Goodness me, what a topsy-turvy world we live in!
Threatening judges who don't do your bidding with death -- in a public forum -- is not regarded by the Secret Service as terrorism. However, creating art is:
Organizers of a politically charged art exhibit at Columbia College's Glass Curtain Gallery thought their show might draw controversy.
But they didn't expect two U.S. Secret Service agents would be among the show's first visitors.
The agents turned up Thursday evening, just before the public opening of "Axis of Evil, the Secret History of Sin," and took pictures of some of the art pieces -- including "Patriot Act," showing President Bush on a mock 37-cent stamp with a revolver pointed at his head.
The agents asked what the artists meant by their work and wanted museum director CarolAnn Brown to turn over the names and phone numbers of all the artists. They wanted to hear from the exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez deLuna, within 24 hours, she said.
"They just want to make sure it isn't something more than a statement," Brown said.
Now, I'll grant you -- as paranoid as this Administration is, this was probably not the smartest artistic statement to make. However, do they honestly believe that REAL terrorists would be stupid enough to come up with an image this inflammatory?
I hate to tell the Administration this, but terrorists aren't characters in a Tex Avery cartoon -- they tend not to do things that have giant neon signs pointing at that them that blink "TERRORIST!!" on and off 24 x 7.
Perhaps the Secret Service might do better to ask Tom DeLay, John Cornyn, Tom Coburn, and the rest of the speakers at last weeks Wingnut Putsch whether they are really advocating that people murder Federal judges.
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