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After decision, Congress must enact narrower statute banning crush films

By Andrew Wood

Jeffrey S. Kerr [General Counsel and Vice President of Corporate Affairs, The PETA Foundation]: "Crush fetish videos, which this law was enacted in 1999 to prohibit, are made for a niche market of individuals who derive sexual satisfaction from watching animals being tortured and slowly killed. The intent of the Founding Fathers in drafting the Bill of Rights was to reduce the likelihood of oppression, and the First Amendment was meant to protect the exchange of ideas and open discourse. It is not in the spirit of the Constitution to allow or encourage gratuitous depictions of torture for sexual gratification or profit, which is why, in 1982, the US Supreme

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).