Nudists In Washington Target Children And Win...[Weekly Walsh Original]
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Summary
For our first cancellation of the new year, we head up to beautiful Lake Washington near the city of Seattle. Just don t look over to your side or over your shoulder because, depending on where you happen to be standing along the shore, you might find yourself staring at a collection of very naked people.
Transcript
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For our first cancellation of the new year, we head up to beautiful Lake Washington near the city of Seattle.
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Now, just to be clear, I use the word beautiful to describe specifically the physical topography of the area.
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Just don't look over to your side or over your shoulder, because if you do,
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depending on where you happen to be standing along the shore,
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you might find yourself staring at a collection of very naked people.
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Now, of course, you stand the risk of getting an eyeful of naked flab if you travel anywhere in the Pacific Northwest,
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but on Lake Washington, the risk is even greater because it is the site of something called Denny Blaine Park,
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which is, we are informed, a beloved nudist beach popular with the LGBT community in the area.
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In fact, this nudist beach is so popular and so beloved that the LGBT community recently came together,
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no pun intended, to protest what they perceived as a mortal threat to this hangout spot, no pun intended.
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And the threat came in the form of a playground.
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A few months ago, it was announced that Seattle Parks and Rec, with the assistance of a sizable donation from a private donor,
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And this is a problem for the exhibitionist gays over at Denny Blaine,
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because although it's legal for them to gallivant around naked almost anywhere in the city or state,
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they still aren't allowed to get naked in front of children.
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So they protested the playground, they organized,
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they got a petition together, got nearly 10,000 signatures on the petition.
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They were absolutely incensed that the city considered prioritizing the needs of children
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Local news had more on the controversy. Listen.
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I'm in Denny Blaine Park. Hundreds of people showed up at that meeting tonight
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because they say this place is a safe space, and putting a playground here would forever change that.
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You guys can sign up here, or there are sign-ups in there as well.
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The proposal to put a playground at Denny Blaine Park
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all of them with their own story about the park and why they're against the proposal.
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We can just be ourselves, where we can feel safe, where we can feel heard, where we can see one another.
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This is a place where people come up and they ask,
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Under Washington law, it's not illegal to be naked in public.
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However, it becomes illegal if kids are nearby.
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The people who showed up here believe the private, anonymous donor,
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who's willing to front $550,000 for a playground,
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They say that it's not an intention to displace queer communities,
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but I'd love to ask the anonymous donor whether that's true.
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There's also concern that someone with money to burn
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Instead, we're letting people with a fair amount of money
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do an anonymous notation clearly choosing how they want to see our parks use.
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I asked Andy Schaffer with Seattle Parks and Rec about that anonymous donor.
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Well, I can't really talk about it a whole lot because it's anonymous.
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But he did talk about how moving the public comments were.
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You know, if more people could hear these stories,
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about gay people exposing their genitals to strangers.
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And if only more people could hear how important it is to gay people
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that they'd be allowed to expose their genitals to strangers.
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Indeed, LGBT people who aren't able to take their pants off
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anywhere and everywhere they want all the time without restriction
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Give them everything they want always, all the time, no matter what it is.
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Because if you don't, then you are killing them.
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You heard it from the gay activists themselves.
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They said they want to be themselves, feel safe, be heard.
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Now, you might point out that gay people can be themselves
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and feel safe and be heard everywhere in the country.
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why being yourself and feeling safe and being heard
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It doesn't work that way for any other group of people.
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They're not going to immediately strip off their clothes.
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That's only how it works with LGBT safe spaces.
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What if there was someone out there who kept a log
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of every single thing you did every minute of the day?
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Well, what if I told you exactly what happens every time you go online?
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Your internet service provider is allowed to store logs
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so your internet provider can't see or log what you do online.
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well, if I'm routing all my data through a VPN,
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then doesn't that mean that the VPN can see what I'm doing
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but have been caught logging customer activity anyway.
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You don't have to take my or ExpressVPN's word for it.
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ExpressVPN is so confident in their no-logs claim.
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They even had one of the biggest assurance firms,
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So stop letting people keep logs of what you do online.
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I want you to listen to what this reporter mentions
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No one at the meeting spoke for the playground at this park.
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kids will be here upping the chance they could drown.
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As a brief aside, as a minor additional detail,
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Now, the drowning risk thing is probably mostly contrived.
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Playgrounds are built next to lakes all the time.
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I take my kids to playgrounds near lakes all the time.
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Because, you know, most people are not dropping
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and then coming back to pick them up before sundown.
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at that location may well lead to children dying,
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and yet that is somehow not their key objection.
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Their key objection is that the children will interfere
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I'm only respecting their own preferred adjective.