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.”
“Sorry folks but porn is not going (a)way”
It’s been here since the first cavemen sketched on walls, it will be here as long as men have sin and weakness in their hearts. You are right, it’s not going anywhere.
I might have missed something, but who on FR has ever spoken (or written) in favor of child porn? Seriously...
You might be surprised, just comments here and there and freepmails saying its not such a bad thing or that 13 year olds aren’t kids and are mature enough to decide.... libertarian thinking I guess.
I don’t want to do your homework. Just go on google and look it up. You will find the Truth is hidden in plain view. Most people just do not do their homework.
If done at the State level this wouldn't be a problem - but not everything worth doing is worth having a Federal “task force” assigned to it.
I count myself as lucky that I have never seen that sort of argument. I really don’t know how I would respond to that.
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Translation: you have no idea as to what you're talking about. Docs or STFU.
No Putz! I’m tired of doing other people’s research. Why you just sit three and do nothing but bitch. That is the reason why you do not know this because you are too lazy to verify it.
If you are too lazy to verify it, then prove me wrong or are you too lazy to do that to? I’m very surprised you do not even know this. It’s almost common sense.
Here is the no brainier research for you. Y
Look up the top names of the porn companies to get a start (From Google or Whate ever web site). Then put in that companies Profile name to read more about it. Then you will see where their company gets their money. For instance, do they have a parent company? Or are they are traded on the Stock Market?
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
I’m not doing anymore homework for you. If I did this for everyone that is too lazy to check it out, then I would never get anything done. Like I said if you don’t think what I’m saying is the truth, then prove me wrong.
First, the issue of punishment. If the law on the books for possession of kiddie porn is ten years' jail time, then if the prisoner completes his ten years, he has served his time and is entitled to be released. I have a major problem with additional, unofficial confinement based on psychological evaluations or anything else other than recidivism. Want 'em to do life without parole?? Then the American way is to change the law.
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.
All are examples of how what appeared at first glance to be something we should let the Goobers in Gooberment Agencies deal with regardless of no Constitutional authority for those Goobers, or that Gooberment Agency.
Pointing out that the young are known to be inclined towards sex, and that since time immemorial, parents have had to keep an eye on their children, much less that parents are the ones charged by both God and the Constitution with raising their children - all are considered by some as secret signs of support for kiddie porn.
The ultimate offense to such people seems to be the vilest of observations, that parents and churches will be very ineffective in creating moral and self regulating behavior in comparison to laws/government. Family and church seem to be seen, by those posters, as have little efficacy in the creation of moral and self-regulating citizens of the Republic.
I have tried to explain my observations on a phenomenon that may be inexplicable. It's surely worth what you paid for it. ;-)
I understand how much libertarians despise the commerce clause, but it's still there.
If done at the State level this wouldn't be a problem - but not everything worth doing is worth having a Federal “task force” assigned to it.
Now if the libertarians were to confine their beloved pornography to within the individual states this would probably work, but they don't do that now do they.
There is a clique here on FR who seem to believe that the way to make Americans more virtuous is to pass more laws. I have a hunch they’ll be showing up here shortly.
Holder finally did something right. In this day and age of trillion dollar deficits, we don’t need to waste money on task forces that duplicate the work of other divisions within the U.S. Attorney’s office, as well as similar programs at the state and local level.
What a beautiful, peaceful scene. Thank you, TOL!
In actual fact the established porn houses have been complaining about declining market share and profitability.
There are people who post themselves and friends performing. Very difficult to compete with free.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/04/digital-playground-video-technology-e-gang-09-ali-joone.html
You made the charge; either back it up or withdraw it.
Thanks for posting this article.
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