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tuxchick

Feb 05, 2008
12:44 PM EST 		Where else can we find so many high-quality pics of kids on spring break passed out drunk, lying in their own vomit and other fun body wastes? I mean come on, this is a national treasure!
gus3

Feb 05, 2008
7:58 PM EST 		Of blackmail material...

Time for a career change!
Bob_Robertson

Feb 06, 2008
5:45 AM EST 		Walter Block wrote a book called "Defending The Undefendable" in which he puts forth an excellent logical argument that, because blackmail uses no force or fraud, it isn't actually a crime.

(Extortion, because it depends upon violence to back it up, is completely different.)
tuxchick

Feb 06, 2008
7:27 AM EST 		Hmm, I haven't read any of Block's work, but if he's saying that physical violence, or the threat of it, is a necessary basis for an act to be called a crime, then he's full of hooey.
gus3

Feb 06, 2008
7:55 AM EST 		"I know what you did last summer..."

If it was a crime ("...and I know where the body is"), then the blackmailer should be going to the police. Having material knowledge of a crime, without reporting it, is itself a crime.

OTOH, if it wasn't a crime, but something that simply humiliates the blackmailed ("...during that party in Texas")... ???

Any lawyers in the house?
Bob_Robertson

Feb 06, 2008
8:17 AM EST 		> if he's saying that physical violence, or the threat of it, is a necessary basis for an act to be called a crime, then he's full of hooey.

Naa, he's just talking about non-statute law.

By statute, people can be arrested for what they do in their bedroom, in private, in complete consent. Such a law itself is the real crime.

But I have to ask, unless there is harm done, how can there be a crime? Sadly, now we're off topic and terms of service.
tuxchick

Feb 06, 2008
9:39 AM EST 		Oh Bob, I can't tell if you're trolling or trying to be funny. You speak of logic, then derail your own arguments. I toast marshmallows in the flames of your wreckage. Here, have one, there's plenty to share!
NoDough

Feb 06, 2008
10:08 AM EST 		TC,

It's just like you to wander around with a big bag of marshmallows looking for a wreck.

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