Painting of Cops as Pigs Hung Proudly in US Capitol

Never a right time to bring up injustice? Really.
No wonder much of the right is in love with Putin. Stifle everything they don't like. So much for 1A.
I could swear the Right claims to be the ones for the constitution. Except when they don't like the constitution.

 

I am sure you would. It's how the Right operates.
But hey, if it floats your boat. But it would have to win a competition to be displayed as the cop painting did.

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There's the projecting again of one's own short comings.

 

Just because this clown used a brush and paints does NOT mean he created "art," or that he is an "artist." Seems more likely that he's a low-life idiot with a chip on his shoulder.

Of course, art is in the eye of the beholder and, to my eye, the painting looks like someone dropped his load on a canvas.

I'd say the same thing about rap 'music'. I think it's awful. Maybe they left the 'c' out of the name. It should be spelled: Crap.

Lots of people use the tools of art, but very few people produce anything that could reasonably be considered art. Most are hacks, at best, imo.

one last thing:

I SUPPORT the police.

 

That seems to be exactly what is happening. Look at the PC efforts in colleges, where whiners spend their time crying about buildings named after people the losers feel "may" have done some historical wrong to blacks. Somewhere, some time, long long ago. They demand the buildings be renamed, etc. Then they run off to the Safe Spaces the colleges had to provide for these delicate imbeciles. And to think we're all paying through the nose and throwing away resources just to help these losers get into college. Judging by their actions (and inarticulate comments), they are probably not educable.

The nasty painting of cops is just the tip of the iceberg. These fools seem to hate everything about America and its history. Everything but the freebies, that is.

 

Yeah, it'd be a shame if someone accidentally threw this tasteless, disgusting, hatefilled, piece of shi..., I mean, this masterpiece, in an incinerator. Geeze, don't give them any ideas.

 

So you would be okay with an artist making black youth look like monkeys? And if some GOP governor hung it in their state house? The left would be sympathetic to "freedom of expression"? And you wonder why lefties were swept almost entirely out of power over the last 8 years? I say "keep it up, you're doing a bang up job!" Lol

 

So if someone wanted to hang a painting of a peaceful meeting of the KKK at the Capital, would that be okay? Free speech and all that.

And for the record, I am not a bigot in any way. I am just putting the extremes out there to see if all free speech is protected. I mean, the painting of the police as pigs is nothing less than hatred, IMHO!

 

Or it's a protest of the fact that 1000 Americans are killed by law enforcement every year, and a disproportionate number of them are people of color.

By Comparison, Police in the United Kingdom killed 54 civilians... in the last 25 Years

Now, most cops do a pretty good job, and they deserve our praise... but we have a few bad apples the police departments in this country are very bad at getting rid of.

 

That painting didn't bring up injustice...there was no injustice in Ferguson. The criminal got what anyone with a brain should have known was coming. It had nothing to do with color or oppression.

Still totally off the mark.

Free speech, for the 3-4th time now, is the persons right to paint that painting. It has nothing to do with it being appropriate any and every venue. The constitution does not apply here on this subject.

If someone was hassling the ""artist" for painting it? Sure, bring in 1A and the Constitution. What is so hard to grasp about this?

 

You and I both know for a fact, the same people defending this painting would be calling for that ones removal. All of a sudden we would be reminded how free speech doesnt apply.

And you are correct about why the left got swept out, people are tired of them and their nonsensical ideas.

 

When muslims get confronted by "art" where they all get portrayed as barbaric to spread the hate against them, than right wingers yell "FREE SPEECH!"
but when the tables are turned, than they sniffle and whine and demand everything to be censured.

 

The entire police and justice department of Ferguson got roasted rather well of being exceptionally racist by violating the constitutional rights of the black population. Bit weird to claim that there was no injustice in Ferguson.

 

No injustice.

Michael Brown got what he asked for. When you attack a cop and try to grab his gun, you SHOULD get shot dead. You on the left call this injustice, that's why you were kicked from power.

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Any of those hanging in the Capitol?

Oh nevermind, you're just trying to deflect...carry on.

 

They should keep this 'work of art' right where it is as a shining example of everything that Obama stood for and everything that he and his pack of America-hating jackals tried to inculcate into our nation's beliefs. Hilarity Clinton was to have been the "Third Term"... a confirming extension of Obama's toxic influence into every part of our national consciousness. Oooh, but instead the United States of America elected a man who stood for AMERICA FIRST, and, "Make America great again!"

But, yes, leave that piece of hyperliberal, race-bating (*)(*)(*)(*) right where it is, where everyone can see it for decades to come. It IS Obama!

 

I'm talking about the DOJ Investigation into Ferguson Police department, where they concluded that they had an active policy of deliberately violating the constitutional rights of the black community. So this has nothing to do with the incident of Michael Brown. So how well do you think that painting captures how those cops behaved in Ferguson according to the DOJ investigation? Seems to reasonably fit the glove to me.

Why does that matter?

No I am not. It's obvious that rightwingers only like "art" that pleases them, and want to censure the rest when it hurts their little feelings.

 

No one is saying they don't have free speech to paint this. It is hanging in the halls of congress, so would you be OK with some racist kid painting the Confederate flag and KKK killing blacks? Maybe you can tell us how this helps our nation heal the divide? It is this liberal hateful loon congress POS that insists on keeping Americans divided, and also why the police unions widely support Trump

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Good point, it just confirms why Trump and conservatives have such overwhelming support of the police.

 

Was that the Eric Holder or Lynch DOJ? Under Obama right? LOL....I'm sure they did.

Because you made the comparison to one that is hanging there obviously. Obviously that glove doesn't fit.

Says the side that made sure to remove Confederate flags, and voted for Gender.

 

There's a pretty massive difference between citizens displaying controversial art and the government intentionally displaying a piece of "art" that was specifically created to promote an anti-police sentiment that has strong connections to the murder of police.

Surely, you can see that difference ...right?

 

The truth of the matter is that in Fergusson the DOJ concluded that the cops had a policy of violating the constitutional rights of the black community. This picture seems to portrait this historic event where the cops are captured in their roll. This his rather different than the typical glorification of KKK killing blacks and the love of the confederate flag. I would support a picture where the KKK and the confederate flag are captured in their negative roll though. There is no need to censure history.

 

It represents hatred and disrespect based on less than 1% bad apples. It is still hatred and disrespect for the 99% doing their jobs well!

 

This is basically what cops in Ferguson did, according to a DOJ report about the entire police department.
I think a governmental building is the last place where the wrongs of the past are being censured.


That this gives anti-police sentiment is only due to policies of the cops themselves.
It's not correct to blame the artists over it.

 

Cop out then accuse something that you can't prove. Typical.

 

You claim the DOJ made it all up? What a nonsense.

That comparison is yours not mine.

Ineed. Because the glorification of the confederate flag is glorification slaverly of the black community.
While this is not a glorification of cop killers. Huge difference, buddy.

And gender?
What has that to do with this? Geez,.. you frustrate much?

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The DOJ proved in that the entire Ferguson police department was violating the constitutional rights of the black community.
So... you want to censure governmental control when they uncovered something that hurts your feelings?

 

I would find it as offensive as I find the painting of the police as pigs. Wouldn't you?

 

Huh? There was art in Ferguson? What did I miss?