Topic: Justice for Bust!
started by: editor
Posted by editor on May 31 2002,19:03
The following is a letter read by Claire Braz-Valentine, author, at this year's "In Celebration of the Muse", Cabrillo College. It is worth
knowing that the author is a woman of 60+ years, conservatively dressed,
and quite obviously talented.
AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN ASHCROFT,
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
On January 28, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that he
spent $8,000 of taxpayer's money for drapes to cover up the exposed
breast of The Spirit of Justice, an 18 ft. aluminum statue of a woman
that stands in the Department of Justice's Hall of Justice.
John, John, John, you've got your priorities all wrong. While men fly
airplanes into skyscrapers, dive bomb the Pentagon, while they stick
explosives into their shoes, and then book a seat right next to us,
while they hide knives in their luggage, steal kids on school buses,
take little girls from their beds at night, drive trucks into our state
capital buildings, while our president calls dangerous men all over the
world evil doers and devils, while we live in the threat of biological
warfare, nuclear destruction, annihilation, you are out buying yardage
to save Americans from the appalling, alarming, abominable aluminum
alloy of evil, that terrible ten foot tin tittie.
You might not be able to find Bin Laden, but you sure as hell found the
hooter in the Hall of Justice. It's not that we aren't grateful. But
while we were begging the women of Afghanistan to not cover up their
faces, you are begging your staff members to just cover up that nipple,
to save the American people from that monstrous metal mammary. How can
we ever thank you?
So in your office every morning, in your secret prayer meeting, while
an American woman is sexually assaulted every 6 seconds, while anthrax
floats around the post office and settles in the chest of senior
citizens, you've got another chest on your mind. While American sons
arrive home in body bags and heat seeking missiles fly around a foreign
country looking for any warm body, you think of another body. And you
pray for the biggest bra in the world.
John, you see that breast on the Spirit of Justice in the spirit of
your own inhibited sexuality. And when we women see our grandmothers,
our mothers, our daughters, our granddaughters, our sisters, ourselves,
when we women see that statue, the Spirit of Justice, we see the spirit
of strength, the spirit of survival. Every day we view innocent bodies
dragged out of rubble, and women and children laid out like thin limp
dolls and baptized into death as collateral damage, and we see the
hollow-eyed Afghani mother whose milk has dried up underneath her burka
in famine, in shame, and her children are dead at her breast.
While you look at that breast, John, that jug on the Spirit of Justice,
and deal with your thoughts of lust and sex and nakedness, we see it as
a testimony to motherhood. You see it as a tit.
It's not the money it cost. It's the message you send. We've got the
right to live in freedom. We've got the right to cheat Americans out of
millions of dollars and then just not want to tell Congress about it.
We've got the right to drop bombs, night and day, on a small country
that has no army, no navy, no military at all, because we've got the
right to bear arms. But better not even think about the right to bare
breasts.
So now John, you can be photographed while you stand there and talk
about guns and bombs and poisons without that breast appearing over your
right shoulder, without that bodacious bosom bothering you and we just
wanted to tell you in the spirit of justice, in the spirit of truth,
John, there is still one very big boob left standing there in that
picture.
Posted by demonk on May 31 2002,20:47
I absolutely love that lady! Good letter!
Posted by CatKnight on May 31 2002,20:53
ehh, good article, up until the second to last paragraph. at that point she lost my confidence completely. I agree it was silly to cover up the statue though.
Posted by editor on May 31 2002,22:45
Point taken, Mr CK.
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on May 31 2002,22:48
ah, Lord Protector Ashcroft. More proof that the Conservatives are the intelligent ones.
Posted by CatKnight on May 31 2002,23:56
what, as opposed to Janet Reno, who should be in PRISON?
Posted by chmod on Jun. 01 2002,04:13
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| what, as opposed to Janet Reno, who should be in PRISON? |
<reno>I'm sorry, CK, we can't investigate that.</reno>
Posted by CatKnight on Jun. 01 2002,08:14
well at least you didn't burn my apartment down 
Posted by Beastie Dr on Jun. 01 2002,17:01
I do believe that was his first choice. Well, mine anyways.