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Either you go to jail, get gassed, die, or you are humiliated. The last seems to happen to this particular artist. What's the problem?
This artist will probably pay a more subtle price. Whenever you are a creator and make a particularly doctrinaire work, you get associated with those causes. If you ever change your view - like see something in the cause and its supporters you don't like - you get hung as a traitor. And if you change your mind again...you become a dilettante.
About a decade ago, a news story compared Jane Fonda and Joan Baez. Baez has maintained a consistent politics throughout her life, since they grew from her experience and her genuine beliefs. Although I disagreed with her, I could respect her as a person following her beliefs. Not so Jane Fonda, whose dalliance with the Viet Cong - and then with women's health, and then Ted Turner, and whoever she's doing now - showed her to be pretty much a fake and a flake. If extraterrestrials were to land and start enslaving people, Fonda would wind up their spokesperson.
That being said, I find it curious that a freeper like Old Desalinization Dog, or whatever his name is, should come to this thread and bitch at anyone who would complain about Bush. When Bush leaves office and drinks and drugs himself to death, since he will by then have nothing to destroy but himself, I wonder how the Dog will react. Maybe he'll OD on Jack Daniels in sympathy.
