Smoketown Six (anti-Bush protesters) cleared of charges!! Woo hoo!

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http://lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/4/9073

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DA clears anti-Bush protesters

"LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - The “Smoketown Six” are free men.Prosecutors announced today they are withdrawing disorderly conduct charges against the six Lancaster men accused of dropping their pants last July in protest during President George W. Bush’s visit to Smoketown Elementary School.

The men, nicknamed the “Smoketown Six,’’ stripped down to thong underwear and piled on top of each other minutes before the President’s motorcade passed, saying they were re-enacting the infamous human-pyramid photo of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

(Friday) morning, Lancaster County District Attorney Donald Totaro announced that a joint decision was made between members of his office and the East Lampeter Township Police to withdraw the charges.

“Because this was symbolic conduct, designed to protest foreign policy in Iraq,’’ Totaro explained, the groups’ action that day is protected under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment right to free speech."


Here is the Smoketown Six's Web site (where you can see the pyramid they made -- asses toward Bush's bus as it drove by).

http://www.thesmoketownsix.us/