Justice curtains naked statues It is a true undercover operation. The bane of the big and the buxom has come to an end at the Department of Justice. The monumental, bare-breasted Spirit of Justice statue that towers over the official speaker's dais is now safely behind a set of no-nonsense blue drapes. After decades of providing comic relief for wily photographers, she has ruined her last photo op. But heavens, it's the old right-wing, conservative prudes at work, according to press accounts that cast Attorney General John Ashcroft in the role of censor in chief. According to ABC News, the "strongly religious" Mr. Ashcroft was "fed up," and could not abide waggish photographs angled to include his face and the statue's right breast - a fate that had befallen former Attorney General Edwin Meese the day he released the final findings of a p*rnography commission back in 1986. "No one in the Great Hall that day could ever forget the spectacle of the still photographers writhing on the floor, flat on their backs, in order to grab the shot of Meese holding up the p*rn report," noted ABC at its news Web site yesterday. Canny photographers got a similar shot of Mr. Ashcroft in November, ultimately turning the Spirit of Justice into statue non grata. -- So are we covering up justice also? What a moron.... --
You know, Ahscroft would probably feel more at home if they covered the Spirit of Justice's entire body including her breasts with a burka, like those other fundamentalists would. Semi- nude Spirit of Justice w. Ashcroft
