No Dancing At The Jeffrerson Memorial!

[Miss Demeanor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUU3yCy3uI&feature=share

A friend linked this on Facebook. 

[Adios]

Fukin Baptists. 

So, now dancing is protesting. In the Empires Capitol.

[Kai]

 

Welcome to America, where freedom is just a buzzword.

[Kai]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

[Adios]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Sure, if you were free, white, male, a landowner and over 25.

[Kai]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Sure, if you were free, white, male, a landowner and over 25.

You know what? You're right.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than slamming them on the ground and choking them and arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Fixed.

Also, if bad taste is illegal can we pleeeeease have Lady Gaga locked up?

[Kai]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than slamming them on the ground and choking them and arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Fixed.

Also, if bad taste is illegal can we pleeeeease have Lady Gaga locked up?

Saying something is "in bad taste" is not the same as saying someone HAS bad taste.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Sure, if you were free, white, male, a landowner and over 25.

Oh, sure.  Let's judge every historical figure by the today's standards, rather than the times in which they lived.

Everyone in history sucked.   The end. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than slamming them on the ground and choking them and arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Fixed.

Also, if bad taste is illegal can we pleeeeease have Lady Gaga locked up?

I volunteer my house as the prison facility.

[Kai]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Sure, if you were free, white, male, a landowner and over 25.

Oh, sure.  Let's judge every historical figure by the today's standards, rather than the times in which they lived.

Everyone in history sucked.   The end. 

Socrates sucks.

Humans suck.

Therefore Socrates is a human.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Sure, if you were free, white, male, a landowner and over 25.

Oh, sure.  Let's judge every historical figure by the today's standards, rather than the times in which they lived.

Everyone in history sucked.   The end. 

Socrates sucks.

Humans suck.

Therefore Socrates is a human.

Oki doke.  So we dump on people who took postive steps to make things better, because they didn't go from 0 to enlightenment in one step.

I'm actually okay with this.

[Kai]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Sure, if you were free, white, male, a landowner and over 25.

Oh, sure.  Let's judge every historical figure by the today's standards, rather than the times in which they lived.

Everyone in history sucked.   The end. 

Socrates sucks.

Humans suck.

Therefore Socrates is a human.

Oki doke.  So we dump on people who took postive steps to make things better, because they didn't go from 0 to enlightenment in one step.

I'm actually okay with this.

It was a joke, Roger.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

To the credit of the park service, it IS a memorial, and generally anything but solemnity in a memorial is considered in bad taste. For example, I would look down on any disruption at the Vietnam memorial or the Arizona memorial Pearl Harbor. But even in those cases it would be a matter of escorting the offenders away from the site, rather than arresting them.

However, I think that Jefferson would have approved of dancing.

Sure, if you were free, white, male, a landowner and over 25.

Oh, sure.  Let's judge every historical figure by the today's standards, rather than the times in which they lived.

Everyone in history sucked.   The end. 

Socrates sucks.

Humans suck.

Therefore Socrates is a human.

Oki doke.  So we dump on people who took postive steps to make things better, because they didn't go from 0 to enlightenment in one step.

I'm actually okay with this.

It was a joke, Roger.

It's so hard to tell, these days.   

But I stand by my comment, which was mostly aimed at Charley's post.

[Telarus]

So I got all pissed off at the display of authority like everyone else.

Went and read some blog articles that actually look at the legal opinion, and it seems to break down to this:

"Demonstrating" _INSIDE_ the Jefferson Monument is illegal (and has formally been illegal since 1983 or something). You can hold all the events and specatcles and crowds of people you want _just outside_ the doorway, but it has legally been declared a "non-public forum", even tho it is a "space open to the public".

Dancing in the Jefferson Monument is a non-issue.

As soon as those people Organized to Dance (either the original troop, which was holding a small ritual to commemorate him near midnight, or the other schmucks who went and got arrested in the daylight), they were legally "Demonstrating".

Of course, the monkeys had to use violence and the threat of violence to prevent DANCING, which is bullshit, obviously.

But now I'm just pissed at the sorry state of our legal system, which is purposefully set up so that people like the ones arrested at the 2nd Demonstration (i.e. everyone who hears about this story) doesn't understand the difference, and just assumes that "they were arrested for Dancing".

Instead of realizing that if we let people organize a dance "demonstration" there, we have to let people like the KKK, etc, hold events there.