Kowtowing to religious conservatives, Bush squanders precious police resources to set up a task force to focus on porn prosecutions.

Notice how anti-freedom our torture-memo attorney general is: Quoted on CNN.com, Gonzales said he is prosecuting porn producers to protect people from “unwanted exposure” even though no one has accused anyone of distributing ANY material to ANYONE other than consenting adult buyers.

So Bush and Gonzales know what we should be allowed to see, we don’t. And these guys think they are freedom-loving “conservatives”.

And they are willing to divert precious resources from protecting us from real crime and terror, in order to prevent consenting adults from looking at dirty pictures of other consenting adults.

I’d have to say that I’m disappointed in Bush and the Republicans.

CNN.com - Bush administration targets obscenity - May 5, 2005
Since 2001, 40 people and businesses have been convicted and 20 additional indictments are pending, said Andrew Oosterbaan, chief of the Justice Department’s child exploitation and obscenity section. By comparison, there were four such prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration, he said.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, like his immediate predecessor, John Ashcroft, has pledged to make obscenity prosecutions a priority. The department is expected to announce soon the creation of a special unit within its criminal division to focus on adult obscenity cases.

“Enforcement is absolutely necessary if we are going to protect citizens from unwanted exposure to obscene materials,” Gonzales recently told federal prosecutors. He directed U.S. attorneys to report back by late July on effective ways to crack down on obscenity and what tools the prosecutors might need.