I am the 1st person to voice my favor for Freedom of Speech and 1st Amendment rights.
I am a fiction author, poet and writer. Artistic license is my bread and butter. But there is a difference between freedom of speech and poor taste. This painting falls into the latter category in my opinion. I am the one of the 1st people to call out the Government on the shady crap they do too. So don’t lump me in with the extreme right either.
Please, believe me; I am ALL for pushing the boundaries and tip toeing near the line. Hell, sometimes I even dance on the the line, but I do my best never to cross the line.
This painting crosses that line. There are ways to get your point across without ever going over the line. This painting, much like Snoop Doggs new crappy rap video; advocates the hateful and violent rhetoric and attitude towards Police that we have seen over the past several years.
It shouldn’t have ever been even considered for the Congressional Art Contest. The fact that it was chosen, is a political statement by Anti-Police, Anti-American politicians on Capital Hill, and advocates the disunity that is so sought after by terrorist organizations like Black Lives Matter.
A federal judge is poised to issue a ruling any day in the controversial case of a painting hung at the U.S. Capitol depicting a police officer as a pig.
Judge John D. Bates heard arguments Wednesday over whether the architect of the U.S. Capitol must rehang the painting deemed by some as offensive and “anti-police.”
The acrylic painting, called “Untitled #1,” was the creation of David Pulphus when he was a student at Cardinal Ritter College Prep high school in St. Louis.
The painting appears to show a pig in a police uniform aiming a gun at a black wolf holding a sign that says, “STOP KILL.”
Above the scene, two birds — one black, one white — fight, and beside them, an African-American protester holding a scale of justice is crucified.
Law enforcement groups had strongly objected to the painting’s display on the Capitol complex grounds, with one group calling it “reprehensible, repugnant and repulsive.”
The art work was part of an annual contest sponsored by Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., and is said to be a symbolic representation of injustice, inequality and the unrest in Ferguson following the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in 2014.