Dear Marge...

[WageSlave1]

Re: Good Advice

You want to be careful with those, Slave. A lot of those 70s bongo mags had 16 and 17 year old girlies in them - perfectly legal then but a shortcut to a few years on the sex offenders' register these days.

Better rush home and check what's in the stash, me thinks Thanks for the tip :rolleyes David Hamilton must be kaking himself!

I think Not So Wise has hit upon a good point. There are some people who simply can't be helped; they have weak personalities and will always cling to someone, expecting them to do everything for them, make every decision, fight every battle.
I had a friend like that. Being three years older than him I think he looked upon me as a kind of big brother; he would always discuss his problems with me and I would offer advice and help him out. But he never took the advice I offered and would whinge about the same problems week after week, month after month. It reached the point where I stopped being his friend and started becoming his mother, so I had to put a stop to it; he was a big lad but lacked the mental strength to match his physical strength. Beware psychic vampires! You can only help someone to a point, otherwise they will never be able to help themselves.

[SupremeSpod]

A reminder....

Oi Lucifer... no questions asked.

[Lucifer Box]

Re: Good Advice

Better rush home and check what's in the stash, me thinks Thanks for the tip :rolleyes David Hamilton must be kaking himself!

Better get that garden incinerator out quick, Slave. Read on...

David Hamilton - the photographer whose images hang in the US Library of Congress, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Danish Palace - has had his multi-million-selling images of young, naked women and girls officially branded as indecent in a landmark British ruling.

Anyone owning one of his coffee-table books now risks being "arrested for possession of indecent photographs", following a ruling at Guildford Crown Court.

Hamilton's naked girl shots ruled 'indecent'

[WageSlave1]

Re: Good Advice

Anyone owning one of his coffee-table books now risks being "arrested for possession of indecent photographs", following a ruling at Guildford Crown Court.

Safe on that issue...but I thought laws weren't retrospective? In other words, if someone had pictures by Hamilton purchased before the law was passed, they are okay.

[Lucifer Box]

Re: Good Advice

Safe on that issue...but I thought laws weren't retrospective? In other words, if someone had pictures by Hamilton purchased before the law was passed, they are okay.

I guess not judging by that Guardian article. The ability to apply laws retrospectively is something the Home Office agitated for under David Blunkett. I think they got it in the same criminal justice bill that allows you to be prosecuted for something you did abroad that is legal there but illegal in the UK (selling one of your kidneys, for instance).

However, if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from New Labour's one party police state. It's just that you might not know you've done anything wrong until several years later.

If The Sun took the precaution of destroying all their page 3 material of 16 and 17 year olds, they clearly are taking no chances.

[WageSlave1]

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The ability to apply laws retrospectively is something the Home Office agitated for under David Blunkett. I think they got it in the same criminal justice bill that allows you to be prosecuted for something you did abroad that is legal there but illegal in the UK

Jesus wept. To think, this country was once a bastion of intelligence, fairness and common sense.

[expat]

persuaded her to give him the money to pay off his mortgage

No he didn't, he allowed her to buy some equity in his, now their, house.

[hattra]

but I thought laws weren't retrospective? In other words, if someone had pictures by Hamilton purchased before the law was passed, they are okay

If the law was about purchasing indecent material, you'd be right, but its about possessing it. You can't be prosecuted for possessing the material before the law was passed, however, you possess it now, which breaks the current law.

[WageSlave1]

It raises the issue of what constitutes indecent material. In this current climate, pretty much anything is indecent, but getting yourself pregnant at 12 is fine.

[Lucifer Box]

No he didn't, he allowed her to buy some equity in his, now their, house.

Thanks, expat. The right terminology is, of course, very important and this is, essentially, what has happened.