Awesome fact from Adult Video News and Max Blumenthal via Radly Balko (via Glenn Greenwald). The US Government is running a Porn mail order firm.
Balko is discussing the firing of Paul Charlton US Attorney for Arizona
The porn industry publication Adult Video News and the Nation’s Max Blumenthal revealed last week that Charlton also came under fire ... for his reluctance to take on federal obscenity cases. ... The government wanted to charge a porn distributor for shipping obscene movies across state lines. The problem is, another Arizona distributor just a few miles a way was selling several of the same movie titles. The second distributor had recently declared bankruptcy, and was being run by trustees for the federal government to fill its federal tax obligations.
The unpatriotic Balko does not report the name or address of the US government operated Porn shop, so patriotic readers will not be able to do their bit to reduce the deficit (I guess he is a libertarian and opposes censorship of porn but also opposes socialist porn).