You have to take Wired News with a grain of salt these days. Their Middle
East correspondent has the last name "Jihad," and their child sex
correspondent is named "Lynn Burke," a soap opera character from "Days of
Our Lives."
Over the past few months, we have been treated to a bunch of articles by
the Lynn Burke hologram, on the subject of child porn, internet
pedophiles, crossing state lines to have sex with cops, and other
tantalizing subjects, which presuppose facts not in evidence, pander to
conventional wisdom, and read like an anti-child-sex tract from some abuse
victim's web site.
Gone are the days when Wired News supported freedom of speech, and
carefully tried to find real facts amidst the many lies spread about sex
and the Net. If Marty Rimm wrote his report today, it would no doubt be
hailed as inerrant scripture at the top of Wired News with a Lynn Burke
byline.
Ms. Burke's writing style is clever, and does not at first reading, give
the appearance of your typical loony-toon feminist anti-porn crusader
using Wired as a platform to bemoan the exploitation of women, and the
sexualization of the poor innocent little children. Instead, the untruths
are sparsely implanted, stated as fact, and generally pander to the
public's need to believe widely held myths. Opposing sides of a issue
appear to be presented, but they are usually invented issues running
interference for the questions that are deliberately not being asked.
It therefore came as no surprise when I clicked on Wired News this
morning, and found the Lynn Burke version of the NAMBLA/Verio lawsuit near
the top of the day's news.
Ms. Burke gets off to a running start with her introductory blurb, in
which she refers to www.nambla.org as "a site that advocated statutory
rape." This of course is a blatant lie. Criticizing laws as unfair, and
the punishments they impose as excessive, is hardly the same as telling
people to break those laws. Yet, the "advocating and promoting" label is
what the Sex Nazis always use to label any position more measured than
their own.
After a few more comments alleging "advocating" and "promoting," words
whose overuse by the religious and political right wing to denounce
everything from sex education to homosexuality have rendered them huge
cliches avoided by thinking reporters, Ms. Burke leaps merrily onwards,
amidst advertisements for other "balanced" stories on such issues with
titles like "protecting kids," and "memoir of a pedophile's victim."
Ms. Burke mentions that Verio caved and removed the web site.
Conspicuously absent is any discussion of the free speech issues, outrage
by the Blue Ribbon folks, or mirroring plans, which would have been a
central theme back in the Good Ol' Days of Wired.
Ms. Burke is careful to do the typical FemiNazi trick of implicitly
applying the addiction metaphor to "medicalize" the reading of sexually
oriented material. Thus she carefully refers to "one last dose of the
NAMBLA website" being consumed prior to the murder. Again, this is done
deliberately and cleverly, without the possibility of her implicit claims
being made the subject of debate.
Then she laments - "legal experts say this case doesn't stand a chance in
the courts." Oh No. What can we do? Maybe we need a new law. Maybe we
need THREE NEW LAWS. Yeah, that's it. (Guffaw)
Exactly what the NAMBLA website contained, of course, is never mentioned.
In reality, the website was small, text-only, non-pornographic, and
contained position papers on sex laws and youth rights, and comments by
prominent people about NAMBLA.
Very boring reading, and hardly the rape manual Ms. Burke attempts to
portray, but of course now that it's gone, it's not like anyone can click
on it and see the truth, as opposed to the way it is portrayed in Ms.
Burke's slanted article.
What will Ms. Burke do next week? Sex Tourism perhaps?
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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
