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For those who don’t follow the day to day happenings in Porn Valley, you likely aren’t aware of this story. Evil Angel is a porn company which I have applauded on numerous occasions on this site. I have recommended many of the great Evil Angel websites like Anal Acrobats, Buttman, and others.

I stand by those recommendations and I stand by company owner and industry veteran John “Buttman” Stagliano. The U.S. Justice Department is now indicting Stagliano, Evil Angel Productions and John Stagliano Inc. with seven counts of operating “an obscenity distribution business and related offenses.” The charges stem from the mail and Internet distribution of two movies, plus a web trailer.

The movies named in the indictment are “Milk Nymphos” directed by Jay Sin, “Storm Squirters 2″ directed by Joey Silvera and a trailer from Belladonna’s “Fetish Fanatic 5.”

It goes without saying that it’s outrageous in the extreme for the government to say what is and what isn’t obscene. The Justice Department tries these little stunts every couple of years and have yet to get a conviction on anyone, but their plan is to cause Evil Angel to go bankrupt from the enormous legal expenses associated with their defense.

If you would like to donate to John Stagliano’s legal defense fund you can do so at DefendOurPorn.org. This is about more than just Stagliano or Evil Angel, this is about our right to look at adult material. Next they could decide certain books are obscene, or maybe music.

If your feeling even more generous you can donate a few dollars to The Free Speech Coalition which lobbies the government on behalf of the adult industry and helps to keep porn legal.

Also, to help raise funds for DefendOurPorn.org, Evil Angel is planning a special collectors’ edition compilation DVD of the company’s best scenes from each of its directors, handpicked by company owner John Stagliano.

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Fed. Anti-Smut Bid Harvests Zero Prosecutions

WASHINGTON — A Justice Department program to fight obscenity on the Internet, funded by a $150,000-a-year earmark in a spending bill and operated by an anti-porn group, has resulted in no prosecutions for obscenity.

The Justice Department website routes citizen complaints about obscenity to ObscenityCrimes.org, a website run by anti-porn group Morality in Media, which receives the grant money.

Two retired law enforcement officers check the reported sites for legally definable obscenity. A reported 67,000 complaints have been forwarded to the Justice Department and federal prosecutors through this program.

None has been prosecuted.

“Any program that fields public complaints on a matter as complex as obscenity can never be expected to play a meaningful role in the decisions of what is to be prosecuted and where,” 1st Amendment attorney Jeffrey Douglas told XBIZ. “Lay people will simply call in about something that they are offended by. Individuals’ offense could hardly be less relevant to the criteria for obscenity as defined by the Miller opinion.

“It’s even worse when the entity requesting such calls is an ideologically extreme entity, Morality in Media, which is attempting to alter the definition of obscenity into one in which if they can see genital penetration, somebody ought to go to prison. Expecting that the calls that they stimulate will be meaningful is ludicrous.

“The fact that we’re spending money on this program is, in fact, simply welfare to extreme political organizations that some ideologues in the White House want to subsidize.”

In the seven years of the Bush administration, the Justice Department has prosecuted about 24 cases involving adult material, according to the New York Times. Several focused on producers who failed to keep proper 2257 records.

The president of Morality in Media, Robert W. Peters, is disappointed with the Justice Department’s failure to act on any of his group’s complaints.

“We’d like to see some prosecutions that arose from the complaints submitted to the website,” Peters said. “But it’s ultimately up to the Justice Department, and I can’t tell the Justice Department what to do.”

Stephen G. Bates, a Harvard-trained lawyer and journalism professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, discovered the ObscenityCrimes.org program through a Freedom of Information Act inquiry. He said he was appalled when he discovered that the Justice Department was outsourcing a search for obscenity.

In an op-ed article titled “Outsourcing Justice? That’s Obscene” published in The Washington Post and other newspapers, Bates said the combination of Morality in Media’s religious influence, the sensitivity of the issue of free speech and the outsourcing made “a mockery of the 1st Amendment, chilling freedom of expression.”

[XBIZ]

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