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Old October 7th 09, 05:02 AM posted to alt.impeach.bush,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,misc.survivalism,rec.arts.tv
Christopher Helms
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Default 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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Old October 7th 09, 08:22 AM posted to alt.impeach.bush,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,misc.survivalism,rec.arts.tv
Zlurb
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Default 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


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Old October 7th 09, 10:39 PM posted to alt.impeach.bush,rec.pets.dogs.behavior,misc.survivalism,rec.arts.tv
Strabo
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Default 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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