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Originally posted by Felch View PostThe Jefferson Memorial isn't about free speech or love, it's about raping slaves. The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated to the notion that every white man is entitled to a nigra bed wench.
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The truth is, the whole thing was a performance.
The dancers? They weren’t innocent tourists moved to sway by the majesty of Jefferson. They were professional protesters — Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin and Iraq war veteran Adam Kokesh among the group — who were making a point about freedom and liberty in an event they promoted on Facebook.
They boogied with Jefferson to challenge this month’s U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that dancing at memorials is forbidden “because it stands out as a type of performance, creating its own center of attention and distracting from the atmosphere of solemn commemoration,” according to the panel’s ruling.
This all began in 2008, when 18 flash mobbers danced quietly inside the memorial to commemorate Jefferson’s 265th birthday. The police asked them to leave and when they didn’t, they were cuffed.
One of the dancers, Mary Brooke Oberwetter, sued the Park Police on a First Amendment plea but lost. She appealed and lost again, thus the May 17 ruling that led to Saturday’s dance party.
The five dancers were each arrested, charged with demonstrating without a permit and released, said Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser. Dancing is considered an expressive activity under the regulations that the park police follow, he said.
The Park Police are also investigating the protesters’ allegations that the arrests were unnecessarily rough and improper, Schlosser said.
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