PHOTOS: new monument to pappy bush* vandalized in Houston

[diamond14]

this is the newly erected monument to pappy bush in downtown Houston...looks like blood came splurting out pappy bush's nose....

[Aristus]

1. On the next attempt, they should try

pouring vomit down the front of his suit and shirt. That would be hilarious!

[kodi]

2. That is quite a statement.

I wish I had thought of that.

[UL_Approved]

3. They need to have some people "topple" it

And beat his shoes...

[Az]

4. Can ya feel the love

Makes ya feel warm all over.

[diamond14]

7. it's amazing that this is happening in HOUSTON, TEXAS.....

you don't want to get those Texans angry.....

[Mad_Dem_X]

5. While I don't condone vandalism...

I have to admit that's pretty funny. Why is there a statue of Pappy anyway? Creepy...

[Az]

9. Am ok with vandalism that is not ultimately destructive

The paint can wash off. That statue is a message being thrust upon the people. It is unAmerican to expect the people not to say something back.

[candle_bright]

16. Statues of former presidents

are not unusual. I do not see their existence as an "invitation" to vandalize them.

[CatWoman]

18. I see each and every staute and billboard of anything Bush

as an invitation to vandalize them.

[Az]

21. There is a point

Where people of conscience must stand up and make their voices heard. When the primary means of communicating is held by conservative forces they have to make their voices heard in other ways.

If it was a perfect world I would agree that such measures are wrong. But when a people are being silenced and forced down a path that they believe will lead to even greater horrors then the message must be heard. Any way. Any where.

The pendulem only swings back the other way if enough people get up and push it back. Relying on the forces of history fails to note that people died and struggled to make that history come true.

[fob]

23. The difference in that picture you posted is, it says "The Honorable

Jimmy Carter", and "Honorable" was earned, deserved, and TRUE! As for ghwb, since I can't find anything nice to say I will say nothing.

[Us vs Them]

6. That's not vandalism...

It's stigmata. Because the Bush family is holy, remember?

[livinginphotographs]

8. Hahaha!!!

* this poster in no way condones vandalism, unless its vandalism of statues of great american shitstains.

[TlalocW]

10. What they need to do...

Is get a bunch of toy tanks and army trucks and little figures - both army and civilian - and put the tanks and trucks in front of the statue facing like they're driving away from it but connect them to the head of the statue with rope or small chains so it looks like we're trying to topple it like we did Saddam's statues in Iraq.

TlalocW

[xray s]

11. That's what happens when you pick your nose with a steel finger

Like father, like son...you'd think they would have better manners in public.

[diamond14]

17. no manners...and here's henry kissinger ALSO picking his nose publically

could be all those drugs being brought into America during the Vietnam War....

[diamond14]

12. Does this mean that the bush* era is OVER....afterall, HOUSTON TEXAS?

for years and years, the bush* family was HONORED in Houston, as a legacy, and home-town boys made good...


and now, sunk down into this...when they can no longer erect statues of themselves...and their 'legacy' has become one of WAR and BLOOD MASSACRES.....

[peekaloo]

13. There should be oil running down his inseam.

A monument to Poopy playing pocket pool, sweet.

[NYC Liberal]

14. Lovin' it!

Someone should throw red paint on the WH lawn, too!

[NervousRex]

15. Excellent!

Hardly original, but simple enough to get away with, and it really does no damage to the piece of shit statue.

[flordehinojos]

19. why does this man have a statue anyway, when he does not deserve one...

STALIN HAD MANY STATUES TOO...and i think so did mussolini... this is the new era of a CULT TO THE BUSHES who are just as bad as the stalins, and the mussolinis and the dictators everywehre and anywhere.

[SmokingJacket]

20. It's tacky to have a statue made of a person who isn't dead yet.

Isn't the point to memorialize someone who's gone?

Yuck.

[diamond14]

22. yes. and the RECORDS from pappy bush* presidency are STILL SEALED !

despite laws passed after nixon, that all Presidential records MUST be opened to the PUBLIC after 12 years.....bush* junior continues to violate those laws, and HIDES his father's record....


WE THE PEOPLE paid for the pappy bush presidency and the RECORDS belong to US and must be released....especially before any statues go up...we want to SEE those records;

-snips-

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/george-hw-bush/


Arms for Hostages

It was Bush's deeply-engrained tendency for toadying that dragged him into the miasma eventually known as Iran-Contra. One of Bush's chores was heading up the Presidential Task Force on Terrorism. At the same time, he attended at least five high-level meetings where the sale of arms to Iran was discussed. Even so, Bush stood up in front of news cameras and somehow managed to announce with a straight face:

"Today I am proud to deliver to the American people the result of the six months effort to review our policies and our capabilities to deal with terrorism. Our policy is clear, concise, unequivocal. We will offer no concession to terrorists, because that only leads to more terrorism. States that practice terrorism, or actively support it, will not be allowed to do so without consequence."

Except that the minutes from the June 1984 meeting of the National Security Planning Group demonstrated a distinct eagerness to deal with terrorist states, as long as it helped to illegally fund the Contras in Nicaragua. And the minutes show that George was there:


McFARLANE: There seems to be no prospect that the Democratic leadership will provide for any vote on the Nicaraguan program.

PRESIDENT REAGAN: It all hangs on support for the anti-Sandinistas. How can we get that support in the Congress? We have to be more active.

KIRKPATRICK: If we can't get the money for the anti-Sandinistas, then we have to make the maximum effort to find the money elsewhere.

SCHULTZ: I would like to get the money for the Contras also, but ... Jim Baker said that if we go out and try to get the money from third countries, it is an impeachable offense.

CASEY: Jim Baker said that if we try to get money from third countries without notifying the oversight committees it could be a problem.

SCHULTZ: Baker's argument is that the U.S. government may raise and spend funds only through an appropriation of the Congress.

PRESIDENT REAGAN: We must obtain the funds to help these freedom fighters.

VICE PRESIDENT BUSH: The only problem that might come up is if the United States were to promise to give these third parties something in return, so that some people could interpret this as some kind of an exchange.

McFARLANE: I certainly hope none of this discussion will be made public in any way.

But an apparent lack of documentation allowed Bush to claim that he had never been "in the loop" regarding the Boland amendment violations.


REPORTER: Did you know about the Contra aid or not?

VICE PRESIDENT BUSH: I sensed that there were -- that we were sending arms. And I sensed we were trying to get hostages out. But not arms for hostages.

REPORTER: Did you not begin to smell a rat here?

VICE PRESIDENT BUSH: Not really, no. I could see that it was -- got a little close, but not, not, enough to say -- no, this is not arms, that this is purely arms for hostages.