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Child abduction was the accusation by the government of Chad against a French charity. ABC's Hilary Brown (subscription required) narrated the footage from London. Zoe's Ark claimed to be rescuing orphans from Darfur, transporting them through Chad and flying them to France where they would be cared for by foster families. As they were about to board their charter plane the aid workers were arrested for kidnapping. There were 103 children in their charge "lured from their families," according to Brown. "Many were not orphans. Many were not from Darfur." The aid workers, facing 20 years of hard labor in a Chadian prison, deny all charges. "They insist that they were acting in good faith."
Child pornography was the issue at the Supreme Court and only CBS assigned a reporter to cover the hearing. Wyatt Andrews explained how draconian the federal law banning child porn is. It not only makes possession illegal, with "no free speech protection." It also bans "merely claiming to have" the material through advertisement or promotion. Furthermore, to be illegal, the material does not have to be pornographic; it merely has to have "scenes depicting underage sex." Thus movies such as Lolita and American Beauty fall foul of the law since their plots involve sexually active minors. Thus promoting, or even describing such movies, in DVD sleeve notes or a newspaper review, for example, involves an implicit claim of possession of the material. "The only question here," Andrews summarized, "is whether talking about having child porn" is criminal.
Has anybody seen Romeo & Juliet recently? It was very sexy unarousing.
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