Over here, a spurious case of CP is used to put an end to parliamentary investigations against our government for more than a decade of substantial financial, equipment, and secret service support for a wanted extreme right-wing racist terror group that is responsible for a two-digit amount of homicides against Islamic and Eastern-European immigrants.
The material used for this spurious case comes from the equally questionable Operation Spade carried out in Canada in 2011 against a registered company that was selling nude beach videos that between 2004 and 2009 had been repeatedly found to be harmless by Canadian authorities.
This changed when in 2009 a Canadian court ruled that the Dost test for child pornography now explicitly applies also to any nudity of minors, effectively rendering the Dost test as similarly an elastic clause as the Miller test in the US that considers material CP by the mere criterium whether an imaginary "average community member" could potentially consider them obscene for whatever reason. Hence, in 2011 the autorities seized 300,000 files from said company, out of which 160 files (equalling half a percent of the entire seized material) were now considered CP according to the Dost test on grounds of nude minors walking along nude beaches in the background. More than 350 people in 50 countries were arrested for having ordered nude-beach material from the company, and 348 minors related to these customers were put into custody (aka "saved", as the media puts it). Out of those more than 350 people, one British teacher was actually found in possession of material considered CP by the British COPINE scale which also applies to swimsuit and nudity images.
Over here, the whole Operation Spade including the company's name has been all over the media since summer 2013, since before even any arrests took place because nude beach videos are not illegal over here, even if minors are found to be in the background. Our government has been co-operating with Canadian authorities ever since 2011 on the case, and found the material sent to them just as harmless as had Canadian authorities repeatedly between 2004 and 2009.
The politician that is now being targeted more than two years after Operation Spade until a few days ago led a parliamentary commission that for two years had been investigating against our government and its secret services for more than a decade of substantial financial, equipment, and secret service aid and accessory for a wanted extreme right-wing racist terror group that is responsible for a two-digit amount of homicides against Islamic and Eastern-European immigrants, and continued obstruction of law in persecuting this terrorist group.
Ever since Operation Spade was all over our media in summer 2013, this politician as a private customer of the company's nude beach videos continually approached the authorities to co-operate with them, repeatedly offered them to search his homes and to hand all his computers and hard drives to them, but the authorities continually denied his offers.
Now in late January 2014, the police and state attorney called several local newspapers and TV channels to join them for live coverage of them searching the politician's homes with SWAT teams for CP, and they found...nothing. In parallel, the politician is thrown out of his party with great public fanfare as a pervert and the parliamentary commission against our government has been closed down immediately by law without a final report. Traces of broken plastic fibers are now taken as alleged evidence of destroyed hard disks, a fact which is not denied by the politician, as before the commission had been constituted he, all commission members, and our secret services had been ordered by law to continually destroy evidence on the government case stored in files, records, and hard disks after use (and in case of our secret services even long before these files could even be recorded as evidence).
The police and the media now say that the only reason they found nothing was the fact that our minister of the interior had informed the head of the Labour party about the non-case in fall 2013 (several months after the politician had begun repeatedly approaching the authorities about his non-case) so the party could "warn" their "pervert" in advance so he could destroy evidence, and everybody now believes that our Labour party must be full of perverts for "having warned" this one.
The whole case gets even weirder: The politician now says that he had been in contact with authorities ever since the media reports in summer 2013 because he "didn't know" what the elastic clause for "posing material" said in detail. What's so weird about that is hardly known by the public and glossed over by the media: That he personally wrote that bill, introduced it to parliament, and voted it into effect. What he, the media, the police, and the prosecutor are trying to sell us now is that he, *AFTER* authoring said bill and voting it into law, ordered nude beach videos that he is now being publicly smeared for based on that law he himself authored, introduced, and voted for, and now says he "didn't know in detail".
My two cents: The whole case is a sham (and the politician a paid pawn) to either introduce broader laws to now even cover nude beach videos or finally introduce the widely-critizized law on data retention (that would effectively void large parts of our constitution, involving sanctity of mail and inviolability of home), or the sham (potentially involving active planting of material) is fabricated to end all on-going investigations on our government for state-sponsored racist terrorism, or both.
