Amen to that brother. Whoever told the police is a hero!!!!

What was the guy thinking? Did he wake up one day and say, oh, I got to bring my lap top and look at child porn on a plane? To quote a famous person, "Stupid is as stupid does!". Might as well of hung a sign on his head saying "PS, I'm a pedophile". I'm all for Castration for Men like this as punishment.

brenda - are you giving women any punishment for letting these pervs have access to their kids in the first place? Porn is about profits - if women are willing to kill their kids so they can get a new boyfriend - then it stands to reason they would also accept money from pervs so they can film their kids.

My wife works for CPS - just as many screwed up females as there are males in the world. We keep cutting funding that helps these kids, not like we are innocent bystanders.

JSwieny - yet you post your stupid comment as well. LMAO, thats like the guy bringing child porn onto the plane. You prove your own point.

Drainbramage - I agree with you totally, there are probably even more of us women screwed up then you men, but the subject was of men looking at child porn, so I just commented on that. However if you can come up with a punishment for women like cutting some guys balls off, I would be glad to endorse it.

Think people !!!! He might have been looking at pics of his own kids playing in the back yard pool. That would explain the low bail. It could be the only "perversion" was in the mind of the other passenger. If the case dies quick this is probably the facts. But that won't be printed because that won't sell papers.

"Attention passengers. We will be Decompressing the cabin for a few seconds so we can throw someone out of the plane. Thank you for your cooperation and enjoy the rest of your flight."

@ Shadow..I'm sure the police checked out that laptop before the arrest, the police just don't go by what someone said without proof.

What makes me nauseous he is only one of growing number.. The Government needs to do something to block these sights and delete these images Take away the images you take away the biggest part of the problem.

Brenda - While I certainly agree that this man deserves punishment, and also a CAT scan of his brain to see if anything is up there besides white mice on a treadmill, I do think the people advocating life in prison and castration as punishment are losing their perspective.

While I do not believe that the Constitutional prohibition against "cruel and unusual" punishments refers to the death penalty, it certainly does cover castration. And as to issuing a life sentence, I would say it is disproportionate for the crime of viewing child pornography. If they were prosecuting those who actually made the pornography, yes, I would say a life sentence is in order.

Castration is worthless. You'd have to cut off their tongues and hands as well. Just lock them up and let them rot forever. They will never stop. I've seen stories of very old pervs (80s+) still molesting kids.

Only $15,000 bail? Only interviewed then arrested?
If this was truly child porn, wouldn't they at least do a search (home computer, etc.) to find more "evidence" that might lead to a "ring"?
More charges will follow. What charges? Where's the rest of the information?

I'm doubtful. What is child pornography ?

Is it a 17 year old "child", or an actual child ?

@jswieny...you of all people have made yourself look almost as stupid as the guy on the plane watching child porn....your so stupid ! Dude stick with cartoons...and step away from the crack pipe ! fool !

The guy on the plane must have wanted to get caught, can anyone be that stupid? oh yea jswieny...lmao

Stevo 14 - Remember rule 1 on blog sites, "Never respond to trolls".

Just leave them in their caves (or parents' basements) and step around their messy little posts.

I'm with Shadow and Chris. We know, at this point, absolutely nothing. It is often ignored that we have prosecuted people in this country for "child porn" when what they had was simply adult porn in which one idiot thought the actress was under 18 (Little Lupe) and when they were just developing pictures of their own children in the pool. Take a look at what that second family went through and rethink the calls for castration before the man has even had his day in court. We simply do not know ANYTHING yet.

dman - Generally your posts are on the mark but in this instance I disagree with you - I think the first rule of the internet is Never use Sarcasm (People are too smart for it) followed by the second rule which is People always post contrary to their names - e.g A guy name RationalBob - will post President Obama is training communist spider monkeys to take away everyone's guns. That said, Never respond to trolls is a solid third in my book.

Lusitania - Taking away the images doesn't make the problem "go away." The problem is simply this -- Brain Damage.

The best comment of this entire lot is "Best Destiny"!! Absolutely Priceless and Hilarious!!!

Purnell, good advice. Thanks.

They should just give him life in prison for overall stupidity.

Best Destiny - how can a catholic priest afford to fly in First Class?

Probably not Catholic - he's from Utah, remember . . .

EXACTLY MOZZIE! Nuff said.

Yeah, I'd say the thought police will be working overtime with him.

Attention inmates, I would like you to welcome a new inmate. Be aware this pediphile is NOT to me harmed in any [noticible] way.

To Notfiveo - interesting. Pediphiles is a lover of "FEET". I imagine that these type of lovers cram the prison walls.

That just flat out stinks!

Since the child-porn law is so broad that anyone viewing child-porn is in violation of the law, any bystander who has taken the time to ascertain whether the video images were indeed child porn should also be similarly charged except for possession.

