Dangerous Obsession

I must admit that I was somewhat disturbed to see the headlines claiming that the government was to hold a 'web porn summit' today.  It conjured up truly horrendous images of cabinet ministers gathering at Number Ten and spending hours hunched over their laptops drooling over the most disgusting smut they could find.  The idea of the likes of Michael Gove and Jeremy Hunt swapping bald bondage sites or horse spanking forums is just too foul for words.  I mean, I know that this government has a dangerous obsession with internet porn, but really, do they honestly need to hold a summit on the subject?  Can't they just peruse it in the privacy of their own bedrooms, like everyone else?  It's not as if it is an issue which needs publicity - surely everyone knows where it is and how to find it?  Perhaps most surprising was o find that the whole thing had been organised by a woman - Culture Secretary Maria Miller.  I thought she objected to internet porn?  Still, I suppose running this sort of event gives her another excuse to avoid spending any time in her constituency: Basingstoke.  Who can blame her? 

But getting back to the summit - it tells you something about this government's breadth of vision that it holds a summit meeting about pornography.  Back in the day we used to have summit meeting called to discuss such weighty topics as nuclear arms reduction. This government, by contrast, seems to think that pornography represents the greatest current threat to global security.  Anyway, at this summit they were apparently trying to discover how easy it is to find child porn online.  Or something.  Actually, I should imagine it is pretty easy if you are a paedophile - you probably wouldn't even have to search.  But according to the government people are tripping over child porn every time they use a search engine.  Even for innocent search terms like 'fluffy kittens'.  Presumably they had banks of civil servants sat at work stations, putting search term after search term into Google in the hope of dredging up some kiddie filth.  But why are they so obsessed with internet porn, and internet child pornography in particular?  Well, I did hear one of those nutters protesting outside the recent Bilderberg Group meeting in Watford claiming that 'peadophilia is the glue binding them together' - referring to the evil elites who really run the world, obviously.  So, maybe that's it - this summit is all about feeding the evil bastards' insatiable thirst for child porn, thereby ensuring that 'they' (the bankers, Jews, lizards, etc) can maintain their secret hegemony over the world.