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What you can do today!

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After I explain exactly what it is that the Lighted Candle Society is trying to do the next question I get is usually: "How can I help?" Other times I get: "Let me tell you my story."

Here at FamilyFragments.com we give you the opportunity to do both:

1) First, join up with our 10K for 10$ club and help us fund this effort to fight pornograpy
2) Second, share your story with us. We promise complete anonymity. But people reall need to hear your story.

Or, drop us an email if you want to help in other ways.

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FAQ: What is this all about?

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by Justin Hart
Vice President, Communications
Lighted Candle Society


The top questions I am getting via email: What is the Lighted Candle Society all about? What are you trying to accomplish?

First, let's set the stage:
  • The world is waking up to the threat that pornography poses to our society
  • Virtually everyone has been effected by this vice
  • Pornography is one of the primary causes of divorce and family break-up
  • Pornography addiction is very real and can actually physically change the brain
What is the Lighted Candle Society?
  • The Lighted Candle Society is a non-profit organization with veteran warriors fighting pornography in a unique way
  • We have 4 main goals:
    1. We support civil litigation against producers and distributors
    2. We finance scientific research into the addictive nature of pornography
    3. We publish information about the sources and effects
    4. We help those who have been harmed by the vice
What is FamilyFragments.com?
  • An interactive website where you can share your story. We are launching Family Fragments.com which will serve as a blog with other interactive tools and information on how to put the family back together and how to join our fight.
Why is the Lighted Candle Society different from other efforts?
For years, we have been fighting pornography with the same old activist tools, rallying people around big headlines, signing petitions, and shouting really loud about how bad pornography really is. But these have largely been ineffectual. In our mind its time to turn the tables on the enemies of the family.

Think of it in these terms: if a company put out a product that seriously harmed your spouse and led to the ultimate break up of your entire family affecting not only your children but your grandchildren as well, wouldn’t you make every effort to see that justice was served against those people?

But we don’t need analogies to explain this. Take for instance the very real and very tragic story of Destiny Norton. Just one year ago this sweet six year old girl in Utah was lured into a home, suffocated by her abductor, and subjected to the unspeakable. Her killer then joined the search party for Destiny. He was found out, convicted and put away for life. Who was it? A 20-year old porn addict who admitted that he was playing out a fantasy that he had witnessed in his dark library.
What's the endgame here? What do you want to accomplish?
We are under no illusion that pornography is going away. We have two outcomes that we think are realistic:
  1. We envision a world where pornography is shunned, spurned and widely recognized as a serious threat to our way of life.
  2. We strive for a world where the negative consequences of producing and distributing pornography far outweigh the financial benefits.

This is the fight of a lifetime. For many of us this is literally the culmination of decades of fighting. But we need your help.

We are looking to get 10,000 to give $10 a month to help in this fight. Essentially, you're investing less than a family trip to McDonalds to help fight pornography. Your listeners can visit Family Fragments.com for more information. This is not an inexpensive venture, the fight is risky but we think winnable.

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Reprise our Pre-Sexual Revolution Laws

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by Judith Reisman

On August 14, blogger, Raye Croghan addressed the latest pedomedia madness. She concluded her blog with “Paging Dr. Reisman!” which certainly got my attention.

Raye Croghan sought my response to a publicity-seeking pedophile who roams both the real and the Internet world, telling other latent or active child molesters where to find little girls for some fun. This month Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, R-Santa Clarita introduced surrogate stalker legislation to stop this man.
“We’re calling it the surrogate stalker legislation because I believe that by his actions, Jack McClellan is acting as a surrogate stalker for other pedophiles.”
Nicole Parra, California’s southern Central Valley Assemblymember also announced her plan for anti-pedophile legislation:
“It is abhorrent that self-described pedophiles are able to post images of small children, along with how they troll for children and other exhibitionist information, without legal repercussions,”
Meanwhile, another stalking pedophile has received million-dollar television and press coverage for similar actions. Wringing their hands about the poor children, the liberal media sighs and declares that “free speech” must be protected.

Before the sexual revolution, American law criminalized such predators as endangering the community. Now we write “surrogate stalker” legislation. Even existing pubic nuisance laws appear to be ancient history to our legal community.

