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It has never been more obvious than now, that these rights can, and will, be compromised as soon as the ruling superiors can get the opinion on their side to do so. Take for example Sweden, which is, I think, one of the more liberal countries when it comes to issues like this. Recently though, I have come to revise that opinion. During these last months, there have been a major racket concerning child pornography, and all the bigger newspapers here have raised their voices against these perverts. The reason for this is that the police made an enormous bust against a suspected distributor of child porn, and found films where the contents were even more disgusting than they had expected. (the number of films and names of buyers were also a lot bigger ). You see here in Sweden it is against the law to distribute child porn, but its not illegal to possess it, so when the police found addresses at the bust, it was apparent that he intended to share his little films with others of the same mind, and had therefore committed a crime when having these films and articles. If he hadn't had these addresses the police hadn't been able to touch him, because possession of child porn goes under the freedom of press article. The papers and media in general, as I said earlier, made a lot of noise about this, claiming that in circumstances like these, an exception should be made in the freedom to possess what ever pervert magazines you'd like. They also invited several members of the government to see what child porn REALLY was. (Since governments in most countries seem to think they know about everything, but really haven't got any idea about anything, this was really a smart move as we soon shall see.) The members was disgusted and some even cried live on TV and everything. The comments made sounded something like this: "I couldn't imagine it was that horrible...", "We must immediately create a law that forbids even possession of material of this sort..." And so the wheels turned.... At this very minute the law proposal has gone out to several committees for examination, and it appears to me that it will not take very long time for them to clear this one through, even though it means violating Sweden's constitution upon which all our laws and everything rests. Normally, changes in the constitution should demand (I think), that two parliaments vote for the proposal, with an government election in between. (something like that anyway, but it is always a hard thing to pull off). Not in this case however, and a spokesman for the government said "in cases like this, the contents of the constitution has to come as a second priority". Well, well, not bad for being a politician elected by the people, whose job is to prevent these sort of things to happen, don't you think? What the government will do, if they pull this one off, is to make a moral statement, not to prevent children from being molested. The law that they happily will make changes in our constitution for, wont make any changes, because the people involved in child porn, or gets off on it wont care about the law. It is also very difficult for the police to be granted a search warrant in such cases where they suspect a person to be in possession of child porn. IF anyone gets caught it will merely be because they fucked up in some way, sheer bad luck or that someone drops the dime on them. (and that may be exactly what the police are counting with...snitches are nothing new to them, and the opinion tide made by media is paving the way...) The conclusion to be drawn is this: The mechanisms that were made to prevent changes to the constitution, can easily be overruled just as long as the public opinion is strong enough. It doesn't matter what the issue is, convince the crowd and they will do the job for you. (I hope that you don't get me wrong, I hate child porn, and things associated with it probably as much as anyone else, but the people who gets off on it are in my mind sick and should be encouraged to seek help, a hasty made law that overrules the constitution against their sexual preferences wont do any good.) Now, before you go to bed tonight, think of this: The government in your country decides that no one under the age of 30 should be allowed to possess a computer, since younger people isn't mature enough to have one. (or worse, possession of a computer is banned for everyone except for the police, government and those who need it in their business. NO home-computers would be allowed.) They set up a massive media attention on computer crimes, and in that way they will get the stupid mass on their side. Suddenly your government has created and approved a law forbidding the use of home-computers in homes, and in this case they didn't even had to compromise the constitution... Sweet Dreams! /*Hedge -94*/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- uXu #179 Underground eXperts United 1994 uXu #179 Call ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT -> +31-77-547477 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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