Letters to the Editor
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Why Carry Water For This Administration?
The whole obscenity angle on these firings is clearly a barnum, a distraction, and yet another attempt on the part of Karl Rove to divide and conquer public opinion on what should be clear-cut cases of multiple obstructions of justice.
These prosecutors were fired because they were doing their jobs properly and vigorously, not because they didn't prosecute enough child pornography cases.
Perhaps if the Bush Administration had not excelled at committing constitutionally pornographic abuses of executive authority in the first place, these prosecutors might have had more time to violate our civil rights in the new and interesting ways Alberto Gonzales has always intended.
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So Salon is Doing Al Gonzales' PR Now
Sure a few adult pornography prosecutions in 2006 would have helped the religous right forget that this administration was not serious about banning abortion and that it cared more about the price of oil than about the state of America's soul. However, none of these federal prosecutors were fired because they would not do a number on "Debbie Does Dallas."
Karl Rove is pulling Salon's leg with this one. Even left wing reporters will bite when they can mention "Girls Gone Wild" and other salicious topics in their articles. Sex is...sexier than voter fraud. Porn makes a more attention grabbing headline than immigration.
The Republican base is going to breathe a self satisfied sigh of relief and their faces will settle into smug grins when they read that all those awful federal attorneys were let go, because they were not protecting our children from porn. And they won't even have to tune into Faux News to hear about it.
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Yet...
even the Freepers will tell you that the government should stay out of their business, even, and including, porn on the internet. We are all against child porn - that's fairly cut and dried. But any Republican voter is probably more worried about immigration, guns etc. to get themselves too worked up about about a porn case. I would think you would find the general class of Freepers to be very disinterested in the attorneys worrying about what magazine or video was brought over the border than in who brought it.
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New Orleans Brothel Case
Ashcroft's Justice Dept and the FBI's decision to spend
resources on the surveilance of a New Orleans Brothel beginning
in the Spring of 2001 through 9/11 till the following May
shows the insanity of the conservative right.
This story should be raised by any Demo. canditate every
day untill the public knows it by heart. This current "porno"
crap is more of the same!!!
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Where do I sign up?
They need to hire someone to spend long hours doing nothing but watching porn?
After all, the FBI has the biggest stockpile...
Your tax dollars at work!!
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The Money Shot
I've been studing porn on the internet for some time now. I'll let you know when I come to a conclusion.
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Some of us are holding our breath ...
Some of us Western Pennsylvanians have had about a bellyful of Ms Buchanan, with her regular-as-clockwork contributions to the local op-ed pages on how the Patriot Act is our friend and how the greatest threats to our great nation aside from Islamo-fascist terrorists reside in the trousers and libidos of our citizens. Oh, and in buy-a-bong-by-mail Web sites.
Makes us wonder about the oh-so-convenient movable feast that has become Prosecuting Cyril Wecht. I hold no particular brief for the man, but as soon as the Federal Prosecutor flap popped to the surface, loud internal voices said, "Hmm."
I am holding my breath. This is better than "Lost."
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Gonzales prioritized ADULT porn, not kiddie porn
They prioritized going after CHILD PORN over ADULT PORN. It was ADULT PORN cases the prosecutors are accused of not prosecuting, not child porn. That's why it's community standards as the issue in Vegas.
Gonzales wanted ADULT PORN cases (like hard core porn sales over the net) to have the HIGHEST PRIORITY, over sex abuse, child predators, the like. Extemists right wing people see adult consensual porn as the greatest threat to the US, marriage, and the family every conceived (and link it to the usual list of boogeymen (and women).
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Funding
The lack of funding for staffing and other work by US Attorney's Offices is due to routing money to the war. This is another important failure of this administration to do its job. How is letting criminals prosper protecting our nation????? Its time for Bush to "support the troops" at home.
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Keep your powder dry
Hold on everyone. Mr. Follman is hardly carrying water for the Administration. In fact, if you read the article closely it points out the ridiculousness of the whole affair. I mean, the idea of prosecuting adult porn cases in Vegas will seem patently absurd to anyone who has spent 5 minutes walking down The Strip.
Of course the porn prosecutions weren't the real reason, but it would be almost sadder if they were: misguided priorities incompetently executed. The Bush Administration in a microcosm.
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Misinformation abounds.
It is amazing how much bushwa thrives in the letters around here.
"We are all against child porn - that's fairly cut and dried" according to paranoid floyd.
NO pfloyd. The consumption of child porn by the "average american male' is beyond imagining.It boggles the brain and leaves a wretched stain on the hearts and minds of those exploited for the entertainment of sick and twisted minds.Those benefitting financially from such heinous crimes will find there is a special place in hell just for them & their consumers.
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This Can't Be Read As Pro-Gonzalez
Read past the headline and you might figure that out. Geez, people.
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At least they're "saving the children".
I feel so much safer knowing that if even one person in a porn video is ONE DAY under 18, the people who made it will have their businesses shut down by the Feds, their names plastered all over the news (where they will be convicted ahead of time), years in prison, and with millions of dollars in fines.
Hey, they're "saving the kids". You can never do enough to save 'em.
So what about all the Iraqi children who are among the ones who die every day in Iraq? The victims of bombs, or who are maimed for life? The kids who have to walk past bodies on their way to school? Remember that group of schoolgirls who were blown up about a month and a half ago, at a gathering outside their school? What untold grief for the parents...
Where were the pictures of it in the American press? Don't we care about saving children? Where was the outrage? Simple. They're collateral damage. They're bad P.R. Don't upset the American public.