Good Morning! It’s going to be sunny and in the 80s today. What perfect weather to vote early in your local primary election.
Let’s do the news.
Who Will Rep District 5? This morning, City Council will appoint Council Member Cathy Moore’s replacement. 2025 has been at least a decade long, so if you’ve forgotten: Moore resigned earlier this year, citing health issues, and her last day on council was July 7. The heir apparent is former City Council President Debora Juarez (though the Seattle Times just came out against her appointment because she dared to side with the left every once in a while). Also on the short list to replace her are: James M. Bourey, a long time city manager and planning director; Katy Haima, a manager at the city Office of Planning & Community Development; Nilu Jenks, former D5 candidate who ran against Moore; Julie Kang, who has been a teacher, professor, and director at the University of Washington and Seattle University; and Amazon Guy Robert D. Wilson.
Didn’t We Just Do This? Yep! Two city council members resigned in seven months. Which, as we all know, is a sign of a healthy government. And because Moore resigned after the filing deadline for this year’s elections, this appointee will serve until we have a special election in 2026.
We’re Still Talking About Denny Blaine: Thanks to King County Superior Court Judge Samuel Chung. Earlier this year, a group of wealthy waterfront property owners sued the city for allowing the historically queer nude beach to become, as they claim, an “unwelcoming, unattractive and ultimately unsafe public place.” They claim that the park is overrun by sex pests masturbating in public, and asked the courts to shut down the park until their concerns could be addressed. Judge Chung didn’t shut the park down, but he did tell the city they had 14 days to provide an “abatement plan” for the “nudity as constituted” (which SPD Chief Shon Barnes has explicitly acknowledged is legal in Seattle) and public sex. That 14-day window ends today.
Advocates Got Ahead of It: Friends of Denny Blaine, the group of community members and activists that formed to protect the park after wealthy neighbors started targeting it, provided the City with a suggested abatement plan. The proposal would add Seattle Park Rangers to the park, as well as new signage and a ban on “repeat offenders” who have violated public sex laws. The city should provide its own version today, so check back. We’ll have more on it this week.
Awkward: Southern Washington “Blue Dog” centrist Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wants to add a new requirement in the US Congress: cognitive standards. The new addition to the body said she’s concerned about the clear mental decline of some of her colleagues (though she didn’t name names) and proposed basic guidelines in Congress to ensure that members were able to do their jobs “unimpeded by significant irreversible cognitive impairment.” It was unanimously rejected. Gluesenkamp Perez is undeterred, though. She plans to bring it back to the table with more rallied support. “We have all of these rules about dumb stuff—hats—and not this more significant question of who is making decisions in the office,” she said.
Drunk? Don’t Fucking Drive: On Friday in Rainier View, a 74-year-old man drank six beers and then decided to get behind the wheel of his giant RV. He hit several cars before hitting Susana Garcia-Perez, a 45-year-old housekeeper and the “backbone” of her family. She died on the scene, and the driver was arrested.
Our Hometown Hall of Famer: Ichiro was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. He joins Mariners Edgar Martinez and Ken Griffey Jr. in the club. “Thank you for welcoming me so warmly into your great team,” he said in his 20-minute speech. “I hope I can hold the values of the Hall of Fame. But, please, I am 51 years old now, so easy on the hazing.”
The Majority of ICE’s Arrests Aren’t Criminals: In an unusual turn of events, the Seattle Times’ pearl-clutching correspondent Danny Westneat published a genuinely helpful column this weekend. He dug through the Deportation Data Project at the University of California and found that in Washington State, ICE isn’t arresting the “worst of the worst.” Sixty-nine percent of the ICE arrests in June were of people who have never been convicted of a crime, compared to June 2024, when only 35 percent of the people arrested by immigration had clean records. Obviously someone doesn’t have to have a criminal record to be deported, but Westneat found that only 53 of last month’s arrestees even had a deportation order. In 2024, it was 80 percent. So that feeling you have in your gut that ICE is just cuffing any immigrant they can find? Pretty spot on.
Hegseth Wants to See Your Junk: But no homo. He just wants to make sure you’re in the “right” bathroom. According to an 11-page memo from the Department of Defense to the White House obtained by 404 Media, the Pentagon detailed how it plans to enforce Trump’s anti-Trans “Defending Women” executive order. The Pentagon said that it won’t stop at simply changing the signs on bathroom doors to “reflect biological sex.” The best-funded military in the world will continue to “monitor intimate spaces to ensure ongoing compliance” and that it will “continuously evaluate and update intimate spaces as necessary.”
