Thread: We the People

Constitution, 2008
8 x 25 feet in five panels

Depicts 83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration's war on terror.



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current work

nice one

from the "Land of the Free"

with some restrictions

excellent.

apparently only 7% of all detainees were ever caught by American soldiers.
The other 93% were handed over by foreign baddies, more often than not for lots of moola.

Are those pics of the prisoners?

Then why is this is MKR?

Perfectly legit thread or post...

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Bob is incarcerated.

he isn't allowed to do threads elsewhere.

oh. makes sense then.

They say that America is the land of opportunities.....I guess that word has a wide range...

It's less dramatic when I see all the duplicates. You should have kept us ignorant about that, B0b.

Yes, and when let out they'll be bombing a tube station near you.

Yup, Moazzam Begg has been blowing up stuff constantly since his release.



Guantánamo and back: an interview with Moazzam Begg | open Democracy News Analysis

Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg is devastatingly reasonable. He is calm, well-spoken, highly articulate, and small; when imprisoned by the US army in Afghanistan, he says, his hands were small enough to slip out of their cuffs when the guards were absent.

Begg was imprisoned for three years without charge or trial. A British citizen, he was picked up by US intelligence officials in Pakistan in January 2002; they accused him of being a member of al-Qaida, which he denies.

At first, Begg was taken to the Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan, where, he says, he went a year without seeing sunlight. From January 2003, he was moved to Guantánamo Bay. Most of his time there was spent in solitary confinement.

Click here to read an extract from Moazzam Begg's book Enemy Combatant

The British government brought him back to the UK in January 2005, along with three other British detainees. They were all taken in for questioning at Paddington Green police station – and released within 24 hours. No charges have ever been brought against them.

Texpat ---you are so right but the usual typical muslim lovers here will swamp us with condemnation for saying so.
If these people had been captured by the mudslimes then for sure we could have watched them all being beheaded on al jazeera years ago.
When will the idiots learn that this is a fight for survival and it needs to be fought ( even belatedly) now and not passed on to the next generation,

Texpat is a typical paranoid military man,

can't blame, he was trained like that

if his commander in chief would ask him to surrender if his homeland was to be invaded, he would follow orders without asking any questions,

What's with all the namecalling?
Are you guys angry?

Originally Posted by texpat

Yes, and when let out they'll be bombing a tube station near you.

Originally Posted by paulsmithson

Texpat ---you are so right

I think you may have been misinformed as to the ubiquity of underground railways in Thailand. Any mad bomber who wishes to blow up the Aranyaprathet, Khon Khaen or Chiangmai Tube systems will have to build them first.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

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shut up smithson and read about facts instead of spouting spute through your fetid arse.

I turned his one red blob to two.

People are welcome to comment on CMN's topic found here:

https://teakdoor.com/issues/32031-gua...tml#post719902

A very thought inducing piece..

Where is it being exhibited?

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

A very thought inducing piece..

Where is it being exhibited?

As far as I know it's only on the net at the moment, it's part of a series;
There's a link in the OP but it's not very obvious, here it is again

current work

There's some interesting stuff on there, well worth a look.

An American Self-Portrait

Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.

This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.

~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007

Ben Franklin, 2007
8.5 feet wide by 10.5 feet tall in three horizontal panels

Depicts 125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

The British government brought him back to the UK in January 2005, along with three other British detainees. They were all taken in for questioning at Paddington Green police station – and released within 24 hours. No charges have ever been brought against them.

Debriefing by MI6?

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

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Bob is incarcerated.

he isn't allowed to do threads elsewhere.

WHAT? Bobby is one of the more level-headed posters I have seen here on TD - what has he done to be exiled to MKP?

Originally Posted by Whiteshiva

WHAT? Bobby is one of the more level-headed posters I have seen here on TD - what has he done to be exiled to MKP?

linked to a malicious website a few weeks back.....

personally I think he should be let out now!

^ is that 367 Bushes? - the number of brain cellls he uses per day thinking ?

^Dead US soldiers