Decius wrote:
k wrote:
I thought obscenity laws were left to the states?
There are state and federal obscenity laws. Thats why the FBI is cracking down on obsenity and not the GBI.
The riots, yes, but that arguably has a basis in the constitution because large scale disturbances often result in dead innocents, which tends to go against the "life, liberty and pursuit" thing.
The text "life, liberty and pursuit" doesn't appear in the Constitution. Thats from the Declaration of Independence. Technically this sort of thing falls into the "speech becomes action" category, like you can still get arrested for trafficing in stolen credit cards even though the activity is technically "speech." IMHO, properly applied, anything that "distrubs the public order" falls into this category. They might just be trying to explicitly state that instead of having to reach it through interpretation, but they might also be expanding it...
Good points. I'm dumb. What I get for lack of sleep...
I don't get federal obscenity law, personally. Maybe I thought they didn't exist because I don't see the point. Just seems like something that should get decided at a much finer grained level. Stupid FBI wasting time.