Planned Parenthood 1, Trump 0: This morning, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, ruling that Medicaid has to continue to reimburse the healthcare provider. “Patients are likely to suffer adverse health consequences where care is disrupted or unavailable,” Judge Indira Talwani wrote in the order. “In particular, restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs.” This won’t be the end of it, but it’s a huge win for now.
Boeing’s No Good Very Bad Day: They seem to have a lot of them. On the runway in Denver on Saturday, passengers on a Boeing 737 MAX 8 heard a loud boom and the plane started to shake and drift to the left. After the captain bailed off the runway, video shows passengers evacuating a smoking plane using the inflatable slide. Everyone evacuated safely, and no one had to be hospitalized, but a few of them did eat it while going down the slide.
Israel Bends, a Little Bit: After realizing that starving children is evil the optics of starving children isn’t good for them, Israel announced that it’s going to halt military operations for 10 hours a day in parts of Gaza, and create new aid corridors for Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to airdrop supplies. In their first airdrop in months, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates parachuted 25 tons of aid into Gaza on Sunday but airdrops are never as effective as land deliveries. Palestinian health officials in Gaza City said at least 10 people were injured by falling aid boxes. “This is progress, but vast amounts of aid are needed to stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis,” said United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher.
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“Friends of Denny Blaine, … the group formed to protect the park … provided the City with a suggested abatement plan. The proposal would add Seattle Park Rangers to the park, as well as new signage and a ban on “repeat offenders” who have violated public sex laws.”
The claims in prior The Stranger articles was that users of the park were highly intolerant of, and effective at, self-policing to stop unlawful public sex acts and other criminal behavior.
If that is the case, then why would they need Park Rangers, coercive bans that will require forcibly taking people into custody to enforce, etc.? I thought The Stranger and Friends of Denny Blaine that didn’t like forcible enforcement of anything?
With all the video, affidavit, and other evidence presented by Plaintiffs, of things that Friends of Denny Blaine said rarely occurred, and was effectively self-policed by lawful park users, the credibility of the group isn’t the greatest.
Perhaps Vivian can square the circle for us, and tell us why her previous reporting painted such a different picture than what Plaintiffs proved to the satisfaction of a Judge in open court.
@1 Because they’re literally being forced to give a plan… and “We’ll take care of it ourselves because it really isn’t an actual problem.” isn’t going to cut it for the people that are requiring it.. even if it’s true.
I’ve been there many times. I’ve never seen someone jacking off or having sex. Does it happen? Probably. But, go to any park in the city right now and there are people blowing each other in the bushes. There are literally websites that list where the best parks and bushes to meet men for sex are… and none of them are Denny Blaine.
Your willful obtusity is so fucking annoying. But I guess that’s the point of trolls, after all… so congrats.
But I’m quite sure the often shirtless Defense Secretary loves the obsession over his crotch.
@2, Your comparison (and The Strangers) to what happens elsewhere is not relevant legally. It’s not a defense. All an impacted nearby property owner has to prove, at their expense, in civil court, is that it’s happening at a property owned by someone else near them, the property owner isn’t taking the measures they legally could to stop it, and that it adversely impacts the value and/or use of the nearby property owners. There is no proof required that it happens more than it happens elsewhere.
Your personal observations of what happens at Denny Blaine doesn’t square with the evidence provided by Plaintiff’s that open, public, naked masturbation happens at least twice a day, in broad view of anyone, not in the bushes, not under a blanket, not back under a low hanging tree, and not under cover of darkness. It doesn’t square with all the video provided and shown on local news outlets, which not only shows as many repeated rapid-fire, video clips of separate incidents, as you squeeze into a standard news segment.
The same video Park users walking by it and doing nothing. They don’t call 911, they don’t film it, they don’t say anything to or gesture disapprovingly at the offender. They don’t go gather a posse of other park users to go show disapproval to the person engaged in illegal activity.
You or I, who don’t live next to, or near it, don’t have to be exposed to the Park 24/7 and wonder what thing is going to happen next when we walk outside, look out a window, what guests, children, grandchildren, etc., will see or experience from our home, etc. If we visit the park, and don’t like what we see, the vibe, or anything else, we can leave. If you own or rent property next door or nearby, that isn’t an option.
