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thebitterguyToday's icon seems particularly appropriate.
You ever stop and take a nice, close look at the criminal code? I mean, let's look at section 163 of the Criminal Code of Canada, under sexual offences, public morals and disorderly conduct; specifically, Offences Tending to Corrupt Morals.
163. (1) Every one commits an offence who
(a) makes, prints, publishes, distributes, circulates, or has in his possession for the purpose of publication, distribution or circulation any obscene written matter, picture, model, phonograph record or other thing whatever; or
(b) makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells or has in his possession for the purpose of publication, distribution or circulation a crime comic.
Definition of “crime comic”
(7) In this section, “crime comic” means a magazine, periodical or book that exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially
(a) the commission of crimes, real or fictitious; or
(b) events connected with the commission of crimes, real or fictitious, whether occurring before or after the commission of the crime.
I mean, I could go for HOURS on the number books that this would include.
Yes, this is just the tattered remnants of post-Wertham hysteria, anceint laws designed in ancient days that would be tossed aside in a heartbeat, if anyone even bothered to prosecute.
Really, though, would anyone want to do that? One of the benefits of not electing everyone down to dogcatcher is the Crown Attorney's don't need to do stupid stuff to try to make us feel safe, so they can get re-elected. Now, it's entirely possible someone might go nuts and decide to charge, say, Chester Brown with Corrupting Morals because of the Louis Riel book. Impossible? I can't say, I've never been to Edmonton.
Now, naturally, this is the kind of law that was ripe to be overturned with the help of the Court Challenges Program. Shame it got gutted and left to die in an abandoned tenemant building by the Serial Killer of the Charter of Rights, PMH. I wonder if the CBLDF would help out in this kind of case.
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vonandmoggy, dewline, you guys got anything in your books that could be considered to depict pictorially the commision of a crime? Littering? Anyone smoke up? Get into a fight?
Be careful, eh?
In other news: I have got to get me one of these. Hey,autodidactic, was it you who was looking for a copy o fMartha Washington Goes to War?
You ever stop and take a nice, close look at the criminal code? I mean, let's look at section 163 of the Criminal Code of Canada, under sexual offences, public morals and disorderly conduct; specifically, Offences Tending to Corrupt Morals.
163. (1) Every one commits an offence who
(a) makes, prints, publishes, distributes, circulates, or has in his possession for the purpose of publication, distribution or circulation any obscene written matter, picture, model, phonograph record or other thing whatever; or
(b) makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells or has in his possession for the purpose of publication, distribution or circulation a crime comic.
Definition of “crime comic”
(7) In this section, “crime comic” means a magazine, periodical or book that exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially
(a) the commission of crimes, real or fictitious; or
(b) events connected with the commission of crimes, real or fictitious, whether occurring before or after the commission of the crime.
I mean, I could go for HOURS on the number books that this would include.
Yes, this is just the tattered remnants of post-Wertham hysteria, anceint laws designed in ancient days that would be tossed aside in a heartbeat, if anyone even bothered to prosecute.
Really, though, would anyone want to do that? One of the benefits of not electing everyone down to dogcatcher is the Crown Attorney's don't need to do stupid stuff to try to make us feel safe, so they can get re-elected. Now, it's entirely possible someone might go nuts and decide to charge, say, Chester Brown with Corrupting Morals because of the Louis Riel book. Impossible? I can't say, I've never been to Edmonton.
Now, naturally, this is the kind of law that was ripe to be overturned with the help of the Court Challenges Program. Shame it got gutted and left to die in an abandoned tenemant building by the Serial Killer of the Charter of Rights, PMH. I wonder if the CBLDF would help out in this kind of case.
Man. Hey,
vonandmoggy, dewline, you guys got anything in your books that could be considered to depict pictorially the commision of a crime? Littering? Anyone smoke up? Get into a fight? Be careful, eh?
In other news: I have got to get me one of these. Hey,
autodidactic, was it you who was looking for a copy o fMartha Washington Goes to War?
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Date: 2006-10-23 06:00 pm (UTC)Uh...ALL OF THEM?
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Date: 2006-10-23 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-23 06:00 pm (UTC)Pleeease?
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Date: 2006-10-23 06:14 pm (UTC)And if they tried, the defence would likely call reviewers from either the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star.
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Date: 2006-10-24 01:28 am (UTC)Of course it would be. Brain fat.
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Date: 2006-10-23 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-23 06:13 pm (UTC)For the record, I've been aware of the Crime Comics section of the Criminal Code of Canada for some time. I don't think I need to worry just yet, unless someone in Parliament gets very cranky in the near future...
Speaking of our PM's home province, isn't that the same place that Canada's answer to the CBLDF (http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lswong/CLLDF.html) got its chosen name from?