Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who

was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent Why should someone who commits a crime, with a criminal state of mind, be found not guilty because the one who tempted him to commit the crime, an otherwise irrelevant fact, wasentirely unbeknownst to hima police agent? ~ Andrew Carlon (93 Virginia Law Review 1081, 2007) This tale has been told many, many times in recent years, but I think it needs to be told again, because law and justice are not well served by the perversion of law and justice. See: Police Sex Sting Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Ib0JH1G6Y For example, we all want our children to be protected from child molesters but setting people up who may have thought they were getting the opportunity to molest a child, once the police and the FBI had enticed them to do so, is not the same thing as molesting an actual child when, in fact, no child was ever involved in the crime. Rather than going out and catching child molesters the police and the FBI commit computer crimes by assuming the fake identities of young girls on state owned computers to sexually entice otherwise innocent people into committing sex crimes, which is not at all the same thing as getting out of the ofce and catching an actual child molester. The police and the FBI use these agent provocateur entrapment tactics, which are illegal in many other nations, and which require the police and the FBI to rst engage in illegal activities themselves, in order to set-up otherwise innocent peoples in order to entice these people to engage in activities which, in themselves, are not actually illegal, as when no child is actually involved in these online minor child sex stings. Yet these otherwise innocent peoples are said to have been willing to participate in these illegal activities once they have been enticed to do so by participating in the illegal operation the agents provocateurs had set up. Agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs, French for "inciting agent(s)") is a person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act. Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/ agent-provocateur#ixzz1c7OU7t8k

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent Entrapment: An afrmative defense in which a defendant alleges that police ofcers acquired the evidence necessary to commence a criminal prosecution of the defendant by inducing the defendant to engage in a criminal act which the defendant would not otherwise have committed. see, e.g. Jacobson v. United States, 503 U.S. 540(1992). DEFINITION FROM NOLOS PLAIN-ENGLISH LAW DICTIONARY An act by the police or their agents, such as informants, to induce a person to commit a crime for the purpose of prosecuting that person for that induced crime. If the judge or jury believes that the person was predisposed to commit the crime anyway, even when the government agent suggested the crime or even helped with its commission, they are unlikely to accept an entrapment defense. Entrapment defenses are difcult to mount for defendants with prior convictions. Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/entrapment The entrapment defense is a uniquely American institution, adopted in all American jurisdictions, and almost nowhere else. But while case law and scholarly literature dwell at length on entrapments what (what constitutes entrapment; the legal test to be applied), and sometimes on its who (who should rule on entrapment, judge or jury; who qualies as a state actor), they have comparatively neglected its whythe underlying justication for a defense that, on further examination, seems to violate some of the most basic principles of criminal law jurisprudence. Why should someone who commits a crime, with a criminal state of mind, be found not guilty because the one who tempted him to commit the crime, an otherwise irrelevant fact, wasentirely unbeknownst to him a police agent? This explanation reveals entrapment to be not a procedural technicality protecting a value extrinsic to the underlying prohibition, but rather a substantive defense whose roots run right to the criminal laws heart: our reasons for punishment. A punishmentcentered view reveals entrapment to be a manifestation of a totalitarian sadistic state, which treats the iniction of punishment not as a means of giving the guilty their just deserts, but as an end in itself, and shows the entrapment defense to be not only a limit on police investigatory technique, but an assertion of individual liberty against the states ability to punish. Source: http://www.virginialawreview.org/articles.php?article=167 Such cases can involve the buying and selling of drugs, sex, participation in terror plots, white collar crimes, arms trafcking, human trafcking, organ trafcking, child molestation, and many more such crimes, all of which are certainly evil crimes, yet it is the police and the FBI who must rst be the bad actors and perpetrators of such crimes themselves before they can ensnare people who, without police and FBI enticement,