Friends of Denny Blaine isn’t required to submit a plan. The property, owner, which is the City of Seattle is. Friends of Denny Blaine is now submitting a request to The City to include measures in the City’s Plan they previously condemned, found too intrusive for LGBTQ people to feel safe there, to a problem they said didn’t exist, and when it rarely did, was effectively self-policed by users. The Stranger reported all of that, without question or challenge, as fact. So there is a credibility problem with both.
The video on the news is but a small sample of the hours of it submitted by Plaintiffs. Evidence that the property owner, The City of Seattle, did not challenge or refute. They never tried to prove the video didn’t come from the park and surrounding public space. They never tried to prove that an affidavit or testimony of surrounding property owners or renters was false. They didn’t, because they couldn’t.
So now the City is stuck between the Constitution which makes nudity legal (as it should given the wording of the 1st Amendment), and a lawsuit that asserts a pattern of conduct of unlawful actions while nude, that they have done nothing to stop. Other public entities (E.g. The State of Oregon which owns Collins Beach and Rooster Rock State Park) haven’t faced a similar lawsuit under similar state laws. You will find families with the youngest of children at both and none of the activity Plaintiffs have shown occurring at Denny Blaine, brazenly and openly.
Users at both areas won’t tolerate it, and neither does the owner of those nude beaches. Does illegal public sex, drug use, and other activity occur? Sure. Clothed, horny teenagers (and adults), with no place else to go have snuck off into the bushes or dunes to engage in public sex, do drugs, etc. forever. That’s the difference, they are sneaking off, or using the cover of darkness, so that other users and surrounding owners, won’t see or have to deal with it.
Friends of Denny Blaine, and other users of, and advocates for the Park, have no one but themselves to blame because they haven’t had the intolerance to, and prompt reporting of, illegal activity that they claim.
@2, https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=7.48
The law under which the successful, at least so far, lawsuit regarding Denny Blaine was brought.
A law, that we the people, through who we elect, brought into being, and a law that, we the people, through who we elect, have not seen fit to have repealed.
If you oppose the use of this law, whether you agree with it or not, aren’t you anti-democratic? You seek to thwart the democratic majority behind the law’s creation, and its continued existence, to exert their majoritarian will.
It’s really too bad that Alexis Mercedes Rink, even as a City Councilor, doesn’t have the pull to have Metro keep the bus stop clean enough to risk putting her clothes in contact with the seat provided for her.
@4 That shows how little you actually know. Rooster Rock is an absolutely notorious gay hookup spot.
@4 Dude, go outdoors and enjoy the summer. Life is short. The thousands of words you’ve typed into comments aren’t going to save the world.
I’ve been reading that airdropping food is an ineffective way to distribute aid. Open up the ports and roads for goodness sake.
Speaking of public masturbation. My god.
@4 i know doing this in front of an audience who never asked for it is a huge part of the thrill for you but it’s all in vain bc no one is reading all that
@7, Yes Roster Rock is a gay hook-up spot.. But it is done by walking way the hell and gone out past where families are using the beach. You have to go out past the sand spit to the island.
Even then those hooking up go behind logs, up into the trees, etc. But for the fact that all of sudden there is nothing but dudes out on the beach, you wouldn’t know. You see lots of dudes, but not dudes beating their meat or engaged with a partner. That’s the difference.
It’s the difference between a nuisance lawsuit prevailing and one not prevailing. That’s the difference between Rooster Rock and Denny Blaine is that someone with a camera would have great difficulty finding a gay man, or anyone else publicly masturbating or engaging in partnered sex, and at Denny Blaine, they capture two or more examples a day to feed to lawyers and news media. It’s the difference between a community policing themselves and their conduct, as well as the geographic location they gather in, one that doesn’t.
@10, Except for you.
For those that don’t, they really don’t care about the legal and behavioral issues that may cost the LGBTQ community a long-standing gathering place because it will be policed and monitored in a way they are uncomfortable with. A community can’t fight for something if they don’t know the rules of the game.
sadly no not even me and you know how much i love pointing out how dumb you are but if i wanted legal advice i would ask an actual lawyer not a guy who thinks he is because he took civics in high school
@10 FTW lol
@13, Nice to know you are incapable of reading the RCW and comprehending the meaning of English words and grammar found there.
