Man Who Got Busted for Selling Hentai in Texas Loses Appeal.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-08-22 12:46am

It's the South; what do you expect?

Every time a southern apologist complains that social reactionism in the South is nothing more than a media stereotype, yet more evidence crops up to contradict them.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-08-22 01:16am

This is where I'm supposed to say, "Well, it looks horrible, but there's really a reason why this is all happening." Unfortunately, it's just horrible. We've got a DA looking to get famous by railroading an ordinary businessman (well, not THAT ordinary--he sells smut AND he's a spic--he MUST be guilty of something). We've got a jury full of think of the children retards, and one judge after another failing to do his fucking job, starting with the local shithead who basically told the jury to disregard the law and ending with the Supreme Court of the United States taking a collective leak on the first amendment.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-08-22 02:02am

Stormbringer wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:And the judge says to "use common sense"?
He means Texas common sense: "If it makes you tingly in the pants it must be wrong."

Then why don't they outlaw guns?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-22 02:05pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:From what I remember from the original article (which this is an update on), the "adult section" was behind the counter that wasn't even in view of the general public.

Does it get more ridiculous now?

What pisses me off is that this sets the precident in court that comics, all comics, are child's material and thus not protected under the First Amendment. This has bad implications.

Frederick Wertham, what has thou wrought?

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-08-22 02:41pm

This guy has to spend 6 mounths in jail, 12 on probabtion and hand over 4 grand?!

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-08-22 03:40pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Gil Hamilton wrote:From what I remember from the original article (which this is an update on), the "adult section" was behind the counter that wasn't even in view of the general public.
Does it get more ridiculous now?

What makes it worse is what GAT wrote...the appeal didn't go through.

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Gil Hamilton wrote:What pisses me off is that this sets the precident in court that comics, all comics, are child's material and thus not protected under the First Amendment. This has bad implications.
Frederick Wertham, what has thou wrought?

Gotta love that particular fucker who wrote the great slippery slope "Seduction of the Innocent". Wherein we get that because criminals read comics...that it promotes crime

Seriously gotta love how stupid people can be, and how far a moron's words in the right place at the right right time can echo for far longer then he/she would've ever dreamed.

Though it doesn't make material anymore vulnerable...it's not a precedent that was needed.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-22 04:41pm

Ghost Rider wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Gil Hamilton wrote:What pisses me off is that this sets the precident in court that comics, all comics, are child's material and thus not protected under the First Amendment. This has bad implications.
Frederick Wertham, what has thou wrought?
Gotta love that particular fucker who wrote the great slippery slope "Seduction of the Innocent". Wherein we get that because criminals read comics...that it promotes crime

Also, that man was almost directly responsible for "The Comics Code Authority" which held comics in a chokehold of censorship until the sixties and seventies.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-08-22 04:49pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote: Frederick Wertham, what has thou wrought?
Gotta love that particular fucker who wrote the great slippery slope "Seduction of the Innocent". Wherein we get that because criminals read comics...that it promotes crime
Also, that man was almost directly responsible for "The Comics Code Authority" which held comics in a chokehold of censorship until the sixties and seventies.

Still does...both side may have dumped the Code, but comics have to literally labeled differently to deal with any sort of *adult* themes, and I don't particularly mean anything in any true adult nature(ala the publishing lines that Marvel and DC have in the form of Vertigo or MAX line of comics). A fine example is literally they censored an issue of X-Men because the title was the Train of Death....after Joe Quesada proudly annouced that Marvel would not use the Comics Code Authority symbol anymore.

It'll probably still hold a grip on how people view comics for another generation.