e-Claire

Yo, Ashcroft! Take a Breath!

I'm sensing a trend. Adding the Broadcast "Decency" Enforcement Act of 2004 to Mr Ashcroft's pledge to hunt down "pr0n" wherever it hides and prosecute it to the fullest, I think we have a little homefront fire that needs tending.

Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance,

has actually hired "computer forensic specialists" to sit online and hunt for pr0n. And he's in a position where he can make me pay for this activity!!

In this field [DOJ] 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 rooms of major hotel chains.

Ashcroft, honey, it is fully your right to keep yourself from dancing and having a Coke afterward, if that is what you truly believe you need to do -- your choice. But kindly allow me to disabuse you of the notion that all this self- discipline has raised you to a higher moral plane than the rest of us. Also, kindly allow me to remind you that it is not in your job description to decide for the entire country what consenting adults will be allowed by the government to do or see. While we are vigorously fighting in distant lands to hold back the lethal tides of religious fanaticism which forces women to hide indoors and behind draped clothing, which teaches that individual choice is the devil's work, which encourages its children to kill others by killing themselves we cannot afford to allow religious righteousness to go unchallenged here at home. I'm sure there is ample rationale for your religious teachings to demand you forbid yourself access to Whiskey and Sexy -- they can be dangerous things. More risky yet is Freedom, for it includes the freedom to fail, the freedom to make a hash of one's life with Whiskey or Sexy. Or even with the idea that I know better than anyone what is good for everyone else. That is the risk we have chosen to take living in a free country. Hell, we're even free to give over our right of individual choice to a paternalistic religious outfit which will tell us how to live and breathe and eat and sleep. We are free to make a hash of things in that way, too. I am working very hard to make choices that will benefit my life -- and I'm not always that successful, but I learn. I am sure that it is equally challenging for everybody, including you, Mr Ashcroft. It may truly be your life's destiny to "clean up America." On that I am not equipped comment. What I can do is decline your invitation to participate with my time and my resources. I can speak out against your attempt to use up the finite resources of this nation in your efforts to bring it us all line with your beliefs. Please feel Free to utilize your own resources, life, and sacred honor to pursue your goal. So Mr Ashcroft -- and company -- take your over-torqued sphincters and Get Back To Your Real Work. Protect this country from outside forces which seek to make us give up our rights to make our own choices -- however sane or inane they might seem. -- UPDATE: Ok, this is Art. Bwahahahahahahahahha ThanQ! DogBlog -- ThanQ! Kate Oh, and go see the Snark Hunt -- the picture is worth a thousand words. . .

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