Once again, you have echoed my sentiments exactly. The furious ridiculousness that the anti-choice crowd throws at the world should be dealt with in a way that is similarly surreal.
Incidentally, I gave a friend a body-condom several years ago. I should see if he still has it....
Bob Parker Dayton's Bluff
On Mar 24, 2005, at 5:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erin,
I have an idea to keep the Anti-Choice crowd at bay: Penis Costumes!
With three or four impressive 7-footers parading the sidewalk, periodically
bending over and jousting with them, maybe the occasional squirt from a
squirt gun (would that be considered packin' a rod?), they'd freak and
fall to pieces. "It touched me! Ew! It SPIT on me!! Run awa-a-a-ay!!!"
If there are super strong objections to this performance art, the public
could be treated to a complimentary "How To Put On A Condom Properly"
lesson right there on the sidewalk.
"Officer, I have been dressing up like a penis for years and no one has
ever cared until THESE people show up and start treating me like I'm some
kind of second-class organ. I RULE this body, I'll have you know! I am
cocksure their parents wouldn't approve of this! I just want to waddle
over there and ask them 'What would Jesus's penis do, huh?'"
"Every sperm is sacred! Every sperm is good! Every sperm is needed in your neighbourhood!"
If you want to sing along, you'll find the complete lyrics at http://www.taboo-breaker.org/religion/sperm.htm
They'll probably start singing:
"Ova There, Ova There Send the word, send the word, Ova There That the Yanks are coming, The Yanks are coming, The drums rum tumming everywhere So prepare, Say a Prayer Send the word, Send the word to beware We'll be ova, we're coming ova. And we won't be back till it's ova ova there!"
What time does this party start?! Where in St. Paul can I get a 7-foot bullet-proof condom?
"Blind Willie" MacHine-san
Andrew M. Hine Corporate Research Materials Laboratory 3M Center 201-1W-28 St. Paul MN 55144-1000 USA
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Re: [StPaul] Mayor Kelly and City
03/24/2005 04:20 Attorney: Risking public safety at
PM Planned Parenthood protest?
No matter where you fall on the issue of abortion, the City
Attorney/Mayor's decision to force Planned Parenthood to share the sidewalk
Planned Parenthood had months ago via city permit with anti-choice
demonstrators is VERY disturbing.
Don't get me wrong--I am completely in support of freedom of speech and
people registering dissent via demonstration, even when I (strongly)
disagree with what they say. However, demonstrations must be done in a
way that ensures the safety of all sides, and of the public; St. Paul
Police were prepared to set up both demonstrations to do just that, by
putting each demonstration on a different side of the street. We are
expected to believe that the Mayor and City Attorney's office suddenly
developed concerns, literally days before Planned Parenthood's pro-choice
demonstration (never mind that the permit had been filed months in advance)
that the city might be sued if anti-choice demonstrators are relegated to
the other side of the street as the Planned Parenthood clinic.
This abrupt change of heart by the City allows Planned Parenthood only days
to put together the measures required to ensure the safety of staff,
patients and volunteers from up to 1,000 anti-choice protestors.
Anti-choice activists at the Highland Park Planned Parenthood have been
known to photograph clinic volunteers and patients, as well as their car
license plates, and post these pictures on anti-choice websites for extreme
anti-choice activists to target those individuals.
If the Mayor or City Attorney truly had concerns about Planned Parenthood's
permit, it's tough to see why they did not make mention of them until
literally days before the event. Certainly this is not the kind of action
one would expect from an office that's supposed to be concerned with
maintaining public safety.
The fact of the matter is that Planned Parenthood's permit for a pro-choice
demonstration on the sidewalk in front of its Highland clinic did not need
to be an issue. It's tough to see this as anything less than a cynical
attempt by Mayor Kelly to divide the City of St. Paul on the issue of
abortion on an election year, at the expense of the safety of the public.
Mayor Kelly and the City Attorney's office have done a tremendous
disservice to good public policy, to free speech, to access to safe and
legal reproductive health services, to public safety, and ultimately to the
citizens of St. Paul. For shame. We should be able to expect better from
our Mayor, his office, and the City Attorneys Office.
Erin Stojan Dayton's Bluff
Jane Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Today's Pioneer Press contains an article by Bob Ingrassia regarding the
annual Good Friday demonstration by the Pro-life Action Ministries in
Highland Park. For anyone who thought that a mayor doesn't have
anything to do with the abortion issue, think again.
For tomorrow, Planned Parenthood applied for and was granted a parade permit so it could control the activities immediately surrounding its property, as it is legally entitled to do, on a day when as many as 1,000 protesters are expected to demonstrate at its Highland Park clinic. Last year, St. Paul Police found this to be a good arrangement for monitoring the safety of all involved.
Acting unilaterally, without City Council concurrence or even notification, Mayor Kelly's office and the City Attorney have interpreted recent caselaw: 1) to force Planned Parenthood to share its permit with Prolife Action Ministries on Good Friday; and 2) to introduce amendments to city ordinances to conform to their interpretation of caselaw.
On Tuesday, the City Attorney led our office to believe that the
decision regarding the Good Friday demonstration was the result of a
court order. It was only when Jay and I read Ingrassia's article this
morning that we learned this decision was made entirely by the Mayor and
his City Attorney.
That City Council offices and the public would be misled by our mayor is bad enough, but that we can't rely on accurate information from the City Attorney is a disgrace indeed. No matter which side of the abortion issue you are on, this is NOT the way city government is supposed to work. I urge anyone concerned about this to call Deputy Mayor Dennis Flaherty, 266-8519, and City Attorney Manuel Cervantes, 266-8710.
Jane Prince, Ward 4 Legislative Aide, 651/266-8641
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