Chris Hansen Act of 2021

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## Act of the Chawopolis Palace

Imperial Emblem of the Empire of Chawosauria

## Piece of Legislation

### Long Title

*An act to go after online predators for the safety of Chawosaurian families and society*

### Effective

July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023 (major provisions)

### Status

Struck down by the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria

## Legislative History

* **Introduced to the** 25th Chawopolis Palace **on** June 28, 2021 **via bipartisan introduction by the** Chawosaurian Communist Party **and the** Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party**.**
* **Passed by unanimous consent by the** 25th Chawopolis Palace **on** June 28, 2021**.**
* **Approved by Prime Minister** Jezebel Isela Boleslaus **on** June 28, 2021**.**
* **Introduced to the** 1st Continent Union Federal Assembly **via bipartisan introduction by the** Chawosaurian Communist Party **and the** Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party **on** June 28, 2021**.**
* **Passed with unanimous consent by the** 1st Continent Union Federal Assembly **on** June 28, 2021**.**
* **Approved by Federal Chancellor** Genghis Taizong **on** June 28, 2021**.**
* **Signed into law by President** Francisco Dionisio Rousseff **on** June 28, 2021**.**
* **Given royal assent by Supreme Leader** Shang Jong Parker **on** June 28, 2021**.**
* **Subsequent amendments enacted on** August 11, 2021 **by the** 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government**.**
* **Struck down by the** Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria **on** October 28, 2022**.**
* **Partially revived by the** Safe Internet Act of 2022 **on** November 20, 2022**.**

## Major Lawsuits

*MacCaisgein v. Predator Poachers CHKTA*

The **Chris Hansen Act of 2021** (**CHA**), also known as the **Predator Poachers Act**, the **Chris Hansen Act** or the **Chris Hansen Law** or simply the **Hansen Law**, is a Chawosaurian law, a Roy Moore policy that the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government enacted in reaction to a surge of predator poaching (online catching and public humiliation of pedophiles known as sting operations) in the early 2020s likely as a result of inspiration by Chris Hansen, an American reporter best known for *To Catch A Predator* in the mid 2000s and *Hansen Vs. Predator* from *Crime Watch Daily* in the late 2010s. Chris Hansen operated a sting operation television series called To Catch A Predator, in which Hansen aligned by law enforcement set up sting operations in which decoys pretend to be children looking for sexual relations with adults to lore potential pedophiles into their trap for them to get arrested and charged with soliciting child sexual abuse. Hansen Vs. Predator was no different. Predators Poachers became trivial in 2020 and 2021.

The Chawosaurian government of Shang Jong Parker enacted the Chris Hansen Act to encourage predator poaching in Chawosauria, it passed with bipartisan support with unanimous consent from both the Chawopolis Palace and the Federal Assembly of the Continent Union. Approved by *Interim* Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus and Federal Chancellor Genghis Taizong, and signed into law by President Francisco Dionisio Rousseff and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker. Set to become effective on July 1, 2021, the same day the publicly controversial Caspian Sea Resolution became effective.

A controversial law, it is widely supported by anti-pedophilia activists but is opposed by pro-pedophilia activists and some of the legal community, those in the legal community who opposed the law raises due process rights concerns, and pro-pedophile groups call this law "a hate law". The law is extremely favorable to groups like *Perverted-Justice*, but the law is extremely hostile to groups such as NAMBLA. The Chris Hansen Act outlaws activism for decriminalization of sex between adults and minors, the Chris Hansen Act requires Chawosaurian law enforcement to aid and train anti-pedophile activists, especially those online who catches predators, and the Chris Hansen Act also mandates the shooting and other means of police brutality against those who protest against Chawosauria's age of consent laws. The age of consent in Chawosauria is 21, and an age of consent loophole is proposed only for 20-year-olds who received government-approval, though that Romeo and Juliet law proposal is not gonna pass the Chawosaurian Parliament and because only 53 Chawosaurian Senators favor the proposal, it will likely suffer a filibuster in the Chawosaurian Senate if the Parliament does pass the bill. Parker threatened to veto the proposed Romeo and Juliet law if it had passed the Chawopolis Palace, which would kill the bill completely because if a bill is vetoed by a Supreme Leader, there's no sending it back to the legislature unlike in the United States, where a bill goes back to Congress with the hope of still becoming law even if the President vetoed it.

