Anti-Bush
Thong Charges Dropped
Six
men,
ages 18 to 32, were arrested along the motorcade route during a
July 9 visit by Bush to an elementary school in Amish country, about
an hour west of Philadelphia
for protesting the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal by stripping
down to their thong underwear and forming a human pyramid.
They
were recreating an image from photos taken inside the prison near
Baghdad in which Iraqi prisoners were abused by U.S. captors.
The men could have received up to 90 days in jail and a $300 fine,
but the case was dropped.
American
Civil Liberties Union attorney Paula Knudsen, who represented
one of the defendants, said: ``We're pleased that the charges
have been withdrawn and that the district attorney recognized
the importance of the First Amendment values at stake.''
The
Holistic Wisdom Corporation