Comments on: James Madison Meets Max Hardcore: Florida Obscenity Case Could Force Review of Community Standards in Internet Age http://jonathanturley.org/2008/06/02/little-indiscretion-florida-obsenity-case-could-force-review-of-community-standards-in-internet-age/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Monty Woods http://jonathanturley.org/2008/06/02/little-indiscretion-florida-obsenity-case-could-force-review-of-community-standards-in-internet-age/#comment-216174 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:40:56 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=1988#comment-216174 The government with the prodding of religious right has run rough shod over the First Amendment. The Red Rose web site is a glaring example of censorship by YOUR government! No images were ever involved only WORDS. When word are offensive to some people but not,we are on the slippery slope from which we will NEVER return. Obscenity will morph into a form of Islam where depiction of religion becomes an offense that is punishable under the law. We cannot put people in prison, no matter what they write. Obscenity is such an undefinable thing, no law has been written or definition created to define it. How can we punish a person for something that cannot be determined under the law?

The Red Rose web site operator Karen Fletcher posted an open letter on the website before its closing in mid 2006, stating that “I am being charged with ‘OBSCENITIES’ and face a minimum term of 3 years in a federal prison. Our stories are NOT protected speech. Please, please, be careful out there. When it comes to free speech SEX STORIES are NOT covered. … They are trying to say fantasy stories are illegal.”

Sorry Karen, but your government has already said your stories are illegal. Are Political cartoons are next?

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