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To: Blzbba; Modernman
>Weak Straw Man argument alert! Libertarians don't support child rape and molestation

I don't know. To me,
this seems strange. In Germany,
it's against the law

to publish a book
that looks at the Holocaust
from unorthodox

perspectives. If some
US publisher creates
such a book and then

sells a press run to
some German fringe group who might
re-sell the copies

in Germany, then
should the FBI arrest
the publishers here

for "conspiring"
to break the law over there?
It's convoluted

as an example,
but these law-intensive days,
it seems once you set

a precedent, hell
breaks out right away, and laws
that seemed good and clear

end up getting used
to do all sorts of odd stuff
in other contexts.

139 posted on 02/15/2005 12:32:52 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss
If some US publisher creates such a book and then sells a press run to some German fringe group who might re-sell the copies in Germany, then should the FBI arrest the publishers here for "conspiring" to break the law over there? It's convoluted

No, you can't be arrested for conspiring to commit an act that isn't illegal in the US. The FBI wouldn't arrest a group of Christians for "conspiring" to preach Christianity in Saudi Arabia.

143 posted on 02/15/2005 12:43:13 PM PST by Modernman ("Normally, I don't listen to women, or doctors." - Captain Hero)
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