Topless women in eye-popping Ukraine poll protest

[FarCenter]

AFP - Four young women naked from the waist up barged into a Ukrainian polling station on Sunday and held a rowdy protest just before a candidate in the country's presidential election cast his ballot there.

The women, members of a small feminist group called Femen known for staging eye-catching protests, were hustled out of the Kiev polling station by security guards before Viktor Yanukovich showed up to vote, AFP journalists saw.

"Enough raping our democracy!" shouted the protesters, who held signs with slogans such as "Help! Rape!" and wore nothing except for jeans and strips of green electrical tape over their nipples.

The women told reporters they were protesting against "the end of democracy" in Ukraine and not specifically against Yanukovich or in favour of his rival, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Why the hell can't this happen at my polling location?

All I get is a bunch of Lutheran children running around (my polling place is a Lutheran Church/School).

[FarCenter]

3. Mine's the local intermediate school -- boring...

[yurbud]

4. voter turnout would skyrocket.

[madrchsod]

2. i`ve got 80yr old ladies at my polling place...

it`s in a senoir citizens high rise! no hot blondes that is for shure!

[MineralMan]

7. Is that octopus hentai you have there in your sig?

Hmm...kinky. Tentacle porn.

[Vincardog]

5. This thread is worthless without LOTS of pictures

[FarCenter]

6. the green tape is a bummer

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/58907/

better at http://www.news.com.au/world/half-naked-women-protest-ukrainian-election/story-e6frfkyi-1225827641408

[MindPilot]

10. The look on that official's face is priceless!

[undeterred]

14. I bet its a real bummer when they take it off.

[Scurrilous]

8. Ukraine girls really knock me out.

:thumbsup:

[MindPilot]

9. leave the west behind...

[onethatcares]

11. oh, geez, now my grandson found out

that women have "nipples".. Hopefully no one lets the "cat" out of the bag. :evilgrin:

[kudzu22]

12. Now THAT is a GOTV effort!

[Berry Cool]

13. These women are real "feminists" all right...like PETA. Heh.

Yeah, I'm sure men would come running to the polls for the great taste of this. Women, however, might be inclined to stay home.

In general, "feminists" don't deliberately go topless with tape on their nipples as an attention getter, nor do they trivialize rape by comparing other things to it.

Sounds like a bunch of exhibitionists to me.

[undeterred]

15. The story said they took off their furs...

It would be funny if PETA showed up to protest them.

[classysassy]

16. Topless republican congresswomen

The fox from North Carolina,The Florida duo,The Texas twister,Minnesota Flats,The Tennessee twinkie,The Ohio buckeye," the republican hags"