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U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n

Posted by michael on from the shock-and-awe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the Justice Department is preparing to reawaken old laws to fight the war on ... no, not terrorists... porn! And not just the kinky stuff either. In the age of Internet connectivity, will this mean these jobs are headed to India too?"

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  1. Re:The problem with Christians... by GlassHeart · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    They can't help it. Christianity is evangelical by nature, and its members are asked to spread the gospel and save the non-believers from hell. At its purest interpretation, they are driven by the inability to accept another person's choice to what they consider sinful. In theory, they'd have failed their God if they left you alone.

    This is why the separation of Church and State is so important. The State is so powerful that it cannot be permitted to act as an agent of the Church, lest you end up with a monolithic society like the Taliban Afghanistan in terms of thought control.

  2. Pander, pander, pander by Durandal64 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    With the public slowly waking up to the simple fact that Iraq is a Hell hole and that the Bush administration spun lies and half-truths that would make Bill Clinton wonder how it was he who was impeached, Bush needs to energize his core support base. You know, the good, God-fearing, church-going Christians bent on defying every principle set down by the Framers of the Constitution to drag all us heathens back into The Light, whether we want them to or not.

    Those people don't particularly give a shit about what goes on in Iraq. They barely know that a world exists outside of their quaint, sub-1,000 population towns with as few branches on the family tree as Catholic churches down the street. All they know is that Saint Dubya is bringing justice and light to those heathen, savage "sand niggers" and/or "Aye-rabs." But what really concerns them is Bush's refusal up until now to deal with the utterly critical issues of mutually consensual, same-sex marriages and perfectly lawful pornography. That's the stuff causing society's collapse. All that sex and dancing. Oh, and the hip-hop. That's got to be next on Ashcroft's agenda. Getting those silly negro rappers off the street, in prison and America back into church on Sundays (specifically fundamentalist Protestant churches), that's what'll get America back on track. Then God will be on our side.

  3. Re:Which god? by Tyreth · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    From what authority do you draw the conclusion that God is eros?

    For your example to work, you have to show on what basis it is equally reasonable to conclude that God is eros.