(Updated: Originally published November 8, 2006)
This piece frightens me, and gives you an example of what can happen in a run-amok, fascista police state.
Any excuse will do, remember?
"Prosecutor Kills Himself in Texas Raid Over Child Sex" by TIM EATON
TERRELL, Tex., Nov. 6 — A prosecutor in this North Texas town killed himself Sunday as the police tried to arrest him on charges of soliciting sex over the Internet from a person he thought was a 13-year-old boy.
The prosecutor, Louis Conradt Jr., 56, had been caught in a sting operation set up by Dateline NBC, the television news magazine, and an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice. An NBC camera crew was outside the house to film the scene when the fatal shot was fired.
All right.
I'm not in the business of defending perverts; however, he hadn't even made contact yet?
He was going to be on one of those set-up shows on Dateline: To Catch a Predator?
The CREW WAS JUST OUTSIDE THE HOUSE when the fatal shot was fired?
Wasn't there a better way to handle this?
They DID NOT TREAT FOLEY this way!
Mr. Conradt had refused to open the door when police officers arrived at his house, where he lived alone, said Sgt. Snow Robertson of the Police Department in Murphy, a nearby town where officers said Mr. Conradt intended to meet the boy he thought he had communicated with.
Officers eventually forced their way into the house, only to find that Mr. Conradt had shot himself in the head with a small-caliber semi-automatic handgun, Sergeant Robertson said. Mr. Conradt died later at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
The guy obviously had problems; however, this approach to his illness (cops coming to the house with camera crews) led to a man's death!!
They couldn't have, say, COME to HIS OFFICE DURING the DAY? No, the police wanted to put on a show, and let's have the cameras come on down, too (like Waco)!
The guy might be human scum; however, with death, killing and war incessantly wracking the planet, can't we begin by valuing all life?
Police officers from Murphy had gone to the house with a tactical team and two officers from Terrell to serve a warrant for Mr. Conradt’s arrest. One of the officers from Terrell knew Mr. Conradt from his work as a prosecutor, Sergeant Robertson said.
Mr. Conradt had been a district attorney in Kaufman County and was the chief felony assistant district attorney in Rockwall County at the time of his death.
The police planned to search his computer and his house, Sergeant Robertson said.
The sergeant’s department had been working with Perverted Justice and NBC News in a sting operation singling out people who solicit sex from children.
They sent out a SWAT team? One of the officers KNEW him?
They didn't need to search his computer and house in this manner, did they?
Any doubt now that the MSM is a fascist corporate entity intent on imposing the mind-set necessary on the American people for the imposition of martial law and acceptance of despotic power in the Executive, all in the name of PROTECTING the CHILDREN!
Allison Gollust, an NBC News spokeswoman, said the crew for Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” series was taping as the police approached the house. But Ms. Gollust added that no one from Dateline had had contact with Mr. Conradt and that there was nothing to suggest that he had seen the crew before he turned the gun on himself.
Ms. Gollust: “There’s absolutely no evidence that would suggest that he was aware of us. We don’t anticipate making a change to our reporting.”
A man is DEAD(!) because of your provocative actions!!
Maybe a troubled scum, but the MSM flak expresses no remorse whatsoever!
Xavier Von Erck, director of operations with Perverted Justice, said Mr. Conradt had made contact in an AOL chat room with a decoy from Perverted Justice who was posing as a 13-year-old boy. Mr. Von Erck would not disclose the details of the chat, but he said, “It was sexual in nature.”
Like I said! A Set-Up!
Like the "terror" cases, there is always some infiltrating, instigating informant, or "decoy."
Where's the evidence? YOU CAN'T SEE IT!!!
Unlike some suspects in pedophile stings that appear on “Dateline NBC,” Mr. Conradt had not actually met the person he thought was the teenager, but Sergeant Robertson said he planned to do so. Perverted Justice staff members found profiles from Mr. Conradt on AOL, Yahoo and MySpace.com, Mr. Von Erck said. He also said that he thought Mr. Conradt had tried to erase at least one online profile, on MySpace.com, a popular online social networking community used mainly by teenagers, in the moments before he shot himself.
Sound's like "Minority Report," doesn't it?
The disgusting Conradt only "planned" to commit his crime.
Saw right inside the head there, didn't ya?
One reason I never porn, or myspace, or chat or anything.
That's why no comments are allowed here.
This medium for INFORMATION only. NO SOCIALIZING!!!
Sergeant Robertson said the police in his town of 3,100 had apprehended 22 other people in stings since last Thursday, mostly from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with the help of Perverted Justice. He said more would be arrested in the coming days.
“We’ll continue to work with them right now,” Sergeant Robertson said.
Perverted Justice stings have led to the arrests of 260 people nationwide this year, Mr. Von Erck said.
Wow! How many perverts out there, anyway? Must be EVERYWHERE!!!!
Several residents in this town of 14,000 about 30 miles east of Dallas said they were shocked to hear the accusations of pedophilia against Mr. Conradt, who had served two terms as district attorney.
Kirby Webb, an investment advisor from Terrell, said he never wanted to hear about people taking their own lives, but he applauded law enforcement’s effort to catch online child predators in the town.
“This is a good family town,” Mr. Webb said. “We want to preserve that image.”
Several residents were shocked, yet the piece delivers support for the stormtrooper-style tactics!
He should have said a good fascist town!
You think this story leading the National Report helps?
We really don't know what happened here. All we have is the word of the cops.
What if the guy was innocent, or being framed?
Even if guilty, couldn't this situation have been handled in a better way?
I hold the god-damned, sensationalist, vacuos MSM responsible for this man's death, regardless of what he was.
THEY DIDN'T TREAT FOLEY THIS WAY!
