography on his Facebook account, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court today.
The FBI is seeking an arrest warrant for Thaddeus McMichael on child pornography charges. According to an FBI agent's affidavit, he posted comments on Facebook, in some cases mocking disabled children who get molested.
The FBI in Detroit received a tip last June about a Facebook user who was “actively discussing child pornography and methods for downloading pornography from the Internet," according to the affidavit. Comments posted by the user included statements on how to obtain child porn on the Internet, how to encrypt the images on a computer, and statements such as “all cp isn't rape, Sometimes the kids want it. Most of the time they NEED it,†records show.
In another Facebook post, records show, he wrote: “What if I adopt a little girl? I'm sure she wouldn't mind becoming my sex slave if I take her away from the orphanage.â€
McMichael said the posts were a joke, records show.
The FBI was led to McMichael with the help of Facebook Inc., after the company was issued two subpoenas for subscriber information, records show.
During a search of his Southfield home Feb. 17, federal agents interviewed McMichael and asked him to explain his Facebook account, records show. McMichael confirmed the profile belonged to him, but said many of the posts were a joke.
He is charged with receipt and possession of child pornography.
The FBI is seeking an arrest warrant for Thaddeus McMichael on child pornography charges. According to an FBI agent's affidavit, he posted comments on Facebook, in some cases mocking disabled children who get molested.
The FBI in Detroit received a tip last June about a Facebook user who was “actively discussing child pornography and methods for downloading pornography from the Internet," according to the affidavit. Comments posted by the user included statements on how to obtain child porn on the Internet, how to encrypt the images on a computer, and statements such as “all cp isn't rape, Sometimes the kids want it. Most of the time they NEED it,†records show.
In another Facebook post, records show, he wrote: “What if I adopt a little girl? I'm sure she wouldn't mind becoming my sex slave if I take her away from the orphanage.â€
McMichael said the posts were a joke, records show.
The FBI was led to McMichael with the help of Facebook Inc., after the company was issued two subpoenas for subscriber information, records show.
During a search of his Southfield home Feb. 17, federal agents interviewed McMichael and asked him to explain his Facebook account, records show. McMichael confirmed the profile belonged to him, but said many of the posts were a joke.
He is charged with receipt and possession of child pornography.
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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.
I'm not aware of any TUSCL posters getting arrested for talking about Stripper Sex.
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.
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.
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 ...
Think of this, almost everyone here has talked about performing illegal acts. How would you like the police visiting your home?
Would the powers that be at TUSCL give us up like Facebook did?
Anyhow, I am glad I am not on his friends list!
GOOD reason not to use Facebook!