Some people get angry. Some people turn the other cheek. Nude protesters at House Majority Lead John Boehner did both:
Some protesters dropped trou to launch a protest at House Speaker John Boehner’s office in the Longworth House Office building in Washington.
U.S. Capitol Police public information officer Shennell Antrobus confirmed: “three females arrested for lewd and indecent acts in the Speaker’s Longworth office. Demonstrators disbursed that area.”
This is an office across the street from the Capitol Building. The speaker, who has a plush suite of offices in the Capitol Building, never works in the district office, so he wasn’t privy, as it were, to the privates.
The protesters, who had red ribbons painted on their bodies, appear to have been protesting potential budget cuts to AIDS programs.
It’s unclear why the naked women were arrested, but the naked man in the picture was not.
You know how it goes in Washington. Maybe the man wasn’t arrested because police saw a member on his staff.
UPDATE: A lot of blogs let it all hang out on this titillating story HERE.
FOOTNOTE: Over the years I’ve done some shows for some nudist colonies and I came to this conclusion: God created clothes for a reason. The body (except mine) is not beautiful.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.