Not knowing and playing by the rules of the game is going to cost Friends of Denny Blaine a park they are willing to use. How has that ignorance been working for them so far? Plaintiff’s 1 – City of Seattle 0.
The City’s skin in the game is not paying a civil judgment. Friends of Denny Blaine’s skin in the game is retaining access to the only public location in Seattle, close to Capitol Hill.
Can we get a continue reading… link for NotMyopic’s compulsive and self indulgently batshit screed, please and thank you.
I was kind of joking but apparently you really believe you can do a lawyer’s job with no formal training if you just read a couple of documents on the internet. Lol.
@16: I get a little embarrassed when I post more than three comments in near succession on the same topic.
@17, It doesn’t take a lawyer to tead and understand the law.
To understand criminal and civil procedure, rules of evidence, you bet.
My neoghborhood has fought amd won a number of nuisance suits pro se (without a lawyer). The insurance companies of the homeowners told them to settle when they saw what we had. The settlements involved binding written agreements to change behavior and abate the nuisance. We did not want money, we wanted the activity to stop.
If we had to take it to court, then we would have gotten a lawyer. Not a lawyer among us.
All done with a little know how supplied by the non-profit, City funded, Seattle Neighborhood Group.
@19 Alas, all of that expertise doesn’t include a spell checker. Hopefully you did that before sending in documents to court.
@2, @barth, @20: All of these comments ragging on NotMyopic/Ahab, and somehow no one noticed the Stranger’s repeated statements of fact about Denny Blaine got flatly rejected in open court: ‘“The Court finds evidence submitted by Plaintiff and largely unrebutted by the City shows that the City has refrained from taking any action to address nudity and sexual acts in the Park,” the judge wrote. “While the City has indeed taken action to alleviate parking problems, it has elected not to reduce or eliminate nudity and sexual problems at the Park.”’
(https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/07/group-proposes-plan-including-park-rangers-and-new-signs-to-keep-denny-blaine-open-and-nude/#more-2067291712)
That’s why the two paragraphs complaining about the ruling didn’t contain a single link to it.
If you want to jump all over some commenter because he annoys you, cool, that’s just how Slog rolls. But making a big deal about his supposed inaccuracies when the Stranger just got humiliated for being about as wrong as they could possibly be, now that’s rich.
The city could bulldoze the beach and replace it with a wendy’s for all i care. No one is coming to this blog seeking legal advice from a bus driver.
I may well regret posting this, but I’ve not seen any video evidence whatsoever to suggest there’s been a whirlwind of anything other than garden variety nudity. I’m sure there’s been some, but quite possibly not an inflammatory amount. The first two comments in @21’s link back this up, and are from regular visitors to the park who report never seeing much more than standard fare nudity. In one of the threads last week someone posted a video of a news report which didn’t contain any actual video whatsoever, just a couple blurred out photos of some dudes walking around pants-less (not surprising, obviously, as this was a news report that aired on basic cable.)
Full disclosure: As liberal, open minded and lefty as I am, I’ve absolutely no interest in watching videos of men masturbating in public (I’m straight and boringly vanilla, when it comes to this crap) though I nevertheless took one for the team here, and did some google video searches for “guy masturbating denny Blaine park” and related phrasing. Such searches returned zero of local relevance other than a whole bunch more news reports. I turned off “safe search” mode, and even filtered for recent results and still get nothing more than news, and non-Seattle based exhibitionist porn.
There’s gotta be at least a chance this story is largely pearl clutching locals who want a nice area of beach to hike at and not have to be exposed to nudists than is being publicized. I’m a non-nude regular visitor to both Collins Beach and Rooster Rock down here outside of Portland (I live pretty near the former and have been there hundreds of times over the years; it’s a delightfully quiet and serene park) and have literally never once seen anything any more off-putting than a whole lot of folks who would probably benefit from visiting the gym a good deal more often than they do.
They’re always, always friendly, even when my fun and goofy dog is running around off-leash giving them perfectly reasonable opportunity to not be.
FWTW.
You got any videos to share Neale?
@23: “…but I’ve not seen any video evidence whatsoever to suggest there’s been a whirlwind of anything other than garden variety nudity. I’m sure there’s been some, but quite possibly not an inflammatory amount. The first two comments in @21’s link back this up,”
Pay no attention to that man in the black robe. Guys on the internet know better! Read the very first line of the very first comment: “I go to the beach, and haven’t seen any of the complained about behavior, but understand that it exists.” So you personally not having seen anything means exactly nothing, by the very words of the source you cited.
