Congress Bans 'Crush' Videos

[Tx4obama]

Source: AP (via HuffPo)

WASHINGTON — Videos appealing to a sexual fetish by showing women killing small animals will be banned under legislation that cleared the Senate Friday and is heading to President Barack Obama for his signature.

The voice vote in the Senate followed a vote in the House on Monday to ban so-called crush videos that depict the abuse and killing of animals.

Congress banned such videos in 1999, but the Supreme Court earlier this year struck down the law, saying it was too broadly written and violated First Amendment free speech protections.

The more narrowly crafted bill going to the White House makes it a crime to sell or distribute videos that violate bans on animal cruelty by showing animals being burned, drowned, suffocated or impaled.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/19/congress-bans-crush-videos_n_786271.html

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[Ian David]

1. Pixie and Dixie are relieved, too.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. Pixie, Dixie, and Mr. Jinks...

would fuck these people up :)

on edit: blast from the past http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMFo3h56wgw

[savalez]

2. Good.

[Owl]

3. Good.

[Poll_Blind]

4. Gratification through violence to animals, I have heard, is a common stepping stone for...

...serial killers.

Makes total sense, too.

I looked over the legislation and it didn't look like there was anything nasty tucked away in it.

:thumbsup:

PB

[yurbud]

23. ...Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin?

[mimi85]

5. Spot says thanks!

Wow, a bit of good news amongst all the BS! Amazing.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. The only things we can agree on are fluffy kittens? How about sick and dying children?

[niceypoo]

7. Depends if they've been born yet....

[DCKit]

8. McAmy says, as the Republics masturbate furiously over the thought.

Ewww, Ewww, Ewww.

Small animals, small children, small old people. It's the natural progression.

[boppers]

9. How many PETA videos are now illegal?

I know they're big on distributing videos depicting graphic animal cruelty.

[superduperfarleft]

10. Investigative videos were one of the reasons the original law was struck down. n/t

[Sirveri]

11. Isn't there already a law against animal cruelty that would make these videos illegal?

Or is that a state specific thing?

[caseymoz]

15. To make one.

It's selling, distributing and perhaps owning the video after the fact that's made illegal here.

The fact is, it's not like this is a pressing problem, here. This is the sort of thing that's a niche of a niche of a niche in the porn market. It's pretty much a waste of Congressional time. I bet over the next decade they have about ten investigations and one conviction, but, hey, that's one less pervert who got away with feeling a repulsive pleasure.

[jancantor]

25. No. The laws pertain to animal cruelty

Possessing a video of somebody else committing animal cruelty is not illegal under those statutes. Murder is illegal. If I videotape a murderer committing murder and market the tape, that is not illegal. Of course, the cops will seize it as evidence for the trial, but I still own the tape and can market it after it has been used as evidence.

[Omnibus]

12. That's an actual fetish? Gah.

Nasty, just nasty. I'm all for live-and-let-live, but not when it includes torturing non-consenting beings.

[caseymoz]

16. Yes, but a scarce one.

Society wasn't going to be inundated with animal cruelty porn.

[FailureToCommunicate]

13. And the media said this lame duck session wouldn't pass anything important.

Disgusting.

[Suji to Seoul]

14. So glad animals have laws protecting their health

but we are still at the mercy of HMOs and PPOs.

[Beacool]

18. Let me get this straight, some people get sexually aroused

by watching women squash small animals??????? That's just plain sick!!!! Who are these people, potential serial killers?

Gee, I must really lead a sheltered life.....

:wow:

[Honeycombe8]

19. OMG. Who would do such a thing as kill small animals for fun? That's evil.

I never heard of this thing going 'round as a fun sexy thing. I'm glad Congress has passed a law to stop it.

[jimlup]

20. Guessing Ms. Palin is oppossed?

:rofl:

[craigmatic]

21. This is a pretty good idea. I've seen one of these videos and it's disgusting.

[Arkana]

22. This is a sexual fetish????

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!

[rocktivity]

24. CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

Since when is killing an animal for entertainment purposes a form of speech?

:woohoo:
rocktivity

[jancantor]

26. It's not

the act is, was always illegal (unless the creature did not fall under the definition of animal for the purpose of animal cruelty statutes. For example, a cockroach).

But possessing and disseminating the visual depiction IS a form of speech. However, it is still prohibitable, but wasn't actually prohibited until this legislation.

[LawnLover]

27. I did not know and wish I had never known

that these videos exist.

This gives me little faith in humankind.