To the editor:
The recent conviction of a Seabrook man for child pornography brings up questions about our society and its customs as related to the technology it possesses.
In Islamic law as I understand it, pornography is prohibited. However, pornography is not prohibited in this country. We have a fashion industry that promotes sex appeal, we have pornography magazines and the promotion of sex appeal on television.
I do not have Internet access, but I imagine any effort to censor it is dangerous to our liberty.
The new communication means we need new thinking and philosophizing about our new wide-ranging community we now have that allows anonymity and avoiding responsibility for some of our actions. The use of the Internet to hire and fire allows corporate officers freedom from reprisal. My first firing was in the form of a note left by my first boss. If a person starts an account with Facebook or Twitter, they are letting a genie out of the bottle. I don't think our secular laws can address all the problems that come up.
The so-called separation of church and state is untrue. We have Christian law written into our secular law. If we as a nation are to grow, we must spend more effort on learning the nature of ourselves and other cultures.
The recent push of making contraceptives available is just an attempt to keep the costs of doing business down. Woman's liberation is also man's liberation and a reduction for the need for marriage. With the growing impoverishment of the mass of America, marriage becomes harder and harder to sustain. Only higher income for more people can lead to a better life. Independence of the working class threatened by the rescue from disaster by Social Security, Medicare, universal health care, is only paying costs of labor by government programs that are not paid in wages. Now these programs are threatened by Congress that does not want to pay for them. On the other hand, if they are retained, the working class will remain unconvinced they have to increase their wages by united action and eventually take over their industry and run it themselves as common owners-workers.
Richard H. Cassin
Seabrook
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