Blackwater Accountability Act Passes: Camoflage No More

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The Blackwater Accountability Act (HR 2740) has passed! To read about it, go here:

http://price.house.g…

http://www.democrats…


For this graphic, I played a bit with the Stroop effect:
http://en.wikipedia….


Hidden inside lettering that *says* AMWAY is a different *content* – the Blackwater logo. It is dark, obscure and and distorted – like camoflage. But we can *see* what’s there.
I anticipate reworking and developing this concept through more versions until it has many layers of meaning.

The Blackwater layer is taken from a graphic I made after Katrina had hit the Gulf Coast and the levees  – and our hearts – had broken.  Everything was wrong: help was late in coming or was turned away, and the “soldiers” who arrived to rescue people abused and shot them. Black, red and alligators in this image express the danger and treachery that we now know came from on high. The “soldiers” were mercenaries from Blackwater. Pilger helped us to understand what was going on there in FROM BIG EASY TO BIG EMPTY, as did coverage by Democracy Now.

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How American democracy was betrayed will be revealed as facts about Blackwater, and its connections to Amway and other groups, continue to emerge.


I’ll close with a quote that seems right for this time of citizen surveillance and corporate privacy:
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
1 Corinthians, 13:12
http://bible.cc/1_co…

3 comments

    • Tigana on October 8, 2007 at 06:17
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    Thank you.

  1. now has its own army.

    • Tigana on October 8, 2007 at 07:55
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    Keep it up, Mr. Waxman!

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