Painting of Cops as Pigs Hung Proudly in US Capitol

99% of the "free speechers" would be reminding us that just because we have the right to say something, doesn't mean it is appropriate everywhere and anywhere.

 

If it is conducive to people being harmed however, they certainly need to take a position. We are seeing quite a bit of Anti Law Enforcement sentiment right now, it's not the time for the Government to be promoting such things IMO, and I'm not alone.

Yes, apparently it's been up...then down..then back up...back down lol. Not sure where it is today, but I honestly hope that it gets damaged in all the handling.

 

I could care less who you think you are. I go by what you post.

 

Of course you aren't. That's why you wrote a post about it.

Could you give the link to the post where I was pissed off about a painting of a African-American getting lynched?

 

Do you keep charging/running your mouth/resisting when an armed cop barks orders? or do you comply? If you don't comply, perhaps we've stumbled on an issue that has nothing to do with law enforcement.

 

Imagine a painting of the black kids who tortured the disabled white kid showing the black kids as monkeys? Would that be looked at by you as "artistic interpretation or "free speech"?
By god man, lefties took Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer out of libraries! (along with many others that they disagree with) Who are the Nazi's again?

 

You mean you wouldn't be equally in support of removing a painting such as the one described by guava?

 

I certainly would be in support. I don't toss the word "art" around as liberally as some, and I don't feel it has a place anywhere and everywhere. I'd want a lynching painting removed as well. But that's just it in todays Matrix Ellesdee. You and I both know such a painting would never make it to that slot, as it doesn't fit the narratives that are allowed.

 

I asked a similar question a few posts back. What if we had the exact same pic, but the cops were Human and the crowd was Apes. It would be "racist" and decried everywhere, and would certainly NEVER make it to the wall of the Capitol.

Hell if there was a job that could be lost over it somehow, someone would lose it.

 

I'd call it an insult to monkeys.

 

That's a silly question = "One has to ask if today is the right time to be endorsing these dehumanizing stereotypes."

Is there a right time? There must be a right time if now is the wrong time. Is it better to depict cops as pigs when none are being murdered? What is the acceptable number to depict them as pigs? Should they be depicted as pigs when they beat up school girls at school or when they shoot people in the back or choke people to death on the streets of NYC?

 

When people are more on edge on this subject than at other times? It seems a pretty appropriate question IMO.

In my opinion, no there's never a right time...but doing so in the environment we have right now is just absurd. To see this hanging in our Nations Capitol is even more maddening.

 

I think it's completely appropriate because it might get some of those lazy dummies in Washington to start thinking about how to improve the criminal justice system. Depicting cops as pigs is mild considering some of the other images that can be used.

 

Like elections, law enforcement/justice is a state/county/municipality thing.

 

So we don't have any federal cops?

 

The painting looks so ugly reminding everyone,
when they scrutinize paintings by the colors.

 

I still want to see a photo of Obama's daughters in a bucket of urine. That would be true art, surely to evoke emotion.

 

lol What it means is that how you perceive yourself is immaterial to what you actually post. Wow. That had to be explained to you.

I go by your liberal postings that would (*)(*)(*)(*) you off. Are you saying you wouldn't mind it?

You are no different than the hypocrite liberal congressman who screamed for a Confederate monument to be torn down but claims this painting is free speech.

 

You're bad!

 

Sure...do you want federal LEOs handing out speeding tickets and responding to domestic disturbance calls?

 

I do so surely hope that these lefties keep this crap up...and they think the Russians stole the election!

 

Been there, tried that, it doesn't sink in.
A painting hanging in a hallway that was part of some competition, is not what the gov't thinks.
Lead in the head.

 

Both. Perhaps why it goes up and then down. It opens discussion for what is or is not free speech.
It shows who is for or against free speech. There are those who see LE that way, and there are those that don't se LE that way.

 

There goes that fake BS again. Pretending to know what everyone else thinks. Projecting one's own shortcomings onto everyone else.
Why don't people with shortcomings, keep their personal problems to themselves?

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No. They know who they are, and think the entire world see's the world through uneducated eyes. Not realizing their shortcomings are not how everyone else in the world, see's the world. Binary thinking. It a disease.

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I think now is the perfect time. It's out in the open, let's discuss the problem. And it is a problem, else it wouldn't be in the news.
Or we can go back to putting head in the sand.

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If history is accurate, you get everyone's posts wrong. Sad, but true.

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Nope.
Some project their shortcomings onto everyone else. Makes them feel better about themselves.

 

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you

John Lennon

Removing those books was just as wrong. IMO, a bad injustice on literature.

And I bet the right was upset about it.
Now, they don't like something, and the are doing the same. Removing some free speech they don't like.
I hate partisans. Biggest hypocrites of all time. Both fake sides.
And yes, this is a definition of bigotry.