Dancers were nailed to the ground to be handcuffed. Pretty sad, America,
if you don't recognize at least this one as the final affront.
Natalia
From:
http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2011/05/park-police-declare-dancing-not-covered.html
*"Dancing is a healthy and elegant exercise, a specific against social
awkwardness" - /Thomas Jefferson/*
A handful of dancers got cuffed on Saturday for doing what they say the
Founding Fathers would have wanted them to do - expressive dancing in
National Parks.
A court recently ruled that expressive dancing was in a category with
picketing, speech making, and marching - a banned activity at national
memorials.
A small group came out on Saturday to protest the ruling, by dancing
together inside the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial.
But after a few minutes, their moves got busted by Park Police.
Five were arrested, while listening to earphones and moving rhythmically
in the shadow of Thomas Jefferson.
"The founders understood that the only thing that was going to make the
American experiment succeed was the people standing up for these
rights," Jared Denman, a demonstrator, told NBC Washington.
The memorial was shut down while demonstrators got arrested.
Some visiting from out of town were less than impressed with the
protesters' interpretive moves. "I think its ridiculous," said Edward
Kelly of Richmond. "We just traveled up the steps and we've been
waiting for 15 minutes."
Video of the Park Police wrestling some of the dancers to the ground has
appeared on YouTube.
I liked this comment:
Anonymous said...
Now speeches and marches at national memorials are illegal. So I
guess that Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream is now officially dead.
Sorry Gitmo Nation.
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