[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4735-4736]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR 
                                CHILDREN

  (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, Ludwig Koons still has not been returned 
from Italy where he was abducted by his pornographer mother.
  What is in this morning's newspaper headlines? Supreme Court decides 
to strike down the Child Pornography Protection Act. This is a clear 
and present danger to children all over the world.
  I am concerned that this decision will allow the manufacture, 
distribution, and possession of virtual child pornography. We will 
potentially see a rise in the exploitation of children. Child 
pornographic material, whether virtual or not, is used to lure and to 
exploit children. I am concerned about the onerous burden that this is 
going to place on prosecutors. Prosecutors will now have to prove the 
identity of the children who are being exploited.

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  Well, this is a difficult task. The Supreme Court sent a terrible 
message, one that is terrible to send to the pornographic community 
that this behavior is okay. We can be sure that the Congressional 
Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children will do everything within its 
power to right this wrong and to protect our children from 
exploitation, and we must bring Ludwig Koons home.

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