Other wise know as the exposed breast on the statue of Lady Justice, will no longer stand proud and free thanks to the US Justice Department.
As mentioned in this article The US Justice Department has spent $8,000 on curtains to hide the breast on the statue of Lady Justice from the the cameras because US Attorney General John Ashcroft no longer wanted to appear in public with a semi-nude statue towering above him.
The following letter was read by the author at this year’s In Celebration of the Muse, Cabrillo College. She was the
highlight of the evening for many who attended. I am delighted to be able to pass it along to you. I think it worth knowing that the author is a woman of 60+years, conservatively dressed and obviously quite talented. I hope this version is correct. Enjoy…
AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
THE UNITED STATES…
On January 28, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that he spent $8,000 of taxpayer’s money for drapes to cover up the exposed breast of The Spirit of Justice, an 18 ft aluminum 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 then book a seat right 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 state capital 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 are out buying yardage to save Americans 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 heck found the hooter in the hall of justice.
It’s not that we aren’t grateful, But while we were begging the women of Afghanistan to not cover up their faces, You are begging your staff members to just cover up that nipple to save the American people from that monstrous metal mammary. How can we ever thank you?
So, 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 another chest on your mind.
While American sons arrive home in body bags and heat seeking missiles fly around a foreign country looking for any warm body
you think of another body.
And you pray 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.
And 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.
While every day we view innocent bodies dragged out of rubble
and women and children laid out like thin limp dolls and baptized into death as collateral damage and the hollow eyed Afghani mother’s milk has dried up underneath her burka in famine in shame and her children are dead at her breast.
While you look at that breast John that jug on the spirit of justice
and deal with your thoughts of lust and sex and nakedness
we see it as a testimony to motherhood and you see it as a tit.
It’s not the money it cost.
It’s the message you send.
We’ve got the right to live in freedom.
We’ve got the right to cheat 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 just 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 the breast appearing over your right shoulder without that bodacious bosom bothering you
And we just wanted to tell you in the spirit of justice in the spirit of truth,
John there is still one very big boob left standing there in that picture.
Claire Braz-Valentine