Thoughts on the NBC "pedophile stings"

[annabanana]

Everyone hates pedophiles, so they make a useful canary,(in our civil rights coal-mine). Hardly anyone questions continued (unending) surveillance and in some cases incarceration for convicted pedophiles, even after they have "done their time" and theoretically, at least, paid their debt to society.

Since they are now clearly incorrigibles, the NBC series that sets up stings online to induce pedophiles to houses (where they expect to meet up with kids to abuse, only to meet with the local constabulary), seems to be doing a simple, unexceptionable, public service.

When liberals, progressives, anti-war protesters and similar "subversives" have been similarly outlawed and vilified (a development that is demonstrably already underway), the same techniques would easily translate to lure the unsuspecting out of cyberspace in into detention.


(Just because it's shiny, doesn't mean it doesn't fit :tinfoilhat: )