CRAIGforCONGRESS

Missouri's 7th District, U.S. House of Representatives

  
 

 

 

Liberty Under God
IS THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF
Pornography



The 112th Congress should:
  • oppose all censorship

Hard-core pornography distribution is not a victimless crime. It is degrading to women and children and its secondary effects of increased crime are destructive of family and community life. Anyone who uses force or threats to make a woman perform should be charged with kidnapping, assault, and/or rape. People who for recreation purchase or view videos of such acts are not true Americans.

Unfortunately, most women who participate in pornography do so voluntarily.

Pornography is a perversion of the gift of sexuality. By its nature, it diminishes the humanity of everyone involved. Those captured by camera images are not treated as human beings created in the Image of God, worthy of dignity and value. The viewer’s humanity is also diminished by becoming party to exploitation. People who view pornography, especially children, are psychologically and spiritually damaged by the viewing. 

Kevin Craig therefore supports and defends free market policies that will eliminate illegal hard-core pornography from the open market. Americans must work vigorously to protect children from online pornographic material. Children must be afforded safe access to the world of useful and appropriate knowledge available through Internet access in public schools and libraries, while at the same time being adequately protected from harmful pornography and contact by sexual predators.

While there are good arguments for attempting to protect children from pornography using the strong-arm of the State, this only adds violence to the social toxin of pornography. Pornography must be eliminated using only the powers of the Free Market.

Government policies to eliminate pornography will be used to censor other forms of expression. Such laws could be used to ban entire books of the Bible, like the Song of Solomon.

Music industry spokesman loves child porn

A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything:

"Child pornography is great," the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. "It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites."

The venue was a seminar organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm on May 27, 2007, under the title "Sweden -- A Safe Haven for Pirates?". The speaker was Johan Schlüter from the Danish Anti-Piracy Group, a lobby organization for the music and film industry associations, like IFPI and others...

"One day we will have a giant filter that we develop in close cooperation with IFPI and MPA. We continuously monitor the child porn on the net, to show the politicians that filtering works. Child porn is an issue they understand," Johan Schlüter said with a grin, his whole being radiating pride and enthusiasm from the podium.

IFPI's child porn strategy

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