I will be donating a unique piece of writing at the New York Comic Con to The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund who will be auctioning it off with other art to help raise money for pending court cases involving First Amendment rights issues.  As many of you who may know me can attest to I am strongly against any children from seeing, or hearing things that may harm their growth (because I too will be a concerned parent one day), but I also strongly feel that parents should be parenting their kids and deeming what is appropriate, not the overly uptight television, or government.  Are you telling me a breast bared for a second on television could ruin our youth?  I think nudity is portrayed as unnatural in this country and this is simply wrong.  Europe and the rest of the world allow a little more skin and not nearly as much bloody violence and dissection of dead bodies (which we in the U.S. show at all times of day on our televisions).  The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund of all things is putting up a fight for our neglected First Amendment rights.  They wrote me this:
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund needs your help.  Right now, we are defending a collector in Iowa who faces up to 20 years in Federal prison for allegedly possessing manga that the government claims is obscene.  We are also challenging an unconstitutional Utah law that would require the Attorney General to create a blacklist of websites that he unilaterally deems to be harmful to minors.  These cases affect the rights of creators and readers throughout the United States.  Thank you for your time in considering this request to aid us in the defense of our First Amendment rights.

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