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September 28th 2005, 11:01 Jeff Sela

I don't think George Bush's war on pornography will meet with much approval over here in the UK. For us Brits, sex doesn't hold quite the same terror as it does for the Americans. Marina Hyde mentioned it in the Guardian Unlimited yesterday:

Predictably, news that George Bush is to launch a War on Pornography has been met with sneers in some quarters.

Pornography takes its place alonside drugs and terror as the third noun with which the US is currently at war, and there are those who question what kind of berk would open up another front on grammar when they're already ever so slightly overstretched with the runaway success of the other two.

This seems bewilderingly short-sighted. After all, it cannot be denied that pornography is a noun, but it has the clear benefit of not being an abstract one. If only these cynics could look beyond the obvious they would realise that this development should be viewed as encouraging. They have no idea how close the nation came to marshalling against Temerity.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

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Even the Americans aren't so sure about this one. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has apparently made porn one of his top priorities, and so the FBI is putting together a special team to pursue obscenity prosecutions. This isn't kiddie porn we're talking about, but normal hardcore recorded by consenting adults. Some of the FBI agents who have been lumbered with this are less than pleased, according to the Washington Post:

“I guess this means we've won the war on terror,” said one exasperated FBI agent, speaking on the condition of anonymity because poking fun at headquarters is not regarded as career-enhancing. “We must not need any more resources for espionage.”