Child Pornography: Computer-Generated Images

Child Pornography: Computer-Generated Images

Dear Editor:

You are to be commended for inviting citizen's comments on computer generated child pornography. While you cannot hurt a picture of an imaginary child, that picture can and may well motivate a pedophile or a demented relative to sexually abuse a precious, innocent child. It is rare to find a pedophile who is not also into child porn.

Legal tolerance of adult pornography is no excuse to allow kiddy porn. Two wrongs cannot make a right. The Child Pornography Protection Act should be affirmed by the Supreme Court. Congress rightly concluded, that "Computer generated child pornography results in many of the same types of harm and poses the same danger to the well being of children as photographic pornography...."

We should not be surprised that those who produce and distributed adult pornography challenged the Child Pornography Protection Act. Money being their motivation, they want no restrictions that might be used against their source of wealth. Some of those who are so jealous of their right to free expression are willing to put children at serious risk rather than allow the slightest restraint upon their freedom.

Those who crow so loudly about protecting our children should be first in line in squash this evil industry. For those judges who have trouble understanding the dangers of this problem, imagine a computer-generated image of our nation's president being assassinated with a subtle suggestion that such would be pleasurable to the one who did it. If our jaded president deserves protection from those who would encourage his harm, so do innocent children.

Freedom in a democracy is freedom under law. Unlimited freedom is anarchy and license.

It takes a special level of moral blindness to see no harm in this type of child pornography.

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