Just what America needs: another war! Imagine what the cost would be to enforce pornography laws. After 40 years, the war on drugs has failed. Now Simple Rick wants a war on porn.
Simple Rick just can't get real about this election. He just keeps throwing out social gambits, hoping that one will go viral with the electorate. '
Richard Nixon started the war on Drug in 1971. More than 40 years and a $ one trillion later this war is not succeeding. A war on porn could be equally as expensive.
Undoubtedly, some Homeland Security types, state and municipal law enforcement would jump on the porn enforcement bandwagon to increase their law enforcement budgets.
Cyber Warriors would be hired to break into porn industry servers and the PCs of Americans believed to be consuming illegal porn. Eventually, a task force would show up at your door to check your home PCs.
Since illegal porn is a federal crime and most states and municipalities have weak laws at best, Americans would be defending themselves in federal court, an expensive proposition.
Here is is what what posted on Simple Rick's web site today:
America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography. A wealth of research is now available demonstrating that pornography causes profound brain changes in both children and adults, resulting in widespread negative consequences. Addiction to pornography is now common for adults and even for some children. The average age of first exposure to hard-core, Internet pornography is now 11. Pornography is toxic to marriages and relationships. It contributes to misogyny and violence against women. It is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking.
Every family must now be concerned about the harm from pornography. As a parent, I am concerned about the widespread distribution of illegal obscene pornography and its profound effects on our culture.
For many decades, the American public has actively petitioned the United States Congress for laws prohibiting distribution of hard-core adult pornography.
Congress has responded. Current federal “obscenity” laws prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier. Rick Santorum believes that federal obscenity laws should be vigorously enforced. “If elected President, I will appoint an Attorney General who will do so.”
The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws. While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Santorum Administration.
I proudly support the efforts of the War on Illegal Pornography Coalition that has tirelessly fought to get federal obscenity laws enforced. That coalition is composed of 120 national, state, and local groups, including Morality in Media, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, American Family Association, Cornerstone Family Council of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania Family Institute, Concerned Women for America, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a host of other groups. Together we will prevail.
Rightardia would hope that democratic fund raisers approach companies like Vivid Entertainment and people like Larry Flynt to set up a Super PAC to fight this bad idea of the GOP.
Pornography has $10 billion to $14 billion in annual sales.
The author, Frank Rich, suggests that pornography is bigger than any of the major league sports, perhaps bigger than Hollywood. Rich added that porn is "
no longer a sideshow to the mainstream...it is the mainstream."
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