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A_Wanderer

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Priorities such as a war on obsenity (old story but still stupid)
The FBI is joining the Bush administration's War on Porn. And it's looking for a few good agents.

Early last month, the bureau's Washington Field Office began recruiting for a new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting was a July 29 Electronic Communication from FBI headquarters to all 56 field offices, describing the initiative as "one of the top priorities" of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and, by extension, of "the Director." That would be FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III.

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Federal obscenity prosecutions, which have been out of style since Attorney General Edwin Meese III in the Reagan administration made pornography a signature issue in the 1980s, do "encounter many legal issues, including First Amendment claims," the FBI headquarters memo noted.

Applicants for the porn squad should therefore have a stomach for the kind of material that tends to be most offensive to local juries. Community standards -- along with a prurient purpose and absence of artistic merit -- define criminal obscenity under current Supreme Court doctrine.

"Based on a review of past successful cases in a variety of jurisdictions," the memo said, the best odds of conviction come with pornography that "includes bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior." No word on the universe of other kinks that helps make porn a multibillion-dollar industry.
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Now they may be revolting but I can only see how two or three could be illegal, well if they take away the porn I am sure that people will take up drugs.
 
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A_Wanderer said:
Priorities such as a war on obsenity (old story but still stupid)link

Now they may be revolting but I can only see how two or three could be illegal, well if they take away the porn I am sure that people will take up drugs.

Good. Drugs are more fun anyways.

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More pandering to the Religious Right and more wasting of taxpayer money.

But hey...that's what Republicans do best, right?

Melon
 
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