The Bush administration is seeking to revive an online pornography law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court by trying to coerce Google Inc. to hand over information regarding search terms users have been using that might indicate they are looking for porn.

MSNBC.com, Google rebuffs feds over access to search data

Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration’s demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet’s leading search engine — a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.

Mountain View-based Google has refused to comply with a White House subpoena first issued last summer, prompting U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to ask a federal judge in San Jose for an order to hand over the requested records.

Seems Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is continuing in the tradition of the previous Attorney General, John David Ashcroft, who we long ago suspected of being a sick puppy when he spent immense sums of money to preserve the modesty of Lady Justice by covering all Justice department statues that were nude.

If one looks really close at the photo of Ashcroft above, one will conclude that Attorneys General who stick their nose into private lives are certainly the real obscenity [Porn alert - do not click on photo if you are sensitive to porn images].

Hopefully the war on children's access to smut won't turn out to be as costly and wasteful as the War On Drugs, another program where morality intrudes on practicality. Let parents monitor their kids' access. Don't put the entire Internet into a dither because Junior saw a set of tits. He'll survive without government interference.