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Yes, Please feel free to do so.

	Rex Ballard
	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.


On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Heidi Howard wrote:

> May I forward this to the CJUSL mailing list and post it on AOL's 
> Cyberspace law board, for which I am the moderator (the board, not the 
> list)?
> On Fri, 30 Jun 1995, Rex Ballard wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Senator Exon was very clever.  He used a book of pictures downloaded from 
> > usenet (a sophisticated forum containing over 16,000 news-groups), frome
> > groups such as alt.sex.binaries.bondage (any innocent child would 
> > accidentally read this), using a "cut here, uudecode, view with a special 
> > GIF reader..." type of protocol, from a server that carries every type of 
> > newsgroup (for which you must have a user account), and forgot to mention 
> > that the Terms of the server account included a stipulation that you were 
> > over 18, provided a credit card number, and had to use a passworded account.
> > 
> > He pointed out that 10 children were lured into actual "contact" 
> > molestation experiences through their activities on the internet.
> > 
> > Based on statistical instances of actual incest/molestation, there is 
> > more cause to shut down Christian Churches, the Boy Scouts, the 4H club, 
> > and all summer camps, than there is to censor the internet.
> > 
> > Pedophiles don't go to forums populated with primarily adult males, to 
> > pick up children.  They join organizations where they will be placed in 
> > positions of trust and are in close proximity to many children and few 
> > adults.  The best target professions for molestors would be "Sunday 
> > School teacher", "Boy scout troop leader", "Den Master", "Little League 
> > Coach", or "Summer Day Camp councillor".
> > 
> > Having spent 15 years as a volunteer working with a group of adults where 
> > 95% have been incested, molested, or raped, I have some idea of what I'm 
> > talking about.
> > 
> > 	Rex Ballard
> > 	Standard & Poor's/McGraw-Hill
> > 	Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect
> > 	the Management of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>  hhoward@capaccess.org * http://www.infi.net/~heidih * heidih@dc.infi.net
> I grant a license to forward this note for noncommercial purposes. (c)1995
> "People do not care to play chess on the edge of a precipice." Mdm. S.Necker
>   "You may know what you need but to get what you want better see that you
>                         keep what you have." S. Sondheim
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From rballard@cnj.digex.net Fri Jun 30 18:39:09 1995
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