Powerful visual Iraq imagery from Seattle

[baby_bear]

This is a photo of the locally famous sculpture "Waiting for the Interurban" in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle a couple of blocks from where I live.

The people in the sculpture are periodically dressed up to celebrate one event or another. But yesterday, this took a more serious turn.

The figures in Fremont's "Waiting for the Interurban" sculpture were hooded yesterday, a reference to the recent prison-abuse photos from the war in Iraq.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/173652_clob117.html
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...the hoods were placed on the statues around noon. A chair next to the sculpture was also wired with jumper cables to look like an implement of torture, and a sign was duct-taped to a statue's leg announcing weekly peace vigils at Green Lake.

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powerful stuff

s_m

[redqueen]

1. *sigh*

Glad people are trying to wake others to the ugly reality that this is more than 'frat' stuff. I swear I want to cry every time I hear that RNC spin. Rape and murder spun as 'frat' pranks. Only from the rethuglican party.

[arcane1]

2. OMG that is powerful

I'm getting ideas for my trip to repub country next month :evilgrin:

[FrankBooth]

3. Awesome

I knew I should have gone down to Fremont yesterday!

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. Freemont Rocks!

and the artists there are rightly concerned.

[buycitgo]

4. whoa

tea and crumpet bump

[baby_bear]

6. may I kick this?

I think it's pretty neat, and hardly anyone except the five of us looked at it.

s_m

[rumguy]

7. very powerful

it's like the freeway blogger stuff...