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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (30739)	6/12/2008 8:28:37 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224750

Hysteria? Well I am sure you were calm out there in Washington where the smoke and dust couldn't be seen and tasted. You are a phoney hero Kenneth.You don't care about other Americans unless they are Democrat. Hysteria my butt! You are tough when it is someone else dying. Look in the mirror you old coward! Looks like your liberal Chief Justice at 9th cicuit got caught with porn on his computer! Federal judge linked to porn site Jeff Johnson and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 6/11/2008 2:25:00 PM [Updated June 12, 2008] Los Angeles Times readers looking for information on the obscenity trial of accused pornographer Ira Isaacs in Wednesday's edition of the paper learned about a man who regularly posted porn online ... but it wasn't who they thought. Pat Trueman, special counsel to the Alliance Defense Fund, is the former chief obscenity prosecutor for the Justice Department under Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He is reacting to what LA Times readers learned when they opened their papers on Wednesday morning. "I'm not shocked, but I'm disappointed that Alex Kozinski, who is a star in the federal judiciary, a Reagan appointee, chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, now trying an obscenity case, is himself involved in posting obscenity to the Internet," Trueman shares. According to The Times, Kozinski placed sexually explicit photographs and videos, which were available to the public, on his personal website. Kozinski, 57, told the newspaper that he did not believe the website was available to the public, though he did admit that he had shared some of its content with others. The pornographic content was not in a password-protected folder on the site. In the interview, the federal judge conceded while some of the material on the site as inappropriate, he defended other sexually explicit material posted there as "funny." He also claims he must have uploaded some of the images accidentally. Trueman worked with Kozinski in the Justice Department. "What this demonstrates is the pervasiveness of pornography," says the former federal prosecutor. "It's touched so many men and so many children in our society that, here, this Reagan administration star judge is, himself, involved in hardcore pornography." Kozinski, who is considered a conservative on most issues, declined comment when asked if the contents of the website should force him to recuse himself from the pending obscenity trial. But a law professor who specializes in legal ethics told The Times the judge should do so because his objectivity in the matter could now be questioned. [Editor's note: The LA Times reports that on Wednesday afternoon, Kozinski granted a 48-hour stay in the trial after the prosecutor requested time to explore "a potential conflict of interest concerning the court having a ... sexually explicit website with similar material to what is on trial here."] Trueman agrees, saying Kozinski has no choice but to recuse himself from the Isaacs trial. "The Justice Department should insist on having him removed from the case because he's doing what the defendant did and is charged with," he points out. If it is proven that Kozinski posted the images and videos with the intent of sharing them with others, Trueman explains, the judge would be guilty of the same offense for which Isaacs is on trial.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (30739)	6/12/2008 9:18:53 PM
From: MJ	Respond to of 224750

Kenneth R. Phillips Where were you when the World Trade Center Towers were flown into by the radical Jihadist? Where were you when the Pentagon was hit? Where were you when brave Americans challenged the terrorists and crashed to their death in Pennsylvania? Where were you when Saddam Hussein was killing and burying his own people in mass graves? Thank God for President George Bush and his administration that they had the insight to understand what we had faced and what we would be facing if we did not take action. There are some of us who believe we were charitable with our actions in the heart of Al Queda land------there are some who would have dropped the bomb and been glad. Please don't come to Washington area, I don't want you to run the risk of getting Anthrax, being shot at by a sniper as happened at the CIA Gate or as happened to people getting gas at gas stations or running the risk of a dirty suitcase bomb going off under your seat. I am not sure we could handle the hysteria you would feel. mj