Prosecuted for Bad Taste

For sure, I would never hire this guy. He is clearly lacking any kind of judgment.

http://hypervocal.com/news/2011/youtube-musician-evan-emory-faces-20-years-in-prison-for-clever-editing/

But being crass, tasteless, and offensive is not, or at least should not be, illegal.
It certainly should not be a felony.

Yet here we have a prosecutor with, what, nothing better to do than make up ways to charge people who offend him with crimes, going after this guy.

His crime?
Singing a sexually explicit song and putting it up on YouTube.
So what? you ask?
The "so what" is his choice of editing.
Although he was singing alone with his camera, he edited the video as though he were singing to a bunch of little kids.

So now he is being charged with "manufacturing child sexually abusive material."

That law, as absurd as it is, was intended to criminalize making computer-generated graphics of sex acts with kids. Now we see what happens when vague, well-intended statutes get into the hands of people whose agendas go beyond the original intent.

Likely the prosecution will be found unconstitutional, hopefully the law itself will be as well. But this kind of malicious prosecution casts a chill on free expression that is vital for our society to function.

You may laugh at this guy's situation, but consider this:
The definition of "terrorist" is far more vague, as is "terrorist activities."
When do we reach the point when civil disobedience, which in previous times was at most a misdemeanor "disturbing the peace" charge becomes "domestic terrorism?"

We are on a slippery slope of criminalizing things that "people don't like" or worse, that "the government doesn't like" and I, for one, don't like where it is headed.