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent are not in the act of committing the particular crimes of which they are accused at the time of arrest, once the person has been stung/entrapped by the police FBI sting/trap. Have these people committed these crimes before? Possibly. Might these people commit these crimes Of course. But you cannot arrest people without evidence that they have or are actually planning or committing - on their own - actual crimes. Its certainly easier for the police and the FBI to entice people into their snares than it is for them to get out of the ofce and do the hard work of catching a person who is actually committing a crime; but easier, as in these in these cases, does not make for law and justice properly enforced and administered. Small-town Georgia mayor facing child sex charges The mayor of a small northwest Georgia town who believed he was meeting a minor for sex was instead met by FBI agents and arrested. Cary Rhodes, 57, of Taylorsville, was arrested Thursday by FBI agents on charges of attempted aggravated child molestation and violation of the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Act. Cary Wayne Rhodes, 57, of Taylorsville, was arrested Thursday in Chatsworth by FBI ofcers and booked into the Murray County Jail, Brian D. Lamkin, special agent in charge, said Friday afternoon. Rhodes was denied bond at an 11 a.m. court appearance, a spokeswoman for the jail said. Source: http:// www.ajc.com/news/small-town-georgiamayor-1212038.html But, instead of communicating online with a minor child, Rhodes was instead speaking to undercover agents. FBI Special Agent Stephen Emmett told the Atlanta Journal Constitution: "There was no minor child," and yet Rhodes faces charges of attempted aggravated child molestation. But how is one guilty of attempted aggravated child molestation when there was no minor child involved? The pre-crime unit at the FBI is very hard at work, again.

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent Is this guy a pervert and a child predator? Possibly. Even probably. But he still cant be charged with attempted aggravated molestation of a child when no child was ever involved. Perhaps we need to develop some new charges? Like, instead of charging people with attempted aggravated child molestation in these cases, we should call it what it is: agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent. Mayor of Taylorsville Arrested for Attempting to Meet Minor for Sex FBI Atlanta October 28, 2011 Special Agent Stephen Emmett (404) 679-6451 Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Lamkin announces, on behalf of the FBIs Northwest Georgia Safe Child Task Force, the following arrest at Chatsworth, Georgia: Cary Rhodes, 57 years of age, of Taylorsville, Georgia (Bartow County), was arrested on Thursday, October 27, 2011, by FBI agents and task force ofcers after coming to the attention of undercover ofcers on the Internet. Rhodes, a self-employed engineer who currently serves as the mayor of Taylorsville, is facing state charges of attempted aggravated child molestation and violation of the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Act after having attempted to meet with a minor child for purposes of having sex. He was met instead by FBI agents and task force ofcers of the FBIs Northwest Georgia Safe Child Task Force, where he was arrested. Rhodes was taken to the Murray County Detention facility in Chatsworth, Georgia for processing. The public should be reminded that the above are mere allegations and that all persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Source: http://www.fbi.gov/atlanta/press-releases/2011/mayor-of-taylorsville-arrestedfor-attempting-to-meet-minor-for-sex?utm_campaign=emailImmediate&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fbi-in-the-news&utm_content=41533 60 arrested in Florida sex sting operation Published: April 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM ORLANDO, Fla., April 19 (UPI) -- Police in central Florida say they have arrested 60 people in a week-long sex sting operation targeting online solicitation of prostitution.

