Stayed out of this one as long as I could
SykkBoy ... don't you know the rules by now? Calling a right winger a Nazi is bad. Questioning the patriotisim of an American who does not think that the right is right is good.
To those of you who believe that the likes of Ashcroft will eliminate your competition - read the Niemoller quote. Read it again. Now, read it one more time. For those of you under the delusion that porn is mainstream and unassailable, take a gander at some of the silent films made in the late teens and early 20s of the last century, then read up on the Hays Committee and see what kind of crap was allowed in film for the next 30 years. Oh, yeah, and read the Niemoller quote again, then find me the one from Ashcroft that says right wing pornographers will be exempt from prosecution.
Ashcroft will be gone - hopefully next January. What scares me more than Ashcroft is the judges that Bush appoints. If Bill Clinton had attempted to appoint anyone as far left as Bush's recess appointments were to the right, Al Gore would have won simply by virtue of the number of Republicans, some of whom post on this board, who would've stroked out over their anger.
I'm not sure exactly how anyone can say with a straight face that "constant name-calling of modern-day Christians as "Nazis" and "Nazi scumbags"" is a common problem today. I have heard the term "nazi" applied to Ashcroft and his minions ... but these are the same sorts of people who believe that God allowed 9/11 to happen because of the rampant pornography and homosexuality in modern society. Quite frankly, there are a lot of the more extreme right wing elements of society - the McVeigh types - who describe themselves as Christians, and they fucking ARE Nazis.
Might be a bit of rhetorical overkill, but hardly inconsistant with the normal level of political discourse in this country, where it's not uncommon to have the patriotism of someone questioned because they don't support the agenda of the right. Certainly nothing to get your panties in a knot over ... but then, I'm a liberal left wing believer in an individual adult's right to date (or fuck) whoever they want in whatever way they want - regardless of gender, religion, race, color, creed, or political affiliation.
Carrie ... your confusion over the individual who made statements like
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"said pornography "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet," and has "strewn its victims from coast to coast."
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should have been your first clue that you and he aren't speaking the same language. The guy in charge of hiring the people who will investigate what is pornographic would not dance with his wife at his own innaguration as Governor of Missouri because it was a sin. Now, even in your position as Chairperson of the Wiccan Defenders of Evangelical Christians, do you not see a potential problem here? These are people who quite frankly would label the Maidenform ad in Ladies Home Journal as pornographic. These are people who would like nothing better than to go back to racy television being an episode that puts Ricky and Luci in their seperate twin beds.