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Jesus Castillo, Supreme Court, And Free Speech
I've been following the Jesus Castillo case for a while. The case itself is an obscenity charge for selling an adult comic to an adult undercover police officer in Dallas. Recently, the US Supreme Court denied his appeal, with the notion that obscenity is a state-level affair, despite the First Amendment being a Federal law. There's also an interview with the head of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and some good ruminations from Neil Gaiman on the subject. Bad precedents for free speech - the CBDLF donations and giving to the EFF are Good Things.
Since it's in Texas, will he receive the death penalty?
Why is selling adult materials to adults in Dallas a problem? Is adult content illegal there? Or did he violate some ordinance?
There is probably a little known ordinance against the Son of God selling smutty comics.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
That being said, I think I'll stay far away from Texas. It's like looking back in time 100 years.
100 is a number the figures prominently here in Texas. The temperatures always seem to be above it, while the locals' IQs average well below it.
This is probably one of the back-asswardest states in the Union and since you appear to have half a brain, I'd recommend staying the hell away from it and let it degenerate into the backwards, inbred garbage dump it is rapidly becoming.
Karma: Excellent Birds (mostly as a result of listening to Laurie Anderson)
...if its too late to let Mexico have Texas back. I hate having to say I'm from the same country as these people.
There's rape, murder, infanticide, mass killing, cult activity, genocide, supernatural beings, and talking animals. Surely these things should not be allowed!
> The Texas Penal Code isn't generally thought of as a laugh-out-loud read, but Section 43.23 is an exception: "A person commits an offense if he
Ah, the Five Dildo Limit. Remember that when packing for a trip to Texas.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The community does. If 99% of the population says 1% can't do something they like that does effect the rest, even in a very minor way, that 1% loses out.
So if 99% of the population are cannibals, and they decide to eat you, part of the 1% of the population that isn't...? Is it okay that you are now lunch?
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Obscenity and other forms of dangerous speech (split infinitives, sentence fragments, etc.) are unprotected -- and rightfully so.
Ask someone who knows. I've been speaking and hearing speech for close to my entire life, and nothing dismays me more than a bit of speech that endangers all of humanity.
> > The Texas Penal Code isn't generally thought of as a laugh-out-loud read, but Section 43.23 is an exception: "A person commits an offense if he
> Ah, the Five Dildo Limit. Remember that when packing for a trip to Texas.
Ehrm, maybe "packing" wasn't the best choice of words in that context.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade