JUSTICE COVERS 'NUDE' STATUES

DRUDGE ^ | 01/28/02

[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...

[Lazamataz]

A few filthy communists must have painted them 13,000 years ago, boobs and all.

Damn commies, in caves.

IN CAVES!

LIKE AL-QAEDA!!!!!

COINCIDENCE?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?

[freeeee]

TROLL, If you can't contribute something of value to the thread, please be original with your witless remarks.

[sneakypete]

Maybe he was afraid Helen Thomas would get ideas.

That's never happened before,and she has been around a LOOONG time. Are you really THIS desperate to make excuses for Bubba Bush and Janet Ashcroft?

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I have read political inferences of the same.

[freeeee]

Maybe Ashcroft is just being symbolic in showing what the future Justice system is going to be like - covered in a cloak of secrecy, not suitable for public view and scrutiny.

It certainly is in keeping with his contempt for the Freedom of Information Act.

[CheneyChick]

I wonder what the NOW group has to say about this? (Like I care....)

[Boner1]

[timestax]

Nude statues shouldn't be a problem. Ashcroft is an ass. He is an embarrassment to the administration and the sooner he is gone the better. He has shown no interest in doing anything about corruption in high government offices except continuing the cover up. 14 posted on 1/28/02 7:22 AM Pacific by FreePaul

DITTO !!!!!!!!!!!

[timestax]

Nude statues shouldn't be a problem. Ashcroft is an ass. He is an embarrassment to the administration and the sooner he is gone the better. He has shown no interest in doing anything about corruption in high government offices except continuing the cover up. 14 posted on 1/28/02 7:22 AM Pacific by FreePaul

DITTO !!!!!!!!!!!

[Dane]

TROLL, If you can't contribute something of value to the thread, please be original with your witless remarks

Take a look at the picture in reply #67, it is kinda of embarassing. The statue isn't exactly the Venus De Milo. Kinda looks like something you would see in Hugh Hefner's garden.

[dead]

The statue isn't exactly the Venus De Milo.

Statues in this country have the right to keep and bear arms.

[mfulstone]

Imagine this scenario: What if Ashcroft had commissioned another semi-nude female statue for Justice?

The feminazis would raise a howl you could hear all the way to Pluto. "Exploiting feminine sexuality!" they would scream.

The religious right would call for his excommunication. "Pornography!" they would scream.

He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

[Dane]

Let me ask you all a question. Would you all be proud of being photgraphed as AG Ashcroft is in reply #67?

[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.

[freeeee]

I don't have a problem with it.

It's an old statue, and no one seems to have objected to it for the last 70 years. Ashcroft should change where he holds press conferences if it bothers him that much.

[FreeTally]

You know freeeee, if I was childish like Dane and his ilk, I would click on "report abuse", since this is such a classic example. But I'd rather let his brilliant comments stay posted so they can be a shining example of the depths of his intelligence.

[razorback-bert]

And it turns out that they were indeed ordered by someone in the attorney general's office, who delivered the request to the Justice Management Division and asserted it was the attorney general's desire. I'm told she was the only person in the attorney general's office who knew about it. She's his advance person, and she said it was done for "aesthetic purposes" — she just thought it would look better when staging events in the Great Hall.

So, a low level staffer gets to spent $8,000 of my money, to please her aesthetic vision.

[Dane]

Statues in this country have the right to keep and bear arms.

Cute little response. IMHO, that statue is not a work of art. It looks like the epitomie of kitsch.

[Doctor Doom]

Oh for Galt's sake.

Ashcroft is a petty, puritanical moron, an this act is symbolic on SOOOOO many levels it boggles the mind.

[Truth29]

Unfortunately, every action in Washington is viewed as political. This decision will gain no votes and will lose some. It will fan the paranoia of the left and some moderates. It is tone deaf politically and will cost the GOP more than it was worth.