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Serial peeper: Man who inspired 3x law arrested again
The name of James Gilbert Stearn may not be widely known, but his Charlottesville activities are the reason for a Virginia law that raised the penalty for a third Peeping Tom offense from misdemeanor to felony.
Stearn's lengthy history of peeping arrests and indecent exposure charges date back at least to 1998, when he was arrested for lurking in the woods behind a UVA dorm and videotaping coeds as they undressed, according to a 2002 Washington Times article on the legislation to stiffen the penalties for serial peepers.
Sources familiar with the case say he fell out of a tree while videotaping.
As a misdemeanor, a peeping conviction carries a maximum sentence of 12 months. A bill carried by Delegate Rob Bell in 2006 made the third strike a felony with a five-year maximum.
Stearn, 49, has already served two-and-a-half years in prison under the new law, and on July 26, he was arrested again at his Leonard Street residence in the Belmont neighborhood. The arrest stems from a July 7 incident in which he was allegedly peering into an occupied building.
"Officers responded to John Street to a report of a prowler," says Charlottesville Police Lieutenant Ronnie Roberts.
The area around the university appears to be a favorite of Stearn, who was arrested on University Way in 1999 for indecent exposure, according to the Cavalier Daily. While police were unable to provide the total number of times Stearn has been arrested for peeping, available court records indicate it's at least 12, with other arrests for indecent exposure and trespassing.
In 2002, prosecutor Ron Huber and Charlottesville detective Wendy Lewis asked Delegate Bell to carry the bill that makes the third peep a felony. While Huber, now with the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to comment and Lewis did not respond to phone calls from the Hook, Bell spoke recently to a reporter.
"With someone like him, it's clear he's a repeat offender," says Bell, reiterating the need for jail. "There's no other way to make him stop."
"There are very few armed robbers over 30," says Bell. "Sexual offenders don't age out."
Bell's bill requires a felony peeper to register with the state's sex offender registry, but Stearn does not appear on that database. And while peeping seems rare and possibly harmless, many experts believe it can leads to more serious offenses, like rape.
"It's scary to the people looked at and to the neighbors," says Bell. Jailing the peepers, says Bell, "is the only thing left for them."
Jeffrey Fracher, a psychologist who specializes in sexual offenders, thinks the odds are low Stearn would escalate to hands-on activities.
"That said, it's still an enormous violation to be peeped on," says Fracher. "People are traumatized having someone look in their windows. It's not a victimless crime."
It is possible to treat voyeurs and exhibitionists who are motivated to change their behavior, according to Fracher. "Someone who is not motivated for treatment, who has refused or is uncooperative, all we can do is lock them up," he says.
Stearn was so well known by police that any time a peeping incident was reported, investigators would check to see whether he was incarcerated, says Fracher.
Stearn is being held without bail, and he's scheduled to appear in court August 25.
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Tell those girls to pull down their shades...James told me the other day it isn't his fault, he just can't help but look.
"There are very few armed robbers over 30," says Bell. "Sexual offenders don't age out." Has it occurred to anyone that this guy is simply batsh*t? crazy? After being arrested innumerable times for this act, and NOT escalating, I wouldn't rule "NUTS" out.
It's not that I think that outside my daughter's window is where I want to see him, but I'm a little skeptical about him "changing" in a penitentiary. And at what cost? Repeating the "outside my daughter's window" preface, I ask what's less expensive: some form of outpatient therapy/house arrest/ankle bracelet or 1826.25 days in the state's care? Not knocking politicians but it's damn easy to be tough on crime and it's a real vote getter, but when in this day and age we should learn to separate rhetoric from the reality of the situation. Have we exempted the homeowner having a midnight tinkle inside his fenced yard from sex offender status yet? This last observation is not off topic, by the way..
If any girl disrobes, walks around naked, has sexual relations with whoever, or pleases herself with the blinds or curtains open after dark, it should not be a crime to look. Unless of course the observer is on their property with his nose pressed up against the glass! :)
Once upon a time, a friend of mine had a house in the city where his rear sliding doors and patio were, because of the lay of the land, slightly elevated above the rear windows of a row of duplexes where UVA girls historically rented at the time. While sitting on his rear patio eating and drinking wine/beer, and later while playing cards, the sites and adventures were absolutely unbelievable. And the girls made no effort whatsoever to close their blinds or curtains. I'm sure 95% of the male population would have looked. And the other 5% that wouldn't look most likely did not favor the female variety in the first place.
