J.A. Terranson writes:

This is the case I had in mind when I made my recent assertion that thought==action in today's "court". How can anyone see this case, and not conclude otherwise? This dude is going to spend a long time in stir, for a *pure Thought Crime*.

Gee, maybe he shouldn't have pleaded GUILTY then. How can you say that this proves that thought==action when the issue wasn't decided at trial?

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Eric Cordian wrote:

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Not unsurprisingly, the judge has refused to permit a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for textual depictions of child sex in a private journal to withdraw his guilty plea and get a trial.