Why I’m Embarrassed to be Canadian…Again! Tom Flanagan Edition

I was on Twitter earlier this evening and some of the tweets quite frankly made my blood run cold.  It seemed that quite a few out there were actually minimizing ol’ Tommy Flanagan’s musings about Child pornography.  Flanagan’s not evil–only trying to be controversial, some say. Others clearly too stupid to understand the ramifications of Child pornography.  Most of all, these people are overlooking the fact that Flanagan, himself, has admitted that he is on NAMBLA (North-American Man Boy Love Association for  several years now.  I dunno,  but it seems to me that he must endorse child porn. One does not wind up by fluke on NAMBLA’s mailing list and even if one did, a conscientious human being would do all to make sure that that  never happens again.

One other fool tweeted to me that basically, well, there are those who did more serious crimes who are doing lighter sentences than child pornographers– an indication that he has  no clue how serious child porn is.  What Flanagan and these despicable fools are not getting is that child porn is not a victimless crime.   Children go through unspeakable abuse in order to produce child porn.  In fact, many of these exploited children go through such severe harm that they suffer long term if not permanent consequences.  Got that? The fact is that if there were no consumers of child porn, there wouldn’t be a market for it.  So yeah, the consumers of  child porn is just as guilty as the producers.  So yeah, Flanagan is bloody well evil.  To hear him talk or others who minimize what he said, one would think that these clowns think that perhaps Robin Sharpe got a bad wrap. So the next time someone has the temptation to think, poor Tom is getting a bad wrap, think of the poor victims of child pornography and their short and long term pain and suffering they go through instead.