^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WRONG. Not the same thing.

: you live outside the USA and think you are safe, think again. The : United States Government, through the offices of Janet Reno (Butcher of : Waco), is asking for international cooperation in the arrest of : distributors (i.e., electronic/internet posters) of child pornography. : Extradition procedures can be enforced against foreign citizens by the : United States Government. Like it or not, the US Justice Department has

WRONG. They can request. They cannot enforce

: tremendous pull in Europe and in Asia. Just ask the owner of the : anon.penet.fi anonymous remailer system, he was forced by the US : Government to hand over a user's address (Written about in last week's : Time Magazine). Which also means if you think your anon ID will save

WRONG. Local officials got the ONE address. And it was due to a suit from the Church of Scientology and had nothing to do with anything on these groups.

: I assume that the same department of the United States Government that : finds that proper legal action is pump a building full of CS gas & : ignite it to kill a religious leader and his children or shoot an : unarmed teenager in the back, would probably find any picture of a nude : child in a newsgroup with the word erotic9 in its name as CHILD : PORNOGRAPHY. I don9t think the ole BUT ITS ART9 or IT WAS TAKEN AT A : NUDIST COLONY9 defense will impress them too much.

WRONG. Those pictures were copyrighted and allowed to be published in prfectly legal nudism magazines, as they were not pornography. They weren't then, and they aren't now.

What's not impressive is posting this drivel to a binaries group. Get some facts, and then go rant in the discussion group instead.