The Chris Hansen Act has become one of the key elements of Shang Jong Parker's tenure as Supreme Leader, its sweeping impact is that Chawosaurian online predator catchers are surging due to new protections brought by this law, Chawosaurian Predator Poachers (C2P) become a new group on June 29, 2021, and become operational with police funding and training. Rates of reporting of online sexual predation for children greatly deteriorated and predator activity in Chawosauria also saw great deterioration though it led to a surge of pro-pedophilia activities in terms of recruitment and activism, which the Chris Hansen Act seeks to oppress. The Chris Hansen Amendments of 2021 were passed to oppose groups such as *Occupy Pedophilia* in Russia who are in reality an Anti-LGBT group rather than an Anti-Pedophilia group. The 2020-2024 government enacted that amendments unanimously on August 11, 2021.

Unfortunately, the Chris Hansen Act of 2021 was a disaster. The relationship between the legal system and vigilante justice had always been sour and the Chris Hansen law failed to reconcile this relationship. The Chris Hansen Act was passed shortly after the EDP445 scandal, where Predator Poachers led by Alex Rosen had caught, catfished, and exposed the famous YouTuber EDP445 for his predation for a minor, but the exposure of EDP445 had backfired horribly on Alex Rosen as he would be exposed by videos of him saying a racial slur directly at African Americans and another video of him bosting about having a three year old girl in his basement and bragged about raping her. YouTube terminated the channels of both EDP445 and the Predator Poachers, which YouTube channel was then called Chet Goldstein, which was to evade a previous termination by YouTube of their old channel. These controversies have made the Chris Hansen Act vulnerable to being repealed, whether legislative or judicial. Legislative repeal was more unlikely because Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker would've vetoed any legislative effort to repeal the Chris Hansen Act, so judicial repeal was the only option for opponents of the law.

On July 28, 2022, the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria heard oral arguments of *MacCaisgein v. Predator Poachers CHKTA*, where accused predator Jerry MacCaisgein accused Predator Poachers CHKTA of violating his civil rights of due process as a suspect and accused them also of slandering him after he was catfished by the group into meeting with them, MacCaisgein was allegedly DM a PP-CHKTA decoy who he thought was a minor. The MacCaisgein case brought scrutiny to the Chris Hansen law and opened the door for a debate on due process rights of accused pedophiles in the Empire of Chawosauria.

The Supreme Court struck down the Chris Hansen Act on October 28, 2022, calling it a breech of due process rights in Chawosauria. The Chris Hansen Act of 2021 will no longer be law by July 1, 2023. Despite this, the Chawosaurian government partially revived the Chris Hansen law with the Safe Internet Act of 2022.

## Background

The internet was getting off the ground in the 1990s, and pedophilia is much older than the internet itself, pedophilia's existence dates as far back as the Roman Empire, Ancient Greece, and much earlier in human history. The risk for minors engaging in sexual activity with adults is psychological and physical injury, shame due to the societal stigma of sex, and ironically minors being sexually abused by adults is also a cause of pedophilia, meaning a child will sometimes grow up to become pedophiles when they were abused by pedophiles when they were younger, another reason why adult-minor sexual intercourse is mentally risky. The birth of the internet led to a surge in chatrooms, where people on the internet communicate online, which would consequently gives the opportunity to pedophiles using the ability to communicate on the internet to lure children for the purpose of sexual pleasure for themselves. Becoming an epidemic, the show, *To Catch A Predator* on *Dateline NBC* was born in 2004, headed by Chris Hansen, and the show's far-reaching impact was greater, a rise in awareness of online predation for children resulted in parental limitations on internet access to children, new legislation on internet activity, but the demise of To Catch A Predator came in 2007, when an American politician by the name Louis Conradt committed suicide in his home in retaliation to being exposed on television by Hansen for chatting online with one of Hansen's decoys on *Myspace*. Conradt's death caused a backlash against Dateline NBC for seemingly driving a predator to suicide for ratings, and Hansen was forced to shut his television show down.

Almost a decade later, Chris Hansen is searching for a comeback after the disastrous end to To Catch A Predator following the Conradt debacle. Hansen started Hansen Vs Predator on Crime Watch Daily which lasted a good 2015-2018. Due to the prominence of social media compared to the TCAP era, original fans of TCAP or just random people who happen to see this show took a good enjoyment to Hansen confronting predators that he lured with his decoys who pretended to be children to trick them, and like TCAP, the predators attempted to talk their way out of trouble but are always unsuccessful, they get arrested by law enforcement and suffered legal consequences. Hansen Vs. Predator is successful at still raising a big social issue of online predation especially in the age of social media that didn't exist in the TCAP days. The show lost ground in 2018. Unknown to many, Chris Hansen started a YouTube page called Have A Seat With Chris Hansen and he still works with law enforcement, especially in Genesee County, Michigan, and their sheriff who runs an anti-sex trafficking operation called GHOST (Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team), which also goes after online pedos, and Chris Hansen helped out by doing the usual, he interviews them and let law enforcement do their job.

