February 04, 2003
A little more than a year ago, Ashcroft had the semi-nude archetypical statues in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice covered so that they did not appear in the background of news photos – a major escalation our government’s chip, chip, chipping away at our freedom from censorship and a strong indication of the small minds of our leadership.
Last week, almost a year to date after that nefarious event,
The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain. … A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.
From Euripides’ Trojan Women to Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five,
from the visual art of Richard James Montoya
to street art from L.A.in the 80s
,
creative artists have used their brilliance to try to make others see the grotesque and inhuman evil of murdering human beings and hiding behind manipulative political rationalizations about the need for war.
Picasso's Guernica is one of the most moving of those brilliant creations.
Propaganda is produced by both commission and omission.
Our government is manipulating our freedoms and our thinking, both by what they are covering up and what by what they are craftily publicizing.
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myrln on 04 Feb 2003
And moreso, I think, by creating an atmosphere of hysterical fear re terrorist threats. So I ask of this vaunted administration: where's Osama? where are those responsible for the anthrax mailings? To whose advantage does it accrue NOT to have resolved those matters?
dzwonki polifoniczne nokia on 14 Jun 2004
Hmmmmm interesting !!!