Reply #14: This is not a threat. It's an image.

[Plaid Adder]

I'm sorry, but this is one thing I hate about living in the post 9/11 world: once everything is under surveillance everything has to be taken literally. This artist is not threatening to blow W's head off; he's put a picture of the guy's head on a stamp with a picture of a gun next to it. It may be an expression of the fact that he fantasizes about people blowing W's head off; but fantasizing is not supposed to be illegal. It may also be a deliberate attempt on the part of the artist to get viewers to realize how tightly they are policing themselves by getting them to notice how they feel when they see something that goes beyond the boundaries of what the Patriot Act has now defined as legitimate/legal speech and thought. In which case, I suppose the arrival of the Secret Service guys just makes the viewing experience that much more complete.

If the SS wants to investigate threats, I would suggest they send someone down to DeLay's office, or to Cornyn's, or out to the Confronting the Judicial War on Faith conference, where people are openly talking about violent retribution against justices, and not in a museum setting either.

@#$!,

The Plaid Adder