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To: Bella_Bru
Administration wages war on pornography - 06 Apr 04

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."

"Just about everything on the Internet and almost everything in the video stores and everything in the adult bookstores is still prosecutable illegal obscenity"

"Some of the cable versions of porno movies are prosecutable. Once it becomes obvious that this really is a federal felony instead of just a form of entertainment or investment, then legitimate companies, to stay legitimate, are going to have to distance themselves from it."

Obscenity cases came to a standstill under Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton's attorney general, who focused on child pornography, which is considered child abuse and comes under different criminal statutes. The ensuing years saw an explosion of porn, so much so that critics say that Americans' tolerance for sexually explicit material rivals that of Europeans.

Like I said, the only hope for you porn-addicted leftist radicals is to vote Ashcroft and the "Christian Taliban" out of the White House and get another deviant lesbian like Janet Reno in charge.
376 posted on 07/14/2004 1:01:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe (You CAN legislate morality.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Riiiigghhttt...and he knows he won't be able to do much about what people look at in their homes.

And quit attaching Christian to everything. You are such a little victim bitch, just like Jessie Jackson, or your hero, "Mrs. Hillary It Takes a Village Clinton. This has nothing to do with Christians and everything to do with control freaks who think everyone needs to live their way.

384 posted on 07/14/2004 1:05:15 PM PDT by Bella_Bru (It's for the children = It takes a village)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Like I said, the only hope for you porn-addicted leftist radicals is to vote Ashcroft and the "Christian Taliban" out of the White House and get another deviant lesbian like Janet Reno in charge.

Boy, you really do believe everything politicians tell you , don't you?

The DOJ has always had an obscenity/child born division. However, during the Reno years, their resources were used, rightfully, to go after child pornographers. DOJ lawyers know that getting an obscenity conviction is next to impossible and they would rather use scarce resources to go after kiddie porn.

I suppose Ashcroft would rather waste prosecutors' time on adult porn while letting kiddie pornographers go unpunished.

389 posted on 07/14/2004 1:09:30 PM PDT by Modernman ("I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members" -Groucho Marx)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Like I said, the only hope for you porn-addicted leftist radicals is to vote Ashcroft and the "Christian Taliban" out of the White House and get another deviant lesbian like Janet Reno in charge.


It works both ways . You and your team want to be mortal Gods . And since you mentioned it I'll be voting for freedom TJ not you and your team .


488 posted on 07/14/2004 2:47:34 PM PDT by Ben Bolt ( " The Spenders " ..)
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