{"id":334,"date":"2003-08-16T06:07:27","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/08\/16\/more-posts-about-the-jesus-castillo-case\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T06:07:27","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T14:07:27","slug":"more-posts-about-the-jesus-castillo-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"More posts about the Jesus Castillo case."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For folks who are interested, here are some more links about the Jesus Castillo case. This isn&#8217;t meant to be a comprehensive list &#8211; just some of the posts that have caught my eye.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/journalista\/zarch200308B.html#quarterback\">The Comics Journal Weblog<\/a>&#8216;s Dirk Deppy discusses the case, and my posts in particular. Dirk agrees with me that &#8220;Arguing that <i>Demon Beast Invasion <\/i>contains some sort of serious artistic worth <b>is <\/b>an uphill battle, especially once you&#8217;ve read the work in question.&#8221; However, unlike me, Dirk thinks there is a danger of a slippery slope.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/juliansanchez.com\/2003_08_01_notesarch.html#106087433145010697\">Julian Sanchez <\/a>responds to me, as well, and he and I have a brief debate in his comments section. With all due respect (and I like Julian a lot), his belief that &#8220;banning <i>Maus <\/i>would be no better and no worse, in itself, than banning <i>Demon Beast Invasion<\/i>&#8221; is exactly the kind of nihilism that makes it impossible for me to relate to the first-amendment-purist position.\n<li>I&#8217;ve linked to this <a href=\"http:\/\/beldar.blogs.com\/beldarblog\/2003\/08\/im_very_close_t.html\">Beldarblog <\/a>entry before, but he&#8217;s added so much in updates that it&#8217;s worth reading again.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2003_08_10_volokh_archive.html#106090858630907916\">Eugene Volokh <\/a>examines the case, and concludes that &#8220;the flaw, if there is one (and I think there is) is with obscenity law generally, or the court of appeals&#8217; application of it, and not with some new standard being created for comic books.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webamused.com\/amusedinreview\/archives\/000349.html\">Amused in Review <\/a>comments &#8220;I definitely think you ought to expect more of a lawyer who manages to rack up $60,000 in fees defending a misdemeanor case that netted a $4,000 fine and 180 day suspended sentence.&#8221; (The title to this post is pretty clever, too.)\n<li>Jaquandor of <a href=\"http:\/\/byzantiumshores.blogspot.com\/2003_08_10_byzantiumshores_archive.html#106096349622217064\">Byzantium&#8217;s Shores <\/a>uses this case as an example of what&#8217;s wrong with arguments based on &#8220;common sense.&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterdavid.malibulist.com\/gmlog\/00000489.html\">Peter David <\/a>takes the opportunity to make a general argument against obscenity laws.\n<li>Kevin at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leanleft.com\/archives\/001518.html\">Lean Left <\/a>writes about the injustice of arresting a <i>clerk<\/i> for this sort of thing, regardless of what you think of obscenity laws.<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=prix-deltasone-5-pharmacie\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For folks who are interested, here are some more links about the Jesus Castillo case. This isn&#8217;t meant to be a comprehensive list &#8211; just some of the posts that have caught my eye. The Comics Journal Weblog&#8216;s Dirk Deppy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}