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Originally Posted by mikesouth
Alex, you do live in a dream world don't you?
You seem to think politicians are this altruistic bunch.
You talk straight from the Democratic talking points.
Do you really think they wouldn't use this negative PR as the REASON to prosecute us? Come on man you can't be that politically naive
Can you?
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As for this, Mike, you really don't understand politics. First of, I am in Canada, and I don't use "democratic talking points". What I say is my opinion, like it or not. If it lands in the middle of the democrats, well, that is your point of view.
Politicians never open a box unless they are reasonably confident about what will happen when they do. They come forward with successes, not failures. Look at what happened the last time they called the FBI up to ask them about 2257 inspections. The FBI laughed and pretty much said they had better things to do in life than check IDs in the porn business. It then took congress about another 2 years to make enough budget space and time to actually have a dozen or so people assigned to do this stuff. So far this year there have been, what, a dozen or so inspections? At this pace, they should be done with the known DVD production companies by about 2023. The FBI has little or no interest. Prosecutors so far have shown little interest, even with the case of the primary producer with NO IDs on hand at all. I suspect something may happen with that one, but the rest so far appear to have been technicalities of not properly cross referencing or indexing, and in some case, by having too many IDs on hand for non-participating characters in the DVDs.
So the politicians would have what after almost 18 months of inspections? 1 idiot with no paperwork, and a bunch of other companies that have minor / technical violations that according to the FBI are getting cleared up in many cases pretty much directly.
The AG isn't going to want to go to court with a weak case for fear of losing. It isn't a far stretch to show that the new rules are burdensome, and further that the FBI even without proper cross referencing had apparently few problems to identify models and get correct information.
None of the inspections have turned up any underage performers.
None of the inspections have turned up any CP.
So, exactly what would a politician go out there with? "95% of adult companies that were inspected had minor technical violations on their paperwork because of our burdensome and poorly explained systems"? Or perhaps "in all of our inspections, we were unable to obtain a proper list of other stage names for 15% of all performers"?
They have to have something to stand on, something that will stand up to a one minute scrutiny. Picture your thing on the NBC nightly news. On one hand you have a spewing uptight bible thumping moron back bencher junior senator from wherever pounding on about this stuff, followed by a quote from the FBI, and a longer quote from the FSC or similar that says "not a single prosecution, not a single underage performer found, not a single title pulled from the shelves, nothing other than issues with paperwork because congress wrote and passed burdensome laws that are difficult to keep up with".
Boom, senator buttfuck has shit all over his face where his shit pie exploded right in front of him.
Without valid prosecutions, without a list of underage performers, without a list of pulled titles, or a list of CP websites shut down as a result of 2257 inspections, you can expect them to be VERY quiet on the subject.