Posted on 02/14/2009 2:40:13 PM PST by MountainLoop
The Senate Judiciary committee has prolonged the decision-making process in regard to ratifying David W. Ogden as Obama's pick for deputy attorney general.
The Senate was expected to have voted on Ogden after a committee hearing last week, but the vote has been delayed until after the Senate's recess next week.
Ogden is considered a controversial pick for the office, due to the fact that he represented several media groups to challenge provisions of the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 and the Child Protection Restoration and Penalties Enhancement Act of 1990.
He has argued that requiring the pornography industry to personally verify that models were no younger than 18 would "burden too heavily and infringe too deeply on the right to produce First Amendment protected material."
Ogden also submitted a Supreme Court brief on behalf of the ACLU that defended a man convicted under the federal child pornography statute on account of the man's videotapes, titled "Little Girl Bottoms (Underside)" and "Little Blondes," which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit had found "clearly were designed to pander to pedophiles." Ogden argued that the man should not be prosecuted because they are technically not pornography under the Constitution.
One of Ogden's past clients is PHE, Inc., the largest distributor of hard-core porn videos in the U.S., which has distributed DVDs with titles that include terms such as "School girls," "Bubblegum cuties," "Sweet young things," "Young Girls," and "Fresh and Young."
When Ogden appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, he distanced himself from his history, saying, "I believe that child pornography laws are extremely important. Child pornography is abhorrent."
However, Brian Burch, president of the pro-family watchdog organization Fidelis, expressed little confidence in what he termed Ogden's "confirmation conversion."
"David Ogden is a hired gun from Playboy and the ACLU. He can't run from his long record of opposing common sense laws protecting families, women and children," said Burch. "The United States Senate has a responsibility to the American people to insure that Mr. Ogden's full record is fully reviewed before any vote on his nomination."
"Now, as pornography spreads like a virus, commandeering our homes, schools, entertainment and public spaces, women and children can expect the same justice from lawyers who serve Big Porno that blacks got from lawyers who served Jim Crow," warned child pornography expert Dr. Judy Reisman in a WorldNetDaily column. "David Ogden cannot bite the pornography hands that have fed him, nor can his handpicked team."
These guys think we can't see through their little schemes.
Good grief!
I think this is a natural fit. Birds of a feather....flock... why should anyone expect anything different, weren’t we promised CHANGE. Chester the Molester is going to be Ogdens personal secretary.
I take it back, I may have been slandering ten year olds unfairly, when I said BO had the mind of a ten year old. Six perhaps?
bttt
Change you can believe in? I guess picking a kiddy-porn lawyer for Deputy AG is different. To make it a hat trick the guy needs to be transgendered and delinquent on his taxes; then he's a real Obama pick.
Are we witnessing the oval office turned into a den of thieves & perverts? Sure looks like it.
You’re right, this pick is out of character for O. He should be a tax cheat first and foremost. The kiddie porn thing is just icing on the cake. How could a rational adult make that argument - that proving legal age of your “staff” is too much of a burden? Sheesh, back when I was a kid, I had to show a drivers license just to prove I was old enough to work in a grocery store stocking shelves...
SICK, SICK, SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably on the list for the next supreme.
Okay everybody
Here is my challenge. We must make sure there is a storm of opposition to this unprincipled, amoral shark ever being ratified or confirmed...
Today I emailed two close friends who are in the “Knights of Columbus” Catholic men’s organization in different cities. Each of them has a large circle of frieds and family. One is a serving Grand Knight in a parish where he has attended all his life (54 years), so everybody knows and respects him. The other has eight children and eight grandchildren, numerous siblings, cousins, and five or six different sets of in-laws, and as an insurance agent, he also has well-placed business and professional contacts.
I also e mailed my own mother, and all my in-laws (five groups in all) and strongly urged every single one of them to continue to forward the information around, and share it at their respective churches.
If every person who views this thread will do the same thing, it will have an effect. If every person who views this story calls their local radio talk show, brings up the issue, and cites the article and its specifics...it will make a difference.
Call Rush, call Sean Hannity, call Michael Savage, call O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, call Glenn Beck, Michael Medved, Lars Larson, Dr. Laura Schlesinger - make ALL of their telephones ring on the issue of this appointment!
Awareness is [as always] critical.
We can build a groundswell of opposition to Ogden’s appointment and make it - make HIM too significant of a liability to the Obama administration...
Yes, there have already been at least four appointees who have constituted significant liabilities to the administration (or so one might think) but obviously, Odumbo and his cohorts have NOT GOTTEN THE DAMN MESSAGE SO FAR!!
So they need [yet another] two-by-four across the forehead.
Ogden MUST be staunchly, loudly, and vocally opposed by not just one, but several major and influential churches, children’s advocacy groups, pastors like T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, Billy and Franklin Graham, Charles Stanley, Pat Robertson.
Members of the House Judiciary committee should also be besieged by fax and phone, since they will question Ogden.
Packed with demo-rats as the committee likely is, they may not care, but make their ears burn anyway, just on general principles!
Okay - who is up for it?!
A.A.C.
I’m waiting for NObama to pardon O J Simpson, and then appoint Simpson to a special position as czar of battered women’s shelters!!!!!
That’s about the only appointment he hasn’t made yet!!
I’m waiting for NObama to pardon O J Simpson, and then appoint Simpson to a special position as czar of battered women’s shelters!!!!!
That’s about the only appointment he hasn’t made yet!!
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