Posted on 11/14/2008 8:48:43 PM PST by Nick Thimmesch
NEW YORK -- The New York Civil Liberties Union has demanded that city officials explain why they ordered a private art school to remove a banner displaying an image of Josef Stalin.
In a letter Thursday to the Department of Buildings, NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman expressed concern that the banner was taken down from The Cooper Union after some residents of the local Ukrainian community complained that it "seemed to promote" the Soviet dictator on the 75th anniversary of a famine he imposed. The famine, called the Holodomor, killed millions of Ukrainians.
The banner was part of an art exhibit, "Stalin by Picasso, or Portrait of Woman with Mustache." Lene Berg, the artist who created the banner, said it was intended to provoke discussion about the relationship between art and politics.
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"It's like hanging a portrait of Hitler in a synagogue or in a Jewish community," she said.
"The banner controversy comes less than six months after a Roman Catholic watchdog group protested a Cooper Union student art exhibition that included what the group considered vulgar depictions of religious symbols such as a crucifix and a rosary."
These Commie loving ankle grabing "artists" have nothing better to do than this crap and the ACLU has nothing better to do than defend them?
I'd love to hang a twelve story high banner of Ronald Reagan right in the heart of Cooper Union!
they didn’t bring enough for everyone so some teacher said put it away?
Did the government make them take the banner down?
Why is the ACLU involved?
Stalin was a cold blooded murderer that’s why. Oh lord do we even have to ask why?
"We determined the sign was too high, too large, lacked a permit and blocked the building's windows," buildings spokeswoman Kate Lindquist wrote in an e-mail. "The department does not regulate sign content."
Libs like all these zoning and other nuisance laws and hasten to add more everyday ... let them deal with the consequences.
Unfortunately, there are a # of stupid people that accept this nonsense due to indoctrination. They “worship communism” but live in a free market economy, avoiding the question if they ever considered moving to Cuba or North Korea. Cowardly hypocrites.
Remember, Obama went to communist “socialist scholars” conferences at Cooper Union in the late 1980’s.
Wouldn’t want to insult him by removing the portrait of Stalin, would we?
Amen!
Watched “Red Dawn” for the millionth time the other night: the first thing the Commies did to the town was to hang propaganda banner everywhere.
The Ukrainians should have tagged the Stalin banner ala “Wolverines!”
Just like the young morons who wear Che shirts!
“Art”, bull! The Socialists are always pushing, pushing, pushing. They have an agenda which is to create sympathetic followers. They play their games and they are biding their time. They know that they lose a battle here and there, but winning the war is the goal. The ACLU people are not about civil liberties or they would not be supporting groups who will take away the individual’s civil liberties.
He killed about five times as many people as Hitler but gets 1/50th of the bad press. To many in the universities the Ukraine thing was “an unfortunate incident”.
I think this brouhaha happened because the evil is not forgotten. It's the romanticization of the subject, turning it into a wine and cheeser that's pissing people off. Che shirts are a chic kind of blasphemy. Stalin, however is no che shirt. Stalin is the granddaddy of the horrors of the twentieth century. That face symbolizes mass slavery and death, which is still, at least in the West, in pretty bad taste.
The ACLU was originally concieved in order to decriminalise the communist party in the United States. No other reason. It was an integral part of the Comintern, until Stalin's 'Socialism In One Country' speech, when it officially became 'autonomous'.
Obama's interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."
Maybe they are making room for some of his posters.
Donna Lieberman. Sheesh, is the ACLU comprised of SHJ’s?
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