As much as I enjoyed the weed chapter, this section was the most riveting. It was about the rise and fall of a man named Reuban Sturman. Innocently, he started the pornography industry which today is worth A LOT of money. Sturman faced a lot of trouble from the government legally. A lot of obscenity trials, which I think are bullshit because there is no definition of what is obscene and what is not. No one really has the right to decide and a lot of this was about a bit of religious prosecution. THIS COUNTRY IS NOT RELIGIOUS. How many times does that fact have to be ignored!? Christian values have no place in the justice system and therefore Christian values should not be used to figure out what's decent and what's not. As long as porn isn't being displayed in plain view for ch- no hold that thought, I think porn can be distributed anywhere, but it's the parents who must take responsibility for what their child is exposed to. The government is not responsible for what children are exposed to, that's a parent's job.
Each and every individual should be able to make his/her own decision on how he/she feels about the decency of porn and then he/she can choose to buy it or not. Or endorse it. Or support it in any way. But the feeling I get is that there are a lot of freaks out there who are just uncomfortable with how much of a pervert he/she is and so he/she feels he/she must vehemently oppose porn to prove how unpervy he/she is. Just because a person is uncomfortable with personal feelings doesn't mean that Reuben Sturman should be punished for virtually nothing. Except tax evasion. Which he was. Justice.
The injustices were that he was also charged with obscenity counts. It's not in the judge's jurisdiction! it's subjective! That's really the one thing I had a problem with. Why does the government get to decide what's obscene and what's not? It's not fair. It's not right. The people have the freedom. Well, should have the freedom.
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