Thoughts 16 Jun 2007 05:29 pm
The DOJ and morality
According to PCWorld:
A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent located in Salt Lake City ordered six DVDs from Movies by Mail in March 2007. Three of the movies were obscene by local Utah standards, the FBI alleged.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah will issue a summons to Sami R. Harb and Michael Harb, whose business is based in Cleveland, Ohio, the DOJ said in a press release. The Harbs, whose relationship with one another was not stated in DOJ information, are scheduled to appear in court June 29.
The impression I got from the article was that the DOJ was more concerned with the fact that two of the women were dressed to look underage than anything else.
The DOJ has “stepped up the prosecution of obscenity cases, as evidence increases of the harm of obscenity to American children and families,” U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman of Utah said in a statement. “As obscene materials continue to proliferate, they are becoming more accessible for the young and the innocent among us. At the same time they are becoming more extreme and degrading in content and present a growing threat to the well being of American families and our society as a whole.”
Is it just me? or is our government sounding just a little more like the fanatics in the middle east each day.
There they make radical, sweeping reforms, here they take small bites, but the end result will inevitably be the same.
The powers that be will never understand that you have to teach morality, you can’t legislate it.