{"id":1435,"date":"2010-01-07T21:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/01\/terrorball\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T21:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T05:49:54","slug":"terrorball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/01\/terrorball.html","title":{"rendered":"Terrorball – from Nancy Spero to Heide Hinrichs"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Paul Campos<\/a>, via Paul O’Neil<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m quite sure I could beat LeBron James in a game of one on one
\nbasketball. The game merely needs to feature two special rules: It
\nlasts until I score, and as soon as I score I win. Such a game might
\nlast several hours, or even a week or two, and James would probably
\nscore hundreds and possibly thousands of points before my ultimate
\nvictory, but eventually I’m going to find a way to put the ball in the
\nbasket.<\/p>\n

Our national government and almost all of the
\nestablishment media have decided to play a similar game, which could be
\ncalled Terrorball. The first two rules of Terrorball are:<\/p>\n

(1) The game lasts until there are no longer any terrorists, and;<\/p>\n

(2) If terrorists manage to ever kill or injure or seriously frighten any Americans, they win. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heide Hinrichs<\/a>, from The Expected Obedience of Your Thoughts
<\/i>
\"heidehinrichesterrobal.jpg\"Campos continued:<\/p>\n

The typical Congressional subcommittee chairman or cable news anchor or
\nsyndicated columnist can’t really imagine not being able to afford to
\ntake his child to a doctor, or being wrongly convicted of a crime, but
\nhe is quite capable of imagining being on a Paris to New York flight
\nthat’s blown out of the sky. And while it’s true the risk he faces of
\nsuffering this fate are very close to zero, they are not, as they are
\nfor a poor person, literally zero.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kris Martin<\/a>, Mandi VIII<\/i> (Note the absence of the snakes, and yet the figures writhe.)<\/p>\n

\"krismartinlacoon.jpg\"Campos:<\/p>\n

Terrorball, then, is an
\nelaborate political game that seems irrational on its face – after all,
\nit’s certain that more than 2.4 million Americans will die this year,
\nand fairly likely that not even one of those deaths will be caused by
\nterrorism — but which features its own peculiar logic. That logic
\nreflects the anxieties of those who have created its rules, and serves
\nthe interests of both terrorists and those who profit from exploiting
\nthe fear of terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now this, via<\/a>:<\/p>\n

U.S. President Barack Obama has announced he would suspend the transfer of Guant\u00e1namo prisoners to Yemen, where an Al Qaeda-linked group is said to have planned a failed attack on a U.S. airliner.
\nAround half the 198 remaining Guant\u00e1namo prisoners are Yemeni nationals and, according to the latest data available, less than 40 have already been cleared for release.
\nIn a statement, the Center for Constitutional Rights said: “Dozens of men from Yemen who have been cleared for release after extensive [government] scrutiny are about to be left in limbo once more due to politics, not facts. Halting [their] repatriation is unconscionable.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, dozens of Yemeni men are going to continue their prison stay not because of what they have done but because there is a threat that someone in their number might do something in the future, inflamed, no doubt, by being detained by us without trial and tortured for years.  <\/p>\n

Lacking evidence to bring them to trial, we must release them, no matter how unsavory their future actions. If we imprison people for crimes they may commit, we have become what we fear. This is not what “Yes We Can” was supposed to mean.<\/p>\n

Look around the world baby it can’t be denied
Why are we always on the wrong side. (via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Selma Waldman<\/a><\/p>\n

\"selmawaldmanblod.jpg\"Leon Golub<\/a><\/p>\n

\"leongolubterror.jpg\"Nancy Spero<\/a><\/p>\n

\"nancysperoterror.jpg\"Michael Spafford<\/a><\/p>\n

\"michaelspaffordlone.jpg\"Jack Daws<\/a><\/p>\n

\"jackdawsdavid.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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