by Karen Kristopher
Who is defining our community standards for obscenity? Surprisingly, the community standards which defines obscenity is not being established by the mainstream community or voters as directed by the Supreme Court, but almost exclusively by policing authorities through our district attorneys. Since obscenity is out of control, our review should energize your interest in activistism for morality and decency.
The test for obscenity today -- The basic three prong test for determining whether visual or written works are obscene material is as follows:
Whether the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest (i.e., an erotic, lascivious, abnormal, unhealthy, degrading, shameful, or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion); and
Whether the average person, applying contemporary adult community standards, would find that the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct (i.e., ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, masturbation, excretory functions, lewd exhibition of the genitals, or sado-masochistic sexual abuse);
and whether a reasonable person would find that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
We find Robert Peters of Morality in Media stating -- "Defenders of hardcore pornography say that the widespread availability of this material is proof that communities now accept it. If that were true, no jury could ever find any sex material to be obscene—because to be obscene sexual material must violate community standards." For the most part, agreeing with Peters is easily done.
Voters, however, should not only participate at the end of the process for the community standard as a juror, but form civil groups, religious groups, and become activist transforming our communities into cities of morality and decency, as obscenity definitions are qualified, or voted on
referendums into laws. Noteworthy is the fact, the decreasing numbers of voters on election day suggest the people may have lost complete confidence in the system designed by the Constitution of the United States, or lost control to elected officials who have been motivated by self?
In addition, Community Standards are truly implemented when our local district attorneys allow a full range of voters, including policing authorities, on a "Committee on Obscenity" within the DA's office. Until our local DA allows the checks and balances for obscenity definitions in the decision making process of whether to take obscenity cases or not under the Community Standards, obscenity will continue unchecked.
Trial lawyers are generally liberals. When lawyers are taught in law school to win at any cost, their liberal mind set is obvious -- one of changing the facts to fit their position. Sex offenders with related obscene materials are also quickly grouped in the liberal category.
Without checks and balances guarding the adult community standard, the conservative understandings of morality and decency are discarded, because the liberals are in control. This determination leaves the nonvoting criminals as liberals controlling the definition of the community standards..
Ann Coulter's new book
Godless:The Church of Liberalism, Chapter 2, The Passion of the Liberal: Thou Shalt not Punish the Perp. Coulter states: Assuming you aren't a fetus, the Left's most dangerous religious belief is their adoration of violent criminals.
Criminal stats on reported rapes, and molestations are climbing across the country, while unreported rapes are over 70%. Pornography which fuels the sex predator is behind every sex crime.
Obscenity goes unchecked with the liberals in control, no matter if the label is Republican or Democrat. The addiction for pornography has further polluted the minds of many.
