The ultimate wedge issue: porn

THIS is how we can win the white male vote. We need to let them all know about how Asscrack is cracking down on porn. That might bring them into our corner, Asscrack isn't pleasing anyone but the fundies and I suppose in this case the MacKinnonites (luckily they won't vote for * anyway and their numbers are so small they don't make a difference).

Have to be very careful...if one were to use this issue

edit: It doesn't help that the AIDS outbreak in the porn industry is happening right now

Soccer moms may not be huge fans of porn, but they don't see it the same way fundies and Dworkin/MacKinnon type "feminists" (I don't consider those two fascists to be feminists anymore than I consider Falwell and Robertson to be Christians) do.

The libertarian view works best on this, you can have your abortions, and you have can have your porn. Keeps the non-fundies of both genders happy.

What it is? Suburban women 25-45 with children? It's a big tent and there's plenty of us who are rather comfortable with this stuff.

his prudishness is part of the rightwing marketing to the religious right

"john ashkroft cant get it up"
"john ashkroft cant stand other people who CAN get it up"
"john ashkroft hates you for your freedoms"
"john ashkroft wants to take away your porn"
"Vote Kerry if you value your porn, and your freedom of speach"

General information about the "war on porn":
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.obscenity06apr06,0,3004361.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

This attourney from the Justice Department thinks that most porn is already illegal:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/interviews/taylor.html

I imagine if you watch these spaces, you'll get updates on this issue:

http://www.larryflynt.com

http://www.howardstern.com

Also, find your state online sex-offender registry. Ask them if they'd like to someday maybe end up on it for watching regular porn that you can rent from the back of the video store.

is developing. I believe BushCo will use the Iraqi torture pictures as an excuse to clamp down on the porn industry. The California porn industry is in a near panic over an outbreak of HIV within the industry and Asscroft and Powell will tag team to pander to the social conservatives.

forget that we can prove up the ying yang that family values are being destroyed and honor and integrity is non exsistant in this administration adn the lieing and stealing and disrespect to the average man or the destroying of the very principle of the united states and its constitution, but................

let them know their porn is being attacked

You "sell it" to the men who like porn and are feeling threatened by AG Ashcroft and the other neo-Pharisees. A liking for porn cuts across all political boundaries. Not only does an erect penis have no conscience, it has no political affiliation.

It's not something for waging a public campaign. The public campaign is the meta-fear: That Ashcroft will be scrutinizing what you read because of his obsession with porn. He will violate tour privacy like the bad guys in porn violate young women's bodies.

The MacKinnonites are far less powerful than you think, and Dr. MacKinnon herself is much more tolerant of porn than her legal writings would indicate. A lot of what she's written was promoted by the right as actual proposals by the Feminist Gestapo, when they were merely theory papers. I wouldn't say that MacKinnon is pro-porn by any means, but she is the recipient of a lot of negative PR. Don't make the mistake of believing what the Right is telling you -- their agenda is not your sexual freedom.

--bkl

Why is the Justice Department going after mainstream porn instead of funnelling that money into catching terrorists?

How guys feel at the prospect of losing their porn is the same as women feel about the prospect of Roe V Wade being overturned right?

:P

It's a loss of personal freedoms either way I guess.

...and a lot of times people don't really say anything about the political issues I bring up, even the ones I think they agree with me on, but when I brought up this I got a lot of response. Even my friend who's a genuine Commentary-reading, PNAC-supporting, Leo-Strauss-knowing-about neocon is very against Ashcroft.

...the person that seemed to be the most upset about it was a woman.

Here's to you -- :toast: