LOOKING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SOLICITORS

[eroticartist]

I looking for a legal expert.It is my contention that my rights under Article 10 ECHR are being denied: As an artist and film-maker I cannot challenge the status quo without being in breach of the VRA 1984. In the past I have been convicted under the OPA and lived in fear of making images of consenting adults. Fear of my door being smashed down by members of he Obscene Publications squad looking for images of erect penises!

Times have changed and the filmmaker is no longer given a trial under the Obscene Publications Act where a jury may find you not guilty of producing an article under the Obscene Publications Act-as I was in 1983. Now the fear of retribution by an authoritarian state is returning. The imminent introduction of the extreme pornography bill is only the thin end of the wedge and I predict that it will censor a lot more filmmakers than is imagined by those in the profession.

My instincts as a radical artist are to make a film of consenting adults on an SM theme in order to challenge censorship for adults. A subplot would involve a Lolita theme which in the present hysteria against sexy young girls
would I think result in my prosecution. With this in mind I am intending to move to another European state ( I went to Holland for five years 1993-98) to avoid the thought police.

The Censor ordered a thirteen second dialogue cut in Neighbours,starring Angel Long: "When I was a little girl men used to say things like. "Your a pretty little girl and try to grope me" ." This censorship of realism is unacceptable in a so called democracy, and to make this film I have to leave the country of my birth, unless I have a legal expert to protect my rights.

Mike Freeman.

[randyandy]

!laugh!

[strictlybroadband]

Go for it Mike... we need to proactively challenge the attacks on free speech coming from this "Labour" government rather than just squeal when they start locking people up.

Keep me posted

[diplodocus]

I hear Mrs Blair is an ok human rights lawyer, why not give her a call !grin!

[eroticartist]

I hope that you will squeal on my behalf if Iam ever locked up again for making moving images.
Mike.

[strictlybroadband]

You can bet on it. We really need to meet up - it's been a year!

[Jacques]

Mike the Extreme Pornography Bill is on the back burner at the moment. It hasn't gone away but as the Home Office appears to be having a re-think due to the consultation response, most of which was in disagreement with the Government.

There is also a "Challenge to the Human Rights Violations of the VRA" currently sitting at Division 18 of the ECHR waiting for a hearing.

[eroticartist]

Okay, We will meet soon.

I never thought that I would support the Obscene Publications Act as I do now. Most juries would acquit on adult films. We would have fisting,golden showers and other naughty subject matter!

Abolish the VRA.

Mike Freeman.

[strictlybroadband]

Yeah you're right... at least the OPA is democratic. Now that Brits have grown up a little and learned that sex isn't dirty after all, it plays to our advantage.

The idea of the VRA, the BBFC and censorship is that some people exist who are better than most, and can decide what the plebs get to watch or read. Abolishing the VRA will let people produce whatever they want to, and let the police focus on the exception cases of abuse instead of arrest people because someone, somewhere thinks that pissing is nasty.

[Jacques]

How to be a film censor:

1. Disregard any factual or scientific litterature or media that disagrees with your own personal subjectivity.

2. Abandon all rational thought.

3. Lose the ability to put your case forward coherently and just repeat a single suspect piece of evidence as the basis for your censorship.

4. Find everything and anything offensive and create new reasons to censor fims each day.

5. Defend your beliefs with religious docterine.

6. Always listen to minority pressure groups.

7. Do not accept European Law.