BUSH GOES AFTER PORN PUSHERS. CONSERVATIVES HAPPY
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
US President George W. Bush continues to keep to his moral base agenda. That makes conservatives — particularly biblical Christians and ethical Jews — quite pleased. After all, that’s what they expect of the Bush administration.
"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, like his immediate predecessor, John Ashcroft, has pledged to make obscenity prosecutions a priority. The department is expected to announce soon the creation of a special unit within its criminal division to focus on adult obscenity cases," according to Mark Sherman of the Associated Press.
In other words, though the Clinton years were remiss regarding obscenity, allowing it to flourish, primarily because we had a lustful religious hypocrite inhabiting the Oval Office, the Bush team is going full guns after the obscenity enthusiasts.
The anti-Bush crowd squeals that Mr. Bush is not bringing in the big porn guns. However, like unto the liberal presence in past-tense, it now demands perfection yesterday. Therefore, for those realists who abide patience-in-time, they are confident that more dirt manufacturers will find their locations under fire from the decent citizenry.
"'Since 2001, 40 people and businesses have been convicted and 20 additional indictments are pending,' said Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of the Justice Department's child exploitation and obscenity section. 'By comparison, there were four such prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration,' he said.
"’Enforcement is absolutely necessary if we are going to protect citizens from unwanted exposure to obscene materials,’ Gonzales recently told federal prosecutors. He directed U.S. attorneys to report back by late July on effective ways to crack down on obscenity and what tools the prosecutors might need.
"Those kinds of words please religious conservatives, who claim the Clinton administration virtually ignored the proliferation of pornography, particularly on the Internet, during the 1990s."
What about the star-studded entrepreneurs who live off of prime smut disseminated? The Bush administration thus far has come up with "high-profile cases."
For example, "a guilty plea last year from John Coil of Highland Village, Texas, who owned and operated 27 adult-oriented businesses in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Coil forfeited an estimated $8.1 million in property to the government and was sentenced to more than five years in prison.
"In addition, there is the 23-count indictment against Edward Wedelstedt of Littleton, Colo., and his Goalie Entertainment Holdings Inc. Wedelstedt owns pornographic bookstores in 18 states; the indictment lists six allegedly obscene videos and DVDs. The government is seeking the forfeiture of millions of dollars in real estate and other property, including a Lear jet, in the Wedelstedt case."
Stay tuned.
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US President George W. Bush continues to keep to his moral base agenda. That makes conservatives — particularly biblical Christians and ethical Jews — quite pleased. After all, that’s what they expect of the Bush administration.
"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, like his immediate predecessor, John Ashcroft, has pledged to make obscenity prosecutions a priority. The department is expected to announce soon the creation of a special unit within its criminal division to focus on adult obscenity cases," according to Mark Sherman of the Associated Press.
In other words, though the Clinton years were remiss regarding obscenity, allowing it to flourish, primarily because we had a lustful religious hypocrite inhabiting the Oval Office, the Bush team is going full guns after the obscenity enthusiasts.
The anti-Bush crowd squeals that Mr. Bush is not bringing in the big porn guns. However, like unto the liberal presence in past-tense, it now demands perfection yesterday. Therefore, for those realists who abide patience-in-time, they are confident that more dirt manufacturers will find their locations under fire from the decent citizenry.
"'Since 2001, 40 people and businesses have been convicted and 20 additional indictments are pending,' said Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of the Justice Department's child exploitation and obscenity section. 'By comparison, there were four such prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration,' he said.
"’Enforcement is absolutely necessary if we are going to protect citizens from unwanted exposure to obscene materials,’ Gonzales recently told federal prosecutors. He directed U.S. attorneys to report back by late July on effective ways to crack down on obscenity and what tools the prosecutors might need.
"Those kinds of words please religious conservatives, who claim the Clinton administration virtually ignored the proliferation of pornography, particularly on the Internet, during the 1990s."
What about the star-studded entrepreneurs who live off of prime smut disseminated? The Bush administration thus far has come up with "high-profile cases."
For example, "a guilty plea last year from John Coil of Highland Village, Texas, who owned and operated 27 adult-oriented businesses in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Coil forfeited an estimated $8.1 million in property to the government and was sentenced to more than five years in prison.
"In addition, there is the 23-count indictment against Edward Wedelstedt of Littleton, Colo., and his Goalie Entertainment Holdings Inc. Wedelstedt owns pornographic bookstores in 18 states; the indictment lists six allegedly obscene videos and DVDs. The government is seeking the forfeiture of millions of dollars in real estate and other property, including a Lear jet, in the Wedelstedt case."
Stay tuned.
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