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One must be truly addled to find anyone, anywhere, in this post saying S & M porn is an "ideal."
But to say its production and use is beyond the pale, in a country that engages in torture, rendition, and illegal wars is about as silly as it gets. The fact is that many people, from the Marquis de Sade on down, have strange sexual tastes that others might find repulsive or obscene. In a free country, it is not the government's job to decide what this is.
Rich Lowry can do whatever he wants when Sarah Palin winks at him, a thought I happen to find repulsive, but certainly not criminal.
To the authoritarian, obscenity is anything they personally don't like, or at least pretend not to for rhetorical purposes.
The point here is the misuse of prosecutorial power and resources to fight phony "wars" while real criminality pervades the government and Department of "Justice." Those are your tax dollars at work, and your "small" government's priorities, Shooter.
