From: geeman@best.com
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 00:05:24 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: Government at Work (prudish idiocy)
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At 07:29 AM 6/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>from Wired News:
>
>Oklahoma-am-Rhein: Police Seize Oscar Winner 
>12:05 pm 
>
>Oklahoma City police seized copies of
>The Tin Drum, the 1979 Academy Award winner
>for best foreign film, after a judge ruled the film
>obscene under Oklahoma law. On Thursday,
>police began removing the movie from video stores
>and, 

using store records, tracking down those who
>possessed rented copies. 

 ..../\ last I heard, this was illegal without a warrant.  Of course, in
the pursuit of Justice and the Law I suppose the warrant was easily
obtained.  OR was is obtained at all?

Oklahoma District
>Judge Richard Freeman acted on a complaint by
>Oklahomans for Children and Families, which was
>upset by a scene in which a young boy has oral
>sex with a teenage girl.
>
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