[Talk] McCain the Enforcer (fwd)

[Nick Simicich]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 12:39, Danny Rathjens wrote:
> "The U.S. Justice Department, for instance, indicted an Alabama man named Jeff Pierson last week on child pornography charges because he took modeling photographs of clothed minors with their parents' consent. The images were overly "provocative," a prosecutor claimed."
> 
> Does that mean they are going to start arresting every other hollywood film-maker
> now, too? (aside from the actual abusers like Polansky, of course)
> 
> Maybe now movies will be like Opera, where 15 year old Romeo and Juliet are played
> by people two or three times that age.

You fail to understand the rules. As I understand it, it does not matter
if the actors are old enough. If they are *playing* someone who is
underage, they and everyone involved in the process is liable.  They can
*be* underage or *look* underage.

I think that the fed has not been uniformly successful on prosecuting
pics of people that were originally taken and then morphed to look
younger when no children were involved and it was not the intention of
the actor to look young.  But if you are not rich, you can't afford to
defend yourself anyway, so you are probably gonna have to take a plea.

The answer is that prosecutors will go after smallfry who can't defend
themselves and will stay away from people (like large studios) who will
bury them in lawyers and facts and make them look stupid.

I'm gonna play Santa with some local kids and I was planning on giving
them pictures with Santa. This actually worries me - most people in LEO
are probably reasonable,  but when a prosecutor or a cop decides that
they have a grudge there is no check in place.

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