Of pornographic interest

From here:

NEW YORK Sep 30, 2005 — A federal judge Thursday ordered the release of dozens more pictures of prisoners being abused at Abu Ghraib, rejecting government arguments that the images would provoke terrorists and incite violence against U.S. troops in Iraq.

U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said that terrorists "do not need pretexts for their barbarism" and that suppressing the pictures would amount to submitting to blackmail. (emphasis added)

"Our nation does not surrender to blackmail, and fear of blackmail is not a legally sufficient argument to prevent us from performing a statutory command. Indeed, the freedoms that we champion are as important to our success in Iraq and Afghanistan as the guns and missiles with which our troops are armed," he said.

Perhaps terrorists don't need a pretext for their "barbarism", but it certainly doesn't hurt their PR either. Nor do we need passions inflamed in the Muslim world. Does anyone remember the false Koran flushing fiasco? Indictments have been made. Punishments have been meted out. Releasing these photos denotes nothing more than a prurient pornographic interest in inciting more chaos and bloodshed, putting our soldiers further into harms way.

As a parent of soldier soon to be in theatre, I make the following offer to this moonbat judge:

Your Honor (and I use that term ever-so-loosely), if you are so hell-bent on releasing those inflammatory photos, and are of the belief that releasing of same will not make any difference, and will result in no more bloodshed than would otherwise be the case, I would then invite you to paste those pictures on a sandwich board, and take a little stroll through downtown Baghdad... for ohhh... say... 10 minutes. If you last that long.

Asshole.