Congress is threatening to not fully fund Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces.

[Are_grits_groceries]

What's going on?... When our government knows where hundreds of thousands of child pornography traffickers are, yet it won't give law enforcement the funding to do anything about them?

What's going on?... When America has the technology to locate and rescue little boys and girls who are victims of sexual predators, yet those children remain in peril?

What's going on is politics as usual, and that has to change now! In the next few days, Congress will be negotiating a bill deciding next year's funding for the Justice Department (FY10 CJS Appropriations bill). At stake are millions in funding for the ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) child rescue teams -- funding which would protect countless thousands of children.

But some powerful Members of Congress are blocking the progress made.
http://www.protect.org/Campaign/National/National-Child-Rescue-Campaign.html

This video has VERY short graphic descriptions of just 3 incidents a law enforcement officer witnessed on the internet. Just the descriptions are enough to keep you up at night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5OmJ6DffaM

Coburn tried to block the bill when it was initially up for passage. Now the funding of the DOJ and ICAC which locates internet shild pornography traffickers and rescues child victims is being negotiated.

If there is anything on this Earth that deserves to be fully funded and have all the resources needed, it is this task force. What is happening to these children are crimes beyond the pale. After hearing that clip if I located someone involved in those crimes, I would have to be unarmed because I would kill them in a heartbeat and sleep soundly.

[blogslut]

1. The ICAC does good work.

My industry's ICAC member organization, the ASACP, has turned almost 8000 instances of actual CP over to the FBI.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. I cannot believe they won't fully fund this.

Just listening to that clip was enough to make me want to double whatever budget they have.

[unhappycamper]

4. Well, we are pissing away $180 million a day in Afghanistan.

Just sayin.

[madmax]

3. Let's start by

defunding the freakin war.

Hey there ...grits. Spouse and I visited Myrtle Beach twice in August and September. Very nice, thought of you a lot ;)

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. Glad you liked it.

Next time go South to Litchfield or Pawley's Island. Those are my favorites. Even north into what was Ocean Drive is very nice.

MB is fun, but a lot of natives go one way or the other after a while.

[madmax]

7. Thanks for the tip

We're debating going to the beach or Asheville in December for a few days before the Christmas holiday.

[Echo In Light]

5. They don't want to rat on any of their 'own kind?'

Besides, Big Brother is too busy with the phony "war OF terror" they're waging on political dissidents, anti-war types, and harmless, innocent pot smokers.

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Those children are truly being terrorized. nt

[rzemanfl]

9. The problem is that the money mostly goes into online sting

operations that tend to catch a bunch of eighteen and nineteen year olds who are trying to hit on fake 15 year olds. Between 2000 and 2006 the number of arrests for internet solicitation of actual minors increased by 23%, while teen Internet users increased by 20%. The number of arrests for soliciting undercover cops posing as teens increased by 381%. Source is University of New Hampshire Crimes Against Children Research Center "Trends in Arrests of 'Online Predators.'"