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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 12:17 PM

    http://www.maxhardcoreblog.com/

    "Part of my strategy in my current legal battle with the government," is to take the offensive, and get the message out that we are outraged that the government would file against me in an attempt to shut me down and silence my voice because they don't agree with what I have to say. And going so far as to come up with outrageous lies, the number one lie being my movies portray severe violence towards women. I don't know what movie they were watching, but my movies have no severe violence in them of any kind, especially directed towards women. There's no hitting, there's no beating, there's no heavy choking. Of course there's spanking and light slapping and so forth, but far, far from what any reasonable person would conclude is severe violence. If they want to see severe violence towards women, all they have to do is turn on the television during primetime or go to the movies, and they are gonna see stuff that's a hundred times worse than anything I would do.

    "So the only thing I can think of," Hardcore speculated, "is that they interpret me riding a girl like a crazed cowboy and spanking her ass as inflicting of severe violence towards them. And I can only conclude from that that, well, they just never had good sex before!"

    Riding a girl like a crazed cowboy is not exactly what he's known for- and you would have to be a pretty hardcore submissive to like some of the acts I've read today. :/ Not that there aren't people like that out there, but I'm pretty sure he didn't bother to find them to use as film stars. He abuses people. Maybe they find the money worth it, maybe not. I agree that the military abuses people, too. I'm sure that not everyone that has been forced to kill or torture because they were in a war has wanted to do so. Or has not been traumatized because of it. Obviously some come back documentably traumatized. What I don't understand is why would one victimization be seen as legitimate and the other not?

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