Posted on 08/27/2012 2:00:06 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
The Republican Party’s platform committee declared war on pornography ahead of this week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
In a Monday morning press release, advocacy group Morality in Media revealed that “new language replaces previous platform wording, which only opposed child pornography.”
According to MIM, the new wording will read, “Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced.”
The party platform was drafted by a 112-member committee and will be unveiled early this week.
Existing obscenity laws “not only prohibit distribution of hardcore pornography on the Internet but also on hotel/motel TV, on cable/satellite TV, and in retail shops,” said MIM President Patrick Trueman.
“Distribution of obscene or hardcore pornography on the Internet is a violation of current federal law,” said Trueman, a former anti-porn prosecutor in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.
Earlier this year, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum attracted raised eyebrows when he promised a “vigorous” crackdown against “the scourge of pornography.” Santorum posted the promise on his presidential campaign’s website.
Mitt Romney, who will officially be nominated as the Republican presidential candidate in Tampa this week, also promised the group a “vigorous” crackdown during the Republican primaries, Trueman told The Daily Caller in July.
Romney, however, has not discussed his position at length in public, and his campaign ignored requests for comment seeking elaboration on his position.
Curiously enough, in addition to promising a crackdown on porn, the party’s platform also calls for “Internet freedom,” TheDC reported last week.
The addition to the porn plank came from Tony Perkins, the Family Research Council president and a GOP delegate from Louisiana, according to MIM.
Other socially conservative positions within this year’s party platform include opposition to abortion, with no exceptions for rape or incest.
In March, The Atlantic chronicled the history of pornography in the GOP platform, noting that it was first mentioned in 1984.
In 1992, the party platform called for “allowing victims of pornography to seek damages from those who make or sell it” and declared, “The time has come for a national crusade against pornography.”
After Bill Clinton won the 1992 election, his administration reined in the number of porn prosecutions, and they remained uncommon throughout the George W. Bush administration.
By 2008, The Atlantic reported, the anti-porn zeal had mellowed and the party’s platform merely addressed child pornography. Under President Barack Obama, Trueman told TheDC in July, the DOJ has initiated no new obscenity prosecutions.
“We are most grateful to Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council who led the effort to get the tough new language into the platform,” said Trueman. “Without enforcement of federal obscenity laws, pornographers have had a green light to target our children and families.”
“What we should be focused upon is how do we save both alive humans reagrdless of how the younger came into its existence.”
Bingo.
oh wow, don’t want to offend the pervert left I guess lol
And you make an effort to get the facts right. In the post previous to the one at issue, I wrote “Since it is biologically possible (I think) for a child that age to carry a pregnancy to term, should not she be offered an abortion?” So, you see, the “irrational” (you sure do sling that term around, don’t you? OldPossum was not saying anything about a forced abortion, irrational as he is.
One more thing: FU. That’s a rational response to your smart mouth.
You are misreading it. That’s not what “no exceptions” means.
You misunderstand.
What are the KEY issues? I’d wager Unemployment, Gov’t spending, Gov’t dependancy and the war against the wealth creators.
Those are the area you win an election with.
When you throw misc. BS into the mix, you dilute your key points and get drawn into a rat hole debating non-issues. For example, a DNC operative will burn your interview time with a BS question such as “define Pornography”. There goes your 5 minutes in the spotlight - messing with non-essential BS. And it’s a legitimate question, because YOU brought pornography into play. Don’t do that.
Whereas, if you keep your platform suscinct, clear and to the point - the DNC operatives are forced to deal with your talking points. They have no other choice. Stick to the issues that we clearly win- unemployment, out of control Gov’t spending on programs such as Solyndra, the historic increases of people on Food Stamps, and Obama’s war against small businesses.
No one has hinted, stated or even aluded to ignoring the laws - that is a rat hold you are dragging the discussion into. It’s non-productive and does not win anything.
Really, you see no difference between a STATE healthcare program (which is Constitutionally supported) and a FEDERAL program (which is NOT Constitutionally supported)? The state has the power to do this, the Federal Gov't does not.
That said, it was an ill conceived program to begin with; but the primary difference is that an individual state has a wide latitude as to what it can do, it is constrained by the Constitution as far as individual rights (ie. No state can allow slavery), but a state can mandate healthcare within the state.
It should also be noted that while Romneycare is abhorent to most of us; while he was in office, it was successful. It wasn't until he left office and the Democrats started appending new coverages, benefits and additional costs to the program, that it failed financially. However, Romney created and started the train, that went on to become a train wreck years later.
That is a bit myopic. There are many libertarians and independents who might be offended too.
PROFIT!
More than just Mega: File-storage site Oron.com comes close to going kaput (Published: 04 July, 2012)
Lawyers representing one of America’s largest gay porn studios are warning legitimate users of an online file locker to back-up their data — even ones they own the rights to — amid a major lawsuit that parallels the plight of Megaupload.Attorneys for Liberty Media Holdings, the parent company for pornography producer Corbin Fisher, have published a press release that suggests they’re close to an end in a copyright infringement suit waged at Oron.com, an online file storage site similar to the now-defunct Megaupload.
Oron is named as a defendant in the case of Liberty Media v FF Magnat, which has plaintiffs arguing that the file locker site is being used to host copyright films produced by Corbin Fisher. In a press release put out by Liberty Media this week, attorneys note that while not all users of Oron are involved in the case and that many are indeed legitimate users, they should nonetheless remove and back-up their files in a premature victory announcement of sorts.
liberaltarians are all perverts it seems like
bet the lose a lot of politicians votes.
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