Porn In Perspective
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Responses to Attorney General Gonzales’ declaration of war on pornography:
The move has elicited criticism from some White House insiders, federal prosecutors, and law enforcement agents. “Compared to terrorism, public corruption and narcotics, [pornography] is no worse than dropping gum on the sidewalk,” said Stephen Bronis, chair of the white-collar crime division of the American Bar Association, in a Daily Buisness Review article. …
Speaking under condition of anonymity, one frustrated FBI agent told the Washington Post, “I guess this means we’ve won the war on terror. We must not need any more resources for espionage.”
Predictably, the adult entertainment industry itself is up in arms. “If the government would spend half the time they spend, and half the money they spend, chasing constitutionally protected legal adult speech, and spend that on actually enforcing the child pornography laws, they would benefit children tremendously,” said Michelle Freridge, the executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, the trade organization of the adult entertainment industry, told National Public Radio.
