[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 35, Issue 10

Sat Jun 3 18:41:19 UTC 2006

On 3 Jun 2006 at 16:13, Ilmari Karonen <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:

> > Even if the cartoonist would draw Mohammed a third time,
> > he wouldn't need be afraid as long as his drawings wouldn't
> > have been published before.
> 
> Cartoonists generally do draw things with the expectation that they will 
> be published.

And those with some sort of fanatical need to suppress offensive 
cartoons won't necessarily limit themselves to opposing ones that are 
published; look at the case of [[Mike Diana]], the only American to 
be convicted of obscenity for drawing a cartoon (this happened in 
Florida in the 1990s).  As part of the court order following his 
conviction, he was ordered not to draw any more obscene cartoons 
whether published or not, with the authorities having the right to do 
inspections of his home to make sure he hadn't drawn anything 
illegal.

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