Text 17910, 72 rader
Skriven 2011-05-02 19:51:31 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 17901 av Gary Perkins (1614.fido_news)
Ärende: I wanna!
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Hello Gary!

02 May 11 17:39, you wrote to Robert Bashe:

 RB>> No. It would have been if he had stayed in the Netherlands. The
 RB>> second he came to the States and detoured to meed his "little
 RB>> girl", the entrapment was in the USA.

 GP> If I may, I haven't read the original source, but if I get the gist of
 GP> the matter, I doubt it was entrapment.  Entrapment involves actually
 GP> *inducing* someone to commit a crime that they otherwise *would not*
 GP> commit.  If someone meets someone else who is not of age, engages in
 GP> conversation with that person, and later travels to meet that person
 GP> for illicit activities, regardless of whether it's law enforcement on
 GP> the other end or not, it is legal and not entrapment.

We have been hashing this out ever since Michiel Van Der Vlist brought this up,
10,000 years ago.

As they understand the case, they are applying their understanding of it using
their laws, not ours..

Menno Blom was in fact a Dutchman intending to travel to California from the
Netherlands to attend the wedding of a friend.

At some point before Menno was to leave, he was apparently trolling the
internet chatrooms, one can presume the ones used by "sexual predators", he
engaged who he thought was a 14 yo female from Chicago and made arrangements to
meet this child in a Chicago motel. Little did Menno know, the person he
thought was a 14 yo girl was in fact a Sheriff's Deputy, tasked to monitor
these places and hopefully get off the street.

Menno Blom either crafted or altered his travel itinerary to stop off in
Chicago before continuing onwards to California.

Menno Blom made a physical effort to leave the airport.

Menno Blom made a physical effort to arrive at the motel to meet and molest
this 14 yo girl..

Remember at this point, all the intent and effort is with him now.

Menno Blom got arrested.

The Euro's in here are upset that Menno really wasnt talking with a 14 yo
female, that the Sheriffs deputy somehow MADE him take all the effort he did.

It has been explained to them ad naseum that there are a number of steps from A
to Z in which to not have taken any one of them and Menno would have made it to
that wedding in California.. Menno had plenty of choices to make and he made
the wrong ones.

Gary, I have a million dollars to give you, the catch is, you have to drive
here to pick it up and you must be here by a set time, if you leave now, you
can make it, only if you drive a certain speed or greater.

In reality the choice to attempt this is yours to make, but obviously you will
have to break the speed limit laws to get here, if you got busted, was it my
fault or yours?

In Europe it would be mine.

==
Ross
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