Posted on 05/05/2010 11:05:33 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
...his recent campaign to wheat-paste an anti-war quote from President Eisenhower across American cities to promote his touring revival of the Floyd staple “The Wall” unexpectedly proved his point, after his employees pasted the quote over the storefront of Solutions speaker repair in Silver Lake. The wall has served as an impromptu fan memorial to the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith for nearly a decade.
Smith passed away in Los Angeles in 2003, and fans have left personal messages and quoted lyrics on the wall, the backdrop to the cover art of his album “Figure 8,” ever since. But as of Monday night, fans noticed that the wall also featured Waters’ image of a soldier cradling a child with the Eisenhower quote nearby...
“It was absolutely an accident,” Waters said. “I didn’t want to disrespect Elliott Smith’s fans, and I’ve instructed (the team) to remove the wheat paste immediately. It was a random pasting in the normal course of this, and I want to make it public that we had no intent to offend or cover up something precious.”
“...It’s not like this was some pristine monument and Roger Waters is the Big Bad Wolf who covered it up,” Waters said.
“That’s why I was so incensed when I read that article that said I paid someone to disrespect Elliott Smith,” Waters said. “I admit I didn’t know his music, but I’ve talked to people who do and it’s clear he was a young man who felt deeply, and any empathetic person wouldn’t have an issue with publicizing that quote.”
“I would guess, and this is only a guess,” he said, “but it’s my guess that he would have been sympathetic to that message.”
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
What i read was he backed Obama because Hillary and everyone else would escalate the war.
>>You may be reading more into that than is there. IIRC Eisenhower’s statement was akin to the “Guns or Butter” argument that is ongoing in the different economics schools.
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Perhaps so. If so, it is unfortunate that the quote is so easily abused.
Please see Post #13, above. Apparently I am suffering from severe brain-fade today, because for some reason i had convinced myself that WWII ended in 1942.
I hereby humbly accept the Free Republic Dumbas$$ of the Day Award for May 5, 2010.
He must REALLY be pi$$ed at the Obamessiah, then, eh?
The rest of the quote:
“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
I think Mad Dawgg is right, this isn’t about redistributing wealth more “fairly”, but choosing how we want to spend resources. Defense is very important, but so are all the other things he mentions. This seems very much in line with his warning about the military industrial complex to me.
But, now that you’ve brought it up, unless the human gestation period is significantly longer for British women than for other human females, Roger Waters absolutely DID NOT lose his father during WWII. He was born in 1943.
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Anzio - February 1944.
Roger Waters - born 9/6/1943
Sex between mom and dad to have a baby born 9/6/43 - sometime likely in December 1942.
You were saying?
He should be playing Dubai then pleading them to end Islamonazi war activities.
When he only decryies the West and Israel, he isn’t getting his message out to those who NEED to hear it.
Bin Laden was a billionaire. The money was there to do positive things.
Actually, you’re right, it doesn’t make any sense. WWII in Eurpoe wasn’t over until 1944. Sorry about that everyone.
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VE Day was May 8, 1945.
There were a lot of Brits in the 30s who shared that sentiment. They thought Hitler wasn't such a bad chap, and they would have made a deal with Germany to allow them to have colonies in the East, with the Brits keeping their empire. Back then, the Bolsheviks were the bigger enemy. And even the leftists, people like Waters, admired Hitler's social policies.
Churchill was the only one back then who thought otherwise.
Gilmour at least seems like a pleasant person. They were somewhat spoiled prats from Oxford. Rick Wright and Syd appears to be much nicer people.
I think drummer Nick Mason became a larger shareholder in the band because his family loaned the band money early on.
Slimy Roger kicked fellow founder Rick Wright out of the band.
Most people, especially in Britian, fail to realize or acknowledge that Mr. Churchill was half-American.
The Brits got a half-American who saved the UK and we got a half-Kentyan who will destroy America.
Waters is a narcissistic twit.
His whole quote above is about what an important and wonderful chap he is and how annoying to him are those who dare to think otherwise.
Earth to Roger: It was not an “accident” that your poster ended up on that wall. You paid someone to vandalize the property of others for your own commercial benefit. It is just that some of the vandalism occurred at a location valued by your potential customer base. If the memorial wall had been dedicated to a conservative businessman we would have nothing to talk about here.
Twit.
What’s more, this was the same tactic that Barack Obama used. Paying people to wheatpaste commercial advertising up on “walls” without contacting the city or property owners.
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Makes sense to me.
I was saying... Please see Post #23, above.
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Thank you.
But, I WAS at least in the RUNNING, wasn’t I?
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