if it's a male, well...
Posted on 06/12/2008 5:07:11 PM PDT by mojito
In a saga with all the elements of a Hollywood thriller, an appeals court judge who is one of America's leading legal intellectuals stands accused of maintaining a public stash of online fetish pornography just as he has begun overseeing a criminal trial involving the distribution of sexually explicit scatological videos.
Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Chief Judge Mary Schroeder during oral arguments in San Francisco in 2003. Kozinski is accused of maintaining a public stash of online fetish pornography.
Opening arguments were getting under way in the obscenity case in federal court in Los Angeles yesterday morning when the Los Angeles Times posted a story online reporting that Judge Alex Kozinski's Web site contained images including "naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually-aroused farm animal." The site also contained pictures of urination and defecation, though they were "not presented in a sexual context," the paper said.
Judge Kozinski, 57, disabled the site after being asked about the images in an interview Tuesday night. He said he was not aware the images and videos could be publicly accessed. He called some images "degrading ... and just gross," but defended other items as "funny."
"I think it's odd and interesting. It's part of life," Judge Kozinski told the Times.
The disclosure led to the suspension yesterday of the trial of a producer of so-called scat porn, Ira Isaacs, the Associated Press reported last night.
The Pasadena session was arranged so jurors could watch the videos at issue. "Four-and-a-half hours of very disgusting porn movies, scatological, feces, urine, animals, bestiality, the works," Mr. Diamond told The New York Sun at midday yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Judge Kozinski is merely walking the walk and talking the talk.
That's odd. Naked women on all fours painted to look like cows are not part of my life.
This cat is SICK!
What is “cavorting” and how does one tell if a farm animal is aroused?
Justice Potter Stewart said of pornography “I know it when I see it,” so Judge Kozinski was just making sure he knew it.
I'll say.
But even worse, he blames his kids for his porn site. Sheesh. What a weeeeeeeeeeenie.
So his defenders are saying, he is a sick freak, but he is a great judge. Doesn’t matter that he’s a sick freak.
if it's a male, well...
I learn something everyday, I had no idea that pornograghy had an "all-American" marketing niche.
AFAIK Judge Kozinski has a libertarian -conservative outlook.
I went into wayback machine - couldn’t find any porn on his site but did find a clip of him on the dating game show - basically he had a personal website.
The sad thing is is that he is said to be one of the “conservative” minority on the court.
Personally I don’t call this kind of attitude conservative. It’s libertarian and morality-free, and on some issues therefore indistinguishable from the left.
Pornography degrades and dehumanizes women, and it degrades people like this judge who are addicted to it.
My God! Have they no shame? They did this in the courtroom??
“Pornography degrades and dehumanizes women, and it degrades people like this judge who are addicted to it.”
With all due respect, I must call Bravo Sierra on the above line.
Don’t blame pornography for the judge’s behavior. Judgie Poo was an intellectual pervert all on his own. You know, personal responsibility for one’s actions, and all that stuff.
Actually, I know he is a buddy of former Ayn Rand acolyte, Nathaniel Branden.
However, I just couldn't resist making that crack. I let humor overide what Kozinski is.
It won't happen again.
These people must be self-destructive. Reminds me of Eliot Spitzer.
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