Well, this is just silly.

From the LA Times:

SACRAMENTO — Police arrested two members of an organization called Breasts Not Bombs after they removed their tops during a protest on the steps of the state Capitol on Monday afternoon.

The women, who were protesting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ballot measures for today's special election, took off their shirts despite warnings from the California Highway Patrol last week that doing so would lead to their arrests — and possibly their inclusion on the state's list of sex offenders. A federal judge Friday refused to grant a request from Breasts Not Bombs to block the police from arresting topless protesters.

Now, while I obviously support the right of women to take off their tops wheresoever they choose, I have to say that I don't quite see how this affects change. When protests involve nudity, I almost always assume it is as much if not more about the protesters own narcissim as it is whatever they are protesting.

But as Media Girl points out, the thing to take note of here is:

Officials at the Sacramento County district attorney's office said they have not decided whether to prosecute the protesters, and if they do, whether to seek to have them listed as sex offenders.

Breasts in a nonsexual context is a sex offense? My god. This really is John Ashcroft's America...