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CDR: Re: Supreme Court denies reporter's kiddie porn appeal
by Eric Cordian 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> writes: > Journalists have no special rights. None. They are simply those who > are (usually) paid for their words. This does not exempt them from > any laws. The First Amendment does not confer special rights to > writers; in fact, it says that government may not create such > distinctions by "approving" certain journalists. > A journalist who buys pot or coke for a story on drug abuse is as > vulnerable to the drug laws as any other person (including cops, by > the way) who buy drugs. ... Yes, of course this is true. However, child porn laws, with the exception of those very few laws whose goal it is to prevent specifically identifiable children from experiencing the harm of the porn-producing workplace, are clearly unconstitutional. The courts simply ignore this fact, and pander to the moral witch hunt driven by the political and religious right wing. The entire doctrine that non-obscene material depicting the sexuality of minors can be made illegal rests on a single Supreme Court case, that of Ferber. Ferber revolves entirely around the notion that identifiable minors featured in porn are harmed by exposure to the workplace in which the porn is produced. So - laws criminalizing material featuring only social and recreational nudity on the part of consenting minors are unconstitutional, as no one is harmed in its production. Laws criminalizing the possession of old porn made before child porn laws were passed are unconstitutional. Laws criminalizing the production and possession of simulations of the sexuality of minors, involving no actual humans, are CLEARLY unconstitutional. Laws criminalizing the possession of material in which the models, now adults, have no objection to its distribution, are unconstitutional. Laws criminalizing the possession of material legally produced outside the US are unconstitutional. Laws criminalizing the importation of such material are equally illegal. Futhermore, Ferber suggests that the link between porn possession and harm to minors in an unhealthy work environment only exists when the people producing the porn sell it for money to the people who possess it. Clearly a reporter downloading images for free to write a story doesn't cause any further "exploitation" of the underage models, any more than possession of footage of 12 year old Palestinians being deliberately shot by Zionist Entity snipers makes one an accessory or participant in such behavior. Child porn laws are about the elimination of counterexamples to a certain segment of the population's ideas about morality. They are not about protecting children, real or virtual. They are about the public being forced to listen to only the government's description of certain material, with anyone else being locked up instantly for looking at it, including legitimate scientists and journalists. Once this doctrine is rubber-stamped by the judicial system, and the Sheeple are used to it, it is highly unlilkely that sexual pictures of minors are the only material it is going to be appplied to. Hakim Bey suggests that plastering large full-color pictures of naked children around ones community is an excellent form of political protest. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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CDR: FinCEN report on e-cash
by R. A. Hettinga 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

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CDR: DNAP - EMERGING BIOTHECH COMPANY - 2 NEWS RELEASES!
by HotStock＠masterone.com 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

One of a few emerging companies invited to the European Biotech Conference: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001006/biopartner.html Dnaprint (DNAP) is an emerging biotech company and is trading under $1 !!! 1) CEO (Dr. Tony Frudakis) Lead scientist for Corixa starts his own company a few months ago 2) Company is formed by a reverse merger of a pinksheet company 3) DNAP has already completed the accounting to get off the pinksheets and should be listed on the OTCBB soon. 4) Dr. Frudakis was responsible for a patent that sold for $54,000,000 to Smith Kline Beecham while he was at Corixa. 5) Corixa's stock has gone from 14 Cents a few years ago to 50 Dollars today. 6) According to the Barron's article (9/25/00 pg 52), Dnaprint is in the late stages of forming strategic alliances with major companies.

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by gerry 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

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FinCEN report on e-cash
by John Muller 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has posted on its Web site <http://www.treas.gov/fincen> a report on regulatory and law enforcement issues presented by E-cash, E-banking and Internet gaming. This appears to be the document that was leaked to Declan McCullagh and previewed in a WIRED News article a few weeks ago, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38955,00.html John Muller johnmuller(a)earthlink.net jmuller(a)brobeck.com "The humorless power of the state, the iron-fisted control demanded by the corporation, the sexless desire insinuated by broadcast advertising -- all are falling to networked imagination" Christopher Locke --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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FinCEN report on e-cash
by John Muller 08 Oct '00

08 Oct '00

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has posted on its Web site <http://www.treas.gov/fincen> a report on regulatory and law enforcement issues presented by E-cash, E-banking and Internet gaming. This appears to be the document that was leaked to Declan McCullagh and previewed in a WIRED News article a few weeks ago, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38955,00.html John Muller johnmuller(a)earthlink.net jmuller(a)brobeck.com "The humorless power of the state, the iron-fisted control demanded by the corporation, the sexless desire insinuated by broadcast advertising -- all are falling to networked imagination" Christopher Locke --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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CDR: Confirm your request to register for eGroups
by eGroups 07 Oct '00

07 Oct '00

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07 Oct '00

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CDR: Confirm your request to register for eGroups
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07 Oct '00

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CDR: wild things
by billp＠nmol.com 07 Oct '00

07 Oct '00

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