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   From: %e%i%f%s@%f%d.kr   
      
   One of the first things Bush did when he got into office was tell the FBI that   
   counter-terrorism was no longer top priority.  He needed to pay back the   
   Christians for their votes, so he endangered the country by ordering the FBI   
   to make fighting porn their top priority.  Now that it is election year, Bush   
   returns to fighting porn to buy votes from Christian groups.  Will our   
   national security suffer again because of this?   
      
   Bush never learns....   
      
      
      
   U.S. Plans to Escalate Porn Fight   
   Justice Department hire of a veteran prosecutor answers criticism from   
   Christian conservatives who have long sought a crackdown on smut.   
      
   By Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writer   
      
      
   WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has quietly installed an outspoken   
   anti-pornography advocate in a senior position in its criminal division, as   
   part of an effort to jump-start obscenity prosecutions.   
      
   Officials said the appointment of Bruce A. Taylor, who worked in the   
   department during the heyday of its anti-porn efforts in the late 1980s and   
   early '90s, shows that Justice is serious about cracking down on porn after   
   what critics called lax enforcement by the Clinton administration.   
      
   In the 1980s, Taylor was the lawyer for an anti-porn group known as Citizens   
   for Decency Through Law, which was ***founded by Charles Keating, who later   
   became embroiled in the savings-and-loan scandals and went to jail.***   
      
   Most recently, he has been the president and chief counsel of the National Law   
   Center for Children and Families, a Fairfax, Va., group active in writing   
   federal legislation outlawing indecent material on the Internet as well as   
   fighting child exploitation.   
      
   Among the supporters of his law center is Cincinnati billionaire and   
   philanthropist Carl Lindner, who in the early 1990s gained additional   
   celebrity by helping lead the opposition to a local exhibit of sexually   
   explicit work by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.   
      
   The department has made other moves recently to shore up its anti-porn effort,   
   including assigning for the first time in years a team of FBI agents to focus   
   exclusively on adult-obscenity cases.   
      
   In his fiscal 2005 budget proposal released this month, President Bush sought   
   increased spending to fight obscenity; it was one of the few spending   
   increases - besides for anti-terrorist efforts - in the otherwise austere   
   proposal.   
      
      
   More...   
   http://www.latimes.com/la-na-porn14feb14,1,7713213.story   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)