Monday, October 30, 2006

Court says yes to breasts


In what might just be one of the most important legal decision in Florida's history – almost certainly more important than the ones that gave George Bush the presidency in 2000 - a court has upheld a woman's right to mount political protests by exposing her breasts.

Elizabeth Book was arrested for baring her breasts in 2004, under a law that banned acts of indecency in public, including women going topless

The law she was protesting against, of course, was the same anti-toplessness law under which she was arrested.

While the court made no judgement on the rights or wrongs of the law against women showing their breasts, it did decide that if women were showing their breasts as part of a legitimate political protest against laws banning women from showing their breasts, then they were allowed to show their breasts.

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