Dressing up and putting on costumes to look like someone totally different from oneself is one of best parts of Halloween, but some people went too far with their costumes.

People need to understand that even though everyAmerican citizen has the freedom of speech and freedom of expression, there is still a boundary.

It is inappropriate to dress up as anything and stand outside a polling site, because voting is a serious event which affects and matters to the whole nation.

Even if it’s on Halloween, people still should not go too far with their costumes.

In West Hollywood on Halloween night, there were thousands of people on Santa Monica Boulevard for the Halloween party. Everyone had his own unique costumes, but some of them went too far.

A lot of young girls dressed up as so-called “naked angels,” where they only wore bras and thongs or G-strings; some other people dressed up as sexual organs.

People wearing these costumes do not show respect to themselves or the people around them.

For young girls to expose their bodies is inappropriate. It is OK to wear something sexy, but not to an extentwhere it is too revealing.

Then there were people dressing up as priests with inappropriate accessories to go along with the costumes, and some dressed up as celebrities like Michael Jackson.

The person who dressed up as Jackson kept saying “I am innocent, I am innocent,” as a joke when he was walking along the boulevard, which totally doesn’t respect the real Jackson at all.

While all these might be jokes and humorous, it hurts people’s reputations and does not show respect to the people they are imitating at all.

Some people do not understand or cannot handle this humor and that’s when fights break out.

Costumes for Halloween used to be simple. It was an opportunity for adults and children to dress up as their favorite characters or characters that they dreamed of being.

People also used to come up with creative costumes, which stunned people, rather than simply try to offend them.

Dressing up became a tradition of Halloween because people in Celtic Ireland in 5 B.C. believed that spirits of all those who have passed away in the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess, so they could come back for live for another year.

Of course no one wanted to give up their bodies for these spirits, so they created ghoulish costumes and put them on every Oct. 31 and made as much noise as they could to frighten the spirits.

Halloween is not a holiday for people to dress up as someone else and then make fun of or humiliate the person whom they are imitating.