Posted on 06/26/2008 10:54:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
'I'm not trying to get attention. I'm here standing up for liberty'
Declaring that she is standing up for individual liberty on Independence Day, near-nude rollerblader Jen Moss says she will go topless wearing a G-string and the crown of Lady Liberty at Ashland's Fourth of July parade, but will stay on sidewalks and other areas where she isn't banned.
The Ashland Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the annual parade, has received overwhelming support for its decision not to approve Moss' application to participate, said chamber spokeswoman Katharine Flanagan.
The chamber's parade permit gives it control of Main Street, Siskiyou Boulevard and the Plaza from curb-to-curb, but not the sidewalk, cross streets and the after-parade festivities on Winburn Way, said Chamber Executive Director Sandra Slattery.
If Moss enters the parade route in any state of nudity that would offend a family audience, she will be asked to leave, said Flanagan. If she doesn't leave, the police will be informed, Flanagan said.
Ashland city ordinances allow nudity anywhere in town, but genitalia must be covered in city parks and the downtown commercial district. Since exposed female breasts are legal everywhere in town, Moss said she plans to go topless on the Fourth of July. Typically, Moss rollerblades or bikes in pasties and a hemp G-string.
Moss said she plans to contact the American Civil Liberties Union in hopes of filing suit against the Ashland chamber for what she sees as discrimination, based on her beliefs about freedom of expression and dress.
"I will sue them to the greatest extent I can," Moss said...
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Maybe she’s just a sweet, simple birdwatcher trying to bring attention to the plight of great tits. You know, global warming is affecting their numbers in Europe.
“She won’t be the only thing ‘standing up’ at the parade! “
LMAO
Ashland pretty much IS a mental hospital. Here in the Southern (read that SANE) end of the state we like to keep the nuts all in one place. Ashland is that place.
Here’s an actual headline from a 2005 article:
Ten million blue tit chicks died during summer
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/05/eablue105.xml)
I tell ya, this global warming is getting out of hand!!!
LOL! Leave it to the Brits.
There was a thread here on FR about a month or two ago on the plight of great tits in Europe. Absolutely hysterical, as you can imagine with all the wits around here. I'd steer you to it, but I don't know how. (I'm HTML-challenged.)
Your first post went completely over my head. :-)
As a naturist, I have to say — LADY, you aren’t a naturist if you are walking around in public in the NUDE! If you want to be nude — go to the local nudist resort - and stop being a MORON!
It's the merkin thing to do...
“’I’m not trying to get attention”
Sure. sure.
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