I must be missing something here.
“21-year-old Michigan resident Evan Emory faces 20 years in jail for ‘manufacturing child sexual abusive material.’ What he did: he tricked representatives of an elementary school to let him film himself performing a song on his guitar in front of their 1st-graders and then he re-edited the video as if he was singing sexually explicit lyrics and posted it to YouTube.” According to this news report: “The video was edited to make it appear the students were in the classroom, though they weren’t.”
So again, what the guy did: he performed a kid-friendly song in front of a classroom full of kids. Then he edited the video to make it look like he played a dirty song in front of a classroom full of kids, and uploaded the video to Youtube. He is now being charged with a felony.
What am I missing here? Don’t we see “pretend crimes” all day, every day on television?
Thats what you get for not paying union scale for your actors
and where is your link to the video?
It’s a politically correct, more open, tolerant world; meaning ultimately we are all merely tolerated.
I’m reminded vaguely of some trouble I got into at an old job for having a picture of Manfred von Richthofen in my cubicle. Some co-workers, hiding safely behind the blanket of anonymity, were apparently “uncomfortable with displaying pictures of Nazis in a work setting”. Never mind that there was no such thing as a Nazi in von Richthofen’s day, therefore no real basis for the accusation. It was close enough in the eyes of management to constitute doubleplusungood thoughtcrime and I had to take the picture down.
So yeah, you probably don’t need to commit a real crime anymore, only create enough an “appearance of impropriety” as to be considered just as guilty of the fact, especially with a societal sacred cow such as “The Children”.