Big Nanny will be watching former parochial school teacher Jeffrey Klazura's Internet life for the next two years. He's pleaded guilty to a rarely-prosecuted Kansas obscenity law and won't go to prison, but one wrong mouse click and off to the hoosegow he goes.
All because Klazura asked a Yahoo photo service to convert computer downloads of two very young-looking nude adult women into a pair of print photographs, with a postal inspector dressed as a mail carrier delivering the package - even though Klazura canceled the order after Yahoo advised him the pictures could be illegal, according to the Wichita Eagle.
And the weird thing is: Kansas has an obscenity law of sorts - it says obscenity is whatever the people of the state say it is, meaning a breadth that makes it difficult if not impossible to prosecute or defend, the Eagle said. In other words, you could get bagged - assuming someone is zealous enough to bag you - for nothing worse than sexy talk in e-mails, subscriptions to Playboy, online purchases of certain music CDs, and watching porn on pay television.
You see, porn isn't illegal in Kansas, but obscenity as defined above is. Prosecutors in the Klazura case called his two adult nudes obscene. But they didn't have to prove it in court after Klazura struck his plea bargain, the Eagle said.
Fat lot of good that did Klazura - he still gets to carry a record as a convicted felon. He'll have to keep Uncle Sam apprised of his cyberspace whereabouts, provide passwords, and take it when federal probation officers decide to check his computer any old time they choose, even attaching software to monitor his Internet life.
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