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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:10 AM
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Help! Who was the Repub who wanted the naked statue covered awhile ago?
I am discussing it someone right now and I can't remember the details.
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ret5hd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:11 AM
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1. Ashcroft
Edited on Sun Oct-01-06 12:12 AM by ret5hd
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:37 AM
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16. That one has a photo too
Edited on Sun Oct-01-06 12:37 AM by bananas
I'm putting one of those in my sig.

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Longhorn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:11 AM
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2. I believe it was Ashcroft. n/t
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:12 AM
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3. Ashcroft - he wanted to be the only boob in the picture
Edited on Sun Oct-01-06 12:14 AM by Mabus
and he covered Lady Justice.

edited to add a comment in the subject line and to this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1788845.stm

No longer will US Attorney General John Ashcroft appear in public with a semi-nude statue towering above him.

The US Justice Department has spent $8,000 on curtains to hide the statue from the cameras.

The female, art-deco "Spirit of Justice" statue, with one breast exposed, is located on the podium in the department's ornate Great Hall where news conferences are often held.


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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:12 AM
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4. Ashcroft.
He covered up the breasts on the statue of Justice.

--IMM
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blitzen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:12 AM
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5. John Ashcroft, when he was Attorney General...
jusy google "ashcroft statue" and you'll find plenty of info
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:14 AM
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6. I think he used six or eight thousand dollars of our money to
cover up some titty sculpture.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:18 AM
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7. yes it was Ashcroft, apparently he loses all control around naked marble
boobies.
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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:22 AM
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8. Thanks everyone. I can't find any pictures of the statue though.
Google isn't happening for me.
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:26 AM
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11. BBC article with photo of Ashcroft in front of Lady Justice
Edited on Sun Oct-01-06 12:27 AM by bananas
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:30 AM
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13. from the whitehouse
.org that is.

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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 01:35 AM
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18. later that same day.....


:rofl:
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 02:40 AM
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19. Ha, they should shop FOLEY into that pic! NT
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gumby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:23 AM
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9. That wasn't just any 'Repub.'
It was the ATTORNEY GENERAL of the United States that spent thousands of tax dollars to cloak the statues of the female "Spirit of Justice", and the male "Majesty of Law".

Sexual repression at its finest.

Here's one article about that POS http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0214-05.htm
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:25 AM
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10. There was a great picture
Of him talking in front of it. The photo's angle looked up at him (photographer was on the ground or squatting), and the statue was behind Ashocroft's right shoulder, and Ashcroft was making a gesture with both hands - the backs of his hands were facing the viewer, and they were both more or less cupped at chest level as if he were saying, "I like boobies out to here."

Great shot. Photographer probably got sent to Gitmo.

TlalocW
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:28 AM
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12. Yes it was Ashcroft
The female body must be so"whatever" that males want it covered. As the Taliban says.
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:30 AM
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14. Attorney General Asshat
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beyurslf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:31 AM
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15. Ashcroft
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 12:58 AM
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17. Covering over Justice
seems to be a republican obsession
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 02:42 AM
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20. Or they think womens bodies are shameful and dirty
Edited on Sun Oct-01-06 02:43 AM by Erika
and not for public view. Ashcroft is a fundie.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 02:46 AM
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21. Here's a pic of him with an alleged pedophile...


:evilgrin:
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