Statistics do show that most sex offenders do age out. However, Mr Stearn clearly has an obsession. This is not about sex its a compulsion.
i like to get peeped at
The impression I have is that peepers generally go onto the property where they do their peeping. Its not a case of someone walking down a sidewalk and merely glancing at a house where there is an unshaded window.
Peeping Toms and those who expose themselves often escalate their behavior to more serious crimes.
Its not merely that they want to look at nude or scantily- dressed bodies. If so, all they'd have to do is surf adult sites on the Internet.. Or visit a clothes-optional beach.
Rather it is a desire to frighten, to violate,exercise power. A peeping Tom is saying I can look at you even without your consent, if I chose to I could do more.
Good points, HollowBoy. Peepers want to look at the people who don't want to be looked at, the ones who didn't ask for it and are therefore being violated in some way. Not the strippers, porn stars and all around exhibitionists of the world going "look at me! look at me!"
Frank P makes some good points.
GSOE, I think everyone looks. And college kids are particularly naive about not closing their blinds--I shudder to think what people could have seen looking in my dorm room.
I remember a guy my friends and I called "Naked Man" who used to wander around naked in his apartment (in a complex long since torn down) on 15th St. behind the Corner. We all laughed and tried to catch a glimpse when we walked by--but we never hung out and waited for the guy to walk by the window.
Living in a big city offers many opportunities for random sightings of titillating behavior. I read somewhere that more telescopes are sold in NYC than any other city--but it's been almost impossible to see any stars in the night sky there for decades. What do you suppose everyone is using those telescopes for? :)
The theory that peeping often leads to criminal acts such as rape does not hold water in this case as Mr Stearn the veteran peeper has not progressed .He may just as well be contemplating robbery or fancy himself as some sort of bird watcher . Anyway whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty . Seems the law was upgraded on false prejudice .It is against all foundatins of modern law to jail someone on suspicion they might possibly commit a certain crime . They couldn't lock up anyone in jail for such reasons that had recourse to the means of defending their human rights . The law is designed to discriminate against the black sheep . Putting him on a sex offenders list is not right either . The law is just making a wild eyed assumption that his motivation is sexual but one can't discern anything or act by him of a sexual nature . Jail does not seem appropriate in an obvious case of mental derangement . His body grew to an adult but his mind is still back in the single digets somewhere and is warped .Jail is not the correct place if it is deemed he needs institutionalized . Some sort of rehab facility is where he should be placed if police,family,friends,neighbours,and social workers etc can't stop him from looking and showing too much skin .
P.S. It is ironic that the law was upgraded to a felony conviction on repeat convction based on this person's actions as it was deemed that repeated peeping leads to rape .This fellow didn't progress so the law was changed on a false assumption . Something is seriously wrong here and the law should be challenged on his behalf as not being constitutional .
If this guy was looking at your mom, daughter or wife would it be a crime then? This is a shame, I mean if a woman or a man is showing off 95% of people are going to look GasBags right but forgetting to close your blinds isn't an invitation. A young woman looks out her window and there's this joker looking back at her is going to cause emotional issues in most cases, this is a crime and this man should be punished.
Hollow Boy ="Rather it is a desire to frighten, to violate,exercise power. A peeping Tom is saying I can look at you even without your consent, if I chose to I could do more." Hit the nail right on the head! Sex crimes (from my research) are about power and control of the victim.
Frank Speaker: "The theory that peeping often leads to criminal acts such as rape does not hold water in this case as Mr Stearn the veteran peeper has not progressed " So very true!! Would love to be the analyst on the other end of this case....it would be very interesting to find out WHY he never escalated past the peeking tom stage.
Not sure about Virginia, but it is a crime in some States for a male to pleasure themselves with the shades open- it's called exposure, but it is not a crime for a female to do the same.
Perhaps the male gets reported and female doesn't- hum.................
