The FBI's new entrapment scam

[Zimzum]

First let me say, I do not support child porn or the sick fucks who get off on it. This new"ish" FBI sting has some serious flaws to it. What if I don't like my neighbor and get on the internet via his unsecured wireless network? Click on the link and WALLAH! FBI raid on his house in a matter of days. Or if someone posted the link on here just to mess with people. Everyone clicks it thinking its some yahoo news story only to find out you just got "Punked". Imagine if the FBI decided to do this same thing with Seed banks, something which cannabis .com has plenty of links too. Goto buy your seeds then BOOM, FBI comes knocking talking all your grow equipment and sending you away to walla walla.


FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects - click for full story

The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.

Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and contained no illegal images.

A CNET News.com review of legal documents shows that courts have approved of this technique, even though it raises questions about entrapment, the problems of identifying who's using an open wireless connection--and whether anyone who clicks on a FBI link that contains no child pornography should be automatically subject to a dawn raid by federal police.

Roderick Vosburgh, a doctoral student at Temple University who also taught history at La Salle University, was raided at home in February 2007 after he allegedly clicked on the FBI's hyperlink. Federal agents knocked on the door around 7 a.m., falsely claiming they wanted to talk to Vosburgh about his car. Once he opened the door, they threw him to the ground outside his house and handcuffed him.

Vosburgh was charged with violating federal law, which criminalizes "attempts" to download child pornography with up to 10 years in prison. Last November, a jury found Vosburgh guilty on that count, and a sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 22, at which point Vosburgh could face three to four years in prison.

The implications of the FBI's hyperlink-enticement technique are sweeping. Using the same logic and legal arguments, federal agents could send unsolicited e-mail messages to millions of Americans advertising illegal narcotics or child pornography--and raid people who click on the links embedded in the spam messages. The bureau could register the "unlawfulimages.com" domain name and prosecute intentional visitors. And so on.

"The evidence was insufficient for a reasonable jury to find that Mr. Vosburgh specifically intended to download child pornography, a necessary element of any 'attempt' offense," Vosburgh's attorney, Anna Durbin of Ardmore, Penn., wrote in a court filing that is attempting to overturn the jury verdict before her client is sentenced.

In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Durbin added: "I thought it was scary that they could do this. This whole idea that the FBI can put a honeypot out there to attract people is kind of sad. It seems to me that they've brought a lot of cases without having to stoop to this."

Zimzum Reviewed by Zimzum on 03-25-2008. The FBI's new entrapment scam First let me say, I do not support child porn or the sick fucks who get off on it. This new"ish" FBI sting has some serious flaws to it. What if I don't like my neighbor and get on the internet via his unsecured wireless network? Click on the link and WALLAH! FBI raid on his house in a matter of days. Or if someone posted the link on here just to mess with people. Everyone clicks it thinking its some yahoo news story only to find out you just got "Punked". Imagine if the FBI decided to do Rating: 5

[fishman3811]

Holy fuck welcome to the U.S the worlds biggest police state....First of all i think people who DL or watch child porn should be thrown in jail.But if your charged with watching child porn you should of actually watched child porn not clicked on some false link that showed nothing.Just because u wanted to watch child porn doesnt make it an offense until u actually do it,isnt it kinda like if u wanted to kill someone but not doing it but being thrown in jail cause of it?Zimzum your right about the seed connection the FBI could set up phony seed bank links and catch people that way its scary what LEO is willing and trying to get away with in your country

[killerweed420]

Entrapement is really growing popular in the police ranks again.
Its going to be up to the jurors to see this crap for what it is. Entrapement is the reason Tommy Chong went to prison for 9 months.

[Readytoride08]

That's the purpose to click it,they don't give a shit WHO you are I think!We are just walking $$$ signs atleast to the courts down here .It's sad realy whats next a Cannabis plant sitting on the side of the road with Feds behind it waiting .

[yokinazu]

welcome to the world of "thought crime"

i for one have no sympathy for people who like kiddie porn or child molestors but its scary the aspects of where this technique will be applied.

by the way i am a father of a 12 year old daughter and if some AssClown were to touch or even come close to touchin my baby they better hope to god that the police got ahold of them before i did. im a tree huggin peace lovin liberal hippie but i would comit murder in that situation and gladdly do the time. my prefered method is 12 guage 3 shells, one in each knee cap then one to the head

[norkali]

welcome to the world of "thought crime"

My exact thoughts.....