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Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist

The Smoking Gun ^ | Sept. 5, 2012 | unknown

Posted on by Dajjal

Feds Seek Prison Time For Obama "Hope" Artist

Prosecutors want Shepard Fairey sentencing to serve as a warning







SEPTEMBER 5--Federal prosecutors want Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the Barack Obama Hope poster, to serve time in prison following his misdemeanor conviction for destroying and fabricating documents in connection with a civil lawsuit over the iconic campaign image.

In advance of Fridays scheduled sentencing of Fairey in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Department of Justice has filed a memorandum arguing that a prison term for the 42-year-old artist would be appropriate.

However, prosecutors did not specify how long Fairey should be incarcerated (though, statutorily, his punishment would not exceed six months). Additionally, government lawyers have contended that Judge Frank Maas could fine Fairey up to $3.2 million.



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This thread is a good place to learn who Shepard Fairey is: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts

Obamas Venomous Artist-Fundraiser Fairey has a company ("Obey") that produces his own artwork, such as these.

See Fairey's website: http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Prints



Obama has written Fairey that he admires "the political messages involved in your work."



The political messages in Fairey's art are:

1) Communist dictators are god-like supermen

2) The United States is a police state at home and an imperialist oppressor abroad

3) Capitalism is an evil system based on greed and exploitation

4) Ordinary Amerikkkan workers are guilty of blithely supporting an unjust system

5) The only good Americans are those who fight The System

6) The communist Peoples' Armies will soon triumph over Amerikkkan imperialism and bring peace to the world out of the barrel of a gun.







To: Dajjal

Karma is a wonderful thing.



by 2 posted onby FlingWingFlyer (On 5 September 2012 A.D., the communist Democrats tried to kill God and failed.)

To: Dajjal

Maybe they should deport him to north Korea, he could get a job making propaganda posters for fat boy.



To: ETL; 2ndDivisionVet; nickcarraway; markomalley; Free ThinkerNY; RobinMasters; narses; Pyro7480; ...

Shepard Fairey ping



by 4 posted onby Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)

To: Dajjal

What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word “Obey”. (Anyone hear echoes of “there were giants in the land”?)



To: Dajjal

You know, he is a great artist.



To: yank in the UK

Yeah...Shepherd ought to do real well in the joint...what with him having a last name like "Fairey."



























Heh, heh...heh, heh...heh, heh...



To: Slyfox

Nice one. Can you do one that says HOPELESS? :)



by 8 posted onby bronxville (Margaret Sanger - ÂWe do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,Â)

To: Admin Moderator

I forgot to check the "this is an excerpt" box. The full article can be read at the Source:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/shepard-fairey-sentencing-report-683412 Can you fix that, please?



by 9 posted onby Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)

To: bronxville





To: the_Watchman

What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word Obey. (Anyone hear echoes of there were giants in the land?) See:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts

Obamas Venomous Artist-Fundraiser Excerpt: "His first famous artwork was a sticker depicting Andre the Giant (Andre Roussimoff, 1946 - 1993), the WWE Hall of Fame wrestler and actor. "In his mind, Fairey began to associate the strength of the wrestler with the power of giant government. Andre the Giant became a symbol of Big Brother because he was ... big. Fairey soon created a stylized version of Andres face, which he adopted as the logo of his Obey Giant company."



by 11 posted onby Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)

To: the_Watchman

There is a bit of trivia related to those stats - they represent the height and weight of Andre the Giant. Fairey thought that Andre was a great symbol for Big Gummint because of his size.



To: Dajjal

uh oh, hollywood celebs “i pledge video” has the fairey poster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0 “i pledge to be a servant to barack obama”, the creepy 2008 celeb video **wonder how many of their “pledges” they’ve kept?



by 13 posted onby machogirl (First they came for my tagline)

To: machogirl

I guess they belong to the government...



To: Army Air Corps

Ashton and Demi broke their pledge (marriage), so did Courtney Cox and her hubby. Wonder if the “Housewife” Eva, planted 500 trees..... blah, blah, blah. I haven’t seen any of them abandon their highfalutin, jet set lifestyles.



by 15 posted onby machogirl (First they came for my tagline)

To: All

A very real concern is whether Shepard Fairey is going to unveil a 2012 Obama poster at the DNC convention. He is adept at making eye-catching posters (though usually plagiarizing another artist's original artwork or photograph). In 2008 Conservatives missed every opportunity to create a Wright- or Pfleger-level scandal or tying the Hope and Change and Progress posters to Fairey's Stalin and Mao and "E Pluribus Venom" posters. If Fairey designs a 2012 poster, I hope that Conservatives do not make the same mistake again.



by 16 posted onby Dajjal (Justice Robert Jackson was wrong -- the Constitution IS a suicide pact.)

To: Dajjal

Isnt that what the guy who spoke for Obama tonight did?



by 17 posted onby Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)

To: the_Watchman

What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word Obey. (Anyone hear echoes of there were giants in the land?)



It's the size of his cellmate, Bubba, who will make him his bitch.



To: the_Watchman; Dajjal

What is the significance of 7 ft 4 inches and 520 lbs. It is on several posters with the word Obey. (Anyone hear echoes of there were giants in the land?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse



To: Dajjal

See, Fairey should have just stolen a couple of billion dollars from investors, like Jon Corzine. Then, he wouldn't be facing ANY jail time. Of course, he'd also have to know where all the political bodies were buried. Federal prosecutors are nothing but a gang of thugs with armed enforcers.



by 20 posted onby kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))

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