Hello, this is former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms.
Now that I’m out of public office, I try not to become involved in political
matters. Mostly, I stay at home. Whittling. Watching my stories on the
television. Trying to keep busy. But I feel that I need to speak about what is
happening in Iraq and take a strong stance. I have seen the images that have
come out of that Baghdad Prison. I want to make it clear that I think these
photographs are abhorrent, deviant, immoral and show the true depravity of our
Arab enemy. These pictures that the smut-peddlers want our children to view are
obscene and destructive. I fully support banning this type of material. Our
children should not be exposed to what goes on in those degenerate palaces of
kink. Sure, children watch graphic pictures on their Music Television, but now
you are talking about homoerotic human pyramids with nude male flesh piled up
for all the purveyors of perversion to enjoy and profit from. This material
should be banned. You have men and women engaged in sadomasochistic bondage, it
is disgusting. My message to the Saddam loyalists is this: keep your visual
terrorism off of our televisions and newspapers. What is next? A bull-whip in
the rear end à la Mapplethorpe? Mind you, when I say “à la” I mean the French
terminology, not the terrorist God that our enemies pray to. As Senator, I took
on the ACLU; I took on the National Endowment for the Arts, I took on the
ruthless, liberal bureaucrats – but now, our enemy is much more insidious, much
more sexually explicit. The pornography coming out of these foreign rat holes
might be titillating to certain deviants and perverts, but this is not how
things are done in America. I am going to take my nap now. Thank you.