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[theweaselking]

BMEZine forced to relocate their operations to Canada or shut down. Given precedent, editor Shannon Larratt faces life in prison if he ever sets foot in the USA again - and for what? Because he runs a website where consenting adults can upload pictures of their tattoos and piercings.

BMEZine's original statement now reads:

This article has been removed.
Fuck the long and dirty arm of the DoJ and DHS.

It's been reproduced for your reading pleasure, at the link above.

Both links are work-safe. Any other link on bmezine.com is most likely *not*. In fact, many are not lunch-safe either. That's not the point.

Comments

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

The crazy thing about these laws is that even though I am a Canadian, don’t live in the United States, and the site is published outside the US and served out of Canada, I could still be arrested if I ever set foot in the United States

Insanity.

I mean, shouldn't governments have at least some sort of surface respect for the rule of law?

More and more I'm glad I live where I do.