Posted on 10/02/2001 4:41:44 AM PDT by jonefab
Ashland residents and shoppers got a good look at the city's first anti-war protest Monday as a handful of college-age men and women ran naked down Main Street, using their bodies as billboards and hiding their faces.
The streakers were part of an anti-war protest against America's involvement in the Middle East following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C.
Their message: Despite apparent cultural and racial barriers, underneath, we are all the same.
"All humanity has one thing in common and that is your birthday suit," one protester said as the van carrying the streakers pulled into a coffee shop parking lot. The delegation of nude men and women jumped out and walked, ran and whooped down Main Street.
One protester carried a sign that read "Buns, not bombs."
John Peterson, the only protester who did not wear a mask or a bandanna to cover his face, said he was demonstrating for non-violence.
"It's the bare levels of nonseparation," he said. "If everybody believed in themselves more, there would be less need for a political system."
"We are trying to inspire a logical response to terrorism," said another protester who, like most, did not give a name. "It's a statement about freedoms. We are basically exposing ourselves to the world."
Though the protest was a spectacle not often seen in Ashland, it was perfectly legal, according to Lt. Mike Bianca of the Ashland Police Department.
"Make love not war, I remember that saying," Bianca said Tuesday. "We do have an indecent exposure law, but it has to do with making a sexual display. It's not for general nudity. If they (the protesters) disrupted traffic, it could be breaking the law. If they caused great alarm in the community, it could be breaking the law. But garden variety nakedness is not against the law."
None of the protesters was arrested or charged with any crime, Bianca said.
Huh? What?! This guy left his brains in his pants.
they were getting happy and slappy!!Actually sounds a little painful...
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Yep. They are already at war with capitalism, Western Civilization, and the idea and reality of the United States of America.
Logical? You failed...
First, to call them men and women is mistake numero uno. These are immature college boys and girls who are still wet behind the ears with no life experience except the safe haven of mommy and daddy's money and home and, of course, the freedoms of the good ole USA.
Second, pull this sh*t in Afghanistan and you'll be arrested, convicted and, at best, shot for this kind of behavior. They cut off body parts to irresponsibles who act like this.
Basicly folks, this is a frontal lobe problem. The frontal lobe of the brain controls our impulsive nature. Unfortunately it is not fully developed in the human until between the ages of 23 and 25. A great witness to this scientific fact was the Vietnam era protests. The psychodelic relics have made many new converts in the colleges and universities to their perverted and warped ideas, typically socialist/marxist. And what we have here is the end result. God Help Us!
LOL!
Easy for you to say sweetie since you didnt get your precious buns burnt-off in the trade towers.
I agree with the poster who commented let them loose butt-naked in Afganistan and see how long they last, these young people have no grasp of reality.
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