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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.
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  • -- Cocktailhag

    Shooter and the Rethugs fooled a lot of libertarian leaning people with all that “small government” talk; but that is how propaganda works.

    Shooter is drinking a toast this weekend to the bailout of he and his buddies on the backs of the working poor --- yet again. Then he would put you in jail for having a “dirty picture” as if it were the 50s all over again.

    Blah! (as someone here says once in a while)

  • Why Max?

    Max Porn is sentenced to prison for what he did, but you can rent Captivity at your local video store.

    What's the difference? Sex.

    Violence is fine. Penis's and urine. Bad. I can watch people getting stabbed, shot and worse all day long - on network TV. But somehow, Janet Jackson's nipple's is obscene.

    Plot, Captivity

    The film opens with the torture of a young man (whose face is covered) - 2 tubes are inserted into his nose, and (via a foot pump) a greenish fluid in pumped in through one pipe - causing blood to pour out through the other. The man's captor then kills him with a large hammer.

    Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert), a young fashion model and cover girl, had captured the attention of photographers and for better or worse, the public at large. On an evening out alone, Jennifer is stalked and drugged. She wakes in a stupor to find herself captive and confined to a cell.

    A series of metal bins and numbered lockers abruptly swing open in front of her. They contain personal items taken from her apartment. She is forced to view videotapes containing images of the victims that were tortured previous to her captivity as well as videotaped interviews she had given to the media in the past. Trapped, realizing there is no way out, Jennifer pleads and screams to anyone that might hear her. During her confinement, she is subjected to various forms of psychological and sensory torture. She is forced to drink a blended mixture of an eye, ear and nose of a previous victim. Then, she is made to decide who dies within 30 seconds: herself or her dog, Suzy.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captivity_(film)

  • Thy will be done.

    ...naive 18 year old girls who, as I think most of us can agree, are not terribly sophisticated and able to protect their own rights.

    In rides the White Night.

    We can always tell what excites them sexually by who they want to rescue. I see you have a thing for naive young girls. Of course, 14 year olds are even less sophisticated than 18 year olds.

    The White Nights know they will be "rewarded" for their valor. What damsel in distress would not relinquish their ultimate prize to the Shining Armor. We both know the answer. A slut. A tramp. A whore.

    Oh the anger that must swell up when your currency is considered worthless. That the dullness of your sword is a symbol for...well... the dullness of your sword.

    Oh the dominance of compassion. You owe me now. I own you now.

    What could possibly be more binding than to release someone from their shackles? You owe me now. You own me now.

    The White Knight wants to plow their sword so fiercely in the stone that it cannot be removed by another. The true definition of a Hero!

    How does it feel to be raped of your own free will? Just lay back, it is for your own good. The more you resist the more you prove that my actions are just and true.

    How does it feel to be raped of your own free will? The seed I plant is your salvation. I grant you freedom from yourself. On your knees and praise the sword for your redemption.

    How does it feel to be raped and saved at the same time? What I take from you is my gift.

    I know you better than yourself, because I know what is better for you than yourself. I have saved you from yourself.

    I now own you.

    ----

    The Reverend says-- "Save your soul, whore."

    China Blue says-- "Save your money, shithead."

  • White Nights and 18 year olds

    ...naive 18 year old girls who, as I think most of us can agree, are not terribly sophisticated and able to protect their own rights.

    In rides the White Night.

    We can always tell what excites them sexually by who they want to rescue. I see you have a thing for naive young girls. Of course, 14 year olds are even less sophisticated than 18 year olds.

    Figuring out other people's psyches is always fraught with danger.

    As someone who has been an 18-year-old girl, I would agree that I at least was not sophisticated and was easily taken advantage of by older men. Maybe other girls were more aware of the world and wise to its ways than I was. Doesn't mean I think we should change the laws and make 21 the age of majority for girls, but it does mean that I don't think that a culture that approves of 18-year-old girls selling their sex is very cherishing of its young women.

  • At least now we know ...

    ... why the CIA has been destroying tapes of interrogations that they were ordered to keep — those things are worth four years in the slammer each.

  • @ Retzilian

    "One person's "victimization" is another person's "freedom of choice" and another person's erotica. One could argue that drugs (and alcohol), pornography, prostitution, gambling, and pretty much all the vices victimize someone. But, as we know, some are sanctioned, some are illegal, all are profitable.

    Just for the record, I have no use for porn, but the issues I see here are twofold: one, First Amendment freedoms, and two: selective enforcement of dubious laws and the manipulation of the justice system. Nothing new under the sun, here, folks."

    I think my point was, if it's a job to go get raped and abused for the glory of the porn industry and it's a job to go kill and get abused for the glory of your country. Why are you willing to defend one set of victims and not willing to defend the other? Aren't they both atrocities- regardless of who gets paid? I'm not a constitutional lawyer, so maybe there is some finer point I'm missing?

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