MySpace Protects Sex Offenders Privacy, Iraq Defunding Bill Fails

I have been reading a story on MSN in which MySpace is refusing to give the names of sex offenders to Attorney General’s from eight states.Citing federal privacy law, MySpace.com said Tuesday it won’t comply with a request by attorneys general from eight states to hand over the names of registered sex offenders who use the social networking Web site.
MySpace’s chief security officer said the company regularly discloses information to law enforcement officials but the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act says it can only do so when proper legal processes are followed. In a letter Monday, attorneys general from North Carolina, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio and Pennsylvania asked MySpace to provide information about registered sex offenders using the site and where they live.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday blasted MySpace for refusing to share the information and said no subpoena is needed for MySpace to tell the attorneys general how many registered sex offenders use the site or other information relating to possible parole violations.
Christian Genetski, an attorney who has represented MySpace, said the Electronic Communications Privacy Act requires subpoenas, court orders or search warrants, depending on the information sought.
There was a quote from North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said “it’s sad that MySpace is going to protect the privacy of sex offenders over the safety of children.”
Mr. Cooper is absolutely right and MySpace should be embarrassed to be siding with the sex offenders instead of the children who are being victimized be these scum bags.
Nigam said MySpace is serious about identifying and removing sex offenders from its Web site and wants to work with the attorneys general.
In December, MySpace announced it was partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to build a database with information on sex offenders in the United States. It is also supposedly working with Sentinel to share the sex offender database and technology with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which works directly with law enforcement officials, Nigam said.
MySpace, which is owned by News Corp., and other social networking sites allow users to create online profiles with photos, music and personal information, including hometowns and education. Users can send messages to one another and, in many cases, browse other profiles.
MySpace’s policy prevents children under 14 from setting up profiles, but it relies on users to specify their ages.
We should flood MySpace with calls, letters, emails informing them that we do like there attempt to help the sex offenders by keeping their information secret. In fact, they should publish their names and address and let all of us know who they are and where they live. They should forfeit all right to privacy once they are convicted of sex crimes and receive sex offender status.
It never ceases to amaze me how little anyone cares about the children. You have laws that are too lenient on sex offenders, judges who will not punish them enough, lawyers who defend them, and companies like MySpace that assist them in injuring more children by keeping their identities hidden from law enforcement. What the hell is wrong with this country, we need to pull our heads out of the clouds there in and start protecting the children from these parasites. There should not be three strikes and your out it should be one strike and your done. There should be no more chances to hurt more children for these people.
Even if it is breaking the law as MySpace says it is, they should break the law and do the right thing and then the law should be changed, because it is ridiculous to allow criminals to use the law against us this way. There is right and wrong and this is wrong!
This effects us all and in particular if you have children who are using MySpace when you are not home, so be careful when and how you allow them to be online. Make sure you check their history on the computer and see if they behave strange or have hidden contacts with anyone that you do not know. These predators know how to push the right buttons with the children and we are all responsible to protect the children as best as we can.
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Thankfully the Senate rejected a plan to end funding of the Iraq war by a 67-29 vote against the Democrats' measure left it far short of the 60 needed to advance. But more than half the Senate's Democrats supported the move, a marked change from last summer when only a dozen members of the rank and file backed a troop withdrawal deadline.
The Al-Qaida Democratic Party was still happy too embarrass our troops and our President by even allowing this bill to come to the floor of the Senate for their view that anything they do even if it does not pass will help them win more seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as the Presidency in 2008.
For the first time, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Barack Obama of Illinois and Joe Biden of Delaware joined Sen. Chris Dodd in lending support to the notion of setting a date to end U.S. participation in the war.
Senator Clinton said it was a procedural vote, as usual more double talk to try and be on both sides of the issue. I had planned on voting for her, because I thought she would be a good first female President as she is pretty ruthless and she would have made it interesting, but her flip flop on the Iraq War has put her in my “I would not vote for her if she was the only candidate running column” with the rest of the Al-Qaida Democratic Party Presidential hopefuls who want us to lose in Iraq and let their terrorist brethren take over there and here.
These craven, cowardly politicians should be removed from office for aiding our enemies around the world. You can be sure they will receive congratulatory remarks from the terrorists for putting on this show of support for their cause of killing more troops and more Iraqi civilians. As a matter of fact, I just saw were another vehicle blew up and killed 32 Iraqis and wounding even more. How sad that we cannot get the politicians to understand how these kind of votes lends itself to the cause of keeping the terrorists from giving up, as they can see if the keep killing we will leave as we do not have the resolve to see this through to the end. Thank God that we did not have these politicians in power in World War II or they would have pulled our troops home after D-Day, hell they might just surrendered after Pearl Harbor so there would not be anymore bloodshed.
We owe these fine young men and women who are fighting the support of their country and our respect and gratitude.
Now pass the funding bill, without all of the domestic pork barrel projects and let the troops know that even if you disagree with the war, you are not going use them for your political games. Argue with the President all you want, but fund the troops and fund them now!