Britain outlaws porn users
Published: 30 April, 2009, 09:23
A law is to be introduced in Britain criminalizing users of what has become known as extreme pornography. Some regard it as a controversial piece of legislation and yet another example of an over-intrusive government.
Because this is such a badly thought out law, we now have a situation in England and Wales, where an individual can be locked up, for up to three years for looking, in private, at images of consenting adults, taking part in perfectly legal activities. They have created a victimless crime, at no point has the U.K. government been able to show any harm, of any kind from viewing this material. In the U.K. you can now be locked up for having "bad taste" and nothing else.
The "mother who was forced to bury her daughter" and the puritans in the English Government appear to have never considered the plight of the mothers of victims of Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" and Steven Wright the "Suffolk Strangler" both of whom killed women because they believed they were "doing God's work" in murdering prostitutes according to their reading of the Bible. That's one alleged victim of so-called "extreme pornography" and eighteen demonstrated victims of the Bible. Why, then, has there been no campaign to outlaw the Bible? Answer: because these people simply have an anti-pornography agenda and they'll use any excuse, milk any tragedy and exploit a grief-stricken mother to get their way. Meanwhile the fundamental liberties of the English People are whittled away a little more...
The problem with this poorly thought out legislation is that it applies the same to fake and consensual behavior as to the real stuff. It was a pathetic attempt by a failing and doomed goverment to try and drum up a bit of support from the ignorant masses. It failed. To a lot of people it was just one more reason to kick them out in the next election.