[107299] in Cypherpunks
Re: Federal Judge Nukes Web Site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burnes - Denver)
Sat Jan 9 11:05:22 1999
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 08:51:15 -0700 (MST)
From: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <v03130305b2bc831db037@[209.133.50.59]>
Reply-To: Jim Burnes - Denver <jim.burnes@ssds.com>
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Tim May wrote:
> At 7:25 PM -0800 1/8/99, Eric Cordian wrote:
> >Here's an interesting case of free speech being stomped on. The
> >Internet Entertainment Group(IEG) set up a web site with information
> >on the Pope's Jan 26-27 visit to St. Louis, and stuck an adult ad at
> >the bottom of each web page.
> >
> >The site points out that the adult content may be inappropriate for
> >children, and that it has no affiliation with the Catholic Church.
> >
> >A judge, acting on a complaint from the Archdiocese of St. Louis,
> >apparently feels he has the power to order the site dismantled
> >immediately.
> >
> >The Pope is a public figure, and certainly not a licensed and
> >trademarked cartoon character owned by the Catholic Church or the
> >Archdiocese of St. Louis, whose commercial use is somehow regulated.
>
> Seems to me to be a slam dunk case of the government siding with some
> particular religious cult.
Yes, and it would be interesting to know what the religious
affiliation of the judge was. Various Catholic cults, such as
Opus Dei are replete with lawyers (and presumably judges) much
as with the church of Scientology. Some of them in high places.
I know of Opus Dei's status first hand, having seen it work its
magic on young teenage boys -- getting the cream of the academic
crop and brainwashing them.
ObCrypto: Louis Freeh is a bigwig in Opus Dei.
Scary.
Jim
