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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.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Sunday, October 5, 2008 07:51 PM

    New Deal Democrat Nails It Succinctly

    New Deal Democrat (October 5, 2008 07:36 PM ):

    We get it. Porn offends your [AKA Smith's] moral sensibilities. The answer to that is obvious: you don't have to consume it. But the poorly reasoned diatribes are really rather ridiculous, and just a thinly veiled attempt to try to assert the superiority of your own moral sense over that of others by force of law. It's authoritarianism, whether you admit it or not.

    Thanks, NDD.

    I was gearing up to write the very same observation you make, when I saw you'd beaten me to it. There's no way I could possibly improve on how you've stated the matter.

    Excellent.

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