{"id":1307,"date":"2002-01-29T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2002-01-29T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2002-01-29T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2002-01-29T20:13:42","slug":"dont_look_dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/29\/dont_look_dont.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t look. Don’t tell."},"content":{"rendered":"

We are at war. Every penny counts.<\/p>\n

Homeland security is drawing on all our economic resources. <\/p>\n

Profligate government spending is on the administration hit list, as it tries to cut taxes and thus government expenditures.<\/p>\n

The workers at Enron have lost their life savings. They desperately need money to pay the mortgage, the rent, utilities.<\/p>\n

There are people hungry in this country. People hurt. People who need help, clinics to help them get off drugs, doctors to cure their illness.<\/p>\n

Money. There are so many places that we need to spend it, save it, apply it with wisdom and compassion and commitment.<\/p>\n

Then why the flying flimflam is our nitwitted US Attorney General<\/a> spending over eight thousand dollars<\/b> buying draperies<\/a> to cover up the huge art deco statues in the Great Hall of the Justice Department? <\/i><\/p>\n

Was it because …<\/p>\n

… one of the statues, “The Spirit of Justice,” is of a woman wearing a toga, one breast (gasp!) exposed? While the other, “The Majesty of Law,” is a man weaing a loin cloth?<\/p>\n

… Ashcroft, a staunch religious conservative, found the statues offensive?<\/p>\n

… particularly when reporters photographed him in front of them?<\/p>\n

… because he’s got money to burn in the DoJ budget, and he thought having the statues destroyed would seem too Taliban-like?<\/p>\n

Well we now know that he’s not only a religious conservative (which is not, per se, a bad thing), but he’s a nut about it (which is). And petty. And, based on the ongoing false stories fed to the press, denying any plans to buy the draperies, willing to lie about it.<\/p>\n

Oh, and we know that the Spirit of Justice and the Majesty of Law will be under wraps for the rest of this<\/i> administration.<\/p>\n

(Via Sekimori<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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