How many times have you been surfing the internet or
doing a search on an engine for pet/animal related material and have
come across disgusting sites hosting "Bestiality Hard Core Pornography"
displaying illegal images or movie clips with humans having sex with
animals?
I know I have all to much! The act of Bestiality alone
is illegal in 24 States in the USA and deemed "animal abuse" by the
Humane Society of the United States!
The displaying of pornographic Bestiality images is
illegal under Federal Obscenity Laws just like "Child Pornography" in
ALL of the USA, but seldom gets enforced as it is given low priority
with Federal Law Enforcement.
Did you ever stop and think, people sexually abusing
animals could eventually start doing the same to our children? Wives?
Friends? and Mothers? Just as Serial Killers who start by abusing
animals, later start abusing and murdering humans!
We need to put a stop to this now!!! Before our own
children, family and friends are next!!! We need to let our Federal and
Local Law Enforcement Agencies know to take this type of pornography
seriously, just like they do with child pornography!!! The one is just
as illegal as the other!!!
We can start by emailing our Legislators and Federal Law
Enforcement Agencies and ask them to start enforcing the already
existing laws that make this type of pornography illegal, and let them
know we do not want our children to be the next victims of these sexual
animal abusers and their illegal online Hard Core Pornography!!!
If you find a USA based* site online displaying
Bestiality Hard Core Pornography PLEASE report it to the Regional FBI
Office**, State Attorney General***, and Local Law Enforcement**** where
the site owner and hosting ISP are located.
*you can visit
http://www.samspade.org and run the site URL through their tools to
find the location of the site owner, hosting ISP, and their uplinks.
**the contact information for the FBI Regional Offices
can be found at:
http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm
***the State Attorney General's information can be found
on the States Official Webpage.
****many Local Law Enforcement Agencies can be found at:
http://officer.com/agencies.htm
To learn more about this issue please visit
http://members.aol.com/~animalsav
Below are some extracts from current Federal Laws and
Cases that can be used to prosecute the owners and ISP's of these US
Based Illegal Pornography Sites!
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I would like to take this opportunity to provide some
information to you, and those involved who may not have been aware of
these facts regarding bestiality images and the acts:
1) Bestiality is *illegal* in 24 states, Canada, UK,
Australia and many countries besides, the well known "Humane Society of
the US" has a fairly extensive law citation page researched by their
cruelty investigators located at:
http://www.hsus.org/current/state_laws.html
2) "At least 24 states have laws prohibiting sex with
animals (AR, CA, DE, GA, ID, KS, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MT, NE, NY, NC,
ND, OK, PA, RI, SC, UT, VA, and WI). Three of these states (DE, KS, and
MT) include prohibitions against forcing someone else to commit a sexual
act with an animal." " In 5 states (DE, MI, NC, SC, and VA) animal
sexual abuse is a felony. Two states (MA and RI) may imprison offenders
for up to 20 years. Four states (OK, MT, MS, and MD) may imprison
offenders for up to 10 years. Montana may also fine an offender up to
$50,000. In Louisiana, up to five years of hard labor may be imposed on
a convicted offender. "
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FEDERAL LAWS
US *Federal laws* apply to bestiality related materials
of *ANY kind* under the obscenity code and the Roth test for community
standards, the law clearly states "interactive computers" are included
as a transfer method this law covers. This was upheld in the federal
courts in:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Plaintiff-Appellee
v
ROBERT ALAN THOMAS (94-6648)
and CARLEEN THOMAS (94-6649),
Defendants-Appellants
"The computer-generated images and videotapes involved
here portrayed bestiality, incest, rape, and sex scenes involving
defecation, urination, and sado-masochistic abuse."
