Whether you believe you had the right to buy The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct or not, its author has been arrested for violation of obscenity laws.
According to Florida’s Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, cops nabbed author Phillip R. Greaves II in Colorado. Greaves had sent a signed copy of his controversial book from Colorado to Florida, and Polk County detectives got all sorts of grossed out and decided to bring Greaves to justice.
Greaves is being shipped down to Polk County as soon as today, though if the extradition is contested, it could take between 30 and 60 days.
Sheriff Judd—who presumably read the book—told Fox News that it was written “specifically to teach people how to molest and rape children.” He also shone a virtuous light on Florida as the only state in the nation with the power to “do” something:
There may be nothing the other 49 states can do but there is something Florida can do. We can prosecute [Phillip Greaves] for this manifesto.
Florida has an excellent reputation with child pornography and sexual abuse.
- Republican state representative Mark Foley was forced to resign his post in 2006 after investigators uncovered sexually explicit text messages sent to teenage boys, including statements that he’d like to see a 17-year-old’s “package” and would love to take a boy’s T-shirt and gym shorts and “slip them off.”
- Former Daytona Beach city commissioner Mike Shallow was busted for lascivious conduct in a Sears restroom at a mall in 2007. Shallow used similar attention-grabbing tactics as former Idaho senator Larry Craig—another Republican—such as the Toe-Tap and the Wide-Stance.
- Before becoming an outspoken anti-abortionist (for the Republican party, natch), Howard Scott Heldreth was arrested and convicted for raping a child in Florida.
- Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”) was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Anyway, that’s beside the point.
About Brennon Slattery
if that doesn’t prove that wrestling is filled to the rim with tacit homosexuality, i don’t know what ever will.
it’s lame all the way around.
Imprisoning a man for writing a book is a very serious act for authorities to take. Once you start imprisoning people who write books, you open the door for more arrests of people who author different types of books deemed threatening or unacceptable.
There are a very few principles, in America, that we enshrine because a free society cannot operate unless these are protected. If, as Sheriff Judd would like, people live in fear not of what they do, but of what they write, we have taken a, perhaps, irreversible step away from being a free society.
Argh! Listen– this guy is the worst, & if he DID anything I’d be all about locking him up. He’s the worst, we all know he is the worst, we had citizens take action about it. Fine & dandy. The reason I say ARGH? Arresting people for writing books– even THE VERY WORST BOOK YOU COULD WRITE– is a bad road to start down. Don’t make me defend this guy. He is really the worst. But obscenity laws dangerously curtail free speech. Come on. Don’t make me defend this dirtbag.