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Both charges were based on the journal and involved fictitious events, the court found. Dixon, it said, had erroneously believed one of the charges was based on a letter Dalton wrote describing sexual molestation of a young cousin, a real person.

But this doesn't bother Left-Wing radical extremist LAWYERS! Does it?

If I lived near that pervert, he would NOT be living there anymore. There was a reason for "Tar & Feathers" and "Riding out of town on a rail"

The hell with perverted lawyers and judges -

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that his former lawyer didn't inform him of the legal implications of a guilty plea or ask for an immediate dismissal on First Amendment grounds...

99% of lawyers make the rest (like this guy's "former lawyer") look bad.

[Physicist]

Good news. Every single person who's ever posted a word to this website would end up in prison for what they wrote, under somebody's interpretation of the law.

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Lawyers specializing in the First Amendment believe Brian Dalton was the first person in the United States successfully prosecuted for child pornography that involved fictional writings, not images.

Most lawyers don't like to defend the comic book industry (the ACLU certainly doesn't, never has), this may be why they are unfamiliar with the case of Mike Diana. That industry has it's own hired hands, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Mike was convicted of obscenity (and some of his work involved children). He did distribute his creations.

Part of his probation sentence prevented him from drawing anything. He was subject to surprise inspections.

It wasn't that he was distributing his work to minors, it was that he was creating and distributing such material at all.

In 1994, underground cartoonist Mike Diana was thrown in jail for 4 days without bail on obscenity charges, for publishing, advertising, and selling his zine BOILED ANGEL. Mike was on probation for 3 years, terms of which included fines of $3000, no contact with children under 18 (or within 10 feet of a minor), 1280 hours of community service, maintain full time employment, and at his expense, see a psychiatrist and take journalism courses at his own expense; AND no drawing for his own personal use... his home was subject to unannounced searches by local police to make sure he was complying. Mike Diana is now serving another 2 years of probation, including $2000 in fines, and the same probationary terms.

On June 4, 1996, a ruling issued by Largo, Florida, Circuit Judge Douglas Baird declared Mike Diana's zines, Boiled Angel #7 and #ATE as obscene. The judge emphasized throughout Mike's ruling that he personally found Diana's comics "patently offensive." Referring to Diana as "the appellant," and stated, "The evident goal of the appellant's publication is to portray shocking and graphic pictures of sexual conduct so it will be noticed. If the message is about victimization and that horrible things are happening in our society, as the appellant alleges, the appellant SHOULD HAVE created a vehicle to send his message that was not obscene."

[barkeep]

I remember this case now, thought we were setting a very dangerous precedent in pursuit of an especially trendy evil(not to belittle the horror of child molestation, but it was peaking about then). Whatever one thinks of El Sicko here, if we love freedom we have to celebrate this ruling. Now, wherever he moves to or lives WATCH THIS SICK BASTARD LIKE A HAWK and put him away for something real.

[DPB101]

Wonder what this will cost the taxpayers. ACLU usually gets lawyer fees. Two threads on the matter in the last few days :

State pays ACLU's lawsuit costs (ACLU makes $700,000 blocking Ten Commandments and pushing abortion)

County To Pay For Calling Former Gang Member A Gang Member (Man faces attempted murder charges) ^

A google news search brings up legal fee payments to the ACLU all the time.

Not only do we have to put up with judicial tyranny, we are forced to pay to have it inflicted upon us.

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If you really want to see somethng that is really sick, and should be prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law as child pornography, pick up a copy of the movie "The Aristocrats". This is a so-called documentary about a long held joke called the Aristocrats. It's nothing but a piece of child pornography, and stars many of Hollywood's famous. These liberal good-for-nothing perverts should all be sent to prison for involvement in the making of this trash. The movie verbally depicts child sexual molestation, sodomy and incest. These "stars" brag about pushing the envelope on what is legal and illegal. Typical liberals that dote on the 10 Bill of Rights. the B of R only protects trash like Hollywood and criminals.

I hope the Prosecutor in Franklin County, Ohio sees this post and takes note, and begins a crusade in Ohio to rid us of the purveyors of this kind of child pornography.