Shouldn't we be a little bit more concerned about terrorism?
Ashcroft doesn't think so. He's more concerned that grown adults might, gasp, view pornography!
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 rooms of major hotel chains.
Yup, because we just have nothing better or more pressing to be concerned about besides the dangers of seeing nipples. Nice to know where the Bush administrations priorities are.

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