Eric Holder's Justice Department Refuses to Act

One of the responsibilities of government is to protect its citizens from debauchery.

This allows them to live in an environment where they can reasonably surround themselves with what is normal. When pornography is inescapable, children are scathed and indoctrinated by it, family values are offended, and basic morality so essential to freedom, declines. Our inability to escape pornography destroys our agency—the right to make our own choices about our environment.

Below are excerpts from an email I received from Morality in Media on March 12, 2013 concerning pornography and our Justice Department. Also listed are suggested actions you can take.

• Contact Eric Holder at the U.S. Department of Justice to register your disapproval at www.askdoj@usdoj.gov
• Call the DOJ – Ask for the Criminal Division – (202) 514-2601
• Write the DOJ – U.S. Department of Justice / 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW / Washington, DC 20530-0001
• Post to the DOJ’s Facebook and Twitter accounts
• Tell your friends and family about existing obscenity laws and encourage their involvement in insisting these laws be enforced again, as they were successfully enforced in the past.

 

Morality in Media
 Attorney General Eric Holder has disbanded the Department of Justice Obscenity Prosecution Task Force and refused to prosecute obscenity cases during his four years in office.

 

The European Union has voted on a resolution to ban the advertisement of pornographic products and sex tourism. Iceland also plans to ban access to online pornography. The widespread harm from pornography is the driving force behind this development.

 

It is not at all surprising that the EU, Iceland or any other country is taking measures to curb the devastation resulting from pornography. Consumption of pornography is causing a worldwide pandemic of harm. Morality in Media maintains an extensive online database of peer-reviewed research on the harm from pornography, PornHarmsResearch.com, (cut and paste into your browser) accessed and used by people in every country in the world.

 

In the United States, our Congress, state legislatures and our courts have long recognized the harmful nature of pornography and banned most of it. In fact, it is currently a violation of federal law to distribute "obscene" or hardcore adult porn on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops, through the mail, and by common carrier such as UPS or FedEx.

 

U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder disbanded the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in the Department of Justice and has refused to initiate even one new adult obscenity case since he became attorney general four years ago, despite the fact that these laws have been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and effectively enforced by previous attorneys general.

 

Patrick A. Trueman
President & CEO
Morality In Media

 

- Pam