Back Talk Requested: “Obscenity Prosecution Tells a Sad Story” Draws Many Comments.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | July 15, 2009

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2009

Last August, I wrote a post entitled “Obscenity Prosecution Tells a Sad Story.” It is about a woman who wrote stories involving child sexual molestation and posted them on a website known as “Red Rose”, which required a membership fee of $10.00. A summary of the facts appears in a Wikipedia profile of Mary Beth Buchanan, the US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, which featured the Fletcher case as one of her most controversial prosecutions.

Since then, this post has drawn hundreds of comments. The overwhelming majority were obvious robotic comments, often with embedded links to porno sites. Many others simply stated that it was a good post, but made no substantive comment. They have been increasing in frequency and I have been noticing that more of them seem to be coming from real people, rather than robots.

Today, a member of a social web site (Wolfbook) appears to have sent links to the story to his friends and some of them are sending me messages. Whereas, I had been deleting all comments on this story, I’ve decided to start posting comments that are substantive and not selling something.

After re-reading “Obscenity Prosecution Tells a Sad Story”, I think that the topic is worth revisiting. Moreover, it has been made timely by the accusations of overzealous prosecution by Buchanan’s office that have lately been voiced from many quarters.

Thank you, Wolfbook members, for your compliments on the post, but I’d really like to hear what you (or anyone else) has to say about the outcome of this case.

Back Talk Requested.

CLT

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