Court ruling requires dropping obscenity charges

[ClydeR]

In another illustration of what a liberal supreme court has caused, police in Virginia Beach had to drop obscenity charges against the manager of an Abercrombie & Fitch store. Police told the manager he had to remove obscene photos depicting a nude girl and several nude boys, but the store manager refused. After the refusal, police charged the store manager with obscenity, but were forced to drop the charges when they were informed that a liberal supreme court in the past had invented a rule saying that anything goes unless it "appealed to prurient interests, were patently offensive to the prevailing standards of the adult community and had no serious artistic value." Based on how that rule, which needless to say is not mentioned anywhere in the constitution, has been interpreted, prosecutors felt that they had no choice but to allow the obscenity to remain on public display where it would be visible to everyone including young children.

I am posting the URL for the article. Be warned that it contains one of the photographs. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/beach-plans-drop-charges-against-abercrombie-store

That is one reason why this election is so important. Although I do not know how President Bush's two Supreme Court appointments would feel about this case in particular, I do know that with just a couple of more appoints like those made by President Bush, we will be able to reverse at least some of the extra-constitutional decisions made by previous liberal members of the supreme court. I can only hope and pray that it starts with reversing the ruling that allows the murder of unborn children.

[TheEschaton]

LOL, the difference being that most of the people in this country don't find that picture obscene. NUDE? THey're wearing lowrider jeans.

-TheE-

[TheWitch]

You're joking, right?

Oh, wait, guess not.

You know, if you people would choose things that would actually offend someone besides an uptight puritan tightass, you might be taken more seriously and things might actually get accomplished on your freakish agenda. But if this is the best you can come up with....sheesh.

[TheWitch]

Oh, and just btw.

The "purient interst, etc" standard of obscenity has been around for a very long time. Nice try blaming the current bunch of Bush appointed jackasses, though.

FAIL.

[FinisWolf]

I've seen way worse then that walking/driving around town, on campus, hell at my kids middle and high schools.

Finis

[CrystalTears]

That's obscene? Apparently they don't see how kids dress to hang out at the mall these days.

[TheEschaton]

No, he's saying the liberal courts of the 60s were the ones who put the standard in place. Which they did.

However, no one on the conservative Burger and Rehnquist courts thought it in the First Amendment's interest to strike it down in the 40 years since the Warren Court ceased to be.

I wonder how long it will take it terms of conservative-jurisprudence-which-still-doesn't-strike-down-so-called-"liberal"-activism for conservatives to realize that the Warren Court validly interpreted the Constitution, and Rehnquist and Burger didn't outright disagree with them?

[Arkans]

You've got to be kidding me right? It's people with your mentality that has this country so damn uptight. Go watch PBS or something.

- Arkans

[Latrinsorm]

I hope I'm not the only one who sees the irony here.

[Gan]

I was hoping the link had the picture of the chick instead of the guys walking in the field.

All you see is the guy photo that was banned.

:wtf:

I call discrimination!

[Gan]

In another illustration of what a liberal supreme court has caused, police in Virginia Beach had to drop obscenity charges against the manager of an Abercrombie & Fitch store. Police told the manager he had to remove obscene photos depicting a nude girl and several nude boys, but the store manager refused. After the refusal, police charged the store manager with obscenity, but were forced to drop the charges when they were informed that a liberal supreme court in the past had invented a rule saying that anything goes unless it "appealed to prurient interests, were patently offensive to the prevailing standards of the adult community and had no serious artistic value." Based on how that rule, which needless to say is not mentioned anywhere in the constitution, has been interpreted, prosecutors felt that they had no choice but to allow the obscenity to remain on public display where it would be visible to everyone including young children.

I am posting the URL for the article. Be warned that it contains one of the photographs. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/beach-plans-drop-charges-against-abercrombie-store

That is one reason why this election is so important. Although I do not know how President Bush's two Supreme Court appointments would feel about this case in particular, I do know that with just a couple of more appoints like those made by President Bush, we will be able to reverse at least some of the extra-constitutional decisions made by previous liberal members of the supreme court. I can only hope and pray that it starts with reversing the ruling that allows the murder of unborn children.

Maybe if everyone dressed in Burkhas you would be happier. You dont have to worry about 'nudity' or exposure there.

Wow, the parallel to the religious right's views here is strikingly similar to that of actual practice in Iran right now.

