[82623] in Cypherpunks
Re: Government at Work (prudish idiocy)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geeman@best.com)
Mon Jun 30 13:01:28 1997
From: geeman@best.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:56:33 -0700
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: geeman@best.com
At 07:29 AM 6/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>from Wired News:
>
>Oklahoma-am-Rhein: Police Seize Oscar Winner
>12:05 pm
>
>Oklahoma City police seized copies of
>The Tin Drum, the 1979 Academy Award winner
>for best foreign film, after a judge ruled the film
>obscene under Oklahoma law. On Thursday,
>police began removing the movie from video stores
>and,
using store records, tracking down those who
>possessed rented copies.
..../\ last I heard, this was illegal without a warrant. Of course, in
the pursuit of Justice and the Law I suppose the warrant was easily
obtained. OR was is obtained at all?
Oklahoma District
>Judge Richard Freeman acted on a complaint by
>Oklahomans for Children and Families, which was
>upset by a scene in which a young boy has oral
>sex with a teenage girl.
>
>
>
