DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PORN CRACKDOWN

From the London Guardian:

For nearly 10 years, the resources of the Department of Justice's anti-obscenity division have been allocated almost exclusively to the war on child pornography, leaving those involved in the $10 billion-a-year adult market to their own devices.

But with producers of adult porn becoming increasingly lawless, according to Andrew Oosterbaan, head of the DoJ's anti-obscenity department, it is time to 'send ripples' through the industry and prosecute those producing and distributing obscene material. 'Nothing will be off-limits as far as content goes,' he said. 'We'll do everything we can to deter this conduct.'

These are the same people who were so scandalized by an exposed breast on a statue, mind you, in a Department of Justice building that they, at great cost, draped over it. These are also the same people who sent Tommy Chong up the river for selling bongs over the internet--a product I could buy legally myself, if I wanted, at a sleazy store just around the corner from where I live. Why am I not surprised by their latest shenanigans?

White collar crime is rampant. The threat of terrorism has increased greatly since the Iraq invasion a year ago. Petty street crime in the Bush economy is on the rise. Ashcroft's answer? Attack pornography.

We live in strange times.

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