Mural Of Nude Eve Covered With Mock Crime Scene Tape
Artist Plans To Fight For First Amendment Rights
POSTED: 10:49 a.m. CDT August 21, 2003
UPDATED: 1:59 p.m. CDT August 21, 2003
PILOT POINT, Texas -- A mural of a nude Eve remains the big issue in the small north Texas town of Pilot Point.
Under police threats of criminal charges, the mural's owner has draped a bright yellow strip of canvas with the words "crime scene" across Eve's bare breasts. Next to the mock crime scene tape is a black banner saying: "Temporarily censored."
For now, police in the small town of 40 miles north of Dallas are satisfied. But owner Wes Miller told the Denton Record-Chronicle he'll keep fighting to keep the work intact.
"A few small-minded people are trying to censor what everybody sees. We are not in any way giving up our constitutional rights. Not yet. We have not yet begun to fight," Miller said.
When asked what he planned to do next to fight censorship, Miller would only say his next move may involve the Supreme Court.
American Civil Liberties Union attorney Michael Linz of Dallas says he'll try to persuade town officials that the mural is legally protected under the First Amendment.
Under police threats of criminal charges, the mural's owner has draped a bright yellow strip of canvas with the words "crime scene" across Eve's bare breasts. Next to the mock crime scene tape is a black banner saying: "Temporarily censored."
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