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NN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Apr-12-05 02:13 PM
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Secret Service visits art show at Columbia
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-axis12.html
Organizers of a politically charged art exhibit at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery thought their show might draw controversy.
But they didn't expect two U.S. Secret Service agents would be among the show's first visitors.
The agents turned up Thursday evening, just before the public opening of "Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin," and took pictures of some of the art pieces -- including "Patriot Act," showing President Bush on a mock 37-cent stamp with a revolver pointed at his head.
The agents asked what the artists meant by their work and wanted museum director CarolAnn Brown to turn over the names and phone numbers of all the artists. They wanted to hear from the exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez deLuna, within 24 hours, she said.
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How quickly they forget, how willing I am to remind them (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1388387)
Here are some people who are just ducky with a gun being INTENTIONALLY pointed at the POTUS head:
D-Notice (803 posts) Tue Apr-12-05 02:15 PM
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1. Remind me:
the 1st Amendment is still in force in the US, isn't it?
sui generis Wed Apr-13-05 01:23 AM
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63. well **** the secret service
Edited on Wed Apr-13-05 01:26 AM by sui generis
it is purely intimidation. If they are too stupid to understand what art is (and they aren't) then this might be excusable. The fact of the matter is they want to instill fear and discomfort in anyone who dares question der Fuhrer.
Art shows are not national security emergencies. I sure wish I was that curator - we would have two VERY uncomfortable secret service agents.
This is America. The more we quake in fear of these goons, the more power we give them. I am sure there are very real threats to our government and elected leaders that need to be taken very seriously, but ART SHOWS just aren't one of them. Send them back to the academy for retraining.
Us vs Them (725 posts) Wed Apr-13-05 12:33 AM
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57. Investigate away...
These mother****ing goons have been popping up a lot lately, and in their wake is usually a shitstorm of media coverage. If they are intending to 'investigate' potentially troublesome expressions of first amendment rights in the hopes of suppressing them, their meddling really creates the opposite of their desired effect. I say keep up the good work. The more they're spotted out from the shadows, the more aware Americans become of their questionable relevance.
Democracy White (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-05 11:01 PM
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52. As an artist and anti- * protester
I find this very frightening. I am too afraid now to even make something that shows my true feelings about this assministration.
Where did the 1st Amendment go?
Where did my country go?
Maybe I should sneak into Canada before they really tighten the borders.
Dee
jilln (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-05 09:35 PM
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46. No, this makes perfect sense...
I mean, every major terrorist attack in this century was preceded by the terrorists displaying their intentions in public art galleries, right? They're just following the clues!
I've posted here before about the SS harassing my neighborhood about "Kill Bush" graffiti on a neighbor's wall, and how they painted it out themselves (leaving all other graffiti alone). I guess "protecting the president" is up for interpretation.
longship (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Apr-13-05 04:57 AM
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67. To the Neocons..
Get this. The artwork in question is "metaphor".
I know that this concept isn't simple. I know that you neocons have difficulty wrapping your thin minds around such subtleties. After all, it isn't cut and dry like rapturous, literal interpretations of the Holy Babble.
So why don't you all go back to your homes, read your Babbles and leave the rest of the world alone? Better yet, why don't you pray to your sky fairy and demand that she rapture you immediately so that the rest of the world doesn't have to continue suffering under your mindless, repressive ignorance.
Sheesh, this lunacy pisses me off.
And your hypocrisy pisses ME off. Go burn some sage and get over yourself, asshole.
LiberalinNC (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-05 06:44 PM
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36. I want those stamps!!!!
I'd use them on everything!
leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-05 02:35 PM
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9. Heil Bush!
Vee haff nossink but love for unsere great leader!
I am sick of this fascist bullshit.
Any questions, DU?
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Well, this certainly proves DUmmies are nothing if not consistent.
I can't believe how they savaged that asshat artist for his retarded "Patriot Act" stamp...what, they didn't? What are we supposed to make of that?
/sarc
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H5 and great find, BFDU.
They have one thread where they're all upset that a gun (inadvertently) is pointed at Dear Leader and this one where it's pointed at Bush on purpose, but one is wrong and the other is OK. Guarantee you if this stamp had been "President Obama on a mock 37-cent stamp with a revolver pointed at his head," these same primitives would have been screaming exactly the opposite of what they're saying now. Can't get anymore hypocritical than that.
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Tue Apr-12-05 02:13 PM
Digging a little deep, aren't we Banned? :-)
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-12-05 02:35 PM
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9. Heil Bush!
Vee haff nossink but love for unsere great leader!
I am sick of this fascist bullshit.
Really? Then why did you vote for Obumbler? We're closer to fascism under the current misadministration than ever before.
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Tue Apr-12-05 02:13 PM
Digging a little deep, aren't we Banned? :-)
(http://hamiltoncountydemocraticparty.org/hillary_clinton_picking_nose.jpg)