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent Undercover ofcers arrested 36 women and 24 men, and while most were central Florida residents several were from out of state, the Orlando Sentinel reported Tuesday. "Some arrived alone, some car-pooled and some arrived in taxis, bringing along their children, condoms and STDs," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement. "Detectives targeted online escort services who promote prostitution. Detectives saw a 15-year-old run-away who brought her infant child along, a pregnant woman, a school bus driver, gang members and pimps." Deputies arrested the runaway from Chicago, who came to the undercover location with her pimp and 2-month-old child. The alleged pimp, Jonathan Padilla, and the baby stayed in the car while the girl went to meet the undercover ofcers, authorities said. Padilla was arrested and the infant was handed over to the care of the Department of Children and Families, deputies said. Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/ 2011/04/19/60-arrested-in-Florida-sex-sting-operation/UPI-42781303233512/ Cleveland-based undercover child-sex sting operation nets four pedophiles September 02, 2011 CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Four men snagged in an child-sex sting in Cleveland have pleaded guilty to charges that could send them to prison for up to 20 years, federal prosecutors said Friday. Undercover federal agents set up a phony website in 2009 for a tour company that purported to arrange trips through Cleveland to Canada for pedophiles to have sex with children. [It is illegal to operate an online tour company for the purposes of seeking customers who wish to engage in illegal sex with minors. The FBI, here, broke the law.] The website, "Precious Treasure Holiday Company," received more than 140,000 page views, and attracted four customers -- two Ohioans and two Germans -- who paid more than $1,000 to travel to Cleveland, where they were arrested. One of the German citizens, a 49-year-old physician Peter Beichl, arrived in Cleveland expecting to rendezvous with an 11-year-old girl, according to an afdavit. Beichl brought a bottle of sedatives, a bag full of sexual aids and stuffed unicorns -- which he was led to believe were the girl's favorite toys. U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach, speaking at a press conference, said no children were used in the sting operation.

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent The undercover agents linked their website to other known child-pornography sites, and attracted Internet trafc with come-on words such as "jailbait," and symbols such as butteries which are well known among participants in the child-sex trade. "Someone who lived in this dark world would recognize these things," said Brian Moskowitz, special agent in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations. "It's a closed community and difcult to inltrate." One of them, Zachery Casey, 38, of Millersburg, is serving 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to four charges earlier this year. The others are Beichl, of Albstadt, Germany; Otto Linzenbach, 63, of Leipzig, Germany; and Jonathan Waltman, 25, of Nashport, Ohio. All three have pleaded guilty to attempted sex trafcking of children and related charges, and are awaiting sentencing. Linzenbach paid $1,600 for what he had hoped to be a sexual encounter with a girl from 10 to 13 years old. He also asked about the availability of a young boy. Casey believed the sex-tour company had arranged a rendezvous with an 8-year-old girl. He told undercover agents that he had previously had sex with two other children. Waltman also thought he was going to have sex with an 8-year-old girl. He was on probation at the time of his arrest for molesting his girlfriend's 10-year-old sister. [This man should have been in prison, not on probation. Thats being off the streets.] Dettelbach and Moskowitz described the commercial exploitation of children as a major problem worldwide, including Cleveland, where about a dozen defendants in child-sex cases are awaiting trial. "The details of these cases demonstrates the lengths these people will go to get what they want," Dettelbach said. Source: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/09/cleveland_based_undercover_chi.html Seven including high school football coach arrested in underage sex sting in Wichita BY TIM POTTER AND STAN FINGER The Wichita Eagle October 24, 2011 GARDEN PLAIN, Kan. | Seven people including Garden Plain High School football coach Todd Puetz have been arrested in a law enforcement operation targeting human trafcking, authorities announced today.

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent The arrests were made late Friday and Saturday nights, Wichita police Capt. Brent Allred said. The special operation was conducted in response to a surge in the number of human trafcking cases in Wichita over the past couple of years, he said. It was a pro-active assignment due to the issues and problems that we have with child sexual predators in our community, Allred said at a brieng held by police. I'd like to say it's successful, but it's really not, because when you get this many people, it's kind of a sad commentary of what's in our community. When you arrest this many people, you know it's a problem. Five of the men are from Wichita, one from Garden Plain and one from Hays, he said. They range in age from 25 to 59. All of them communicated electronically that they were interested in having sex with an underage girl, Allred said, and six of the seven made an attempt to meet with a girl for sex. Another four people are under investigation and could be arrested later, Allred said. He declined to offer many details about how the operation was conducted because authorities plan to do more of them. The Garden Plain coach and teacher has been suspended from all duties, school district superintendent Tracy Bourne said today. Although he would not release the coach and teacher's name, arrest records show that it was Puetz, 39. We did have an incident over the weekend one of our staff members was arrested, Bourne said. That staff member has been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. The teacher/coach is on administrative leave with pay, Bourne said. Because he is a teacher, Allred said, authorities will be looking into whether he was engaged in human trafcking in Garden Plain. A relative of Puetz, who asked that her name not be used, said his family is very supportive of him.