That's one of the problem with anti-child porn laws.

How come the other guy was looking at his computer? Arrest him too, he was watching it.

And then what would you say if he saw the images yet looked the other way making it seem as if he never saw the child porn in the first place?! What would you say then?! Does that ring any bells for you.....*cough* PATERNO *cough*

The man alerted the flight crew of what he believed was a possible crime. Better safe than sorry. He did the right thing!

It would be interesting otherwise. All anyone would need is one child pornography picture, and nobody would ever be able to take legal action against them. Go to court, take it out, and everyone in there will need to be arrested for seeing it. Oops, all jury members, court workers, guards, attorneys, etc just saw it....so now they'll all have to be replaced. Repeat

I agree with you FatCat the detectives as well pose as pedophiles as sort of fishing..I say take away all the bait, Get these images off our airway..

Judge not lest ye be judged. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

Are you jewish? New testament wasn't your book, or what?

How the Hell was he able to get away with that?

Um, how is getting arrested and locked up 'getting away with it'?

Robert - Before you execute this person would you be interested in knowing what he did, or if he was actually guilty? For all we know he was looking at pictures of his 6 month old child being bathed by his wife. Maybe it was a computer virus that redirected his computer to child porn sites without his knowledge or consent. Maybe he's a pedophile who should be locked up. I don't know which of these are correct and neither do you. I would hope that if its one of the first two, he would have been released and this wouldn't be a story but we don't have nearly enough information for the violence of your reaction.

sandman..your prejudice shines through.

not nice.

Sandman... "judge not"?!?! Are you freaking kidding me?
So you take a swipe at Jews and stand up for the pedophile... nice to see where your values are.
If this guy has nothing on you in the sin department, maybe you could share a cell with him. But as for the rest of us... oh, yeah, the rest of us are gonna judge. Harshly. No reservations.

computer maker of virus love doing this to us in the u.s.a. you have no idea what a hacker could do to your pc to frame you .

he wasn't able to get away. he was arrested. did you read the article?

wtf?! you're defending this guy?

most viruse now have porn attachmnets ,this guy may had a pop up add he could not remove,some will take over your desk top. when is the last time you checked your pc? file sharing always up load porn to store in your pc.

If I were on a plane (or anywhere else) and if some unexpected child porn, popped up, I would slam the lid IMMEDIATELY. I might even utter an expletive such as Holy Schit!! And refuse to show the picture I was saying it about. And then I'd remove the battery and store my laptop until I got home where I could figure out how to get rid of the offending pictures/videos permanently. If that man looked at a child porn picture longer than it takes to say Holy Schit and slam the lid, he looked too long.

churchmouse3, that's a sign of someone who lives in fear of a society that has abandoned common sense. There should be no need to slam the lid of a laptop closed. In the unlikely (but not unheard of) event that a nude picture of a child (or a teenager) popped up on my screen, I would glance to see where it came from (local folder, URL, etc.) before closing it. That's the rational thing to do in order to prevent future issues.

Old Lefthander, "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law." We have absolutely no idea whatsoever any details around this case. See http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/27/9044316-police-man-viewed-child-porn-on-us-flight?last=1322409831&threadId=3281638&sp=0&pc=25#c60253635

That's what I'd probably do at home, but not on an airplane where other people could see my computer. If I saw you looking a child porn picture longer than it takes to say Holy Schit and close the lid I'd probably report you as a pedophile and let you explain your way out of it at the police station. I certainly have not abandoned common sense. You sound like you would have seen what the guy on the plane was looking at and turned your back on it.

That's an easy explanation. As a certified computer technician, I was attempting to find and eradicate the virus. Unfortunately, while executing my anti-viral procedures, I was constantly interrupted by the pop-ups the virus was putting out, and also by my side-seat airplane companion, churchmouse3, who was continuously yelling at me for the virus on my system that I was attempting to eradicate.

It was quite a flight.

jfalbannse, sometimes life is like a jar of Jalapenos , what you do today might effect your ass tomarrow.

Wow, that was a speedy trial. How do you already know a jury of his peers (or a three judge panel) found him guilty after the facts in the case were all laid out? Could you link to your source?

A little like that person earlier that said all such men should be castrated.

I'm sure it wouldn't go over well if I said that all such women should be repeatedly raped.

Unfortunately, the law doesn't treat the viewing of all photographs the same way. Where the photo involves a child and certain sexual elements, the law considers such images child-porn.

Child porn is a hot button issue, today. The possession of any images of child-porn is a violation of the law whereas the possession of the most wicked adult porn is permitted. While American society has accepted the viewing of photographs and videos of adult porn, it has decided that any porn images involving minors is a crime.

