Your Taxpayer Money At Work Vol. 2: The New War on Porn

[anotheranon]

Old news, but, hey, I'm just catching up. I cannot believe that Ass-croft wants to pursue this insane agenda!

Read the whole article - according to Ashcroft, porn "invades our homes persistently though the mail, phone, VCR, cable TV and the Internet," and has "strewn its victims from coast to coast." Funny, whenever I see even a smidgen of porn on any of these media, it demands that I pay money to see the really interesting stuff. IMHO, if porn really is invading our homes it's because we're paying for it. And - just a wild guess here - I think that means that, as a nation, we like porn!

A proposal: the government should simply tax the bejeezus out of porn (rather the way it does our other national vices, alcohol and tobacco) and use the proceeds to fund the war on terror - I think most people are far more concerned about terrorism than titties, and frankly if they're spending millions to have a bunch of guys sitting in their cubes viewing porn all day (what a job! :P And if porn is so damaging, are these guys getting psychological counseling for the horrors they are doing to their psyche? What about overtime, huh, huh? </rant>), they'll have to do something to get the money to pay for both!

I might also say the same about the war on (some) drugs - legalize and tax. Somehow, I think I'm preaching to the choir here though...

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Even scarier is the fact that there's a connection between cultural sexual repression and violence ... cultures that have a relaxed and open attitude towards sex tend to have lower violence levels, provided that basic survival needs are being met (and that's not just in humans ... bonobos are FAR less violent than their chimpanzee cousins) ... censorship causes wars!