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Brainless Gals in Topless Protest
Opinion Journal On Line ^ | 7 July 2005 | James Taranto

Posted on 07/07/2005 12:41:17 PM PDT by StrangerInParadise

Were we right or were we right when we said that the mindset of Karen Finley, the vulgarian "performance artist," had taken over the Angry Left? Check out this report from the San Francisco Chronicle:

A dozen anti-war activists from Mendocino County took their tops off at high noon in San Francisco's Union Square shopping district Thursday, using what they said was their best weapon to get the public's attention. . . .

Members of the Breasts Not Bombs contingent, which included seven women, three men and two young girls, said the war in Iraq is indecent, not their nakedness. . . .

Breasts Not Bombs said they are trying to make people uncomfortable to get their anti-war message across and to also desensitize people to nudity.

Of course, as we noted last month, such shock tactics "make people uncomfortable" only insofar as they fail to "desensitize" them.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: hairywomen; itsallaboutmeeeeeeee; nakedladies; putashirton; ugly
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To: maggiefluffs

I hope the photographer got hazard pay. Imagine his eyes after those "sights"......


161 posted on 07/09/2005 5:23:35 AM PDT by StrangerInParadise (We Are All Londoners Today....7/7/05)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

You forgot the Elasticity Factor. Include a term that says the Elasticity E = 1/age.


162 posted on 07/09/2005 5:26:25 AM PDT by sauropod (Polite political action is about as useful as a miniskirt in a convent -- Claire Wolfe)
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