5 year sentence for obscenity passed down

[sarettah]

in Montana. Says it's the longest sentence ever handed down in an obscenity prosecution :blink:

http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=6975


Montana Hands Down Longest-ever Sentence in Obsenity Case

(AXcess News) Billings MT - U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull handed down the longest-ever sentence in an obsenity case Friday, sentencing Sanford Wasserman, 65, of Lauderhill, Florida to five years in a federal prison without the possibility of parole.

Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, said Wasserman was convicted of conspiring to distribute obscene materials as part of his guilty plea.

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The videotapes depicted violent "gang rapes" of women, sexual intercourse between humans and animals, and other sexual activity which involved urination, defecation and sadistic and masochistic conduct.

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Mercer stated that this is the longest sentence ever imposed in and obscenity case. Co-defendant Thomas W. Lambert received a 30-month sentence earlier this year for the same crime. Gary Robinson of Billings received a twelve-month sentence for the distribution of obscenity in 2004.

[TheEnforcer]

No big shocker he lost with gang rape, beastiality, and scat as a part of his content.

[JR]

No big shocker he lost with gang rape, beastiality, and scat as a part of his content.

it was his second offense for the same thing as well.

[RyanLanane]

it was his second offense for the same thing as well.

I know it is STILL a violation of our rights as Americans (as has been pointed out to me over and over in multiple threads lol) but this type of a sentence does NOT bother me. Now if it was simple Bondage & Water Sports - That's where I start to worry.

To make it clear; I don't like either one. I am just saying those are the 2 things that are in that gray area to me... personally.

What amazes me is either the lack of CP convictions - or the lack of the media coverage of the convictions. It's sad but CP is becoming (to main stream eyes) less severe then the before mentioned acts (sometimes).

Most likely it's because "No Big Deal A Kiddy Pornographer Got Busted" and we don't see al thsoe articles all over the place whereas stuff in shady areas like this we do.... but still...

[JR]

I know it is STILL a violation of our rights as Americans (as has been pointed out to me over and over in multiple threads lol) but this type of a sentence does NOT bother me. Now if it was simple Bondage & Water Sports - That's where I start to worry.


explain how his second arrest and conviction for obscenity was a violation of his "rights" as an american citizen. the costitution does not give anyone the freedom to break state and federal law just because they think certain laws are unnaceptable or because they dissagree with them.