Just the Change Parents Needed: A High Level Enemy of the Family

    As if parents and grandparents don’t already have enough to worry about with the dangerous content flooding the Internet, now the smut peddlers may soon have an ally at the very highest levels of the government. President Barack Obama has chosen David Ogden to be the second in command at the Department of Justice as the Deputy Attorney General.  This is the same powerful position that the new Attorney General, Eric Holder, held under Janet Reno during the Clinton Administration.  

    On just his fifteenth day in office, the President selected a lawyer for the porn industry to be at the highest levels of the Department of Justice, an agency that can (and should) address obscenity crimes, human trafficking, child exploitation and other decency issues. 

Who is David Ogden?  

•   Ogden has served as a lawyer for Playboy and Penthouse magazines;
•   Ogden also worked as a lawyer for major a distributor of adult films.
•   Ogden has served as a lawyer for the ACLU in various lawsuits.
•   Ogden represented an adult bookstore in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
•   Ogden defended the right of pornographers to produce materials using underage actors.
•   Ogden has also opposed filters on library computers designed to protect children from Internet filth.

• Ogden is also a supporter of same-sex marriage, unlimited abortion and gays in the military.
•   Ogden represented Playboy magazine in a lawsuit against Attorney General Ed Meese becuase Meese wanted Playboy included in a list of pornographic materials for the Attorney General's report on the dangers of pornograhy.  (Psycholgist, Dr. James Dobson served on that groundbreaking effort, which many smut peddlers still despise.) 

   A news report for the adult industry (XBIZ) praised the nomination of Ogden saying, "This is a good sign for the adult industry."

   David Ogden is not the kind of person most parents or grandparents really want in charge of obscenity crime prosecutions or controlling the spread of sex trafficking, child exploitation and other vital decency issues.

    If you would like to let our US Senators know of your view of this choice before they vote on David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General, you can call Senators Lugar and Bayh at these phone numbers:

Senator Richard Lugar’s Washington, DC office: (202) 224-4814
Indianapolis office: (317) 226-5555

Senator Evan Bayh’s Washington, DC office: (202) 224-5623
Indianapolis Office: (317) 554-0750