Only the man himself can say for certain, but I’m pretty sure that Attorney General John Ashcroft would disapprove of the Realdoll, a life-size $5,999 sex dummy that boasts "a completely articulated skeleton which allows for anatomically correct positioning." Nor, I imagine, would he have any kind words for the Extreme Bonk’er™ sex trapeze, the mango-scented Cum-Kleen personal wipes, or the thousands of hardcore videotapes and DVDs that are for sale here at the Adult Entertainment Expo, a bustling trade show for sexual entrepreneurs sponsored by the adult video trade magazine AVN in January at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas."

http://reason.com/0405/fe.gb.xtreme.shtml

 

"International: Ashcroft's Porn War

 

Joe Obenberger has been keeping an eye John Ashcrofts tirade against US porn.

The following was extracted from an article was published on www.avn.com

 

Joe Obenberger is a Chicago Loop lawyer concentrating in the law of free expression and liberty under the United States Constitution, and his firm has represented many owners, employees, and customers of adult-oriented businesses, both online and in the real world. He represents and provides advice to adult Websites in many parts of the United States and in Canada. His e-mail address is xxxlaw@execpc.com. His Website URL on the World Wide Web is www.xxxlaw.net.

 

TDOJ Officials at the National Cybercrime Law Conference in Chicago: Major Online Initiative Against Adult Obscenity Imminent
I told the Montreal legal seminar attendees that, in the first week of May, I had attended the National Cybercrime Law Conference at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, a three-day seminar, promoted on its Website as follows: "Hear the experts who are involved discuss where we have been, where we are, and what the future may hold. Speakers include practicing experts from government and industry who are making and enforcing the law today." That turned out not to be much of an exaggeration. A significant number of policy-forming officials from the highest ranks of the U.S. Department of Justice spoke at the event together with representatives of the Federal Trade Commission and the offices of several state attorneys general along with various experts who do contract work for prosecutors at the national level. The attendance was overpoweringly dominated by FBI agents, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, and other prosecutorial and law enforcement personnel. It would be inaccurate to say that no defense lawyers spoke, because two did, nor that there were no defense lawyers in the audience, because there was at least a scattering of them. However, the prosecution spirit was prevalent enough and defense representation was scant enough that in the main, it simply would not be unfair to call the event a prosecution seminar even though it was conducted by a law school and open to lawyers in general. And, as a defense lawyer at the forward edge of the battle area defending materials destined for online publication, I surprisingly found myself in the midst of the anti-porn camp as they at least indirectly discussed their order of battle in open discussion, and more directly in smaller gatherings."

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