I did some production consulting a few years back for an adult company who donates the Canoga Park office space to the Free Speech Coalition. As a result, I got to experience first hand the inner workings of the FSC.

At the time I was there, the FSC flew in a bunch of 450 pound women from around the country to train as telemarketers to solicit new memberships. One of the women was so fat that she couldn’t even walk. They flew them into L.A. and put them up in a hotel all expenses paid for a week. Your membership dollars at work.

I remember meeting the executive director at the time. Let me put it this way… She didn’t look like the type of gal who enjoyed the conversation of a man. I normally wouldn’t have taken her rudeness, but she was bigger than me and had more facial hair. I wisely stepped out of her way to avoid getting throat fucked by her detachable cock.

I watched with my own eyes as the telemarketers phoned jack shacks around the country and promised them “lifetime immunity from 2257 prosecution” as long as they joined the FSC. I later learned that a majority of the telemarketers quit as soon as they arrived back home from their free week in L.A.

Same as always…NOTHING.

You would think they would be eager to help Mr Stagliano, or at least use the situation to do a little posturing, but noooo, not a peep from worthless blowhards. While I know Mr Stagliano intends to fight this with his own money he has set up defendourporn.org for people wanting to stay involved and abreast of whats happening but word I get is that the FSC doesn’t even want to talk to him.

L ook y’all the FSC is nothing but a jobs program for a handful of people who aren’t qualified to clean John’s johns. It time to disband this worthless cabal. If they can’t help at a time like this what good are they?

Judge Miller Issues Interim Decision on 2257

Cleveland, OH - On Tuesday, October 23rd the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit issued its decision in the case of Connection Distributing Company v Keisler striking down 2257 as unconstitutional on its face.

Each of the three judges on the panel determined that 2257’s burdens are not sufficient in the Government’s interest of combating child pornography.  This reasoning applies across the board and is not restricted to the contents of swingers’ magazines as represented by the specific parties.

This decision clearly holds for the 6th circuit (Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee) that 2257 is unconstitutional unless and until 2257 is dramatically rewritten by Congress.  Continued litigation is likely in states outside the 6th Circuit.

“This is one of the arguments that FSC has been asserting all along and that we will continue to carry if necessary,” said Reed Lee, FSC board member and Chair of FSC’s Legal Committee.  Lee pointed out that the Government has options and will most likely reveal its intentions within the next two weeks.

Within the next few days, FSC will provide a more detailed analysis of the decision, the FSC legal team’s responses to “Frequently Asked Questions,” and an outline of possible next step scenarios.   In the meantime, FSC, acting in its role as the industry trade association, will continue to keep members informed about this and other important developments affecting the industry nationally.

Instead of giving credit where it’s due the FSC issued this, which makes NO mention of the efforts of the people who really made it happen and leads you to believe that The FSC had some part in it.

Is there a more disgusting group of individuals than The FSC….OK maybe congress….

You can bet your collective asses that the Free Speech coalition is working their collective asses off right now trying to figure out how they can spin this to look like they did something.

They were big time upstaged, a tiny little now defunct swingers magazine accomplished what the FSC could not, and they didn’t do it only for the magazine subscribers.

What this industry needs to do is disband the FSC in its bloated entirety and replaced it with the guys that won in Ohio.

The broader ramifications are interesting as well, many websites and content producers closed shop because of 2257 and shuold that barrier be negated what will be the effect on an already oversaturated adult market.

From www.avn.com

CINCINATI - The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled today in the case of Connection Distributing Co. et. al. v. Keisler that the federal 2257 record-keeping statute is unconstitutional and overbroad.

“This is huge, huge news for the entire industry,” attorney J. Michael Murray told AVN. “It means that the statute has been declared unconstitutional in its entirety, at least in the Sixth Circuit. This is the result we’ve all been aiming for; it’s a monumental victory. We’ve been fighting this battle for 12 long years, and this is the third time I argued the case on the Sixth Circuit. Finally, we got a court to agree with us.”

Connection publishes approximately a dozen swinger’s magazines with personal ads containing sexually explicit photographs. Connection originally filed suit against the government in September 1995, challenging the constitutionality of the 2257 statute on First Amendment grounds. Following a long, drawn-out series of appeals, today’s ruling firmly decides the case in Connection’s favor.

