That's F***ing Beautiful!

[Ivo Skoric]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/24/nyregion/24BRUC.html?th

Arrest the living, pardon the dead! What the story of comedian Lenny 
Bruce really reveals is that a man could be arrested solely for his 
speech in the land of the constitutional first amendement protecting 
that free speech as late as 1964. At that time the US vigorously 
protested similar arrests in the Soviet Bloc. It was shameful that he 
was arrested, and it is shameful that he did not win the pardon while 
alive. Interestingly, he could not get work following his jail time 
and his life ended miserably in two years after that - just as lives 
of many Eastern European dissidents did, once they were declared 
outlaws. Now, a Republican Governer pardons Lenny with a lifetime 
delay, only to shore up his first amendement credentials in face of 
his shameful support to the Patriot Act which denies the first 
amendement rights to the living.

ivo