This one's political. Be thee warned says I...

Read this. Then we'll talk.

The decision was 7-2.

7 to 2.

Two supreme court justices actually thought this was a bad idea. Writing for the majority:

Justice Antonin Scalia said the law contains safeguards to ensure it is not used against simulations of child sexual activities or movies using adults posing as kids.

Well, thank God they aren't infringing on the rights of those that want to simulate child sexual activity. Lord knows we don't have enough children simulating sexual acts on TV and the movies. Not to mention the quote was from Antonin Scalia one of my idols on the court. (Clarence Thomas is the other. Both better men than I.)

The critics of this law were worried that if this law passed we may never get to see movies like the recent Dakota Fanning movie where she is brutally raped. No big deal you say. Well, she's 11. Even the people who reviewed the film said it was a little much. But it's art. An 11 year old being raped is art. The Passion of the Christ was just violent for violence sake though. No art there.

Yes the law was upheld. Which is a good thing. But to have people actually think any form of child pornography even simulation in a movie should be protected under the first ammendment, boggles my mind. I even saw one critic say that a grandparent sending pictures of the grandkids over the internet with the heading, "Great pics of grandkids in bed" could be tried under this law. I'll tell you what, we'll put them in the same cell with all of the citizens we have arrested and tried under the "illegal wiretapping" program. That would be a grand total of ZERO!

The older I get the more I am beginning to realize I am being called to help the children. There needs to be some legislation passed about harming a child. Mandatory sentences of at least 30 years and a cell mate named Tiny.