They had to put the Bull in a Corral that's a political statement

[Ichingcarpenter]

[mikelgb]

1. at least they put in some pigs for company n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Animal Farm?

How the Central Intelligence Agency Played Dirty Tricks With Our Culture
by Laurence Zuckerman
New York Times 2000


Many people remember reading George Orwell's "Animal Farm" in high school or college, with its chilling finale in which the farm animals looked back and forth at the tyrannical pigs and the exploitative human farmers but found it "impossible to say which was which."

That ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans, leaving only the nasty pigs. Another example of Hollywood butchering great literature? Yes, but in this case the film's secret producer was the Central Intelligence Agency.

The C.I.A., it seems, was worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell's pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs. So after his death in 1950, agents were dispatched (by none other than E. Howard Hunt, later of Watergate fame) to buy the film rights to "Animal Farm" from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.

Rewriting the end of "Animal Farm" is just one example of the often absurd lengths to which the C.I.A. went, as recounted in a new book, "The Cultural Cold War: The C.I.A. and the World of Arts and Letters" (The New Press) by Frances Stonor Saunders, a British journalist. Published in Britain last summer, the book will appear here next month.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/031800-02.htm

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. The Sacred Cow is in peril of being eaten

I find the picture disturbing because what the police are protecting.

It has deep psycho/sociological meaning.
which I don't think they understand.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Who's paying the cost to guard the bull? EOM

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. I count at least six officers working full time.

Bloomberg?....... the taxpayers of NY?

[eShirl]

6. I never noticed before, but it looks like it's making pasture pies.

[leftyohiolib]

7. private sector using the public sector to guard their stuff