Supreme Court in the modern age

[erinlefey]

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They just had to deal with "crush videos".

If you don't know what they are...I envy you. I now know. (I'll define it in the comments if you really want to know.) And I have never come across a concept that literally made my stomach spasm and attempt to vomit based on the IDEA. I initially said that I hate to be a member of the human race now. I've rethought that. People into that are not human. Y'all know that I'm a live-and-let-live, your-kink-is-OK kind of girl. But if I find someone who thinks such things are nifty, I'm rebooting them into the next reincarnation.

Comment away. But don't joke. My sense of humor is absent on this subject.

Comments

[erinlefey.livejournal.com]

A crush video is a video where an attractive woman, typically in heels, kills a living animal, typically a kitten, with her feet, slowly for entertainment and erotic value.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

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Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! That's sick. Really, realy, really sick. it's "Pass the brain bleach" sick.

I'd be happy to join you in your rebooting project.

[serenity-rose7.livejournal.com]

ok, that.....nononono.....

NO!

[willful-zephyr.livejournal.com]

I was horrified at the decision when I read about it - as I am horrified at "crush videos" - No, horrified isn't enough)

Unfortunately, SCOTUS was probably correct that *this* law to deal with them was badly written and needed to be struck down.

The ruling was NOT that "crush videos" are protected free speech.

This case was about a guy who made some nasty videos of simulated dog attacks. They would set up a shot where the dog(s) would rush up at [target], then they'd splice in shots of the dogs tearing up some animal parts they'd purchased from a butcher.

He was selling them in a magazine that catered to the dog-fighting crowd, so they arrested and prosecuted him under this very vaguely-worded law. This was the first attempt at enforcement.

The law prohibits recordings, reenactments, simulations, or descriptions of acts of animal cruelty.

The example of unintended consequences most often brought up was that much of Hemmingway's writings would be illegal under the law.

They way the law is worded, blogging about your trip to a bull fight on vacation - illegal.

The movie The Jerk, with its cat-juggling scene, illegal.

Monty Python - illegal.

So, they struck it down as being too broadly worded. The decision includes a statement requesting that if Congress wants to make "crush videos" illegal - MAKE THEM ILLEGAL. Be explicit, don't get all cutesy and try to address the whole space.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

Words I didn't think I would ever utter: Samuel Alito is my hero today. He was the lone dissenter on this decision.

[terriblelynne.livejournal.com]

Wow, I knew about this one years ago. There was a story line on either The Practice or Boston Legal (possibly both, they brought back some of the former's characters for the latter) about it.

[longshot14.livejournal.com]

There's a reason they call it "duty".

'Cause EW.

[theoldone.livejournal.com]

I saw the description in a news report on the SCOTUS ruling. Truly, the capacity for depravity of the human race is unlimited.

[jenmarie.livejournal.com]

There was a big uproar on one of the sites where producers can sell video clips about this a few years back when that site first prohibited insect crush vids. Most sites, even the ones that cater to bizarre fetish vids, don't want to come anywhere near the live crush stuff.

Crush videos, however, do NOT have to entail a living thing.

Inanimate objects are also used very often. I've seen everything from your average cigarettes to bubble wrap to telephones and office supplies (i.e. Office Space with a weird slant). And, of course, there's always the messy thing, where foodstuffs or mud or whatever is the item underfoot.

And people crush (not to death of course) remains a mainstay of the fetish. Ballbusting, body busting, and various forms of smother and trample all fall under the "crush" label.

I definitely share the extreme disgust about using ANY living creature other than another consenting adult human in fetish or sexual activities.