Posted on 04/18/2017 10:12:47 AM PDT by LoneStarGI
A federal judge has blocked efforts to bring back to U.S. Capitol grounds a controversial painting that depicts a police officer as a pig.
David Pulphus, a student artist from Missouri, and Rep. William Clay, his Democratic congressional representative, had sued Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers for removing the painting in January amid a showdown with law enforcement groups and Republican lawmakers who opposed the “art.”
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said in his decision that the government has used its editorial discretion in the selection and presentation of the piece.
As a result, it's engaging in "government speech" and the plaintiffs have no First Amendment right to display the painting.
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Finally a slice of sanity.
So they have the right to choose what they want to display and what they don’t want to display. What a concept!
There’s a congressman begging to be primaried.
Excellent- IF they get it back- how bout someone do a painting showing liberals rolling in the blood of aborted fetuses with baby parts all over the place, and planned parenthood selling the baby parts on the side- and squealing with delight and hang it in the capital alongside the cop painting?
Safe district. Melanin Protected.............
Geez, kiddo, I’m so very sorry to inform you that we put that piece of, uh, your interesting painting in the evidence locker but it’s somehow been misplaced. Disregard that smoke coming out of the incinerator.
I am 1100% FOR this artist being able to display his work. As long as he is required to stand before it 8 hours a day during Congressional business hours and submit to a crate of tomatoes being available to the viewers before it.
Heck, I'd bet BET would use it in an opening for a show, or as promo filler.
How about Howard U, or even better, Mizzou. That would help stick another nail in its coffin by using it as the centerpiece in its student center.
However, I think it would look best if he stuck it where the Sun don't shine.
Pigasso? I thought it might be a self portrait by the “Empress of Blandings” /PG Wodehouse
Someone needs to create a painting showing a “Congressman Clay lookalike” in some vulgar, ridiculous position. Let’s see how he likes a taste of his own nasty medicine.
Doesn’t he have bigger fish to fry?
;)
Don’t they have a ghetto tagged art museum somewherre for such obscene nigcrap?
I don’t think he’s going anywhere any time soon:
U.S. House, Missouri District 1 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
Democratic William Lacy Clay Incumbent 75.5% 236,993
Republican Steven Bailey 20% 62,714
Libertarian Robb Cunningham 4.6% 14,317
Total Votes 314,024
Big concentration of “Gibbsmedats” most likely
I don’t really know frankly. I just know that if the average citizen starts thinking about police and LEOs as pig enemies, then we as a society are at a loss. And, I say this realizing there indeed bad apples in that bunch of Americans. It is still no reason to throw out the whole bushel.
Nicely expressed, although why not hang such a painting anyway, without its neighbor?!
The pigs were complaining. It wasn’t being painted it was the smell of the congress critters.
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