Posted 4/07/2004 05:22:00 PM by Douglas

Since the present administration has rid the world of evil-doing terrorists, what's the next target? You guessed it: porn.

Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other "computer forensic specialists" like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn.

In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains.

Department officials say they will send "ripples" through an industry that has proliferated on the Internet and grown into an estimated $10 billion-a-year colossus profiting Fortune 500 corporations such as Comcast, which offers hard-core movies on a pay-per-view channel.

First off, there's a job that pays people to surf the net for porn? Are they still accepting resumes?

Seriously, this topic is so tired, it's making me yawn. Bush is doing nothing more than digging for votes in the same place he went in 2000. "Christian" conservatives. He'll spend a few million dollars trying to shut down some porn factories, then he can stump about what he's doing to "preserves the family." Then the world will truly be a better place.

As for internet porn, it's here to stay. It's incredibly easy to off-shore that kind of stuff, far out of reach of the DoJ, so Lam Nguyen will be surfin' the same sites when his 2 year old is in college. Because as we all know, porn on the internet is like peeing in the swimming pool: once it's in there, you're not getting it out.