Karen Fletcher, 54, of Donora, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 6 counts of obscenity based solely on the content of her fictional writings that she made available for sale on her website. If that’s not fucked up I don’t know what is!

From Free Speech X-Press

CHILD TORTURE FICTION WEB OPERATOR INDICTED
PITTSBURGH, PA — A federal grand jury has handed down a six-count obscenity indictment against Karen Fletcher, 54, of Donora, Pennsylvania, based only on fictional, fantasy, text materials, which Fletcher wrote and offered for sale on her Red Rose Stories website. The fantasy themes specified in the indictment featured the kidnapping, molestation, torture and murder of very young children. These are not themes likely to create sympathy in jurors. This indictment, along with the recent obscenity charges against fetish film producer Danilo Simoes Croce, of Sao Paulo, Brazil (see X-Press report, “Brazilian Fetish Producer Busted,” 9/15/06) is in line with the apparent Justice Department strategy of prosecuting extreme forms of sexually explicit materials; except in this case, by choosing to go after text-only materials, the government has ventured down an even more slippery slope than in its vendetta against photo and film materials. Erotic photo imagery, while a form of expression subject to First Amendment protections, does involve behaviors and actions of models and actors, whereas written fiction, however extreme, however repulsive, is pure fantasy, pure thought. This effort by law enforcement to penalize the sharing and distribution of fantasy comes very close to thought control. The grand jury indictment, rather than the fact that some people share child torture fantasies, may be the scariest part of this story.
“I find it very troubling that a fictional account, somebody’s fantasy, could be considered a crime when there is no indication that anybody has been exploited,” said Joan Bertin, executive director of the New York-based National Coalition Against Censorship.

While this author in no way condones actual behavior as described in Ms Fletcher’s fiction, I find it disturbing that the authorities now are on a path to censor thoughts. What’s next? Censorship of any expression that doesn’t fit the government’s agenda? Did anyone say 1984?

It looks like the right wing theocratic fascists have a new target in their ongoing agenda to thump out indecency. Dirty movies in hotels. Just because it’s viewed in private by consenting adults doesn’t mean it’s not harmful, both to you the male viewer who has been “lured” to watch the filth, and to society at large.

CCV (Citizens for Community Values) President Phil Burress says:

“This is not mere nudity.  We’re talking about every conceivable form of degrading, distorted sex.  We’re talking about the types of material, which are addictive in nature, which men are lured into viewing in the privacy of their hotel rooms, and which have been responsible for sexual crimes and for the breakdown of countless marriages, families and careers.”

Boy am I glad I have a bunch of sexually repressed religious nutnicks to look after me when I don’t know what’s best for me myself. I wonder if anyone has tallied up how much misery religious fanaticism has caused up through history?

Be careful if you use sex toys such as dildos, you could be committing a crime and the next thing you know the sheriff will be knocking on your door, cuffs in hand.

MONROE, LA — Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Deputies have arrested 70-year-old Alvena Johnson, owner of the Fun Depot in Monroe, an adult novelty store, on two felony counts of the promotion of obscene devices. Also arrested on four counts under the same law were Bobby and Lori Tremaine, owners of the Red Door stores in West Monroe and in the Swartz area of Quachita Parish. KNOE Channel 8 News teams were alerted in advance so they could be on hand to video Johnson and the Tremaines being escorted away in handcuffs.

I guess there’s an election coming up in Monroe, LA.

Not my words, but those of Merril Keiser, jr., an Ohio trucker and US Senator wannabe. This dipshit truck driver is running for office on a political platform that advocates the death penalty for being gay. “Just like we have laws against murder, we have laws against stealing, we have laws against taking drugs — we should have laws against immoral conduct,” says the lowlife Democrat (!) from Freemont, Ohio.

I say this country is in some serious fucking trouble. Just when I thought my contempt for certain elements of the human race couldn’t get any stronger, along comes a piece of shit like holier-than-thou Merril truck driver and proves that there are absolutely no limits to bigotry and hatred. Forget about gay marriage, this fucker wants to EXTERMINATE gays. He makes George Bush look like a choir boy!

And why stop with the faggots? Lets kill the niggers, the jews, the spicks and everybody that looks like they might be from south of the border while we’re at it, not to mention anybody who doesn’t believe in the One True CHRISTIAN God! Purify America once and for all!

Hey Merril, did you ever spy on your sister while she was getting dressed? Did you ever MASTURBATE (it’s a sin, you know)? Ever covet your neighbor’s wife or have an impure thought of any kind? You fucking make me sick!

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