A plank of the new GOP platform will be “Current laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity need to be vigorously enforced.”
Well, that ship has sailed long ago, and most Freepers have gotten with the times. But I am nothing if not a cherry picker of the crazy, and I found a good amount of throwbacks raging against reality:
icwhatudo knows what this election should be about:
Some may snicker, but pornography is dragging down society. Yes, this election SHOULD be about things like not killing unborn babies and not allowing porn to invade every facet of our world and not having homosexuality thrown in our kids faces.Chainmail needs the government to ban porn, lest his daughters become porn stars.
I am a bit surprised and saddened at some of the responses I've seen so far from my fellow conservatives. Pornography is a cancer to our moral structure and part of the massive downhill slide our country has endured for the last several decades. As a father of two daughters, the last thing on Earth I would want for them is to be used by the "porn industry" and watched in that degradation by a bunch of pervert losers who would rather play with themselves than find and marry a good womanTau Food's broad definition of porn apparently includes those two elderly folks holding hands in separate bathtubs:
I believe the pornography on network television should be banned. Why must our children be exposed to commercials discussing erectile dysfunction and four hour erections? How did every previous generation get by without such filth?spel_grammer_an_punct_polise considers his spam filter one of the anti-porn people.
I do believe that the Repubs should be focusing on the economy, debt, incompetence, etc, instead of porn.stars & stripes forever has his list of issues:
And...as far as porn goes, on the one hand, I don’t really have an opinion except to say that I am happy that the anti-porn people exist. If they didn’t then porn would be delivered to our inboxes on an hourly basis.
On the other hand, I am glad that porn exists. Otherwise, the anti-porn people would find some other cause to try to embrace, like, anti-( insert cause here ).
The porn/anti-porn groups tend to cancel each other out, thank goodness.
Abortion, gross immorality, allegiance to Israel, dishonoest business practices, rebellion. This what this election should be about.My favorite federal election issue is rebellion!
To follow up on this post, here's a thread about how "full frontal nudity is up 6300% this year on TV!" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2923928/posts
ReplyDeleteUncle Slayton spins a classic here: "What can we as a nation due to stop this invasion of incessant incidences of indecency on our TV airwaves?"
After about half the posts aren't outraged enough, the real crazies seem to come out: "In Tokyo and Nagano, kiddie porn posession is legal.
Plus watch any anime and kids and sex will be included almost in all of them.
Japan is pervert land"
You know that person at the convention that threw nuts at a black camera woman and said, "This is how we feed animals"? Never happened. Not one FReeper believes it happened in this thread. Not ONE.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2924072/posts
I know this doesn't really need to be said but just for the record, kiddy porn is illegal everywhere in Japan. And anyone who's seen Japanese porn will tell you, Japanese porn laws are pretty draconian.
DeleteJapanese national law only prohibits production and distribution of child porn, not mere possession. Possession is covered by prefecture-level laws, and some prefectures are more lenient than others. There have been repeated attempts to pass a national law criminalizing child porn possession, but all have stalled in parliamentary committees. I would guess the reason is that they're leery about censorship and about laws criminalizing essentially private activities, because of their experience of totalitarianism.
Deletehmmm.... so it's illegal to make, buy, or sell child porn, but legal to own it *if it's a picture of a family member, lover (age of consent is 13, gross), or self-picture according to the wiki page
DeleteBut it also seems the lack of better defined laws is being exploited in a number of ways. The idol and lolicon pictures slip through by being "art."
This is all knowledge I was better off without.
Your Japanese is a bit rusty (or you're relying on machine translation) The section of the Wikipedia article that you're quoting isn't talking about the current law, it's talking about proposed reforms (the ones that keep dying in committee) The current Japanese law doesn't restrict private possession at all.
DeleteA conversation on a Japanese blog comment thread a few years back that's stuck in my mind (from memory, and loosely translated):
A: Someone explain to me what the government means by 'simple possession'?
B: It's just like marijuana or unlicensed firearms. If the police suspect you they can search your home, and if they find any you go to prison.
A: So the police will be able to search my bookshelves and send me to jail for owning the wrong books? That's absolutely horrible and unconstitutional. I was sure we stopped doing that for good after the war.
I was reading quickly at work, and didn't catch that it was just the proposed reform. *boss is Japanese and I didn't want to explain why I was researching Japan Child Porn laws...
DeleteI wonder what part of the constitution they are worried about infringing on. I guess the most shocking thing about all this is that Uncle Slayton was correct. I wonder why he picked only Tokyo and Nagano though.
Nice, I'd been looking for the thread on the acorn incident, but couldn't find it.
ReplyDelete@Tau Food - "Why must our children be exposed to commercials discussing erectile dysfunction and four hour erections? How did every previous generation get by without such filth?"
ReplyDeleteIs Tau Food actually admitting to getting arousal from the mere talk of unerect and perpetually erect penises? If so then that is something he needs to talk to his doctor about.
This is not an important thread but...
ReplyDeleteWTH #666: M.Obama Quotes Saul Alinsky in Campaign Speech
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2924150/posts
"What to make of Michelle Obama’s use the terms, 'The world as it is' and 'The world as it should be?' From whence do they originate? Try Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals."
I'm pretty sure that those phrases didn't originate in the 20th century. LOL.
Freepers, you have got to up your game.
Limbaugh wrote a book titled, "The Way Things Ought To Be".
DeleteIs Rusty an Alinsky-ite too?