Harry -- So a male and female neighbour could watch each other "please themselfs" through each other's open windows and the legal rambifications would be ? No breach of the law by the female but the male could be charged with exposure plus peeping .I have never heard of any charges against peeping Patricia's . It could be that is due to the fact women are very cleverly sly in their peeping . They don't get in trouble for it and guys have to clue in or miss out LOL .
@ Frank Speaker
"I have never heard of any charges against peeping Patricia's"
Maybe because women aren't prone to that pathology? Not saying there's never been one in the history of the world, but I don't think I've ever once heard of a woman creeping around, peeping in windows, rubbing one out in public the way you hear about guys. But I guess it's happened somewhere. :D
However, we've all read or heard endless tales of female stalkers, which is a more focused form of that, but it seems to be a different type of pathology. Being obsessed with a single person (or family) versus creeping around picking indiscriminate people to voyeuristically intrude upon.
Frank Speaker- probably so...............just an observation, or "peep", as it may be.....


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Stanford's iPhone development course.
"Is writing ever NOT collaboration? Doesn't one collaborate with oneself, in a sense? Don't we access different aspects of ourselves, different characters and attitudes and then, when they've had their say, switch hats and take a more distanced and critical view — editing and structuring our other half's outpourings? Isn't the end product sort of the result of two sides collaborating? Surely I'm not the only one who does this?" Something else that's been on the pile (to link) for a while now.
"The craftsman as hero is a consistent motif in Ruskin's artistic and social theories. To him, mechanisation and division of labour dehumanise workers, enslaving them to execute exactly the specifications of others. The only way to recapture the humanity in labour is to put the designer back in touch with the tools of the craft and to unleash the creativity of the maker." A lovely metaphorical piece from Matt Edgar, reminding me of how much I need to brush up on my knowledge of the Arts and Crafts movement, if only because of how much I appreciate their sentiments.
"At some point, I begin to feel that I am carrying entire Latin American forests home with me. Also, I am afflicted with a terrible need to stop and write things down, at almost every corner, slowing my passage through the city and impeding motion. I am locked in this ridiculous two-step, unable to travel more than half a block before sitting down and writing out more, papering over the last thirty feet, dripping more ink onto the street: this absurd project, this incomprehensible, incompletable urge, this terror of forgetting and compulsion to record." Beautiful writing from James, which has been sitting on the "to link" pile for far too long.
"Here is an extraordinary piece of film. It is a live outside broadcast of a British army simulation of an attack on a train in Britain. It went out at prime time on a BBC programme called Saturday Night Out. And it happened in 1956."
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The LRWC Spouse Group began many years ago as an English class for the spouses of international students at McCormick and the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. We meet each Wednesday and two members bring food to share. Four of our former members are now McCormick students and one returned with her family to Japan, but each year lovely people appear to bless the group. Our members include community organizers, teachers, a professor of social work on sabbatical, administrators, social workers, graphic designers, writers, a composer and professional organist, and even a lawyer.
Some group members speak English very well (even though they don't think so), while others struggle so hard to understand and to be understood. All our members get homesick for their familiar places and spaces; few people understand just how difficult it is to live in this country as an international students' spouse.
We go on field trips, some as close as the park by the DuSable Museum. One afternoon we took a spontaneous trip to Chinatown. In less than half an hour we were gathered around a table in a little bakery sipping tea and eating cakes. We've visited the Jane Addams Hull House, the National Museum of Mexican Art in the Pilsen neighborhood and spent a day at Indiana Dunes State Park, eating a picnic and watching the kids play in Lake Michigan.
Our group prepares and serves a meal on the first Tuesday of every month for the Food for Life Program at First Presbyterian Church. It's a lovely and noisy time with lots of little children running around the kitchen and hall, babies in strollers, people chopping and stirring and opening cans and tasting sauces and drinking coffee and talking about all kinds of things and washing dishes. At 12:30 p.m. we sit down to eat with the church staff and at 1:00 p.m. we begin serve our neighbors. This year we will also volunteer two nights a month at Good News Community Kitchen, now called "A Just Harvest." Please join us.
