Post by T Cole

A New
York
artist
has taken
the idea of free speech
a little too far. He was disappointed to find that there are very clear limits to what statements can and cannot be made public about political figures in this country. His controversial art exhibit was raided and shut down before it could be viewed in NYC yesterday.
According to the NY Times blog: Cityroom, Boston-born performance artist, Yazmany Arboleda, tried to set up a provocative art exhibition in a vacant storefront on West 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan with the title, “The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama”.
The artist thought his racist views were protected under the Constitution because he was expressing himself through his art. Wrong.
Not 30 minutes after Arboleda set up the gallery across the street from the New York Times building, police, feds and secret service swooped in to shut the art exhibit down. While police covered the offensive storefront window with brown paper, Arboleda was led away in handcuffs to be “interrogated”.
Arboleda, 27, learned the hard way that freedom has its limits. Later, in an interview, he said: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful. It’s about character assassination - about how Obama and Hillary have been portrayed by the media.” He added, “It’s about the media.”
Character assassination or not, there are some things you just don’t say, much less put on display for thousands of people to view. Common sense should teach anyone that you don’t use the words assassination and any major political figure in the same sentence during a heated, controversial presidential race. Arboleda may have gotten exactly what he wanted, however. Just as sure as I am writing this story, there are many others like me. He will gain nationwide attention for his shenanigans, and that is probably exactly what he was hoping for. He is telling the truth about character assassination, but he needs to find a more productive outlet for his views.

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