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  • TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 2005 1:45 PM

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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naveed

naveed

Calgary, AB
January 2005

SEP 21, 2005 08:10 AM

i think they are right, porn is a disgusting, filthy thing that i don't think anyone here would ever partake in. now if you'll excuse me, i'm off to look at writings and pictures intended to arouse sexual desire.

monkeybuttt

monkeybuttt

Los Angeles, CA
June 2005

SEP 21, 2005 08:26 AM

i love how one anonymous agent said "i guess we've won the war on terror."

and drugs, right? didn't we win that one too?

Paine

Paine

Tamuning, GU
August 2005

SEP 21, 2005 08:38 AM

googuse said:
Say, where's the SG John Birch Society to defend their heroes? confused



Subrosa said:

Keith said:
Wouldn't it be funny if someone defended this? Here?



*casts an expectant glance towards the usual suspects*



Yeah...come on, my popcorn's getting stale here...where did these guys go? biggrin

tellyfone

tellyfone

Ithaca, NY
December 2004

SEP 21, 2005 11:00 AM


But (Attorney General) 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."



Isn't it obvious? He's probably being made to suck up to George Dubya's political base, possibly in order to groom him for a seat on the Supremist Court.

If I were president, showing explicit sexual images would not be a crime, insulting people's intelligence (the way too much commercial pornography does) would be.

argon

argon

HOPEFUL

New York, NY

SEP 21, 2005 12:40 PM

Yeah, like all the terrorism that the government is telling us we should shake in our boots about... and give up our civil liberties in order to more effectively fight...

pananarama

pananarama

Worcester, MA
August 2003

SEP 21, 2005 12:51 PM

"Raspoon, you go check out that possible terrorist cell in Fresno, Peebles, I wanna see you head south, they may have caught a drug informant trying to cross back into Mexico, Jeffers, go check out internet porn sites, see if there's anything we should be looking a little more closely at..."

pananarama

pananarama

Worcester, MA
August 2003

SEP 21, 2005 12:54 PM

"OH MY GOD, EVERYBODY, GET DOWN! NOW, HIT THE DIRT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, SIR PUT THE DICK DOWN OR I WILL SHOOT!"

bean

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

SEP 21, 2005 12:57 PM

pananarama said:
"Raspoon, you go check out that possible terrorist cell in Fresno, Peebles, I wanna see you head south, they may have caught a drug informant trying to cross back into Mexico, Jeffers, go check out internet porn sites, see if there's anything we should be looking a little more closely at..."



Jeffers: [to himself] SCORE!

Jeffers: [to the other agents] Damn, this sucks, I really wish I could be out doing stuff that really mattered.

Metaverse

Metaverse

USA
March 2005

SEP 21, 2005 01:18 PM

TenementFunster said:
This calls for an X-Files style show about said FBI initiative.

But what to call it?



The XXX- Files..although I scrolled down so fast I may have missed it if someone else came up with the obvious answer tongue

cipher

cipher

Saint Paul, MN
July 2004

SEP 21, 2005 01:31 PM

edmun said:
SG is probably on the list.



It's quite possible, but I doubt they'd fuck with us. The site's too well known, and the nature of the site lends itself far too well to quick, massive resistance...which is exactly what'd happen if they tried fucking with us.

Dark_Templar

Dark_Templar

Auburn, CA
June 2004

SEP 21, 2005 02:12 PM

WTF!!!!! Gun control, the FCC, the RIAA, now anti-porn movement

Time to send out my secret weapon wink

SaucisseDanseuse

SaucisseDanseuse

Italy
March 2005

SEP 21, 2005 02:37 PM

Metaverse said:

TenementFunster said:
This calls for an X-Files style show about said FBI initiative.

But what to call it?



The XXX- Files..although I scrolled down so fast I may have missed it if someone else came up with the obvious answer tongue



you DID fell for the bait, you fool! biggrin

i was trying to warn people about it, right after mr. TenementFunster was trying to make you say that! tongue

p.

gauss

gauss

I'm lost
September 2005

SEP 21, 2005 03:02 PM

whitepuma said:
Um if it is legal then what is the problem here. Please some email me and let me know as I think I am missing something. So from this I understand that legal producers of porn are now being threatened by the govt under the crap idealisation of family values. Is it not the responsibility of parents to ensure that children do not have access to this material. If there is a breach here why is it the manufacture that gets punished. Fucked if I know. What next people wont be allowed to have sex in case kids find out that it happens.



as I understand it, obscenity is illegal under some old puritan federal laws that have been around for centuries. but until now, porn has been protected by the higher constitutional laws guaranteeing freedom of expression.

anyhow I'm sure our new strict constructionist chief justice will lead the supreme court to side with porn if it ever comes down to it, and if he isn't the hugest fucking douchebag hypocrite ever born on planet earth.

edeninchains

edeninchains

Los Angeles, CA
September 2004

SEP 21, 2005 04:51 PM

PointBlank said:

RyanDipietro said:


They can keep the feces. I watch porn for naked girls.


First they came for the tranny-scat porn, and I did not speak out. . .



then they came for the rape porn and i did not speak out...for i do not like rape porn.

then they came for suicide girls and i put a fucking bullet in their head.

edeninchains

edeninchains

Los Angeles, CA
September 2004

SEP 21, 2005 04:57 PM

Does this mean that now, at the moment, porn is actually illegal?

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