Artists Demand NY Police Return Snowden Bust

[Panich52]

National Memo

Artists Demand NY Police Return Snowden Bust

"It is somewhat ironic that as Edward Snowden is in exile in Russia his statue is being held hostage in the basement of a police precinct in New York City."

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[randome]

1. Send the statue to Russia, then. They need the 'inspiration' over there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026510893
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[Malraiders]

2. Surely it should be returned because the seizure violates the artist's rt to due process. nt

[mythology]

3. How does that violate due process?

They left an item in a public place. It was removed. There is no right to do that anymore than there would be the right for an anti-choice protestor could leave pictures of aborted fetuses and expect them to remain.

[Malraiders]

5. So the cops committed theft by finding an object that was left out in a public area. nt

[Adrahil]

8. Yeah, you keep believing that

NYC very likey has rules about unauthorized displays in public parks. And that display could be seen as defacement of a memorial. The artist is question can always sue, I suppose. Probably would lose though.

[Malraiders]

11. Rules - The NYPD is notorious as the violators of New York city's rules and

the citizen's/people's constitutional rights.

[FSogol]

14. The rule is most likely: city workers throw it away. n/t

[Larry Engels]

17. Well, that would be a shame.

If no one wants it, I'll put it in my living room.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. by that logic

property defaced by graffiti shouldn't be cleaned up because of copyright protections.

holy shit.

sP

[KittyWampus]

4. clowns desperate for an audience. Deface public art memorializing soldiers who died

in the Revolutionary War…. and then expect to get the crappy art back?

LOL

[brooklynite]

6. Why should they?

The artists effectively abandoned it on public property.

[FSogol]

7. Exactly. They'll probably receive a littering citation. n/t

[Malraiders]

12. Even weapons that are used in murders are returned to

family members of the murderer.

Remember Jack Ruby's brother was given the pistol that JR used to kill Oswald.

And I dispute the assertion that the bust was abandoned.

[FSogol]

15. Not the same issue at all. n/t

[randome]

10. Tell Putin he can finally complete that matched set he's been wanting.

He'd pay some serious cash for that. Of course it might be in rubles so...
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[cali]

13. LOL. Assholes. Not exactly profiles in courage either

Three artists on Tuesday demanded that New York police return a bust of fugitive U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden to public display or threatened legal action.

Civil rights lawyer Ronald Kuby said the artists would remain anonymous because they feared arrest and prosecution after authorities removed the sculpture from a Brooklyn park last week.

“We hope New York City will release the statue so it may continue to spark healthy conversations about issues central to our freedoms,” the artists said in a written statement.

They erected the 100-pound bust at an American Revolution war memorial in Fort Greene park shortly before dawn on April 6, but within hours it was confiscated by police.


That's the article you oh so carefully excerpted.

They demand that the bust be returned to where they placed it? They threatened legal action?

Fuck 'em.

[FSogol]

16. LOL, they're home hiding under tin foil blankets.