[FACT comments: Old enough to kill, old enough to be maimed and die, far from home and loved ones, but private reading material somehow violates military "honor and decency"?!? Give us a break--does anyone doubt politicians are capable of irony?]
Proposed Ban on “Porn” Angers Soldiers
by Richard Blair
The All Spin Zone: May 7, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/84733/
Should congress ban the sale of Playboy and Penthouse at U.S. military installations? Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga) thinks this is a big enough problem that he needed to introduce legislation to promote a ban on such men’s magazines as “porn”. Soldiers aren’t too happy about it…Legislation that would restrict the sale of certain men’s magazines on U.S. military bases around the world would be bad for morale, according to soldiers at Grafenwöhr, Germany…The politician has introduced legislation that would close a loophole in the current law that allows the sale of some sexually explicit material on military bases by lowering the threshold required to deem material “sexually explicit.”…A Department of Defense committee that reviews materials sold on bases ruled last year that magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse are not pornographic. But Broun’s Military Honor and Decency Act includes language that could make those magazines eligible for the ban.
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