The Young Turks: Michael Shure- 'Ban Porn! Michele Bachmann 2012 Pledge'

Source:The Young Turks- U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (Republican, Minnesota) hard against porn.

"2012 Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann signed a Christian-Right pledge that slams porn, gay people and sex before marriage. Michael Shure explains." 

From The Young Turks

Normally I wouldn't hit this story twice: I blogged about it on Friday, even though that post was about Representative  Michele Bachman's broader view on social issues. But since this is Michele Bachmann and she has a hypocritical streak going (longer than Joe Dimaggio's hitting streak, if she stays at this pace) when it comes to big government and it's Saturday, the slow news day (of all slow news days) I'm going to hit this story again and go out-of-my-way not to sound repetitive on this story, but no promises. 

This is what big government, anti-constitutional conservatism at its worst, but that would be an insult to conservatism, because conservatism is about conserving constitutional rights, not abolishing them. Which apparently with Representative Bachman's views on social issues, she's trying to eliminate some of our constitutional rights and making America a less free society and no longer a liberal democracy. 

This is more like theocratic, fundamentalist, authoritarianism than conservatism: essentially using government meaning (the Central Government) and in America's case the Federal Government, to protect people from themselves as well as others, but protect us from ourselves as well. That if people have too much freedom (in an authoritarian's mind) that they won't know what to do with it and might hurt themselves with it. 

So things like pornography, certain types of movies and other forms of entertainment including fashion would be illegal. That certain forms of speech thats not political thats also protected by the U.S. Constitution with the First Amendment, would no longer have those protections if the Federal Government doesn't approve of it. 

So if the Federal Government doesn't personally like porn, let's take that first just because thats Representative Bachmann's latest public position (not because I have or don't have some special affection for pornography) instead of the FEDS just making the choice that they would have in a liberal democracy, the freedom of choice to look at or not look at porn, they simply make that illegal, punishable by jail time for everyone else. And would make that choice for the rest of the country on their own. 

Thats just one example, instead of moving America forward as a first world liberal democracy, they want to move America backwards as like a third world authoritarian republic or monarchy thats common in the Middle East. 

The next time I hear Representative Michele Bachmann claim that she's a Constitutional Conservative and anti-big government and I see her make that claim on TV or the internet, I'm going to treat those remarks as part of her daily monologue, because at the rate she's going she's turning into a first-rate comedian and a second-rate politician. Because she's doesn't know what the hell she's talking about and is a (pardon the term) a master of speaking out of her ass.