Ohio man convicted for "obscene" stories in his privatejournal

lizard lizard at mrlizard.com
Thu Jul 5 09:41:45 PDT 2001


Marc Rotenberg wrote:
> 
>         If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State
>         has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house,
>         what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole
>         constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving
>         government the power to control men's minds.
> 
>         Stanley v. Georgia, 394 US 557, 566 (1969) (Marshall, J.)

"Yeah, but that doesn't apply to perverts!":Any censor, any time, any
place.





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