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- raitchison, on 11/07/2007, -1/+65Words cannot express how happy I am that I don't live in the south.
- neckfire, on 11/07/2007, -2/+56When buying porn is outlawed only outlaws will buy porn.
Ha! - inactive, on 11/07/2007, -0/+51"The six-person grand jury spent Thursday morning viewing parts of 12 videos bought at the Springhill Road video store from Oct. 15 to Oct. 18. It was the second time the grand jury convened within the last month."
I predict they will need at least one more "viewing" to be sure... - thespudmall, on 11/07/2007, -2/+48Wait......what? How can you sue a porn shop.....for selling porn?
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+43Yet another retard who found a good job as a prosecutor. Good for him! I wonder if he wears the helmet in court?
- OneHine, on 11/07/2007, -6/+38So let me get this straight...there are people in America who argue that torture is a perfectly acceptable and moral action and who turn around and say that selling porn is a terrible crime worthy of prison?
I don't know about the world in general, but I'd say America (or at least a sizable portion of the voting population) has gone off the deep end. - imacommi, on 11/07/2007, -0/+32There are so many times when I think i've just heard the dumbest thing EVER... well this is another one of those times
- Lane, on 11/07/2007, -0/+29Careful Jury selection.
- thespudmall, on 11/07/2007, -0/+28Ahhhh... the RIAA approach.
- lloydsoldout, on 11/06/2007, -0/+28I actually live in Staunton. At first, they tried to re-zone quickly so he couldn't open the store. And now that he has, they went in, reviewed the tapes and material and such, and deemed it all "offensive" so he's been arrested. It's ridiculous. Most of the town disagrees with this. I mean, we understand, a porn store is bound to have porn in it. The debate has been raging over how the store will destroy families and increase crime. It's crazy. I'm embarrassed to live here. Thanks VA! Way to go ignorance!
- whojaybe, on 11/06/2007, -2/+29lol what's the world coming to?!
- snotrokit, on 11/07/2007, -0/+23meanwhile, the prosecutor is reviewing the evidence. again.
- JD52, on 11/06/2007, -0/+19Did we not already go through all this with Larry Flynt? You ***** tried this ***** with him and got your asses handed to you. What makes you think the outcome is going to be different this time around?
- SiNN4R, on 11/06/2007, -0/+18If that happens here in California I'll start my own group of Mad Max style porno bandits who drive around in dune buggies and football gear while raiding small towns for their pornography reserves.
- Sarevok9, on 11/06/2007, -0/+13lol what's the world cumming to?
Fixed. - Lane, on 11/06/2007, -2/+14He should start charging and entrance fee but everyone gets one free going away present.
- dillyhoo, on 11/06/2007, -2/+14You can sell porn, but there's no free-speech protection of "obscene" porn, which means if you can "prove" that German bondage animal poop fetish videos don't have artistic value (pffft), you couldn't overturn a law that restricts its sale.
Virginia happens to have seized the opportunity to add such a law to its state code:
http://www.stauntonnews.net/%c2%a7-182-376-adverti ...
Which means its up to the prosecutor to prove that such material is obscene, which is defined by Virginia's "Legal Information Encyclopedia" as "nasty-ass freak show kind of stuff." - inactive, on 11/06/2007, -1/+12............................................________
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..................................., - kindrobot, on 11/06/2007, -0/+10This will end one of two ways.
1. The town will have no porn shops. Let's face it, as disgusting as these types of prosecutions are, porn "book stores" are so outdated and for the most part useless for anything beyond a place for senators to cross-dress and meet for anonymous gay sex as a precursor for writing more anti-obscenity laws. Hint for porn fans in Staunton: Get DSL.
2. The prosecutor will lose and lose his job. But the local cops who got behind all this usually don't let up after things like this. The book store owners will need to identify which cops are the zealots and get restraining orders against them in order to stay in business. Good luck to them if they have an incident requiring the police. (which never, ever happens at these places of course) And yes, strip bar owners, porn shop owners, strippers, etc CAN (and have) get restraining orders against individual cops. There is such a thing as a vendetta, and harassment. Turns out that's not what we pay them for, hanging around strip bars all night while home invasions are happening.
