Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 17:52:48 04/03/03
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On April 03, 2003 at 19:06:20, Peter Skinner wrote: >There is no art factor about the photos that were sent to Bruce. That is just >plain insanity. If you really believe that, then you need help. I suspect that >you are just trying to get a rise out of people here in this forum. And >congratulations, you succeeded. > >Just the very context that the pictures were sent, and the captions that came >with them suggests something other than art. They suggest someone taking >liberties at americans. Nothing more, nothing less. > >I am Canadian, I am for the war, and I love the fact someone in the world has >the gusts to take a dictator like Saddam out of the picture. He has had long >enough to disarm, and to comply with U.N resolutions. Instead he started a >completely new threat, nuclear weapons. This has yet to be totally proved, but >in the end it will be. > >Chrilly Donninger needs a kick in the head. Nothing more, nothing less. It was >not only in poor taste, it was down right disgusting. To state his views in the >manner that he chose just is down right psychotic. Get the man a pill. > >The U.S as a whole is very proud of it's military. In some countries the >government has to threaten people to go fight for them. In the US, people join >everyday on their own. They want to fight for the values that they have been >brought up on. They fight for the people that either can't or won't. Does that >make them bad? No. They provide not only the U.S with a blanket of protection, >but I am guessing they are providing protection in probably 12 other countries >around the world. Peace keeping. Removing threats to civilians. Distributing >food to those that require it due to a failed government, or a dictatorship. I >for one will support them no matter what happens. They fight currently, when my >government wouldn't help. I would have gone in a heart beat. They would not even >had to ask. I would have stood right next to them. > >So Rolf, these pictures are not art. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. >The pictures were taken, posted on TV, which in itself broke the Geneva >Convention, to anger Americans. And it worked. 24 hrs after the pictures were >posted the US REALLY went to war. They hit them with everything they had. And I >mean everything. Iraq broke the unwritten rule. War kills people, but you don't >flagrantly show the victims of war. Everyone knows that. The images are >scarring. > >I hope one day I do meet Mr.Donninger ( I hope I am spelling it right ), because >I would show him my view of people that are completely ignorant. And it is not >going to be pleasant. > >So please continue to follow this insane view of "art" and I will certainly >"paint" it out nice and clear for you what I think art is, and how messy it can >get. > >Peter. Peter, I answer you because I always liked the name Peter. And Skinner is a famous behaviorist. Please do me a favour and spell with me, letter after letter: P -O-L-I-T-I-C-A-L ART. And NB not the pictures alone are ART, they are NOT, but the context of these pictures and the wordings on the postcards, this is a form of art. That together is called political art or propaganda art. Just call it the way you want. But don't go so low and insinuate that I could have called naked pictures "art". In Germany there's a famous artist, Staeck, who does such postcards. In Canada there must be the one or the other too. Just make a little research. Hey, let me out of your terrible special forces. Peace. :)= Rolf
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