Oh this is BULLSHIT!!

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2003-02-13 08:23pm

See now, if I was the defense attorney, I would have brought in a video tape of a recent comic book convention. "And approximately how many forty year old virgins did you count in this particular shot?"

Then I would show a riot breaking out after someone yells "Wally West is the one true Flash!"

"Comics are for kids"..... what decade is this guy living in?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-02-13 08:48pm

jaeger115 wrote:
I hope the Supreme Court lays the unholy smackdown on those idiots.

Idiots
Actually, most of the judges of the Supreme Court are fundies...

Most of the are deeply religious and conservative but I don't think they're stupid. This is clearly unconsitutional and an violation of the guy's rights. Whether they would patronize them or not is not isn't really an issue, they'll find as the law determines and it's not on Texas's side.

generator_g1 · Post by **generator_g1** » 2003-02-13 08:53pm

Dalton wrote:
generator_g1 wrote:Intramuros was the old walled city dating back from the Spanish colonization...it's not that there's less idiocy in power here (we had Ferdinand Marcos for president once) but people generally don't make a big religious fuss over comics/anime/manga even though we are the only predominantly Catholic nation here in Asia.

Dalton, what was the book that you just finished reading?
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Had a lot to do with WWII and present-day Phillippines. Places like Manila, Luzon, Corregidor...

What's the book all about? Historical stuff?

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-02-13 11:36pm

Maybe it is not too odd that in many US men's rooms stalls you'll see this charming poem posted:

"Here I sit, butt cheeks flexin'
Just gave birth to another TEXAN"

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-13 11:42pm

generator_g1 wrote:
Dalton wrote:
generator_g1 wrote:Intramuros was the old walled city dating back from the Spanish colonization...it's not that there's less idiocy in power here (we had Ferdinand Marcos for president once) but people generally don't make a big religious fuss over comics/anime/manga even though we are the only predominantly Catholic nation here in Asia.

Dalton, what was the book that you just finished reading?
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Had a lot to do with WWII and present-day Phillippines. Places like Manila, Luzon, Corregidor...
What's the book all about? Historical stuff?

Eh...kind of. It's fiction based on historical events. It's a hacker novel really; about computers and codes and cryptography. It has a lot to do with things like the Enigma code and Nazi gold.

Grand Admiral Ancaris · Post by **Grand Admiral Ancaris** » 2003-02-14 02:20am

SAMAS wrote:http://forums.comicbookresources.com/sh ... adid=47665

...... WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!? That's a bunch of bullshit!!!

Urge to kill rising...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-14 07:05am

BWAHAHAHAH!!!

you get the laws you deserve.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-14 08:52am

jaeger115 wrote:
I hope the Supreme Court lays the unholy smackdown on those idiots.

Idiots
Actually, most of the judges of the Supreme Court are fundies...

Where the hell did you get this? Ginsburg, Stevens, Breyer, and Souter are all liberals. Kennedy and O'Connor are moderate conservatives who sometimes vote with the liberals. Rhenquist and Thomas are both conservatives, and Rhenquist opposes abortion (I'm not sure about Thomas, but I'd suspect he is too), but a fundy that does not make, and Scalia can't be a fundy because he's Catholic.

I imagine that Thomas, Rhenquist, and Scalia will rule in favor of the state of Texas because they're all state's rights conservatives who believe local communities ought to define obscenity and not have the Supreme Court overturn their laws from On High without a good reason (and since obscenity is well established by the court as not protected by the First Amendment, saying that obscenity laws violate the first amendment isn't a good reason). The four liberals will undoubtedly rule for Castillo, unless there's some legal detail that ties their hands--in other words, Texas obeyed all the guidelines in establishing an obscenity violation. That leaves Kennedy and O'Connor, and they're sorta unpredictable, though in my mind, the fact that the prosecution didn't even bother presenting evidence seems to say to me that the jury was biased and no obscenity was established.

The SC doesn't have to pick between throwing out Castillo's conviction or upholding, just by the way. THey can refuse to hear the case at all if they think it doesn't have enough legal merit to be heard, or they could agre the conviction was flawed but refuse to rule on whether or not the comic was actually obscene, and order a new trial for Mr. Castillo. The one thing they won't do is issue a ruling that overturns the obscenity exception to the First Amendment, thought if we're lucky they may tighten the legal definition of it and raise the bar for local communities to prove it.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-14 08:55am

Keevan_Colton wrote:
jaeger115 wrote:
I hope the Supreme Court lays the unholy smackdown on those idiots.

Idiots
Actually, most of the judges of the Supreme Court are fundies...
I was about to mention shrub....but I wont bother....

Shrub has nothing to do with this. All the executive branch can do in a Supreme Court case (where it's not either a plaintiff or a defendant) is issue a friend of the court brief for one side or another. When the Court makes a ruling, nothing short of a Constitutional amendment or another Supreme Court ruling that overturns the first one can change it.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-02-14 01:52pm

Darth Wong wrote:You have the right to life, liberty, and the ability to get together with 11 similarly close-minded individuals in a jury room and ruin someone's life for offending your religious sensibilities. God bless America.

