Hypocrisy Ha-Ha

Thanks to Jen for spotting this one. Wheee!

Alex Kozinski, 9th Circuit chief judge, posted sexually explicit matter on his website

An obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended today after The Times reported that the judge presiding over the case has maintained his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos.

Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, acknowledged in an interview with The Times that he had posted the materials, which included a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal. Some of the material was inappropriate, he conceded, although he defended other sexually explicit content as "funny."

Gee, I wonder if he would accept that defense from the people he's judging. I mean, humor is so subjective. What if the defendant said, "But judge, when I saw that woman peeing into the guy's mouth I about fell out of my chair laughing!" Would that work? How about "Bondage?? That just cracks me up! Seriously! All those ropes and people trussed up like turkeys? HAR HAR HAR, I am holding my sides right now just thinking about it, Judge!"

Yes, a fine complement to the "twinkie defense," the all-new "ha-ha" defense.

The story also goes on to list some of the stuff the judge found "inappropriate" and "funny" enough to save to disk and post on his site.

...The sexually explicit material on Kozinski's site earlier this week was extensive, including images of masturbation, public sex and contortionist sex. There was a slide show striptease featuring a transsexual, and a folder that contained a series of photos of women's crotches as seen through snug fitting clothing or underwear. There were also themes of defecation and urination, though they are not presented in a sexual context.....

Uhh...wha? Sez who? Is that the judge or the reporter making the assessment that images of people pooping and peeing is non-sexual? Ahahahaha.

Kozinki's claiming that he didn't realize he had saved these files (using the old "people send me stuff, I didn't even realize I had it, and, who me, post them on a site? did I do that? OHH, I had no idea!"), and also that he didn't realize anyone else could find it because he didn't offer visible links to the subdirectory. Which means only one of two things. Either (a) he has no concept of how the Internet or google work, and therefore is the last person to be judging Internet porn sites or (b) he's an arrogant, lying SOB who thinks the very laws he uses to prosecute others do not apply to him.