That’s one hell of an impressive own-goal, even by the standards of someone who agrees with the Stranger on Denny Blaine Park.
@24,
No shit, idiot. And the entire rest of his comment backs up my point unequivocally. Here it is in it’s entirety for anyone who’s curious.
“I go to the beach, and haven’t seen any of the complained about behavior, but understand that it exists. I’m convinced that almost everyone who uses the park is super reasonable about wanting to follow the rules and just have a relaxing good time. The last time I was there earlier in July, hundreds of people were enjoying the water and the park (many nude, some not) and there were no incidents I was aware of – the worst was the creepy private investigator looking guys in the parking lot with polo shirts and crossed arms staring at everyone. An ice cream truck rolls around and people run over in a towel to get ice cream. Its just a normal day at the beach (and some people are naked).
This idea that its a regular den of debauchery is stupid. Nobody wants that.”
@21 Nudity is not illegal. The City has no obligation to “address” nudity in Denny Blaine. Yes, I know the court said otherwise, but that’s a matter for appeals.
@21 & 24: Shut up, Cressona.
@22, But those coming to this Blog, and everyone else, has to accept the legal advice from the only attorney that matters in this case, the one sitting on the bench. That attorney says the Plaintiffs have proven the case brought under RCW 7.48, that it is more than lawful nudity that regularly occurs at Denny Blaine, The City isn’t doing what a property owner is required to do to stop the nuisance, and other property owners are being harmed.
Plaintiffs 1, Seattle (The Stranger, Friends of Denny Blaine, Vivian McCall, Barth, Blob) 0. That’s a “W i n” for Plaintiffs no matter how anyone spells it
@Neale wrote @1,
“With all the video, affidavit, and other evidence presented by Plaintiffs…”
Cite, bitch.
@29, Was that directed @1 or @ Neal?
@22: Exactly. You don’t even care about the topic in question; you’re just angry other persons comment here without your prior authorization — and continue to comment here, even after you’ve explicitly ordered them not to.
@25: I like how you guys just keep on commenting, stating as fact your version of events, having just been told flat-out by a judge that you’re wrong. Priceless.
@26: What you’re missing here is that the park’s “friends,” backed up by the Stranger, have been using “nudity” as a cover (ha!) for the lewd and illegal acts which have (according to the Stranger’s previous reporting) been going on for years. Nudity is perfectly legal, public masturbation and sex are not, and the Stranger bears some of the responsibility for confusing the these acts.
Rock on, Judge Indira Talwani! May Planned Parenthood and Medicaid forever be saved despite the shit in the White Trash House KKKrime SyndiKKKate.
Here’s an idea on draconian cuts: castrate MAGAs instead.
Hegseth, like Felon Mu$k and his Mein Trumpf ad nauseum, IS junk!
@8 TheTourGuide and @10 barth: +2 For the WIN!!!
When I saw Mr. Magoo’s (@4) word salad novel I just scrolled down.
32: That’s strange, it’s the libs who are into castration.
Grizelda is a closeted MAGA member, why just a week or so ago “they” were bemoaning all the problems of current day Seattle and wanted to go back to days when Seattle had a large white populace but a small overall population.
@23 The video I saw on the news showed someone fully clothed with their penis out (and blurred) and jerking off while staring at the naked people and someone naked but standing next to a car getting a blowjob (which if you’ve ever been to this beach, you know that your cars aren’t actually that near the beach)… You can’t police entire areas based on what random perverts are going to do there.
We actually had an incident at my work where a random guy kept coming up the window and pulling down his pants and jacking off… to the point where we had to put privacy stickers on all the windows of the entire building. Our polo shirts and business casual dress pants from Sears must have set him off! It’s totally our fault he did it and we should be punished accordingly.
@31 Then the judge’s order should have solely been about addressing illegal lewd behavior. Again, the city has no responsibility to curb legal behavior. And the plan they issue in response to the judge’s order should make it clear that they are not curbing legal nudity, only illegal lewd behavior. The fact that the plaintiffs (and apparently the judge) can’t see the difference doesn’t change the city’s obligation to allow legal behavior to continue.
