SF's HOW-WIMPY Street Faire,

Several SUN members attended the "How Weird" Street Faire, on Howard Street, SF,
on Sunday, 4 May 2008; hoping to demonstrate for peace.

Only two of them actually tried to go "nude4peace".
San Francisco Police officers ordered a fully nude demonstrator to "cover up";
so he put on a red jockstrap (which covers the genitals but leaves the butt bare).
Okay, no further problem.

By the time the cops arrived, the other demonstrator was merely semi-nude.
On his front, he wore a protest sign, hanging from a belt, so that the sign concealed his genitals.
But he was still bare behind the sign, and his butt remained quite bare.
After an officer spoke to him, he understood that his present costume would be ignored
(thus barely tolerated). But that police would arrest him if he shifted the sign so that his front was visible.
(For example, if he were to rotate the belt, so that the sign would cover his butt instead of his front.)

After the police officers had walked away, an angry civilian harassed the demonstrators.
Claiming to represent the H.W. Faire organization, he objected even to semi-nudity.
Is bare butt still a big deal to him, even as 21st century SF cops ignore it?
Or does he feel that a protest sign isn't enough covering for the male genitals?
Whatever his hang-up, he rejected the
moderate compromise (between freedom and order) which the cops had tacitly approved.

Upon hearing this extreme anti-freedom policy of censorship,
SUN's spokesman
protested by boycotting the remainder of the Faire.

Senior Unlimited Nudes (SUN) hopes that the Faire's board will, in the next nine months,
re-consider this censorship policy.
As long as this policy persists HOW WEIRD
amounts to
HOW RIGHTWING.


-- SUN
PO Box 426937-SUN
San Francisco, CA 94142-6937


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