Posted on 09/05/2012 9:40:41 PM PDT by Dajjal
Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist
Prosecutors want Shepard Fairey sentencing to serve as a warning
SEPTEMBER 5--Federal prosecutors want Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the Barack Obama Hope poster, to serve time in prison following his misdemeanor conviction for destroying and fabricating documents in connection with a civil lawsuit over the iconic campaign image.
In advance of Fridays scheduled sentencing of Fairey in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Department of Justice has filed a memorandum arguing that a prison term for the 42-year-old artist would be appropriate.
However, prosecutors did not specify how long Fairey should be incarcerated (though, statutorily, his punishment would not exceed six months). Additionally, government lawyers have contended that Judge Frank Maas could fine Fairey up to $3.2 million.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts
Obamas Venomous Artist-Fundraiser
Fairey has a company ("Obey") that produces his own artwork, such as these.
See Fairey's website: http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Prints
Obama has written Fairey that he admires "the political messages involved in your work."
The political messages in Fairey's art are:
1) Communist dictators are god-like supermen
2) The United States is a police state at home and an imperialist oppressor abroad
3) Capitalism is an evil system based on greed and exploitation
4) Ordinary Amerikkkan workers are guilty of blithely supporting an unjust system
5) The only good Americans are those who fight The System
6) The communist Peoples' Armies will soon triumph over Amerikkkan imperialism and bring peace to the world out of the barrel of a gun.
Karma is a wonderful thing.
Maybe they should deport him to north Korea, he could get a job making propaganda posters for fat boy.
Shepard Fairey ping
What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word “Obey”. (Anyone hear echoes of “there were giants in the land”?)
You know, he is a great artist.
Nice one. Can you do one that says HOPELESS? :)
The full article can be read at the Source:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/shepard-fairey-sentencing-report-683412
Can you fix that, please?
See:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts
Obamas Venomous Artist-Fundraiser
Excerpt:
"His first famous artwork was a sticker depicting Andre the Giant (Andre Roussimoff, 1946 - 1993), the WWE Hall of Fame wrestler and actor.
"In his mind, Fairey began to associate the strength of the wrestler with the power of giant government. Andre the Giant became a symbol of Big Brother because he was ... big. Fairey soon created a stylized version of Andres face, which he adopted as the logo of his Obey Giant company."
There is a bit of trivia related to those stats - they represent the height and weight of Andre the Giant. Fairey thought that Andre was a great symbol for Big Gummint because of his size.
uh oh, hollywood celebs “i pledge video” has the fairey poster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0
“i pledge to be a servant to barack obama”, the creepy 2008 celeb video
**wonder how many of their “pledges” they’ve kept?
I guess they belong to the government...
Ashton and Demi broke their pledge (marriage), so did Courtney Cox and her hubby. Wonder if the “Housewife” Eva, planted 500 trees..... blah, blah, blah. I haven’t seen any of them abandon their highfalutin, jet set lifestyles.
If Fairey designs a 2012 poster, I hope that Conservatives do not make the same mistake again.
Isnt that what the guy who spoke for Obama tonight did?
Of course, he'd also have to know where all the political bodies were buried.
Federal prosecutors are nothing but a gang of thugs with armed enforcers.
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