The result of the whole non-case currently is a giant shitstorm of political, racist, and anti-paedophile agitation in the media and in the general populace, the latter having hardly known that the politician had led the parliamentary commission against our government, a fact which the media doesn't tell them either now (you only see people here and there going, "Of course, no service for our political system could ever outweigh the violation of our kids done by criminal scum like him!", without saying what his "service for our political system" really was). Because the politician has Indian ancestry, user comments on media reports directly and many media reports indirectly tell this "Oriental pervert to go back to India!", others call for castration and capital punishment performed on him as well as all the arrested from Operation Spade, etc. This on-going racist agitation is especially noteworthy in the context of the now closed investigations against our government for aiding and supporting a racist terror group for years, investigated by the commission led by this politician.
And of course, we now see demands left and right to also ban nude beach videos. In order for that to happen, many people inside and outside of the media and the legal system are suggestively calling the perfectly legal nude beach videos "morally questionable shopping catalogues" to "order children by". To mail-order children in a box, or what? And if it's for purposes of sex tourism, that already *IS* illegal (most so-called "havens for child-sex tourism" such as in South-East Asia legally punish the act by 20 years to life imprisonment, and even if they wouldn't, most Western states themselves have sex-tourism laws that effectively violate legal autonomy of foreign nations, so sex tourists cannot only be persecuted in the countries where they violated local AoC regulations, but even in their own countries).
Also noteworthy within the whole context of state-sponsored racist terror is the fact that the house searches and public smear campaign against the politician are led by the same Public Prosecution Office and police office that did the same in 2011-'12 with our former Federal President (not an active member of government in our system, more of a representative post) after he had said in a public speech that we should also welcome immigrants of Islamic faith, only that the charges against him were corruption and money laundry.
As result of that earlier affair, our Federal President has been replaced with an anti-communist red-scare baiter that has repeatedly spoken out against introducing a minimum wage, denounces unions and grass-root movements such as Occupy for pleas for more humane treatment of jobholders (for twenty years now, our unions consider low wages better than having no job at all), has repeatedly called for large-scale revisions of post-1945 borders in Europe that would involve the unilateral annexation of Poland, Kaliningrad, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and at least parts of Ukraine and Romania, and who after several requests made to him, after the terror group had been uncovered, to speak out against the acts of terror committed by the racist terror group and attend public services for the relatives of their victims, said publicly that he "has no interest at all" in such "because who cares about some stuff that happened so long ago" as five or ten years.
Another similar case that comes to mind here is one that toppled our whole then Red-Green government in 2005. Our Green foreign minister had initiated a historical research commission to publicize how our foreign office is still annually honoring and celebrating a high number of Nazi war-criminals, some of whom were persecuted or put on trial at Nuremberg and later cases. Our foreign officials responded by a public smear campaign led by the media and parts of our legal system against our Green foreign minister because his party had liberalized our visa policy for tourists from then-recently accepted Eastern-European EU member states. The media was full of reports how seemingly millions of dangerous criminals would be visiting our country every day because of our new visa policy, and a number of public prosecutors told the media they were investigating against our Green foreign minister and Labour head-of-state for directly aiding human trafficking and forced prostitution because of their visa policy (parts of these accusations keep being repeated as evidence for some alleged global paedophile conspiracy because human trafficking and forced prosecution are categorized as "paedophile crimes").
What came from it was a parliamentary commission led by the conservative party against our foreign minister and head-of-state whose daily sessions were broadcast live on TV for hours (unlike those of the recent commission investigating state-sponsored racist terrorism, which in contrast is ignored, its findings when cited by third parties called paranoid delusions, and the criminal trial against the terror group's one surviving member is almost treated like a propaganda trial against a martyr of free speech who had heroically stood up against some "violent flood of undesirable criminal aliens" that our media has been sensing for 20 years now, ever since bi-lateral annexation of a neighbor state has officially saturated our nation with all the "aliens" we could ever need).
After a few weeks of "investigations" by the commission on "visa abuse" (which consisted solely out of our conservative opposition questioning our Green and Labour ministers on how and why they had liberalized visa policy), our head-of-state dismissed his government and new elections took place that our conservative party won. Our conservative party has never left the bench of government since this 2005 visa policy affair.
Don't ask what's wrong with our country. Ask what's wrong with child-safety crusaders everywhere.
