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Government/police insist on having basically unlimited ability to spy on people within the US, and then maybe catch a part of one operation after collecting heaps of evidence over months/years with tons of victims irrevocably harmed - and eventually a few main people get like 3-5 years in prison on a plea deal.
I get the whole "building a case" thing, but letting multiple children get abused, while other sickos learn the ropes to eventually "get enough evidence" so a few people can plead guilty for a comparatively light prison sentences is absurd. Shut anything about it down immediately. Even if it doesn't go to trial/conviction I'm sure the police have creative capacities to deal with child abusers outside of prison.
And people still think sex education in school is about teaching children how to preform sex acts, instead of helping them avoid predators.
Meanwhile when police do get more ability to spy, they'll raid the houses of environmental groups or other activists they spied on within a month.
Govt is spying on us to force us into espionage or other acts (eg witness testimony). They don't care about harm done to others unless there's an outcry.
There's a huge difference between teaching sex acts and helping kids avoid predators.
The lack of action against pedophiles is just going to fuel Qanon conspiracy theories and lead to vigilantism.
Neither QAnon nor the federal government cares much about kids. A guarantee of food and medical care would save a lot more lives than hunting child predators. Most child sexual abuse comes from people they know: parents, relatives, ministers, teachers, neighbors. Online stalkers count for a very tiny portion of crimes against children.
This is a moral panic piece, like terrorism scare pieces in the 2010s
That doesn't mean we need to divert attention away from pedophilia.
Yes, that's exactly what that means. Stop falling for the circus show. Anarchists, communists, gays, terrorists, trans people, pedophiles. Do you see the pattern ? A common enemy is a powerful thing to wield. It doesn't matter if they exist or how many there are. The unbelievers are witches anyway, burn them, BURN THEM !
Hint, police doesn't actually give a shit about hypothetical children getting harmed. This all a ploy to get the idiotic population to accept and even demand the police to invade everyone privacy.
Imagine Bill Clinton's secret service agents on Epstein's loliplane. Think they gave too shits about old people fucking 17 year olds ?