Always Anna

[Thomas] 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…. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, like his immediate predecessor, John Ashcroft, has pledged to make obscenity prosecutions a priority. The department is expected to announce soon the creation of a special unit within its criminal division to focus on adult obscenity cases. “Enforcement is absolutely necessary if we are going to protect citizens from unwanted exposure to obscene materials,” Gonzales recently told federal prosecutors. He directed U.S. attorneys to report back by late July on effective ways to crack down on obscenity and what tools the prosecutors might need…. The Justice Department’s approach has been to identify videos that even some in the pornography business find unappealing and to bring charges in more socially conservatives places, where possible. Read the full story…

So, apparently adults that choose to buy or rent a porn video are being exposed to obscene materials against their will. At first I was confused - usually when I buy something, it’s something I want. But then I realized… pornographers are using the Jedi mind trick to make unsuspecting people purchase porn! Crazy, but it must be true… the Bush administration would never do something that wasted our money and time, right?