http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/meet-the-rapper-facing-life-in-prison-for-his-album-cover

This paragraph from the story linked above is pure Orwellian insanity: "In 2000, California voters passed Proposition 21, which states that anyone who 'promotes, furthers, assists, or benefits' criminal gang activity is guilty of conspiracy. Arthur said the law also removes the requirement that you actually know about the criminal activity to begin with." Promotes, furthers, assists or benefits? So, in that case, the DA should also prosecute the CD duplication factory that printed the CDs, the owners of stores who stock them (and their employees), consumers who buy said CDs, etc. This law is so vaguely written, as described, that hundreds, if not thousands, of people who commit no harmful act whatsoever could be arrested. Madness.

No one in the music industry is standing up to this? If that rapper sues to challenge the constitutionality of that law (and he should!), every entertainment attorney repping a gangsta rapper in America should be sending in amici curiae briefs backing him up.

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....deserves to get their freedom of speech revoked.



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