Naughty Journal Author Denied Plea Change

[Declan McCullagh]

John, my ill-mannered, surly, and lovable friend, you may have
read it, but you sure didn't understand it.

My point, such as it is, is that the Ohio case is a natural expansion
and mild evolution of "child porn" laws in the U.S. If y'all are going
to get upset about the Ohio statute and prosecution, then you should
be looking critically at state and federal obscenity laws and child
porn laws as well. John, to his credit, seems to be doing that.

-Declan


On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:22:41PM -0700, John Young wrote:
> Declan, you condescending prig, I did read your message and 
> was trying to askance your clubfingeredness about "possession," 
> which isn't as monolithic as you vaunt and which smacked 
> overmuch of LEAs' agressive erasure of distinctions.
> 
> Hector me not, for the failure to look behind heavy-handed
> law enforcement, dementia, concerning kiddie porn can
> be interpreted as complicity, or worse, distancing from the
> obligation to relook, rethink, and re-examine one's own
> proclivities to avoid the worst dispute in the country.
> 
> The pathology of kiddie porn is probably the vilest plague
> upon the land, and that is due to bravehearts running scared
> of the infected nuts who may, if they have their way, beat
> out abortion and guns and vile government as pointless
> no-brainers.
> 
> Come back, Smokey, tell me something new about what's
> wrong with "possession" in this particular case, not what
> is in the read the fucking manual before I waste my time
> wasting mine.
> 
> Coda:
> 
> I'm trying a new pseudo-comprehensible writing style, so 
> fuck off. No vanity sig just yet but it will come.