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Okay, so it's like this: former Democratic governor of Virginia, Mark Warner, is running for President. He did what is most likely the first campaign stop in Second Life, in the main grid. I attended the event wearing my items imported from the teen grid, created by Camp GK, including my "Slavery Still Exists" balloon. It wasn't intentionally political. Well, of course it was political - holding the balloon is SUPPOSE to be a political act - but I not intentionally trying to inject the issue into the political content of the event itself. However, as soon as I positioned my camera behind Warner, so I could listen to him talk while watching the audience from his perspective, I immediately saw my balloon hanging there and realized it would APPEAR to be a political statement directed towards the candidate. And I thought, this is cool, and more than the campers probably dreamed possible.

Whether or not the candidate saw it that way, I'll never know, but the Washington Post did. So be it.

Here is the excerpt:

"One reporter was a green Incredible Hulk type, one was a series of tubes, another was a knight with feathers in the helmet, still another carried a balloon proclaiming "Stop Slavery," and several turned themselves into buxom blondes."

Read the full article here.