I have read much of the heart-rending testimony extracted from victims of sexual abuse at meetings of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. It is clear to me that our government must be given the power to suppress words and images that cause sexually motivated insanity and crimes. As the Bible says, "In the beginning was the Word." I myself make my living with words, and I am now ashamed. In view of the terrible damage freely circulated ideas can do to a society, and particularly to childred, I beg my government to delete from my works all thoughts that might be dangerous. I want the help of our elected leaders in bringing my thoughts into harmony with their own and thus into harmony with the thoughts of those who elected them. That is democracy.

Attempting to make amends at this late date, I call to the attention of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, and God bless the Attorney General, the fundamental piece of obscenity from which all others spring, the taproot of the deadly poisonous tree. Kill the taproot and the trees dies, and with it its deadly fruits, which are rape, sodomy, wife-beating, child abuse, divorce, abortion, wife-beating, child abuse, divorce, abortion, adultery, prostitution, syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes and AIDS.

I will read this most vile of all pieces of socalled literature aloud, so that those who dare can feel the full force of it. I recommend that all persons udner 14, and all persons under 30 not accompanied by an adult, leave the room. Those remaining who have heart trouble or respiratory difficulties or who are prone to commit rape at the slightest provocation may want to stick their fingers in their ears. And what I ask you to endure so briefly now is what the selfless members of the pornography commission do day after day for the good of our children. I am simply going to dip you in filth, then pull you out and wash you off immediately. At terrible risk of infection, they have to wallow in pornography. They are so fearless. We might think of them as sort of sewer astronauts. All right. Everybody ready? Here we go:

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