With regard to the meat of her comment, though, Whiteacre is a major reason why many in and out of porn are aware of the threat to civil liberties the AHF antagonism represents. People who would let AHF run roughshod over a very basic freedom just because they don’t happen to like Whiteacre have much larger issues to deal with.

“You know what, I can’t remember that girl’s name. I’ll have to look it up. She was a complete dud of a performer tho, as was the other Eastern European blonde, and that’s why their scene was reduced to a fantasy sequence. I wanted to tear my hair out.”

In 2009, our friend Ernest Greene warned, “And for those who don’t think what happens here matters all that much to freedom of sexual expression elsewhere, ponder this: if a handful of motivated bureaucrats can inflict this kind of damage in a state where the porn industry has functioned without major interference for three decades, imagine what can happen in places with no such history and no established precedent for legal operation.

“Without laying a glove on Miller v. California, it might very well be possible to make porn production illegal everywhere in the U.S. through the abuse of regulatory procedures. If we lose that fight here, we’re unlikely to win it elsewhere.”

San Francisco doesn’t have to pass any such ordinance for troubles to follow the industry there — city and county ordinances merely represent (illegal) enforcement avenues for existing (also unconstitutional and industry-inappropriate) state Cal/OSHA rules. AHF, or some other busybody group, will keep filing third-party OSHA complaints on “non-complying” shoots.

These unconstitutional attacks on the adult industry have to be stopped now, on the federal level, else they will follow the industry all around the US. The blueprint exists: Miller v. California, Citizens United, Lawrence v. Texas, et al. A line has to be drawn in the sand.

I think porn will come out of this just fine if they pull up stakes and move. The city and county of LA will not, porn may not be a large percentage of their tax revenues but I bet they lose $1-$2 billion in tax revenue a year off of their stupidity when you include porn people spending their paychecks there. Before porn leaves they should pay their employees and talent in two dollar bills and advertise it so people see how much porn contributes to LA and make the Board of Supervisors look like the asses they are!

Just sayin’

First, on Derrick “RentBoy” Burts and the polygraph: http://therealpornwikileaks.com/exclusive-emails-reveal-why-derrick-burts-backed-out-of-a-polygraph-test/

Second, not only didn’t Burts contract HIV on a California porn set, due to his negligence (or whatever one might call it) he allowed his AIM test to lapse (he had been shooting mostly gay porn which didn’t require a current HIV test) — but he still went ahead and shot at least one gay porn scene immediately upon his return from Florida (when he was at his most infectious). That’s how much he cared about his and his co-stars’ health and safety one year before the AHF “FAIR” ballot initiative. http://www.lukeisback.com/?p=18285