1. There are important free speech issues from the Flanagan affair but Wente muddies the water:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/how-tom-flanagan-went-from-respected-political-activist-to-pariah/article18232689/ …
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2. If you are going to defend someone who made controversial remarks, you have to fairly quote or describe those remarks. Wente fails to do.
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3. Flanagan got in trouble for saying "I do have some grave doubts about putting people in jail because of their taste in pictures"
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4. Flanagan also said: "we put people in jail for doing something in which they do not harm another person."
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5. Wente's gloss: Flanagan opposes 3 to 6 months in jail for "someone caught with an obscene Japanese comic book.
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6. Wente's gloss is false. Flanagan was talking about photos of children being raped, not "a Japanese comic book."
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7. A proper discussion of these issues would make distinction between works of imagination (which do no harm) and photos (which do)
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8. A photo of child being abused is in fact a photo of a crime, circulation of which is reasonably seen as a harm to victim.
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