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Patriotic Boob
June 20th, 2008I love America. For whatever faults this nation has — real or imagined — we strive for freedom, the most precious element of human nature. We celebrate our freedoms every 4th of July, and honor the many men who died for our freedoms.
Including the freedom to bear one’s boobs during a 4th of July parade.
Eschewing such meager liberties as the right to bear arms, Jen Moss is fighting for the right to bare bazooms. Jen resides in Ashland, Oregon, a place with a dress code so lose that masking mammaries is not mandated (note to self — investigate relocating to Ashland). Jen frequently peddles her funbags about town wearing only a G-string and a smile.
Being an all American girl, Jen wants to participate in Ashland’s annual 4th of July parade wearing her normal attire, which is to say nearly nothing. However the parade planners are fighting for some fanciful reason. Seems the 4th of July parade is considered a “family event” and the town’s toddies don’t want impressionable children to see sacks like the ones they suckled mere years before, or that they saw Jen peddling past last week.
“She’s welcome on any other day of the year to do that,” said the anal retentive parade chairman. “But not on the Fourth of July while in the parade.”
Here is the interesting aside. She can be bared from the parade because that is orchestrated by a private organization, and as such they can be as prudish as their puritan peccadilloes allow. Jen’s not allowed to march down the street bare breasted in their parade.
But she can be nearly naked on the sidelines watching the parade.
Such is the nature of law in a libertarian society. What a private person or organization does is their business, and what a naked woman does in public is hers. They just have to ignore one another as best as they can.
Something tells me Jen will not be ignored.
‘freedom, the most precious element of human nature’
I have to contest that, the most precious element of human nature is love. What do you want to do - push for your selfish so called rights and desires or work together with empathy and co-operation.
Who says these goals are mutually exclusive? In fact, they may be co-dependent.
I see you already had it figured out in your ‘Theory of Government in a Free Society’ campaign.
I can see that socialism and freedom don’t really equate.
‘Government is the worst possible vehicle for
charity, and when all the evasive language is removed, welfare is charity.’
‘Before government intervened, those on hard times sought charity from two primary sources: family and church. These institutions provided the recipient with moral and spiritual guidance at a time when it was needed most. ‘
This kind of support requires there to be closely knit communities, which perhaps small government supports.