Evidently Filming Fully Clothed Cheerleaders During a Public Performance is a Felony

Well, this is just an obvious sign that our society has gone mad. If filming a public performance of cheerleader tryouts is considered child porn then shouldn't all of the audience that were there be arrested also? This Chan guy will probably get the charges dropped but it will cost him a wad of money in attorney'$ fee$ and maybe even his job! Noticed the newspaper he works for dumped him over this. Nothing about on leave with pay?

Misandry should be classified as a toxic hazmat waste material! If affects the reasoning processes exactly like mercury poisoning.

I would assume that the police and prosecutors are basing the charge on the fact that he was not related to any of the performers at the competition. If that is the basis for the charge then well, the only possible explanation for him being charged is that they assumed he was going to use the tape for sexual gratification.

If that indeed is the case, that's policing a persons thoughts. That's scary.

It's no longer the harm done - because no one was in any way harmed by the recording of the cheerleading competition - but the potential for future harm that seems to be the standard in these cases.

If we judge people based on potential to harm another person in the future, we are all guilty. Every living breathing human being has the potential to harm another either through carelessness, thoughtlessness, or malice.

This is the very heart of the demonization of masculinity.

How about arresting the parents for allowing their kids to be involved in cheerleading.

there are actually human beings, and i use the term loosely, making excuses for this "arrest all the men" mentality. "what if your child was involved"? anything goes as long as it's "in the best interests of the child". reminds me of that crusades movie where, just as some serious dialogue is about to take place, some templar yells "God wills it!", and everybody goes bonkers. end of discussion.

imho decades of unopposed feminist thought control and media manipulation of facts and events have produced a lower form of "human", incapable of independent thought and totally in love w/ the image of the goddess. reality can be the basis of the best sci-fi and soooo

SCARY

bet: once all the bad press hits the cops/d.a. will be looking for ANY excuse for this insanity. and another male goes broke as lawyers/judges freely spend tax dollars to quell the beast's thirst for blood. could be a sci-fi hit.

nuttinu

If photographing fully clothed young women who are voluntarily performing as cheerleaders (a major status achievement for young women) is now a felony offense--

then how much longer will it be before "gazing" at a woman is a crime?

"Looking" at a woman is a crime?

Being within twenty feet of a woman is a crime?

Crazy.

Gotta love the Land of the Free!

If the photos constitute pornography, then the cheerleaders must be guilty of indecent exposure, and/or commiting a lewd act in a public place.
-ax

Have you ever seen a story of a cheerleader getting arrested for not wearing panties at a competition? I've seen many stories of that happening, but not one of the cheerleader facing more then a suspension from the squad. Johnny Law has never gotten involved in that.

Hardly a week passes by without us MRAs hearing about a guy being arrested for the most ridiculous of things. First there was the topless sunbather entraping a man, then the Italian man getting fined for rearranging his own privates b/c he was uncomfortable, and now a guy is arrested for filming a public performance. What harm did he cause? No one knows what his intentions were with the film, but if he's not trying to sell bootlegged copies of it, I see no crime. If he's not trying to get into bed with underage girls, I see no crime. This all just a bunch of hogwash.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

Anything a man does that is sex- or body- related, and makes a woman uncomfortable, is candidate to be a crime - even if it has to be based on judge-made law*. Combine that with Orwellian society and you get prosecution for mind-crimes.

*not all laws are made by legislative bodies, contrary to what students learn in high school - there is not complete "separation of powers".

-ax

I suppose perhaps a violation of the event organizers rights, but the performance it's self would be public domain and the cheerleaders and their families would have no cause for action if he reproduced and redistributed the video. Tough call if anyone at all would bother to prosecute him for that, and it would more likely end up as a civil matter.

Plus, I saw no indications from the article that he was attempting to sleep with any of the performers. That would be a crime. But nowhere does it say he was comiting that crime and recording the performance even if it was for his own personal masturbatory purposes should in no way constitute a crime as none of the performers would have been in any way harmed or even ever aware of it. It would be no different then if he merely recollected the performance in his mind to achieve sexual arousal. A thought, no matter how repugnant, must never be criminalized under any circumstances.

We should also not attempt to extrapolate our own feelings and fears in order to attempt to guess what he may have been thinking. No one knows what goes on in another's mind and even if we could all hear each other's thoughts, it would be akin to listening to gibberish because we still would not understand the that person because the very same thought in our mind my have a completely different meaning and evoke a completely different set of actions and emotions. We simply can't peer into the souls of others.

So it's scary that the legal system would ever even attempt to do so.