Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys

[Mari333]

But shes fighting back against the laws in Texas...good for her...its the grassroots people that say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH to these hypocrites in places like Texas (Like Delay and his nights at Hooters)
Heck a woman has to make money to feed her kids!

DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) -- Joanne Webb is a mother of three, a Baptist, a booster of the town of Burleson, Texas, and a former schoolteacher. She also faces trial for being a smut merchant.

Webb, 43, was arrested in November by two undercover police officers for selling sexual toys and charged with violating Texas obscenity laws. She could face up to a year in jail and a fine of $4,000 if convicted.



http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/11/obscenity.trial.reut/index.html

[drdigi420]

1. repressed people are so lame

[Solomon]

2. Your tax dollars at

work.

[FloridaPat]

3. I think the company she sells for is Passion Parties.

Women get together and look over toys that can be fun in bed. Apparently the company line is, don't be very detailed on what you can do with this stuff. Otherwise you're selling porn or whatever. Dumb law, and dumb everything. With all the porn everywhere, I wonder what is in people's brains. Just like the cops in Sarasota sitting all day in adult movie houses looking for people playing with themselves.

[RBHam]

4. This is so barbaric

Why don't they just bring back the stock and pillory?

Scarlet Letters and all that...

[mike1963]

5. I guess I better recall my toy of Dubya getting buttfucked by a donkey

from that store down in Nacodoches...
:eyes:

[Solomon]

6. LOL!

:evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. Some people are just dildos!

[Pithlet]

8. Wow.

I live in a country where it is possible to be prosecuted for selling a dildo. Unbelievable.

[Endangered Specie]

9. Selling Dildos and calling them dildos bad...

Selling wrapped concentrated poison and hiding it... good.

[ninkasi]

10. She wouldn't have gotten into trouble

if she had been selling something Ashcroft approved of, like assult rifles. There are some seriously messed up people in this country, and with * and his cronies in power, this country is becoming the laughing stock of the world.

[rumguy]

11. The repuke world: it's ok to walk around with a concealed weapon

you can take it into ice cream parlors and into parks filled with children. But if you dare to sell vibrators to consenting adults in the privacy of your own home, you are going to jail!!!!

What a fucking joke! God I fucking hate repukes....

[2004Donkeys]

15. I support BOTH the 1st and 2nd amendments

There shouldn't be a choice.

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. omg - even them "french -ticklers" can be illegal ??

,
,

from the article:

"Sisemore has said she plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Texas obscenity laws, which she said are so vague that they could be used to prosecute anyone who uses or sells condoms designed to provide stimulation for sexual pleasure."

/snip/

and it's not as if she was selling stuff to kids or anything, - or was she ??

was this part of the "evidence" :shrug:



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[Wapsie B]

13. You know,

why don't we give the crazies one state out of the 50? Let them all move there and enact any screwy law they want. But they all have to live there.

[Michael Harrington]

14. To quote Phillip Sheridan...

"If I owned Hell and Texas, I would sublet Texas and live in Hell."