Hence, today, the law has treated certain images as inherently evil with no social redeeming value. This brings to question whether the Islam fanatic's prohibition of the drawing of an image or viewing an image of Allah is blatantly illogical or unAmerican. In certain nations, the viewing of an image of Allah is also punishable by death or incarceration. In both examples, the verdict are the same: guilty by looking at an image.

"Child porn is a hot button issue..." Really? You mean it's controversial?
Good decent people on one side of the issue and a-holes who equate child rape with adult S&M on the other.

Wayne-NYC lawyer?

The problem is that its such an issue ...it is used as an aide for revenge and agression more often than some may think...especially in heated divorces and bad relationship splits and the line between a harmless picture of a child and a true vile and definately sexual image becomes extremely vague at times. We rely on law enforcement to make the proper determination in case's like that ...but sometimes they do and sometimes they don't and because the law enforcement agents are people with their own oppinions and their own personal greiavances what you might get ....a righteous arrest or one that is questionable,is a toss up.

My wife had me take a picture of her and our daughter when she was four years old,they sitting in a tub together...she was washing the childs hair,both of them caked in suds and laughing with little rubber duckys floating around...a completely innocent picture,that captured a joyous and precious moment between a mother and daughter and no where near suggestive or sexualized..... as are the constant stream of ads we see on television and billboards every day.....depictions of child models in bating suits and sexy clothing worn by girls who have not even started puberty yet. But because of some truly petty disagreement she had with a coworker of hers ,who she'd shared family pictures with on occasion as people do...we ended up with DSS and the local and staTe police departments at our house one morning searching closets and drawers and computers. We gladly showed them all the photos of our child and let them look in every nook and cranny and that should have been that ...but they persisted for over a week until they were grudgingly satisfied there was nothing afoul. It was as if they were dissapointed to find no crime. I know of another person who went through the same thing because he caught a secretary red handed stealing office funds and she retaliated by calling the porn cops to duck the issue...it didn't work!

Its a double standard in this country ...sex sells everything from cookies to colas and its o.k. for children to be sexualized in the clothing industry and movies at will... as long as there is profit in it and America keeps spending money...but after that its a sin to even look at a childs bare legs to see if they have a sunburn. This country has the worst case of rampant and uncontrollable hypocrisy that ever existed. Until there is a clear and indisputable definition of child porn...that anyone can look at and know is criminal...I'm not buying the comdemnation of anyone until all the facts are in!!

your right all the way.hacker upload this stuff all the time to unprotected PC.

So you are saying it's ok as long as these pervs keep it to themselves. You're forgetting that it is also illegal. It's sick people like you who want to keep it going on in hiding.

You're seriously comparing homosexuality to child pornography?

Would you have a man and a woman who are kissing on a plane "bumped off the plane" as well? If not then you seem to exhibit bigoted values.

you are way off the subject here..2 lesbians or a straight couple getting bumped off has nothing to do with a 47 year old man watching kiddie porn.....only thing in common actually is "the plane"...PERIOD.

STICK TO CARTOONS...PLEASE !

DIOUF ~~ On some level, I do agree with you. I have good friends who are gay, and they would in no way passionately kiss each other IN PUBLIC, but only behind closed doors. I wouldn't want to see even a heterosexual couple making out on a plane, and I certainly don't want to catch a glimpse of ANY kind of porn, especially KID PORN, while in flight, at the coffee shop, at the park, or in my office. And if anyone is in to smoking pot, doing so on a plane would be stupid and of course it is illegal, just as kid porn is illegal.

Could it be that this person stumbled upon a web site with kid porn (I'm grasping at straws here) while in the process of checking out adult porn sites? ANYONE who looks at porn on a plane or in any other public place, in an office, in the park, at the coffee shop etc, is a complete IDIOT!

Probably a member of the "moral majority". HA!

There are plenty of arseholes from across the spectrum here. It's ignorant to assume everyone is a liberal because they have the internet and a web browser.

Liberals represent about half the country. And nobody but conservatives take themselves seriously, either. How does that make you any better.

And I'll say it again: it takes a twisted mind to turn a story abut child sexual abuse into merely another blunt knife with which to take a political jab. This story has absolutely nothing to do with politics. It is about child sexual exploitation... but that is something you could care less about. What values.

Ahhh ya, child porn and pepper spray, real close there, quite the comparison southern.

I think Southern was pointing out that someone committed violent felonies in the double digits and was simply RELEASED.

That's kind of like locking up someone for stealing a car while releasing the person that molested a dozen kids.

It's not "minding your own business" when you do something disgusting like that in public. Doesn't matter if he was in first class, there were still people around him that were going to see what he was doing. Unless he had one of those privacy screens on his laptop so that everyone around him couldn't see what he was watching, it wasn't a private moment. He was subjecting other people to it.

wow. People in the Right Wing are seriously F'ed up -- and they have no conscience.

