Posted on 08/26/2004 12:24:36 PM PDT by areafiftyone
A group of AIDS activists stripped naked Thursday in front of the site of the upcoming Republican National Convention, demanding that President Bush make good on his promise to help HIV-positive people in underdeveloped countries. Two members of ACT UP climbed atop a parked rig on West 33rd Street opposite Madison Square Garden and held a sign reading W: Drop the Debt. Stop AIDS. Protest organizer Eustacia Smith, 36, said the two were arrested along with nine others. They were arrested after standing in the buff for about 10 minutes, their bodies painted with the same inscription, their arms locked and chanting Drop the Debt. Stop AIDS. Countries are spending all the money they have on paying off debt ... when they could be spending that money on prevention of HIV, said Smith, a social worker in Brooklyn. Other naked protesters escaped arrest by quickly putting on their clothes and walking away, Smith said. Another activist, 40-year-old Kris Hermes, said the group staged the protest four days before the Republican convention begins, to make sure their message didnt get drowned out by what is expected to be a barrage of protests. The charges against the protesters were not immediately released by police.
If I were one of those cops, I'd be wearing gloves. Yuck. =/
I noticed a couple of them preferred to wear some clothing. THANK GOD!!!
The reporter got it wrong. They were demanding that Bush make good on his promise to help HIV-positive people with underdeveloped minds.
Whew. It looks like at least one of those woman still has a pretty severe "winter haircut," if you know what I mean---even though it's late August.
Exactly. Where's the sign that says, "Thanks GW for Africa. You've got our vote!"
What is THAT??????? Some eco-freak gathering praying to Gaia?
A winter haircut? Is that remedied by a Brazilian waxing?
I gotta say...I agree with the message on this protestors back. Drop the debt. Take the National Debt and write it off and start clean.
Just a herd of sheeple, in other words, Kerry supporters.
Yeah, but I thought they didn't like bush.
It sure is. According to Andrew "Dice" Clay, it can also be used to grow tomatoes.
On one of those links there's a different angle of the A-cupped fool pictured on the thread. It's a shot from behind, and her legs are slightly apart, and let's just say it looks like there's a pony standing in front of her, and you can see his tail between her legs.
This assumes that the African countries actually are paying their debt. I'm not so sure...And from the pictures these democrastraters are fighting for the wrong cause, they should take up saving the whales.
Hehe...
Now that's a gathering that should all have been fed a HEARTY meal of beans.....before they all knelt down with their noses in each others' tushes.
"Thus....I have concluded....they are simply idiots."
Ten people protesting with clothes = no news coverage.
Ten people protesting sans clothes = news coverage.
They are idiots, but they know how to get noticed while being idiots so that everyone knows just how idiotic they are. This is what they want presumably?
"Save the whales....collect the whole set."
Well....as Mo1 said, this is NOT good for Kerry.
So personally, I hope the entire lot of them (expected to be about 100,000 by Monday?) take off their clothes. The more the loonies are presumed to be in the Kerry camp, the better I like it. Heck, I'd join them if I thought it was hurt Kerry!
Depends which lunatics you're talking about. You're dangerously close to the UN lunatics, and they're there year round.
Someone shoulda told 'em the first step in preventing HIV is keeping your clothes on...
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