My biggest problem with all this is that someone is being prevented from running a legal business by a bunch of local zealots. Let's decide if it's a legal business or not and go from there. But stuff like this is just harassment. I'm particularly disgusted by the frequency of churches in the poor areas of my town, interspersed with liquor stores and porn shops. Sin, forgive, sin,forgive,sin, etc etc. I personally think the churches are taking advantage just as much as the others, and are cashing in. But guess what? They're legal. All of them. But keep in mind that people might not go to war with you over porn, eventually they WILL get fed up with you using religion to chip away at our laws, rights and freedoms. What if they come for your churches someday? Will you go crying to the ACLU, or will they come to you without you even asking for help? Something to consider on Sunday. - HolierThanYe, on 11/06/2007, -0/+8Please tell me you're trolling. Did you read the article? Seriously, you have to be trolling. The man is being arrested and charged with obscenity charges for selling PORN. It should be pretty obvious why the Digg fanbase finds this both lulzy and ridiculous. Come on, be real with me, you're trolling, right?
- harvinator24, on 11/07/2007, -0/+8so will i get arrested if i just download it?
- Volatile36, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7"Just walk away. Just walk away and I'll spare your lives."
- matador3, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7Let he who is without porn cast the first stone.
- morelikezack, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6I can see a porn coming out of this scenario.
- pintomp3, on 11/07/2007, -0/+6no, it's like arresting the liquor store owner for selling booze.
- zqmbie, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6Three words: Luckiest....Jury....Ever.
- TheKrillr, on 11/07/2007, -0/+6Not porn apparently.
- icepick314, on 11/06/2007, -0/+6as long as he wasn't selling "2 Girls and 1 Cup" video, he should be fine...
- thelastknowngod, on 11/07/2007, -0/+6i bet the prosecutor is a closet sex addict.
- JLecker, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Hmm... Legal Spread Eagles?
- JLecker, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Not porn, apparently.
- kinghajj, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5No, the ***** anti-obscenity laws, as far as I know, only punish distributors, not consumers. There may be an "intent to sell" catch, though. Luckily, some states are not retarded.
- Antixian, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Jury... " can we see that replay in slo-mo this time? it's needed for evidence and we want to make sure it hit that girl in the eye and didnt drip from the other girls anus into her mouth."
- yarukizero, on 11/06/2007, -1/+6You fail at recognizing sarcasm and/or hyperbole.
- mphree, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Am I the only one who thinks that it's funny how the Anti-Porn group has FAP in their name....?
- AARGH2K, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Northern VA is North, the rest of it is Southern. The guy lives in Manassas but the store is farther south. Also check out the Porn laws in Hamilton County in Cincinnatti OH. They make this look like nothing. It's not a southern thing it's more Right wing family values thing.
- WolverineBlue, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5Wait, they had a full-scale investigation involving undercover cops to figure out that the porn store sells porn? That's efficient.
- pintomp3, on 11/07/2007, -0/+5jury booty.
- juicebag, on 11/06/2007, -0/+5People still _buy_ porn?
- jaymzdean, on 11/07/2007, -0/+4My bet is that we'll see this Republican prosecutor busted for soliciting gay sex in a public restroom soon.
- mwolfzorn, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4I don't think California will be outlawing porn anytime soon, they make quite a bit of money in the production and distribution of them
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4I wonder if the prosecutor has a cousin named Pat
- ajwinder, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4Not to be that ***** that goes crying pointing at Bush every time something stupid happens these days, but yeah, I'm gonna take up that role. Seriously though, this happens because the only way pornography is allowed is if it can be protected under the free speech rights for artistic expression. And since thats kinda an objective point, it usually comes down to directives that originate from the attorney general, which is influenced by the policy of the administration in office. I remember this being discussed a few months back because Bush along with Gonzales , as part of the whole party-of-family-values-while-*****-in-airport-bathrooms schtick, wanted to start pushing cases of pornography being indecent in any form. Im not saying that there arent laws on the books for this kind of thing, but pornography is sort of a grey area in terms of the law, and so you can see huge swings based on whos in power in terms of whether they want to leave it alone or if they want to push it as a hot button issue.
- RandomGuySteve, on 11/07/2007, -1/+5Funny, I saw Virginia and thought the same thing about living up north.
- DustyinBFE, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4If this situation turns out to be anything like the Republican party, the prosecutor is going to turn out to be some BD&SM fetishist seeker who likes to bathe himself in sheep's blood.
- lucidguru, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5To strippers, dirty magazines bought at the gas station, and pron. In this town though not pron, just strippers, dirty magazines and siblings.
- Wacer, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4They will just get it off the Internet. Their mission will accomplish nothing.
- V1ncent, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3I bet the people launching this witch hunt touch themselves
- ArmandoM, on 11/06/2007, -0/+3I'd say he succeeded at making a useless post.
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