Lockyer's art project
Posted on 07/28/2005 7:50:32 AM PDT by SmithL
The latest skirmish in the nation's culture wars happens today in Sacramento over a controversial art exhibit, with both sides conceding that the issue has less to do with fine arts than political battle.
The fight is all about the painting hanging in the building where Attorney General Bill Lockyer works that depicts a red-white-and-blue United States being flushed down a toilet. Nominally, dueling protests being held today in Sacramento are concerned with high-flown matters such the boundaries of free speech.
The intellectual ammunition, however, is anything but subtle.
People who pass through the plaza outside Lockyer's office may be treated to artistic renderings of the attorney general himself being flushed down a toilet. They are certain to see a busty drag queen lampooning a conservative talk show host who is angered that an "anti-American" painting hangs in a public building and has helped to organize a "pro-American" art show outside.
It's all been prompted by the art exhibit in the cafeteria of the state Justice Department building called "A Creative Merger," organized by a 31-year- old group called California Lawyers for the Arts. Among the works was one by Stephen Pearcy, a Berkeley lawyer best known for hanging an effigy of an American soldier outside the home he owns in Sacramento with a sign saying, "Bush lied, I died."
For this show, Pearcy offered a rendering of the United States sinking into a toilet. Next to it was the phrase, "T'anks to Mr. Bush."
That lit a bonfire under the seat of the politically red portion of California, and word roared through conservative blogs and Web sites and from conservative radio talk shows.
The advocacy group Move America Forward, ... has collected more than 200 pieces of "pro-American" art to display today outside the Justice Department building.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Art is what you like. I don't like it.
art? any two year old could do as much. Am so glad they are doing the pro American art. I said that when I first heard this story. What's good for the goose is good for the gandeer. Let them post all of that pro American art. No one can say a thing. Let them try.
-Eric
I would be interested to know how much it cost the taxpayer, though. I'm guessing that it did not cost much, but one red cent is too much.
Seems like only the West Coast is in the toilet.
Communist Goals
# 22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings," substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
# 23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. " Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
# 24.Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
# 25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
# 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."
If this were a painting that was offensive to an ethnic group, it would not be allowed on public property.
If this painting showed a bunch of Muslims dancing and cheering as a plane hit a tower, it would not be allowed on public property.
If this were a painting of the Ten Commandments, it would not be allowed on public property.
But an insult to this nation and its President? Protected speech! To do anything other than to prominently display it in the Department of Justice would constitute CENSORSHIP!
Your time in the re-education camps was well spent. Your thinking is now double-plus good.
It looks more like the U.S. is climbing OUT of the toilet. Thanks to people like President Bush and FReepers, and a lot of other conservatives finally getting a voice and stronghold on the direction this country is going.
Now, if we try a little harder, we can get the cling-ons in the 9th Circuit Courts into the bowl, we can finally flush and let England have a sit.
Another example: I flew the US flag upside down on the day Slick Willy was acquitted by the Senate.
Sculpture in downtown San Jose.
what the heck is that?
What an embarrassment to anyone who calls themselves "artists"
Tells you everything you need to know about Lockyer....what a hump.
Somewhere a Dairy Queen is missing a prop.
Yet meanwhile, the cross reprsenting the missionary history of Los Angeles has been struck from the city's seal.
I thought it looked more like a pile of dog dung.
Yea right, its a representation of a pile of dog dung.
Yes, of course, that too.
Amen to that. Unfortunately I have family there but they don't agree with those excuses for art.
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