(Full Text of this case can be read at:
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/cases/thomas.html)
Below you will find inclusion of both the Roth test as
well as the federal codes which apply, courtesy of several sources, but
especially this site which details federal laws:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2269/USC.html
US Code :1465 Chapter 71 Obscenity
US Code : Title 18, Section 1465
US Code as of: 01/26/98
Sec. 1465. Transportation of obscene matters for sale or
distribution
Whoever knowingly transports or travels in, or uses a
facility or means of, interstate or foreign commerce or an interactive
computer service (as defined in section 230(e)(2) of the Communications
Act of 1934) in or affecting such commerce for the purpose of sale or
distribution of any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet,
picture, film, paper, letter, writing, print, silhouette, drawing,
figure, image, cast, phonograph recording, electrical transcription or
other article capable of producing sound or any other matter of indecent
or immoral character, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than five years, or both.
The transportation as aforesaid of two or more copies of
any publication or two or more of any article of the character described
above, or a combined total of five such publications and articles, shall
create a presumption that such publications or articles are intended for
sale or distribution, but such presumption shall be rebuttable.
US Code : Title 18, Section 1462
US Code as of: 01/26/98
Sec. 1462. Importation or transportation of obscene
matters
Whoever brings into the United States, or any place
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or knowingly uses any express
company or other common carrier or interactive computer service (as
defined in section 230(e)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934), for
carriage in interstate or foreign commerce -
(a) any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book,
pamphlet, picture, motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print,
or other matter of indecent character; or
(b) any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy phonograph
recording, electrical transcription, or other article or thing capable
of producing sound; or
(c) any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed,
adapted, or intended for producing abortion, or for any indecent or
immoral use; or any written or printed card, letter, circular, book,
pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind giving information,
directly or indirectly, where, how, or of whom, or by what means any of
such mentioned articles, matters, or things may be obtained or made; or
Whoever knowingly takes or receives, from such express
company or other common carrier or interactive computer service (as
defined in section 230(e)(2) of the Communications Act of 1934) any
matter or thing the carriage or importation of which is herein made
unlawful
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more
than five years, or both, for the first such offense and shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both, for
each such offense thereafter.
There is no federal law which prohibits sex between
humans and animals. There are a few federal laws, however, which list
bestiality, along with many other forms of sex, which are prohibited
when involving children
(18 USCS@ 2256, 3509 (1994)
The Roth Test In 1957, the U.S. Supreme Court developed
the Roth Test to define obscenity. The Roth Test requires that the court
ask whether to the average person, applying contemporary community
standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals
to prurient interest (Roth v. United States, 354 US 476,
Since the Roth decision, the Supreme Court has added
that such material must be utterly without redeeming social values.
United States Code Chapter 71; Obscenity Section
Content:
1460 Possession with intent to sell, and sale, of
obscene matter on Federal
property
1461 Mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter
1462 Importation or transportation of obscene matters
1463 Mailing indecent matter on wrappers or envelopes
1464 Broadcasting obscene language
1465 Transportation of obscene matters for sale or
distribution
1466 Engaging in the business of selling or transferring
obscene matter
1467 Criminal forfeiture
1468 Distributing obscene material by cable or
subscription television
1469 Presumptions
In Armijo v. U.S., 384 F2d 694, The court ruled that
portions of letters describing in detail degenerate bestiality were not
merely obscene but represented hard-core pornography.
The federal code most damaging to hard core pornography
(bestiality) is 18 USCS @ 1461, which prohibits obscene books as
mailable. In the case U.S. v. Miller 455 F.2d 899, this statute was
applied by court to find that books describing bestiality between women
and a dog were unmailable.
Now remember the Roth Test...So now you know Bestiality
Pornography can't be mailed, imported, transported, broadcasted,
transported, sold, transferred, or distributed via cable or subscription
television.
Criminal forfeiture: Code 1467 says that the courts can
take any property that involved the obscenity law being broken. This
could be your VCR, your car, your computer, etcetera. You forfeited them
when you used them to break the law.
Presumptions: Code 1469 means that if there is any
evidence that the material was made somewhere else, be it direct
evidence or even circumstantial evidence, then the courts will
immediately assume it was transported and therefore violated Code 1462
as well.
Source:
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http://members.tripod.com/~judymyers/index.html
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