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In a nutshell--
Wilson ran a pay site where you could upload amateur pics, kind of like a Beaver Hunt online. He decided to give free memberships to soldiers that posted pics from their tours of duty--like in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The bloody bodies and severed heads really pissed of the Dept of Defense, who wanted to shut Wilson down. The DoD could not, so they are now going after soldiers that sent in pics and the Republican prosecutor in the county where Wilson lived brought over 300 obscenity charges against him--but not for the bloody bodies--for the mainstream porn!!
The porn Wilson had up was pretty tame by internet standards. If he could be convicted of obscenity based on that, we could ALL go to jail.
The fact is that he took a plea for putting up images that really werent obscene, but the prosecution could have made his life impossible during the trial stage if he continued to defend himself.
I think it was pretty obvious that he was targeted for the images of dead Iraqis and the brutal pictures of what the war REALLY is like--stuff that embarrasses the Bush administration. The good old boys in the Republican party realized they could go after Wilson for his nudie pics and shut him down that way, which it looks like they did.
Again, I say--
Fuckers.
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