Before you get all worked up, this piece was rescued in this shape…for the most part…I just added the lyrics.
So let me get this straight. You’re saying you “rescued” a dirty and unkempt American flag and defaced it? For what purpose?
It is a testament to the powers that be; to those who invoke the flag so frequently but have so little regard for its reality, for they are the ones who let it get in this condition–the bean counters who would let a flag fly in this condition so they can save some minor expenses and get that fat Christmas bonus or our so called political representatives who send our husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, cousins and children to die so they can line their pockets with blood oil and war machine revenues.
*blink, blink*
But before you wrote lyrics and a HUGE anarchy symbol, it wasn’t getting that message across?
It is also an inversion of the symbolic and communicative properties of flags; rather than acting as a vehicle for communicating ideas without words it has become a canvas for communicating prose which directly counter those the powers that be would have you accept as truth. I’m sure this work will offend some, but hopefully it will fan the flames of positive action and more of us will stand up and set our great nation back on its proper track…one in which we, as humans and as Americans, do not drug, maim, torture, and kill in the name of righteousness; one in which we do not trample the rights of others in the name of freedom.
*blink, blink*
*blink*
I suppose them big words are the reason for the hefty $100,000 price tag? Not the dirty, mutilated, flag, right?
Is it against the law to wash a flag in the machine?
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December 6th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
We’ll that one just rained on my Christmas parade. Couldn’t you find something fun, hilarious, kitchy to post? jeezey, peezey….
P.S. You have played right into the Anartchists hands by posting this piece of ‘art’.
December 6th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
That’s gonna have to be a rich ol’ anarchist that forks out for this one! Might be cheaper and easier to colour in your own flag… Although I guess you’re paying for the effort they made in nicking it off someone’s flag pole…
December 6th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
You can wash a flag anyway you want too. Flags get dirty simply flying on a pole.
I will say that one of the best things about America is that you can take a flag and do something like what this person did and not be shot in the head for it. Is he/she the lucky one? Maybe the irony is lost on him/her, no?
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December 9th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Dang, $100,000 doesn’t cover the cost of shipping and handling outside of the US? I guess I won’t be buying it afterall *sniffles*…. lol
December 9th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I actually like it. Not for $100,000. But I’d pay $20 for it.
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December 12th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
i agree summer, i like it too,but not at that price tag