In the early 2020s, new groups by the names Predator Poachers, the original one headed by Alex Rosen, and then another group in Massachusetts and Michigan, came to light, another in Alabama, and among others, where sometimes the YouTubers or their decoys pretend to be children to lure in pedophiles to record them, expose them, and sometimes have them arrested. This didn't had any notice from the Chawosaurian government until early 2021, and the idea of the Chris Hansen Act to mandate online predator catching gains steam, even Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker endorsed the idea of making it required to practice online predator catching.

## Passing the Chris Hansen Act 2021 into law

The Chris Hansen Act of 2021 was introduced via bipartisan introduction by the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party on June 28, 2021, and it received unanimous approval for it to pass the 25th Chawopolis Palace and face another bipartisan introduction from the same parties in the Federal Assembly of the Continent Union. Following its bipartisan introduction by the same parties before the Continent Union Federal Assembly, the bill was again unanimously approved by the 1st Continent Union Federal Assembly for it to be passed by the Federal Assembly. 0 votes against in the Chawopolis Palace and 0 votes against in the Federal Assembly.

The Chris Hansen Act was approved for signature by Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus and Federal Chancellor Genghis K.Q. Taizong on the same day, and the bill was signed into law by President Francisco Dionisio Rousseff and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker, and the Chris Hansen Act is set to become effective on July 1, 2021.

## Text and Provisions

The following text and provisions of the Chris Hansen Act states as follows:

1. Amendment I: Chawosaurian law shall require all law enforcement departments to practice the monitoring of the internet for pedophiles through decoys whose paid jobs of $21 per hour to pretend to be minors looking for sex with adults to lure pedophiles to sting operated locations for them to get arrested.
2. Amendment II: Under Chawosaurian law, all political advocacy and activism for favorable government treatment to child predators shall be prohibited and prosecuted by the Chris Hansen Act. Chawosaurian governments including the imperial government, and law enforcement shall support those activist and advocacy who advocate against pedophilia and law enforcement should embrace, support, aid, and train vigilante child predator sting operations that are meant to expose predators that they lured with their decoys.
3. Amendment III: Predators caught in sting operations shall be punished under Chawosauria's age of consent law which provides the death penalty as an option for the jury, but the death penalty is widely recommended by the Chris Hansen statute.
4. Amendment IV: Efforts to repeal this law requires unanimous consent from both legislators and the courts.

### Subsequent Amendments to the Chris Hansen Act of 2021

#### Chris Hansen Amendments of 2021

Due to concerns that the Chris Hansen Act of 2021 may blindly support groups like Occupy Pedophilia in Russia, who are actually an anti-LGBT vigilante group, the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government unanimously enacted amendments to the Chris Hansen Law that mandates vetting of vigilante hunting groups to ensure they don't intend to violate Chawosauria's hate crime laws and that they are truly here to stop pedophiles regardless of their sexual orientation. The Chris Hansen Amendments also requires the respect for due process and the legal doctrine that values innocence until guilt is proven in the court of law. The Chris Hansen Amendments also mandates that the predator catching don't disturb the public especially given that minors will come about all over public spaces such as malls, stores, the beach, etc. The Chris Hansen Amendments requires law enforcement is intervene but the predator catchers immune from arrest due to the protections of the Chris Hansen Act unless the predator catchers violate the public standards set by the amendments.

The Chris Hansen Amendments were enacted on August 11, 2021, with no votes against. The amendments were signed into law by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker.

#### Chris Hansen Amendments of 2022

There are speculations of new rules and regulations, maybe provisional changes, being considered by the Chawopolis Palace, but the Federal Assembly of the Continent Union said they do not want to make additions to the law, so the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace would have to pass a law themselves, which they can do unless until the proposed Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria comes to effect.

## Impact of the Chris Hansen Act

Rates of reporting on online sexual predation deteriorated because of eroded trust in the internet among pedophiles. The Chris Hansen Act is shrined as a major accomplishment of Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker, It gives Chawosaurian law enforcement the requirement to practice sting operations on online predators and it protects vigilante anti-pedophile sting operations against pedophiles.

