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- From: roy@panix.com (Roy Radow)
- Subject: Re: NAMBLA? In Silicon Valley? Don't know.
- Message-ID: <C1G4Jq.BoJ@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <21794@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:28:38 GMT
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- In <21794@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez012344@chip.ucdavis.edu writes:
-
- >I picked up this message off a BBS and am wondering whether William
- >Steen, mentioned in the article, was active in NAMBLE; or whether he was not:
-
- [details regarding alledged illegal activities deleted]
-
- >Dan
- >deherrin@ucdavis.edu
- >-----------------------
- >Hopefully, someone from NAMBLA, who I'm sure reads this newsgroup, can
- >confirm or deny this guy's participation in their organization.
-
- Dan,
-
- Anyone can become a member of NAMBLA. Just as anyone can become a
- member of the democrat or republican party. What difference would
- it make if this guy was a member or not?
-
-
- NAMBLA's policy, however, is clear:
-
- NAMBLA does not provide referrals or assistance for people seeking
- sexual contacts, nor do we engage in activities that violate the law.
-
-
-
- In this context you might find the following illuminating:
-
- GCN September 21-27, 1986
-
- WASHIINGTON, DC - The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)
- has been cleared of any criminal wrong-doing by the U.S. Senate
- Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. (See GCN, Vol. 12, No. 26)
-
- The subcommittee reached its conclusion after a two-year probe into
- pedophilia and pornography, which included information gathering by
- undercover police officers. In the 76-page report issued early last
- month by chair William V. Roth (R-Del.), the subcommittee states that
- NAMBLA did not engage in any criminal conspiracy to violate laws
- against the sexual exploitation of children. Nor was NAMBLA engaged in
- any organized distribution of pornography depicting minors.
-
- *****
- To quote from the US Senate Investigations Report- Lt. William Thorne,
- a detective with the New Jersey Prosecutor's Office testified:
-
- "'pro-pedophilia groups such as NAMBLA "are not as severe a threat to
- our children as we may feel they are." It is the pedophile with no
- organized affiliations who is the real threat to children, Thorne said.'"
-
- ******
-
- These findings were the results of exhaustive investigations by
- various police agencies, the FBI and US postal inspectors.
-
- None of these could be accused of being "soft on child molesters".
-
- Yours in Liberation,
-
- Roy
-
-
-
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