Nah - just do it the fundamental way and blow up the statue.
"Them boobies blew up real good!"
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...
If leading people, in your mind, means desecrating great artworks done by masters, then the left's description of us as American Taliban is correct.
Count me out of this Victorian severity. I'm a conservative, not a Quaker.
Why don't you complain about the waste FDR made with the commission of the statue?
Nah - just do it the fundamental way and blow up the statue.
"Them boobies blew up real good!"
My point earlier. Ashcroft has armed the comedians and mean spirited media with everything they need to make fun of him from now on. Look what happened to Dan Quayle. Quayle didn't do anything to deserve the image forced on him. Ashcroft has dressed himself in a clown suit and will wonder forever why people laugh at him.
"We don't need no boobies round h'yah. Take yo fancy art back from which it came from!"
Really? This will be over in a couple of days. Jay and Dave will make their obigatory joke and move on. Things have changed since 9/11 except for the moral liberal Libertarians.
Of course it is an ART museum, it goes to the very HEART of what government buildings are supposed to be about.
PEOPLE. EXCELLENCE. STANDARDS.
Works of art have always been present in public places such as this as a reminder of what we're shooting for.
Ashcroft is an idiot.
It's the totalitarian regimes who first do away with art - remove the humanity from the situation.
I reconsider, perhaps Ashcroft is not an idiot,
he may well be something worse.
True......inside the Beltway. In the rest of real America, he will be applauded for the strength of his convictions. Republicans and/or conservatives are never going to win DC, No. VA, or MD anyway. So who cares?
Yep, that was a waste, too. What can we do about it?
OTOH, we CAN stop needless spending in the present day, such as draperies to cover statues.
You diehard Republicans are a riot - useless spending is fine as long as it's a Republican wasting taxpayer dollars. Republicans can do no wrong.
And people wonder why we vote Libertarian.
he may well be something worse
Now the hyperbole is really going strong.
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