S.F. Art Gallery Owner Beaten Up for Showing Anti-Torture Painting

[DemBones DemBones]

An amazing outrage. :mad:

http://www.progressive.org/mcwatch04/mc060104.html

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June 1, 2004
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S.F. Art Gallery Owner Beaten Up for Showing Anti-Torture Painting


Lori Haigh runs an art gallery in San Francisco. Well, she used to.


On May 16, according to AP, she installed a piece of artwork by Guy Colwell entitled "Abuse." The painting (which you can see at www.nobeliefs.com/abuse.htm) is an elaboration of the torture that went on at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. <SNIP>

Haigh placed the painting in the front window of her gallery. Two days later, "someone threw eggs and dumped trash on the doorstep," AP reported, and "people started leaving nasty messages and threats on her business answering machine." She told AP that she received "about 200 angry voicemails, e-mails, and death threats."

So she decided to remove the painting, but still things got worse.

One day, someone walked into the gallery and spit in her face.

And then on May 27, someone "knocked on the door of the gallery, then punched Haigh in the face, knocking her out, breaking her nose, and causing a concussion," AP said. Two days later, she still had a bad black right eye, with purple on the cheek next to the eye, one bandage over the nose, and another over her right eyebrow.

The abuse was too much for her--she has two young kids--so she has closed her gallery down. If you go to capogallerysf.com, you will see a picture of the gallery's front door, with yellow caution tape across the front. "The Capobianco Gallery is closed," the site says.

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[maveric]

1. So, the bu$h Gestapo are physically intimidating art gallery owners

because they show dissent against the torture policies being used in an illegal war.
If bu$h retains the WH its just a matter of time before we have our Krystallnacht.

[redqueen]

2. In SF, even - sick freeptard needledicks

What a pitiful excuse for a real man... breaking a woman's nose for taking down the artwork that offended them so much. I guess it sucks to be reminded what a moran you are for being suckered by an idiot like the shrub.

:puke: