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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 11:01 AM

    Scumbag or not...

    and I will stipulate that he is, this is still an incredibly dangerous preceedent. If this guy is actually committing physical/sexual assault, then by all means go after him for these crimes. But to give into the temptation to "get this guy" at a cost of trashing teh First Amenment, and to decide that something filmed 3,000 miles away is obscene and put it's creator in prison?

    I'll bet there are communities where you could get the same conviction against Bill Maher for his new film... here in Cincinnati for one...

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