Administration wages war on pornography
Obscenity: For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. government is spending millions to file charges across the country.
April 6, 2004

WASHINGTON - Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other "computer forensic specialists" like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn.

In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains.

Department officials say they will send "ripples" through an industry that has proliferated on the Internet and grown into an estimated $10 billion-a-year colossus profiting Fortune 500 corporations such as Comcast, which offers hard-core movies on a pay-per-view channel.

The Justice Department recently hired Bruce Taylor, who was instrumental in a handful of convictions obtained over the past year and unsuccessfully represented the state in a 1981 case, Larry Flynt vs. Ohio.

Flynt, who recently opened a Hustler nightclub in Baltimore, says everyone in the business is wary, making sure their taxes are paid and the "talent" is over 18. He says he's ready for a rematch, especially with Taylor.

"Everyone's concerned," Flynt said in an interview. "We deal in plain old vanilla sex. Nothing really outrageous. But who knows, they may want a big target like myself."

A recent episode of Showtime's Family Business, a reality show about Adam Glasser, an adult film director and entrepreneur in California, had him worrying about shipping his material to states more apt to prosecute. It also featured him organizing a pornographic Internet telethon to raise money for targets of prosecution.

Drew Oosterbaan, chief of the division in charge of obscenity prosecutions at the Justice Department, says officials are trying to send a message and halt an industry they see as growing increasingly "lawless."

"We want to do everything we can to deter this conduct" by producers and consumers, Oosterbaan said. "Nothing is off the table as far as content."


"Either way, Nguyen, father of a 2-year-old girl, and his co-workers spend their days scouring the Internet for the most obscene material, following leads sent in by citizens and tracking pornographers operating under different names. The job wears on them all, day after day, so much so that the obscenity division has recently set up in-house counseling for them to talk about what they're seeing and how it is affecting them."

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You should learn to be quiet when the adults are speaking. You certainly can't be doing very well out of porn with the piece of crap site in your profile.

dictate. now that sounds a bit embellished. kind of like using the word idiot to describe a 20-year Senator who just happened to be the one that exposed Iran/Contra

Pounder... Please tell me if you're ever going to be in LA. I SO want you and Kimmy on AlyTV together! It would be a riot!

:Graucho

hahaha - In November of 1986, the first public allegations of the weapons-for-hostages deal surfaced when on November 3 the Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reported that the United States had been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

Kerry Is Gonna' Win By a Landslide!

You heard it here first: Dubaya is out this bitch. John Kerry is going to be our next president and YOU are going to have to deal with it! Yeah, I know, this is a brash statement. I?m just sick of all this pre-election bullshit that seems to be injecting politics into everything -- it?s fucking pointless and it?s BORING! I can tell you this: As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, as sure is Scott Perterson is a mur-diddly-urdler, and as sure as when I am done writing this homepage I will login Euro Sex Parties to rough up my suspect till I cover this keyboard in a frothy man spackle?

Kerry is gonna be our next president.

Polls ask VOTERS who they will vote for. These polls call on VOTERS who have actually bothered to take part in the political process in the past. Well it ain't the VOTERS that will decide this next election! Speculation about the upcoming election ends HERE. This is my poll and it is the only one that matters:

From what I've heard:

Around 50% of people say they will vote for Bush.
Around 50% of people say they will vote for Kerry.
Around 10% are ?swing voters? who constitute the ?undecided?.

Newsflash: Statistically speaking, 50% of people do not vote!

Fuck off you flimflamming 10% undecided morons -- you represent only 5% of the public anyway! This is as sure as I will be deleting your bloated Dubaya loving emails without reading them tomorrow, as sure as Michael Jackson fucks little boys, and as sure as I am readying my Bang Brother's Keyboard-Sperm-Guard to protect this computer from merciless sortie of dong malt that is about to be hurled in it's direction -- at least 11% of the 50% of the people who don't usually vote will go resister to get rid of George Bush because he is JUST THAT HORRIBLE!

Then again, you can use stats and statistics to back most anything -- 63% of people know that.

I'm not a John Kerry fan at all. Kerry is bad -- not bad like Mao Tse Tung or Grey Davis bad; more just Millard Fillmore bad. This country will gladly accept four years of mediocre leadership just because Kerry is NOT AS HORRIBLE as George Bush. That's why only 50% of people have voted in the past -- one mediocre candidate vs. another mediocre candidate -- in 2004 its one mediocre candidate vs. the Anti-Christ.

