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Handley's Attorney Comments on Obscene Manga Case

bankai3232 wrote:

::deletes Fate Stay Night Story Images from Computer:: Really cool response from a guy who knows WTH he's talkin bout,

Deleted the yaoi guro stuff off my computer a short while ago.
Definitely agree this has to be the most informative article about the legal aspects of the Handley case.
That law about "5 year mandatory minimum sentence " for receiving "obscenity" is just .... perverse.

It was informative. Though, the heart and motive of the article is to defend Mr. Chase's defense strategy (which many of us disagreed with). Although very convincing, I am sure given the exact word count Mr. Chase could have also sold me on some swamp land in Florida.

However, Mr. Chase is right about a "chilling effect" on things like literature as I have also destroyed many expensive and legitimate art books that I owned. I simply fear that Free Speech in the US is in limbo or broken; with protection of the rights of the minority seemingly now a quaint and forgotten ideal. It is certainly now majority rule and oppression.

I would be a bit worried about the Tactics doujinshi I have in my possession, seeing as how this obscenity "law" is so subjective to interpretation.. - I probably will be slightly more cautious about what I "receive" going forward.

If you have a certain Tactics doujinshi by Sakura Kinoshita, I will be happy to buy it off of you at the risk of my own self being jailed. Some things the doujinshi collector in me just can't say no to.

Really though, even if he looks young Kantarou is at least 16 last I checked, so you should be ok.

I'm just waiting for the next case to pop up similar to Handley's and it turning out to be a girl in her late teens, early 20s. As a doujinshi collector the only other serious doujinshi collectors I come across are girls. I personally don't go out of my way for the hentai stuff, but if it's a certain circle/artist who releases it I feel an obligation to obtain it to complete my collection of that particular artist.

Circles like Patisserie and DeathGaze System stand a chance of getting me in trouble with the one hentai doujinshi done by them in a pile of otherwise "clean" doujinshi. But I just can't bring myself to get rid of the one doujinshi here or there because it'd be a hole in my collection, and dammit, they were hard to get ahold of in yahoo.jp auctions!

I'm not afraid to admit I own stuff of questionable material. I'm fully prepared to give my case on its artistic merit, and if that fails, I'll beg Neil Gaiman for help.

::deletes Fate Stay Night Story Images from Computer:: Really cool response from a guy who knows WTH he's talkin bout,

So am I safe in assuming that the response shared by this community is "Even if the manga Handley owned could be considered obscene (which in itself is entirely a matter of opinion), that is not something that warrants a jail sentence"? So everybody's problem is not with the ruling itself (the ruling that labels his manga as "obscene") but with the sentence given?

So, they're charging Handley for child pornography because the characters are underage. The characters. So, that would mean, with these stupid teen dramas they have now, like Degrassi and Secret Life of the American Teenager, even if the actual real life actors are overage, the teenage (underage) characters having sex and such would be an offense too. CN canceled nearly all anime, only leaving the repetitive kiddish ones, and now the government is suing someone for reciept of manga. It seems like every American in a suit is out to get anime.

So am I safe in assuming that the response shared by this community is "Even if the manga Handley owned could be considered obscene (which in itself is entirely a matter of opinion), that is not something that warrants a jail sentence"? So everybody's problem is not with the ruling itself (the ruling that labels his manga as "obscene") but with the sentence given?