The Parker administration is set to use the law to create an agency that enforces the law, the Chris Hansen Act greatly recommends capital punishment to juries who were deciding the fate of pedophiles who were caught by the Chris Hansen Act.

There are concerns however about the due process rights of suspected predators. When predators are confronted, their rights of suspects were disregarded and are barely given an opportunity to defend themselves without facing any blind perception of guilt, forcing the suspected predator to face an outright hostile and kangaroo interrogation whereas in the criminal justice system, the suspect is allowed to be interrogated by both the prosecution and the defense and the results are decided based on the substantial evidence gathered that either proofs guilt or innocence, either process however can cause public opinion harm on the suspect regardless of the results, very especially in the era of me-too, which is why the criminal justice system has a preference of keeping these investigations secret from the public until guilt is proven and is why law enforcement typically avoids catfishing predators.

## Controversies

While the Chris Hansen Act is popular, it is still controversial. One concern is the Chris Hansen Act's impact on due process rights.

Another concern is that there is a group called Occupy Pedophilia in Russia that does sting operations just like Perverted Justice, but in reality Occupy Pedophilia is an anti-LGBT organization that catches LGBT people and physically attacks them, causing the Chris Hansen Act to face accusations of homophobia and condoning violence against LGBT people because the Chris Hansen Act embraces groups that brand themselves as anti-pedophilia. Answering to these concerns and accusations, Supreme Leader Shang Parker had a meeting with legislative leaders to pass an amendment that condemns Occupy Pedophilia on July 11, 2021, and Chawosaurian politicians agreed to pass a "clarification amendment" in which Chawosaurian law enforcement is to do background checks and investigations into the anti-pedophilia groups to ensure that they have no anti-LGBT ties or intensions.

Supreme Leader Shang Parker gave a televised address in which he specifically mentions Occupy Pedophilia by name, in the address, Parker said *"Occupy Pedophilia has no intension to protect children, they intended to cause harm on those who do not wish to harm a child, and Chawosaurian law will not be exploited by those who wish to commit genocide to settle a score for their grievance"*. Chawosaurians who are members and supporters of Occupy Pedophilia criticized Parker's address as "misleading" and accused Parker of "harboring pedophiles" even though he signed a landmark law that does the exact opposite, and the last accusation against Parker wasn't taken seriously because of this contradiction. Parker threatened to wiretap and surveillance those Chawosaurians for potential "defamation and sedition against the Chawosaurian Communist Party", the Chawosaurian leader of Occupy Pedophilia wrote a letter to Parker stating their criticism was "just opinion, not sedition". In response, Parker threatened to order the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces to arrest them and have them shot for "harassment of the Parker administration and the Communist Party" simply by writing to them. Chawosaurians from Occupy Pedophilia never gave another response because of these threats.

Other concerns: no Chawosaurian feel comfortable with a pedophile near them or at their neighborhood, so sting operations operating in neighborhoods which proved to be the easiest ways to catch predators, has received resistance from Chawosaurian residents in every neighborhood. Dealing with pushback by suburban and exurban Chawosaurians, Chawosaurian law enforcement struggled to figure out how to conduct sting operations as required by the law.

### Criticism of the Chris Hansen Law and Fallout of the Chet Goldstein-EDP445 Confrontation

Criticism of the Chris Hansen law also involves Chris Hansen's legal troubles associated with poor financial handling of his show *Hansen Vs Predator* and failure to appear in court, as well as prominent predator catching YouTuber Chet Goldstein's racism, homophobism, ironic pedophilia. Inspired by Chris Hansen, Chet Goldstein (real identity being Alex Rosen) founded a vigilante catfishing organization called Predator Poachers to catfish child predators through social media by tricking them into thinking they're going to meet children, only to meet Predator Poachers instead, they would record their confrontations with the predators to upload on YouTube, a fact they almost never revealed to the predators, they instead tell them that the purpose of them being recorded while the confrontation goes on to record for the safety of all parties, and when confrontations were done, the predators are either reported to law enforcement or are forced to inform their loved ones on phone on camera. Of the predators who were reported, they were never actually prosecuted due to the flawed relationship between vigilante catfishing and the legal system.

