On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 06:26:06 -0800, barb <bwarr1@home.com> wrote: >circe wrote:
>> "Rev. Fredric L. Rice" <FRice@SkepticTank.ORG> wrote in message
>> news:tukabsaqhpj32@corp.supernews.com...
>> > rawley@hotmail.com (Rawley) wrote:
>> > >FRice@SkepticTank.ORG (Rev. Fredric L. Rice) wrote in
>> > >news:tuhd8qjvl25c38@corp.supernews.com:
>> > >> I recived a request for information on statistics covering pedophile
>> > >> priests
>> > >You keep this information laying around? :)
>> > Yep! }:-} I've accumulated over 300,000 text files and among them
>> > have beeen studies on such things. I have a Penile Turgidity testing
>> Penile Turgidity testing? What exactly is involved in such a test?
>They put a dingus on your willie that measures expansion. Then they show
>you pictures of kitties, rocks, volcanos, children, goats, and find your
>ruin.
>It's a P-Meter...hehe
The previous free speech matter I was involved with was the AABBS case. From: http://www.nyu.edu/classes/nsg/pbuk1sb.html AABBS was not unique. One 1994 study found 68 commercial "adult" BBSs located in 32 states, with a repertory of "450,620 pornographic images, animations, and text files which had been downloaded by consumers 6,432,297 times." But the Thomases' mom-and-pop operation was unusually prosperous and high-profile. Too high-profile, it turned out. The troubles originated, not in the freewheeling Bay Area where the Thomases were operating, but in the Bible Belt, when "Lance White" of Memphis joined AABBS (his revealing choice of a password: SCOURGE). "White" turned out to be postal inspector David Dirmeyer, who downloaded some of the raunchiest images and swore out a complaint. Had the Thomases been alert, they would have thought twice before signing up customers in Memphis, a mid-South city with a reputation for conservatism and antiporn activism; the makers of the film Deep Throat were prosecuted there in 1976. Many companies that sell hard-core magazines and videos refuse to ship to certain states and zip codes; AABBS would have been wise to take the same approach. In early 1994, the Thomases were indicted. After a federal trial in Memphis, the jury convicted them of distributing obscene materials via interstate commerce. (They were acquitted of child-porn counts arising out of three magazines that the postal inspector had mailed them, evidently because the jury considered the unsolicited mailing to be entrapment.) Robert Thomas was sentenced to 37 months; Carleen to 30 months. [End quote] I was there reporting on the trial. Since I might have been used as a witness I was outside the court most of the time. From the people inside the court I got a remarkable related report on this Dirmeyer dude. The jury had to see every one of the tapes the government was claiming to be porn. This was in my opinion a clear case of jury abuse. One of the tapes was a scat flick from Germany (of women shitting on the floor). According those inside (and as I reported at the time) the postal inspector sported a huge boner during this part of the trial. Keith Henson