Severina
04-29-2008, 12:18 PM
'A bill outlawing the possession of "extreme pornography" is set to become law next week. But many fear it has been rushed through and will criminalise innocent people with a harmless taste for unconventional sex.
'Five years ago Jane Longhurst, a teacher from Brighton, was murdered. It later emerged her killer had been compulsively accessing fantasy websites such as Club Dead and Rape Action, which contained images of women being abused and violated.
When Graham Coutts was jailed for life Jane Longhurst's mother, Liz, began a campaign to ban the possession of such images.
Supported by her local MP, Martin Salter, she found a listening ear in then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, who agreed to introduce legislation to ban the possession of "violent and extreme pornography".
This was eventually included in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, which gets its final reading this week and will get Royal Assent on 8 May.'
As defined by the new Criminal Justice Bill
An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person's life
An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals
An act which involves or appears to involve sexual interference with a human corpse
This legislation is now aimed at the viewer and their home pc's. lt is so ambiguous it actually even covers such things as spanking. Mainstream films will also fall into this category i.e. Basic Instinct, The Accused, Straw Dogs, Clockwork Orange and so on.
As is becoming more and more the norm, the minority are ruling the majority.
Despite popular assumptions that watching violent images 'causes' aggression, the evidence (around 1000 published studies) that it does is contradictory and far from conclusive.
One bizarre fact pertaining to this story ... David Blunkett, the then Home Secretary (very powerful position in UK Government), has been blind from birth!
'Five years ago Jane Longhurst, a teacher from Brighton, was murdered. It later emerged her killer had been compulsively accessing fantasy websites such as Club Dead and Rape Action, which contained images of women being abused and violated.
When Graham Coutts was jailed for life Jane Longhurst's mother, Liz, began a campaign to ban the possession of such images.
Supported by her local MP, Martin Salter, she found a listening ear in then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, who agreed to introduce legislation to ban the possession of "violent and extreme pornography".
This was eventually included in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, which gets its final reading this week and will get Royal Assent on 8 May.'
As defined by the new Criminal Justice Bill
An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person's life
An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals
An act which involves or appears to involve sexual interference with a human corpse
This legislation is now aimed at the viewer and their home pc's. lt is so ambiguous it actually even covers such things as spanking. Mainstream films will also fall into this category i.e. Basic Instinct, The Accused, Straw Dogs, Clockwork Orange and so on.
As is becoming more and more the norm, the minority are ruling the majority.
Despite popular assumptions that watching violent images 'causes' aggression, the evidence (around 1000 published studies) that it does is contradictory and far from conclusive.
One bizarre fact pertaining to this story ... David Blunkett, the then Home Secretary (very powerful position in UK Government), has been blind from birth!