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JUSTICE COVERS 'NUDE' STATUES
DRUDGE ^ | 01/28/02

Posted on 01/28/2002 6:14:04 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection

Fed up with having his picture taken during events in the Justice Department's Great Hall in front of semi-nude statues, Attorney General John Ashcroft has reportedly ordered massive draperies to conceal the offending figures -- which have been displayed since the 1930s!

The draperies were installed last week at a cost of just over $8,000, reports ABCNEWS.com's Beverley Lumpkin.

At the center of the controversy: two enormous and stylized but largely naked aluminum statues.

The female figure represents the Spirit of Justice; the male on the right is the Majesty of Justice. The male is clad in only a cloth draped over his essential parts; the female wears a sort of toga-style garment, but one breast is entirely exposed.

Last November, during a press conference announcing new challenges of fighting terrorism, Ashcroft was photographed with the naked breast right over his shoulder!

The snap ran in major papers.

Developing...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: filth; garbage; perversion; porn; pornography; trash
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To: Lazamataz
I wish he hadn't done that. It plays into every 'Puritan', 'anti-culture', etc. etc. etc. stereotype that the left brandishes against the right.

So what!? Who gives a flying fig what the freakin' left stereotypes the right as or what they brandish against us!? By changing one's desired actions so as to avoid the derision of the left you give the left that much power over you. I say 'To Hell with the left!'

141 posted on 01/28/2002 7:27:35 AM PST by Spiff
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To: sneakypete
Given your screen name,you probably shouldn't be posting photos of women wearing thin outgarmets and eye covering. ESPECIALLY not on a thread like this one.

Screen name ,has always been to mock impeached EX-potus- toon as in airforce 1

143 posted on 01/28/2002 7:28:38 AM PST by Boner1
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To: southern rock
You are dealing with people on this thread who aren't against the statues being covered. You are dealing with Libertarian whiners who hate Ashcroft because they are afraid he will take away their dope and send them into withdrawals. Don't believe me? Watch the flaming...
145 posted on 01/28/2002 7:29:43 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Central Scrutiniser
Hopefully the last time anyone saw Dane nude was in the 70's...
146 posted on 01/28/2002 7:30:21 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Teacher317
Y - M - C - A !!!!

LOL!

147 posted on 01/28/2002 7:31:14 AM PST by Jefferson Adams
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To: southern rock
First off, children nurse from their own mother's breast, not a stranger's.

Really? Never heard of "wet nurses"?

148 posted on 01/28/2002 7:31:30 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: RedBloodedAmerican

149 posted on 01/28/2002 7:32:06 AM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Dane
Okey Dokey, remind me when you are AG and I will be right there to take the same kind of picture and give to it all the papers.

WOW! Is that a THREAT? I guess I'll have to give up my goal in life.

151 posted on 01/28/2002 7:32:30 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: Texaggie79
Can you make that red, white, and blue?
152 posted on 01/28/2002 7:33:47 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Central Scrutiniser
Dane, the last time you saw yourself nude was in the mid 70's...

Please keep your fantasies to yourself and not include me in them.

154 posted on 01/28/2002 7:34:50 AM PST by Dane
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To: 7SonOfRN
Lewinsky was art, that's why she's now in fashion.
155 posted on 01/28/2002 7:35:02 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I COULD, but I don't have THAT much free time on my hands
156 posted on 01/28/2002 7:35:11 AM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Texaggie79
LOL dangit you beat me to it.
157 posted on 01/28/2002 7:35:40 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: southern rock
What about all of those 400 yr. old paintings of nude fat women? Not exactly "chic" by today's standards. You might almost call them "dated".

I dunno. Where are you going to see all these paintings? Or are they a part of your personal collection? At any rate,there ARE men who find fat women sexually attractive. Look at the ass on Jennifer Lopez for proof of this. LOTS of people are running around talking about how "hot" she is,and it looks like she has her own ass and another one she stole from some fat chick stuffed into her pants.While I can't say I prefer fat women myself,I do MUCH prefer a woman 10 or 20 lbs overweight to one 10 or 20 lbs underweight.

159 posted on 01/28/2002 7:36:18 AM PST by sneakypete
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To: Jefferson Adams
These statues should be replaced

Actually, just TWO replacements would do the job quite nicely. Two giant Furbies. Naked, dressed and cute at the same time.

160 posted on 01/28/2002 7:36:20 AM PST by Cachelot
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