Letters to the Editor
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Beautiful!
I love it when the facts of a situation directly contradict the attempted spin placed on them. The one US Attorney who was actually protecting the community with re: to the oh so horrid life-destroying blight of consensual adult pornography is one of the attorneys fired.
The spam case (assuming that what is meant here is the unsolicited distribution of actual porn via indiscriminate mass email) is the only so-called obscenity case that addresses the possible infliction of sexual images on an unsuspecting and non-consenting public. Every other case is trying to determine if the legally created images that a person enjoys in the privacy of their own home would offend the community at large.
These types of obscenity cases leave a wide open door for additional censorship efforts on similar grounds. If a vocal contingent of evangelicals can get the Harry Potter books banned for allegedly promoting witchcraft, what would be the fate of actual Pagans who have books on their actual religion? I've lived in areas where Fahrenheit 451 was forcibly removed from school libraries (without a trace of irony, at that). What would think of my library of books on anarchist theory?
But I digress. Considering the track record of Arizona US Attorney's office, if Gonzalez tries to use the porn issue as a building block of his "no improper reason" defense, he will have some difficult explaining to do.
Does anyone remember a time when being a Conservative meant that you thought the role of government in fiddling with the lives of citizens should be kept to a bare minimum? More and more the movement has been hijacked by these Social Conservatives file all the wrongs in the world under the same umbrella of "Immorality" with no distinction made between admiring the naked human form and sexually preying on children.