Thoughtcrime
1994: Mike Diana is convicted of obscenity for creating and publishing his zine, "Boiled Angel." The terms of his 3-year probation include that his home is subject to search at any time to verify he hasn't been creating more obscenity.
2001: Brian Dalton, serving probation for pandering involving child porn, is convicted of obscenity for sadistic pedophilic fantasies he wrote in his private journal, and sentenced to ten years.
2002: Becca Johnson, a 6th-grade honor-roll student, gets 3 days suspension for drawing a cartoon of some teachers with arrows through their heads in her notebook after she received a D on a test.
Guess I better burn that notebook I wrote "Down with Big Brother" in. Americans need to watch what they say. Even in private.
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