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Post by aubrey on Jan 6, 2010 11:47:33 GMT
Story HereComment HereIf you don't want to look or can't look for some reason, a man who was prosecuted for possessing film of a woman supposedly having sex with a tiger was cleared after the film was played in court with the sound on and shown to be a fake, and meant as a joke. Either the Police and prosecution didn't know it was fake, in which case they are incompetent, or else they did know and the prosecution was malicious. As the comment piece says, we were promised when the law was being debated that it would not be used for trivial cases, and also that the police would not trawl through the computer of someone they'd picked up for something else in order to get a prosecution; as it is, all the prosecutions under the law that I've seen reported have been of this type. The new law making it illegal to possess Cartoons depicting illegal sex acts will be very different. After all, Cartoon children are people too.
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Post by Jade on Jan 6, 2010 12:15:25 GMT
I really cannot see what was at issue here - animal abuse maybe? Wer ethey acting for the tiger?
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Post by aubrey on Jan 6, 2010 12:16:15 GMT
Actually, they learned that it was fake before going to court; I suppose they had to go to court to clear him. But the decision to prosecute at all was a bad one.
Still, his case is being reported along side stories of child porn (see the linked stories sidebar thing on the Telegraph page), when it is nothing of the sort.
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Post by Jade on Jan 6, 2010 12:18:48 GMT
You are correct. Nothing of the sort.
and if tigers go around showing themsleves off in that skin tight fur outfit they get what they deserve.
harrummph
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Post by jean on Jan 6, 2010 13:24:07 GMT
Where's the video, aubs?
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Post by pippa on Jan 6, 2010 13:45:55 GMT
and funded by taxpayers.
it's soon going to be impossible not to break the law in some way or another.
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Post by sinistral on Jan 6, 2010 16:08:53 GMT
it's soon going to be impossible not to break the law in some way or another. Pippa....... I think you may have broken the law by suggesting that soon it's going to be impossible not to break the law. ;D |
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Post by admin on Jan 6, 2010 16:48:23 GMT
surely this is real Tiger Porn
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Post by lark descending on Jan 6, 2010 17:03:05 GMT
After Vanessa George was arrested I spent a long time hoping that the videos were faked. It can't be that difficult; I'm suprised pornographers don't do it.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 6, 2010 17:18:57 GMT
I haven't been able to find it, Jean. Which is strange; you'd have thought it would be up in more places now. It probably is, and I'm looking in the wrong places. |
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Post by jean on Jan 6, 2010 19:25:46 GMT
surely this is real Tiger Porn No, this is:  |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 6, 2010 21:38:50 GMT
After Vanessa George was arrested I spent a long time hoping that the videos were faked. It can't be that difficult; I'm suprised pornographers don't do it. Faked child porn is just as illegal as the real stuff, so legally there'd be no point in doing it. Drawings will soon be illegal as well - even cartoons. So when someone talks about the victims, they might mean Lisa Simpson. But it might also be Daphne or Velma out of Scooby Doo, if they can be proved to be under eighteen. I'm really looking forward to that court case. |
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Post by pippa on Jan 7, 2010 15:56:16 GMT
it's soon going to be impossible not to break the law in some way or another. Pippa....... I think you may have broken the law by suggesting that soon it's going to be impossible not to break the law. ;D lol Sin. in the future we'll all be walking around with a permanent crook in our necks (  ) from having to constantly look over our shoulders. |
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Post by aubrey on Jan 9, 2010 18:30:51 GMT
It seems that the fault was with the Police - they were told that the film had a comedy soundtrack, but presented it to the CPS without telling them.
The bit at the bottom is a bit scary:
"Perhaps the most chilling point in the Minister's summing up [...] was that when it came to policing this it was for dealing 'with individuals' who are 'causing concern'. Well, that is pretty difficult. How are they causing concern if they have committed no crime yet? They might be causing concern in all sorts of ways; they might be individuals whom the police do not much like, for a number of reasons, but then they get raided. Again, that really makes me feel worried." (Baroness Miller, 2008
The bloke is still up, for another film. If they don't get you on one fork, they'll try like hell to get you on another.
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) from having to constantly look over our shoulders.