Hypocrisy Alert: Gonzales and porn

[tanyev]

From the latest Family Research Council Washington Update Email bulletin:

Pornographers, Watch Out!

New Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in his first major address as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, vowed yesterday to prosecute obscenity crimes aggressively. This is welcome news, one that was signaled in his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate when he said that both he and his wife are deeply concerned about the spread of illegal pornography. Parents across the nation empathize with General and Mrs. Gonzales in an age when children have access to obscene material on the Internet, their email inbox, on cable and satellite TV, in book and video stores, in hotels and motels and even in public libraries. Most of that material is illegal and we think General Gonzales is dead serious in his intention to move aggressively against it. He will have to change his prosecution team though. The man in charge of obscenity prosecutions during the last four years was anything but aggressive. He continued the approach of the Clinton team, prosecuting only a few, mostly insignificant cases. There is unanimity among my fellow pro-family leaders that he must go.

But not so very long ago....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/260669p-223200c.html

Until he abruptly quit last month - around the time that President Bush nominated his stepfather, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, to be U.S. attorney general - Web designer Jared Freeze worked as a consultant for notorious pornographer Larry Flynt.

A knowledgeable source told Lowdown that the twentysomething Freeze - a child from the previous marriage of Gonzales' wife, Rebecca - left Flynt's employ at the urging of Gonzales, who was said to be worried that the Hustler magazine connection might cause political damage during his confirmation hearings.

Sure it seems hyprocritical, but only until you remember the credo of the Republican faith: IOKIYAR.

[bryant69]

1. No offense

But in order for this to be hypocritical Freeze and Gonzeles would have to be the same person.

Bryahnt
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[tanyev]

3. If Freeze had not resigned, Gonzales would now have to

prosecute his own stepson, wouldn't he? It sounds to me like Mr. Gonzales' "deep concern" about pornography is a fairly recent development.

[ComerPerro]

9. Exactly right

"I'm only against it when I can't profit from it"

[Dr.Phool]

2. Does this mean

Gonzales is gonna start snooping around in Clarence Thomas's reading material?

See what Ashcroft does with all that leftover Crisco?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Bondage, humiliation and torture to be excepted?

Oh, sorry, I mean "fratboy pranks".

[maxsolomon]

5. jared freeze is his real name, NOT a porn name?

i always wonder about odd last names like "freeze" or "manager".

where do those COME FROM?

[msongs]

6. what kind of porno does Ken Mehlman like??......

the article alleges "that both he and his wife are deeply concerned about the spread of illegal pornography." I am glad to see he seems to support legal pornography, whatever that is. Pictures of people having sex is not pornographic IMO.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[mongo]

7. Us pornographers have already been holding our breath

for the last 4 years.

Someone please tell me why if it is completly legal for you to own a movie, it is ILLEGAL for me to sell it to you?

The way most of these obscenity laws are written, any depiction of explicit sex is illegal - and I can be arrested for it, but it's only OBSCENE if a jury convicts on it.

That leave's me as the arbitor of what is acceptable in a given community, but if I "choose" poorly, I can be thrown in jail for it. Am I suppossed to know the contents of all 1700 movies on my sales floor?

I can be arrested for selling the same movie you could pay-per-view on your local cable which was given a francise by your local government.

Talk about your chilling effects on free speech.

[tanyev]

8. I worked for a county records department

for several years and the DA records were full of cases that had been filed against the local adult shop, located just outside the city limits. Up to a certain year the cases were filed against the store and after that point the cases were filed against the poor slob who had the misfortune to be at the cash register the day the officer came in.

The case papers included detailed descriptions of the offending movie. Such-and-such occurred x number of times. This-and-that occurred x number of times. I began to suspect that the officers would pop over there on a slow day to liven things up. And then, gosh darn it, they would have to watch that entire movie to file the case.

It made no sense to me. Either the place was illegal and should have been shut down, or it was legal and should have been left alone.