Clean up the porn industry, that's the ticket...

Great. The Bush regime can't get Bin Laden...but they're doing a fantastic job against Ron Jeremy, Martha Stewart, and Tommy Chong.

 

To crackdown on porn would be quite a blow to suburban Los Angeles. Porn is a HUGE multi-billion dollar industry employing thousands, based almost entirely in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles.

Ashcroft would have quite a fight on his hands, they would sue his ass and keep it in the courts for years.

Also keeps young women who have made unfortunate educational choices from working just at McDonalds or standing on the corner.

 

It's an election year. Pandering prevails.

If they are trying to crackdown on porn, will we shortly see an attempt to pass an Amendment against burning the flag?

DS

 

Let's see regarding how porn persistently invades my home via the media described by Ashcroft:

Mail - Nope, I don't receive anything in the mail that would be even remotely considered pornographic, except for the obscene amounts of junk mail......

Phone - Nope, not here either. Maybe the telemarketers are selling porno in other areas of the country that they don't dare try and sell in SoCal. I have yet to receive a complimentary phone sex call I so deeply desire...... LOL

VCR - Nope, requires an affirmative act on MY part to insert a cassette into the VCR.

Cable TV - Nope, requires an affirmative act on MY part to turn on the TV and tune into channel. Maybe it's those "Girls Gone Wild" pixilated images that give John-Boy a stiffy, oh wait that's on regular TV channels also.

Internet - Hey the dumbass got one right........ Nothing like a porno pop-up ad hitting your screen. That is something I may not or didn't make an affirmative request to receive.

Lets see..... He's 1 for 5, right at the point were he'd earn a million a year playing baseball.

(sarcasm)What a great use of resources.(/sarcasm) This is the same prude who spent taxpayer dollars to drape the bare breast of the Lady Justice statue. No wonder I get that warm fuzzy feeling every time I send my quarterly estimated tax payments, right before I vomit. Apparently most adults are incapable of making choices. This gubment and administration think they have to raise the countries children because parents are too lazy to do it themselves. My six year old nephew hears more trash and vulgarity on the school playground than he does from the TV. Is Ashcroft actively persuing remedies to close down the school, since it appears to be a significant catalyst in the moral decay of our children? What a waste of time and money.

Later,

Cracked

 

I agree with the criticism if not the tone. But I have to point out this is just the conservative version of the Nanny State. The liberals are far more aggressive in pushing their version of it, and I don't recall a lot of catcalls then. I'm quite capable of deciding if I want to look at porn, but I'm also capable of deciding if I want to use tobacco, keep a gun in my house, buy an SUV, use a child safety seat, etc. Most of these Nanny State efforts are well-intentioned. But most of us would rather make these decisions on our own and not have Big Brother looking over our shoulder, ready to pounce if he disagrees with our choice. Somehow our country got along just fine for a couple hundred years without all this intrusiveness but now our "leaders" feel we have just become too dumb to trust with these decisions.

 

I think that was a candid, possibly brilliant (in its brevity) synopsis.

It is my contention that the essential underlying philosophical error, the thread that is common to both Right and Left, is their unbridled commitment to altruism rather than rational self-interest. (Altruism is the system of belief, codified by Kant but made popular by religion before him, that the "greatest moral good is what enriches the doer the least.")

To continue with AAA's brevity and focus, I'd say that the Right wants to subjugate the individual to the whims of its gods; while the Left wants to subjugate the individual to the whims of the State. At a fundamental level, there really is no difference between these two; they differ only in the details.

The essence of both positions is that you do not own your own life. It is merely on loan to you, by a god or the State, and those entities (through their agents) have total disposal of your life at any time they choose. Always the call for sacrifice from these two.

Always.