Fw: Response to Violent Pornography Consultation
Arron Fitzgerald, 09 Jan 2006 13:31:41
Dear All,
Please see below my email to Liberty after I read their response. I think it's important that everyone writes to complain.
Arron
----- Original Message -----
Arron Fitzgerald, 09 Jan 2006 13:31:41
To: GarethC@liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:59 PM
Teddy, 09 Jan 2006 18:56:56
Hi Arron,
A nice response to the highly ill-informed response from Liberty to the consultation. I haven't had a reply from them yet and I'm not aware that anyone else has either...
Teddy
Author wrote:
> Dear All,
> Please see below my email to Liberty after I read their response. I think it's important that everyone writes to complain.
> Arron
> ----- Original Message -----
: Arron Fitzgerald, 09 Jan 2006 18:56:56
> To: GarethC@liberty-human-rights.org.uk
> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:59 PM
> Subject: Response to Violent Pornography Consultation
> Dear Gareth,
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> I am absolutely gob smacked at your response to the Home Office's consultation on the criminalisation of violent pornography.
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> The statement of your position that you believe the proposal 'to make the possession of extreme and abhorrent pornography a criminal offence is reasonable' is shocking. You are lending credence to an absurdly illiberal and grossly unjust proposal that will create a whole new category of victimless thought crime and will result in the destruction of the lives of individuals simply because the state disproves of their sexually. Your call for what is essentially a 'tightening' of the proposals is ridiculously inadequate.
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> Your belief that there is a supply chain of violent pornography that needs disruption and warrants criminalisation of mere possession clearly shows that you have not conducted any research into this issue. You have also given credence to the absurd notion that 'aberrant' or 'extreme' material causes crime and thus should be the subject of the criminal law. Finally you have ignored the manifest violation of multiple articles of the Human Rights Act that the enacted proposals would constitute.
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> I do not intend to list in this email the legion of arguments against this legislation which you have disregarded. I suggest you review one of the best responses to the consultation at http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/gcvpcac.htm. You may also view a legal opinion at http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/pdfs/vpqchr.pdf.
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> As it is likely that the government will give more consideration to your response than many others, you have betrayed a vulnerable minority group with your contemptuous ignorance. Indeed, it would have been far better had you not responded at all. You have also made enemies of intelligent, liberal people who have been radically politicised following the publication of these proposals and would otherwise have supported your campaigns.
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> I hope you will excuse the severe tone of this message; however please understand that it is an accurate reflection of my sentiments and of my disappointment with an organisation that has done so much for human rights in other domains
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> Regards,
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> Arron Fitzgerald
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