Here is a guy who sits at home and surf’s the Internet for porn. While not unusual, what is is that he gets $150,000 a year from the federal government to do it:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 — Tom Rogers, a retired Indianapolis detective, toils away most days in his suburban home office reviewing sexual Web sites and other Internet traffic to see whether they qualify as obscene material whose purveyors should be prosecuted by the Justice Department.
His work is financed by a Justice Department grant initially provided through a Congressional earmark inserted into a spending bill by Representative Frank R. Wolf, Republican of Virginia.
The grant, about $150,000 a year, has helped pay for Mr. Rogers and another retired law enforcement officer in Reno, Nev., to harvest and review complaints about obscene matter on the Internet that citizens register on the Justice Department Web site.
They have found 67,000 complaints to be legit, and have turned them over to the Justice Department for prosecution. They have prosecuted exactly zero cases so far. Your money.



