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SANDY SANDFORT

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Isn't there something in U.S. Code about crossing state lines for immoral purposes? No relevance here. Originally enacted to combat the "white slavery" trade, it was probably used more to prosecute unmarried lovers for sexual activity outside of marriage. I don't even know if it's still on the books, but as I said, no relevance in the current debate.

There's a lot of US law about transporting various materials across state lines or using interstate carrier services or in ways that _might_ affect interstate commerce. Politically incorrect language or imagery (obscenity for adults; indecency for children), politically incorrect vegetable products, politically correct but economically incorrect vegetable and animal products, geographically incorrect humans, mathematically correct but politically incorrect image-manipulation bitstreams all are affected. While the German censorship is evil, immoral, and impractical, I have to agree with Dr. Vulis that many American laws are similarly wrong, and the Germans are at least trying, in their inadequate and immoral way, to fight genuine evils that are far worse than the stuff the US government is attempting to censor. BTW, today's "Recorder" (Bay Area legal newspaper) reports that the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Thomases' conviction. 96 C.D.O.S 609. ABTW, they didn't need those laws to fight "white slavery"; kidnapping and rape were already illegal, but any opportunity to make a law.... #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281 # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs