The Anti-Sam Brownback Blog

Brownback has found an issue that is guaranteed to get him attention from both the religious fundamentalists and the general media. Porn. From the heinously bigoted FRC:

A Senate Subcommittee, chaired by Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, is holding a hearing tomorrow on why the government should care about pornography. It’s the third in a series to call attention to the pornography industry and its effect.

High on the priority list; the manner and extent the Justice Department uses in enforcing anti-pornography laws.

Pat Trueman, former head of the Justice Department’s Obscenity Enforcement Group, believes the Brownback hearings will have an effect.

“Because of the pressure of Sam Brownback and the support of the American public, and the good will of the Attorney General, we are going to see the Justice Department have a strong effort against obscenity very soon.”

Whatever your feelings about regulated pornography (i.e. not child porn), I think we all can agree that the Justice Department has better things to do than pursue regulated pornographers. They should be protecting us from terrorists, fighting organized crime, or reducing human trafficking among many other responsibilities. It is hard to believe that in this era of terror fears, valuable resources are spent on a religious crusade against pornography.

I guess that is Sam Brownback for you. He’d rather outlaw your Playboy than fight terrorism. We won’t even touch the possible underlying psychological reasons for his porn fixation…