Hey, Where are MY Nudie Mags?

Posted on October 24, 2006

OK, so the ACLU has finally come out with a policy I can get behind, but I believe they need to expand their support of this policy to include all of us guys in society, and not just the inmates of Indiana Correctional Institutions.

Indiana Correctional Institutions have banned nudie mags, and the ACLU has gone to court to get the ban overturned on the grounds that anything could be prohibited, even National Geographic, under the guidlines that prisoners not be allowed to possess material that contains nudity and strong sexual content.

Let me tell you something, if you can look at some native woman with a saggy rack and be aroused by that, well, buddy, you NEED to be locked up…..that just isn’t natural, and the prison wardens KNOW it.

Now really folks, are prisoners ENTITLED to nudie mags? Do they have a RIGHT to nudie mags? What happened to the concept of PUNISHMENT? I want you to think about this, can you think of a better punishment than taking away all of the pleasures of life? Nudie mags aren’t a right, they are a privilege. Just as television is a privilege. Just as phone calls are a privilege.

At the base of this argument isn’t whether inmates are entitled to nudie mags or that the prisons may ban things such as National Geographic. Both of those arguments take away disucssion about the real problem at the base of this entire issue, which is punishment vs. rehabilitation.

As Daniel Muniz from National Summary puts it:

Prison needs to be an unpleasant uncomfortable place that will discourage more people from wanting to end up there in the first place as well as discouraging its current prisoners from coming back.

And if nudie mags are eventually declared a “right” you can be assured that I will be asking “Where are mine?”

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5 Responses to “Hey, Where are MY Nudie Mags?”

Jay on October 24th, 2006 11:12 am

You have to go buy them.
rightwingprof on October 24th, 2006 1:19 pm

This is pretty old news, unless the case got thrown out then reinstated or something.
kender on October 24th, 2006 1:32 pm

I foundn it today and didnt see a date on it…..
rottaiano on October 24th, 2006 1:50 pm

a few points here:

1. we have obviously run out civil liberties to protect if this is what the ACLU is left to nowadays…so that’s good news;

2. there are a number of sexual harassment and discrimination cases involving women objecting to such magazines at the work place (e.g. an overwhemingly male firehouse)in which the courts have held that the magazines had to go…i don’t remember the ACLU taking up the cause of the male firefighters on that one even though the same (shoddy) argument would apply…
kerwin_brown on October 25th, 2006 8:09 am

I do not know what the ACLU’s case is but according to the U.S. Constitution convicted prisoners have no rights beyond what the state government gives them as they can be enslaved. Notice that “except for punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”.

U.S. Constitution Amendment XIII

“Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. ”

I would like to see the federal courts actually go by the rule of law they so often claim to go by. Instead we have a bunch of oath breakers on the court who are themselves guilty of perjury and should be in jail at best.