How Can Sidewalk Chalk Art Be Illegal?

by Cimaxion

 
I took this today in downtown Los Angeles' Pershing Square where Occupy protesters intend to make more chalk art tonight. Last month protesters were attacked by police in riot gear simply because they were drawing on sidewalks. Apparently the legal scholars at the LAPD think the use of children's chalks made by Crayola is illegal when an adult is doing the drawing. As protests go it seems to me that chalking is one of the less obnoxious. I have read that courts nationwide are dismissing these chalking cases. Prosecutors in LA have refused to press charges against those recently arrested by our inexplicably cranky police.
 
It's really okay, officer! Seriously. Just enjoy all the pretty pictures and move along. It all washes off in the rain.
 
 

Visions of the Jinn: Illustrators of the Arabian Nights

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Alladin by Errol Le Cain 1981

Visions of the Jinn: Illustrators of the Arabian Nights (Studies in the Arcadian Library)is a massive volume written by Robert Irwin and published by Oxford University Press that provides an overview of illustrated versions of The Tales since the first Dutch images of 1714 by an artist named David Coster.
 
 
 
 

Police in Anaheim California Attack Children at Protest

by Cimaxion

 

People gathered to protest suspicious shootings by the Anaheim, California police and were brutally attacked by police wielding non-lethal weapons which included a dog being sent in at children. There simply comes an obvious time in the life of a civilized nation when the people must stand back and take a very good look at the savages that have been allowed to overrun police departments.