With Us Or Agin' Us

With Us or Agin' Us © Emily Duffy 2006
Photo by Siblia Savage

"With Us or Agin' Us" is the title of the first political sculpture I created back in 2002. It was in response to this quote by President Bush:

At the beginning of this war, I made it very clear -- as clear as a fellow from Texas could make it -- either you're with us or you're against us.
-George W. Bush, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Mar. 15, 2002 (Source)

This attitude, filled with arrogance, bravado, and self-righteousness has become an all too familiar mentality from our "leader" and his administration. Worst of all, it's a failing policy yet until we can remove these greedy monsters from government office we make little progress stopping their devilish plans for the world.

The sculpture's base is a battered Soviet Union era globe with small maps of Texas covering every land mass on earth. The globe hangs by a noose made out of American flag printed fabric. the noose hangs from a flagpole collaged with news headlines about our government's imposition of the so-called Bush Doctrine upon the world.

This strategic plan for basically taking over the world is actually the creation of former White House advisors Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Pearle. Neither of these right wing think tankers remains on staff in the Bush Administration yet their calculated plan for American imperialism lives on.






















With Us or Agin' Us © Emily Duffy 2006
Photo by Siblia Savage


The Bush Doctrine promotes the following key points (original version):

Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to general global power.

-snip-

While the U.S. cannot become the world's policeman, by assuming responsibility for righting every wrong, we will retain the preeminent responsibility for addressing selectively those wrongs which threaten not only our interests, but those of our allies or friends, or which could seriously unsettle international relations.

-snip-

In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil.

With Us or Agin' Us © Emily Duffy 2006
Photo by Siblia Savage

Any of that sound familiar? Keep in mind this plan was written in 1995 (a period still in the shadows of the Cold War). This plan, over a decade old, was instituted with very little change to it's original thesis. This plan, the disastrous results of which splash across our television screens each night, must be stopped.

You can read the entire 90-page "Rebuilding Americas Defenses" from Project for a New American Century here. It explains exactly what the radical right wing leadership of our government is doing. Understanding their plan is the first step to stopping it.

This, in his clumsy self-aggrandizing way, is what Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was talking about at the UN two days ago when he said,

The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house. "And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here." [crosses himself] "And it smells of sulfur still today.

Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. Source

With Us or Agin' Us © Emily Duffy 2006
Photo by Siblia Savage

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