The Spouse Group also prepares periodic newsletters for the community. Please check out a couple of past issues: Spouse Group Issue 1 and Spouse Group Issue 2.
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How Jeremy Lin Helped Bring Out the 'Soul of Sport'
How Jeremy Lin Helped Bring Out the 'Soul of Sport'
Though Linsanity appears to have quickly died down there is no denying the effect the young star had on Americans nationwide.
Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks gave meaning and greater purpose to the world of sports, something that Jeanne Hess, the author of Sportuality: Finding Joy in the Games, believes Americans are desperately in search for.
"Jeremy Lin is the most sportual person in America right now," the nationally renowned NCAA volleyball coach said. "He inspires us because we are hungry as a nation for the soul of sport and he has brought us that."
"Lin clearly demonstrates that people need to find a greater purpose for whatever game they participate in and why we all must dig down deep to discover who we are and bring it out on the court of life."
But it isn't just celebrity figures like Lin and Tim Tebow who are breathing meaning and purpose into the games. They are simply the most public.
"There are athletes at smaller schools that are just an inspiration," Hess told The Christian Post over the phone. "We're looking for those people that are within our community that can inspire us, give us breath, hope, this idea of joy."
In her new book, the former associate college chaplain for Kalamazoo College, where she currently serves as a chair and professor of physical education, is looking to do what players like Lin and Tebow have done – redefine and change the culture of sports.
Taking words often associated with sports, like competition, community, sacrifice, enthusiasm, and victory, and redefining them to bring out new meaning, Hess hopes to transform the culture of sports into something much more positive and powerful.
One word in particular that resonated with her from the book was competition, which is normally defined as something that athletes or coaches work against.
"The violence that we're seeing in sports, the negativity, the hate, the rivalry, all of these things are fueled by this traditional definition of competition," she described.
"[But] the word competition really means to work with and so as you begin to consider the other team, the other group of fans, the other, as someone that's working with you to make you your best and that you're working with them to make them their best it's this wonderful exchange of energy that you didn't have before."
The University of Michigan graduate feels that many people look to the culture of sports to provide something in their lives that they don't already have. Things like "commitment, dedication, something greater than the self … to get beyond that ego, to get beyond the traditional me first, to look to be involved with something greater."
With the proper coaching techniques, ideas and thoughts about games and their purpose, the Detroit native shared that people could find purpose and meaning in everything that they do in addition to the sports that they play or watch.
As the mother of two professional athletes, who were both minor league players for the Detroit Tigers, Hess raised her sons to always look deeper within themselves and live purposefully.
She challenged them to give back to the community, be responsible, and inspire those who looked to them.
"Inspiration is breathing in and breathing out, giving and receiving," the former varsity volleyball player explained to CP. "The soul of sport is something much greater than me and it's something that flows through me and to others. If you take away the balls, the nets, the goal posts, the fields, sport at its essence is about learning these lessons of soul of engaging with the other."
For example, volleyball at its essence is about forgiveness, the head volleyball coach at Kalamazoo College stated.
"If you hold on to an error either your own or your teammates, your whole game is shot. So I find myself not only teaching the mechanics of the game, but ... teaching forgiveness, patience and communication. And all of the things ... are all literally the fruit of the spirit."
Raised as a Catholic-Episcopalian, Hess clarified that her book is not intended to be evangelistic though she speaks about God sometimes.
"I don't see [the book] as evangelistic but I see it as creating a change or a new conversation among those in the sport community who have charge of it together."
Though all audiences could read the book, she believes Sportuality would resonate most with athletes, parents of athletes, coaches and fans who could understand and appreciate the sports references and other related terms.
While most of the words are used within the culture of sports, however, they are also used within the greater culture.
"The power of story within words and within the sporting culture can be very powerful," she concluded. "I really believe in the power of sport and spirit together to change this culture towards more peaceful, more meaningful, less violent, and more joyful existence."
"I see sport as a metaphor for life, a way to walk the walk and talk the talk and live the journey."
To learn more about Jeanne Hess and her new book Sportuality: Finding Joy in the Games, visit www.sportualitybook.com.


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Long after the last footsteps could be heard pattering down the hall or the sound of water in the pipes, I finally threw back the covers and hopped out of bed.