Yet, NAMBLA is protected by the leftwing nuts at the ACLU talk about hypocrisy more damage there than by any catholic priest.

I think he should go out on a date with the Walmart pepper spray woman.

They could have a village idiots convention.

Do you suppose they took a look at the computer before arresting him, genius? Grow UP!

Well, hell then 218, lets just let the bottom feeder go!

I mostly agree with you. I don't care nearly as much about who looks at child porn, sure there is something wrong with them, but that part of the act doesn't directly harm anyone. I wouldn't completely legalize it, but they are not the real problem. It is the sick sobs that produce the stuff, and anyone funding it that needs to hang.

Sexting shows how retarded the government can be, when they file criminal charges against kids for sending pictures of themselves to their girl/boy friends.

Taziar you're demented. Of course it harms someone. How about the children being solicited for this horror? I sure hope you don't ever have children or have them now.

And yes it is a crime for kids to send naked pics of themselves to their boy/girl friends, not to mention how it will greatly damage their hopes for a good job in the future. You forget that prospective employers find out lots of things about you before they say "you're hired"

J.R. nudity is porn. Take a look at the definition of the word pornography. Get smart.

The legal definition of child pornography (legal, not dictionary) says that nudity by itself is insufficient. Pictures of naked kids does not equal porn. Otherwise every picture of a baby having his first bath would be illegal.

To be illegal, the pictures have to either depict actual sex acts, or else be overly "sexualized." Which is a maddeningly vague term. It's one of those things that you tend to know it when you see it. But it's a gray area that has permitted certain shady industries to exist. You can, for example, buy videos of nudist families including kids of all ages. The argument is that this isn't porn, it's just people who participate in a particular lifestyle who happen to be taking videos of everyday, non-sexual activities.

Of course, since there's a big market for non-nudists buying these videos, it's obvious to anybody with common sense that something else is going on. People are not buying the videos as non-sexual videos about the nudist lifestyle, they're obviously buying them for other purposes. It is the thin veneer of legitimacy that allows the industry to survive.

But still, any normal person who sees a naked child won't feel aroused. In most countries they allow small children to run around naked at the beach or pool for instance, and are horrified that Americans think this is sexualized behavior. "They're just children, what are you talking about? Are you all perverts in America?" They argue that if a pedophile is aroused by the naked children, it's because he's a sick person. They see no reason to rearrange their norms so that sick perverts won't get aroused.

In America, we view it as a safety issue. We worry that somebody will view our children sexually, so we make sure nobody ever sees them naked. For their own protection. We worry that a pedophile might fixate on our children and kidnap them.

This is fairly recent actually. If you look through old magazines, like from the 50s through 70s, nobody thought like this. There are naked babies and toddlers showing everything -- even in things like ads for baby powder or diapers. Nobody thought about that. It's a picture of a child, therefore it cannot be sexual. End of logic.

It is a different world now, but we haven't re-written the laws. Especially with the Internet, we have to assume that even an innocent picture of an unclothed child is being primarily viewed and downloaded by pedophiles. Does that mean we should make such pictures illegal? I don't know. I'd rather get rid of all the people who are aroused by such pictures, and feel secure knowing that nobody who sees it is thinking that way. But that's not exactly feasible -- you can't tell what's going on inside somebody's head.

I maintain that an ordinary person does not look at pictures of naked children and think "that is porn." An ordinary person is not aroused by such pictures, or by any children at all. Sex doesn't enter into a normal persons mind when they're looking at children, naked or otherwise.

I want to live in a society where people who are aroused by children get help, or get locked up. Not necessarily in that order.

I don't like thinking I live in a world where if my kids are doing something amazingly cute, but happen to have a naked butt, that I can't take a picture without worrying that anybody who sees it could call the cops. That's a scary world that makes me sad. :(

Well said.

I totally agree. And, I'd like to add to that - and I'm assuming here - that a pedophile can get aroused from a photo of a child, even if they are NOT naked or doing something that appears sexual. Just like any heterosexual male can see a fully-clothed attractive female, and become aroused. All he has to do is imagine her naked, or image what he'd like to do with her.

I think that now that there's an awareness that there pedophiles out there, as parents, we should avoid posting our children's photos in social media contexts, especially the bathtub photos. Every parent has a photo of their baby taking a bath - some taking a bath with a parent. This is perfectly natural and normal. It is intimate, but not at all sexual. We just need to make sure those photos are shown only to close family members whom we trust.

tony are you off topic or what? take your meds buddy. as for bush starting wars i guess 9/11/01 didn't happen no planes hit the wtc... oh now go lay down and take your meds..wow