I'm not trying to change anyone's vote or to even to get anyone out to the polls at all -- I'm just sick and tired politics being interjected in my pop culture! Every channel, every comedian, every awards show, every god-damn-everything is about this impending election and I'm fucking worn-out! I need to get back to the issues that really affect my life: What about Mary-Kate Olsen's drug problem? When is there going to be an all original Carcass reunion? What the fuck is with Ashley Simpson's nose? Is Chinese Democracy really ever gonna come out?

Jesus-Fucking-Christ?we are America and America wants answers!

This is the kind of information that needs to be in the limelight; not all of this nonsensical yammering over who is going to be our next president. It's going to be John Kerry, so ya'll just STOP FUCKING ARGUEING ABOUT IT! We've been beaten into submission; we are tired and bloated on the blubber of speculation! America is going on the Adkins's Diet! No more CARBS ? that's right NO MORE FUCKING CARBS!

C = Cheney
A = Ashhahahahaha
R = Rumsfeld
B = Bush

Now stop arguing about it already!

OK, that's off my chest - whew! :) I've got to go now ? there's a hot 19 year old chick with braces patiently waiting for me to serve her a hot steaming bowl of American Man Bisque over at Mr. Chews Asian Beaver!

dictionary.com imagine that. Now explain what that has to do with my post you brain dead waste of space ... Talking to your lawyer doesn't fix anything !!! get it ?? Recent lobotomy ? Cum in your ears ??

Who said anything about kerry you stupid whore ??

Are you having delusions again dear ??

Maybe you should start using your noggin instead of your lips.. :2 cents: ( or maybe just learn to read www.hooked-on-phonics.com )

btw kim your cnn political knowledge is impressive LOL. I sure hope you didn't pay for your education yet.. I would ask for a refund. :thumbsup ( better hope your tv doesn't break or you will be sol )

fat chance getting me anywhere near those nasty cheese curds. :1orglaugh

lol yeah sure.. who cares about international laws... Let's lift those and let any countries handle their security as they please... Maybe Russia can just blow out Chechnya.. Israel could just completely destroy Palestine.. Pakistan can just launch a nuclear attack on India before India do it on them... Lets do it the George Bush way and discredit any type of laws the world community tries to establish to maintain world order...

UN ? Fuck it! No one tells americans what to do! lol

Ah well, I can see your wife didn't write these for you, they are way too lame and repetitive.

And I so hate to keep harping on your reading comprehension but it's simply not there.

Here in America (no offense to all the smart Canadians I'm friends with) we have this thing called the Democrats and the Republicans. Now I'm sure you've probably heard of Nader or the Libertarians or maybe the Green Party. What do these parties mean?

To put it simply and go slowly for you, either Bush or Kerry is going to win. Neither of whom will "unsign anything" -- but perhaps your short term memory loss causes you to forget that this will be a law BEFORE the election.

There's that name again, Kerry. Amazing how that works isn't it?

At this point, we can absolutely infer that seeing your lawyer in regards to how your business will be affected by this new set of regulations BEFORE either one is elected would be of the prime importance in relationship to this thread topic... you know, about keeping yourself out of jail with the new 2257 compliance regs.

So get the shit out of your ears, don't make me remind you how it got there.

You're so easily baited, all she's got to do is poke you in the ass and your head comes right out.

LOL you really did get your education off of a box didn't you ??

Your hallucinations are entertaining to say the least. Helpfull no, Well thought no.

You for some reason question my memory , when it is you who can't even remember what you have written. Nor do you seem capable of retaining anything you have read.

I'm assuming you must be part of the alphabet soup revolution. :1orglaugh

You can write paragraph after paragraph evading the post for all i care if it makes you feel all gushy inside. It is what the "typical" woman would do , so i expect nothing more from you.

So you can debate it all you want but, point being

YOU DONT FIX LAWS BY CONSULTING YOUR LAWYERS.

YOU START FROM THE GROUND UP

The sooner you learn this , the sooner you will have to stop sucking dick to make a living dear.

