Flutterby™! : The Government vs Erotica

I took some time and finished The Government vs. Erotica: The Seige of Adam & Eve by Philip D. Harvey. It's the tale of his struggle with the US DOJ over obscenity prosecution of the Adam & Eve mail order company, from the initial assault on the company in 1986, through attempts to prosecute from as many different jurisdictions and community standards as possible, to, 7 years later, the Adam & Eve folks having to dig up a crime that they could plead guilty to (they eventually found a technical flaw in font size that violated postal regulations) so that the prosecutors could save face and everyone could avoid the additional costs of a trial. Probably nothing in here that Flutterby readers aren't already fairly familiar with, but some of the legal maneuvering is interesting, as is the reminder that it's up to all of us to fight for freedoms, and that the misapplication of law is a time-honored tradition.