The NY Times picks up the Boxer Short fight. ACLU Boxer Suit

Gotta love the NY TIMES for publishing this article on the ACLU's fight for our rights to wear sagging Boxer Shorts!!!

Flint, Michigan is one of the most dangerous cities in the country. But troublemakers beware. The police are cracking down on . . . saggy pants?

They’re in fashion — in case you haven’t noticed — and they look like this:

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Flint’s acting chief of police, David Dicks, recently announced that his department would start arresting people whose low pants — something he called a “national nuisance.”

This is becoming something of a law enforcement trend, with municipalities from New Jersey to Louisiana trying to ban saggy pants.

Here’s a question: Why?

Is there a connection between saggy pants and menacing behavior? In June, a man was shot in Florida in a dispute arising from his sinking trousers. But it was the man demanding that the pants come up who fired the gun.

Mr. Dicks has said that low pants qualify as “indecent exposure.” Last month he issued a memorandum calling the trend “immoral.”

The ACLU of Michigan has sent Mr. Dicks a letter of protest. “Under no stretch of the imagination,” the ACLU says, “does wearing saggy pants that reveal the top of one’s boxer shorts violate the Flint Disorderly Conduct Ordinance.” The people of Flint, the ACLU says, “should embarassed by this colossal waste of time and scarce resources.”

Low-riding women’s pants, fashionable in recent years, came with the constant threat of exposing a bit too much of . . . err, the top of one’s backside. These pants also tend to fit quite snugly. Is that then more indecent? Will Michigan throw Amy Winehouse in jail?

Of course, everything old is new again. In the 1960s, the “threat” came from hippies, with their tie-dyed tee-shirts, and the Beatles, with their “long hair.”

There are laws against public exposure, but people with saggy pants are not violating them. As long as no one is exposing private body parts, law enforcement in Flint and everywhere else should stick to fighting crime, and leave the “saggers” to the fashion police.

We will continue to fight for our BOXER SHORTS!!!!