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Webb Hubbell <whubbell at telocity.com>
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>
> AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN ASHCROFT,
> ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
>
>
> The following letter was read aloud by the author at this year's "In
> Celebration of the Muse," Cabrillo College.  The author is a woman of 60+
> years, conservatively dressed and obviously talented.  She was the
highlight
> of the evening.
>
> ~~~~~~
>
>     On January 28, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that
> he spent $8,000 of taxpayer's money for drapery to cover up the exposed
> breast of  "The Spirit of Justice" statue, the 18-ft statue of a woman
that
> stands in the Department of Justice's Hall of Justice.
>
>            John, John, John, you've got your priorities all wrong. While
men
> fly airplanes into skyscrapers, dive-bomb the pentagon, while they stick
> explosives into their shoes and book a seat next to us, while they hide
> knives in their luggage, steal kids on school buses, take little girls
from
> their beds at night, drive trucks into our Federal Buildings, while our
> president calls dangerous men all over the world evildoers and devils,
while
> we live in the threat of biological warfare, nuclear destruction,
> annihilation, YOU have spent time and money to save us from the appalling
> alarming, abominable, aluminum alloy of evil, that terrible ten-foot tin
> tittie.
>
>   You might not be able to find Bin Laden. But you sure as hell found the
> Hooter in the Hall of Justice.  While we were begging the women of
> Afghanistan to not cover up their faces, you were begging your staff to
> cover up that nipple to save the American people the sight of that
monstrous
> metal mammary.
>
>         So, apparently, in your office every morning, in your secret
> prayer meeting, while an American woman is sexually assaulted every 6
> seconds, while anthrax floats around the post office and settles in the
> chest of senior citizens, you've got a different chest on your mind.
>
>            As American sons arrive home in body bags, and heat-seeking
> missiles fly around a foreign country looking for warm bodies, you are
> thinking of another body. And your prayer was for the biggest bra in the
> world, John, because you see that breast on the "Spirit of Justice" in the
> spirit of your own inhibited sexuality.
>
>   When we women see our grandmothers, our mothers, our daughters, our
> granddaughters, our sisters, ourselves, when we women see that statue the
> Spirit of Justice, we see the spirit of strength, the spirit of survival.
>
>            Every day we see innocent bodies dragged out of rubble, and
women
> and children laid out like thin limp dolls and baptized into death as
> collateral damage, while the mother's milk of a hollow-eyed Afghani mother
> has dried up underneath her burka in famine, and her children lie dead at
> her breast.
>
>             But you see that breast, John, that Jug on the Spirit of
Justice
> and feel embarrassment over sex, nakedness, and lust.  We see
>   the Sprit of Justice as a testimony to motherhood.  You see it as an
> exposed tit.
>
>             It's not the money it cost us. It's the message you sent.
>
>            We've got the right to live in freedom. We've got the right to
> cheat other Americans out of millions of dollars and then just not
>   want to tell Congress about it.
>
>         We've got the right to drop bombs night and day on a small
> country that has no army, no navy, no military at all, because we've got
the
> right to bear arms.  But we'd better not even think about the right to
bare
> breasts.
>
>             So now, John, you can be photographed while you stand there
and
> talk about guns and bombs and poisons without that breast appearing over
> your right shoulder, without that bothersome bodacious bosom bugging you
and
> we just wanted to tell you in the spirit of justice in the spirit of
truth:
>
>            For all your efforts and concern, John, when you are up there
> speaking, there is still a great big boob uncovered in the picture.
>
>   -Claire Braz-Valentine
>
>   >>

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