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Please stand by: I am so sick and tired of the recent trend in our country, thanks in no small part to the Middle Ages mentality of our current U.S. leadership, to ignore so many fundamental and individual human legal rights. This KCTV Channel 5 reporter Steve Chamraz is just another sheep in the herd with no grasp of the concept of personal responsibility in the workplace, or probably anywhere else in his life, for that matter (Kansas City Strip, Tony Ortega, March 11).

He creates news stories incriminating people while admitting that "he wanted to know as little as possible" about the actual workings of the organization, Perverted-Justice.com, that he chose to buddy up with. I am guessing Chamraz did not have the option of being a brain surgeon. Hmm ... here's a guy you can trust.

There are few acts more disgusting than those of child predators, but I must say that worms like Steve Chamraz really make me think twice about that. I am fed up with cowards who won't stand up and do the right thing because it takes just a little more effort.
David Zahorsky
Olathe

Sign off:I can't believe Tony Ortega can defend that pervert asshole.

If you read John Doe's message page closely, he was talking to yet another fake underage girl the same day: "He also was hitting on Mr. Meister's young girl account the same day he hit on me." (It wasn't hard to figure out; just match your quotes.) He's an asshole enough to be ready to booze up this young girl and seems happy to meet up with her instead of his girlfriend. So what if he used smiley emoticons? Maybe it's because he was happy that she asked him to bring the condoms.

He asks her sign and says most Aries like older men. He might not have been as explicit, but you can tell what this asshole wants. I'm glad he lost his job; I hope he's forced to become a mall Santa to get his jollies.
Name Withheld Upon Request

High five: Thank you, thank you, thank you. My good friend John Doe got screwed in this deal. He is a lovable guy who wouldn't so much as hurt a fly.

John Doe has many friends, and we were at first stunned and shocked by this whole development. Sadly, we have heard that this has been really tough on him. Before hearing Ortega's story, I was convinced that the only way I could live with myself was to go to Kansas City and try to right my friend's wrong. Now I am confident that a just jury will see the truth.

I have to say I am a nice and very peace-loving guy. But If I ever meet this Mr. Chamraz, he would wish that he never tore apart the life of my friend for profit.
Name Withheld Upon Request

Hit delete:I have to disagree with Dave Schulz (Letters, March 18). I believe the tactics used by Channel 5 were completely appropriate and more about prevention than, as Mr. Schulz says, "creating a crime when there was none."

I think that any sick bastard who would want to meet with a child deserves to get the hammer thrown at him. The intention was there -- maybe not John Doe if what his friend Mr. Kelley said is true -- and intentions, in my opinion, usually lead to actions of some form. Anyone who would harm a child in any way -- especially like that -- should suffer the consequences.

So to the "little pecker who portrays himself as a reporter," as Schulz so eloquently put it, I give you a hats off! Good job and keep it up. You are helping to make the Kansas City community safer and cleaner by getting rid of a few scumbags.
Dusty Ray
Kansas City, Missouri

Key stroke: I read "Jail Baited," expecting an article about an innocent man who had been unfairly targeted by Channel 5 in its recent Internet-pervert sting. Although John Doe may not have been as bad as some of the pedophiles that were caught in Channel 5's sting, one could hardly characterize his conduct as being beyond reproach.

Doe, a 28-year-old man, engages in an online conversation with what he thinks is a 14-year-old girl (called "Teri") for ninety minutes while he is supposed to be working. The conversation may not have been sexually graphic, but the conversation referred to marijuana and alcohol use, and Doe engaged in conversation with this "teenager" about ex-boyfriends. Let's not forget that Doe gave Teri his telephone number and a photograph of himself. Why would a man in his late twenties give his telephone number and photograph to a 14-year-old girl if his intentions were good?

Doe reportedly gets a telephone call from Teri inviting him to her house for oral sex. He claims that the caller sounded like a "middle-aged black lady." Does it sound reasonable that he would drive to the residence to see if she was or not? Doe went there to get his blowjob from what may have been a 14-year-old girl.