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Man Guilty of Owning Sexy Images of Cartoon Children
Reason ^ | Oct. 20, 2014 | Lenore Skenazy

Posted on 10/20/2014 7:39:44 PM PDT by Bettyprob

A man in Britain has been convicted for his fantasies.

Robul Hoque, 39, was found guilty of downloading "prohibited images" of cartoon girls, some in school uniforms, doing dirty deeds. The fact that these manga drawings are available on legitimate sites did not sway the judge. Nor did the fact that—oh yeah—there were no actual humans in the pictures.

No humans. So how old, exactly, is a cartoon? Is the cartoon 7, or 9, or just shy of 18? Trick question: A cartoon doesn't have an age, because a cartoon is never born. The life meter never started ticking.

If owning or admiring the mere drawn image of something illegal is grounds for sentencing, wouldn't we have to sentence anyone who goes to the Louvre and parks himself in front of Ingres' Odalisque? That there's a concubine and bigamy is against the law. Move on to the Mona Lisa or you're under arrest!

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: anime; hentai; japan; manga; robulhoque; uk; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 10/20/2014 7:39:44 PM PDT by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob

You can’t make this stuff up


2 posted on 10/20/2014 7:44:02 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Bettyprob
does this mean i can get arrested for looking at pictures of gunporn like an MP5 or a MAC-10???
3 posted on 10/20/2014 7:52:49 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Bettyprob

My thing is Cherubs. ..

Asinine law.

I can go to any museum and see paintings of naked everything or marble statues of the same.

This guy may very well be a pervert but, he is objectifying.... well...an object.

My real thing the Venus de Milo.

Ahhhh! So beautiful! So statuesque.

And that she has no arms is just...exciting.

Nike of Prometheus? I could stare at her all day.

And David, at the Louvre. What a body.

I also have a fetish for a certain statue set atop a spire of melted cannons. So Napoleon in its likeness and right in the center of Place Vendome. Hence my nom de jeur.

Lady Justice? LOL. That babe can really balance those scales.

Dont get me started on Degas Ballerina.

It’s a sick, sick world, I tell you...


4 posted on 10/20/2014 7:54:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Bettyprob

I have to say I’m against this law, as weird as this guy might be if he has naked anime children on his computer. It’s a drawing. Could he be arrested for doodling something like that?


5 posted on 10/20/2014 7:56:18 PM PDT by Viennacon (Obola is a muslim terrorist & his viral illegals need to be deported NOW!)
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To: Bettyprob

A friend of line has made the point that, the way US law is written, if you paste the Gerber baby’s head on a Penthouse centerfold, you could be convicted of producing child porn.


6 posted on 10/20/2014 8:02:59 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels"-- Tom Waits)
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To: Bettyprob

Kids get suspended for drawing pictures of guns.


7 posted on 10/20/2014 8:03:53 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Viennacon

Doodling is fine. Themz stick figures...


8 posted on 10/20/2014 8:12:44 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Chode

Hell yeah...you’re a horrible human being. /s


9 posted on 10/20/2014 8:13:45 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Bettyprob

Someone should draw a picture of a 2 by 4 and then smack this idiot with it


10 posted on 10/20/2014 8:14:58 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Bettyprob

Big Brother at BigGuv is busily creating more make work jobs in the sex regulatory arena - for all those fast food industry rejects which TSA refused to hire.


11 posted on 10/20/2014 8:16:51 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Vendome
i just knew it, wonderful...

12 posted on 10/20/2014 8:23:29 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Chode

ROTFLMAO!!!

Touche’


13 posted on 10/20/2014 8:25:09 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: bigbob

That would become a Clue by Four...


14 posted on 10/20/2014 8:25:56 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Bettyprob

Draw a picture of Mohamhead in Britain and see what happens.


15 posted on 10/20/2014 9:42:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Viennacon

“Could he be arrested for doodling something like that?”

Only if he doodled it in public.


16 posted on 10/20/2014 9:53:08 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Bettyprob

IIRC, that’s been litigated in the US. No-go. Artists’ conceptions do not count as kiddie porn.


17 posted on 10/20/2014 9:56:05 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Chode

Whatever the legality issues are, the guy is definitely ONE SICK PUPPY


18 posted on 10/20/2014 10:07:19 PM PDT by punditwannabe
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To: Bettyprob; Morgana

there are sites that use copyrighted cartoon characters for porn, they might have Lisa and Bart going at it or Homer and Bart.

I don’t see why the copyright holders would allow this.


19 posted on 10/20/2014 10:09:45 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Fai Mao

Isn’t this particular crime called “Cosplay” in the U.S.?


20 posted on 10/20/2014 10:38:44 PM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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