Flutterby™! : Wasserman sentenced

First they came for the hardcore pornographers, and I did not speak up because I was not a hardcore pornographer: Sanford Wasserman sentenced to five years in prison for distributing "obscene materials". Wasserman, a Florida resident, was convicted in Montana because that was where U.S. Attorney Bill Mercer was able to find a jury of people who were both turned on by video tapes which "...depicted violent "gang rapes" of women, sexual intercourse between humans and animals, and other sexual activity which involved urination, defecation and sadistic and masochistic conduct.", and were ashamed of that reaction.

I feel it necessary to point out that I wasn't likely to be a customer of Wasserman's productions, but I think it should also be noted that nowhere in this press release is there mention of kidnapping, extortion, or anything else that would indicate that the films were made by people acting under duress. And in this time we had people like Mel Gibson putting two hours of S&M leather fetish in mainstream theaters, with nobody threatening to stick him in jail.

Hopefully we can educate the rest of the country on the value of The United States Constitution while The U.S. Attorneys (and, recent events would suggest, the President) run roughshod over it.