Vigorous’ Santorum crackdown may catch Internet porn viewers

The Daily Call ^

[timlot]

Internet pornography could conceivably become a thing of the past if Rick Santorum is elected president.

The unapologetic social conservative, currently in second place behind Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination, has promised to crack down on the distribution of pornography if elected.

[gogogodzilla]

Folks....Social Conservatives make up a substantial part of the Republican Base. IF you drive us off with libertarian nonsense....you just set yourself up to lose again and again. You need us....bottom line.

And what the social conservative forget, a la Pat Robertson and Mike Huckabee... is that if you run solely as a socially conservative candidate, you will not get any other portion of the Republican party outside of social conservatives. Which means you won't even secure the Republican candidancy.

So, if social conservatives want a candidate, they have to back a candidate that *ISN'T SOLELY A SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE*.

And, unfortunately, Santorum is a rehash of Mike Huckabee. IE: only conservative on the social front and not in any other aspect.

[free me]

Porn Panels!

It’s for our own good!

Seriously even those who think Santorum is right to want to “vigorously enforce these laws”. Why make it a priority on his website?

Santorum just doesn’t get it.

[KevinDavis]

Yes porn is bad, but the Government controlling the internet is worse..

[gogogodzilla]

I think it’s quite healthy. It’s letting us see what other Freepers view as ‘conservatism’.

[af_vet_rr]

So would putting more border agents on the Mexican border. Would you object to that? Or should greater efforts be taken to enforce the laws of the land?

The Border Patrol falls under clear Constitutional duties.

Speaking of the Border Patrol, I'd rather tax dollars be spent on beefing up the Border Patrol than creating thousands of new federal jobs for people who would be paid to sit around looking at porn and determining what is obscene and what isn't obscene.

Besides, is the Border Patrol going to have a different definition of what constitutes illegal immigrants between every state? Is the Border Patrol going to move from enforcing border security along Arizona to enforcing jaywalking tickets in Omaha?

Because obscenity differs from state-to-state and person-to-person and religion-to-religion and none of you have yet to assure the rest of us that it won't go from banning pornography to banning cartoon images of Mohammed.

Think about who we have in the White House. Now imagine somebody like him in 2020 or 2024. You think they wouldn't be tempted to broaden the definition of what is considered to be obscene? After all, Muslims think cartoons of Mohammed are worthy of death sentences.

[KevinDavis]

Not the job of the President or Congress.. It is up to the people..

[skeeter]

There's nothing healthy about regurgitating MSM lies and mischaracterizations.

Many of us come here for an honest discussion, not to rehash issues on the MSM's terms.

[katiedidit1]

I don’t know...recalling the Bob Dole viagria commercial..down boy! eeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Marcella]

“I think it’s quite healthy. It’s letting us see what other Freepers view as ‘conservatism’.”
Your tag line: “Live free or die!”

I agree with you. I read every comment to get an idea what was being said on this thread before I made mine.

I get the creeps when some wanna be candidate or supporter wants to put another “you have to or you can’t do”, “we’ll hunt you down”, “jail time for you if you do x”, etc.

I keep seeing the book “1985” (think that’s the year on the book), hearing everything I say, seeing everything I do even in my house, forcing me to exercise on the spot and seeing me do it, monitoring what I say, having others watch me, taking my books, etc.

Any candidate who wants to limit my freedom, even to watch porn (whatever that is), does not get my vote. My eyes belong to me, not to the government.

However, my right eye has an operation coming on April 19 - I suppose that’s okay with Santorum if I promise it won’t look at porn? Leave my eyes alone.

[gogogodzilla]

Point not taken.

Seeing other posters reactions and their logic behind it is quite educational as to what our fellow Freepers think is ‘conservative’.

I’m quite shocked at how eagerly some are to accept government control as ‘conservative’. Regardless of the OP, their opinions on government control are now known to all who’ve read this thread.

And vice versa for those that quiver in fear at the thought of a small, unintrusive government.

[Christie at the beach]

Santorum is the sin police now.

Can someone remove this guy from the presidential field.

If he had enough sense, he would know that the presidency should NOT be controlling where you go on the net, where you go in your car and what you do in the bedroom. He keeps coming back to his government umbrella. Ricky sure does have sex on the mind. Thing of it is-it's others' sexual business in which he thinks about controlling.

[katiedidit1]

Wonder how Santorum felt when Bob Dole endorsed him..remember that Viagra commercial by Dole? down boy? brother where art thou? this is so absurd...there are parental controls and locks online and even ways to control cell phones. Santorum...we need to drill for oil, we need help with our economy; soc sec reform; get out of the UN; better schools; lower taxes; science innovation in utilizing liquified coal; less govt interference in our lives; taking the pc garbage off our military.

What a shame that RS wont debate Newt in Portland...there are so many questions left unanswered. The voters want the debates instead of constantly having to research everything or watch the media spin..debates are always much more informative.

[katiedidit1]

My daughter controls what her children watch on tv and what they view online. It is not that hard to do. My mother did the same when I was growing up.
Don’t want Michelle telling my children what to eat and dont want Uncle Sam to babysit.
I do want more done about the economy so the children and future generations are not left dealing with a 3rd world nation. America is BROKE

[gusty]

Excuse me for going off on a tangent. In thinking outside the box, free porn is an ally of those who want to rid the internet of it. Think about it. If the product, porn, is given away, those who produce it will be less likely to do so. The people involved in this industry will be starved of what the are after, money. With no money, why bother to go thru the trouble of producing all the porn. If you think about it, Rick Santorum and Larry Flynt are probably on the same side on this issue. If you return to the days of before the web, the pornographers made boatloads of money. That is why the Mafia was involved, there was money to be made. Now that the stuff is just given away for free, give it time and porn will naturally die on the vine.

[Marcella]

Santorum has it on his website, a rather long article, that he will pursue getting rid of porn and that makes it relevant. Certainly news organizations are going to pursue that since Santorum put it out there. He started this himself.

[katiedidit1]

The SCOTUS will take up Obamacare in 2 weeks. Hoping it will be over turned.
There are a ton of inane laws on the books...such as it is against the law to spit on the street in some city. There also used to be old blue laws in Virginia where you could not buy toilet paper or laundry detergent on Sundays. Think it began with a preacher called Billy Sunday.
You can search absurd laws...there are some whoppers

[skeeter]

Its the last thing mentioned on a list of ten or twelve issues, yet the tenor of many of the posts criticising him here are a bit hysterical, don’t you think? More in line with what they’re talking about on MSNBC.

[trappedincanuckistan]

Yeah I did some looking on the internet. Some crazy stuff.

[Christie at the beach]

-->> I disagree. The purpose of law is to restrain fallen human nature in areas where such restraint has been shown to be vital to the proper functioning of society. Given the damage that the ubiquity of pornography does to families, it is long past time for it to be restrained if we have any hope of rebuilding this republic.

OMG-fallen behavior to be controlled by LAWS by a GOVERNMENT. We have a Problem here folks- people posting for MORE government intrusion of our personal freedoms. Are we going to lose or what with this guy-the voters are now beginning to fall for government is the answer on a conservative forum. How can anyone defend Santorum idea of invading into our personal freedoms..don't go around to your neighbor and tell him/her what TV channel to watch or which site on the internet they can or cannot go to-as in what is alright for a moral factor decided by a person from a government- let mom and dad be the role models; not Rick's governmental agency.

[gogogodzilla]

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Welcome to 1984, a la Santorum.

(some help to decipher)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Newspeak_words