> http://www.thestranger.com/2004-05-13/feature4.html
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> PARIS HILTON GOES TO WAR
> by Dan Savage
> The Baltimore Sun reported on April 6 that the Bush administration is waging a "war on pornography." Attorney General John Ashcroft is spending millions to "rid the world of porn," according to the Sun's Laura Sullivan. Ashcroft isn't going after people who make kiddie porn or bareback porn, but mainstream porn producers--from the makers of HBO's Real Sex to the companies that make the porn flicks available for rent in most American hotels. Despite having arrested and detained a thousand people, Ashcroft has yet to convict a single terrorist captured on American soil, but he can assign 32 prosecutors to investigate mainstream porn full-time. (And it's nice work if you can get it--some of the prosecutors spend all day long in windowless rooms looking at porn tapes.)
Oh god, I really hope that Ashcroft continues his war on porn. If this goes anywhere, his stupidity will put the final nails in the coffin of the Bush administration and the right wing culture wars. Ashcroft must have slept through that history class where it was discussed why Prohibition didn't work. If the Bushies are worried about Howard Stern being pissed off and asking his listeners to vote against Bush, just wait until tens of millions of Americans who enjoy porn get politicized against Ashcroft's "War on Porn." They can just kiss the youth vote goodbye if this War goes anywhere. And many of the conservatives
Let John Ashcroft fight porn. This could turn into an awfully funny spectacle.
Chuck0