solid..but this idealist forgets the underlying principles of paradigm and imprint, and the duller capacities of certain unfortunate souls, that have been tainted and skewed...meaning, create the world you desire, by manifesting it through will in your personal circle, and, clean up after yourself, when the time comes to dispense with formalities.....Rabbi Lerner will be coming soon, to a corner near you, giving out free hugs.....look for the gushing sweetie-man, so tickled to be nice and cheery....

Peace may come with another paradigm, and perhaps some entertainers will help to usher it in, but as long as the planet is controlled by the dark side, no reasonable petition, well-meaning projects, marches on Washed-outtown, letters to tiny empire builders (congress and senate putties),and free hug campaigns, are going to do anything.....but get folks on lists, and in some peoples cases, like ol' JL, perhaps a sleeper with a pistol.....

Tags changed from "frre hugs" to "free hugs,gratis,libero,vrij,no pay" by gold star member choggie.

i disagree. downvotes should be free to be given out as it's already limited to bronze star members who have earned the right to do it. if a video is having trouble making it out of the queue, a gold star can always save it. seems to give a nice balance.

promote also should be free to be given out.. the Free Hugs Campaign vid was promoted within 15 days which i totally agreed with. Not enough people were watching it then and still, it has less votes then most daily show/colbert report videos, which is ridiculous. Are videosifters really that cold?

LOL...I know what you mean about the women thing. Politics?....yes I think so ...because in the news story the local politicians were trying to ban free hugs (of all things!) and the PEOPLE stopped the ban!

i don't see why people aren't already watching it and voting. 'Free Hugs Campaign' sounds alright. I suppose you could add 'Inspiring Story!' to the front like the youtube title.

Change the title of this post. It should be in top15. It's got over a million youtube views.

And now... for the rest of the story...

Sydney, AU

Serial hugger Juan Mann describes the free hugs he hands out in Pitt Street Mall as fast-food emotion.

His cuddling campaign received an international dose of publicity today, after a clip showing his public displays of affection won a coveted front page spot on the video sharing website.

An American television audience of millions also watched him at work, when the video was broadcast on the prime-time breakfast program Good Morning America yesterday.

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Juan Mann (pronounced one man) is a play on words, but the hugger insisted his rules included no names, no phone numbers, no relationships and no dates.

The hit video came about after a meeting - and a hug - more than a year ago with the lead singer of the Sick Puppies, a Sydney band made up of three former Mosman High School students.

The singer, Shimon Moore, was working odd jobs by day and playing gigs by night.

"I was one of those guys in Pitt Street Mall with a sandwich board advertising a shoe sale," Moore told smh.com.au today.

The two became mates, and Moore borrowed his father's video camera to shoot footage of the hug man at work.

But his efforts to spread the love became a little too popular for some people's liking, according to a blurb on the YouTube video, which said: "As this symbol of human hope spread across the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs campaign BANNED."

Undeterred, Mann collected more than 10,000 signatures on a petition he presented to the City of Sydney council. Demands for a halt to the hugs petered out shortly after, and the end of the clip shows Mann hugging an official.

Speaking by phone from Los Angeles, where the Sick Puppies moved a year ago, the lead singer said he mixed the video with their song All The Same as a gift for his friend, to lift his spirits after his grandmother died.