Art Exhibit Featuring Bush Stamp Probed

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050413/ap_on_re_us/secret_service_exhibit_5

The Secret Service sent agents to investigate a college art gallery exhibit of mock postage stamps, one depicting President Bush with a gun pointed at his head.

"We need to ensure, as best we can, that this is nothing more than artwork with a political statement," Mazur said.

The exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez de Luna, said the inquiry "frightens" him. "It starts questioning all rights, not only my rights or the artists' rights in this room, but questioning the rights of any artist who creates — any writer, any visual artist, any performance artist. It seems like we're being watched," he said.

So they are not allowed to investigate someone who has obvious issues with the President? I could understand if the Secret Service locked the artist up based solely on his "art", but that's not what happened.

 

[Bogart]

Michael Hernandez de Luna

guilty