Bush Administration Targets Obscenity

[madinmaryland]

:wtf:

Thursday, May 5, 2005 Posted: 11:13 AM EDT (1513 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thomas Lambert made no attempt to hide the kind of videos he peddled from his Montana home -- hard-core sex tapes involving bestiality, sadomasochism and simulated rape.

The 65-year-old former schoolteacher had little reason to believe he could get in trouble. He was selling tapes to adults who wanted them and there had not been a federal obscenity prosecution in Montana in at least 16 years, according to his lawyer, Mark Errebo.

But Lambert and co-defendant Sanford Wasserman were charged last spring with violating federal obscenity statutes. In pleading guilty, they joined a growing number of purveyors of pornography whom the Bush administration has pursued.

Since 2001, 40 people and businesses have been convicted and 20 additional indictments are pending, said Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of the Justice Department's child exploitation and obscenity section. By comparison, there were four such prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration, he said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/05/obscenity.prosecutions.ap/index.html

Is it just me or was Laura Bush making comments about "W" and bestiality? Are they going after her too?


:wtf:

[WI_DEM]

1. He could start by ending this obscene war in Iraq

[trotsky]

2. Osama bin Laden and the anthrax killer may still be on the loose

but we busted pops for distributing dirty movies!!

This country is f*cked up right now.

[gordianot]

3. Needs to stop throwing boulders out of the glass house.

[Mutley]

4. Doesn't he have anything better to do?

like this?


or maybe even working on getting out of here?


But hey, maybe it's just me.

[youthere]

6. How dare you bring up that kind of fluffery when we

have such important issues infront of us like the runaway bride and who makes the pope's underwear. Begone!

[Mutley]

7. oh I'm so sorry!

I don't know what I was thinking!

[BOSSHOG]

5. No more masturbating horses while Laura desperately watches housewives?

[MsAnthropy]

8. Can you just imagine if Hillary had told the horse joke?

We would never had heard the end of it. Fortunately, she's got a little more class than that.