Girls Allowed to be tortured to death…

Excellent work. Fucking told you so.

One of my very first posts on this blog was about the curious case of the guy who was being prosecuted under the obscene publications laws for writing a fantasy blog post about raping and killing Girls Aloud. Whether it was for their crimes against music or not is never made clear.

I read this with a certain amount of interest, since the idea of butchering Girls Aloud, for their crimes against just about everything, holds an undeniable allure.

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I’ve not read this guy’s ‘work’. Okay, it doesn’t sound particularly tasteful and I’m sure it would be fair to assume that some would, and do, find it offensive. However, you don’t need to be Sigmund Freud to know that rape is not an uncommon feature of sexual fantasies – womens’ too.

Nor do you need to have the fearsome interrogative mind of a top QC to make the argument that thought and word are NOT deed. Men and women alike will have sexual fantasies that they wouldn’t ever want to put into real life: Just as we may daydream about pushing that wanker of a manager at work out of an 8th floor window. However, no rational person would (or should) think that the satisfaction of the notion would translate into the actual deed – if you were to rape, injure or kill, obviously there’d be the shock, horror, pain and misery, to say nothing of the legal consequences. The supposed thrill of the deed wouldn’t get a look in with the sane person.

Next, according to The Times the offending text was on a fantasy porn website. So, in fairness, it wasn’t going to turn up on the web browser of any child whose parents had fulfilled their responsibility to properly manage their child’s internet use. Nor, for that matter, would it turn up anywhere else that you weren’t looking for fantasy porn.

My last point is apparently what his defence rested on, and it got him off the hook.

A former civil servant who wrote an internet article imagining the kidnap and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud has been cleared of obscenity.

Darryn Walker, 35, from South Tyneside, was charged after his blog appeared on a fantasy pornography site.

He appeared at Newcastle Crown Court on Monday but was cleared when the prosecution offered no evidence.

His defence argued that the piece was not easily accessible and could only be found in a specific internet search.

Judge Esmond Faulks formally returned a not guilty verdict to the charge of publishing an obscene article.

Mr Walker’s 12-page blog – Girls (Scream) Aloud – was brought to the attention of police by the Internet Watch Foundation, an organisation for the public and IT professionals which polices potentially obscene material.

There we are then. Look out for the instigators of this legal action, the Internet Watch Foundation, in other cases of attempted web-censorship.

AJ