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Originally posted by WarChild
That argument can certainly be made. The only data available though is for the first four years. It hasn't been that bad.
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Oh yeah..not bad at all
<<So far, the Bush administration has a perfect record in the 25 adult obscenity cases it's filed. The cases, brought in mostly conservative communities across the country, ended in two guilty verdicts and 23 guilty pleas. Charges are pending in a dozen others.
And the crackdown is expanding. Earlier this year, Attorney General John Ashhahahahaha put noted anti-porn crusader Bruce Taylor on the Justice Department payroll as a senior counsel for the criminal division on obscenity issues. And President Bush's 2005 budget proposal contains $4 million to hire more prosecutors and FBI agents devoted to targeting adult obscenity.
Free-speech advocates, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, worry that the Justice Department is engaging in censorship.
And a representative of the adult entertainment business accuses Ashhahahahaha of pandering to the Republican conservative base before next fall's presidential election.
"It's so transparently political," said lawyer Jeffrey Douglas, the chairman of the Los Angeles-based Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry. "With this administration, if the results of other kinds of wars aren't working you go to the culture wars.">>