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- Subject: Re: What is pornography, anyway?
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:24:17 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211211424.25@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <9211180027.36@rmkhome.UUCP> <BxxAKw.4xr@cs.uiuc.edu> <9211191517.47@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Nov20.160910.1203@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.160910.1203@news.columbia.edu> dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
- >In article <9211191517.47@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >>
- >[about child porn/porn/obscenity definitions]
- >
- >>I have enough doubts about this, that I would not gate a.b.p.e through
- >>my system. If the state authorities confiscated my system as evidence,
- >>I would expect to never see it again, whether I won in court or not.
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- > All that can be said here is that it is a very sad case when a person
- >refrains from an action that they might otherwise take because of a fear
- >of the effects of a wrongful prosecution. Very sad.
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- When a witch hunt is going on, it is better not to look like a witch.
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- > Isn't it true that the seizure of property in these cases (video stores
- >included) (and in the USA) are based on the RICO (organized crime) laws?
- >Am I the only one that thinks that applying RICO laws to video stores is
- >wrong?
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- No, I believe it is just simple laws of evidence.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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