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Sunday, October 5, 2008 12:00 AM

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 02:47 PM

    Freedom and legality

    What is so damn hard to understand about finding a thing legal to do in a free land even if one personally would never do such a thing?

    I didn't say there should be a law. There shouldn't be.

    But just as I think most 18-year-old boys aren't mature enough to decide if they want to enlist in the military and kill people in a war, I don't think most 18-year-old girls are mature enough to understand sexual exploitation and the effects that can have on later life.

    Who said anything about making laws?

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