I knew exactly what I wanted to wear, and it only took two seconds to pull it out of my suitcase. I then slipped into the bathroom and got dressed. As soon as I was done, I crept out of the bedroom and down the hall. I could hear my dad snoring in the guest bedroom, while the sound of muted TV came from the office where Eli and Gabe were sleeping on an air mattress and the pullout couch. Grabbing a flashlight out of the hall closet, I then snuck out the front door. I jogged as fast as I could in my robe and slippers across the front lawn and down the hill. Thankfully, Angel had actually listened to me when I told her to stay on the porch. The last thing I needed was for her to start a barking marathon and alert everyone that I was running around half-naked outside.
When I got to the barn, I reached under one of the potted plants to get out the hide-a-key. Gently, I unlocked the door and stepped inside. When I closed the door behind me, I heard rustling in the bed upstairs. Without hesitation, I made my way across the living room toward the stairs. Of course, I didn't expect Jake to have left his shoes in the middle of the floor, causing me to trip and bang into the ladder.
"Ow!" I cried before I could bite down on my lip.
"Abby?" Jake questioned. Within a few seconds, he was peering over the railing of the loft.
Gazing up at him, I teased, "Yes, it's me. Were you expecting someone else?"
His brows furrowed. "I wasn't expecting anyone, especially you."
Jake gave me a funny look as I started climbing the stairs. When I got to the top rung of the ladder, he helped me off. "What are you doing here?"
To answer his question, I undid the tie on my robe. I then shimmied it off my shoulders and let it fall to the floor. Jake's eyes widened while his mouth gaped open at my skimpy lingerie. "Abby…"
"Do you remember this?" I asked, running my hand over the silky material.
As the revelation washed over him, desire burned in his eyes. "You were wearing that the night we made love for the first time."
"Yes, I was." Stepping forward, I wrapped my arms around his neck. "I want you to finish what you started earlier this afternoon. But most of all, I want you to make love to me again on our wedding eve in the same place we first came together."
Jake's gaze left mine to momentarily flicker over to the clock on the nightstand. "But it's after midnight. That means it's our wedding day. What about the bad luck?"
"We make our own luck. But more than anything, we make our own memories, and I want to make one with you tonight."
As his arms wrapped tighter around me, he cocked his head at me. "Trust me, Angel, I certainly don't want to argue with you. I just don't want you to regret it later."
"There hasn't been a single moment I've regretted with you."
Jake's brows rose in surprise. "Really?"
"I promise."
He smiled. "I'm really glad to hear that."
"So are you down with my plan?"
"Oh, hell yeah," he said, as he backed us over to the bed.
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A Los Angeles judge granted the "SexyBack" singer a protective order against Karen J. McNeil on Friday.
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The filings indicate it's the third time the 48-year-old woman has showed up at Timberlake's home and that she may be homeless.
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Connecticut fishermen warned of bacterium that loves warm oysters
BRIDGEPORT -- The good news is oysters in Connecticut are about as safe as just about every other kind of food you can name. The bad news is those in the oyster industry, from harvesters to restaurant chefs, have to be ever-vigilant for Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacterium that was all but unknown a few years back.
About 60 shell fishermen turned out recently at the Regional Vocational Aquaculture School to hear scientists and other officials hammer home the need to keep oysters cold and out of the sun from the moment they're pulled from Long Island Sound, especially from June through September.
"We boarded nine vessels in 2012, and all of you were doing a great job and all of you were aware of the situation," said Melissa Evans, a microbiologist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She said that unlike inspections carried out in previous years, oyster-boat operators were now careful to keep the mollusks in shade and in conditions in which temperatures could be kept below 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
The bacterium is critically sensitive to temperature, according to Kristin DeRosia-Banick, an environmental analyst with the state Department of Agriculture. She said that at 50 degrees, it takes more than 35 hours for the bacteria population to double, more than enough time to get the product under ice.
"But at 80 degrees, that windows shrinks to 1.64 hours," she said.
Most people will recover from a bout of Vibrio parahaemolyticus after about three days of "intestinal discomfort."