The court’s 27-page opinion concludes: “We conclude that the statute is overbroad and therefore violates the First Amendment, and accordingly we reverse the district court’s judgment and remand with instructions to enter summary judgment for the plaintiffs.”

Murray praised Connection owner Rondee Kamins for her persistence in pursuing the case.

“Rondee Kaimins has fought this battle for twelve years, and she is a hero for what she has done in that long, long fight; she never gave up,” Murray said. “This was our third trip to the US Corut of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Rondee Kamins is owed an enormous debt of gratitude from the entire industry for this hard-fought battle she waged over these many years.”

Note who had NO part in this…ie The Free Speech Coalition.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause.

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, “now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment.”

Portland attorney Brandon Mayfield sought the ruling in a lawsuit against the federal government after he was mistakenly linked by the FBI to the Madrid train bombings in 2004.

The federal government apologized and settled part of the lawsuit for $2 million after admitting a fingerprint was misread.

But as part of the settlement, Mayfield retained the right to challenge parts of the USA Patriot Act.

Mayfield claimed that secret searches of his house and office under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, violated the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause …”

Aiken agreed with Mayfield, repeatedly criticizing the government.

“For over 200 years, this Nation has adhered to the rule of law — with unparalleled success. A shift to a Nation based on extra-constitutional authority is prohibited, as well as ill-advised,” she wrote.

She said that by asking her to dismiss Mayfield’s lawsuit, the U.S. Attorney General’s office was “asking this court to, in
essence, amend the Bill of Rights, by giving it an interpretation what would deprive it of any real meaning. This court declines to do so.”

Elden Rosenthal, an attorney for Mayfield, issued a statement on his behalf praising the judge, saying she “has upheld both the tradition of judicial independence, and our nation’s most cherished principle of the right to be secure in one’s own home.”

The adult webmaster board gofuckyourself.com has been coming down hard on the FSC lately, with numerous posts questioning fiscal responsibility, motive and accountability.

The tide is obvious, they have the FSC on the run in numerous threads with basically the same things I have been saying about the FSC since 2002 and before. The FSC tries to defend itself by stating how pure it’s motives are but when asked for fiscal accounting or even an accounting of what they have accomplished they suddenly get quiet and go away.

It’s sad really, I for one would like for the FSC to be the force in this industry that it should be instead of the model of ineptitude that it is.  Sad really.

(From Boy Alley)

Ok, I’ve raised over $14,000 for the FSC in the past, because I believed in its stated mission, and because quite frankly it’s the only organization that this industry has.

However, it’s a clusterfuck. I thought for a while that was due to the changing of executive directors, but now that the new one’s been in place for a while, it’s still a cluster fuck.

1. Where’s all the money going? How much has been raise? What’s the yearly budget? How many members are there? How much are attorneys charging us to fight 2257? How much has been spent on 2257 altogether so far?

It apparently refuses to release financials, or at least I’ve never spoken to anyone that’s seen them. Why? I’ll tell you some possible explanations I’ve heard. According to at least one employee, they’ve had serious money problems and they don’t want anyone to know about it. I heard some time ago from one of them that things were so bad, that they were dipping into payroll funds to put toward the 2257 fight and employees weren’t even sure if they were still going to have jobs or not.

I suspect the other reason why is that we’d all blow a goat if we knew exactly how much money some of these attorneys have banked so far.

I have no idea what I’ve heard is fact and what isn’t. That, to me, says more about the lack of information flowing from the organization than anything else.

2. They suck shitty ass at communicating with their members. Hell, even I, who has raised a ton of cash for them, can’t even manage to get a ballot sent to me come “election time”, and despite the fact that I’ve updated my name and address and phone number with them no fewer than 4 times, they STILL have it all wrong from a “data entry mix-up” they made over a year ago.

Their press releases are never timely, and there’s never any follow through.
They suck at communicating on the boards (where 99% of their members get their industry new from), to the point where they’re bragging that they made a total of 30 posts regarding 2257 since the new proposed regs took effect.

WOW THIRTY WHOLE POSTS JESUS CHRIST SON OF A WHORE THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A LOT OF WORK!

I can fart out more than 30 posts in 10 minutes that are of more substance.

3. Their membership “subscription levels” are gayer than I am and are about as intuitive as performing cunnilingus.

4. I haven’t even been able to pay my dues this year assuming I’m suppose to yet (because I have any idea when the hell they’re even due), and my 3 separate emails to find out when they are due and how much I owe this year were of course ignored. Did the FSC outsource to Epassporte’s Customer Service department?

