Chip/Squirt - I think that you do make valid arguments. Like I said in my earlier wordchoice - "I lean against it".... (yes, it's possible to have an opinion that is not staked firmly into the Earth! hehe)

I just am skeptical, and I know that possession of child porn images can go to a particular sinister motive, but so what? Does my possession of Das Kapital by Karl Marx imply that I am a communist, or that I'm supportive of an armed revolution against the United States government?

Or let me invoke the frustrations we all have about the 2257 law. It is one thing to criminalize filming movies with underage models...... but it is something else to criminalize the failure to maintain records on models which appear in such movies.

Or another well-intentioned but ultimately dumb law - insider trading laws. Martha Stewert talked to her boyfriend about stock that they own, and that is deemed a federal crime? It is one thing to commit fraud (like Enron's executives) but talking about stock that you own is something completely different.

All in all.... we have way too many federal crimes. I'm sure that possessing child porn pics is a crime in Texas, so let Dawgy go through the state process, not the creeky, overcrowded federal one.

Steve