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Are You Ready for a Fight?

Submitted by Shal

Edited by MissTyrios

The FBI is joining the Bush Administration's "War on Porn." The intelligence agency has sent out a memo asking for agents to join the anti-porn squad. This time, they're targeting legal pornography that is marketed to adults, a tactic that hasn't been attempted with any strength since the days of Attorney General Ed Meese under President Reagan in the 1980s.

But [Attorney General Alberto] Gonzales endorses the rationale of predecessor Meese: that adult pornography is a threat to families and children. Christian conservatives, long skeptical of Gonzales, greeted the pornography initiative with what the Family Research Council called "a growing sense of confidence in our new attorney general."

Congress began funding the obscenity initiative in fiscal 2005 and specified that the FBI must devote 10 agents to adult pornography. The bureau decided to create a dedicated squad only in the Washington Field Office. "All other field offices may investigate obscenity cases pursuant to this initiative if resources are available," the directive from headquarters said. "Field offices should not, however, divert resources from higher priority matters, such as public corruption."


You'd think that maybe, just maybe, the government would have better things to do with its time, money, and investigative resources.

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BiggerThenBen

BiggerThenBen

Antarctica
June 2005

SEP 20, 2005 06:14 PM

Psychologically speaking - These measure to curtail porn is indicative of what is called a fascist personality as set-out by Theodore Adorno's F-scale. Which measurers the fascist's leanings of an individual.

Adorno's work was instrumental in the understanding in the rise of fascism in Europe and its causes.

You can take and F-scale test here

I score a Less than 2 meaing I am a whining bleading heart liberal.

An obsession of the Fascist Personality is the belief that every were people are engaged in mysterious and secret happenings many of which are of a sexual nature, and that need to be exposed.

PatrickY

PatrickY

Vancouver, WA
December 2003

SEP 20, 2005 06:22 PM

Mirtzig said:

Keith said:
The Republican party is the party of small government, just small enough to fit in your bedroom.


No shit!



It's punny because it's true.

GramNegative

GramNegative

I'm lost
October 2004

SEP 20, 2005 06:35 PM

MrPotatoHead said:
You can take and F-scale test here


Some day it will probably be shown that astrology can explain a lot of things.


The F in F-scale is for fruitcake?


[Edited on Sep 20, 2005 by GramNegative]

NINJAlicious

NINJAlicious

Providence, RI
February 2005

SEP 20, 2005 06:43 PM

all i have to say is let the christian have their way... i mean how bad can it be.... When they are all in their own goverment... i mean like come on, why don't they all go gungho on something like http://christianexodus.org/ and stop making so many people miserable??

dholokov

dholokov

Toronto, ON
April 2003

SEP 20, 2005 06:50 PM

I don't want to alarm anyone, but I have heard rumours that nudity and pornography exist ON THIS VERY SITE!! Of course, I've never seen it for myself but I've heard that some unsavoury types have been using this upstanding, wholesome, well meaning website to post PICTURES OF NAKED WOMEN!! frown

I trust that now this new agenda has come to light, the perpetrators of these actions will cease.

penates

penates

Madison, WI
December 2003

SEP 20, 2005 07:03 PM

Fine, go, make porn illegal! That'll just make masturbating to it even more satisfying... my boner is unkillable, you fucks!

TheFly

thefly

Eagle Springs, NC
November 2003

SEP 20, 2005 07:13 PM

Uh, I don't have a family and I don't have children. How is porn going to hurt them

You know, I hate to get political, but jesus fucking christ (the FBI will be on me now for using the Lord's name in vain), THEY decided to fight a pointless war (I believe in kicking the shit out of the terrorist fuckers and destroying WMD but their aren't any where we're at!!), THEY fucked up in this whole Katrina mess, THEY appointed a representative to the UN that hates the UN, THEY back Robertson who called, publically, for a world leader's execution.

And to compound this Epic FUBAR, they decide to mount another front against Porn?

God-Damn eeek

Is this what happens when one party is in power, like the interbreeding of royal families to keep the power concentrated? War, National disaster, unease abroad, unease at home and we need to fight porn now? I have never seen such a level of idiocy. Vietnam was a goddam good idea compared to these assholes.

So how is Canada in the fall?

Guinesscures

Guinesscures

Lancaster, OH
December 2004

SEP 20, 2005 07:41 PM

padriec said:

asinine said:
really, when did this administration win the rights to continuously decide whats right for families? it just boggles me that these idiots are constantly pushing constitutional boundries under the guise of family protection.

does the FBI need to be investigating LEGAL issues with a dedicated squad?



when 3.5 million more americans voted for Bush than they did for Kerry. that is the truly scary thing, this is the will of the majority of americans.



Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

SEP 20, 2005 07:47 PM

Krissyg said:

padriec said:

asinine said:
really, when did this administration win the rights to continuously decide whats right for families? it just boggles me that these idiots are constantly pushing constitutional boundries under the guise of family protection.

does the FBI need to be investigating LEGAL issues with a dedicated squad?



when 3.5 million more americans voted for Bush than they did for Kerry. that is the truly scary thing, this is the will of the majority of americans.





An election is not a blank check. It is not an endorsement of every policy. A 1% victory is not a sweeping mandate. It is no more and no less than "we like you more than the other guy".

PixelPimp

PixelPimp

New York, NY
May 2005

SEP 20, 2005 07:51 PM

From my cold dead hands!!!

Or at least the left one.

SirPsychoSexy

SirPsychoSexy

Ridgewood, NJ
January 2004

SEP 20, 2005 08:29 PM

crushjunkie said:
Big brother is watching you... masturbate!!


RandomNerd

RandomNerd

I'm lost
January 2005

SEP 20, 2005 08:30 PM

"Are you now, or have you ever been a subscriber to the following websites?..."

StillBreathing

StillBreathing

Brooklyn, NY
July 2003

SEP 20, 2005 08:32 PM

What a bunch of horseshit! It's like the FCC trying to ban violence and sex on Pay Cable like HBO. It's fucking ridiculous... As adults, we have a little thing called CHOICE. Fuck you if you think you can take that away...

penates

penates

Madison, WI
December 2003

SEP 20, 2005 08:49 PM

SirPsychoSexy said:

crushjunkie said:
Big brother is watching you... masturbate!!




My god, it's like the maker of that website gained knowledge of my dreams... and then constructed a website around it. I've never felt so violeted and so aroused at the same time!

TheFly

thefly

Eagle Springs, NC
November 2003

SEP 20, 2005 08:55 PM

Aaahhhh, these people thought they had CHOICE...



...Until HE took over...



And there was oppression for 24 years.


Bush has the worst popularity since, I think, Carter. Yet he's one point ahead in popularity than Kerry. My head hurts.


Why must they hurt us so?

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