Action Alert nationwide: ICAC Federal Grants Are Up for Renewal! – Please contact your federal representatives today!

Source: Women Against Registry (W.A.R)

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Let’s Kill ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force)
  
Let’s reach out to our Federal congressmen to oppose the funding of ICAC, which is the task force which uses all kinds of sketchy (and illegal) tactics to hunt down people who click on illegal images (which ICAC rarely takes down).  In the current political climate, it seems crazy that they’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on ICAC! 

Way down at the bottom you’ll also find the letter that ChatGPT produced for me.  You can use my letter if you’re slammed for time.  Of if you have some time, you can create your own letter.  But either way, please take a little time and do this today!

Here’s how you find out who your Federal Senators and Congressmen are and how to contact them:  https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Please bombard all the Representatives and Senators you can to kill ICAC.  Feel free to copy portions of this email in your correspondence with these officials.  I live just outside D.C. and am willing to meet with any elected official or staffer to discuss this.  You can offer my name and contact info.  I am a certified expert witness and a faculty member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, giving classes to attorneys on this topic.

On February 12, 2025, “U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02), Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Nathaniel Moran (TX-01), introduced the PROTECT Our Children Act, which would reauthorize and modernize the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the companion bill in the Senate.”

Reps. Wasserman Schultz, Van Drew, Moskowitz, Moran Introduce the PROTECT Our Children Act in the House | U.S. House of Representatives

ICAC is a racketeering organization that manufactures criminals to get money.  Without a warrant, ICAC officers post pictures of young women (or men) on adult-only dating sites, waiting for a random man to reply.  Male officers impersonate the woman, claim to be 15-years-old, then use entrapment to manufacture the crime of soliciting a minor.  It is a federal crime to impersonate someone else and intercept private electronic communications intended for them, 18 U.S.C. 2511.  There is no exception for police, and no exception even with written permission.

In addition, ICAC is wiretapping peer-to-peer networks without a warrant using tools like Torrential Downpour, Shareaza-LE, and Black Ice.  Court documents show that email service providers like Gmail and Yahoo are wiretapping ALL their emails without a warrant to find anything “of interest” to the government.  18 U.S.C. protects emails and private file transfers just like phone calls.  If a telephone company cannot listen to your phone call because it is carried on their equipment, then email service providers cannot read your email and police cannot monitor computer network traffic to see what files are transferred.

Here is a link to my book explaining the corruption:

Manufacturing Criminals, 2nd Edition: Wiretapping and Planting Evidence: Burkhardt, Bonnie: 9798879550528: Amazon.com: Books

Bonnie Burkhardt
(703)505-2793

SAMPLE LETTER:

The Honorable [Congressman’s Name] [Congressman’s Office Address] [City, State, ZIP]

Subject: Oppose Funding for the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force

Dear [Congressman’s Name],

I am writing to strongly urge you to oppose any additional funding for the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and to reject the PROTECT Our Children Act, which seeks to reauthorize and expand this deeply flawed program. At a time when our nation is facing mass layoffs of federal employees and significant budget constraints, it is outrageous that we continue funneling enormous amounts of taxpayer money into a program that has proven itself to be more about manufacturing criminals than actually protecting children.

ICAC operates as a government-funded entrapment scheme that ensnares unsuspecting individuals through tactics that should be illegal. Officers create fake profiles on adult-only dating sites, posing as young women or men to lure individuals into conversations before suddenly revealing that they are supposedly underage. This is not proactive law enforcement—it is a taxpayer-funded operation designed to justify its own existence by generating arrests, rather than addressing actual harm.

Moreover, ICAC and its affiliated agencies engage in unconstitutional warrantless surveillance, wiretapping peer-to-peer networks, and intercepting private emails in direct violation of 18 U.S.C. 2511. Tools such as Torrential Downpour and Shareaza-LE are being used without judicial oversight, turning ordinary citizens into felons through methods that should never be permissible in a free society.

Even if one supports ICAC’s mission in theory, there is no denying that its astronomical cost is unjustifiable in today’s economic climate. The federal government is currently laying off hundreds of thousands of workers, and yet, Congress continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars funding ICAC task forces across the country. Why are we prioritizing this bloated, ineffective bureaucracy while cutting jobs in critical areas? If the goal is to reduce government waste, ICAC should be one of the first programs on the chopping block.

I urge you to stand for fiscal responsibility and ethical law enforcement practices by voting against any reauthorization or expansion of ICAC funding. Instead of spending millions manufacturing criminals, let’s redirect those funds to programs that actually support public safety and economic stability.

I appreciate your time and consideration on this critical matter. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss this further and can also connect you with expert witnesses who have studied ICAC’s abuses in depth. Please do not hesitate to reach out.

Sincerely,

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