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A recent freedom of information request
filed by WCU with the DNR turned up what can only be characterized as
several smoking guns which clearly prove that top DNR officials know that
they are lying to the public when they insist that public nudity is legal
and that they can do nothing about the nudity and lewdity at Mazo beach. A
number of documents recovered paint a picture of top law enforcement
officials colluding with DNR officials to suspend the law on behalf of an
elite group of sexually perverted persons, some perhaps with political
connections, and in the process, putting innocent people in danger. Here
is a sample of what WCU's investigation turned up:
A 1992 report by DNR Warden Scott A.
Thiede containing this interesting excerpt which reveals that law
enforcement officials know that public nudity in itself is unlawful but
have conspired together to not prosecute the perverts at Mazo beach:
". . . The District Attorneys in the counties along the Riverway
were contacted [by the DNR] to establish a uniform enforcement consensus.
All six DA's expressed reservation to prosecuting naked persons on that
portion of Mazomanie Unit beach where nudity among consenting adults has
traditionally been tolerated. Nudity off that portion of the Mazomanie
Unit beach that has traditionally been used by unclothed persons would in
most circumstances warrant prosecution. . . . "
A March 26, 1998 memorandum
concerning the situation at the Mazo beach written to DNR official Ruthe
Badger from DNR wardens Wayne Schutte and Scott Thiede. Included in the
memo are the following excerpts:
". . . On any day in reasonably warm weather there will be 50-100
cars parked at the beach end of Conservation Drive. On weekends this
number swells to 400 or more. . . . The tolerance of public nudity and
sexual activity has created and encouraged a perverse atmosphere that is
even more offensive to thousands of visitors using the river adjacent to
the beach. . . . there are strong indications of increasing drug use and
drug dealing in the Mazomanie beach area. A steady steam of traffic can be
observed entering and leaving the area during the day and through the
night. In 1997, Dane County Sheriff's Deputies responded to the Mazomanie
Unit - Conservation Drive - to investigate complaints of outstanding
warrants, possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, public sexual
activity, prostitution, underage drinking, vandalism, domestic battery,
and death investigations."
A September 23, 1998 letter
written by DNR Conservation Warden Charles S. Horn to Grant County
District Attorney Emil Everix. Here are several excerpts from that letter
which dealt with the situation at the Mazo beach:
"On warm summer weekends it is not unusual to have over a
thousand nudists enjoying the beach. . . . This summer the nudist activity
has spread downstream, Special Warden Robert Bloyer and I encountered a
group of about 50 naturists camping on a sandbar just south of the Woodman
Boating Landing over the Labor Day weekend. . . . In the past couple of
years, there has been an increase in open consensual sexual activity at
Mazo as well. Several parking areas and sections of the beach have become
pick-up spots for gay men and complaints have been received about these
men openly engaged in . . ." (Here the letter describes in
detail several perverted sex acts.)
A July, 1999 DNR report
filed by DNR Warden Patrick Connell which contains the following excerpt
of an incident which took place at Mazo beach:
"On 7-23-99 at 12:00 noon, Connell made casual contact with the
driver of a limo parked in the lower lot. Driver said he brought someone
down there who is the vise president of the 'Gay Police Men's
Association.' They had been down there for about 3 hrs. Driver said he was
a retired DOJ [Department of Justice] employee. . . ."
In defense of the nudity and lewdity at Mazo beach, certain law
enforcement officials and DNR officials continue to spit in the faces of
concerned parents and taxpayers by clinging to their shameful charade that
"public nudity isn't illegal in Wisconsin." In light of facts
such as the ones listed below, why don't the defenders of that open-air
bathhouse on the Wisconsin River just admit that they have decided to
pander to the perverts at the expense of everyone else?
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Case history clearly proves that it has always been unlawful in
Wisconsin to appear nude in public, even if the person is not
"doing something sexual."
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To this day, persons appearing nude in public anywhere in the state
but the Mazo beach area are arrested and prosecuted. (Yes, even in
Madison where DNR Secretary Meyer, Dane County D.A. Nix, and Governor
Thompson have their offices.)
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In March, the U.S. Supreme Court reiterated that states and
municipalities can even ban nudity in private dance clubs!
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Earlier this month, a Superior Court Judge in the state of Delaware
upheld a ban on nudity at a Cape May County beach. In a 20-page
ruling, Superior Court Judge Albert Garofolo wrote that Lower
Township's ban on nude sunbathing at Higbee Beach is constitutional,
even though the beach is owned by the state and local governments! The
ban had been challenged by nudists.
For more information, call (608)328-4841.
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