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OK here's what i think everyone knows.
The government feared for its case so they offered a plea deal with the nolo, on the flip side if he went through with the not guilty they were going to make sure he spent a pile of money to defend himself, money that they intended to try to confiscate under RICO predicates. RICO forfieture was set up to prevent wealthy mobsters from having the resources to defend themselves. Using it here is an abomination for sure. The nolo IS a guilty plea no doubt about it, the sentencing is the same, it goes on your record and it counts against you if you are convicted again just you you didnt say you are guilty doesn't mean the court didn't lay that verdict on you, for all practical purposes they do. Should he try to get a security clearance...thats on his record same as a guilty...deal with it. He didn't plea nolo for anyone but himself, he certainly didn't help us by doing so, his only real chance to help the biz was to go the distance arguably he didn't hurt us but on the flip side arguably he did. You can bet the state chalked it up as a win and it makes it easier next time around. dont get me wrong I don't blame him, defending himself would have been a huge expense and the state knew it. They counted on it when they offered the deal...it seems like everyone won but truth is we all lost he lost because well...he is guilty and paying for his crime we lost because a good fight on first amendment grounds would likely have won who won? Larry Walters won...he will chalk this up in his win column...but how can he and the state win...only in a lawyers mind....but he did get paid so thats a win in his P&L. The prosecutor won, he got a conviction period So we can safely say the lawyers won Sadly the constitution lost. meaning we the people, lost. |
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Very nicely put, Mike. The question now is : WHO'S NEXT ? |
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What was on the site that was considered obscene? What did he do that required a RICO case? There are millions of people running over the borders and thousands committing violent crimes but the taxpayer dollars were spent to beat down a one guy's website? There's something else going on here. It was an 'easy pickens' attack and no one won. At least Chris is still free but 5 years probation? He must have had something on his site that justified this. In the U.S. like in some countries, if you have a nude woman in a creative work people complain. Yet you can show all the images of mayhem til your heart's content. What does that say about the stable mental state of a person or people who would allow that? What exactly did Chris do that brought this down on him? Showing pictures? |
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I am sorry, but in each of the points you make you contradict yourself in my eyes you are a loser ! a pathetic loser |
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first it cost very little to prosecute this case realistically the prosecutor is a salaried employee, in the terms of cost per win this one was realistically a few hundred bucks...nothing compared to what would have been spent had it gone the distance.
Second I have nothing against Mr Walters other than his being an attorney of course...and I have nothing against capitalism but a capitalist is what he is. While I don't expect him to work for free I would like to see a tad of pro bono work on his part when a win would be hugely beneficial to everyone in the industry he defends...of course if he did that then he wouldnt make money cuz he wouldnt have to defend us right? Lets be careful when we practically canonize an attorney here... |
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ahh, so on the one hand you want to make it look like you are just a smalltimer , and on the other hand you want to brag about how much money you make ? all in one time ? ? ?huh ? ? idiot!!!! |
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And Dave, start acting your age and cover up that old wrinkled prick of yours and keep it hidden.
You are one sorry bastard. Don't talk to me about censorship. I get censored on boards all the time, and I don't like people stepping on my First Amendment Rights, but the bastard in this case deserves what he got and should have gotten more. |
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Plus, we are talking about a porn dumbass. Why would he want to get involved with American servicemen/women. You guys are probably doing the same thing he did, and if you are, I hope they throw all of you in jail. |
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Dude had a site with pics of war victims and active military in adult shots? That's freakin' weird. Yet I get emails from cop friends of mine and military going all into detail about the grisly shit going on in Iraq. I have no idea what he had on his site that caused all this ruckus but it sounds like he had unique stuff that was way overboard and pushed the wrong buttons. I do editorial cartoons on my site. I've been an editorial cartoonist for going on 30 years. I did one a few years ago where it had Saddam Hussein getting plowed into an underground bunker where Satan was sitting there watching CNN. That toon appeared on websites and newspapers around the world. Lo and behold a year later they found Hussein in an underground bunker! I've worked with major media and news for decades. I've seen politically criminal shit like no tomorrow and had to leave the mainstream because of it. Our birthrights, yes, our Constitutional rights are clear. Especially 'Freedom from fear of Government'. When's the last time you WEREN'T afraid of our government? That's the bottom line. When one, just one of your birthrights is violated, ALL of them have become violated and that covenant between government and citizen have become invalidated. Yet people won't fight for their rights because they don't want to rock the boat. Can't risk those mortgage payments because 98% of the population is just one major illness or lawsuit from the poor house. That's a lot of leverage to an oppressive force using government or color of authority to do harm. Never in American history has government and industry had so much power to control, invade the citizenry. I hate to make the analogy but it's like the last Star Wars movie where they fucked up and let Palpatine have control of the government and when it was too late they all got fucked. Scary. |
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Porn Site Owner Gets 5 Years Probation BARTOW, Fla. -- A man who ran a pornographic Web site that included grisly photographs of war dead taken by U.S. troops was sentenced Friday to five years' probation, his attorney said. Chris Wilson, 28, a former Eagle Lake police officer, pleaded no contest in January to five misdemeanor charges of possession of obscene materials. The state dismissed 296 other similar charges. Wilson's Web site gave soldiers free access to pornography in exchange for posting pictures from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Polk County sheriff's officials said Wilson's arrest in October stemmed from the site's sexually explicit content, not the pictures of war dead. "He agreed to stay out of the adult Web site business for the term of his probation," defense attorney Larry Walters said. Though the Web site launched a Pentagon investigation into how war zone photos of charred and dismembered bodies described as victims of U.S. attacks could have surfaced, military investigators did not pursue criminal charges against Wilson. |
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My question to Chris is where do you stand on the legal bills? Whether you answer that personal question is up to you. Do you still need legal financial help? I understand that you may have some opportunities the might make some decent bucks for ya. Count me as one that is interested in hearing more details that went on behind the scenes. |
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