You realized what happened when you mocked the US last tiem right?

Oh yeah, Shep's banned.

Go ahead.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-02-14 02:17pm

Yogi wrote:IP:125.125.232.228
Port number: 8472
l/p = Hentai/Hentai

A very small collection, but enjoy!

Servers down.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-14 02:53pm

RedImperator wrote:
Keevan_Colton wrote:
jaeger115 wrote: Actually, most of the judges of the Supreme Court are fundies...
I was about to mention shrub....but I wont bother....
Shrub has nothing to do with this. All the executive branch can do in a Supreme Court case (where it's not either a plaintiff or a defendant) is issue a friend of the court brief for one side or another. When the Court makes a ruling, nothing short of a Constitutional amendment or another Supreme Court ruling that overturns the first one can change it.

Isnt this the wonderful people who put shrub in charge?

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-02-14 03:20pm

Coyote wrote:
The next morning, three Dallas police officers entered the store and arrested Jesus for promoting obscenity.
I find something oddly amusing about that sentence.

You're not the only one! LOL

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-02-14 08:21pm

3rd Impact wrote:
Coyote wrote:
The next morning, three Dallas police officers entered the store and arrested Jesus for promoting obscenity.
I find something oddly amusing about that sentence.
You're not the only one! LOL

I agree too. This proves that Jesus is a bad influence, and Christians should not accept him as their savior.

GREAHSIAM · Post by **GREAHSIAM** » 2003-02-14 09:04pm

Tah-riffic, another Jesus whack-job. This must be another example of the "Love" which the Christians are supposedly full of.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-14 09:19pm

As long as they dont give him the death sentence.....we dont need another jesus martyr thing....who knows how crazy the next religion could be.....

Or would it meant tentacle rape hentai would be part of the scriptures?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-14 10:09pm

When this was brought up in Space Battles, I brought up the full contents of my Adult Comics. (All of which I bought after I was 18, many of which I read in High School, just to piss off the Vice Principal (I was an "Adult" half of my senior year ya know). Arthur Dent called it a bunch of sick Porn.

I pointed out that titles such as: Black Kiss, Crow, Marshal Law, Blood, Blade The Immortal, Cry for Dawn & several others I owned were rated "Adult" for the graphic violence factor and didn't have any actual "Porn" as per the supreme court definition. And while Milo Manara comics are incredably heavy in the sexual content (They are very tasteful and not Mysogynistic).

Now for my "Barbarian Comics", "Faust Love of the Damned", "Little Witches", & some of my Japanese comics, I have no idea what my defense is.

Mind you, I really shudder to think what the folks in Texas would think of Italy's "Black Kiss" (Vampires ruling the Inquistion, Currupt Vampire priests "taking" prepubescent boys both for their blood (and inconversation to rape as well (note the molestation is never depected), Robber Knights etc.)

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-02-16 01:29pm

They'd probably think it was a documentary.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-16 05:23pm

"I don't care what type of evidence or what type of testimony is out there," said the lead prosecutor, "Comic books ... are for kids. [The material] is put in a medium, in a forum, to directly appeal to kids. ... We're here to get this off the shelf."

This is just stupid. The prosecuter just basically admitted he didn't care up truth, but about his own ideology. Where's the mistrial?

And for a format that is only for kids, let's see what the number 1 movie at the box office is, oh yes, Daredevil. And of course only kids went to see it to make it number 1.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-02-16 09:49pm

neoolong wrote:And for a format that is only for kids, let's see what the number 1 movie at the box office is, oh yes, Daredevil. And of course only kids went to see it to make it number 1.

Ah, but remember, violence is OK according to the fundies, particularly if its done in the name of God. And sex must be purged from the face of the earth at all costs.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-16 09:55pm

Thus when the violence ratio becomes so much higher then the sex ratio there won't be any annoying humans to bother us anymore.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-16 10:31pm

Keevan_Colton wrote:
RedImperator wrote:
Keevan_Colton wrote: I was about to mention shrub....but I wont bother....
Shrub has nothing to do with this. All the executive branch can do in a Supreme Court case (where it's not either a plaintiff or a defendant) is issue a friend of the court brief for one side or another. When the Court makes a ruling, nothing short of a Constitutional amendment or another Supreme Court ruling that overturns the first one can change it.
Isnt this the wonderful people who put shrub in charge?

50,000 senile idiots in Broward County who couldn't figure out a ballot put Shrub in charge. The Court just put an end to all the legal schenanigans going on in Florida. That and Gore's inability to rally his own ideaological compatriots to vote for him. If I were George Bush, I would have sent Ralph Nader a very nice thank-you note.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-02-16 10:45pm

Tah-riffic, another Jesus whack-job. This must be another example of the "Love" which the Christians are supposedly full of

What the hell are you talking?

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Oh this is BULLSHIT!!

Re: Oh this is BULLSHIT!!