A Discordian Dilemma

Texas DA Won’t Prosecute Any Pedophiles
Nabbed in NBC ‘Predator’ Show

Thursday, June 28, 2007

MURPHY, Texas — A sting in which police teamed up with “Dateline NBC” to catch online pedophiles was supposed to send a flinty-eyed, Texas-style warning about this Dallas suburb: Don’t mess with Murphy.

Instead, it has turned into a fiasco.

One of the 25 men caught in the sting — a prosecutor from a neighboring county — committed suicide when police came to arrest him. The Murphy city manager who approved the operation lost his job in the ensuing furor.

And the district attorney is refusing to prosecute any of the men, saying many of the cases were tainted by the involvement of amateurs.

“Certainly these people should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but the fact that this was all done for television cameras raises some questions,” said Mayor Bret Baldwin.

ed-Now they can spend time tracking down the artist who did the cover of Houses of the Holy. Perve.