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Tue 6 Apr, 2004 09:40 am
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.obscenity06apr06,0,567200.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
"Nothing is off-limits, even soft core shown by millions of hotels"
"We want to do everything we can to deter this conduct" by producers and consumers, Oosterbaan said. "Nothing is off the table as far as content."
"In a speech in 2002, Ashcroft made it clear that the Justice Department intends to try. He said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet," and has "strewn its victims from coast to coast."
Look out people! We are being INVADED! Stop pornography now before YOU are the next VICTIM!!!
Taliban=John Ashcroft 
Whew, what a relief. I was so worried that people in a hotel room down the road might be able to order some saucy programs. Now I can sleep at night knowing they can't.
Come on Mr. Attonery General. It's crap like this that makes GOP'ers look bad. Quit wasting time and resources trying bust some porn viewers when there are terrorists out there trying to kill us. Get your priorities straight.
that's it, no more hotel rooms for me
The is election years grandstanding designed to mollify Bush's religious right base. It has nothing to do with either law or reality, but some poor shmucks will be dragged into court for a show trial and have their live ruined to satisfy the periodic need of the religious right for a little red meat. The fact that this is divorced from reality should surprise no one. Ashcroft fell of the edge of the universe along time ago.
Uhm . . . you can get that stuff at hotels?
How much do hotel rooms run these days?
ah yes, the flat universe theory, here be dragons.
Apparantly Ashcroft doesn't own a DVD player - he's still viewing his porn on a VCR.
Tennessee is about to pass a 'drive-by-porn' bill so that anyone watching porn in their vehicle in such a way that is 'visible' to the public, then one is subject to criminal charges and an automatic $50 fine.
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Either way, Nguyen, father of a 2-year-old girl, and his co-workers spend their days scouring the Internet for the most obscene material, following leads sent in by citizens and tracking pornographers operating under different names. The job wears on them all, day after day, so much so that the obscenity division has recently set up in-house counseling for them to talk about what they're seeing and how it is affecting them.
"This stuff isn't the easiest to deal with," Nguyen said recently while at his computer. "But I think we're going after the bad guys and we're making a difference, and that's what makes it worthwhile."
This part of the article is a bit hard to believe. It may be a bit boring after a while, but if Mr. Nguyen is so stressed by his job I sure they could find someone who wouldn't mind taking his place.
It's crap like this that makes me somewhat ashamed to be a republican. COME ON LIBERTARIANS. GIVE US A VIABLE CANDIDATE TO VOTE FOR.
Wait....is that an Ashcroft timer I hear clicking away in the background? Yep, here it comes....5-4-3-2-1....it's BOOK BURNING TIME!!
Everyone talks about watching porn, but does anyone think about the women who are duped, and sometimes forced to participate in porn? I'm sure there are some porn actors and actresses that love their job, but I bet most of them are not in a position to get out of it, and I think it would probably be a horrible thing to have to do. It's not completely victimless.
I guess this means Asscroft is out of the hospital?
LOL!!!
The First Amendment is trembling in fear!!!!!
kickycan wrote:Everyone talks about watching porn, but does anyone think about the women who are duped, and sometimes forced to participate in porn? I'm sure there are some porn actors and actresses that love their job, but I bet most of them are not in a position to get out of it, and I think it would probably be a horrible thing to have to do. It's not completely victimless.
Well, to the Ashcroft cocntingent, these people are the tools of satan, and therefore deserve no mercy. Rather like poor people and drug addicts.
doglover wrote:Brand X wrote:Tennessee is about to pass a 'drive-by-porn' bill so that anyone watching porn in their vehicle in such a way that is 'visible' to the public, then one is subject to criminal charges and an automatic $50 fine.
Oh, Good Heavens! Who in the heck watches porn in their vehicle. Certainly not the driver! Usually, the only people who watch videos in a vehicle are the kiddies sitting in the back seats watching some Disney flick or grandma/grandpa watching some National Geographic snoozer.
Not anymore, the youngsters install DVD/Video game players right in the dash along with the monster stereo systems. Aint technology great....
hobitbob wrote:kickycan wrote:Everyone talks about watching porn, but does anyone think about the women who are duped, and sometimes forced to participate in porn? I'm sure there are some porn actors and actresses that love their job, but I bet most of them are not in a position to get out of it, and I think it would probably be a horrible thing to have to do. It's not completely victimless.
Well, to the Ashcroft cocntingent, these people are the tools of satan, and therefore deserve no mercy. Rather like poor people and drug addicts.
That is entirely possible. But isn't it also possible that he looks at the producers, the ones who get these women to do these acts, as the tools of satan? I don't go in for the religious crap, but aren't these people the scum of the earth?
I don't know. I don't know enough about the industry to comment. I'll have to go with the ususal cop-out for art lovers and say "I just know what I like. "
Ashcroft edits the bible: "Hmm....two whole texts to read? Lemme just skim the Jew bible first, probably lots of smut in there....let's see....begat, begat, begat...scratch all of that sex talk. Wait, here's something good, wars, and lots of them. We'll keep that in...scratch the raping and pillaging on the good guys' side, but not on the enemy's side. Real Americans fought a clean war back then, as they do now. On to the new book, the book of my favourite god-fearin' Christian, Jesus Christ. Hmm, well Mary Magdelene has to go...can't have whoredom in the good book. I like this part, throwing out the moneylenders. Heh heh, those wacky Jews. Never trusted them, you know. Well, seems good enough to me. Now back to business, watching endless amounts of porn for signs of indecency."
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