I notice that nobody has stopped to ponder the REALLY important issue: what is going to, or has already, happened to this artist, whoever he or she might be. Do you really think the Secret Service asked for their contact info so they could stop by for a informative interview and a nice cup of tea? NOPE.They will have come to arrest the motherfreaker, and under the loose dictates of said Act, this artist will most likely disappear. As a supected terrorist, or at least "political" criminal, he or she could even be sent to Gitmo, to join a long list of suspected terrorists who have had no access to phones, family, lawyers, media access, or even the protection of international law. They will disappear. Bush could even order him or her secretly tortured using the blunt end of said gun that they would have liked to point at said head. There is a BIG difference between an image used in woek of art, and the very real thing that the gov't could do.
Regardless of how right or wrong he or she might have been to use such an image, would this punishment fit the "crime"? Has such a punishment ever been meted out before, to any one else who has done things like thus? It is a very real possibility that this has happened..I wouldn't put anything out of reach. No matter what the work of art says or does not say, or advocate, this is till America, not one of the mullah-led states we profess to hate, and it does no good for the Light of the World to do things that any totalirariam regime would do.
Regardless of how you feel about this paijting, the fate of the artist is more important an issue right now. I hope there are people out there who are keeping track of this artists' whereabouts. I'd hate to think that we, the people, can sink to the level of...Saruman, at least.
Regardless of how right or wrong he or she might have been to use such an image, would this punishment fit the "crime"? Has such a punishment ever been meted out before, to any one else who has done things like thus? It is a very real possibility that this has happened..I wouldn't put anything out of reach. No matter what the work of art says or does not say, or advocate, this is till America, not one of the mullah-led states we profess to hate, and it does no good for the Light of the World to do things that any totalirariam regime would do.
Regardless of how you feel about this paijting, the fate of the artist is more important an issue right now. I hope there are people out there who are keeping track of this artists' whereabouts. I'd hate to think that we, the people, can sink to the level of...Saruman, at least.
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