My Own War on Porn, Supporting CP80

Last Sunday morning, my wife woke me up around 3:00am and told me about a nightmare she had. Let's put it this way, it was not a very good one at all. She then told me about a friend she had in high school (in real life) who was a good girl that never messed around with boys or drank alcohol. Then one night she went to a party, got slipped a rufy, and was raped by several boys at the party. After that she didn't care about her modesty anymore because, "What's the point?"

Well, I couldn't fall asleep after that. My mind was racing around trying to figure out why so many bad things happen in the world and if I have any chance of helping to stop them. I thought about my baby girl who is due to be born in a month and how I would be devastated if she came home with a story like that about herself! I asked myself, "How does a guy get to the point where he slips a girl a drug and rapes her? It's not like he just wakes up one day and decides to do it. It is a weakening of his self control that happens overtime." So...how does that weakening happen? The biggest and most common way: pornography.

Pornography is so easily accessible on the internet that even a child can find it. Its addictive nature springs upon unsuspecting minors and traps them before they even know what's happening. What starts as natural curiosity turns into a binding addiction that leads its victim to do things they normally wouldn't do: rape, theft, adultery. Studies have found that a majority of criminals in jail say they started off with a pornography problem. Once you weaken your self-control in that department, it's hard to control it elsewhere in your life.

Something needs to be done. If I had my way, pornography would be completely obliterated from off the face of the planet. However, we have an inspired document named "The Bill of Rights" that gives use certain rights that I completely believe in, namely the Freedom of Speech. So, we can't just nuke the porn building and call it even. We need to protect those guys' Freedom of Speech while protecting our children's Freedom of Not Being Manhandled by an Addictive Substance When We're Not Expecting It.

There is a solution. CP80.

I've talked about it on here before, so I won't go into details. You can read my previous post about it here: http://abovepopular.blogspot.com/2007/02/pornography-meet-internet-channels.html. As I laid in bed last Sunday morning struggling with this problem, I decided that the first thing I need to do is take action! The world won't be a better place if I sit back and do nothing. I'd like to say that again.

The world won't be a better place if I sit back and do nothing.

I made a list of things that I can do to aid this worthy cause. I would like to take on the pornographers personally, but for one person, that's too big of a task. I need to band myself together with others. That is why supporting CP80 is so critical. It is a group of people who collectively can contain the fire within reasonable boundaries, thus keeping it from consuming our rising generation.

Here is the list of simple things I came up with early that morning that I can do from my very own home to take action and give support to CP80:

• Write my senators, representative, and governor about CP80


• Call my senators, representative, and governor on the phone. It sounds lofty, but worth a try. Even if I don't make it, I'll go through plenty of secretaries and get a chance to tell them about CP80.


• Write about CP80 on message boards where people are struggling with this problem. My wife frequently visits the message boards on BabyCenter and sees posts from women who have husbands addicted to pornography. These women are pregnant, and many of them feeling bad about their self-image right now, and here are their husbands looking at pornography. What's the response they get? "Oh it's okay. That's just how men are. Learn to live with it." No! I would like to spread the word to these poor wives and girlfriends that help is out there and they don't have to put up with having their significant other "virtually" cheating on them.


• Make a website all about how I support CP80 and the fight against pornography. I guess I've already done that to some extent with this blog. But, maybe make something like IsupportCP80.com.


• Write a letter-to-the-editor about this topic and send it to all the major newspapers around the country.


• Contact large companies and talk to their HR and IT departments about how much money, time, and resources CP80 will save them. Corporate America must put its money behind this if it's going to have a chance. We live it a country driven by capitalism.

If we want our country, whichever country it may be, to be a safe place for our children, we need to rise up and make sure that the right actions are being made towards that goal. If not, we will wake up one day and be devastated with the world which we live in.

Learn more about CP80 here and how you can help fight in "The People's War on Internet Porn." Also check out the DVD of Traffic Control, a extremely well-made documentary about this war and CP80.