Thats really not true the most arrests for porn happen during republican admins Nixon, Reagan, Bush the first. Democrats arent pro porn but they have better things to do like fight CP a real crime. W gets another four years its going to get ugly wake up

Oh Darling, as much as I'd love to engage you in this battle of (questionable) wits, I actually have a life to live. Your wife might appreciate it if you got one too. :1orglaugh

I'd rather pick my fights a little more wisely and go back to the politicians. :winkwink:

"Despite having helmed the initial probe which led to the Iran-Contra investigation, Kerry was left off the elite Iran-Contra committee in 1987. As a consolation prize, the Democratic leadership in Congress made Kerry the chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations and told him to dig into the Contra-drug connection. Kerry turned to BCCI early in the second year of the probe when his investigators learned that Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was laundering drug profits through the bank on behalf of the Medellin cartel.

By March 1988, Kerry's subcommittee had obtained permission from the Foreign Relations Committee to seek subpoenas for both BCCI and individuals at the bank involved in handling Noriega's assets, as well as those handling the accounts of others in Panama and Colombia. Very quickly, though, Kerry faced a roadblock. Citing concerns that the senator's requests would interfere with an ongoing sting operation in Tampa, the Justice Department delayed the subpoenas until 1988, at which point the subcommittee's mandate was running out. "

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Dude, you obviously don't understand the American system, but that's ok. I just realized you're French Canadian.

And you'd best hope I never have to start sucking dick for a living, you'd be out of a job.

:1orglaugh :thumbsup

My wife is in the kitchen making dinner like she is supposed to be.

Something you and kim should think about, or you will never keep a man for long :winkwink:

ROFL, Aly, him debating you would be kind of like bringing a butter knife to a TEC9 fight.

I'm french canadian ?? This obviously shows your complete lack of knowledge.

Do you know how many french canadians there are in canada ??

You need to hit the books darling , instead of jumping to typical american conclusions..

Oh damn, I'm just finishing up my packing and trying to decide whether to fly up to Vegas tonight or in the morning for the fight. And Aly's certainly not worried about keeping a man... lol

Once again, I'm sure my smart Canadian friends understood that allusion.

let me open up my igloo and call all the french canadians to read your funny posts :1orglaugh

Maybe your sleddogs can read then.

shit my igloo door is jammed .. !!

My sleddogs dont want your cheese curds either. They have class

GODDAMN POUNDER! I really do have to go do things... and now you've made me hungry for poutine! DAMNIT! STOP! STOP! :1orglaugh

I have an upskirt pic of kim with no undies. That might tide you over..

anyone in this industry who votes for bush should be shot. doesn't matter if you're a hardcore republican or not, bush is out for everyone's head in this industry

Siorry, but I am not going to give any credit to someone from another country . . . . naturally you want to have something to say about how we run things.

You handle Canada, we will handle USA.

Sorry, but I am not going to give any credit to someone from another country . . . . naturally you want to have something to say about how we run things.

You handle Canada, we will handle USA.

Now run along, you're not making any money with your mouth closed and your fingers on the keyboard.

I think it would make for more effective results if instead of all the various things some try to motivate people to vote there was a coordinated effort to attatch stigma and shame in not voting.:glugglug

lol.. my point exactly...

did you fell to realize that I was talking about internatinal laws, the role of UN, its importance in maintaining a minimum of world order.... and the importance for countries like the US to respect those laws if we want.. as the world community.. to be able to to enforce the laws upon violating countries ...

How can you ask countries to respect international laws and treaties if yourself claim that NO ONE can tell you what to do? What kind of credibility do you have when you ask certain countries to respect treaties when it comes to biological warfare for exemple.. how can you tell those countries that this is NOT the right way to protect themselves!??? How can you tell a country not to attack another one if they claim to only protect themselves!?

I dont expect a wise response from your part.. I'll settle for the "mind your own business canuck!" ... :glugglug

anyone that is from another country that thinks we should base our votes on what you may think should be shot

works for me, mind your own business canuck!

what does that matter? i have a lot of ties to the states and decisions made by your government affects my income.

americans can try to tell us what to do, but when we pipe up you people complain

funny for an american to say not to stick your nose in others business...

be that as it may, I sure the fuck am not going to base my vote by the desires of someone from another country

I am sorry, you want to provide me a thread where Americans were telling Canadians what you should do? I must have been out of town that day.