Pornographers and smut dealers are happy with Obama... Obama is happy with them! He's even picked one out for a super job!

Sexual exploitation of children [child porn]...protected by the First Amendment? Huh! When did they change that? - nh

Ogden's epiphany - believable?

James L. Lambert - Guest Columnist - 2/9/2009 7:50:00 AM

When it comes to President Obama's nominee for assistant attorney general, pornographers and other smut peddlers will have no problem expressing their glee by echoing the quote made famous by Mr. Obama himself: this is a "change we can believe in."

And how! If confirmed by the Senate, Obama's selection of David Ogden as assistant AG paints a dismal picture for pro-family and pro-life advocates around the country. According to former Justice Department prosecutor Patrick Trueman, "while in private practice [Ogden] filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of child pornographer Stephen Knox." Essentially the brief, according to Trueman, "asserted that...sexual exploitation of children [as expressed in child pornography] was protected by the First Amendment."

Trueman remembers the case well. While serving as a federal prosecutor, his department convicted Knox. But Odgen and the ACLU decided to challenge the conviction. Trueman recalls that even skeptical reporters who later reviewed the material in question understood that Knox's videos were indeed child porn.

Bob Peters, president of Morality in Media, also contends that Ogden is unfit to be the new assistant Attorney General. He said last week that "nominating David Ogden for such a high position in the Justice Department raises questions about whether the new president means business about curbing sexual trafficking of women and children."

Peters continues: "It would be one thing if Odgen had represented pornographers or those defending pornography in one or two cases over a long distinguished career. But this man went into court over and over again to represent soft-core (Playboy) and hard-core pornographers."

Now that Ogden's nomination process in the Senate has begun, the nominee has expressed a change of heart. It reminds me of the Timothy Geithner nomination. The president said that the then-future chief of the Internal Revenue Service made an "honest mistake" by not paying over $40,000 in taxes. Last Wednesday, while appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the assistant AG wanna-be testified to having had an epiphany. He said he now "believes child pornography laws and Internet filters are constitutional and extremely important."

David Burch of Fidelis.org, another pro-family group, is skeptical. In reaction, he pointed out on Thursday that Ogden "spent his entire life arguing for far-left, extremist positions. And now he expects us to believe he has matured and abandoned those views when he is before the Senate [nominating committee]?"

Burch offers his explanation for Ogden's turnabout. "What we have here is a nominee who knows that his views and Obama's views on the law are far out of the mainstream of America, so he is adjusting his rhetoric to get the votes he needs."

Apparently it's more important for David Ogden to become the next assistant attorney general for the United States than it is to be truthful with the public. If you agree with me, contact the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and express yourself.

James L. Lambert, a frequent contributor to OneNewsNow.com and author of Porn in America, is a licensed nationwide real-estate mortgage loan sales agent and can be contacted through his website.

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