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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Got to jump in after all you cowards, what happened to the home of the brave?, keep going on about porn being worried about a Republican President. Over the last 8 years there has been an increase in porn available, less restrictions on who can watch it and probably more people working in porn. And all in the US.
So what if they stick a few idiots like Paul Little in jail. He knew the risks and took them, for the money and the chance to abuse women. He threw the dice and lost. And if you cowards think they're coming after main stream porn you need to grow a back bone. And yes I DO KNOW what it's like to live and work in a country that is anti porn and get my door kicked in by the police, many times. Still did not take my balls away.
As for who wins. I truly do not care because I do not think either have the will, perception or power to change the trouble the US, and therefore the rest of us,are in. The change that is needed is too big for them to handle. The West, and not just the US, needs to stop sucking in billions of dollars/Euros worth of goods from countries who don't buy the same back. An economy based on Malls, debt and a "service industry" does not work as easily as they told us. Proof is all around you.
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As the others mentioned there were the 2257 things and some other stuff but you are forgetting a major thing. A little thing we like to call 9/11. It is pretty well known now that Bush and then AG Ashcroft were putting together a anti-porn task force with the FBI. When the 9/11 attacks hit they had to take that money and those people and put them towards fighting terrorism (where they should have been all along). So in reality we don't really know exactly what he would have done had there not been any 9/11 attacks.
Also there was the situation where he fired several US attorneys because they didn't want to go after obscenity and instead wanted to focus on other things.
Sure porn got more mainstream over the last 8 years, but I think there were some big outside factors so there is no telling what could have happened. There have been more prosecutions in the last few years now that terrorism seems to be back on the back burner again, had 9/11 never happened things could have gotten pretty ugly.