Threats And Attacks Over Iraq Painting Force Owner Out

[the_leander]

 A North Beach art gallery owner who has been attacked and threatened for showing a controversial painting of American soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners has decided to call it quits.

After having her life repeatedly threatened, her business egged and her face spat upon, Lori Haigh papered up the windows of her Powell Street gallery, Capobianco, on Tuesday.

The painting, titled "The Abuse" by East Bay artist Guy Colwell, shows Pfc. Lynndie England and another soldier smiling gleefully as they look upon a trio of naked, hooded Iraqi prisoners who are hooked up to electrical wires. In the background, a third American soldier is escorting a Muslim woman in a dress into the torture chamber.

A week ago, Haigh realized the nerve the painting had struck when she arrived at work to find the place egged and heaps of trash dumped at the gallery entrance. On her computer and voice mail were stinging messages calling her anti-American for showing the artwork.

Even after she took the painting out of the front window, she received six threats against her life. The last straw was when a man spat at her.


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[Karlos]

So people can't handle the fact somebody painted a picture of american soldiers torturing iraqi prisoners. To make her stop displaying it, they intimidate and abuse her.

And yet, they call her a "f'ing coward" ?

Amazing what people will resort to when they don't want to know a truth they don't like.