On 14 Jan 2004 at 8:30, radiocomixcog wrote:
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Brandon Payne" <
> payne_brandon_at_y...> wrote:
> >
> > Last year I recieved the Spotlight on Skunkworks Graphic Novel
> and
> > the Skunkworks Tribute Comic from you guys with no problem.
> >
> > -Brandon Payne
>
> Yep, sometimes the stuff gets through. But it's totally random.
> We can send adult stuff to an address in Canada for months
> with no problems, and then suddenly, if a Canadian Customs
> guy does a random search of a package, the delivery address
> and our address go into a file and those packages get searched
> and/or seized. It's really weird. Technically, according to the
law,
> adult material is not allowed to be imported into Canada, though
> they don't enforce it all the time.
Obscene, not adult, actually, (but Canada Cens^W Customs still has
too much discression). The cute bit is, it's not uncommon for
something to be stopped on its way back, many of the adult magazines
in the US are printed in Canada.
> If it's a huge shipment of comics or books though, you can bet
> there will be more problems. A lesbian bookstore called Little
> Sisters in Canada recently had a fundraiser to fight a court battle
> over a shipment of erotica novels that were seized by customs
> on their way into the country. Other shipments they had got
> through. It's completely random.
The Little Sisters issue is a vendetta now, it used to be a bunch of
homophobic bigiots doing it, but Customs is one Supreme Court case
away from having to send all stops before a judge, (the Canadain
Supreme Court _hates_ having to repeat itself, and Customs has
already been there several times on this issue).
Here's another piece of trivia: Furry porn isn't legally porn in
Canada, a case involving Omaha had the finding of fact that furry sex
is animals preforming animal acts, (mind you, this does cause a
problem with furry-human pairings).
--
Phoenix
Received on Wed Jan 14 2004 - 22:24:41 CST