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent It's just not all black-and-white, she said, standing on the front porch of his home. We're just waiting for other things to come to light. Records show the others arrested in the operation were: Viraqd Weerappumac, 51, Wichita Reginald Shepard, 35, Wichita Joshua Hetzel, 26, Wichita David Walter, 59, Hays Chris Squires, 25, Wichita Kyle Miller, 25, Wichita The three-day operation was a month in the making and involved the FBI, the Internet Crimes Against Children task force, the Wichita/Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit, Wichita police and Sedgwick County sheriff's ofcers, Allred said. Federal charges could result from the arrests, he said. Investigators will be meeting with the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Ofce and the U.S. Attorney's Ofce later this week or early next week to present evidence in the cases. Source: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/24/3227140/seven-including-high-schoolfootball.html Dozens arrested during second Florida child sex sting June 29th, 2011 PENSACOLA, FLORIDA (BNO NEWS) More than two dozen men have been arrested in northwest Florida during a week-long operation targeting sexual predators who traveled to a local home in order to have sex with a child, police said on Wednesday. It is the second such operation in Florida this month. Operation Blue Shepherd began on June 20 at a house in the northeastern part of Pensacola, a city in Escambia County, when ofcers from local, state, and federal agencies began using social networking and e-commerce sites to respond to advertisements of a sexual nature and to place similar advertisements. According to Pensacola Police Captain Paul Kelly, the suspects described in graphic detail about the various sexual acts they were planning to perform on the male and

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent female children who they believed were between the ages of 12 to 14. All of the suspects, except one who took a taxi, drove to the undercover house with the intent to perform these sexual acts with the children. A total of 25 men ages between 18 and 56 were arrested during the week-long operation when they arrived at the home. They were questioned by police and subsequently charged with a number of felonies such as using a computer to solicit parental or guardian consent to have sex with a child or use a computer to seduce, solicit, or lure a child Kelly said ofcers were surprised to nd so many eager participants from the immediate Pensacola area. We expected to have more violators traveling from outside the area. What this tells me is that these violators do not have to travel far to nd their victims. They are much closer to home than we imagined. Most of them were not reluctant or frightened to approach the door of a strangers house. They literally pulled up to the house and walked quickly to the door eager to meet the child, Kelly said. The large child sex sting follows a similar operation in central Florida earlier this month, in which a total of 32 men were arrested. Both operations were similar to that of NBCs To Catch a Predator, a popular but highly controversial television series in which potential sex predators were lured to a home under the pretense of having sex with a child. The operations in Florida were conducted by law enforcement alone. In the operation in Lake County earlier this month, one of the men arrested was armed with a handgun which was concealed in his pants. Another suspect drove from Georgia with his two children ages 8 and 6 still in the car. These suspects came to that house with the intention of having sex with a child. Instead they went to jail, said Sheriff Gary Borders last week. Source: http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2011/06/29/dozens-arrested-duringsecond-orida-child-sex-sting/ Perhaps these guys are disgusting perverts and perhaps theyre not; but even likelihood that they are is no excuse for enticing them to commit a crime by laying a trap for them; for perverting the law and justice; and for get them off the streets via the use of agents provocateurs. Lets get them off the streets by catching them committing an actual crime. And lets start teaching minors how to better avoid becoming the victims of such predators.

Sexual Perversion and the Perversion of Law and Justice: Agreeing to meet with a law enforcement ofcer who was pretending to be a minor with sexual intent

Sheriff: Those arrested in sting are 'disgusting'

See: http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/2010/august/137671/Sheriff:-Thosearrested-in-sting-are-disgusting