-------- Original Message -------- Subject: I'm glad all the terrorists have been caught so Ashcroft can worr y about the important things Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 17:12:28 -0400 From: Singleton, Norman <Norman.Singleton@private> http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.obscenity06apr06,0,5361526,print.story?coll=bal-home-headlines Administration wages war on pornography Obscenity: For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. government is spending millions to file charges across the country. By Laura Sullivan Sun National Staff April 6, 2004 WASHINGTON - Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other "computer forensic specialists" like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn. In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains. Department officials say they will send "ripples" through an industry that has proliferated on the Internet and grown into an estimated $10 billion-a-year colossus profiting Fortune 500 corporations such as Comcast, which offers hard-core movies on a pay-per-view channel. The Justice Department recently hired Bruce Taylor, who was instrumental in a handful of convictions obtained over the past year and unsuccessfully represented the state in a 1981 case, Larry Flynt vs. Ohio. ... Norman Kirk Singleton Legislative Director Congressman Ron Paul 203 Cannon 202-225-2831 "When all government shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as oppressive as the government from which we just separated." Thomas Jefferson ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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