Protection from Pornography Week, 2003

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Part III

The President

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Proclamation 7725--Protection from Pornography Week, 2003

Proclamation 7726--United Nations Day, 2003

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 7725 of October 24, 2003

Protection from Pornography Week, 2003

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Pornography can have debilitating effects on
communities, marriages, families, and children. During
Protection From Pornography Week, we commit to take
steps to confront the dangers of pornography.

The effects of pornography are particularly pernicious
with respect to children. The recent enactment of the
PROTECT Act of 2003 strengthens child pornography laws,
establishes the Federal Government's role in the AMBER
Alert System, increases punishment for Federal crimes
against children, and authorizes judges to require
extended supervision of sex offenders who are released
from prison.

We have committed significant resources to the
Department of Justice to intensify investigative and
prosecutorial efforts to combat obscenity, child
pornography, and child sexual exploitation on the
Internet. We are vigorously prosecuting and severely
punishing those who would harm our children. Last July,
the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation
Predator, an initiative to help identify child
predators, rescue children depicted in child
pornography, and prosecute those responsible for making
and distributing child pornography.

Last year, I signed legislation creating the Dot Kids
domain, a child-friendly zone on the Internet. The
sites on this domain are monitored for content and
safety, offering parents assurances that their children
are learning in a healthy environment. Working together
with law enforcement officials, parents, and other
caregivers, we are making progress in protecting our
children from pornography.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim October 26 through November
1, 2003, as Protection From Pornography Week. I call
upon public officials, law enforcement officers,
parents, and all the people of the United States to
observe this week with appropriate programs and
activities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
two thousand three, and of the

Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and twenty-eighth.

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