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Cover of naked antiwar protesters draws objections, police attention (no pic attached)
St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 15 Oct 04 | Daphne Duret

Posted on 10/18/2004 12:54:32 PM PDT by FatLoser

Cover of naked antiwar protesters draws objections, police attention

By Daphne Duret
Of the Post-Dispatch

Friday, Oct. 15 2004 The 57 women who posed for the cover of this week's Riverfront Times lay down and formed a human peace sign to protest the war in Iraq. Naked. The controversial newspaper cover has caused several local businesses to remove the papers from their shelves - including a gasoline station in the Metro East area whose manager did so after a visit from local police. "We put it out there knowing it was a provocative image, but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that a police department would take actions to remove the publication from a newsstand," Riverfront Times editor Tom Finkel said. But Swansea police said the store manager discarded all the copies she had of the issue after they showed her a copy. Police went to Huck's at the request of Swansea Mayor Chip Gray. "I just didn't think it was appropriate, and I'm not a prude by a longshot," said Gray, who said a local pastor had complained about the nudity. Swansea Deputy Police Chief Steve Krakowiecki said the store manager had received copies of the Riverfront Times but had not yet put them up when officers went to the store. Huck's store manager declined to comment. Editor Finkel said the Riverfront Times received several calls from business owners asking that they come back and pick up the week's edition because either they or their clients found it offensive. Lipkin said they agreed to Riverfront Times' request that they pose nude as a symbol of expression that was not meant to be sexual.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: antiwar; idiotsondisplay; peacenicks
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1 posted on 10/18/2004 12:54:35 PM PDT by FatLoser
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To: FatLoser

as usual, the people getting naked are generally not the ones you WANT to see naked....


2 posted on 10/18/2004 12:56:16 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Rudi Bahktiar is hot!!!! Too bad she works for CNN.....)
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To: FatLoser
The Riverfront Times is a commie liberal rag most frequented by gay men looking for sex partners. It's a giveaway weekly.
3 posted on 10/18/2004 12:56:41 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: FatLoser

I think this is the main reason many young men are liberal, or at least pretend to be liberal.


4 posted on 10/18/2004 12:56:46 PM PDT by FatLoser
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To: FatLoser

Have these people no concept of idiocy


5 posted on 10/18/2004 12:57:41 PM PDT by Fallstaff
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To: Fallstaff
Have these people no concept of idiocy...

Absolutely! They define it! :-)
6 posted on 10/18/2004 12:58:29 PM PDT by hiredhand
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To: FatLoser
Putting your "No pic attached" warning was a good message that I can click on this thread. Otherwise it would undoubtedly be fat, pale and ugly bulldyke women who should be covered up by a table cloth. I give you kudos.
7 posted on 10/18/2004 12:59:00 PM PDT by smith288 (Only if Al Qaeda was a debate team would they be scared of Kerry... Bush 04)
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To: Fallstaff
Have these people no concept of idiocy

Actually they do. Except they call it one or more of the following:

Women's Studies (or Womyn's Studies)
Chicano Studies
Multicultural Studies
etc.

8 posted on 10/18/2004 12:59:53 PM PDT by FatLoser
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To: FatLoser

For documentation purposes only....

9 posted on 10/18/2004 1:00:07 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: smith288
..."No pic attached" warning was a good message that I can click on this thread. Otherwise it would undoubtedly be fat, pale and ugly bulldyke ...

Hey, just doing my part to insure that nobody has their retinas permanently scarred.

10 posted on 10/18/2004 1:01:10 PM PDT by FatLoser
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To: FatLoser
The 57 women who posed for the cover of this week's Riverfront Times lay down and formed a human peace sign to protest the war in Iraq. Naked.

Already been done. No originality in this group.

11 posted on 10/18/2004 1:05:55 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Just another Joe
Already been done. No originality in this group.

Probably somebody was having an acid induced flashback and thought it was still 1969 and that it was an original idea.

12 posted on 10/18/2004 1:07:53 PM PDT by FatLoser
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To: FatLoser
I was at a Women In Film film festival here in Dallas a few weeks ago, and one of the films was a short directed by an acquaintance of mine, about some Texas women who went out in the country and formed their naked bodies into the word PEACE for an aerial photo. Sadly, most of them were not the typical Texas woman: i.e., one who looks good naked.

But the interesting thing to me was that the film was not just a knee-jerk liberal promotion of the event. It included some of their loopy, deadpan rationale for why this was actually going to make a difference in our foreign policy, and the mostly female (and I imagine, mostly liberal) audience couldn't help but laugh. Even to liberal feminists, this is so ridiculous, it's funny.

Or maybe my laughter was just contagious.

13 posted on 10/18/2004 1:08:46 PM PDT by HHFi
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To: FatLoser

Why when this happens are all these people scraggley, gray-clip haired, unbathed, fat baby boomer types reliving the halcon days of the late 1960's and never attractive types?


14 posted on 10/18/2004 1:20:12 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (I am poster #48)
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To: r9etb

Now, if they only knew that their peace sign is upside down.


15 posted on 10/18/2004 1:20:44 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: KC_Conspirator
Now as for your tagline.....
Errrr, no you ain't. ;^)
16 posted on 10/18/2004 1:23:26 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Just another Joe

Actaully, poster #48 refers to the thread where Dan Rather's fake memos were questioned by Buckhead and started all that.


17 posted on 10/18/2004 1:25:10 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator (I am poster #48)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Ahhh, OK, maybe you are then. ;^)


18 posted on 10/18/2004 1:27:57 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: MikeinIraq; FatLoser
"as usual, the people getting naked are generally not the ones you WANT to see naked...."

Judge for yourself -- before disrobing:

After disrobing:

More miscellaneous snaps:

Not all of them are especially bad-looking -- just don't listen to them ... to wit:

Lots more at:

http://www.barewitness.org

19 posted on 10/18/2004 2:06:17 PM PDT by tom h
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To: FatLoser

How do men get women to do this?? It obvious that a man or men coordinated this effort.


20 posted on 10/18/2004 2:07:57 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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