To Thwart a Predator

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Anyone who ever watched Chris Hansen's heavily hyped Dateline NBC show To Catch a Predator is familiar with the profile of the modal sexual predator on the internet. In many respects, the internet has greatly enabled a category of abuser who had limited capabilities before the technology. While criminal statistics make it very clear that those who are most likely to abuse children sexually are those familiar to them and entrusted with their care -- parents, relatives, teachers, clergy, etc -- the classic episode of "stranger danger" becomes much more possible with the invention and dissemination of remote communication and community tools like the net. Simply put, before the internet, sexual predators who victimized strangers or bare acquaintences had to do their work at least partially in the open, risking direct observation of their activities by other adults.

To clarify this problem, I am going to use a composite predator based upon publically available court documents. Let's call him...."Phil".

( TRIGGER WARNING: Description of internet sexual predator behavior and the complications for law enforcement under the cut: )

Kuril Islands dispute

[asket-klim.livejournal.com]

Hello my dear foreign friends! Yesterday i meet my old friend Sergey. And when we watch on my kitchen ice hockey (Russia - Finland 6:2, if you dont know) he ask me about Kuril Islands.

In fact, there is too many talks around this litlle islands. Japaniese want to gain them for free. USA government says the they are right and Kuril must be give back. Expirience of WW2 is not take into account. So, there is time to decide something. In my video a make an ultimate offer to Japan.

Hope they accept it and there is no WW3 in future - i want live in peace!