The case stemmed from the arrest of a man in his early 50s named Ronald Thompson who was stopped in 2011 at Sea World in San Antonio after parents reported him swimming with and taking pictures of children aged 3-11. The local district attorney’s office said that he tried to delete the photographs before his camera was seized and a police examination of it revealed 73 images of children in swimsuits “with most of the photographs targeting the children’s breast and buttocks areas”. Prosecuting lawyers argued that the constitutional right to free speech, which includes taking public photographs, should not be a factor because photography is essentially a technical recording process and that attempted lawbreakers should not be able to hide behind free-speech protections. Attorneys for Thompson said that the statute was “the stuff of Orwellian thought-crime” Ew Ew Ew the Texas judges and lawyers are literally redditors and mras. Plus, people who throw around the term thoughtcrime like that clearly didnt understand 1984 and its kinda scary that that dude is a lawyer. Also freedom of speech is a bourgeois liberal fantasy, and rights in general are a spook. #sorrynotsorry Emily Profitt
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 02:44:15 +0000