Ashcroft’s anti-porn crusade threatens everyone’s free-speech rights

[King Bush II]

The penultimate segment of a pornographic video called Ass Clowns 3 -- one of five videos at the center of a federal obscenity case -- begins with an Ashleigh Banfield look-alike reporting from Afghanistan. Within moments, she is kidnapped by an Al Qaeda terrorist, who drags her back to a cave occupied by Osama bin Laden and a third terrorist. For the next 20 minutes or so she is slapped, repeatedly spat upon, stripped, and raped, forced to take part in oral and anal sex and vaginal intercourse. ... But perhaps the most important thing about Ass Clowns 3 is this: it could land its distributors, Robert Zicari (a/k/a Rob Black) and his fiancée, Janet Romano (a/k/a Lizzie Borden), in prison for the next 50 years. As Zicari observed in an interview last week with ABC News's Nightline, that's double the amount of prison time faced by Hemant Lakhani, the British national who was recently charged with trying to sell a surface-to-air missile to government agents posing as terrorists seeking to shoot down a commercial airliner.

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/documents/03134927.asp

[LiberalBushFan]

1. hahaha

What law is the video supposed to have broken?

Some funny stuff though
"A long stretch of the Ass Clowns 3 DVD that I purchased at a local porn emporium is labeled CENSORED, but it reportedly consists of a crucified Jesus coming down off the cross to have anal sex with an angel."

[ComerPerro]

3. No shit?

Oh my God

Did they make this just to piss off Asscroft?

That is hilarious

[madrchsod]

2. is ashcroft after

the marquis de sade?..unfortunality the marquis has been dead for several hundred years...hmmm,amazon.com has 66 listings for the different works of the marquis de sade. so then following ascraps logic "amazon" should be facing 3300 yrs in prison. of course i`m assuming ascrap can read....

[Jim Sagle]

4. That link failed for me.

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/documents/03134927.asp worked.