I’m really having to resist those Pedro Martinez feelings….
I’m really having to resist those Pedro Martinez feelings….
I also can’t help but feel like this mocks a time-honored act of liberation. Usually a statue that gets knocked down is one that some tryannical dictator put in the middle of town square to celebrate himself and intimidate the little people. It is usually a glorious moment — a “ha, take that Mr. I’m all made of bronze and think I’m so great. I’m not afraid of you anymore.” Would anyone think it cool to replace famous flag raising moments, like Iwo Jima or India’s liberation, with made up, fake flags … sheesh…
But seriously, why build a statue to tear it down? That’s what effigies are for, easy-to-make, stuffed sheets with black magic marker saying who it’s supposed be. No muss, no fuss. What do they do with that statue now?
December 31st, 1969 at 7:00 pm
I suppose, if the object of one’s scorn is “the greatest threat to all life on earth, one would not quibble about mocking an act of liberation.
What’s the old cliche? “Close enough for government work.”
How about “Close enough for judgement work?”
December 31st, 1969 at 7:00 pm
I suppose, if the object of one’s scorn is “the greatest threat to all life on earth, one would not quibble about mocking an act of liberation.
What’s the old cliche? “Close enough for government work.”
How about “Close enough for judgement work?”
November 21st, 2003 at 9:21 pm
I suppose, if the object of one’s scorn is “the greatest threat to all life on earth, one would not quibble about mocking an act of liberation.
What’s the old cliche? “Close enough for government work.”
How about “Close enough for judgement work?”
November 22nd, 2003 at 8:13 am
Nice to see we’re united on this ridiculousness. I hope the pride these people feel today is guilt tomoorrow. Many young people there will grow up to regret this day. The others, well, they’ll have long hair, listen to the grateful dead and yearn for times long ago when the world seemed stable, life was good and pot was readily available. Or in jail.
November 22nd, 2003 at 8:13 am
Nice to see we’re united on this ridiculousness. I hope the pride these people feel today is guilt tomoorrow. Many young people there will grow up to regret this day. The others, well, they’ll have long hair, listen to the grateful dead and yearn for times long ago when the world seemed stable, life was good and pot was readily available. Or in jail.
November 22nd, 2003 at 8:13 am
Nice to see we’re united on this ridiculousness. I hope the pride these people feel today is guilt tomoorrow. Many young people there will grow up to regret this day. The others, well, they’ll have long hair, listen to the grateful dead and yearn for times long ago when the world seemed stable, life was good and pot was readily available. Or in jail.
November 22nd, 2003 at 2:34 pm
You’re absolutely right about what statue pullings are for, and what they did is far more than raising a flag to set it on fire. Their contempt for that moment in Iraqi history was more like putting on blackface to entertain an audience of African Americans.
LA Times cartoonist Ramirez recently took the famous Vietnam execution photo image and changed it to “Politics” executing the President on a street in Baghdad. That, however, was was not offensive, it did not mock a sacred moment.
November 22nd, 2003 at 2:34 pm
You’re absolutely right about what statue pullings are for, and what they did is far more than raising a flag to set it on fire. Their contempt for that moment in Iraqi history was more like putting on blackface to entertain an audience of African Americans.
LA Times cartoonist Ramirez recently took the famous Vietnam execution photo image and changed it to “Politics” executing the President on a street in Baghdad. That, however, was was not offensive, it did not mock a sacred moment.
November 22nd, 2003 at 2:34 pm
You’re absolutely right about what statue pullings are for, and what they did is far more than raising a flag to set it on fire. Their contempt for that moment in Iraqi history was more like putting on blackface to entertain an audience of African Americans.
LA Times cartoonist Ramirez recently took the famous Vietnam execution photo image and changed it to “Politics” executing the President on a street in Baghdad. That, however, was was not offensive, it did not mock a sacred moment.
November 23rd, 2003 at 7:45 pm
Um, “sacred”? Really?
November 23rd, 2003 at 7:45 pm
Um, “sacred”? Really?
November 23rd, 2003 at 7:45 pm
Um, “sacred”? Really?
November 23rd, 2003 at 11:25 pm
Oh, by the way, michael, would you have felt the same way if the cartoon had been of the president executing the Bill of Rights or the Geneva Convention?
November 23rd, 2003 at 11:25 pm
Oh, by the way, michael, would you have felt the same way if the cartoon had been of the president executing the Bill of Rights or the Geneva Convention?
November 23rd, 2003 at 11:25 pm
Oh, by the way, michael, would you have felt the same way if the cartoon had been of the president executing the Bill of Rights or the Geneva Convention?