# Celtic actor in Alexander Keith's commercial busted for kid porn **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 16, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808 "2006-02-16T15:59:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808/63 "2006-02-19T22:15:42Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I had reason to be upbraided recently by a friend for the exact same reaction here. A popular and talented comedy actor in the UK is facing similar charges, and I was ranting about him being a pervert who could rot as far as I was concerned. There was a similar situation with 3D (Robert del Naja) from Massive Attack, who got arrested after a stolen credit card got used to pay for child porn. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808/64 "2006-02-22T01:48:06Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > For what it’s worth, the [cover story](http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_02-19-2006/Andrew_Vachss) in this week’s Parade magazine (Sunday supplement in some newspapers) is about child pornography. From that link: _“Child pornography has expanded into a business so profitable, it is no longer limited to pedophiles.”_ The hell??? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808/65 "2006-02-22T02:53:01Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > From that link: _“Child pornography has expanded into a business so profitable, it is no longer limited to pedophiles.”_ > > The hell??? It’s referring to producers/distributors. As in, no longer just individual pedos documenting themselves, so to speak, and exchanging, but people not personally pedophillic setting up the production or becoming distribution clearinghouses of CP for profits’ sake. They are not themselves pedos, but they have no compulsion about buying and selling and commissioning the material, or even themselves photographing/recording real pedos in action, or nude children in lewd poses. As with hard drugs, the succesful entrepreneur may indeed not sample the product, but remain a straight merchant that services the cusstomers’ demand and so what if anyone gets hurt. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808/66 "2006-02-22T07:13:15Z")
> [@bup](#): > > [http://www.cjcslc.org/report.html](http://www.cjcslc.org/report.html) Same for gunshot wounds. Does not apply to John Q. ( \*Not in reference to the OP, just making the point that I am not required to report crime. Some people are required to do so. John Q is not.\*) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808/67 "2006-02-22T08:56:40Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Is it truely a sickness or is it a culturally imposed notion of a sickness? No it’s not a sickness. Some people are born lefty’s and some people are born righty’s. Just like some people are born gay and some people aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808/68 "2006-02-22T14:55:03Z")
> [@KJ](#): > > I’m sure every person who gets caught with it on his hard drive will _claim_ to have no knowledge of it, but are there any documented cases of this? Why would you make such a program? To get back at someone by ruining their reputation? I know it’s possible, but it seems far-fetched to me that it ever actually happens. It doesn’t sound far-fetched at all to me. If you want to collect pictures that you know are illegal, keeping them on computers other than your own is pretty good protection against getting caught. ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808/69 "2006-02-22T15:13:21Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > Same for gunshot wounds. > > Does not apply to John Q. ( \*Not in reference to the OP, just making the point that I am not required to report crime. > > Some people are required to do so. John Q is not.\*) Thats what I thought to, but it seems the statute linked says “When **any person** …” that would seem to include John Q. I stated above why I doubted this statute could stand up to constitutional review. Nobody responded, so I won’t do it again. ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808/70 "2006-02-22T15:27:50Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > I was severely physically abused as an infant. I don’t remember any of it but it fucked me up for years and I still have some issues with it now, almost 40 years later. Sorry to hear that, **Dio**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celtic-actor-in-alexander-keiths-commercial-busted-for-kid-porn/344808.md?page=3)