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You know what? "That knock on the door", as you put it, is one of the very last things that I lose sleep over at night. Call it relative naivety on my part if you like. I'm well into adulthood and history would seem to show that it's an unfounded concern for me. I'm more inclined to put it down to relative naivety on your part, actually. Call it paranoia, if you will.
"It can't happen here." (nod to FZ)
I expect that the family who dropped off their vacation photos to be processed had exactly the same mindset that you are professing.
I also think that after they were arrested, jailed, (and yes, their computers confiscated), put on nationwide Sexual Offenders lists, lost their jobs, and spent $70K in legal fees to establish that they weren't, after all, trafficking in kiddie porn that they probably were no longer as complacent as you claim to be.
The simple
fact that you are so willfully (albeit not skillfully) evading is that these sorts of consequences have absolutely nothing to do with any actions of your own.
When bad law is placed in the hands of opportunists no amount of compliance, obedience, subservience, or conformity will serve to protect you.
Complacency is not a defense.
You should not feel secure in the knowledge that
you have done nothing wrong when "wrong" is defined by legal statute as a matter of
someone else's opinion.
You shouldn't necessarily feel complacent even when it isn't.
I recall a Usenet newsgroup years ago where two people were discussing a relatively obscure point about the Holy Trinity in Christian belief. The discussion became heated and degenerated into a flame war of proportions impressive even for those rather rough and tumble times. One of the participants was in the U.S., the other in Australia. The American one managed to unearth the Australian's real identity, and decided that it would be appropriate to get in touch with the local equivalent of Child Protective Services and report the Australian for child abuse.
I expect that that Australian was every bit as surprised as you would be when the knock came on his door. And even though the outcome was probably to find him blameless his record will forever show that he had been reported for child abuse.
The sort of VCP legislation you are so blasé about could even more easily create a similar situation where the damage is less innocuous. Kiddie porn laws alone
already have. This is not unlike the family with the vacation pics, or the woman breast feeding her child, or any of the other examples we have taken the time to document for you.
I don't understand what sense of personal invulnerability makes you think that your door in particular is safe, but I wish you well in that feeling.
It is completely and utterly unfounded.
