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Porn producer invokes the Bush/Yoo defense -- unsuccessfully

Citizens who produce fictitious films depicting "humiliation" and "degradation" will be sent to prison. Government officials who do that in reality will be immunized.

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  • Sunday, October 5, 2008 08:32 PM

    @AKA

    I've been trying to follow this, and I confess, I don't have a clue what point you are trying to get across, if any.

    The best guess I have is that sexual abuse is not resticted by age? OK, sure, I don't think you are going to get much disagreement, though I'm not sure what that point has to do with anything else. It certainly casts no light on how you feel about censorship prosecutions in general or this one in particular. And in the case at hand, very little has been said to indicate that any of the performers were coerced and abused in the films under consideration; as far as I know the only evidence presented at trial was the opposite.

    And I know you aren't particularly interested, or haven't been in the past, in much to do with Bush human rights violations and torture. Though that was more in the direction that most of the reasonable posters, and Glenn himself, seemed to be going.

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