:spaz:

[TheEschaton]

Well, some of the comments are about homophobia - how no one complains about the Vic Secret's ads which hang in the same mall, but the guy showing some ass crack.

[Tsa`ah]

Well, some of the comments are about homophobia - how no one complains about the Vic Secret's ads which hang in the same mall, but the guy showing some ass crack.

Chances are that someone(s) looking at those ads (guys in low riders) popped wood. It couldn't be that he(they) was attracted and aroused by the images ... it's not like they were gay or something ... it was the work of Satan.

So they're really just trying to protect us from Satan. It's for our own good.

[Some Rogue]

Wow, the parallel to the religious right's views here is strikingly similar to that of actual practice in Iran right now.




Assuming you take this guy seriously. He's obviously a parody.

But nice that you lump all the "religious right" in with this guy...that's probably exactly what he wants.

[Bobmuhthol]

Virginia Beach's obscenity law, especially fining people for swearing, is the funniest thing ever. IIRC they banned bikinis there too, so there's some sort of coverage requirement.

[BigWorm]

Welcome back, ClydeR. We love you

[Gan]

Assuming you take this guy seriously. He's obviously a parody.

But nice that you lump all the "religious right" in with this guy...that's probably exactly what he wants.

Yea, I'm guilty of a blanket statement. :(

Perhaps I should have said FAR religious right. EXTREME religious right. WACKO religious right.

And yea, he stinks of being a parody - but its still entertaining. ;)
Its like Backlash without the side effects of smoking pot (fanatical/fantastical paranoia and insufferable childish immaturity).

[Hulkein]

Clyder has to be a fake person.

[Nieninque]

Yup.

[Skeeter]

Is backlash a fake person?

[Clove]

Is backlash a fake person?

Backlash is one or the other, I can't decide which.

[Clove]

I've always been a bit befuddled with the oft encountered belief (in the US) that merely viewing a naked human is somehow horribly traumatizing to a child. Images depicting sexual interaction okay, but simple nudity? I just don't get it.

[Kefka]

In another illustration of what a liberal supreme court has caused, police in Virginia Beach had to drop obscenity charges against the manager of an Abercrombie & Fitch store. Police told the manager he had to remove obscene photos depicting a nude girl and several nude boys, but the store manager refused. After the refusal, police charged the store manager with obscenity, but were forced to drop the charges when they were informed that a liberal supreme court in the past had invented a rule saying that anything goes unless it "appealed to prurient interests, were patently offensive to the prevailing standards of the adult community and had no serious artistic value." Based on how that rule, which needless to say is not mentioned anywhere in the constitution, has been interpreted, prosecutors felt that they had no choice but to allow the obscenity to remain on public display where it would be visible to everyone including young children.

I am posting the URL for the article. Be warned that it contains one of the photographs. http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/beach-plans-drop-charges-against-abercrombie-store

That is one reason why this election is so important. Although I do not know how President Bush's two Supreme Court appointments would feel about this case in particular, I do know that with just a couple of more appoints like those made by President Bush, we will be able to reverse at least some of the extra-constitutional decisions made by previous liberal members of the supreme court. I can only hope and pray that it starts with reversing the ruling that allows the murder of unborn children.


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[ClydeR]

Welcome back, ClydeR. We love you

I am fond of you too! I even edited my account options not to display avatars just so I could read your posts.

[ClydeR]

Wow, the parallel to the religious right's views here is strikingly similar to that of actual practice in Iran right now.

In Iran they would execute someone for such an offense, just as they frequently execute people for being homosexual. That is not what evangelicals want in this country. You have highlighted one of many reasons why Iran is so dangerous to our continued way of life.

[BigWorm]

Hillary and Obama: We approve this message

You can't buy better advertising than this right here.

Unfortunately, Clinton tends to pander to the "But Think of the Children!" jackoffs way too much. She's said many times that video games depicting violence lead to violent behavior.

[Clove]

In Iran they would execute someone for such an offense, just as they frequently execute people for being homosexual. That is not what evangelicals want in this country. You have highlighted one of many reasons why Iran is so dangerous to our continued way of life.

"What are you bitching about... we didn't KILL you."

[Eoghain]

I would be hanged in Virginia Beach :)

[Warriorbird]

You can do all sorts of things in Virginia Beach... most of them sordid.

[Snapp]

Assuming you take this guy seriously. He's obviously a parody.

