SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
An Italian artist wants to make the architects of the global police state famous:
You've heard of Edward Snowden. And the name Keith Alexander probably rings a bell. But what about James Comey? As head of the FBI, he pressed for a law that would require American smartphone companies to decrypt citizens' phones on request. Ever heard of Avril Haines? She was deputy director of the CIA when that agency was engaged in many of the activities Snowden exposed.
Italian artist Paolo Cirio has been stenciling "unauthorized" portraits of these folks, and six other high-ranking officials at three-letter agencies, on walls throughout cities around the world. This rogue's gallery of spooks and spies grin unwittingly from posters and murals in places more typically reserved for television stars and lingerie models.
...
The resulting portraits look like pop silkscreens from the 1960s, an eye-candy aesthetic that belies their serious undertone. "These are portraits of high-ranking war generals, the Napoleons of today, somehow marking their historical role in attempting to build a dangerous cyber-empire," Cirio says. But beyond bringing these people out of the shadows, the artists wants them to know that, despite their job titles, they're as digitally vulnerable and overexposed as the rest of us.
The Japanese have a practice of shunning or ostracism called Mura-hachibu, whereby the whole village stops having anything to do with you. Could it work here?
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @05:09PM
You can't shame those who are incapable of feeling shame or remorse.
We are talking about ambitious intelligent people who have no problem with violating the tenets which make up the cornerstone upon which civilization is built.
No crime is too great or too small if necessary for their personal and professional objectives. Many of these people are sociopaths.
It's interesting how these people "get to the top" of societies and then using their influence and power to mold societies into ones that will benefit people like them over those who are not.
Looking forward we see societies become "playgrounds " via corrupted legal systems that cater to their particular brand of crazy and lack of ethics while the rest of us are left marching around to the beat of these people's drums.
Society should be asking itself "Why do we permit these types to have any position of trust or power when we know they always misuse it?"
We know from history that those who strive for power and control the most are the least likely to wield it in a fair and dignified manner. More of a cudgel and less of a scalpel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @11:26PM
If "here" is the USA: Mormons; Scientology; Amish.
You can't shame those who are incapable of feeling shame or remorse.
Yup. There's the gotcha.
That case is a "here" all unto itself.
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Friday July 10 2015, @02:38AM
More importantly (to me), those who have obviously disavowed their sworn duty to DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.
Never mind (your observations, my interpretation) that they are sociopaths.
/rant
Mas cerveza por favor.