Pedophilia is not illegal...
or is it?
Quote:
Man Sentenced To 20 Years for Child Porn Convictions
Richmond, Va. (AP) - A man who used a public computer at state offices to receive child pornography depicted in highly stylized cartoons will spend 20 years in prison.
Dwight Whorley, 52, was sentenced Friday.
He's the first person convicted under a 2003 federal law that criminalizes the production or distribution of drawings or cartoons showing the sexual abuse of children.
A court found Whorley guilty on November 30 of using a computer at a Virginia Employment Commission office in March 2004. Authorities say he received 20 Japanese anime cartoons that graphically depicted minors engaged in sex with adults.
Whorley's child pornography conviction was the first under the statute that was NOT based on actual photographs of children.
Whorley was convicted on 74 counts.
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Now, let me clarify my point and say that
pedophilia is not illegal but having sex with children is.
I can understand and fully support making child pornography illegal. Its creation entails abusing children, which is a horrible crime against humanity and the law. However, Whorley (oh, what an unfortunate name) had no such thing. He merely had
depictions of child pornography. These are images concocted out of nothing but one's own imagination and, obviously, involved absoluetly no children, or anyone for that matter.
This leads me to believe that the
US government really do want to make pedophilia, as I've described it, illegal, which I truly find frightening and offensive. How far must the government's reach be to satisfy them and how far are we willing to tolerate their invasion of our hearts and minds?
Okay, melodrama aside, the day you try to legislate what I may
think is the day I tell you to fuck off!