But nice that you lump all the "religious right" in with this guy...that's probably exactly what he wants.

I really have no idea either way, but Clydie-boy sure is entertaining.

Posted by TheE
Well, some of the comments are about homophobia - how no one complains about the Vic Secret's ads which hang in the same mall, but the guy showing some ass crack.
That was my thought too. Last time I went into Abercrombie I thought I was in a gay club. I'm sure the rednecks don't like that at all.

[Sean of the Thread]

I really have no idea either way, but Clydie-boy sure is entertaining.

That was my thought too. Last time I went into Abercrombie I thought I was in a gay club. I'm sure the rednecks don't like that at all.

I'm fairly certain rednecks do not shop at AF.


They wear like dickies and ecko.

[Clove]

I was at work so I didn't originally see the pictures, now that I have- wow, we saw far more revealing (and erotic) photos in my High School photography classes. Far more nudity is on display at the National Gallery of Art. Absolutely stupid of the town to even bother.

[Sean of the Thread]

I saw so much pussy in high school that I almost feel like a pedophile thinking about it right now.

[diethx]

I'm fairly certain rednecks do not shop at AF.


They wear like dickies and ecko.

You mean Wrangler and wife beaters.

[FinisWolf]

I thought I was in a gay club.

Someone should sig that. :)

Finis

[diethx]

Someone should sig that. :)

Finis

Why? Isn't Snapp gay? If so, what's special about him knowing what a gay club is like?

[Seran]

Dear lord, there is nothing obscene about the picture, nor anything else that's put up in that store. Considering that most of the 'people' displayed in those pictures are the epitome of health, doesn't it go to say that healthy bodies can help sell clothing targetted at young, fit people?

I'd personally fight their taking down those pics, half my thrill of going to the mall is seeing cracks like the one in that pic.

[Gan]

You mean Wrangler and wife beaters.

haha - someone knows their 'country'.

[Arkans]

I saw so much pussy in high school that I almost feel like a pedophile thinking about it right now.

Well, that's what you get when you spend your afternoons skulking behind the bushes at your local school instead of going to work.

- Arkans

[Clove]

Well, that's what you get when you spend your afternoons skulking behind the bushes at your local school instead of going to work.

- Arkans

And here I thought Sean2's school must have been next to a veterinary hospital.

[Stanley Burrell]

They wear like dickies and ecko.

Uh, yeah, sources plz before I burn half of my entire wardrobe.

[diethx]

haha - someone knows their 'country'.

I have been living in Georgia for almost 4 years, after all. :/

[Latrinsorm]

I hope I'm not the only one who sees the irony here.:(

[Stanley Burrell]

Why? Isn't Snapp gay? If so, what's special about him knowing what a gay club is like?

It's like the Matrix.

No one can be told what it is, they have to experience it for themselves.

I'm not speaking from firsthand experience but I accidentally went to "Bar" in New Haven on gay-day. It's this place.

[diethx]

It's like the Matrix.

No one can be told what it is, they have to experience it for themselves.

I'm not speaking from firsthand experience but I accidentally went to "Bar" in New Haven on gay-day. It's this place.

I've never been to a gay club, but i'd imagine it's a lot like being at Purchase.

[TheEschaton]

Been to a gay club -0awesome. Nice.

[Stanley Burrell]

I've never been to a gay club, but i'd imagine it's a lot like being at Purchase.

Purchase transcends any and all alternative lifestyle choices. My roommate was an actual Fengari lipstick lesbian with three booty-cheeks.

Bar is this awesome brewery in New Haven pretty close to Yale/New Haven. They have one day where everything is Purchase-y. The good part is you get to see waitresses tonguing each other. And the bad part is that is very quickly dissolved.

[diethx]

Purchase transcends any and all alternative lifestyle choices. My roommate was an actual Fengari lipstick lesbian with three booty-cheeks.

Bar is this awesome brewery in New Haven pretty close to Yale/New Haven. They have one day where everything is Purchase-y. The good part is you get to see waitresses tonguing each other. And the bad part is that is very quickly dissolved.

My memories of your roommate are a little hazy, but i'm pretty sure Ishmael was not a lipstick lesbian.

[Stanley Burrell]

My memories of your roommate are a little hazy, but i'm pretty sure Ishmael was not a lipstick lesbian.

Roomate second year. Not him. I'll PM you to give you a laugh if you know who it is I speak of!

Edit: Ish was the fucking man.