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Supreme Court to decide case on animal cruelty and free speech.
On Oct 5, 9:15*pm, "Liberal Stupidity" wrote:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1005/p02s01-usju.html Washington - It's been a quarter century since the US Supreme Court declared an entire category of speech unworthy of First Amendment protection. On Tuesday morning, the Obama administration will ask the high court to carve out a new exception to the Constitution's free- speech mandate. Government lawyers say the action is justified in the name of a noble cause – preventing cruelty to animals. At issue in US v. Stevens is whether Congress overstepped its authority when it passed a 1999 law barring the creation, sale, or possession of any depiction of animal cruelty with the intent to distribute and sell it. The law was aimed at blocking a small but growing market in underground sexual-fetish videos that involve dominatrix women who step on and kill small animals. By one estimate in 1999, these so-called "crush videos" represented a million-dollar market. People actually get off on seeing women kill small animals? I'll concede that cats generally have it coming, but I don't get the sex angle. |
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Supreme Court to decide case on animal cruelty and free speech.
Christopher Helms wrote:
On Oct 5, 9:15 pm, "Liberal Stupidity" wrote: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1005/p02s01-usju.html Washington - It's been a quarter century since the US Supreme Court declared an entire category of speech unworthy of First Amendment protection. On Tuesday morning, the Obama administration will ask the high court to carve out a new exception to the Constitution's free- speech mandate. Government lawyers say the action is justified in the name of a noble cause – preventing cruelty to animals. At issue in US v. Stevens is whether Congress overstepped its authority when it passed a 1999 law barring the creation, sale, or possession of any depiction of animal cruelty with the intent to distribute and sell it. The law was aimed at blocking a small but growing market in underground sexual-fetish videos that involve dominatrix women who step on and kill small animals. By one estimate in 1999, these so-called "crush videos" represented a million-dollar market. People actually get off on seeing women kill small animals? I'll concede that cats generally have it coming ****er |
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Supreme Court to decide case on animal cruelty and free speech.
Christopher Helms wrote:
On Oct 5, 9:15 pm, "Liberal Stupidity" wrote: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1005/p02s01-usju.html Washington - It's been a quarter century since the US Supreme Court declared an entire category of speech unworthy of First Amendment protection. On Tuesday morning, the Obama administration will ask the high court to carve out a new exception to the Constitution's free- speech mandate. Government lawyers say the action is justified in the name of a noble cause – preventing cruelty to animals. At issue in US v. Stevens is whether Congress overstepped its authority when it passed a 1999 law barring the creation, sale, or possession of any depiction of animal cruelty with the intent to distribute and sell it. The law was aimed at blocking a small but growing market in underground sexual-fetish videos that involve dominatrix women who step on and kill small animals. By one estimate in 1999, these so-called "crush videos" represented a million-dollar market. People actually get off on seeing women kill small animals? I'll concede that cats generally have it coming, but I don't get the sex angle. Watch television, films? Popular culture is cruel and crass and merchants appeal to the most emotional common denominators. |
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