Thursday, March 01, 2007

BRENT WARD, PORN CRUSADER

Brent D. Ward is 61. He's married, with seven kids.

He thinks pornography is one of the country's biggest evils. That explains why he's the leader of a Bush Administration task force within the Department of Justice. The group's sole purpose: Enforce federal obscenity laws.

In Ward's mind, "enforcing" the law means crushing all sexually explicit businesses in the United States. He acknowledges the futility of his actions:
"We're not going to prosecute it away, but it's important, I think, that Americans see their government trying to do something about it."
A profile in the Salt Lake Tribune reveals Ward's ultra-prude personality:
While practicing law and serving on the board of Utah Citizens for Positive Community Values, Ward fought for a state law aimed at strip clubs that would have required dancers, as well as art class models and others, to wear at least a bikini. The Legislature never passed it.
Many normal adults use porn for arousal. Ward and the prude patrol use power to get off.

2 comments:

keith calandra said...

UNITED STATES vs. JOHN STAGLIANO opened 7/7/10 and all charges were dismissed within a few days of the trial start. When Pamela Sever Satterfield for the Plaintiff refused to recuse herself or contradict DOJ employee testimony, sworn testimony that Judge Richard J. Leon had somehow admonished prosecutor Satterfield to urge the Justice employee to familiarize himself with the evidence. No judge would ever involve himself in such a manner, obviously. Judges are like Popes, you know, all powerful and all-knowing, beyond reproach, eternal American patriots elevated nearly to Saint status. Federal judges appointed by their sick political trickery. So Brent Ward, Mary Beth Buchanan and others who fought to persecute these adult producers, subverting the original mandate of the Division, did so singularly to carry out a political agenda.

Sad legacy.

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