Steve Powers Says Waterboarding Sucks
As noted earlier, artist Steve Powers and a trio of lawyers were waterboarded in Coney Island on Friday for the sake of art. Though no video is available, Art Forum weighs in with some photos of the torture, including the one above of a troubled looking Powers watching David Dames get waterboarded, and reports:
The participants left the room for a minute, then burst through the door; Powers, now hooded, was roughly guided to the inclined waterboarding table … Ritz then stuffed a large black rag in Powers’s mouth, held the artist’s nose with one hand, and poured a steady flow of water onto the rag like a frat boy pours a pitcher of beer. After about eight seconds, Powers began to twitch and jerk on the table, and Ritz quickly removed the rag. Dazed and flushed, the artist was led out of the room … and, after a beat, said, “That sucked!”
Photo by Sam Horine for Art Forum.
Theres a decent interview & audio of the actual waterboarding that aired on NPR over the weekend.
By Uneek One on August 20th, 2008 at 2:42 pmYou can listen or read it here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93654870
of course it would suck.. thats the point! i can’t believe people are so soft and stupid about this shit. its called WAR for a reason.. stop being bleeding heart pussies and understand that if WAR comes to the streets of the US you weaklings will be the first to go.
have some back bone and understand that life is not some sweet skip through the garden.
you have more compassion for people who hate you than those that stand beside you and defend your right to create art and speak your mind.
fuckin hypocrits! WAKE UP!!
By the truth on September 16th, 2008 at 9:04 amThe difference between me and you, truth, is that I don’t believes its soft to condemn torture or even imprisonment of people who have not been charged of anything, wartime or not. Humans have rights for a reason, our country has laws for a reason. People died so that we could have these laws in place, just because the world is harsh does not mean we turn our back on the ones who suffer.
There is nothing weak about compassion.
The war we are fighting is not about protecting freedoms, I wish it were but it isn’t.
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