If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know Cassidy Nicosia was the trailblazer for topless equality in Keene with her walk down Main St. in 2009. She posted the following thoughts as a comment on the recent Topless Tuesday thread, and I thought her words deserved to be heard as a guest blog post:
I don’t understand why people think bare breasts are so “wrong”. The human body is beautiful, and if men are allowed to walk around topless, so should women.
My breasts are not pornographic, and not made for the eyes of lovers. They are a harmless, life-giving part of my body. I am biologically engineered with breasts to feed my child, not to gain attention from suitors.
Society has perverted what women’s breasts are seen as to enforce puritanical thought processes. The idea that woman is inherently a temptress, and all actions by her are to lure in the unsuspecting, innocent male. That’s ridiculous. And we need to stop teaching our children this; enforcing these narrow-minded ideals, and using the gun of the government to get what we want. Anyone should be able to look at a woman topless in public and barely think about it, the same way it is with men. It happens, and it’s not a big deal. (more…)
“Peter Brigham said he had a lot of time to think with his nose pressed to his carpet, arms and legs duct taped together, watching two men rifle through his belongings Tuesday night.”
“They woke me up, and told me to lie face down on the bed, and I won’t get hurt,” Brigham recalled. “I followed instructions best I could.” The robbers, clad in black masks, were armed, one with a pistol, the other a baseball bat. The men were wearing camouflage pants and hooded sweatshirts, Brigham said.”
“”They duct taped my hands together and then my feet and then locked them together, kind of like hog-tying,” Brigham said.”
It seems that the publicly funded propaganda tool known as the “Office of National Drug Control Policy” has issued its “strategy” to deal with the drug problem here in the United States. Of course there is nothing new or novel to what the Obama Administration thinks we should be doing about drugs here in the United States.
I quote: “We have many proven methods for reducing the demand for drugs. Keeping drugs illegal reduces their availability and lessens willingness to use them. That is why this Administration firmly opposes the legalization of marijuana or any other illicit drug. Legalizing drugs would increase accessibility and encourage promotion and acceptance of use. Diagnostic, laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological studies clearly indicate that marijuana use is associated with dependence, respiratory and mental illness, poor motor performance, and cognitive impairment, among other negative effects, and legalization would only exacerbate these problems.”
Oh, but Marijuana users don’t go to jail, right? Especially the sick ones.
This is the same exact thing that the law enforcement community wants to do to sick and disabled people here in New Hampshire. You know, part of “Protecting and Serving.”
All the hard work done to lobby the legislature to have common sense Marijuana policy would have easily passed if it were not for all the “Protecting and Serving” the police chiefs and Attorney General spew to the legislature.
Can’t we just leave people who are sick and disabled the hell alone?
Ahhh, how warm and fuzzy does it make you feel to know that the society you live in remains in the list of five countries worldwide that continue to mur-, execute people, for punishment and as a deterrent towards future execut-, murdering. Nothing like a parent spanking their child to teach them not to hit.
How even more warm and fuzzy would it make you to know that if the government people in the State of New Hampshire were to carry out the sentence of death on their lone African American death-row inmate (in a state comprised of %97+ white people)………. it would have to be by hanging. New Hampshire state law says:
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know Cassidy Nicosia was the trailblazer for topless equality in Keene with her walk down Main St. in 2009. She posted the following thoughts as a comment on the recent Topless Tuesday thread, and I thought her words deserved to be heard as a guest blog post:
