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I'm chalking this up as an Obama prosecution.




You may if you like. But, it's just evidence of your profound ignorance in this area. That isn't an attack. That is just a FACT.

If you're trying to be funny or just stir up shit, it's a stupid topic to do it about. There is plenty to bash Obama about. There's a whole thread of shit dedicated to it in AWOP.

USAs are mostly nominated by the US Senators from their area and tend to follow the Senator's lead. I don't think that this prosecution has much to do with Bush or Obama.

This reeks of Orrin Hatch.


Do you keep track of the DOJ nominations and fights?

Hatch opposed the Obama's appointment of David Ogden, a person who was worked at times to protect our freedom of speech/porn, for Deputy Attorney General of the United States. A sometime porn defender for one of the highest DOJ offices.

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"Mr. Ogden has represented pornographers and those seeking to eliminate restrictions on sexually explicit material in many cases over more than 20 years. At his confirmation hearing in February, I noted how an article appearing on the pornography industry’s newswire praised Mr. Ogden’s nomination and the executive director of the porn industry’s legal defense group called it refreshing. They apparently do not draw a sharp distinction between their views and Mr. Ogden’s own. At his hearing and in answers to Senators’ written questions, Mr. Ogden appeared to lack sufficient knowledge or appreciation for the grave harms that pornography consumption brings to individuals, families, and communities. This does not bode well for the Department of Justice’s commitment to enforcing federal anti-obscenity laws." - Orrin Hatch on his opposition to the appointment



Hatch is OBSESSED with eliminating porn.


I really don't want to get in an ridiculous argument on how Obama DOJ could be worse than Bush's/McCain's.

Honestly I don't think Obama cares about protecting porn. Certainly not enough to create a political disaster by interfering with ongoing porn prosecutions in Utah. But, I don't think he cares about it enough to go after it either.

The nomination of someone with Mr. Ogden's credentials for DAG --- a position that, to my knowledge oversees the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ -- is something that wouldn't have happened with Bush or McCain.

And, on this, even Orrin Hatch agrees with me.

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