Pedophile stalkers are at the very least a public nuisance (not to mention a public threat, harmful to minors, contributing to the delinquency of minors, etc).
NUISANCE ….means literally annoyance; in law, it signifies, according to Blackstone, "anything that worketh hurt, inconvenience or damage."

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A public or common nuisance is such an inconvenience or troublesome offence, as annoys the whole community in general, and not merely some particular person. To constitute a Public nuisance, there must be such 'a number of persons annoyed, that the offence can no longer be considered a private nuisance: this is a fact to be judged of by the jury. It is difficult to define what degree of annoyance is necessary to constitute a nuisance. In relation to offensive trades, it seems that when such a trade renders the enjoyment of life and property uncomfortable, it is a nuisance for the neighborhood have a right to pure and fresh air.
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From acts of public indecency; as bathing in a public river in sight of the neighboring houses or for acts tending to a breach of the public peace, as for drawing a number of persons into a field for the purpose of pigeon-shooting, to the disturbance of the neighborhood ….
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The remedies for a public nuisance are by indicting the party.
In fact, until we retrieve the pre-sexual revolution laws that had protected our most vulnerable citizens from barbaric predators we will forever be patching up our growing national malaise with legislative chewing gum and scotch tape.

Judith Reisman is president of the Institute for Media Education and is the author of "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences." More information is available at Dr. Reisman's website, drjudithreisman.com.

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Welcome to Family Fragments.com

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by Ed Meese,
Former Attorney General under Ronald Reagan

In his 1784 book, Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson declared: "It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." Many Americans feel that the vitality of our republic is seriously threatened by the sharp decline in our common morality. However, these same Americans feel helpless and lost, unable to find a foothold to do anything about it. We intend to fill that gap.

The decline and endangerment of American values is not a new topic, but the fight I will describe to you now is very new.

In 2001 John Harmer and I founded the Lighted Candle Society, a non-profit organization geared to fight pornography in a very unique way: by helping to bring civil litigation against producers and distributors of pornography. This website, FamilyFragments.com, will be our primary communications arm to inform you about the lawsuits and to provide interactive tools for those hoping to join the fight or simply fight pornography in their own homes.

In past decades, patrons of pornography were forced to obtain their materials over the counters of darkened alley stores. Today these same materials (and many times worse materials) can be had over the kitchen counter. The results are unmistakable: exponential increases in addiction; exposure of children to scenes of brutality; loss of feeling towards spouses; disregard for marital vows and breakup of the family through divorce.

We are under no illusion that pornography is going away. But at the Lighted Candle Society we envision a world where pornography is largely shunned, spurned and recognized as a threat to society. We envision a society where the negative consequences of producing and distributing pornography far outweigh the financial benefits.

This is a unique fight, with veteran warriors at the helm. We hope you will join our efforts and give us your thoughts on how we can help you and your family.

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Who's behind Family Fragments.com?

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by Justin Hart,
Vice President, Communications
Lighted Candle Society


The Lighted Candle Society was created to awaken our fellow citizens to the ultimate dangers of pornography and its effect upon society by:
  • Supporting civil litigation against producers and distributors of pornography
  • Financing scientific research into the addictive nature of the disease
  • Publishing information revealing the sources and effects of the scourge
  • Providing help to those who have been harmed by the addiction or caught in its vice even now
The Lighted Candle Society envisions a world where pornography is shunned, spurned and widely recognized as a serious threat to our way of life. We strive for a world where the negative consequences of producing and distributing pornography far outweigh the financial benefits.

The Lighted Candle Society was founded by John Harmer and Ed Meese. Their bios are below:

CHAIRMAN: John L. Harmer
Mr. Harmer has had forty years of experience as an attorney, an elected public official, and an individual citizen in opposition to the production, distribution and consumption of pornography. He has collaborated on many legal briefs presented to various courts on pornography cases, including the Supreme Court of the United States. He is the author of various publications regarding pornography. The Lighted Candle Society now distributes his book which details his forty years of fighting against the pornography industry which is entitled, “A War We Must Win”.

Trustee: The Honorable Edwin Meese, III
Mr. Meese is a former Attorney General of the United States and is currently the senior vice president of the Heritage Foundation, in Washington, D.C. As Attorney General Mr. Meese issued the 1987 Report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography. That report is still regarded as a critical source of information regarding the pornography industry and the cost to the people of America in terms of dollars and human suffering that comes from the production and distribution of pornography.

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