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.

[allmendream]

The purpose of our government is not to seek God.

The purpose of our government is to recognize and defend our natural right as individuals to seek God as the freedom of our conscience dictates.

[stormer]

Grumpy Puritan frowning at the sight of "merriment".

[Antoninus]

Good. I support this 100%. Hard core porn has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with destroying families, encouraging the objectification of women, and creating addle-brained serfs.

[NativeNewYorker]

anybody who is not functionally brain dead knows that if the government got in the habit of censoring what we do on the internet, they would not stop with porn.

Exactly. How difficult would it be for a future Democrat administration to label THIS place as "obscene"?

[Vendome]

LOL

[Vendome]

LOL

[Antoninus]

If so then this demonstrates the nation is beyond saving. Libertine being substituted for liberty is a real clue. Seems the nation in its laudable form lasted about 200 years.

Exactly. You can either have a republic of mostly moral men, or you can have a dictatorship ruling men addicted to vice.

There is no other way.

[dead]

What folks are not grasping is the concept that the economy is in the shape it's in because we have turned away from the God who founded and blessed this nation.

That excuse is good for God-fearing Christians who are willing to vote for a moral crusade in Christ's honor. That number is limited to a very small percentage of the actual electorate, and a campaign along those lines will lose spectacularly.

A more direct and obvious causal relationship can be established between the $14 trillion dollar national debt and the fact that the US government spent $14 trillion dollars more than it had.

[C. Edmund Wright]

um, you forgot the word “free” in your little equation there sport.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[Well Rick, the dems want YOU for a reason.]

Smart politicians know how to keep their mouth shut and deliver their thoughts and ideas in a subtle manner.

Not Santorum. He blast it out loud and divisive every chance he gets. Especially when he thinks he is the one to beat. His arrogance level goes off the chart.

[.30Carbine]

It’s laudable that people are still interested in basic constitutional principles rather than usurpations based on their personal beliefs. It happens so rarely that it’s comforting even if it is about porn.

      “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
~Founding Father John Adams

What people seem not to comprehend is that America's failure to live up to her potential Constitutionally is directly related to her failure to live up to her potential morally.

[trailhkr1]

Obama is making a fool out of himself

Amazing isn't it? Obama shoots himself in the foot every day and 99% of his policies are crap and this is what we have(candidate talking about porn) to defeat him?

[paul51]

Hey ayatollah rick, we want government out of our lives, out of our pockets and out of our pants.

[Jonty30]

The Founding Fathers gave the country to a free people, with the explicit purpose of keeping the national government out of the lives of the people, with people issues being delegated to the authority of the states.

As somebody mentioned, if Santorum is intending to do this, it will not stop at preventing you from looking at gross and disturbing pictures, your conduct on the internet will be completely policed by the feds.

You should know, just from the education system, that when the feds get involved in people issues, it always ends up with the feds promoting its agenda, regardless of whether it is good for the people.

[.30Carbine]

If so then this demonstrates the nation is beyond saving. Libertine being substituted for liberty is a real clue. Seems the nation in its laudable form lasted about 200 years.

Exactly. You can either have a republic of mostly moral men, or you can have a dictatorship ruling men addicted to vice. There is no other way.

You got it, fellas.

[b4its2late]

LOL....

[Jones511]

Wait... what did the very people who were involved with writing and ratifying the Constitution say about this?

“[A]lthough every immoral act, such as lying, etc., is not indictable, yet where the offence charged is destructive of morality in general; where it does or may affect every member of the community, it is punishable at common law. The destruction of morality renders the power of the government invalid, for government is no more than public order; it weakens the bands by which society is kept together. The corruption of the public mind, in general, and debauching the manners of youth, in particular, by lewd and obscene pictures exhibited to view, must necessarily be attended with the most injurious consequences, and in such instances, courts of justice are, or ought to be, the schools of morals.”

“The defendants are charged with exhibiting and showing to sundry persons, for money, a lewd, scandalous and obscene painting. A picture tends to excite lust, as strongly as a writing; and the showing of a picture is as much a publication, as the selling of a book. Curl was convicted of selling a book. It is true, the indictment charged the act to have been in a public shop, but that can make no difference; the mischief was no greater than if he had taken the purchaser in a private room, and sold him the book there. The law is not to be evaded by an artifice of that kind; if the privacy of the room was a protection, all the youth of the city might be corrupted, by taking them, one by one, into a chamber, and there inflaming their passions by the exhibition of lascivious pictures. In the eye of the law, this would be a publication, and a most pernicious one.”

[Antoninus]

The nation can be saved, but trying to use morality lessons, when the patient is close to death on the operating table is probably not the best way to do it. Christianity + state sponsorship = inquisitions. Or do you forget your history?

The level of ignorance on this subject here on FR is astounding. Whenever reforms have been successfully accomplished in history, whether it be Rome, China, Byzantium, Persia, the Catholic Church, etc., such reforms have always been accompanied by a general revival and enforcement of moral norms. Indeed, without such a revival, all reforms will FAIL.

In our current state, you can pass all the laws you want and nothing will change. What is needed is a revival of authentic Christian values among the people who will then demand it of their leaders. Anything short will not revive this republic.

And yes, such a revival CAN be initiated from the top down. It can't be sustained that way, but it can be started.

[Antoninus]

He just cannot help but substitute his personal agenda for the good of the nation.

Restricting obscenity IS for the good of the nation.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

One guarantee from Santorum if he is elected, he will try to legislate morality using the power of the Presidency.

The Left will rise up against Santo like they never have before. He will energize their effort to degrees that will astound even the scoffers,