Oprah Winfrey today asked America to show support for Senate Bill 1738 on her daily show. The Senate Bill 1738 will come to the senate for voting very soon. The purpose of Senate Bill 1738 is
To establish a Special Counsel for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction within the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, to improve the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, to increase resources for regional computer forensic labs, and to make other improvements to increase the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute child predators.
Oprah showed a map that started with a red dot in washington and spread across the US map showing the number of pedofiles that trade pornographic images of children on the internet. Opray said “The number of predophiles and child pornographers online would literally blow your mind, and the demand is so high for new material that the videos and photographs are getting more brutal with younger and younger baby victims.”.
In 1993, the ‘Oprah Bill’ was passed in the Senate after Oprah Winfrey testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee asking for a national database of child predators to be created. In 2005, she launched the “Oprah’s Child Predator Watch List” that helped capture nine fugitives featured on her show. A $100,000 reward was also announced for citizens who would provide information on the whereabouts of those fugitives.
For more details on how bad the system to fight child predators is, head on to Oprah’s website at www.oprah.com. On the website you will also find information on how you can contact your area senator to support the Senate Bill 1738 – Protect Our Children Act. The bill can be viewed in its entirety at frwebgate.access.gpo.gov
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Oprah’s show was really important. But it is scary to support a bill without knowing all the facts. There definitely needs to be more funding for this issue, but as letter-writers (and awesome citezens) we need to be better informed and decide for ourselves. THEN! we need to write TONS of letters to our senators.
We should have the best legislation on this issue. The bill is not going through because it has TONS of extra totally stuff tacked onto it. The opposing senators want to get these taken off. This article breaks it down really well:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1041260/oprah_criticized_for_senate_bill_1738.html?cat=2
also these contain more info about the bill:
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=LatestNews.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=677267e2-802a-23ad-4698-dbe39b99ec24
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=2a1252b8-1541-4894-b8c3-c6fb76a5d73b
http://biden.senate.gov/press/press_releases/release/?id=F42657D4-AE1C-4B5D-A175-D196A3C80736
Since the Stimulus bill was passed, and reports were that there was not sufficient time to read it by many , if not most of our legislators, it is a difficult task to support a bill of any kind, with limited information.
I am not a “politico” type person, but do watch both sides of the news, to gain perspective on all views. I do lean to the “right”, and although my kind of “conservatism” was put aside to some extent during the Bush administration, I will always believe in the principles of smaller government is best, less infringement on our constitutional rights is best, and being informed with all the facts is imperative to making judgement on legislation. As time passes, we will find p-eople will become more involved, not less, when their personal lives are infringed upon by bad legislation.