Posted on 08/19/2007 6:21:50 PM PDT by ellery
Ron Jeremy, Jenna Jameson - get ready to stand and be counted.
The Department of Justice wants to come up with an official list of every porn star in America - and slap stiff penalties on producers who don't cooperate.
The new rules, proposed under the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act, would require blue-movie makers to keep photos, stage names, professional names, maiden names, aliases, nicknames and ages on file for the inspection of the department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
"The identity of every performer is critical to determining and ensuring that no performer is a minor," according to the new proposal.
The adult film industry plans to challenge the new rule as a violation of the First Amendment, said Paul Cambria, a lawyer for Hustler and other adult film companies.
He sees it as a way to harass legitimate stag-film producers.
"If they can't get you for obscenity, they'll get you for violating record-keeping," he said. Such a violation would carry a five-year penalty.
The proposed rule would require porn producers to give the title of the video or magazine, or the Web address where the actor appears.
The Department of Justice has shown some sensitivity for the performers' privacy, however. All information not essential to proving their age and identity, like phone numbers and addresses, can be withheld.
Distributors of foreign pornography aren't off the hook - they must still produce a copy of the foreign actor's identification card. The department estimates that there are 500,000 Web sites, 200 DVD producers and 5,000 businesses nationwide that would be subject to the new rule.
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It's the same as tracking guns: only the law-abiding will comply. Criminals will continue to break the law more than ever, while legitimate parties get snagged on BS "technicalities".
What a waste. They could have done that by using one person
Her "working name" was Bambi Bridges.
Gene Scott sure knew how to pick em!
The adult industry has already done an excellent job in policing themselves. This is typical of big government under the guise of moral values, the type espoused by the likes of Mike Huckabee and Sam Brownback.
Say what you will about the NY Post, but they come up with some entertaining headlines.
And check out Jenna's pic caption: "She'd be in the head count"
This act protects the people who work illegally by chopping the more moderate producers into a bureaucracy grinder. Offshore producers benefit the most.
Market demand won't go down, but legit producers will.
Mind you, I read about this whole thing in the newspapers. In the Christian Science Reading room. Uh...when I was studying in the seminary. Yeah, that's it...
She may need a dose of Dr. Molemans secret searum :-)
Her pic graced many a barracks wall during my younger days.
“She’d be in head count”, I should’ve written.
I don’t know why they limit themselves to First Amendment arguments.
They also have freedom of assembly, privacy, commerce, life/liberty/pursuit of happiness..... all of that.
Gene Scott sure knew how to pick em!
Talk about a blast from the past! I just had to check the link, and was particularly struck by this entry in her bio: "A natural linguist, she is intellectually unbiased toward the Gospel"...
More stupidity from the government AKA Big Brother.
Have you ever listened to Melissa Scott teach from the scriptures? Do you believe Jesus saves? Well, if you can get a trickle of the Spirit power God has graced her with, you might even not make such smarmy posts!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LOL, I was thinking some of Doc Freep’s 2 ball ointment.
Even the first pic is completely different from her earlier days.
Which is exactly what a certain constituency desires. This is politics after all.
Offshore
Off course, to places where it's completely unregulated and there are no limits to the sleaze. And that same material will become available in the US by means of -- let's call them black and grey market channels.
So, let's review. The porn will get sleazier. People (including kids) will still access it. But at least puritanical pols will score a few political points. All IMMHO!
Just like what happened in the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
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