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Dec. 21st, 2010 10:48 amPolk County Sheriff Grady Judd has apparently decided that Florida law trumps all other law.
So, the long and short of it is, this guy, Philip Greaves, wrote a book called "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct". Amazon carried this as an e-book for at least a couple months, but dropped it in November.
The 'good' Sheriff, it seems, was so incensed at Greaves not being arrested by the police in Colorado (where Greaves lives), that he ordered a copy of Greaves' book, and then once it arrived, had Greaves charged with violating local laws prohibiting the distribution of "obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct."
Now, let's be clear here. I don't like pedophiles. At all. However, if Sheriff Grady hadn't ordered the book, Greaves wouldn't have sent it to Polk County, and wouldn't have violated that local law. Seems to me, that might be entrapment. At the very least, the ACLU is going to have a field day with this case. Possibly over First Amendment issues as well.
Now, wasn't there also some Sheriff in Florida who pulled the same sort of thing over a (admittedly disturbing) porn video? Was it this same asshole?
So, the long and short of it is, this guy, Philip Greaves, wrote a book called "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover's Code of Conduct". Amazon carried this as an e-book for at least a couple months, but dropped it in November.
The 'good' Sheriff, it seems, was so incensed at Greaves not being arrested by the police in Colorado (where Greaves lives), that he ordered a copy of Greaves' book, and then once it arrived, had Greaves charged with violating local laws prohibiting the distribution of "obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct."
Now, let's be clear here. I don't like pedophiles. At all. However, if Sheriff Grady hadn't ordered the book, Greaves wouldn't have sent it to Polk County, and wouldn't have violated that local law. Seems to me, that might be entrapment. At the very least, the ACLU is going to have a field day with this case. Possibly over First Amendment issues as well.
Now, wasn't there also some Sheriff in Florida who pulled the same sort of thing over a (admittedly disturbing) porn video? Was it this same asshole?