How many times do we have to say it . . .

THE 'CLICK HERE CHILD PORN' BANNER DID NOT EXIST!

The trademark of Operation Ore, was the infamous 'click here' banner. That evidence is now thoroughly and evidentially discredited. Indeed it was thoroughly destroyed after evidential expert research was published in PC PRO Magazine.

Read the full PC-PRO article by Duncan Campbell here >

This A4 blurred blow up of the bottom of a web page, is exactly what was used in court (we have enhanced the image to make the features more prominent but this is a high resolution scan from an actual victim of Operation Ore - the reason that the document used was so blurred should become clear later).

This discredited evidence is still being presented in court by Sharon Girling OBE of the National Crime Squad, and it is very effective at convicting people. It is in effect a marketing process, product re-enforcement and it works exactly the way advertising works. The sub-conscious mind, previously exposed to this image via the national media, reconnects with the image and all that goes with it. In common with other inquisitions, this is particularly potent when the image connects with underlying emotions, which of course it does.

Dallas Police Detective Steven Nelson started this story, and presented sworn testimony for use in Operation Ore trials, which in relation to the image in question stated: 'On the home page of landslide.com was a banner advertising "CLICK HERE CHILD PORN". I produce a copy of this webpage as my exhibit SAN/1.'

This was the 'smoking gun' that helped convict Landslide owner, Thomas Reedy, for 1,335 years. It was said by many, this could only happen in Texas. Thomas Reedy protested from prison, the banner location referred to was an independent rotating banner system, that is, each time you refresh the page, a new banner appears. Thomas Reedy told the truth as an evidential read only web archive confirmed. Dallas Detective Nelson responded to Reedy through the press at the time: 'He's not innocent by any means.'

It was claimed that the 'click here' banner was only seen once during the investigations, which ran from 28/04/1999 to 08/09/1999. Dallas Detective Nelson stated in sworn testimony:

'During the course of my investigation I was able to access the AVS.COM web site. I discovered that it was predominately an adult oriented pornography site offering explicit sexual material. Clients paid one fee of US $19.95 to access, view and download the images for a one year period. It did not contain child pornography.'