Record keeping. Score keeping.
Wont stop people from bitching I know. Already there is nervous panic that ‘it might go to the supreme court and with the makeup of the court these days it could get overturned’. Some folks just cant give up their comitement to the idea that we live in an opresive police state.
Its a bullshit arguement. Todays ruling from the 6th circut matches the ruling of the Sundance associats case from the 20th circut. With two difrent juristictions both saying that 2257 is unconstitutional the supreme court is likely to not even hear any appeal. Historicaly they tend to hear cases where two ruling from difrent circut courts disagree.
Andeven if they for some bizare reason they did hear the case, its not like its a ‘packed court’ the way folks hype it to be. Under the Bush dictatorship 2 judges went off the supre ecourt and 2 got put on. Outgoing was a modetate and a consertive. Incomeing was a moderate and a consertive. ….. Ack! Run for the hills everyone!
The overturning of 2257 is unlikely to have any impact on the retoric people spew out. Folks are going to go right on whining and bitching abotu 2257 anyway as if it still was in efect. The North American Man/Boy Love Association efectivly dosent exist any longer. Even at its peek the orgizination was barely a few hundred people. Today the only part of the orgizination that exists at all is a maildrop. Yet I heard a bit on a consertive radio show just this past week that was ranting abotu the powerful lobbing force of this orgizination.
I am confident in claiming that people wont change their opinions on 2257 even though 2257 itself has changed. I can say that just by looking at other changes. Lets review.
Communications Decency Act: Attempted to regulate porn on the internet. Pased into law on June 14, 1995 under the clinton adminstration.
Child Online Protection Act: Attempted to regulate access to porn on the internet. Passed into law on October 21, 1998 under the clinton adminstration.
Children’s Internet Protection Act: Regulated porn access in schools and libaries. Passed into law on December 21, 2000 under the clinton adminstration.
Connection Distributing vs. Janet Reno: The case that was ruled on today that struck down 2257. It started in 1995 under the (you guessed it) clinton adminstration.
Yet each of these gets blamed on the Bush adminstration and their purticinal views of sex.
What abotu the Barbara Nitke case? A lawsuit was filed againt the government (Nitke atacked the government, the government didnt atack Nitke) in regard to the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The argument made was that even though the government wasent cracking down on Nitke, that the government COULD crack down. A push was made to bring it to the supre court. The court asked why she thought she was at risk. Nitkey said “Bush is hitler!”. Court asked if there was any more compeling reason why she thought she was at risk. Since Nitke couldent provide any legal evedence that she was genuinily at risk, the case was droped. Next days spin was “dear god! The supreme court didnt help us. This meens we are all at risk”
Heck, I have even seen people claiming that the Jane Longhurst case is all the fault of the purticinal minded religious zealots in the white house. Totaly ignoreing the fact that the Jane Longhurst case is in the United Kingdom.
Today may be the end of 2257 in the courts. But it wont be the end of 2257 in the minds of political activists.