Abu Ghirab Gonzales at it again....

[varropdx]

Evidently, torturing prisoners is all right, but porn is bad, according to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

While Federalist Society hacks and Christofascists back Gonzales' crusade against dirty books and movies, I still think the Constitution matters. Activist judges have over the years fabricated the obscenity exception to the First Amendment out of whole cloth to enforce Christofascism throughout the ages, always against sex and profanity. Never against violence.

The new paradigm of information distribution, particularly the Internet, renders "contemporary community standards" obsolete. A common argument against porn is that adult bookstores and video stores create a sort of hazardous waste site within the community, contaminating all that come near it, particularly if they are sited in communities near Christofascists.

However, new delivery systems such as the Internet, as well as the United States Postal Service and other older delivery systems, renders the "community standards" test of obscenity obsolete, and renders quaint the idea obscenity should be an exception to the First Amendment.

(Where did the language in the preceding paragraph come from? First person to get it right gets...something, I guess.)

Comments

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

Evidently, torturing prisoners is all right, but porn is bad,
Does this imply that we should be considering a new program wherein we give porn to prisoners?

[jdm314.livejournal.com]

Considering some of the torture methods used at Abu Ghraib they probably already tried that one.

I dunno, Varro, do you approve of making religious prisoners look at pr0n?

[nelsolidarida.livejournal.com]

Not all anti-porn folks think it's ok to torture prisoners. (in case you didn't know - probably missing your point. pass the caffiene)

[varro.livejournal.com]

Yep....the point was more that Gonzales thinks porn producers and sellers should be prosecuted, yet torture is all right, since God-fearin' conservatives are doing the torturing.

Also - liked the results of the UK elections, especially George Galloway's winning a HC seat on an anti-Bliar and anti-war platform. Is the poodle going to get clipped this fall? (I actually did see a clipped poodle on my way back from lunch today...)

[nelsolidarida.livejournal.com]

Hmm, not a fan of George G - he has Muslim allies who are equivalent to the Christian fundies in assholiness. But yeah, i think Blair might have got his bloody nose. Not that i want to tempt fate by speaking too soon.