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LiberalGuy000 Donating Member (200 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:40 PM
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The war on sex continues (this time it's in Georgia)
You might think this is a joke, but it's not.
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HUGE FEES PROPOSED PER EACH ADULT VIDEO TITLE

ATLANTA, GA -- House Bill 1553 would require that any video store that rents or sells any adult title must obtain a license as an adult video store. The fee for that license is to be assessed based on the total number of adult titles for sale or rent as follows:

1) Ten thousand dollars for each specific adult video title the adult video store sells; and
2) Five thousand dollars for each specific adult video title the video store rents.

http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/sum/hb1553.htm

And check out the other legislation proposed by the sponsors of the bill. That Bobby Franklin is a real piece of work. :puke:
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:44 PM
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1. conservative christians do not want to live in peace
with other american citizens.

and that's all there is to it.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:44 PM
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2. Well, if past hypocrisy is any indicator...
These fines would probabyl do more to hurt the finances of elected Republicans, more than anyone else.

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rpgamerd00d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:44 PM
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3. They can still lease them at no charge. -nt
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:44 PM
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4. It's really unbelievable considering that these stores provide
tax resources for the state...

These laws would effectively put these businesses out of business!!

This is a ridiculous bill!! I gotta feeling that there will be a backlash to this.....
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:47 PM
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5. Possible counter-measure
Buy a license for the most vile adult movie title you can think of (especially for that area) for example

Fill my tiny white ass with big black cock
or
6 black dicks in one white chick
in other words piss off the Klan members down there too


and then print out your single license to sell that movie in about 600 inch lettering and display it in your front window - as it's now a legal document to display.
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rpgamerd00d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:49 PM
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6. I ALREADY FOUND A LOOPHOLE !
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 02:53 PM by rpgamerd00d
They can sell "premium memberships" to their customers. These "memberships" cost $X / month. Anyone with one of these memberships can check a certain # adult video out of the "library" for free each month - NO CHARGE, not sold, not rented, just borrowed. This gets around the law. Anyone wishing to own such videos can simply "lose" them, and settle their "loss of materials" fine with the store, just like when you lose a library book from the library.

I rule, republicans suck.

:rofl:
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:57 PM
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10. Very clever. n/t
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:08 PM
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13. You do rule....I love it....
:rofl:
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:49 PM
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7. Okay, let's use that logic
on cigarettes and liquor, too . . .

$5 per cigarette in the store . . .

$100 per container of beverage . . .
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:51 PM
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8. Go check at the top of this guys closet
and see which titles he has stashed up there.
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Marnieworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:52 PM
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9. Cigarettes cause cancer but they attack Porn purveryors
It's sick mind control, forced thought police. I get so mad. grrrrrr. :mad:
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Debau2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:57 PM
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11. What is to stop
people from buying them online? This is a waste of GA tax payer time. And seeing that I am one of the oppressed GA tax payers this is infuriating.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:01 PM
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12. This will never work
Republicans love porn. They propose it knowing it will never pass, and they look all virtuous, and also get to keep their porn.

This is their game.
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Peanutcat Donating Member (492 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:09 PM
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14. Whoa! First they try to take away our dildoes
And now they're trying to take away our porn?!
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Swede Atlanta Donating Member (906 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:10 PM
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15. Unconstitutional
The proposal is blatantly unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that governments may impose "reasonable" restraints on the sale (impliedly applicable to rentals as well) of such material provided it isn't indecent. The licensing scheme proposed here imposes too great a burden on the exercise of free speech and would be subject to immediate injunction in a U.S. District Court and would assuredly be held unconstitutional.

But these nuts will do anything to boost their image in their places of worship and to get their names in the media.

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LiberalGuy000 Donating Member (200 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:12 PM
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18. Thank you!
Are you in law school or are you currently practicing?
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LiberalGuy000 Donating Member (200 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:10 PM
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16. of course....
...This is the same state that put a man in jail for 20 years in 1986 after he was arrested for having sex with a male partner.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:12 PM
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17. Is this their latest "wedge issue?" Cuz I can't imagine it working. nt
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:14 PM
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19. How does the American Taliban keep getting elected?
I mean really, $10,000 for each porno title sold? What the hell???
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