Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to Bob Ackley:

 SD> Hello, Bob.

 SD> Saturday August 30 2008 at 05:01, you wrote to Jeff Binkley:

 BA>> One has to wonder if you'd be crowing just as loudly if Rush Limbaugh
 BA>> had drawn seven years in the slammer for his drug addiction. 
 BA>> Somehow I think not.

 SD> I think there's a difference between drug addiction and child porn,
 SD> Bob.

Both are felonies.

 SD>  The first you simply destroy yourself and the second you're
 SD> strongly contributing to destroying other people's lives in a way
 SD> that can't be undone (and I know about the first from personal
 SD> experience).

 SD> Granted, both acts are wrong, but to compare their damage is simply
 SD> illogical.  Later, Sean.

I didn't say anything about damage or otherwise compare the two offenses.
My point was that the law says both are felonies and only one criminal was
punished.  Had Limbaugh drawn sixty seconds of jail time the right wing would
have been up in arms in lockstep support of him - my opinion, of course.

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