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Originally Posted by Zyr
Does the length of the sentence matter? The fact is, while the other things he had done contributed to the sentence, he was still convicted of possesing those cartoons, even if that was only a small part of it. It is still illegal to have them, and that law is still wrong.
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Criminal convictions carry lots of restriction baggage. Voting, gun ownership, drinking, interaction with other convicted felons, etc. Depends on the crime but many things we might usually think of as "rights" may be limited once someone is convicted of a serious crime. Is it really surprising a convicted child molester is restricted from child pornography?
I'm reminded of the South Park NAMBLA episode. "All he wanted to do was love a boy! There's nothing wrong with love!"
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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