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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jun. 9, 2007

U.S. Obscenity Prosecutions Smack of Persecutions

Forum Column - Penn State's Clay Calvert and Robert Richards reveal how the Justice Department is using venues around the country to try California pornographers for obscenity.

FORUM COLUMN

By Clay Calvert and Robert D. Richards

      At a time when most of the country is occupied by matters like the foiled terrorist plot against John F. Kennedy International Airport, the ever-increasing deaths of American soldiers in Iraq, the realities of global warming and the rising price of gasoline, the U.S. Department of Justice has chosen to spend time, effort and taxpayer money prosecuting an Altadena man n...

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