@37, If you read the Judges order, in context, particularly the context of all the voluminous evidence of acts presented by Plaintiff’s, that the City did not (because they could not) contest, rather than as the out of context quotation by the media, the distinction you make is exactly the one the Judge made.
When the Judge is referring to the nudity, he is referring to the current state, character, or nature of the nudity as it exists today at the Park. I.e. It has been allowed to become a magnate, an “attractive nuisance,” to use a legal concept, to attract, enable, and facilitate illegal acts while nude. The Judge is not suggesting that everyone, a majority, or even a substantial plurality of nudists at the park are jerking off, having public sex, doing drugs, etc., just that the property owner has allowed the environment at Denny Blaine to become permissive of public masturbation, public sex, and other unlawful acts.
It’s not the same environment as Alki or Golden Gardens, where if some creep planted themselves between blankets and camp chairs of college students, singles, families with kids, etc. and started jacking off naked, some people would scream and run away, while some Dad or macho College guys would detain or beat the shit out of the guy, while the City would rapidly respond with lifeguards and police. At Denny Blaine, the behavior is tolerated by other lawful users, the City knowing that has started a “see something, say something” campaign about reporting jerking off, and the City has not patrolled or otherwise interdicted the activity directly.
@36 and @37, @36’s example proves the civil City’s obligation.
In the employer’s case, they have a civil (not criminal) obligation not to allow a hostile work environment for their workers. Using the control stemming from their control of the property (via a lease or ownership does not matter) where work occurs, they put up a visual shield to protect workers from that hostile work environment.
The City’s obligation stems from an obligation to protect surrounding property owners and renters from diminished value, use, and enjoyment of their property from public nuisance (it has a legal definition) on the City’s property. The City, like the employer in @36, could put up a screen, (E.g. 20′ high hedges) around the area to block all view the unlawful and other nuisance acts. That would take away the surrounding property owners cause of civil action against the City. They would be protected from the nuisance (diminished use or value of their own property) by that screen.
Lawful users of the Park would not have the same cause of action because they don’t have a property interest being harmed. They are on the City’s property at Denny Blaine Park. The City doesn’t have a legal obligation to protect people from SEEING crime on their property. They could (might, possibly, etc) have civil liability from people being physically assaulted or killed (experiencing crime, not just SEEING it), if the City has a known, pervasive hazard(s) of crime on their property that is elevated or extraordinary. It would be liability not unlike if there is a known, hidden, 20′ pothole hazard on City property that people are repeatedly injured in, that they do nothing about it. But that is a different issue than impacting surrounding property owner/renters use, value, and/or enjoyment of their own properties.
@25: Did you read the ruling?
“Plaintiff has submitted numerous videos and still pictures, some of which are taken from homes and offices adjacent to the Park, of people masturbating and doing other sexual acts in the Park, including on the beach, the grass area, parking lot, and on the nearby streets.”
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HQtvjWTMijqxqn-J8ntoU2cP4SzNTzjU/view?pli=1)
@37: Did you read the ruling?
‘… the Court concludes that Plaintiff has met its burden and finds that public nudity and other sexual acts complained of “render other persons insecure in life, and in the use of their properties,” constituting a public nuisance under RCW 7.48.120.’
As both @38 and I have now explained to you, the nudity IN COMBINATION WITH the masturbation and other illegal acts in and around the park constitutes a public nuisance. That the Stranger has consistently denied the masturbation, etc. even happened doesn’t change the fact that it did, in fact, happen. If this was about only nudity, as you and the Stranger so tiresomely claim, then the Plaintiffs would not have had a case. But the nudity combined with the illegal acts made the case.
Here’s an analogy: you and I each have the right to free speech. Neither of us has the right to show up in front of the other’s home at midnight with a bullhorn, and scream about politics for a solid hour, because such behavior constitutes a public nuisance. Get it now?
@34 & @35: How little you trolling idiots know about me.
Bored much?
The Stranger wins the uncoveted award, “Bury the Lede!”
‘Judge Chung didn’t shut the park down, but he did tell the city they had 14 days to provide an “abatement plan” for the “nudity as constituted” (which SPD Chief Shon Barnes has explicitly acknowledged is legal in Seattle) and public sex.’
That’s right, the last three words of that long and convoluted sentence contain the Stranger’s only admission of the problem. Way to go! Fooling the sympathetic commenters here makes for the lowest bar in the entire history of ever, but the Stranger still recognizes the importance of hiding reality from them.