Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change

[Declan McCullagh]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:00:58AM -0500, measl at mfn.org wrote:
> 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*.

What's new here? *Possession* of child porn has been illegal for at
least a decade. Obscenity prosecutions for writing what people find
objectionable have a long history: Joyce, Miller, etc.

Take a longer view.

-Declan