A lot of you are trekkies and this story from the LA Times might bring some negative light on trekkies –
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-photo27apr27.story
It’s partly debunked on this legal issues blog:
http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/04/28/la_times_claim_about_pedophiles_wrong.php
Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase “though police”, which happened to be covered in an episode of Star Trek- The Next Generation. - Calvin
I’m not a Trekkie, but man I hate it when the media makes claims like this…I can assure them, not one episode of Star Trek I ever did watch had any child porn in it. They need to quit trying to look for a scapegoat and just accept the fact they are sick for their own reasons…the damn show didn’t make them that way! Thanks for the link Larry, I found the article educational…I had no clue how extensive this disease has become.
It’s a sick world sometimes, but I don’t blame it on Star Trek…I blame it all on Barney.
I think it was more the police themselves, at first, though the paper did run with it, which was dumb.
The claim is that it’s a world with monsters and make-believe which you can control, so it’s for people with control fantasies or some pop-psych crap like that, but in fact people who know anything about the shows know that Star Trek is, more than anything else, a view of a positive future in which people actually have higher goals and often behave better than people do today.
This is part of the appeal of the shows – a positive future and a human race with higher aspirations – and though I’m also not a huge fan of the shows, to characterize them in that way is as stupid as it is insulting.
Hey,
First off, both the cops and the paper were sloppy; their own government stats show child abusers to be 50-50 in terms of the sex of the predator (Ministry of Health). Second, even “wordspeak” is the rule there - if it may offend, it’s outlawed - Canada had no free speech whatsoever. Third, if they only found five out of 50,000 - time to save money and disband the unit - they make the LA cops look good![;)]
Wonder if the one they caught who didn’t like Star Trek was Michael Jackson? But then again, he’s into Peter Pan…[:D]
MJ is in his own little world…I feel sorry for anyone associated with him!