RSSSenator wants stimulus bill to include Internet predator tracking
By Jacqueline Emigh | Published January 29, 2009, 3:42 PM
It isn't the same measure as US Rep. Peter King's controversial camera phone bill, but Sen. Barbara Mikulski has now proposed other legislation also aimed at using technology to help thwart sexual predators. Specifically, Mikulski has added $50 million to the Economic Stimulus bill for "Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) initiatives.
The senator's plan calls for using federal investigators to "follow the trail of child pornography traffic back through the Internet to rescue children." Meanwhile, Grier Weeks, executive director of the National Association to Protect Children (NAPC) -- a group that supports the proposal -- is referring to child rescue as an "economic stimulus" activity. "Law enforcement jobs are as important as bridge builders' jobs," he said in a statement today.
this should not be in the stimulus package.
frankly, with such pork added in, the stimilus package should be referred as a package of lard.
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|Right. Track spam first and then work on internet crime ok? Once that is eliminated I may buy into the concept. After all all this data is being collected now with nowhere to go.
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|I am a liberal (D), so whatever.. and I think this is crap. It has nothing to do with stimulating the economy. Stop trying to polarize people already.
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|Sorry, I hate to break it to you, but if you don't feel it is your duty to impose your morals and protect everyone from being offended, you are *not* a liberal. You're just a democrat.
You;ll have to turn in your bleeding-heart liberal card now, please. ;)
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|Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D) from Maryland. All you need to know.
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|people like her give democrates a bad reputation.
perhaps, her her vision/foresight and brain are as thick as her waste line.
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|While this maybe a worthy thing to do it should absolutely not be placed in the Big Government Spending oh I mean Economic Stimulus Package.
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|Yeah, that will stimulate the economy.
Is there some gene in politicians they shut off that completely and totally removes all ability to stay on task and focus???
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|Yeah, it's that natural response they have to "blood in the water".
They know a bill that is almost guaranteed to pass, and while there's a gravy train, why not toss our personal agendas on it?
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|So we need to make a youtube video, facebook group, and etc listing the names of the folks who pushed their personal BS and make sure they do not get re-elected.
Somehow we've got to teach these idiots that this kind of BS needs to stop.
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