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Attorney
General On Adult
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Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales is moving to more aggressively
prosecute obscenity cases, and has laid out a broader agenda
much like his predecessor, John Ashcroft. In his first lengthy
address since becoming attorney general in early February,
Gonzales said people who distribute obscene materials do
not enjoy constitutional guarantees of free speech.
"I
am committed to prosecuting these crimes aggressively,"
he said to a Washington meeting of the California-based
Hoover Institution. The Justice Department is appealing
the dismissal of an obscenity case in Pittsburgh in which
a federal judge said prosecutors went too far in trying
to block the sale of pornographic movies over the Internet
and through the mail.
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Attorney
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Alberto Gonzales |
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case initially was prosecuted under Ashcroft. Gonzales, the son
of Mexican immigrants, said the Justice Department also would
continue its recent stepped-up activity in human trafficking investigations
and prosecutions. "Its victims are usually aliens, many of them
women and children who are smuggled into our country and held
in bondage," he said.
The
Justice Department also is sending teams of federal agents to
five more cities struggling with violent crime, Gonzales said,
extending a program begun last year in 15 cities. The cities are:
Camden, N.J.; Fresno, Calif.; Hartford, Conn.; Houston; and New
Orleans.
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