Posted on 11/26/2017 7:39:58 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Pentagon battles college trying to sell art by ‘terrorists’
A New York City college is at war with the Pentagon over exhibiting and helping to hawk artwork created by suspected al Qaeda terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.
Thirty-six paintings and sculptures by Gitmo detainees have been on display at John Jay College, but the Department of Defense now wants them destroyed, and administrators at the taxpayer-funded school are bracing for a possible seizure of the works.
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Why are they allowed to paint in the first place?
They are Terrorists.
Government property. Go get it.
I wonder why the Pentagon allowed the paintings to be distributed....
I’m fine with it as long as ALL proceeds go to a Jewish organization
John Jay College?! If we could only bring him back.
John Jay (1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, second Governor of New York, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–1795) appointed by President George Washington.
Long an opponent of slavery, Jay also worked to ratify the United States Constitution in New York in 1788 by pseudonymously writing five of the several The Federalist papers, along with the main authors Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
Jay, who served as vice-president (1816–21) and president (1821–27) of the American Bible Society,[43] believed that the most effective way of ensuring world peace was through propagation of the Christian gospel. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” He also expressed a belief that the moral precepts of Christianity were necessary for good government, saying, “No human society has ever been able to maintain both order and freedom, both cohesiveness and liberty apart from the moral precepts of the Christian Religion. Should our Republic ever forget this fundamental precept of governance, we will then, be surely doomed.”
As the necessity and inevitability of war became evident, Jay threw his support behind the revolution and the Declaration of Independence.
On June 23, 1782, Jay reached Paris, where negotiations to end the American Revolutionary War would take place. Benjamin Franklin was the most experienced diplomat of the group, and thus Jay wished to lodge near him, in order to learn from him. John Adams credited Jay with having the central role in the negotiations noting he was “of more importance than any of the rest of us.”
In 1964, the City University of New York’s College of Police Science was officially renamed the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Excerpts from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay#Religion
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