ACLU Demand Explanation of Why Stalin Banner Was Removed From School
Posted on November 15, 2008
Just for reference, the ACLU was founded by a Communist on Communist ideals, so it isn’t a surprise they are freaking out over a private art school removing a banner displaying an image of Josef Stalin.
The New York Civil Liberties Union has demanded that city officials explain why they ordered a private art school to remove a banner displaying an image of Josef Stalin.
In a letter Thursday to the Department of Buildings, NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman expressed concern that the banner was taken down from The Cooper Union after some residents of the local Ukrainian community complained that it “seemed to promote” the Soviet dictator on the 75th anniversary of a famine he imposed. The famine, called the Holodomor, killed millions of Ukrainians.
The banner was part of an art exhibit, “Stalin by Picasso, or Portrait of Woman with Mustache.” Lene Berg, the artist who created the banner, said it was intended to provoke discussion about the relationship between art and politics.
The 52-foot-by-36-foot banner features a reproduction of a 1953 Pablo Picasso portrait of Stalin. At the time, the image was viewed as a critique of the Soviet leader.
But the Ukrainian community found it offensive, said Tamara Olexy, president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.
“It’s like hanging a portrait of Hitler in a synagogue or in a Jewish community,” she said.
After receiving several complaints, the Department of Buildings investigated the banner’s legality and determined it violated construction and zoning regulations, the agency said Friday.
“We determined the sign was too high, too large, lacked a permit and blocked the building’s windows,” buildings spokeswoman Kate Lindquist wrote in an e-mail. “The department does not regulate sign content.”
Indeed, they do not. Since I know enough folks at the Buildings Department, they can vouch for me.
How pathetic is it the ACLU worships this genocidal maniac?
Here’s a random thought: Maybe if we start erecting 52-by-36 images of Barack Obama (and frankly, are we that far from that?), will they just STFU for the next four years and go back to Free Mumia rallies?
Just for reference, here is the founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin’s famous quote on the goals of the ACLU:
“I have been to Europe several times, mostly in connection with international radical activities…and have traveled in the United States to areas of conflict over workers rights to strike and organize. My chief aversion is the system of greed, private profit, privilege and violence which makes up the control of the world today, and which has brought it to the tragic crisis of unprecedented hunger and unemployment…Therefore, I am for Socialism, disarmament and ultimately, for the abolishing of the State itself…I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal”.”
No surprises here.
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you’re probably well aware of this WorldNetDaily article on the ACLU and the communist agenda:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41751
The American public is amazingly stupid. I mention this article to anyone and I get a blank stare, or the ‘where’s your tinfoil hat’ look.
We’re in deep trouble.
Oddly, enough, I have to side with the ACLU on this one. If it is a code violation, I can see the city making them take it down, but I have no idea how it could be unless it covers a fire exit.
I just don’t see making stupidity against the law, how would Barry Obama gotten elected, if it was?
Private schools should be able to do this. Government schools ONLY do this kind of thing.