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Originally posted by spunky1
You sure have a lot of class.I can't believe people actually join your program you fucking goof.My son was killed when he was run over ..he was 4 ...care to make a comment about that also?
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sounds like you got some bad luck
On November 27, 2002 Don Smith of Fort Frances, Ontario was found guilty on four counts of obscenity related to the website whose entrance page I had formerly reproduced here. (The site had two levels of warnings before one came to the Special Effects "snuff" videos.)
On November 28 he was sentenced to three years of probation, a fine of $100,000, the surrender of copyright of the material on his website to the government of Ontario and a banishment from the internet for three years. He is also forbidden to create any material which could possibly be used to construct of an internet site.
Previous fines for obscenity offences were one thousand dollars per count. Smith's fine is 25 times this.
On December 5, I was contacted by Smith's lawyer who asked me to remove the material because the Ontario Crown was threatenening to pull Don's conditional sentence -- which would mean he would go to jail. I have complied. Coincidentally the feds also introduced legislation today which is supposed to protect children from pornographers. There are far fewer children threatened by pornographers than are threatened by poverty. The situation of hungry, neglected children in Canada is the real obscenity.
Judge H. Pierce instructed the jury to give no more weight to the two experts Smith hired for his defence than they would to any other person. Dr. Barry Grant from Brock University testified that Smith's special effects' site was artistic and innovative; Dr. David Annandale from the University of Manitoba testified that stories contributed to the site and published by Smith did not violate the standards set for recognized literary material in the horror genre. Her instructions make a mockery of the practice of calling experts.