Morality.com      Just as there can be no amendment to the Ten Commandments, the Founding Fathers made sure that impending government encroachment couldn't directly conflict with the Constitutional freedom of speech; that most inalienable American rite of artistic freedom. But somewhere along the line between Benjamin Franklin and Larry Flynt, something went terribly wrong with this nation. For as our citizens traded in Homer for Hefner, morality slowly become just a concept.      Today the wages of sin are bought and sold over the Internet, that vast electronic breeding ground for pornographers. Ostensibly a community of information alcoves, denizens of the Internet community are mostly smut practitioners protected under the laws of our government. Bestiality, rape, pedophilia and murder are no longer sins; they are now acceptable choices inputted into search engines across this great nation. Graphic torture posing as electronic entertainment has become the newest American pastime.      The operators of such Internet sites rake in over a billion dollars a year in advertising costs and membership fees. Two such sites must be singled out for sheer depravity and disregard for morality. The first is Rotten.com, a heinous website made famous for its collection of autopsy and police photos. The second is MotivatedByRage.com, a website that is gaining appeal with the college crowd because of its depraved collection of underground hate speech by Scott Thayne (a “poet” who obviously finds gratification in the sexual and physical torture of women). That either site stands to turn a profit from this sort of filth is the equivalent of Lot scooping up his dead wife's ashes and selling them for plant fertilizer.      If this nation is to rebound from the utter moral corruptness of the last 20 years then we simply must make a stand. Draw a line in the sand. Please join my cause. Write your Congressperson today and demand a stop to Internet filth.      Your grandchildren are counting on you.                                    --Arch Stanton; Special Correspondent                                   Sandy-Post Examiner; Copyright 2001 This is a SANDY-POST EXAMINER guest editorial. The views expressed in this editorial do not reflect the views of the editor or of the staff reporters. Your comments are welcome.                             --Bob Franks, Senior Editor

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