When you say "Miller obscenity test" I really want to believe you mean Frank Miller.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that occurred to.

That would be the most badass obscenity test of all time.

Wow... fucked up

Yeah I'll be watching this one! Although those laws cannot apply to furry art, it is an important indicator of the way the law is turning when it comes to artwork. The CBLDF are wonderful people. http://cbldf.org/

This rages me. 20 years is too much for even a real child porn collector. 6 months and 2 years of counseling is more then enough.

But comic books? I'm sorry, but people getting locked up over fictional characters is bullshit. It's a slippery slope that will eventually ban guro comics because they count as snuff, which will lead to banning other mediums where you see gory violence...

Pedo or not, the first amendment must be protected, despite all the efforts being made to undermine it.

Wait a minute, I read a PDF file of a supreme court decision (found on a government website), included within was a statement that the PROTECT act wouldn't apply to artwork.

This shouldn't be an issue.

the thing keeps getting revised and raised from the dead so that they can ban photo manipulations, but it also ends up covering drawings it seems

Regardless, artwork is protected by the first amendment. Stuff like this have been struck down several times thanks to the first amendment, and I don't see this case holding up.

wtf? y are people doin that to him? they are just comics! that is so fucked up.

God damn that's fucked up. What right does anybody have to persecute a person who hasn't done anything wrong to any other human or animal? That's like going to jail for impure thoughts.

I mean, yeah, he's an obsessive otaku, but the entire land of Japan would go to jail for this, leaving it a barren wasteland. It's just dumb. It's not like, y'know, a real child predator case. It's CARTOONS. It's like getting tested for bestiality when you're just some lowly furry artist. As long as your not into touching animals in obscene ways (god forbid you are), you are an upstanding citizen with a couple of screws loose (and that's ok, that's what psychiatrists are for) who wouldn't dare 'eat the forbidden fruit' so to speak.

Before this guy gets thrown in jail, I want to see some goddamn proof of his misdeeds. Not just a pile of cartoony pictures. If he has, well, may god save his soul, I can't hope for him at that point.

guh.. govt picking on a perverted nerd is just pathetic..

I really thought we were better than this in this country, but it's a big country and I guess not everyone's matured enough to understand the difference between a drawing and a criminal act :T

though really, this is one of those issues where if you compare us to many other industrialized democracies, japan's the only one who seems to be lax on the issue (hell, in many asian countries which you would think are otherwise tolerable, ANY form of pornography will get you tossed in jail!)

*the only other one, not counting the precedents the courts in our country have set regarding obscenity

Well of course, when it gets to 'that' point, any shitty country that invades privacy and snoops through mail will always bring it to the presses and it'll always be a big deal. Blah.

Why do they even have anything to prosecute him with? I mean, did he show off his manga's or something or did they just swoop in and claim OH CP

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I hope you win, Handy! I don't want to be prosecuted. :|

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I love how the entire population of New York can be stripped searched without a warrant. Awesome :3~

junk rhetoric that's really only useful in a legal case. Not that it's useless on its own, but it's useless for making anything other than a legal argument against unconstitutional search and seizure

that being said, I'm somewhat saddened that they're using this legal definition of "border" to set up road blocks in (assuming) southern california, which has a huge 'coyote' problem.

I Agree with everything said in this TOpic! Including how awsome it is that New yorkers can be strip searched!

I say we fight this bull shit if at all possible if we dont protect our own damn rights nobody else will.

this is so messed up. if the courts wins this then what should happy. would any cartoon where kids in it be taken off the air cause "its violent for them" are they going to ban gundam becasue a fue kids get blown up? lol this is messed.