5. They have a total lack of focus. They can apparently barely afford to keep the 2257 lawsuits going, and have not had any success with the fight, yet they’re now starting to sing the battle hymn against piracy?

Get real.

This isn’t like the RIAA or the MPAA where there are only a handful of studios that exist that can all come together to kick pirates’ ass (and you see how unsuccessful even they’ve been). There are THOUSANDS of producers in this industry. If someone steals exclusive content from my little program is the FSC going to go running out to sue the thiefs into oblivion? I think not.

I’m willing to bet this entire initiative would be nothing but a way for a handful of huge dvd producers to save themselves a shitload in legal fees by having all of us pay for their anti-piracy efforts through the guise of an “FSC Initiative”. I can smell that a mile a way.

Hysterical calls yesterday indicating that performer Flower Tucci was dead from an overdose turned out to be wrong. The report was credited to a local radio station. Panic broke out amoung her friends who weren’t able to contact her at all and feared the worst.

She was finally contacted around 2AM and was fine. Her friends were all very happy to learn that it had all been some sort of weird mstake.

If I Ran The Free Speech Coalition:

AVN Writes on their site:

“The conservative National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families is marking this week as Pornography Awareness Week.

The group is urging citizens to participate by writing to their local mayors and governors and urging them to publicly declare Oct. 30 through Nov. 5 as Pornography Awareness Week and also host a breakfast or luncheon for officials to issue a proclamation about the week. Citizens were also urged to write to the U.S. Attorney General and urge him to enforce federal obscenity laws, as well as plan a series of activities like a rally, training session or public assembly to draw attention to the issue. ”

Now here’s what the FSC SHOULD have done…I know that by the time AVN ran the story it was Oct 31 and Pornography Awareness Week had started….

BUT…What if we had hi-jacked Pornography Awareness Week and done a few regional luncheons where we invited the mainstream press and we made them aware of the truths about our industry?

Truths like your child is statistically and in fact in far more danger of being sexually molested by ALL of the following than by being harmed in any way by anyone in porn:

Members of Congress
Teachers
Clergy
Family Members
Total Strangers
Members of the American Family Association
Republicans
Democrats
Baby Sitters
Daycare Providers
School Employees
Church Employees

to name a few…why is it we consistantly sit back and refuse to act on golden opportunities to get the truth out about our industry? The mainstream press would have eaten this up….

Dirty Bob Writes:

This Baldwin character is getting away with a lot ’cause people aren’t looking at the big picture.
He is going to porn shoots, porn shows, and hanging out with porn stars … and they are patting him on the back for doing so!  Whatta racket!  How else can a name celeb get away with doing all these things without being put down or chastised by his peers and fans or condemmed by the press!
Amazing…

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Is XBiz Making Inroads Into The X Biz?:

I have heard it said for years, That AVN needs some serious competition. Many have tried and up to now all have failed.

But that seems to be chasnging. XBiz has slowly built an organization of top notch writers, web professionals and businessmen. One look at XBiz.com compared to AVN.com tells the story. AVN is a slow loading top heavy website that still uses pop up ads, something everyone else abandoned years ago.

But it doesn’t stop there. While both sites are without a doubt vehicles for press releases above all else XBiz tends to have a bit more substance, editorially speaking.

Not to detract from AVN, the print magazine is still the 800 lb gorilla in the room and through Paul Fishbein AVN has solid relationships with everyone of the industry’s biggest players, these guys aren’t going to abandon AVN for XBiz anytime soon.

But they are looking, they do see XBiz as a viable advertising outlet. XBiz is aggressive and nowhere is that more apparent than on XFanz the fan portal for XBiz. This is an area that AVN could never quite get its arms around. AVN has long wanted a viable print magazine aimed at retail outlets but it simply hasn’t been able to make any inroads to that effect. Indeed it is why Tim Connelly was hired in the first place, and subsequently probably a large part of why he was let go.

Theres is a marketing concept called “The Rule of Three” basically it means that untill there are 3 companies competing for the marketplace the consumer will suffer because of market control. Untill now AVN has had a defacto monopoly as the adult industry news and info publication.

That appears to be changing, and we will all be better for it, not because there is anything bad about AVN but because we benefit from competition. I believe both of these companies will survive each pushing the other to be better.