One To File Under 'Vested Interests'...

A former ACLU (that's the American Civil Liberties Union for the uninitiated) State Chapter head has been arrested on what seems like pretty solid Child Porn charges. Charles Rust-Tierney has, in the past, argued for amongst other things, unlimited access to the Internet in public libraries because “recognizing that individuals will continue to behave responsibly and appropriately while in the library, the default should be maximum, unrestricted access to the valuable resources of the Internet.”

Uh huh.

The ACLU has in the past been in what would, for any organisation not on the Left and therefore MSM protected, an unenviable position. Namely that of arguing the case that in the name of Civil Liberties whilst Child Porn should of course be regarded as beyond the pale and illegal, distributing it shouldnt be because, well, Civil Liberties demand freedom of 'information' and all that jazz.

As legislative counsel for the ACLU in 1985, Barry Lynn told the U.S. Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (of which Focus on the Family President Dr. James C. Dobson was a member) that child pornography was protected by the First Amendment. While production of child porn could be prevented by law, he argued, its distribution could not be. A few years later (1988), Lynn told the Senate Judiciary Committee that even requiring porn producers to maintain records of their performers’ ages was impermissible.
“If there is no federal record-keeping requirement for the people portrayed in Road and Track or Star Wars,” he said, “there can be no such requirement for Hustler or Debbie Does Dallas.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear.