thesmokinggun.com — In an undercover operation targeting Americans seeking overseas sex tours, the FBI last year set up a web site that purported to offer "exotic excursions" to the Philippines and Thailand, where pedophiles often travel for sex with boys and girls. Here is a mirror to the site.
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saintlinkMay 16, 2006
This ought to do a lot more honeypotting of these creeps. The more we can get off the street the better.
deepsubMay 16, 2006
"If an American goes to such contries to have sex with a child, they are still breaking US law and can and do get charged for it when they return."So, U.S. law applies in other countries. That's a new one on me, but then again, I'm not a legal expert.
hotdropMay 16, 2006
Any one wounder what happened to all the people that they didnt arrest? Somehow I wouldent be surpized if a few years down the road it turned out that they were blackmailed into doing something for the FBI to keep their alleged crime a secret. Also what happend to the people that were interested in the 18+ catagory? Were they commiting a crime ?
nikkesenMay 16, 2006
Creating a honeypot is already a popular way of luring hackers away from your main server. It isn't entrapment. THey had intended to cause harm and they found what appeared to be an unprotected server.In this case, this isn't entrapment, since these people would've had the pre-conceive notion in their idea to go commit these crimes. The site is merely the cookie jar, which unfortunately has a very small hole for the hand to go into.
robotcitizenMay 16, 2006
Catching them is only half the issue. What about punishment? This sort of abuse obliterates lives. Children who are molested often carry deep psychological wounds, and some even end up becoming molestors themselves because they are so maladjusted. This is one of those crimes that has a terrible ripple effect in society. The punishment should be proportional to the harm done. IMO execution is appropriate.
geminemMay 17, 2006
from a design standpoint, look at the smoking gun's mirror of Wicked Adventures Travel- <a class="user" href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/wickedadventurestravel/---">http://www.thesmokinggun.com/wickedadventurestravel/---</a> wow, the FBI is into the whole "rounded corners" trend too! but not pastels though.
irishloreMay 17, 2006
Catch every last one of those sick f**kers and throw then in with the normal prisoners to beat the s**t out of them every day
Closed AccountMay 20, 2006
BTW cool left menu animation.
fearless180Jul 8, 2006
First, a little about myself: I'm a 22 year old college student currently training for a career as a linguistics expert. I shall omit further information for fear of hate crimes against me.For starters, I'm going to get flamed for this. Do you know why? Because I'm a pedophile. I don't molest children, I don't jerk off to kiddy porn, but the fact remains that no matter how much I wish it weren't true, I am a pedophile. I would like to try to relate a few points of interest so often overlooked by the masses, provided you haven't already started cursing my name.By now, most of you have stopped reading this and are already posting your comments--usually something like "Cut hit balls off!" You are gentlemen and scholars.To those of you who are open minded enough to even consider listening to me, thank you.At the most basic level, pedophilia is a psychological disease. Therein lies the problem, since one does not volunteer for diseases. The condition is often triggered by molestation as a child. A five year old boy does not solicit penetration from his family doctor, it just happens. That child is now likely to develop pedophilia, which accounts for abbout 60% of reported cases of pedophilia in the US.However, there is also a strong link to heredity. I.e., if your father was a pedophile, like mine, you have a chance at growing up to be a pedophile yourself. No one decides who their parents are going to be. The evidence of heredity has solidified the theory within the medical community that this condition is actually contracted through multiple vectors and is in fact a disease, not just a compulsion. This is also a problem.There is no cure. There is no treatment. There is no help. There is no hope. You have this disease, then you are a pedophile. You are stuck that way, probably forever. The afflicted do not respond to traditional psychotherapy and there is no drug on the market or even being developed to control the symptoms. We who are affected are truly cursed. There are only a few support groups in existence for this condition, however most major cities have none. There is no way of getting support from friends and family, because the flames after this post will show that "Burn his dick off and hang him from his entrails" is the common response from even your most trusted friends. People sometimes get killed by their former friends after coming out of the closet--imagine the reaction to this.As for those who have molested children, that is an awful thing to do. It is also a hard thing to resist if you have a mental compulsion to do so. It's the same type of inescapable attraction that men feel for women, it's just skewed and perverted until it is no longer recognizable. It's still a bad thing to do, since it creates a potential pedophile out of the child. I have to go at the moment, but I'll see what horrible things you write about me and decide if it's worth my time to respond to the flames. I doubt anyone has read this far. Hell, I could say anything I wanted to right about now and no one would know.To sum it up, the sooner you stop crying for their blood at first glance, the sooner we might get a true understanding of the pedophiles' condition and develop real treatment for us poor bastards. What, you thing Charter has a twelve step program for this s**t?You don't even know how easy you have it. I'd kill to be normal.
bookinganywhereDec 12, 2008
Wow! Thailand