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Title: Artist Depicts Assassination Of Bush, The Queen In New Brazil Exhibition (PHOTOS)
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/ ... -artist-depicts-_n_740542.html
Published: Sep 27, 2010
Author: The Huffington Post
Post Date: 2011-01-14 14:22:56 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: The loving & tolerant Left
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The Sao Paulo Art Biennial may be renowned for celebrating the best of Brazil's avant garde, but international critics say one of this year's featured exhibits -- a series of charcoal sketches depicting the imagined assassinations of former U.S. President George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth II, among other world leaders -- has gone too far. (Scroll down for photos) One sketch in the controversial series, titled "Enemies," depicts Bush kneeling on the ground while artist Gil Vicente presses a pistol to the former president's temple. In other sketches, the Queen is apparently unaware of the artist pointing a gun directly at her back, while Pope Benedict XVI faces Vicente directly, his arms outstretched in a quizzical shrug. Other world leaders shown in Vicente's 9-sketch series include former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, according to The Telegraph. The Brazilian Bar Association demanded "Enemies" be removed shortly after making its debut Saturday. "Even though a work of art freely expresses the creativity of its maker, without limits, there have to be limits to exhibiting it publicly," a spokesman said, according to the AFP. Biennial organizers have thus far rejected efforts to remove the exhibit, and in an interview with the AFP, Vicente defended his work. "They claim it justifies crime," he said. "Stealing public money is not a crime? The reports on TV aren't trying to justify crimes? Only my work is justification of crime?" See photos of 'Enemies' below: 
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
This guy GETS it. When the general public finally gets it, and understands how badly we've been robbed by our so-called "representatives," the Fed and the rest of the rotten government, the next big manufacturing craze may well be guillotines. The socialists on this site will either ignore this thread, or attack you viciously... but then again, they'll be the ones on the receiving end of "American Justice," old-school style.
In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. ... The heresy of heresies was common sense. http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=16281&Disp=9#C9 Inescapable conclusion? Socialists are unable to accept reality. I.e., they're INSANE.
Vicente defended his work. "They claim it justifies crime," he said. "Stealing public money is not a crime? The reports on TV aren't trying to justify crimes? Only my work is justification of crime?"
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- George Orwell, 1984 --
ME: THERE IS NO MORE MONEY.
GO65: There will be no more money when the U.S. dollar has no value, until that time we can keep printing more.
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