Is NAMBLA a worthwhile target? Absolutely. I'll explain why in a bit. But first, I do want to emphasize that NAMBLA is also a valuable resource for law enforcement. Here's how it works:
1) A law enforcement agent, or a neutral party with intent to inform, joins NAMBLA and attends meetings and conventions,
2) Other NAMBLA members who happen to be involved in illegal activity contact the mole, who plays along long enough to get some names, dates, and locations,
3) Law enforcement moves in on the illegal activity; the mole disappears, and another one is planted.
NAMBLA's networking characteristics make it a great information mine, because people involved in illegal activity also use the group to find clients, friends, and like-minded people. So the fact that NAMBLA exists is, paradoxically, a great help to us.
Meanwhile, NAMBLA keeps on keepin' on, insisting that something which is illegal should be made legal. To make their case, they have a specific set of arguments - some of which are merely counter-arguments to the views of child advocates - which attempt to appeal to peoples' logic, reason, and emotions. Now, it may be easy for us to say "no sane person will buy those arguments", but I don't think that's a proper response. NAMBLA is just about the only "organized" voice of pedophilia - and if the arguments are out there, and publically accessible, THEY NEED TO BE REFUTED, no matter how silly we "think" they would sound to "normal" people. An unchallenged argument is a won argument. As long as these peoples' arguments are simply rejected -without- being actually challenged and rebutted, the pedos can say that their opponents are being unreasonable - which is actually (and regrettably) a valid position on their part. We cannot allow them to hold that argumentative "high ground".
Now, true, their statements are being challenged - but, as I said before, they're being challenged by people with bad information.
Let me give you just one example. I clearly recall a recent CNN interview with US Attorney General Gonzalez, who referred to child pornography as an industry netting somewhere in the -billions- of dollars (perhaps he said "millions", but even so). Scary? Certainly. But does it even make sense? I did some search engining. Every single child pornography bust that I could find information about anywhere on the internet, going back 7 YEARS or more - even those involving large international sting operations - has involved individuals or collections of individuals who traded these images FOR FREE with other individuals. Many of these individuals made their own kiddy porn for distribution - again, FOR FREE - either on FREE song-trading networks or in private member-only FREE clubs (the sole requirement apparently being submission of more material to the group "pool"). These busts have collectively netted an immense number of images and movie clips, with a few single perpetrators possessing tens of thousands of individual images. All obtained FOR FREE from other pervs. Who is making the money? Where does the money go? Where does the money figure come from? If they haven't caught ANYBODY actually "selling" child pornography, how do they have the slightest clue how much these merchants make? Pedo groups point to statements like Gonzalez' "billions-dollar-industry" quip and laugh it off as ridiculous, and it is. For all I've been able to find out, the Justice Department could've invented this number out of whole cloth. Perhaps the number they're giving is the amount of money suspects have (tried to) spend on law-enforcement-run sites "offering" child pornography for a price. But it's simply dishonest to take that number and represent it as a gauge of profits made by "real" child porn sellers.
The problem is that the Justice Department's statement creates the illusion of some faceless illegal "corporation" that abducts children, makes movies with them, and sells the movies for small fortunes. It lends an "otherness", a kind of "distance" to the problem of child pornography - it happens "out there" - when the reality, the thing that people need to understand, is that the guy on the end of the block makes the stuff in his living room, possibly with YOUR KIDS, and trades it over the net in exchange for similar stuff from other people. The poor FBI agents who find this stuff and are forced to look at it all the time really don't know anything about it. But WE know about it, because we've been there. We're the people who need to tell the world the truth about what's going on, because the OTHER people who know the truth won't be talking.
Again, this is just one example - the one I happen to be most familiar with. Pedos can take arguments like Gonzalez' outrageous quotes and insist that "anti-pedos" have to resort to making stuff up in order to show that "pedophilia is bad". Another thing the pedos are big on arguing is the issue of the abuse being a "consentual relationship", and therefore not really abuse. Only those of us who were involved in these "consentual relationships" are in a position to really shed light on the emotional extortion which pedos try to pass off as "consent". We know the real deal, and we're the ones who need to teach. The way things are now, it's like having basketball coaches trying to teach physics.
It's easy money, it looks like a LOT of money, and hey, it's sex.