Lawyer Myles Jackman defends people in the UK charged with possession of "extreme pornography", while campaigning to repeal that law.

People are often prosecuted for copies they received unsolicited and did not know about, or tried to delete.

But even if we consider only people who possess the images intentionally, the law is unjust and dangerous. No attempt has been made to show that those people are hurting others. The only justification offered for prohibiting "extreme pornography" is that many people find it disgusting to see — and that is no justification at all.

The precise details of what this law prohibits are absurd, but the details are a side issue. Any law that prohibits possessing copies of some sort of work is dangerous to people in the same way.

Throw the dice, and if you roll 4 or less, go to prison!

US citizens: call for an end to US coal leasing.

I said, If the lessees had to pay enough to cover the damage of mining and burning coal, they wouldn't want the coal.

A private tutor who had a long sexual relationship with an eager teenager, 20 years ago, is now described as "abusing" and "assaulting" him. Thus speaks the voice of dogmatic crusading prudery.

The "victim" recognizes that he enjoyed his first sexual relationship. He probably learned a lot from it. I wish I had had such a chance for learning about sex when I was a teenager.

We don't have enough facts to be sure, but I suspect that the reason he claims now that it hurt him is that he was swept along by the general revulsion against such sexual relationships into believing that something bad had been done to him.

Once he started looking for bad, he could surely find some. No doubt the relationship was not ideal. Probably she didn't love him, just wanted sex with him. Some aspects may have been disappointing. That's normal in any relationship, and especially any first relationship, but if you're predisposed to find "abuse" you can perceive any disappointment it as a sign of such.

Berry farm workers in Mexico and the US are organizing to demand more than hunger wages.

Bravo for the striking farmers that fought back when Mexican thugs attacked them.

The ones that thugs ought to be arresting are the business magnates that try to create "the world's berry company", or "the world's XYZ company" for any value of XYZ. Back before Reagan, when anti-trust law was more than a hollow shell, they wouldn't have dared announce such a goal.

The US will investigate a special forces unit that appears to have systematically murdered prisoners in Afghanistan.