Aswad
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I've seen sting ops, yeah. I intentionally take the bait as often as possible. See, around where I live, entrapment is illegal, and so it simply wastes their time, making it a way to hit an unethical practice right where it hurts (the wallet). I dislike entrapment intensely, for numerous reasons. One of which being that entrapment doesn't make any allowances for intent, since they don't ask up front, and anything you say afterwards can be construed as invented. As there's no actual crime prior to the entrapment, there's nothing to draw on, either. Course, if I really wanted to do something that's illegal in my own jurisdiction, I would use Tor and Hushmail instead. For that matter, everyone should have Tor and a suitable online remailer, especially if they're not doing anything illegal. Might get cops back to doing real work, when they can't waste time on this crap. IWYW, - Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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