From: Violet Beck (seizansha@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 13:48:01 MST
*giggles*
Oh, god knows that terrorists are bad, but DAMN we'd better watch out for
those satanic boobies! They'll melt our minds! THEYRE just unnatural,
dammit!
>From: "Mermaid ." <britannica@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
>To: virus@lucifer.com
>Subject: virus: Spirit of Justice in a burqa!!!
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:34:21 -0800
>
>Did anyone read about this? Dang..if only the Taliban had thought of
>draping
>the Bamiyan Buddhas with curtains..
>
>Hillary Clinton was right<not that I can stand that broad..but she *is*
>right in this instance> when she said that it would have been cheaper to
>buy
>burqas from Afghanistan instead of shelling out $8000 for the curtains.
>
>Brilliance. It creeps out from the most unlikely holes.
>
>url:
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020129/od/statues_dc_1.html
>
><paste>
>$8,000 Curtains Cover Semi-Nude Statues
>
>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cover-up at the U.S. Justice Department (news -
>web
>sites)?
>
>A Justice Department spokeswoman said on Monday about $8,000 has been spent
>for curtains to conceal two Art Deco aluminum statues of semi-nude figures
>in the building's Great Hall.
>
>At one end of the stage is a 1930s era female statue representing the
>``Spirit of Justice.'' Though she wears a toga-style garment, one breast is
>exposed. At the other end of the stage, a male statue represents the
>``Majesty of Justice,'' and has a cloth draped by his waist.
>
>Justice Department spokeswoman Barbara Comstock said the decision to
>install
>the curtains was made by Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web
>sites)'s
>aide who handles advance work. ``It was done for TV aesthetics,'' she said.
>
>When Ashcroft on Nov. 8 announced plans to restructure the Justice
>Department to focus on terrorism after the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks,
>photographers took pictures showing him with the towering female statue in
>the background.
>
>``He did not know this was being done,'' Comstock said. ``The attorney
>general has more important things to do than worry about what appears in
>pictures.''
>
>The statues were hidden by curtains on Nov. 20, when President Bush (news -
>web sites) came to the Justice Department to name the building after the
>assassinated former attorney general, Robert Kennedy.
>
>Those curtains were rented. Comstock said the decision then was made to buy
>dark-blue curtains and install them because it would be more ``cost
>efficient.''
>
>On Monday, a day with no public events in the Great Hall, the curtains,
>with
>the Justice Department emblem in the center, were placed across the stage,
>concealing the statues.
>
>A former Justice Department official e-mailed a copy of an article about
>the
>statues to colleagues, adding the caption, ''homeland security?''
>
>The most famous picture of the female statue came in the 1980s, when
>Attorney General Edwin Meese released the final report of his commission on
>pornography.
>
>
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