Does Congress Really Want To Protect Our Children? Do You?

In doing the documentary on the plastic surgery of Summer Haze I have been confronted with some facts that both startle and disturb me. Since liposuction is one of the most common forms of plastic surgery I started looking at the cause.

Obviously the cause is being overweight, but why?

You are probably thinking South are you joking? You have to ask? the cause is poor nutrition and not enough exercise.

For the most part you are correct. But what is it that has brought about thisw poor nutrition and lack of excersize.

In my studying this I have discovered that childhood obesity in the United States now sits at near 15 %. That is obesity people…not overweight but grossly overweight enough so to cause drastic health problems.

Did you know that an obese child will lose 17 to 27 years off of his/her life? That doesn’t count smoking and other contributing factors…just the obesity.

Thirty years ago type 2 diabetes in children was virtually non existant, now it has increased to alarming rates and at a proportion that is directly associated with weight increases in children as a whole.

Other previously non existant problems are showing up as well, fatty liver disease for instance.

Yet in all the attention that is being tossed at protecting children from sex on TV and on the internet, virtually no one is giving this problem anything more than a little lip service.

For at least two generations now children have grown up thinking of fast food as a “treat”, they spend time with video games instead of outdoors playing, diet and exercise has given way to convenience and laziness, and as a result our children are becoming obese and dying.

I have news for you, and for our president and congress. People making adult movies by and for adults are not harming your children, we want you to monitor them and keep them away from our product we want your children to grow up happy, healthy and well adjusted. We aren’t doing them anywhere NEAR the harm that you are.

Stop gorging them with empty calories, get them outside to play and if our legislature wants to look for child abuse, they need look no further than the continuous procession of advertising of fast food that targets our children all day long.

Wake up people McDonalds and television are babysitting your kids.

Are you going to take responsibility or just ignore it and hope it will go away? Maybe you will change your mind when you attend your childs funeral…Hey it motivated John Walsh.

HR4472 The Adam Walsh Law Update:

From: Joe Obenberger
To: Clients and recent clients
Re: Special Client Advisory concerning HR 4472, Section 2257
Date: 7.27.07

As you probably know, President Bush signed House Resolution 4472 into law today, effecting substantial changes in the compliance requirments affecting “secondary producers” of explicit sexual material, eliminating doubt that the statute requires republishers and webmasters to maintain and make available for inspection the same records which the producing photographer/videographer must maintain. The House resolution also establishes a federal felony in refusal to permit an inspection and it eliminates a provision defining identity documents, thereby removing a potential conflict with the DOJ implementing regulations. The Act also creates Section 2257A to govern record-keeping with respect to depictions of simulated sex, which will become effective at a later time, after the promulgation of regulations to flesh out its requirements.

I have posted some tools for our clients on xxxlaw.net, including the revised text of Section 2257, a Redlined document graphically illustrating the changes under HR 4472, and a copy of the full House Resolution as enacted.

This law takes effect immediately upon passage. Undoubtedly, its most serious consequences are for the “secondary producers”. While the consequences on cotent that is now online is likely to be slugged out in the courts, much drama, expense, and risk can be eliminated by removing nonexempt content for which you possess no records. For many years, I have advised each of my clients to acquire rights in materials only when the records come along with the content and that remains my advice. Even with respect to exempt content displaying partial nudity in a sexual context, it remains my advice to use only that content that comes with the mandatory records and information – to provide proof of age in any dispute.

Inasmuch as the Department of Justice, for the first time since Section 2257 became law in the early nineties, conducted inspections this week in Los Angeles under that Section, it is clear that the adult internet has been brought into a new and different era concerning Section 2257. We have kept our eyes on the proposed legislation since the first bill affecting it was introduced in December, 2005, and while we are glad to report that some of the most onerous provisions were eliminated along the way before pasasage – including one calling for forfeiture of assetts for violation of this hypertechnical statute – the remaining provisions are serious enough to warrant your immediate attention to resolving compliance issues. We will be delighted to assist you upon request.

On Saturday afternoon eight days from today, on August 5, 2006, at the hour of 1:00 p.m., under the auspices of AVN Online, I will conduct a two-hour workshop on adult intenet legal issues – including obscenity and Section 2257 – at 1pm in Diplomat Ballroom 1 of the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida. It will be open to all Internext attendees with a Seminar pass. The following morning, at 10 a.m., I will participate in the legal seminar with the other usual suspects. Until this week, I never would have imagined that a standing-room-only audience would appear at ten in the morning on the last day of Internext for a legal seminar. It would not surprise me if precisely that took place, given the developments of this week. I encourage you to attend both events.

If it is your desire, feel free to pass this advisory along.

Kind regards,

Joe Obenberger

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