The Death Penalty for Porn
Published March 11, 2009 @ 08:06AM PT

A group of Iranian actors accused of making pornographic films could face the death penalty, under a 2007 law allowing capital punishment for people convicted of making obscene films.
Iran is no stranger to oppression and it is among the world's worst offenders in capital punishment - including an active death penalty for victimless crimes. Drug trafficking is also a capital offense in Iran - and defined as possession of more than 30 grams of heroin or five kilos of opium. Many executions, especially for sex offenses, are carried out by public hanging.
Iran passed the new porn death penalty law to combat a recent explosion of the country's underground porn industry. But executions for porn aren't new. In 2001, a woman convicted of "corruption on earth" was stoned to death in a Tehran prison for acting in a porn film.
Dr Naser Fakouhi, one of Iran's leading sociologists and the head of anthropology at Tehran University, has warned that the country's huge number of young people – roughly 70% of the population are aged under 35 – has caused an explosion in internet pornography and the rapid growth of an underground industry.
The trend has been compounded by a rise in the average marrying age in a society in which premarital sex is outlawed and socially frowned upon.
A recent survey by the state-run national youth organisation revealed that the average marrying age had risen to 40 for men and 35 for women, well above the government's recommended guideline of 29.
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What About The Franklin Cover-up?
The following archive paints a chilling portrait of what is really going on in the upper echelons of the ruling elite here in America. The story involves children from orphanages in Nebraska being flown around the United States by top Republican officials in order to engage in child sex orgies with America's ruling elite. It is a fact that during the 1980's, child sexual services were provided by top Republican officials to key, bureaucrats and diplomats but most importantly, there is a chilling proximity of all of these events and personalities, to the President of the United States at the time, George H.W. Bush. And there have been victims who claim that the President himself engaged in the activities. It is a tale of child sex, murder, espionage, blackmail, and huge payoffs. And all the players are involved. From the White House to the CIA to the media barrons to the Republican elite - right down to the orphanages where they procured their victims.
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Almost immediately, the rights to the documentary were purchased by unknown persons who had ordered all copies destroyed. A copy of this videotape was furnished anonymously to former Nebraska state senator and attorney John De Camp who made it available to retired F.B.I. chief, Ted L. Gunderson. While the video quality is not top grade, this tape is a blockbuster in what is revealed by the participants involved.
http://www.franklincase.org/silencewinmedia.htm
Posted by Barbara McSpadden on 03/11/2009 @ 11:20AM PT
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Interesting comment, shouldn't it have been on the "Human Trafficking" Cause? Nothing Republicans do would surprise me.
I was thinking that the most repressed and unstable are the most unforgiving. Don't let the Puritan Republicans know that someone has death as the punishment for porn..... shhhhhh
Posted by jowey styxx on 03/12/2009 @ 03:34PM PT
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You are either a paranoid schizophrenic or and idiot. Either way my advice is to seek help.
Posted by Katrina Bayer on 03/13/2009 @ 05:35PM PT
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Why are we so infatuated Iran's legal system, when so many innocent men and women sit on death row here in the U.S.? Let, he who is without sin cast the first stone. Just like America's unhealthy infatuation with headscarves, this is nothing more than anti-Semitic propaganda issued by the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world -- Al Judah.
Posted by Hyman Rothstein on 03/13/2009 @ 08:49PM PT
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this is disgracful to me at first but this the way things are running in iran.
Posted by uttam pannu on 03/14/2009 @ 09:59AM PT
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