Deaths are rare, as are those who suffer lasting effects. Nationally, there were 193 cases in 2012, with 55 requiring hospitalization; six of the victims died. The CDC estimates that there were 4,500 cases in all. However, most went unreported owing to the usually mild nature of the infection.
There was only one confirmed case in Connecticut last year, in Westport, officials said. None have occurred thus far in 2013, although the worst months are coming up -- June, July, August and September. But with prudent harvesting practices, oysters remain safe to eat raw year-round, experts say.
There are a number of new federal regulations that oystermen now have to abide by during the warmer months, thanks to Vibrio parahaemolyticus. These include employing a time-and-temperature recorder to provide a paper trail of how the mollusks were handled once they were hauled out of the water. Also, bins of oysters have to be kept shaded and ventilated.
"When the containers are stacked one atop the other, there's very little evaporative cooling going on," Evans said.
DeRosia-Banick said that there's a new strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that's "hot," meaning it'll cause illness in humans even in low doses. "This is the one that showed up on the West Coast, then in Oyster Bay (N.Y.), then in Westport and then in Spain."
But there are those who are attempting to stamp out the microbe like DeRosia-Banick.
"For starters, in Connecticut we don't have good landing data," she said, referring to the volume of the annual harvest. "So we don't really know what the risk assessment is. We suspect it's very low, but we don't have the data to assess that."
In addition, the state lacks equipment to analyze oyster pathogens in the field, and lab testing takes days. Field-testing gear would cost about $70,000, something not now in the budget.
She noted that oyster consumers tend to eat them raw. "They also tend to sample them at two or more restaurants in an evening, so it's hard to tell where the bad oyster came from if there's an infection," she said.
Still, she commended the state's oystermen for keeping the disease in check, despite a "very difficult" 2012.
"It was about the hottest summer on record, and we were seeing June water and air temperatures that we never experienced before," she said. "But we still had a great health record and we have you to thank for that. The fact that we did not have an outbreak is really directly the result of all of your hard work in getting the oysters to market. You guys did a great job."


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Having just passed its super-controversial Cr�ation et Internet "graduated response" law, you might think the French government would take at least a brief break from riling up the "internautes." Instead, the government is prepping a new crime bill that will, among other things, mandate Internet censorship at the ISP level, legalize government spyware, and create a massive meta-database of citizen information called "Pericles."
French newspaper Le Monde has the details on the new law, dubbed "Loppsi 2." Together with the recent Dadvsi law (which banned DRM circumvention) and Cr�ation et Internet (which disconnects repeat online copyright infringers), Loppsi 2 will "fix" France's various cybersecurity issues.
Think of the children
Loppsi 2 allows the state to install software that can "observe, collect, record, save, and transmit" keystrokes from computers on which it is installed. In essence, it allows for government-installed Trojans for a period of four months; a judge can extend this period for four months more.
In the US, the FBI has used similar techniques for several years, installing a program called CIPAV on suspects' computers to record and transmit "pen register" data back to investigators.
Under Loppsi 2, French ISPs would also need to participate in a Web censorship regime that initially appears targeted at child pornography. Critics like Jean-Michel Planche, who advises the French government on Internet issues, are already calling the new bill the end of an open and neutral Internet.
Finally, the bill allows for a database called "Pericles" that can pull together information from various existing French databases to create a "super-dossier" on people. According to Le Monde, such a database could contain all sorts of crucial, personal information, and sounds certain to set off the same debates that have taken place in the US whenever similar projects have been floated.
Oh—and did we mention that Loppsi 2 funds all sorts of other crime-fighting techniques, including automated camera systems that record the license plates of cars passing by on the motorway?
Taken together, the Loppsi 2 draft shows just how serious the Sarkozy government is about getting some control over this crazy Internet thing that all the kids are using now. Actually, this is a situation playing out in most developed countries at the moment, and it's not yet clear whether a global consensus will emerge on how to deal with law enforcement challenges on the 'Net.
Numerous countries in Europe already run Internet child porn blacklists; massive government databases exist or are being developed just about everywhere; graduated response laws are slowly moving into the mainstream. France just seems more interested than most in adopting all of these ideas in the shortest possible timeframe.