Found on OrlandoSentinel.com
Posted on 12/04/2001 7:02:17 AM PST by blam
Man installs bin Laden lynching display on truck
A Florida man has installed on the back of his truck a life-size display of George W Bush lynching Osama bin Laden and holding his heart on a stake.
Hugo Garay's display, which he drives around Orlando, uses life-size shop dummies and costumes.
Mr Garay, a Peruvian immigrant, says he is being patriotic but some people say he has gone too far.
The gruesome display is painted blood red and show's bin Laden's heart on a stake, "like a shish kebab," Mr Garay says.
He told the Orlando Sentinel he made the $200 artwork because he felt frustrated at being unable to lash back at those responsible for the September 11 attacks.
He said: "It's showing people we're not satisfied. We're ready to fight for this country. Mostly everybody, they really like it."
Orlando resident Daniel Windes told the paper he felt a "little bit of uneasiness inside".
He added: "Even though our freedoms allow us to do these things, that's a bit extreme. It's asking for trouble."
José Bradley, Mr Garay's brother-in-law, said: "Sure, some people say, 'Oh it's disgusting.' But so is what happened on the 11th."
Story filed: 15:42 Tuesday 4th December 2001
Mr. Windes feels 'uncomfortable' because...why? He doesn't like blood? He should go visit Ground Zero!
It's okay to burn a flag, or hang ceramic penises in the Boulder Public Library, but we can't hang Bin Laden in effigy? Right.
End Rant.
Their float portrayed Bin Laden locked up in jail, while firemen hoisted Old Glory at Ground Zero. I hope the picture I took comes out ok, I'll post it shortly...
Found on OrlandoSentinel.com
GW or Alan Keyes should immediately sponsor this man for citizenship, if he still needs it.
He's doin' alright. :-)
Let's Roll......!
"Free speech to piss on a crucifix! Free speech to sell pornos! Wait, you can't put a Bin Laden Lynching display on a Truck! Ohhh, how horrible."
Yep, I think I like it.
patent
Please copy, email, print, send to any and every American you care to. Never forget.
Perfect example that not all immigrants are here just for a living. I have no problem with people coming here to start a new life.
A lot of people could take a lesson from this. U.S.A. Love it or leave it!
"Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Ala., organization that monitors hate groups, said Garay's work "sounds positively medieval."
"Historically, this is what happens in situations just as this one," Potok said.
"Patriotism in some quarters turns into fury and outright hatred."
But Garay says his work grew from the powerlessness he felt in after the attacks.
He thought up the violent scene and built it with about $200 worth of supplies from Home Depot and masks from a Halloween shop, adding healthy splashes of red paint. Since then, he has roamed Central Florida with the bloody display for everyone to see.
"It's showing people we're not satisfied," he said. "We're ready to fight for this country. Mostly everybody, they really like it."
Love it. Any more offended liberals? I could read that stuff all day.
patent
Another terrorist organization.
Enjoy!
-CD
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It's showing people we're not satisfied," (Garay) said. "We're ready to fight for this country. Mostly everybody, they really like it."
But not everyone.
Daniel Windes, who spotted Garay's morbid vision of justice in downtown Orlando, said the image caught him by surprise and left him with a "little bit of uneasiness inside."
"Even though our freedoms allow us to do these things, that's a bit extreme," Windes said.
"It's asking for trouble."
Alan Lunin, chair of the Central Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, supports the right be outspoken -- even outrageously so -- but at the same time he sees it as an emotional response rather than a sincere expression of patriotism.
But Lunin also questions the message conveyed by American flags now flying from SUVs or pasted to the sides of minivans.
"I think it's an emotionalism of the moment," Lunin said. "Real patriots had the flag and were flying them before [Sept. 11]. People who wear their patriotism on their shoulder, what are they doing other than that?"
Klan wrapped hatred in flag
More subtle forms of nationalism have crept up in America throughout its history.
Potok recalled the Ku Klux Klan's extreme xenophobic messages masked as patriotism in the mid-1920s just as large numbers of Jewish and Catholic immigrants came to America.
Many immigrants were labeled as having no national allegiance and being socialists, he said. They were called un-American.
Frequently, Potok said, "Hatred has been masked in a flag of 100 percent Americanism."
As for the current of climate of patriotism and its potential to turn harmful, Potok said, "The danger is that we descend into the very type of barbarity that we oppose."
Garay's exhibit is so graphic it has prompted security at Downtown Disney to ask Garay, a Peruvian immigrant, to leave the complex.
He also has been on the receiving end of angry hand gestures and hateful words because of his work.
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Wow, I thought the only flag the Klan ever used was the Confederate battle flag!
I tell you, I'm shocked. Shocked!!
-CD
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