protect act

Manga collector Christopher Handley was sentenced to 6 months in prison last Thursday, after importing lolicon and yaoi manga from Japan that the federal government deemed obscene and prosecuted under the PROTECT Act of 2003, which states that any obscene illustrations, sculptures, computer-generated pictures or other imagery that depicts minors in sexual situations will be treated no differently

I said before, and I will say it again: Thanks to an overzealous piece of legislation passed by Bush that treats drawings of children as though they were real people, an Iowa man now faces 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for buying sexually explicit comics...