The NY Times looks at U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan who is blazing trails to protect you and I from porn. One case Buchanan’s prosecuting involves a text-only website. Granted, the text itself is pretty offensive, but…

In their brief, the defense lawyers argued that the Fletcher stories, however lurid, were also comparable to many scenes found in literature and television. They cited the 1962 novel “A Clockwork Orange,” by Anthony Burgess, and episodes of the cartoon show “South Park.” They also cited a scene in a 1996 novel by I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, in which a 10-year-old girl is placed in a cage with a bear who forces himself upon her sexually to habituate her to sexual submission.

The lawyers argued that Ms. Fletcher’s stories were no more lurid than the novel by Mr. Libby.

Maybe our old friend Mary Beth will go after Libby, too. Prior indictments of Ms. Buchanan’s twisted prosecutoral priorities here and here.

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