Merely because a child is photographed in the nude doesn't automatically make it child porn - but if the child is depicted lewdly, sexually, or with the genitals as the obvious focus, then it pretty much does mean child porn, Adult Sites Against Child Pornography says.
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Under current law...nudity doesn't always equal child porn. "If a child is nude, partially nude, or fully clothed is not the determining factor; what the child is doing and/or having done to him/her is...If the image is lewd, sexual in nature, or the picture focuses on the genitals, then chances are - it is child pornography."
But what if it's not a child at all, but a figment of your imagination.
The PROTECT Act..expands the criminal definition of "child pornography" under U.S. law by including digital images, computer images or computer-generated images that are "indistinguishable from" minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, even if no minors were involved [in] the creation of the images.
The mind police are out in full force creatively searching for evidence that will provide them with opportunities to bust you for thinking things they do not like. Pitbull Ashcroft is sending his agents out to the corners of the land to sniff out activities that they can bring their jackboot heels down hard on. One tool they use in their search is the PROTECT act, which widens the scope of criminal behavior "toward" children, including artistic creations "indistinguishable from" those real images of kids engaged in sexual misconduct. It doesn't matter any more if you lead kids into sexual perversion. If you merely fantasize about it and objectify those fantasies via computer graphics, you can be arrested and charged with the crime just the same as if you had committed it for real.
Let's take this one step further to elucidate the absurdity of this agenda. Let's say that instead of creating visual images of kids, you simply write about the fantasy situation. Can you then be charged with the same crime? Fundamentally, there is no difference between the arts of the image and the word. They're both acts of creation. Therefore, the feds can bust you for having fantasies if you are so bold as to put those fantasies into concrete form.
But what if you don't put them into concrete form, but only verbally express them, but to the wrong person. Too bad, if they can legally prove you said it. Or what if you put them into a form that is more concrete than you want to think it is, like an Internet instant messaging service. What if you make the mistake of expressing your fantasies to someone who is not what she seems to be, like the Carnegie Mellon University guy did to an undercover cop on the Net when he arranged to meet her at a local fast food restaurant, thinking she was an under-aged teenager. Yes, the guy probably did intend to do something illegal with the girl, had she been real. But the whole point is he didn't. But he's going to go to jail for a long time anyway, because the mind police long ago extended the line beyond the act of a crime to include intent when they made it illegal to conspire to commit a crime; and then they managed to extend the concept of conspiracy to include the actions of a single person, acting alone. Planning to commit a crime, even if you don't actually commit it, is a crime, if they can prove it.
And now they take the whole thing one step further. Not only do you not have to commit the crime, or even plan to commit the crime, now you can't even imagine you are committing it--not if you imagine it in a way that other people may see your imaginings. And you just know that if they could invent a way to see into your mind to know what it was that you were thinking, they'd use that technology too to head you off from committing the crime before you ever got to do it--because that is what they do, that is how they think. They want to control your mind, which is bad enough; but they want to control it so that it thinks in the same way that they do, so that you have no alternative but to follow their lead and join the hunt for others who will not comply with their idea of what America and the world should be, a homogeneous mass of humanity that thinks and acts the same, as devoid of individuality and imagination as they themselves are. This is the mind police at work, and they're at work in your community. And you're their next victim, because you like to watch little boys in the nude, or because you think about fucking children, or because you like to draw pictures of immature genitalia, or because you don't believe that President Bush is the greatest man that ever lived and John Ashcroft is his righteous avenging angel, or because you prefer to remain non-committal about your political affiliation and so register as an independent or not at all, or because you... It doesn't matter what the reason is, because there is no rational explanation that will satisfy them. They will never be satisfied. They will go on and on for as long as you allow it, expanding their definition of what is criminal to include everything that is different from them. They will not stop until you stop them. Why not do it now with a vote before you end up having to do it with a gun?
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