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Justice Department indicts a photographer over a site that posted photos of clothed minors--a case that has raised First Amendment issues.
Justice Department indicts a photographer over a site that posted photos of clothed minors--a case that has raised First Amendment issues.
January 2, 2010 6:26 PM PST
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here are desperate people trying to make money dancing on that line
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what can i get away with and still make millions of dollars from the pervs out there?
Every federal bureaucracy should have their budgets slashed in half, because right now my tax dollars are just being wasted.
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I want you to understand that I DO NOT TAKE THE BIBLE 100% LITTERALY like most people do. I think most of the stories are metaphors to reach a point & explain what once was unexplainable. But Hard-core Christians do believe every word, and this is what they believe: That, there was no death in the world until Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge. Once They ate it, death plagued all God's creatures. To counter this, God said "Thou shale be fruitful and multiply."
THIS IS WHY CHRISTIANS HATE THEIR OWN HETEROSEXUALITY, AND THE NAKED HUMAN BODY. To them, it is a constant reminder of paradise lost when Adam and Eve ate The Forbidden Fruit. For a Christian to believe that THIS is how the world was when it was created, you would have to believe that THE FIRST MAN AND WOMAN HAD NO GENITAILIA. Since they were designed to live forever, they had no reason to reproduce, and if they ate fruit from The Tree Of Life, they would have had no need of a complicated digestive system to pump out human waste.
In short, once The Forbidden Fruit was eaten, death plagued the Earth, then God gave all creatures genitals to reproduce so that even though we die, life would always flourish. Now, most reasonable people have accepted that this is all metaphoric nonsense, and the theory of evolution is how life REALLY beggan, but as I said this country is run by hard-core Christians who think the naked human body and sexual reproduction is an evil mutation to counter death, brought on by a lie from the devil who tricked the first man and woman into disobeying God and eatiing the Forbidden Fruit. Christians will never accept hetorosexuality as normal, so they will never accept ANY form of sexuality. It even says in the bible: "For a man to lay down with another man is an abomination to God" I think it says the same thing about lesbians too.
I don't agree with everything Christians say and do, but when it comes to fighting pedophiles, and childporn, looks like I have and entire planet full of sex-hating religious kooks on MY SIDE.
First of all, this case will not cause any parent to loose personal photos of their own children. No one is interetsed in your ugly kids.
Secondly, these so-called "child modeling" sites are not making photos and videos of children for advertising a particular product. In this case, the child IS the product. More specificaly, the child's underdeveloped sexuality is the product.
Thridly, the only people who buy this garbage are pedophiles. It's pretty obvious. I mean, we aren't talking about Hanna Montanna or the the straight-to-video Olsen Twin films that were made for children. Videos like that were made for kids and are widely well known. Normal people don't know that these sexy preteen sites exist until someone makes a federal case over them. They don't know they exist because only pedphiles, like you people, know, because the site caters to your need to see children in a sexual way.
Now, getting back to normal pictures of children in the media, and the videos. Toy commercials, movies, diapaer ads, plays, underage beauty pagents, cheerleading. Things like that will always exist, but they weren't made for pedophiles to "get off" on. commercials for diapers and underoos are made to sell a particular product. Sure, a pedophile will see it as being sexual, but that can't be helped. Pedophiles have a problem. So is it a smart idea to cater to their sick sexual fantasy? Pedopillia is a crime. Making a product for them to buy and make a profit from their sickness is about as smart as selling weapons to well known killers.
People have been using children model in all types of media for longer than anyone can remember. What next? Can parents no longer take pictures of their children? If the head is facing this direction, and the arm held just so... *poof* pornography! Has any of the people in the Bush administration actually see what kids where these day. Maybe we need to bring in all the clothes manufacturers on pornography charges as well.
Its not pornography if the kid is not naked or involved in sex. Unless the child feels exploited or the parents were not involved; these kids are just making a living.
Once you allow obscure laws to be passed, you lose control on how they are interpreted. Honestly, any photos like this could be your innocent family photos. How many people put those on the web?
Its not pornography because someone gets off on it. If that is the case then no one should leave their houses in the morning. I guess I should start suing every women in a short skirt for public displays of pornography...
I didn't know kids had to make a living. I thought that was the parents job.
We prefer to outlaw seductive non-nude pictures not because they inspire evil behavior by perverts, but they remind us that our kids are growing up and we refuse to deal with it......
and just maybe we have a few guilty urges of our own as we watch that 8 year old board tranform into a 14 year old rack and butt.
It is much better to throw harmless men who have dealt with these issues into jail than to have to deal with them ourselves.
How dare they make us confront ourselves!!!
Children don't necessarily know if they are being exploited, or at least they don't know how to voice concern if they are. That's why they have government protection.
These children were put into poses that resemble models in Maxim magazine, not Seventeen.
That's why this dude is in trouble.
WOW
they bear no responsibiity for allowing their children to so
photographed?
I'm sorry, but really, someone needs to let folks know that
parenting is a FULL TIME JOB. If you don't / won't / can't assume
responsibility for you child's welfare, then perhaps you shouldn't
have children.
Seriously, you are out here casting stones at innocents.
