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October 17, 2006
Yes, you can show us your tits
I had to go all the way to the UK for this SoFla story (and the typos are theirs, not mine!):
In what might just be one of the most important legal decision in Florida's history – almost certainly more important than the ones that gave George Bush the presidency in 2000 - a court has upheld a woman's right to mount political protests by exposing her breasts.
Elizabeth Book was arrested for baring her breasts in 2004, under a law that banned acts of indecency in public, including women going topless
The law she was protesting against, of course, was the same anti-toplessness law under which she was arrested.
While the court made no judgement on the rights or wrongs of the law against women showing their breasts, it did decide that if women were showing their breasts as part of a legitimate political protest against laws banning women from showing their breasts, then they were allowed to show their breasts.
In reaching that decision, it upheld an earlier ruling from a county court that also agreed with the breast-baring.
Book's attorney heralded the topless ruling a victory for his client, who claimed that the laws were unfair as men were allowed to walk around topless, while women were not.
Posted by LindaSoG at October 17, 2006 07:09 AM
Comments
Typical left-wingnut concept of political debate.
Posted by: Kevin M at October 17, 2006 01:00 PM
Take a look over on Zombietime.com at the topless protests in Berkeley, and you will quickly see WHY people dont want to see topless protestors!
Posted by: Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder at October 23, 2006 08:55 AM