[Imc-web] Problematic Post

[Mike Lehman]

Jason,
If there is a way to do it, I sure don't know it. And I think there are 
issues to alerting a piece of art that are separate from the issue we 
are dealing with here. I would also think that the person who posted it 
knew exactly what they were doing and that we shouldn't spend too much 
time worrying about what they surely knew they were doing.

I'm going to wait until 9pm and, unless I hear a strong and well-argued 
opinion against deleting it, it's history. I call it as an obvious 
policy violation, but i realize that others may see it differently (and 
I have no intention of downloading it onto MY machine in case we somehow 
decide to put it back at a later date.)

I will try to hide it, but I think we still have software issues that 
mean that we can only delete it if we don't want it to show on the 
mainpage in the Media Gallery. The only alternative is to hide the 
article itself (I think that works now), but I don't really have an 
issue with the article, just the graphic.
Mike Lehman

JASON MIEREK wrote:
> I must say that I like the poster.  The fact is that pResident Bush will 
> be comitting war crimes and that war crimes carry heavy penalties, as 
> the folks on the wrong end of the nooses at Nuremberg knew.
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> That said, I also recognize the need to "cover our butts" in an age of 
> increasing governmental paranoia and police state surveillance.  No need 
> to paint targets on our chests.
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> So maybe we could remove the "offending" phrase "dead or alive" from the 
> poster.  Is that possible with a graphics editor?
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> Jason
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>> From: Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>
>> To: imc <imc at lists.groogroo.com>,"imc-web at ucimc.org" <imc-web at ucimc.org>
>> Subject: [Imc-web] Problematic Post
>> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:10:47 -0600
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>> Yeah, they're guilty as hell. But I'm really not sure about the 
>> "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster.
>> <http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/9160/index.php>
>>
>> I would recommend deleting the image only, as no part of the article 
>> mentions any threat of death for the pResident.
>>
>> I would like to have some feedback ASAP on this, since it could be 
>> technically considered a threat on the POTUS (President Of The US, for 
>> the acronymically-challenged.)