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Republican Representative Peter Roskam of Illinois's 6th District is co-sponsoring the Military Honor and Decency Act, which would ban the sale of pornographic material on Army bases all over the world.
A similar law is already in place on bases in the United States, where hard-core magazines and movies are forbidden. Per the Sun-Times, even mainstream mags such as Cosmopolitan are banned in certain countries, including Iraq, as not to offend locals. Roskam’s bill would streamline these boundaries, banning any racy material on all Army bases in all countries. More specifically, it puts the kibosh on the following:
“human genitals, pubic area, anus, anal cleft, or any part of the female breast below a horizontal line across the top of the areola with less than an opaque covering but does not include the exposure of the cleavage of the female breast exhibited by a dress, blouse, bathing suit, or other apparel.”
So basically anything more graphic than a woman in a push-up bra is unacceptable. [Ed note: Who knew "anal cleft" was the official (scientific? political?) term for coin slot?]
Roskam’s Democratic opponent Jill Morgenthaler, a retired Army Reserves colonel, actively opposes the bill. She argues, "I find it offensive, having served with the young men and women in Iraq…Every day we trust them to make decisions. This bill says we don't trust them to choose their own magazines or movies.”
Roskam has never served in the military.
While we don't want those we serve overseas thinking Americans are porn-mongers, we consider T n' A a fundamental right that should apply to American soldiers wherever they are. Come on, if we have the right to bear arms, shouldn't we also have the right to bare boobs? [S-T]
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Please don't take away a soldier's right to see some anal cleft.
what a idoit! He actually sat down and thought about this, as in a light went off in his head?
I believe it was Voltaire who said "I may disapprove of your Anal Cleft, but I will defend to the death your right to expose it."
Good Lord. Men and women risking their lives to serve our country should have the right to get off to whatever material they want.
Dear god, the depths to which so-called conservatives have fallen.
You know, if you wake up every day thinking you might be killed, I see no reason to deny you porn. Hell, we should have a porn-collection drive.
I guess the soldiers are only allowed to look at those body parts when people are blown up around them?
What about those parts on their own body? Are they allowed to look at those?
Not surprising,
This is the same posse of douchebags who were pushing for the constitutional ban on gay marriage.
This is sad. Will they have to resort to a Victoria's Secret catalogue?
Our poor soldiers.
So are they sending them free hookers instead?? These men need some release!
Sure Tilda, because of the internet my conception of porn has expanded so I do have an old lap top I can donate for the cause
I want to move to Peter Roskam's district!
They've OBVIOUSLY got no concerns about gas prices, property taxes, the economy, jobs, global warming and the environment, the mortgage crisis, or food prices, to name a few of the issues in most campaigns so far.
Oh, wait. That's right. All of those things are figments of our collective imaginations, according to Phil Gramm.
Come on Roskam! For this alone, you should not be granted the privilege to be elected dog catcher. This is really what you think anyone wants you to spend your time on Capitol Hill worrying about?
So are they sending them free hookers instead?? These men need some release!
No, no keep it pent up. That works really well, especially for priests.
Here is another reason why there is a big CLEFT in the Republican Party.
Please be aware that many Republicans, perhaps even a majority of them, would say that the military's policies about magazines should be left up to the military.
Boy, are we (Republicans) going to get creamed in November.
Please be aware that many Republicans, perhaps even a majority of them, would say that the military's policies about magazines should be left up to the military.
Decent point.
But let me ask you: Why in the fuck did relatively moderate Republicans--and yes, they still exist--let these nuts take over what, decades ago, used to be a reasonable party, even for people who disagreed with it? Why did the moderates wack these Jesus freaks and armchair warriors back into the mole hills where they belong? God, the damage these idiots have done in only 8 years is ... well, something beyond anger and frustration.
A2:
I think you have a super valid point.
It really comes down to the double standard in our society between graphic sex and graphic violence.
Because it shouldn't be cool to send 18 year old boys to see disgusting, graphic wounds, and rish those wounds themselves and also be like: hey, labia? That's a no go.
No doubt we will find a large collection of Anal Cleft Pron on Roskams computer in the next sex scandal.
I mean these kids can die for the country thanks to guys like Roskam but they can't buy any porn!! Is there a march I can participate in support of our troops on this issue.
Why is it that every time a Republicreature like Foreskin, sorry I mean Rossscam, or what ever it calls itself, comes up with an idea like this, you always know how its gonna turn out.
Him arrested in a men's bathroom stall after mistaking an male under cover vice cop for a runaway teen or found oiled and all tussled up role playing as a bound pig in an old hooker’s bed who called the cops on him because he refused to get "out of character".
Why don't he come out the closet and save his family from the embarrassment
Man, Friday afternoon and a couple more hours to go and I’m THIRSTY!
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Hellarious!
Sorry, but if Roskam were a liberal suggesting that such materials be banned from overseas military bases on grounds that they are demeaning to women, you lefties would all be in favor of this bill.
mss2400:
It would depend on what type of liberal. Liberals that place more emphasis on personal freedoms such as freedom of speech (see Defending Pornography by former ACLU President and Femilady Nadine Strossen) over knee-jerk feminist reactions would defend the military pornography tooth and nail.
mss2400,
You mean the way that liberals as a whole are always trying to get movies with nudity banned as well. I didn't think so. Try again.
I would like to think Roskam has better ways to spend his time in congress than something as stupid as this.
We should also devote a great deal of time and money to filtering what the soldiers can look at on the Internet (I'm envisioning an elaborate Web of blocked sites, which would require a full-time cyber team, of course; and a new policy emphasizing rewards for ratting other soldiers out who are looking at aereolas and anal clefts) and going through every piece of mail to see if anyone mails them porn. Also, lets round this bill out with weekly barrack-raids to make sure there is no Maxim-style contraband in their bunks, etc.
It's not just the Army, all military branchs are losing their porn selection. =)
I'm in the Navy, and been station in 4 different bases along the East Coast. Their are a lot of porn shops right outside the base. =)
So like, would this be okay?
NSFW
A2 asked:
Absolutely not. That might lead to homosexuality, and there is no room in the military for that. Except now. Since we have a war on, we'll allow it. Temporarily. Until you're killed or we decide we don't need you anymore.