Our
View: Replace democracy with pornocracy
Billions
of dollars are gone, simply gone, from
the economy. Why? Because Attorney General
Alberto R. Gonzales has found the reason
American families are falling apart.
Is it drugs? Nope. Crime? No. Poverty? Nuh-uh. Pornography? You betcha.
An electronic communication attached to a July 29 job posting in the FBI’s
Washington Field Office claims Gonzales’ top priority is the so-called “War
on Porn” because “adult pornography is a threat to families and
children,” according to the memo as reported by Washington Post writer
Barton Gellman.
The target of the Bush administration’s latest war is porn specifically
marketed to consenting adults. It includes, “bestiality, urination, defecation,
as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior,” according to Gellman,
who cites the memo.
Here is another chunk of our First Amendment rights taken away. Say goodbye
to your favorite erotic stories Web site if it should happen to discuss BDSM
or bestiality. Have a journal on SuicideGirls?
Be careful what pictures you
post or what photo sets you view, because they could vanish after being declared
enemies of the War on Porn.
These materials are not being broadcast to the masses. This isn’t even
network television. We should not be legislating with sweeping morality.
Maybe
Gonzales had a bad experience with sex, but that doesn’t mean the rest
of us don’t enjoy it, whether in missionary or the most complex position
involving ankle and wrist cuffs suspending a partner from the ceiling.
Congress gave the FBI the order and money to focus on such priorities as pornography.
Our government is saying it is OK to spend money trying to control a multi-billion
dollar industry, including what is viewed and posted on the Internet.
Trying to manage something as pervasive as pornography and sex is going to
cost money we should be spending elsewhere.
But not to worry, the government has not lost focus of what is really important.
Gellman quotes Justice Department press secretary Brian Roehrkasse as saying
fighting terrorism is still the bureau’s No. 1 priority.
Congress is only asking for 10 agents from the Washington Field Office
be assigned to the hunt for adult porn. Essentially, we now have paid porn
surfers.
Other
offices can join in, but they cannot take away “from higher priority
matters, such as public corruption,” said a directive from FBI headquarters.
According to Gellman, public corruption is No. 4 on the list of priorities,
behind terrorist attacks, foreign espionage and cyber-based attacks. This
means adult pornography is competing with civil rights, organized crime,
white-collar
crime and “significant violent crime.”
Somehow, what consenting adults want to do or see in regards to sex just
doesn’t
seem to fit in with violence, crime or civil rights.
In a society where porn has become main stream enough to discuss the Rabbit
on “Sex and the City,” have two porn actresses run for governor
of California, and have DirectTV, Time Warner, Inc. and hotel chains like the
Hilton and Marriot reap the financial benefits of airing explicit sexual material,
porn is a large part of this country’s economy.
Los Angeles’ own San Fernando Valley is the porn industry capital.
How will that area survive if the majority of its films are canned? Money
will
simply disappear and who knows what industry will end up with it.
We suggest removing the current administration and replacing it with a pornocracy,
where sex will reign supreme and the world will be a little happier, if not
less sexually frustrated.
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