April 11th, 2009 | 
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On January 28, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft, announced that he spent $8000 of US taxpayer’s money for drapes to cover up the exposed breast of The Spirit of Justice, an 18ft aluminum statue of a woman that stands in the Hall of Justice.
Such a waste of money to cover something that was created to be beautiful, artful, and symbolic. I laughed when I heard, but inside I actually cried a little.
I had just been over to the States where I was questioned by 4 border guards for no real reason other than being ethnic. When I got back home, I bought every Anti-Flag album in a not-so-silent protest. With the Bush administration in full swing, all these events blended in my head, I started wondering what it would be like to try “dating” the American Justice System – weird, I know.
This poem is the result of that thought experiment:
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