Dr. Phil to feature Police ICAC proactive stings.
The Dr. Phil Show airing on CBS will air an episode featuring Sex Stings next Monday, December 7, 2020.
The show will feature an FAC member whose son was targeted in one of these stings who has been fighting to expose them since. Also featured is Florida attorney Peter Aiken of Aiken, O’Halloran and Associates, who defends people caught up in these stings.
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Thanks to Aracely, LJM, WASCO, Cage, SSRepentence and every one else for pulling this off. Like Derek mentioned, this is the type of publicity we need to change these laws.
I also want to mention that a lot of people don’t agree with Derek but I’ve seen him evolve over the last decade or so. He is learning to be more effective over time. All of these groups are new and arose after Derek and need to evolve as well. If you read past FAC posts, it seems they evolved from registry “reform” to registry abolition. These changes need to be made. I also see the occasional pettiness that activists must set aside if they are going to be effective. Derek undeniably is the “father of the anti-registry movement” and has been trying long and hard to effect change. Persons with divergent views have gone their own ways in these various groups. This movement is getting mixed results in the courts because there is no national strategy. Registrants are only concerned about their particular issue in their own particular state. They have to realize that their lack of pretrial preparation is leading to bad decisions that have negative ramifications in every other state. The next stage for this movement has to be cooperation among the various groups, especially in legal strategy.
Aracely has taken this movement one step further in this needed evolution by being the catalyst of getting our side of the argument on a national show with a very high viewership. Thank you Aracely and all of the other participants.
I’m far from being the “father” of this Anti Registry Movement. There were guys like eAdvocate or Paul Shannon around fighting when I was still a college kid before my arrest. I have always been a top tier advocate since I got started and all, though. It just took a while for a few folks to catch up.
I haven’t “improved” my “effectiveness” so much as having a growing number of people in this movement are finally coming to the same conclusions I have been stating for years. I was simply ahead of my time and willing to say what we are all thinking.
I loved FAC’s recent statement we should be ANTI-REGISTRY, not just registry reformists. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it was FAC’s 2020-11-17 weekly update. If you haven’t read it, do so now:
https://floridaactioncommittee.org/weekly-update-2020-11-17-ref121/
Over the last several months Dr. Phil has had Amanda Knox on his show to talk about her life since being convicted of murder in Italy. I expect there were side conversations about her ‘e-crimes’ podcasts as a Sundance series one featuring a vigilante trucker group ‘Truckers Against Predators’ and their catfishing stings. After that he had 4 truckers on a program, one was from Amanda’s podcast, as well as a guy that had been caught in a sting. He told the truckers he didn’t approve of their antics. Now, this awesome show. Does anybody know anyone in the sting group that was formed in the Pensacola area? When I was talking with them several years ago there were 1,500 Florida victims of stings.
Regarding Derek, he is a changed man. Guess who brought us the Rally in Tally idea and collectively we made it happen. Another person, David S who used to live in Florida and now Kentucky brought the idea of the 10th federal circuit peaceful demonstration and we collectively made it happen. Derek had his corner locked down and the passers-by engaged.
I guess it’s easier to pretend to be a minor and lure people in a time of weakness; while drinking coffee; eating a donut and spreading fear patting themselves saying, job well done. How many actual minors are put in harms way; while cops are doing these operations? I guess the harm of actual minors aren’t a problem. No wonder society is going to down the sewer because the ones in charge have no moral compass and only care about promotion.
Couple of facts. Aracely is a SHE, not a HE. WASCO, CAGE, Lady Justice Myth, SSRepentance and others are all organizational names for the same group of people. We are the ones who were on the show, along with the attorney and police officer. Aracely is in our group and was the catalyst to get us on the show, as was Mike Winerip with the New York Times article.
In my opinion it did go well. Yes, Dr Phil missed a main point of our complaint BUT he is airing our stories – which was my point in doing the show – public knowledge and awareness. We got in some great points that will make people think about this practice. The more people know the more they will question those involved – the accused? The police? the registry? the stereotype? Are these things helpful in their current form? Effective? One step closer to the truth – NO!
Lady Justice, Thank you to all of you for your courage to speak out. That alone is huge and appreciated so very much. As our voices grow louder there will be the good and the not so good, but as long as the good grows and the voices grow the movement will grow.
Thank you FAC for this platform and to everyone who does, what they can, to move a just cause forward.
Michael Watkins
Sorry but I posted my comment before Aracely posted his. I definitely doesn’t look good but sometimes surprises happen. We can still hope for the best out of it. Sometimes reasonableness has a way of shining through.
Way back in 2008, when I was working with Tom Madison on SOClear Media, the group was approached by Dr Phil. I wasn’t a part of the negotiations but the guy who was the point of contact for us broke off the negotiations and told the producer Dr Phil isn’t a real doctor anyways. I don’t know exactly what caused the negotiations to fall through, but I believe it was something about him wanting to drudge up our own pasts, something I’m not keen on doing. So he ended up bringing Jake Goldenflame on his show to play the dancing monkey for the crowd.
I’d agree to go on the show if approached only because I consider the alternative.
However, I’ve learned (at times the hard way) there’s just some things you DON’T talk about on the air.
By far the most important lesson I learned is never let them discuss your past. People can’t handle the truth so when you try to explain to them why you did what you did, all they hear is excuses. What they want is some guy (like Jake Goldenflame was prone to do) who would go on stage and say “I’m a monster, fear me” so the crowd can ooh and aah and gasp because that’s the kind of people who watch trash TV like Phil or Steve Wilkos.
The best any of us can do is try to change the course of the conversation on air. I would rather one of us went on air even on a trash TV show like “Dr” Phull-of-it than have some guy like Goldenflame go on the air and dance for these fools.
Watch out if you are on line in Washington State. Young men are being entrapped by police who are highly motivated to make a ton of illegal arrests for money….These stings are police predatory practices. Law enforcement trick & lure unsuspecting people to show up at trap houses. These are highly planned out and law enforcement, sheriffs, and prosecutors can put on showy press conferences and use these men for publicity. These sting operations are funded by private far right religious groups aligned with Q’Anon theories and funded by the federal government, ICAC. These police practices are dangerous and the police control this from the beginning..It is called entrapment. Most of these men had no awareness of child predators or of any on line activity of this nature.
These predatory police actions need to be stopped.
Quit preying on our men
Aracely you were brave and honest and the police officer looked very smug and arrogant. The police are luring men out of their homes during a pandemic to set up these stings so they can arrest these unsuspecting men and sentence them to lifetime registration and long prison sentences.
These practices are disgusting and makes our communities less safe and more dangerous. Shame on anyone who supports these stings. They are corrupt. They are illegal.