Posted on 04/20/2011 11:33:07 AM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Justice Department task force initiated under the Bush administration to fight the spread of hardcore pornography has been shut down by Obama’s attorney general.
Politico reported this week that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder closed the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, a move that has been met with criticism by conservative congressmen and other leaders.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) urged Holder in an April 4 letter, signed by 41 other senators, including 6 Democrats, to change his mind.
“We know more than ever how illegal adult obscenity contributes to violence against women, addiction, harm to children, and sex trafficking. This material harms individuals, families and communities and the problems are only getting worse,” he wrote.
The Justice Department claims that the porn issue is better handled by lower U.S. attorneys and by the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
Dr. Judith Reisman, an internationally recognized expert on the harms of pornography, said she considered the task force to have been no better than a token initiative.
“While perfunctory, smoke screen pretenses were made under Bush now the cards are on the table,” said Reisman in an email to LifeSiteNews.com, adding that “even under [Reagan] we were spiked, not by him of course, but by those under him.”
How about you stop being a rude idiot and do your own homework. You can find out in less than a minute. If you choose to stay ill informed, that’s your problem.
So when you go to the classroom to learn something new. Do you tell the teacher/instructor/professor.... Just do all the research for me?
You ONLY learn by doing it yourself. Being lazy, doing nothing and then just bitching with no proof does not support your point either.
If everyone had to take the time to show others too lazy to check, then we would never get anywhere.
SORRY I’m not doing your research and I don’t care if you do not believe it.
Fine. From now on we can all just ignore your posts.
How bizarre is that they are in agreement with that pair. If nothing else, that should be a red flag.
I don’t think I agree with some of that
You’re welcome, sweet one.
Second, my definition of child pornography is material which depicts the sexual exploitation of actual human beings below the age of consent. A novel that describes sex with children, or artwork portraying what is purported to be sex with children, are distasteful in the extreme, but if no actual child was involved, it's not child pornography.
31 posted on April 20, 2011 3:49:14 PM EDT by Notary Sojac (Birth Certificate Derangement Syndrome - have you been tested??)
**************************************************
I don't think I agree with it either.
Ignore: to refrain from noticing or recognizing...
Perfect word to use!
No surprise.. Here is one more starter for you genius!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/21/60minutes/main585049.shtml
Now this is not the “end all”, “be all” do you understand this? That means this is your “starting point” or “launching point”.
I understand you are use to being Spoonfed everything. Just because you have never heard it, because you are too lazy to look it up, does not mean it’s not true. You are killing me!
Oh and thank you for ignoring me!
I can respect your point of view, but yes, we will agree to disagree.
Here is one of the Top Porn Companies Vivid Entertainment. You can read about them here. Just follow the money is all you have to remember.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/51/51033.html
OK, so I go there, and I see there are three co-CEOs: Steven Hirsch, David James, and Bill Asher. The site you provide lists no further info about Vivid Entertainment.
So I look up founder Steven Hirsch on the Business Week website, and his info does not show his company as being owned by some non-porn parent, and does not show business relationships in disrelated fields. David James, same deal. Bill Asher came to Vivid from Playboy.
Your original statement from post 5 was:
The porn industry is funded by large Corporations. If you look at the porn companies and you will find out they have a parent company that usually leads to well known large companies.Your statement gives the impression that porn companies are owned, supported by, or invested in by large corporations (define large -- Fortune 500? What?) that the average member of the public would not suspect as being involved in porn.
You're the one that made the assertion without any evidence that I can find.
I thought it was all legal except child porn.
Am I really that ignorant of modern times?
I did look, and found nothing to back up Sprite's assertion. Since you guys are the ones making the conspiracy-theory assertion, one would expect you to, at minimum, give some background on where you got the data upon which you make your assertions.
The responses I'm getting indicate a high level of defensiveness, which I suspect comes from knowing you can't back up your assertion.
San Fernando Valley has a huge porn industry going on. Huge.
Apologists for porn sicken me.
Any literature, photos, live action, artwork or any other media which uses children - real or fictitious - in a sexual manner, is disgusting and until the Supreme Court (leftist at the time), porn producers and the ACLU decided that “free speech” mean pornography and obscenity were protected, none of the above would see the light of day.
Anyone who thinks that literature or any media that uses real or fictitious children in a sexual manner is fine is sick in the head and morally blind.
I’m sorry, but that may be the weakest answer ever posted.
Here is a quote from my last post with a link, that like I said is a good starting point or launching point. Why don’t you go back and read that link again. Obviously in your few minutes of research you did not find it. This was at the bottom of the link... if you ACTUALLY read it.
“Since 60 Minutes first brought you this report, General Motors sold its subsidiary, Hughes Technology, and got out of the porn business. And, actress Jenna Jameson says she wants to do the same thing: retire and become a “regular mom.” “
When you do real research it takes a while and not 15 minutes of breezing through links. LOL!
Bottom line is this. The porn industry is not going away unless we become an Islamic State. Then it will just go underground.
I have no doubt that San Fernando has porn makers. The assertion was that "the porn industry is funded by large Corporations". It is not being "an apologist" to request references backing an assertion.
If I claimed that Young Earth Creationists were being bankrolled by fast food chains, I would be expected to point people at the data that led me to that viewpoint.
Thanks for getting around to providing some data to back your assertions. Yes, cable channels are large corporations, and yes they carry porn content as well as R-rated films and G-rated films. And hotel chains carry porn channels in their rooms. And I would not be surprised to hear that they do not check if couples are actually married (to each other) before renting rooms to them.
Barnes & Nobles and Borders Books also carry Playboy and Penthouse in their magazine sections.
I guess I was thinking you had something bigger.
That's better. OK, you are backing up your point. GM owned DirecTV, which delivered porn to its satellite subscribers. And AT&T, another large corporation, owns a cable subsidiary AT&T Broadband, which carries among its channels "The Hot Network", which is a porn channel.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.