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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.

Glenn Greenwald

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Sunday, October 5, 2008 06:57 PM

@ ondelette

But that all pales in comparison to some porn guy. I guess the DOJ had it right, hunh.

But it was Glenn who introduced the porn comparison.

Are you saying that torture is somehow worse when the person being tortured is 15 or 16?

If something is wrong to be done to one when one is 15, is it more or less wrong when one is 36?

Look back at this thread. It was Glenn who mentioned consenting adults.

So no, ondelette, I am not going to let you make this only about torture.

Glenn has written about torture many times. Now he introduces this new element by comparison. Therefore, it makes sense to compare. Can you not answer the question that I posed about the age of consent -- or are you just afraid to go there?

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