I, however, do have sympathy for the guy.

It's clear to anyone observant enough to see that the Polk County sheriff's office and prosecutor's office went after this guy through political, witch hunt motivations.

The man ran a website on which soldiers were posting gory pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan. That's how the site got publicity, that's how it ended up in the news, and that's what made some local sheriff's office, and one that has no business attempting to prosecute obsenity cases or determine what is and is not obscene and what does and does not violate First Amendment rights, get involved.

So, bail issues aside, this case should never have existed in the first place and it's crap that this man is involved in these legal issues at all.

Of all the untold numbers of porn sites out there, it's no mere coincidence that this man's site, with which he produced no content and that consisted solely of what members submitted, gets chased down by some small town sheriff after it shows up on the news and displayed some none-too-Bush-friendly material on it and made many an American soldier look bad.

It's not at all a good sign that some meddling local law enforcement entity is attempting to play censor and run around trying to do things the federal government can not do.

I hope that when this man wins his case - which he will - he sues Polk Cty officials and gets a heap of money for it.

When some local sheriff tries to get revenge on someone who made the candidate he voted for look bad over a politically sensitive issue and attempts to interpret and then enforce the law by his own means irrespective of what is allowed for and subjects a citizen to undue difficulty and interference, that is not the "legal system working", as you're trying to suggest.

Can you not see the forest for the trees?