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Abu-Ghraib is now a play at Harvard
The Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 5-12-05 | Spacewolfomega

Posted on 05/12/2005 10:35:42 AM PDT by Spacewolfomega

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Here is an additional story: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=507589
1 posted on 05/12/2005 10:35:43 AM PDT by Spacewolfomega
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To: Spacewolfomega

I bet the Frat boys lined up to be the ones to have the panties on their heads.


2 posted on 05/12/2005 10:37:48 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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I was going to say that it was a change from it being AT play, at Harvard.


3 posted on 05/12/2005 10:40:48 AM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: More atrocities have been perpetrated with a hot glue gun, than with a hand gun)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

No doubt! There are some hilarious pictures from the production, but I'm not sure how to post them. Sorry, I am new to FreeRepublic. I will post the links (not sure if they will work.)

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=507589&picnum=2
(guy looks like he drank 50 glasses of melonade before play practice)

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/05.05/15-abu.html
(dancing torturers/victims? - when was there dancing at Abu Ghraib?)


4 posted on 05/12/2005 10:41:06 AM PDT by Spacewolfomega
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"I wanted it to be a serious piece," he said, "a call to action." Dancers in rehearsal.

He said, without a hint of irony.

5 posted on 05/12/2005 10:42:19 AM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: More atrocities have been perpetrated with a hot glue gun, than with a hand gun)
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In key scenes, the prisoners talk about their past lives, how and why they were captured, and how their consciousness has been changed by the treatment they have received. In some respects, these are the most moving and revelatory scenes in the play because they remind us that these unfortunate individuals have families, friends, careers, personal histories, and, above all, human feelings.

As opposed to, say, the American men and women risking their lives in defense of freedom. We all know they have no families, friends, careers, personal histories, or human feelings. I don't see anyone doing any plays or movies about them.

6 posted on 05/12/2005 10:43:52 AM PDT by Paul Atreides (FACT: More atrocities have been perpetrated with a hot glue gun, than with a hand gun)
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I'm sorry (not really), but I still don't see what was wrong with what happened at the prison. The "victims" were imprisoned for ATTACKING U.S. SOLDIERS!!


7 posted on 05/12/2005 10:44:09 AM PDT by BostonianRightist (I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at.)
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To: Spacewolfomega

Gee... Have they announced the premiere of the beheading of Nicholas Berg? They could use the actual tape of him screaming as they saw off his head with a big knife as they chant Allah Ahkbar. That seems more serious (having your head severed off) than having to wear panties on your head.


8 posted on 05/12/2005 10:44:14 AM PDT by putupjob
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Whoa... don't give them any ideas! Next we'll have a ballet routine of the terrorists dancing like fairy-boys before they brutally cut off someone's head! Oh wait... that shows the terrorists in a bad light... never mind, we'll never see that.


9 posted on 05/12/2005 10:46:13 AM PDT by Spacewolfomega
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idea for a play based on Abu Ghraib evolved out of the shock and dismay he and fellow students felt as the news story unfolded
Actually, the primary emotion of these and all the other leftist howlers during the time the NY Slimes was running non-stop wall-to-wall hysteria about this "issue" was one of gotchya.

They were so sure they had W!

10 posted on 05/12/2005 10:48:27 AM PDT by samtheman
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Harvard.....that was once a respected university, right?


11 posted on 05/12/2005 10:49:11 AM PDT by clintonh8r (So....Is means testing now a conservative value? Apparently 40% of FReepers think it is.)
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I bet the Frat boys lined up to be the ones to have the panties on their heads.

Yeah, but they quit when they found out that they weren't "pre-owned".

12 posted on 05/12/2005 10:52:57 AM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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It's just an effort to balance out their last production, which highlighted Saddam's reign of murder, torture, rape, and overall brutality.


14 posted on 05/12/2005 10:55:46 AM PDT by andyk (When you're a jet, you're a jet all the way!)
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No big deal, Harvard students are used to running around with panties over their heads.


15 posted on 05/12/2005 11:06:06 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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But when are they going to do a play about life in the prison under Saddam?
Perhaps the required special effects of tongues being cut out, people stuffed into shredders etc. would be too hard.


16 posted on 05/12/2005 11:12:03 AM PDT by madball
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that prison a scene of many, many instances of REAL torture by Saddam's forces before the liberation?

The US people who abused prisoners are being dealt with. But perhaps a much, much better play would be about what Saddam did there. As it is, this play is like some neo-Nazi group staging a play about former SS agent being illegally given a traffic ticket while driving past Auschwitz.

Why do these people HATE their country so? How have we failed them? Are they that ignorant, or just incapable of thinking? And yet the left calls the NASCAR folks stupid. Unbelievable.


17 posted on 05/12/2005 11:13:06 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: Americanexpat

Harvard alum cheering on the Crimson, Yale has the ball:
(Outthrust jaw) "Repel them, I say! The insufferable cads, the sheer cheek! Deny them advantage! Repulse the the bounders . . . lovey pass me my flask . ."
Boola boola


18 posted on 05/12/2005 11:13:22 AM PDT by tumblindice (They play something similar, but it's not football.)
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Rocky Horror - Part 2


19 posted on 05/12/2005 11:14:11 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (Laura is wonderful so get off her back pinheads!)
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To: Paul Atreides

The people at Abu Girard were really bad guys. These are the ones that blew up women and children, etc. I really don't want to hear them talk about "their families".

I hear Ted Bundy was an "unfortunate" individual with a family, too.


20 posted on 05/12/2005 11:19:16 AM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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