[Boston Legal][S02][E14]Shirley schmidt--bared breasts

Jake Watson convicted of

molesting an eight-year-old girl.

Served two years, then convicted of

molesting an eleven-year-old girl.

John Bauers, convicted of multiple counts of rape.

Calvin Stevens, convicted of sodomizing and

molesting over a dozen boys ages six to ten.

This is a list of registered sex-offenders.

This is the list the prosecutor

thinks Ms. Levine should be put on.

This is the company they think she belongs in.

Do you?

Do any of you think that a woman who

bared her breasts at a political rally

poses the same risk to the

community as rapists and child molesters?

Of course you don't. And I'll let you in on a little secret.

Neither do they.

You see they arrested Ms. Levine and the other women

before and charged them with 'disturbing the peace'.

When a woman is arrested for

sunbathing topless in a public park,

she's either charged with disturbing

the peace or more likely the cop says,

"Hey, lady put your shirt back on". And then he goes off to deal with real crime.

So why is Ms. Levine different?

Because she was protesting redistricting.

Now, I know that may sound

archain and theoretical to you.

But I assure you that to the politicians in power,

there is nothing more dear to their hearts.

If Ms. Levine had written a scholarly

article for redistricting for an obscure journal

that nobody would ever have read, the

District Attorney wouldn't have cared at all.

But she and the other women

made their argument topless.

People paid attention because let's face it

when two hundred women take their

tops off people are going to look.

But after they've gawked for a minute they might ask,

"Why have they taken thei top off"?

And then they might find out it's because of redistricting.

And then they might say, "Well, what is that?"

And then when they find out they might say,

"Oh my God! Our politicians have highjacked our Democracy".

The prosecutor charged Ms. Levine

for violating our community standards.

This is Boston.

Home of the Tea Party.

Home of the people and the spirit of

freedom that literally created this country.

Our community standard is that we

won't be silenced by the King of England,

much less the District Attorney!

Our community standard is that we speak the truth to power.

And if those in power don't like it.

Too bad.