Gone, but not Forgotten

FROM THE BACK BURNER

• ITEM: November 22, 2003, 22 year old Dru Sjodin was abducted from the parking lot of a mall in Grand forks, North Dakota. December 1, 2003, registered sex offender Alfonso Rodriguz Jr. was charged with her abduction. Her body was found four months later in Minnesota, near where Rodriguz lived. Rodriguz was subsequently charged with her murder. Crossing state lines in the commission of a crime opens Rodiriguz to Federal prosecution. Top Federal prosecutor U.S. Attorney Drew Wrigley of North Dakota is seeking the death penalty. The case has inspired HR 95, The National Sex Offender Public Database Act of 2005. Aside from providing a symbiotic nationally linked registry, the bill proposes tougher restrictions on freedom of movement from state to state for offenders, in addition to higher frequency visits and more investigative and thorough inspections by respective law enforcement agencies into the lifestyle and whereabouts of registered sex crime offenders.

Click link below to contact your state Senator to support a nation wide similar to HR 95 "Dru's Law"

• ITEM: July 6, 2005 marks one year since the disappearance of Molly Dattilo from Indianapolis, Indiana. FOLLOW LINK BELOW.
• Cases like the Missing Honeymoon cruise Groom from Connecticut, and the Natalee Holloway case in Aruba have forced the media's spotlight onto the vacation industry. According to the Associated Press, Aruba reports that their crime statistics are low and that there hasn't been a tourist killed there since 1996. Is anyone else killed there? Do local criminals only kill locals?
  KEYSTONE KOPS: Everyone has an answer. Most answers are excuses. The Action Report provides solutions. When Aruban authorities released the Kalpoe brothers they statistically diminished their odds of gaining a conviction...on anyone. The Oxford Political Dictionary discusses a gaming model known as "The Prisoners Dilemma." " It can be applied to almost every form of human and animal interaction. Well-known examples of application have been used in gaming arms races, incomes policy, trade bargaining and pollution reduction. The Prisoners Dilemma is a zero sum game that Aruban authorities should have utilized.

It reads as follows:"Two prisoners are held in seperate cells. The District attorney knows that they jointly committed an armed robbery, but only if at least one of them confesses will he have the evidence to guarantee a conviction. If neither of them confesses, they will be sentenced to two years in prison for illegal possession of firearms. The sentence for armed robbery is twenty years. However, if thEy both plead guilty, it will be reduced to ten years. If one confesses and the other does not, the one who confesses will be set free altogether and the other sentenced to the full twenty years. The DA visits each prisoner, inviting him to confess, Should He?"
The zero-sum game continues to calculate the odds of gaining a confession by using a matrix, and concludes that, " Irrespective of what subject A does, it is therefore (statistically) a 'sure thing' that subject B is better off if he confesses. Therefore, rational prisoners will confess, even though both of them knew all along that it would be better for each if neither confessed. "Had authorities hung obstruction of justice, and making false statements on the Kalpoe brothers, they could have used that as leverage to force the Prisoner's Dilemma onto them. But they didn't, and the brother's knew better, that it would be better, for the both of them if neither confessed to anything.-JP

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See Molly

"The Watchers"

Predators, Pedophiles and Pornography on Flickr.com
Flickr.com is intended to be an on-line photo-sharing community. It is owned by Yahoo!. What set Flickr apart from other brands of photo-sharing groups, was the ability to "Tag" their photographs. Tagging is a method of categorization, allowing the consumer to label their pictures with specific titles. There are Tags for kids, for bathrooms, for whatever someone wanted to name their photo, or sets of photographs. For instance, Grandma and Grandpa go to Hawaii every year. Their friends, Stan and Mardge go skiing in Vermont. So, Grandma and Grandpa Tag their pictures "Hawaii." The problem is that when Stan and Mardge search all public groups with the word "Hawaii," they may end up seeing a picture of a man performing felatio on another man, on a beach, and maybe, if they're lucky, the men are actually in Hawaii. Not the kind of thing that Stan and Mardge want their grandchildren peering over their shoulder looking at. If Stan and Mardge are looking at that; what do you think the rest of the animals on Flickr.com The Action Report has uncovered are looking at? They are looking at your pictures; of your grandchildren, and teenaged daughters. They are predators, and pedophiles and are are given an all access pass, courtesy of Flickr.com to see your two year old naked, on the potty. I found such a picture, it was sub-categorized with other commonly frequented topics, like fetishes, bondage, sexy, kids, lolitas, etc. I am sure that Grandma and Grandpa, and Stan and Mardge, have no idea this whole other world within Flickr exists; but Flickr knows. I received an e-mail from Flickr.com's Public Relations Director, Kathryn Kelly. In it she states that she appreciates The Action Report pointing out any claims of "abuse" of the Terms of Use Policy that might be occurring by its own users, and will investigate any such assertions put forward by The Action Report. That pretty much sums up Flickr's security. The Action Report has scores of inner-forum discussions from Flickr.com on this very topic. Flickr's security policy is "Police yourselves and report abuse." From the forums I've read, people in certain groups cannot police other groups, and some voices have been silenced along the way. Flickr.com does not have the ability to police itself. There isn't a screening process for new clients, you don't even need to be a member to be a voyeur. In the following week the Action Report will be providing the links to the pages that any twelve year old kid, any monster, that any anybody can obtain. Beneath each Tag; members make comments or "Blog" next to each picture. There is an icon located to the left of their comments. Click on the icons and follow them to other links. Click another icon and it takes you to more links, of more pictures, that depict a lifestyle quite contrary to the image that Flickr and Yahoo! portray to Stan and Mardge.
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