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to mention sincerity) when they choose to spend time and
resources to investigate and prosecute a case as absurd as this and
yet show virtually no interest in prosecuting former congressman
Tom Foley
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is the only decision jurors make.
That reminds me old anecdote.
A person with problem comes to a doctor: he can't stop thinking about sex. After few questions, doctor decided to conduct simple test. He shows a picture with black circle on white background. "Oh! I see!! That's pond, there is couple in it and they are doing it!!!" replies promptly visitor. Intrigued doctor shows next picture with black square on it. The visitor reacts quickly: "That's bedroom window and the couple in there are doing it!!". Completely confused doctor shows him last picture with black triangle on it. Visitor doesn't think twice: "That's camping tent and couple inside are doing it!!!". Now totally lost doctor stops for a moment to think what to do next. Suddenly, his visitor's face becomes suspicious: "Doctor, where did you got such dirty pictures???". Lopata.
IOW, I think the prosecutors - not the photographer - needs to be checked.
people who take pictures of fully clothed kids in poses their
parents ordered.
It's not like there's anything else to work on. Except maybe
terrorism. Or illegal business pratcies. Or any one of a zillion other
things that are far more injurious to the public.
Seriously though... ***? So if I was a 15 yr old girl, in a bikini, laying on the beach with my legs spread open and some one happened to glance my way... could they be arrested for the same BS crap as this?
This is way to far... next thing you know, Sears will be indicted for taking pics of girls in their underwear for their catalogs.
This administration has just spiraled out of control...
"This administration has just spiraled out of control..."
Nope, this administration had spiraled out of control years ago. But
it's nice to see that some people are finally recognizing this
obvious fact ...
;-)
"This administration has just spiraled out of control..."
Nope, this administration had spiraled out of control years ago. But
it's nice to see that some people are finally recognizing this
obvious fact ...
;-)
I was looking at our photo scrapbook of our kids growing up and I saw my wife had some photo's in their of our kids nude, as babies.
That struck me as odd, because I would have never have taken such a photo. She thought that was ridiculous.
I have to agree, it is absurd. I've lived with it my whole life, so I don't know how absurd it is...
What if a perv does get off at looking at pictures of fully clothed children. I feel sorry for that guy... as for going after people who take photographs of fully clothed children...thats absurd.
We must, as a country, stop going after people for the thoughts that occur in other people's head.
If some weirdo gets off on looking at an old Buick, that doesn't mean I have to park my car in the garage!
As far as kids go, if they are clothed, and the parents have agreed, and the kids aren't forced or harmed... well, I say, this is a waste. At the very least, don't try to take vaguely worded legislation and make it apply. Write laws that are specific, and then if someone violates them, you'll have my support in going after the lawbreaker.
"At the very least, don't try to take vaguely worded legislation and make it apply."
Correct.
"Write laws that are specific, and then if someone violates them, you'll have my support in going after the lawbreaker."
THAT'S the sticky part. These laws MUST conform to the Constitution or we will be giving up yet MORE Constitutionally given rights!...destroying the USA as a whole, chipping at it bit by bit until it's too late!
That's a very dangerous precendent.
I'm certain many people have had thoughts of killing someone or committing some other illegal act. So we'd probably end up with maybe 99% of the population in prison.
Minority Report is one example of what can happen. The famous novel "1984" is another example.
I personally don't ever feel the intent to commit an act, devoid of any specific concrete preparations to commit the act in the near future (i.e. terrorists who stockpile weapons) should ever be considered a crime.
Next you'll get busted by photographing your newborn baby (unless only its head can be seen). Oh, wait, there were already such cases.
Nude beaches next.
Non-nude beaches after that. How dare you to walk with bare midriff in plain view!
Then a pious Catholic checkout girl in your drugstore will refuse to ring the condoms you want to buy (and she will get away with that, because it's her CONSCIOUSNESS).
Then a pious Muslim checkout boy will refuse to ring a bottle of wine or beer you're buying.
Just let them...
Remember back to those news images of the late Jonbenet Ramsey, all dolled up with loads of makeup, lipstick, and vamping it up in those child beauty contests? Those images shocked a lot of people, to see a little kid dressed uo and trained to act like an adult, but nobody stooped so low as to call it pornographic.
Maybe this whle thing is just a cynical strategy to establish some courtroom precedent for convictions under the new "2257" law before the new Congress has a chance to throw the entire law out.
Or perhaps there's a team of federally-employed kiddie-porn surfers somewhere who have a quota to meet; but they haven't been finding any truly offensive material in a while so they are now resorting to going after young professionals.
If beauty and conversely ugliness is primarily in the eye of the beholder, then apparently we have some highly depraved individuals now working at the Department of Justice, that need to get a life.
Oh and don't get caught with a Sear childrens underware catalog
or sale circular.
will be banned from public display in the States as it might be
construed as child pornography.
It says in her biography that the prosecutor was appointed by John Ashcroft. Wasn't he the guy that wanted to cover the statues in the Capitol?
Alexlonebear
- the made the burka
- by usrhlp December 1, 2006 9:32 AM PST
- because have you seen some of the muslim women? i think id want them enforcing too!
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