Predator Poachers' famous catch of all was a decade-long YouTuber EDP445, who was known for his off-script rants and an avid fanatic for the Philadelphia Eagles. EDP445 was rumored to have already had relations or sexual misconduct with minors which attracted Predator Poachers into catfishing him solely to increase their fame on the internet, they messaged him first, which is unusual for them to do with predators on social media, they set up a meetup and surprised EDP445 by confronting him of his behavior, this badly tarnished EDP445's reputation and wrecked his career and life for good as he still remains unable to find work beyond YouTube, however, it all backfires on Predator Poachers as staunch EDP445 supporters found dirt on Chet Goldstein as videos of him revealed he openly used racial slurs and talked down on minorities and being creepy with perceived underage people as well, these controversies of both EDP445 and Chet Goldstein got both of them blacklisted by YouTube. Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker responded to these criticisms by condemning Chet Goldstein for "being an uneducated moron" and doubled down on praising Chris Hansen. Chet Goldstein's predator catching business, *Predator Poachers*, used actual minors as decoys, which is widely unethical and likely illegal (endangerment of a minor), Goldstein went too far as to ask one of his underage decoys (13) to take off her shirt.

The Chet Goldenstein-EDP445 scandal had rocked YouTube, blew up the internet and sparked backlash against both Chet Goldstein and EDP445.

### Relationship between Catfishing Predators and Criminal Justice Systems

In a democratic society, criminal justice systems usually conduct the approach of declaring the accused of their innocence before proof of guilt based on credible evidence brought before the court of law by those who believe the suspect is guilty. The United States is no different in fact this approach is required via constitution.

The legally valid criticism of predator poaching is that the chat logs and video confrontations between them and the alleged predators whom they tricked to meet them by pretending to be children, are not considered as efficient or viable evidence of guilt or law breaking in the court of law. Legal experts states that the evidence of the crime of intent or attempted rape must completely come from the alleged predator's devices alone and that the predator poachers' decoys must remain in contact with the alleged predators for law enforcement to connect the dots of such evidence from the alleged predator's device. When predator poachers use decoys to bate predators, they do not report it to law enforcement, they instead set up meetings with the alleged predators to bate them and confront them and inform either but mostly their family members and occasionally their friends, and in some occasions, publicly humiliate them. When their confrontations were done, the predator catchers let them go and turn in the chat logs to law enforcement but unwittingly allowing the alleged predators to destroy evidence when investigations begin and allowed the predators' defense teams to argue in court that these recorded confrontations were either staged or flawed with moments in which the suspect was being threatened or blackmailed, which have had happened on some occasions. The reasoning of these recordings, according to the predator catchers, was to record for the safety of themselves and their suspects when conducting their unlawful string operations. Speaking of safety, child predators are universally perceived as dangerous individuals, causing deep concerns of normal citizens confronting seriously dangerous sexual predators.

## The End of the Chris Hansen Act

The Chris Hansen Act of 2021 was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria because it was seen as a breech of due process rights.

## Partial Revival

The Safe Internet Act of 2022 partially revived the Chris Hansen Act of 2021 but having moderate amendments aligned with the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria.

## Public Opinion

The Chris Hansen Act 2021 is widely popular among the Chawosaurian public, 97% of Chawosaurians express support for the law.

### Decline in Popularity

Throughout 2022, the Chris Hansen Act begins to see a drop in popularity due to concerns for due process rights and the possibility of being falsely accused, Some called for further moderation in the law while few call for an outright repeal, however, the law is still popularity, which by August 2022, only polled over 60% popularity due to pedophile opposition to the law.

## Legacy

The legacy of Chris Hansen Act of 2021 has had an impact on Chawosauria's response to online predation for underage Chawosaurians, the Safe Internet Act of 2022 retained key parts of the Chris Hansen Act of 2021, such as bating predators on the internet, but arrest them immediately and use their messages as evidence. The Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria penalizes pedophilia with death and it actually codified the Chris Hansen Act, however it was still struck down by the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria as a breech of the right to due process which is a right also protected by the Imperial Constitution.

Catfishing predators and expose them to the public while compromising with the legal system has been a reality that is accepted by Chawosaurian authorities. The Chris Hansen Act of 2021 has birthed new strategies embraced by the Chawosaurian government on catching predators and that has led to a great reduction of reports or incidents of online perusing of minors due to the fear of being catfished by the government and face the death penalty when they're caught by the government.

Supporters of the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria promoted its death penalty on pedophilia to the campaign trial of the 2023 Chawosaurian Constitutional Referendum, successfully keeping its narrow prospects alive.

## See other laws

* Age of Consent in Chawosauria
* Chawosaurian Sexuality Act of 2017
* Chawosaurian Marriage Act of 2018
* Roy Moore Act of 2018
* Statute of Limitations Act of 2018
* Children and Adolescence Safety Act of 2018