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Here are some news articles relating to the original GirlsPooping.Com
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Hustler Magazine |
In January 2003, Thomas W. Svitek purchased three fecal-fetish videos from the Web site
www.GirlsPooping.com. Less than a year later, four people—Michael Corbett and his wife,
Sharon Corbett, of Lewisburg, West Virginia; and Joseph Tanner and Randall Rogers of
Quitman, Georgia—were convicted on federal obscenity charges. |
Government Impounds Adult Website |
Based upon a joint business venture producing and selling obscene videos, the four were
indicted by a federal grand jury on April 9, 2003, and charged with three counts of mailing
obscene materials in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1461, and one count of |
The Poop Report 1 |
Why should the same government chartered to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness waste scarce resources on the interception of poop tapes? It seems unfair that the government should divert the Corbetts from their profitable and satisfying pursuit, and punish them for yet another victimless crime codified by a minority of anachronistic moralists. |
The Poop Report 2 |
The legislation was enforced by a man who was a
religious extremist, one of those types who gives
all real Christians a bad name with his
fundamentalist forcefulness. I believe that the
laws that these type of people pass violate the
first amendment not only because of restriction of
free speech, but by violation of freedom of
religion. They are entirely based on the
lawmakers' religious beliefs, thus forcing said
religious beliefs on the rest of us. |
Orlando Weekly |
The Corbett case is interesting because it throws the idea of
community standards out the window. No one, except a
federal prosecutor, complained about the material the
couple was selling out of their home. Even if you aren't into
peeing videos, the thought of John Ashcroft's henchmen
deciding what is and isn't acceptable is chilling. |
Register-Herald |
The four were originally indicted on one count each of conspiring to
mail obscene matters and transfer of obscene matters in interstate commerce and three counts of aiding
and abetting one another in violation of mailing obscene matter. |
Dissent Article |
IN January 2005, a federal judge threw out the Bush administration’s most prominent prosecution
against obscenity, in an opinion that cast doubt on the constitutionality of every obscenity
prosecution in the country. |
UTNE |
Just as good literature invites us to perceive the world subtly
and empathetically, it is possible for novels or films or
television shows to view the world crudely and insensitively,
and to spin out self-aggrandizing fantasies that invite selfcenteredness
and cruelty. There is a lot of that stuff in our
culture, and the explosive growth of pornography has created
more. It is a huge problem. Will censorship make matters
better? |
Bad Subjects: Let Them Eat Porn |
Michael and Sharon
Corbett, a West Virginia couple who ran the website girlspooping.com, were
one easy target; charged with distribution of obscenity in March 2003 and
facing up to twenty years in prison |
FirstCasualty.com |
The cynic might respond that the difference between a cop and a criminal is nothing more than a mustache and a badge. But any debate of Svitek's ethics merely distracts from the bigger question here, namely: why is it wrong to buy videos of an attractive woman masturbating while she drops a big shit? |
AccessNorthGA.com Article |
U.S. District Judge David Faber on Friday sentenced
Michael J. Corbett to 18 months in prison, a $30,000 fine
and three years of supervised release. He had pleaded
guilty in August to one count of mailing obscene material. |
Adult Industry News 4 |
Justice Department
arrested a West Virginia couple on obscenity charges relating to the
operation of a "scat" fetish site, girlspooping.com. Justice Department
officials have threatened to seize the couple's home, out of which the
business was allegedly operated. |
Adult Industry News 6 |
The Justice Department has initiated an obscenity
prosecution against Mike and Sharon Corbett, alleging that videos sold
through the Website, GirlsPooping.com, are obscene. |
Adult Industry News 9 |
This month’s Update will not be the usual collection of interesting news stories and legal
tidbits. The current prosecution of Extreme Associates and the industry’s response thereto is and
must be the single most important issue for adult webmasters to consider presently. That issue
therefore will be the focus of this month’s Update. |
Concerned Women For America |
“This type of material has a coarsening and desensitizing effect on our society, and can lead
some to commit other degrading, and sometimes violent, sexual offenses against others,”
said Deputy Assistant Attorney General John G. Malcolm, |
Morality |
Anti-porn group Morality in Media is calling on President Bush
to issue a fatwa against XXX-rated materials, including
Cosmpolitan magazine, reports Adult Video News: |
Kasey Warner United States Attorney |
The investigation conducted by Postal Inspector Thomas Svitek revealed the Corbetts, through their
Internet website, offered for sale a total of 53 videotapes and DVDs depicting graphic and sexually
explicit scenes of defecation and urination. Tanner and Rogers, the owners and operators of Tdigital
Services Inc., managed and maintained the website with knowledge of its content and shared in the
profit. |
| Department of Justice Press Release |
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Justice announced today that four defendants have pleaded
guilty to obscenity and conspiracy charges based on the operation of a joint business venture that produced
and sold obscene videos. |
| U.S. Postal Service |
It is an honor to appear before you today to discuss the important role
of the Postal Inspection Service, both past and present, in combating obscenity
and child pornography through the mail. |
www.girlspooping.com forfeited |
The website formerly known as "www.girlspooping.com" has been forfeited to the United States Government
pursuant to the prosecution of the website's owners and operators for violations of federal obscenity laws,
including mailing obscene matters and conspiracy to use the Internet for the purpose of sale and distribution
of obscene material, pursuant to 18 United States Code Sections 1461 and 371. |
Department of Economics, Clemson Univerity |
The U.S. Government claims that GirlsPooping.Com “can lead some to commit... violent, sexual offenses against others”, and “pornography has proven itself so dangerous to society that society may rightfully stop it at the outset”. These statements are groundless, and scientific studies show opposite findings. |
Huntington News |
What goes around, comes around. Kasey Warner, Prosecutor of GirlsPooping.Com is FIRED! Warner said he refused to resign when asked by the Justice Department, responding that he took his direction from President Bush. "Next thing I know, I get a letter from the president's counsel, Harriet Miers, saying I'd been fired, no reason given," Warner said in a telephone interview. |
Republican Sex Offenders |
The Bush administration, under the control and influence of the extreme, fundamental Christian Right, initiated the prosecution of the Corbetts and the closure of the first GirlsPooping.Com website. That same administration later attempted to label Michael Corbett as a "sex offender". Here is a web site exposing the hypocrisy of Republican "family values" and lists the REAL sex offenders within that group. |
