So, the Republicans are for small government, are they?

I think not.

Battle Brews As Porn Moves Into The Mainstream

From the article:

Another self-described former addict is Phil Burress, head of a Cincinnati-based conservative group called Citizens for Community Values.

Like many conservatives, he had hopes that the Bush administration would reverse Clinton White House policy and step up prosecutions of adult-porn obscenity cases as well as child porn cases. Thus far, Burress is disappointed.

"Five years into this administration, they get an F," he said.

Still, Burress is encouraged by the recent formation of an FBI anti-obscenity squad and the appointment of Brent Ward, a former U.S. attorney who combatted porn in Utah, to head an obscenity prosecution task force.

The Justice Department defends its record, saying it has indicted dozens of people on obscenity charges since 2001 and suggesting the pace will increase. But with a vast array of potential targets, and many other priorities, prosecutors must choose their battles carefully.

One pending case involves obscenity charges against a California couple whose company sold pornographic videos depicting simulated rape and murder. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison plus $7.5 million in fines.

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Okay, folks.  Morality is all well and good, and if you choose to keep yourselves pure in word and deed, you have my support and admiration.  But quit imposing your puritan code on the rest of the nation.  As a matter of personal preference, I find pornography rather dull and unexciting (erotica, on the other hand, may have its place) and would rather spend my hard earned pennies on other forms of entertainment.  That is MY choice.  I do not presume to force any other person to make that choice for themselves.  And nor should the federal government.

FBI Anti-Obscenity Squads and Obscenity Prosecution Task Forces, paid for out of OUR tax dollars, is precisely why I cannot take anyone seriously when they claim that the GOP will reign in spending.  Of course they won't - they just have a different shopping list.

Comments

[Fenrisulven]

"But quit imposing your puritan code on the rest of the nation. As a matter of personal preference, I find pornography rather dull and unexciting"

Our laws are nothing more than a codification of morality. Pornography teaches young men to view your daughter, sister and mother as sex objects. Would you object to your neighbor setting up a smelter in his backyard? Or a meth shop? Its poison in another form.

Society must impose limits. Simulated rape and murder? Child porn? Do you even understand who the audience is? Do you want him living next door? Dating your daughter?